World of Horror with Mom & Mac
Mother and son team Mom and Mac discuss, analyze, dissect and explore international horror movies. Conversations are casual but spoiler-heavy. We take turns choosing a genre or subgenre of horror and pairing an international film with an American one. Past episodes have included: Funny Games, One Missed Call, Let the Right One In/Let Me In. Genres we have covered are Animal Attack (BOAR from Australia and TREMORS); Creepy Kids (GOODNIGHT, MOMMY from Austria and ORPHAN); Battle Royale-type films (BATTLE ROYALE from Japan and THE BELKO EXPERIMENT); Haunted Houses (THE HOUSE AT THE END OF TIME from Venezuela and BEETLEJUICE). Special episodes feature foundational international horror films or guests who come on to highlight a film that "Means the World of Horror" to them. https://linktr.ee/WorldofHorror
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 90 minutes
- Episodes
- 169
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
HAXAN Special World of Foundational Horror™ Episode 89 Satan's Memaw with Special Guests Devin & Sully
This week Devin from Pineapple Shaped Lamps an Sully from Third Impact Anime joined me to discuss the 1922 silent classic HAXAN from Sweden.
Have you seen this film? Which version is you…
SNOWTOWN & THE SACRAMENT: Episode 88: Bless Your Heart! Horror Movies Based on a True Story
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Numerous forces conspired against this show, but I am glad to finally bring it to your ears and hearts. This week's episode was delayed due to Mom's head cold. (I apologize for my…
YOKAI: 100 MONSTERS & THE CREEPING FLESH: Episode 87: Early Creature Features!
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Mac's Picks this week involve Early Creature Features with an Interesting Application of Effects. We viewed YOKAI MONSTERS: 100 MONSTERS from Japan and THE CREEPING FLESH from the…
REBECCA (1940): Episode 86: It Means the World of Horror to Me / The Foundational World of Horror Mashup with Quinn McLaughlin: Danny Looking Devious
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This week, The Original Friend of the Show™, Quinn McLaughlin stopped by to talk with me about Hitchcock's REBECCA, from 1940.
This is a bit of a Foundational World of Horror™ AND…
ALIEN (1979) & CARNIVAL OF SOULS: Episode 85: Dismembering Horror It Means the World of Horror to Me™
This week we were thrilled to welcome Ryan McDuffie & Tim Aslin from Dismembering Horror to the show to talk about two movies that Mean the World of Horror™ to them: ALIEN & CARNIVAL OF…
MISERY & LADY VENGEANCE: Episode 84: A Woman Obsessed!
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This week we looked at two portraits of obsession: Annie Wilkes from MISERY and I Geum-ja from Lady Vengeance.
There are a couple of similarities between these two films I never no…
HELLBENDER & RAW: Episode 83 Bitter Sixteen (Coming of Age Movies!)
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This week, Mac chose two movies that really demonstrate the idea that adolescence is hell: HELLBENDER from the US & RAW / GRAVE from France.
Both involve 16-year-old women who lear…
BEFORE WE VANISH: Episode 82 Alien Invasion! Part 2
This is part two of our Alien Invasion! Episodes. Part One (Episode 81) covered INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, from 1956 & 1978.
BEFORE WE VANISH is a 2017 Science Fiction/Horror film f…
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956 & 1978): Episode 81: Reborn Into An Untroubled World (Alien Invasion!)
WoHos! This is part I of our Alien Invasion show. This week we examine the 1956 & 1978 versions of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.
As I state in the intro, this one is real swear-y for s…
THE COLLECTOR (1965) / A HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON / IL SEGNO ROSSO DELLA FOLLIO Episode 80: The World of Foundational Horror™ Bonus
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Mac is moving this weekend, so we are pushing our Alien Invasion movies to next week.
This time in the WORLD OF FOUNDATIONAL HORROR™ series, I am looking at two insane killers--Joh…
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON & DOG SOLDIERS: Episode 79: Sitting in a Porn Theater Talking to a Corpse (Werewolves!)
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This week we got real lupine with it and looked at AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON & DOG SOLDIERS.
We also talk about: job hunting, exercising, blonde labs taking a break in the mid…
LAKE PLACID & BACKCOUNTRY: Episode 78 (Nature Horror!)
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Neither thunderstorms nor aggressive housecats could keep us from recording this podcast.
IT'S ALL FOR YOU!
This week Mom picked Nature Horror for the genre pick and we looked at L…
BLACK SUNDAY (1960) & THE WITCH (2015) Episode 77: Witches Be Witches (Witches!)
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This week Mac's genre pick is Witches! We looked at the directorial debuts of two masters and their masterpieces: Mario Bava's BLACK SUNDAY and Robert Eggers' THE WITCH.
Content pr…
POSSESSOR & METAMORPHOSIS / BYEONSHIN (2019) Episode 76: I Don't Know Her (Possession!)
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It was Mom's pick of Possession this week and we looked at METAMORPHOSIS from Korea & POSSESSOR from Canada!
METAMORPHOSIS metamorphosizes into a bit of a mess after a certain very…
EYES WITHOUT A FACE / LES YEUX SANS VISAGE & PEEPING TOM Episode 75: Whole Squad Pod™ Pt. 2 of our 1960-isode
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This is part two of our Whole Squad Pod 1960-isode edition of the show. In part one, we looked at Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO. In this episode, we look at LES YEUX SAN VISAGE / EYES…
ICHI THE KILLER & HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER Episode 74: No Love in Your Violence (Killers!)
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This week it is Mac's Picks of Killer movies with ICHI THE KILLER (2001) from Japan and HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (1986) from the US.
ICHI THE KILLER (2001):
A sadomasochis…
PSYCHO (1960) Episode 73: Whole Squad Pod Bonus Pt. 1 of our 1960-isode: Hot Creeper!
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We got the whole squad together to talk about three heavy hitters from 1960: PSYCHO, LES YEUX SAN VISAGE / EYES WITHOUT A FACE, and PEEPING TOM. We talked A LOT, so this Bonus wil…
DEAD RINGERS & DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE Episode 72: World of Foundational Horror™ Bonus
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This week I looked at two Foundational films about identity.
DR. JECKYLL AND SISTER HYDE is a 1971 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker based on the 1886 novella Strange …
CORALINE Episode 71: Cat Sole Special Guest: It Means the World of Horror to Me™ Bonus
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This week Cat Sole, from the Kill the Cat Podcast joined us for an interview and to discuss her It Means the World of Horror to Me™ Pick, CORALINE.
Our guest this week is Cat Sole.…
THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC / RATU ILMU HITAM (1981) & BLACK CAT / KURONEKO Episode 70: The World of Foundational Horror™ Bonus
This week I look at two stories of revenge. THE QUEEN OF THE MAGIC (1981) from Indonesia and KURONEKO / THE BLACK CAT (1968) from Japan
Content warning: Rape
Shoutouts to Niina Doherty's …