Tender Subject

Midnight Meat Train

This week, Kayte and Dave descend deep into the tunnels of the New York city subway, with author/professor Eleanor Russel to slice into 2008's The Midnight Meat Train (directed by Ryuhei Kitamura). We talk about public transit, the art world on film, the meat industry and why it's so disorienting to film a movie about one city while filming in a different city. Naturally our discussion turns to Clive Barker's original short story, one we highly recommend to horror fiends!   Other Media:  "The Midnight Meat Train" [https://bookshop.org/p/books/clive-barker-s-books-of-blood-1-3-clive-barker/d695925ed2417fdc?ean=9780425165584&next=t] by Clive Barker, Books of Blood  Eleanor [https://x.com/eleanoir] is a Doctor of philosophy on what it means to play pretend and writes about stand-up comedy, sound studies, and the avant-garde. has a podcast called Virtue Signal [https://soundcloud.com/noisyghostpodcast/virtue-signal] and a substack [https://outsidebones.substack.com/] here!  Dave [https://x.com/thisisdavemaher?s=21] is also a co-host on Genre Reveal Party [https://x.com/genrerevealpod?s=21] and hosts This is Your Afterlife  [https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife?igsh=ZGJhandkbDdvZ2U2] Kayte [https://twitter.com/kayteterry] is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories [https://twitter.com/FangsPodcast] and makes art here! [https://www.kayteterry.com/]

Silence of The Lambs with Jon the Lit Crit Guy

Have the lambs stopped screaming Clarice? That’s right: Kayte and Jay are joined by author Jon, the Lit Crit Guy from Horror Vanguard to tackle a big one: Silence of the Lambs! We talk through genre, gender, class and cannibalism in this monster of a film.  Media referenced:  Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters [https://bookshop.org/p/books/skin-shows-gothic-horror-and-the-technology-of-monsters-jack-halberstam/7cb14c5a809d32d9] by J Halberstam “Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs” [https://www.artforum.com/columns/jonathan-demmes-silence-of-the-lambs-204326/] by Jeanne Silverthorne, Art Forum.  Subscribe to Jon's Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLitCritGuy/posts] Jon's books are Capitalism: A Horror Story [https://bookshop.org/p/books/capitalism-a-horror-story-gothic-marxism-and-the-dark-side-of-the-radical-imagination-jon-greenaway/9d2d1f49aac8a6e3?ean=9781914420887&next=t]and A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Introduction To the Work of Ernst Bloch [https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-primer-on-utopian-philosophy-an-introduction-to-the-work-of-ernst-bloch-jonathan-greenaway/22916bc4844faed9?ean=9781803413273&next=t] Listen to Horror Vanguard [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437]! Jay [https://twitter.com/_WildeAtHeart] is also a co-host on Library Punk [https://twitter.com/librarypunk]! Kayte [https://twitter.com/kayteterry] is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories [https://twitter.com/FangsPodcast] and makes art here! [https://www.kayteterry.com/]

Crimes of the Future with Dave Maher

It's a world with no pain, new organs and performance art is all the rage! Join Kayte and Dave as we delve into the gorgeously grotesque Crimes of the Future. We talk about pain, wounds, pleasure and art through the film and through some of Kayte's favorite performance art texts.  Other readings:  Jones, Amelia. "Performing the Wounded Body: Pain, Affect and the Radical Relationality of the Body" [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13534640903208891], Parallax, 2009 Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art [https://bookshop.org/p/books/hold-it-against-me-difficulty-and-emotion-in-contemporary-art-jennifer-doyle/4214cbead3a5675b?ean=9780822353133&next=t] by Jennifer Doyle. Body Talk: A Cronenberg Roundtable [https://reverseshot.org/features/2946/cronenberg_body_talk], Reverse Shot, 2022. Dave [https://x.com/thisisdavemaher?s=21] is also a co-host on Genre Reveal Party [https://x.com/genrerevealpod?s=21] and hosts This is Your Afterlife  [https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife?igsh=ZGJhandkbDdvZ2U2] Kayte [https://twitter.com/kayteterry] is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories [https://twitter.com/FangsPodcast] and makes art here! [https://www.kayteterry.com/]

Frankenstein with JJ and Jake Flores!

This week on Tender Subject, we are joined by comedian Jake Flores and writer J †Johnson to talk Frankenstein. We dissect the book and the 2025 film through queer and Marxist theory and get into why the film often let us down.   Media referenced: Frankenstein [https://bookshop.org/p/books/frankenstein-mary-shelley/6a5ab762f4a4486e?ean=9780141439471&next=t] by Mary Shelley Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters [https://bookshop.org/p/books/skin-shows-gothic-horror-and-the-technology-of-monsters-jack-halberstam/7cb14c5a809d32d9] by J Halberstam Capitalism: A Horror Story [https://bookshop.org/p/books/capitalism-a-horror-story-gothic-marxism-and-the-dark-side-of-the-radical-imagination-jon-greenaway/9d2d1f49aac8a6e3?ean=9781914420887&next=t] by Jon Greenaway J †Johnson is the co-editor of Cul de Sac of Blood [https://www.culdesacofblood.com/], a horror poetics journal and the author of two books with Punctum Books [https://punctumbooks.com/people/jeff-t-johnson/]. Their forthcoming book, Janky Materiality will also be published by Punctum. Jake is the co-host of Pod Damn America [https://x.com/poddamnamerica?s=21], Why You Mad [https://www.patreon.com/whyyoumad]and The Preacher and The Slave [https://m.youtube.com/@preacherandtheslavepod]. He’s also a standup! Follow him on insta [https://www.instagram.com/feraljokes?igsh=MTByZHByaWxydm14Ng==] for dates. Kayte [https://twitter.com/kayteterry] is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories [https://twitter.com/FangsPodcast] and makes art here [https://www.kayteterry.com/].

044-Jess Franco with Jane Altoids

This week on Tender Subject we are joined by Jane Altoids to dissect two Jess Franco surgery movies: The Awful Dr. Orloff (1972) and Faceless (1987). We discuss Franco as a complicated auteur, his mythology and legacy, then get into two body horror movies that bookended his career!  Media referenced:  Murderous Passions, Volume 1: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco  [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659254/murderous-passions-revised-and-expanded-edition-volume-1-by-stephen-thrower-and-julian-grainger/] Flowers of Perversion, Volume 2: The Delerious Cinema of Jesús Franco [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659231/flowers-of-perversion-volume-2-by-stephen-thrower/] by Steven Thrower (unfortunately vol. 1 is out of print) The Films of Jess Franco [https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814343166/], Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney Jane Altoids is a celebrity, writer and podcaster. You can find her here [https://x.com/staticbluebat] and listen to her on Pacino Pod [https://x.com/pacino_pod]. Mae [https://bsky.app/profile/eversonpoe.bsky.social] is co-host of the podcast Pleasers and Punishers [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pleasers-punishers/id1823078967], is a Scooby on Slayerfest98 [https://bsky.app/profile/slayerfestx98.bsky.social] and makes music at eversonpoe [https://eversonpoe.bandcamp.com/] Kayte [https://twitter.com/kayteterry] is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories [https://twitter.com/FangsPodcast] and makes art here [https://www.kayteterry.com/].