Two recent video podcast appearances for your listening pleasure!

We’re in that weird, nebulous time between the end of October and the start of the new year where the days all blend into each other between punctuations of holiday gatherings. If it weren’t for friends specifically asking me to join them for a night out or to record a podcast, I would probably not know what day it was until after January 1. For this, I have to thank blog besties Aaron Christensen of Horror 101 with Dr. AC and Christianne Benedict of Krell Laboratories for their always generous invitations to join them on their latest video podcasts as of this post.

Dr. AC’s Friday Night Frights is a weekly series featuring horror across the decades, often celebrating milestone anniversaries for films or honoring a particular actor or director’s body of work. Christi’s videocast is a little more loosely scheduled, following more of a “hey, let’s grab a couple of people and talk about movies!” I like both approaches – sometimes the less-polished conversations are the most fun, but I also love a structured chat, especially when the subject matter is challenging.

That leads me to my latest visit to Friday Night Frights to talk about Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980), a controversial film with a sensational title that’s a lot smarter than most of the other movies under the cannibal subgenre of film. This is possibly the first found footage film that manages to get most the hallmarks right: the footage discovered by Robert Kerman’s character is genuinely raw and unpolished, making it all the more difficult to watch, and it solves the non-diegetic sound problem by presenting the footage with a soundtrack added by an editor within the film. Cannibal Holocaust also provides a level of meta-commentary that creates a good framework for our group discussion. Check it out here:

I was also honored to be invited to talk about Stephen King’s big year of film adaptations in 2025 on the Krell Laboratories Podcast. Christi is one of the most knowledgeable people I know when it comes to cinema, so it’s humbling to be asked to talk movies with her. I have a raging case of impostor syndrome if you can’t tell. Anyhow, we talked about The Monkey, The Life of Chuck, The Long Walk, and The Running Man, as well as a collection of stories set in the universe of The Stand called The End of the World as We Know It (I did not read this in time, so I mostly smile and nod during this portion of the talk. This was a fun conversation, and we cover a lot of ground during our two-hour chat:

I do hope you’ll check these out – I had a lot of fun with both discussions, and look forward to more of these in 2026.