Ep. 9 - Storm of the Century & Slumber Party

Ep. 9 - Storm of the Century & Slumber Party

Paris brings a Stephen King original. Not an adaptation. An original screenplay King had been sitting on since 1966 about a small island cut off by a blizzard and a stranger named Andre Linoge who knows everyone's darkest secrets. Give me what I want and I'll go away. Storm of the Century premiered Valentine's Day 1999. Then Tommy brings the first book published under the Point imprint. Christopher Pike's Slumber Party from 1985. Six teenage girls. One ski resort. Two 22 year old men. And a flare gun in a pine tree.

Ep. 8 - Savageland & The Dark Descends

Paris brings a 2015 found photography horror film. An entire Arizona border town of 57 people is killed or disappears overnight. The only survivor is an undocumented Mexican immigrant covered in blood. The only evidence of what actually happened is 37 photographs of things that should not exist. Then Tommy brings a 1975 psychological thriller with six Goodreads ratings. Diana Ramsay was a pen name. Her real name was Rhoda Rebee Brandes. Published by Collins Crime Club, the same imprint as Agatha Christie. Then Tommy brings a 1975 psychological thriller with six Goodreads ratings. Joyce has just left her husband for a fresh start in her new Greenwich Village apartment. With a new job too it feels like the beginning of something. Then the woman upstairs never sleeps and her noise never stops. Joyce begins to drink and spiral. It was written under a pen name Diana Ramsay, and published by the same imprint as Agatha Christie.

Ep. 7 - Mimic & Mapping the Interior

Paris brings the movie that almost ended Guillermo del Toro's career. Mimic. 1997. Bugs genetically engineered to save New York City evolve to mimic humans. A great concept challenged by the Weinsteins. Bob Weinstein barged onto the set. The film flopped. But the new Director's Cut is worth streaming. Then Tommy brings the book Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones. A 12 year old named Junior sees a figure in his trailer one night in full fancy dancer regalia. His father never danced. That was his dream that didn't happen. Deciding this thing is his Father, back to protect him, is where the horror starts. A Bram Stoker Award winning novella most people skipped on their way to The Only Good Indians. Don't overlook it.

Ep. 6 - Eerie, Indiana & Nightmare Seasons

Paris brings a show NBC didn't know what to do with. Eerie, Indiana aired in 1991, ran 19 episodes, and disappeared. A 13 year old moves from New Jersey to the strangest town in America and spends one season investigating it with his only normal friend. It's YA Twin Peaks shot on film. The episode about a humanoid ATM named Mr. Wilson giving a kid free money hits differently in the age of AI. Then Tommy brings a book with Stephen King's name on the cover, but King didn't write it. Charles L. Grant did. The man who invented quiet horror, won two Nebula Awards, three World Fantasy Awards, and the title of World Horror Convention Grandmaster wrote the same book as Stephen King in the same year. Four novellas. Four seasons. 1982. They went head to head at the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

Ep. 5 - Riverbend & The Phantom Tollbooth

Paris brings a 1989 film that almost nobody has seen and yet somehow Tommy has. Riverbend follows a Black Vietnam veteran and his men who hide out in a Georgia town being terrorized by a racist sheriff and decide to fight back. Shot in Texas, buried on VHS, and rescued from obscurity by a filmmaker who put it on YouTube. It is Red Dawn meets The Color Purple run through an 80s action filter and it is a wild ride. Then Tommy concludes his series on books Ella really dug. The Phantom Tollbooth. A father daughter road trip. A surprise audiobook. A kid who was already in chapter two and did not want him to turn it off. Narrated by Rainn Wilson. Written by Norton Juster who violated his Ford Foundation grant by doing so. Publishers said the wordplay was too much for kids. They were wrong.