The Horror Pod Class: Episode 128 Malignant
Tyler: Welcome to Episode 128 of the Horror Pod Class. My name is Tyler Unsell and by day I am a just an ordinary teacher but by night I transform to an ordinary teacher who likes to talk about spooky shit. I am joined tonight as I am most nights by The cohostest with the mostest. The Sleekest skeleton I know…Orrin Grey. What have you been up to since we last appeared here man?
Tyler: Tonight we are going to discuss what we have been reading and watching, highlight some free content on the internet with our dark corner of the web and finally are traveling to Italy by way of Seattle with James Wan’s newest Giallo Tribute Malignant.
What have we been watching
Tyler: Nick Cutter Little Heaven, Bad Candy. Super fun. Evil
Orrin: Crestwood House monster books
Dark Corners of the Web:
https://tubitv.com/movies/496155/all-the-colors-of-giallo
All the colors of Giallo
Essential Question: Does Malignant speak to anything uniquely American. (I have some thoughts.
Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.
Top cast
- as Jane Doe
- (as Jean Louise Kelly)
- …
- as Scorpion
- (as Zoe Bell)
- as Beta
- (as Shaunte Johnson)
- Director
https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/giallo-italian-film-guide.html
Gilet Giallo-Giley Jaune The Yellow Vests
Giallo an overview-The posters in that overview are FANTASTIC
Gender and Giallo-https://www.academia.edu/23207823/Gender_Genre_and_Sociocultural_Change_in_the_Giallo_1970_1975
https://www.academia.edu/8666825/No_Place_Like_Home_The_Late_Modern_World_of_the_Italian_giallo_Film
FOCUS ON THE EYES-PANOPTICON?
Link between the weird tale and Giallo
Here’s my pitch for the sequel: Nick Fury shows up, basically. Like, there’s no way that anyone comes away from the end of this film and is all, “Oh, you weren’t in control but now you are? Cool, cool, you’re free to go.” So instead, the sequel is basically Suicide Squad. She’s got an explosive collar or some shit rigged up for when Gabriel inevitably goes rogue again, and she gets sent on black bag operations for the government or whoever and in exchange they don’t kill her or lock her in a box 24/7.
4 Films:
Upgrade, Split
The Dark Half, Dead Silence
Anonymous Letterboxd Users Leave Crappy Reviews
i can not put into words my absolute seething hatred for this movie. this is like if spirit halloween and lifetime fucked in a dirty coke haze at a frat party and produced a child. the scoring was maybe the most poorly timed i have ever fucking seen, using combinations of the euphoria and john wick soundtrack. if they put in one more shot of that fucking stupid full house looking home i was going burn amc to the ground. i literally physically tensed every time they showed it because it happened every two minutes. the writing must have been done on a napkin at a truck stop in ohio next to a hallmark store for inspiration. the blatant racist fucking stereotypes portrayed throughout the whole film felt like they were trying to throw in scary movie jokes in an attempt to cover the straight up racism.
WUT? Also on the note of this terrible movie, the knife used in the flashback scene is the same holster and butt as a OXO checks knife which came out in the 2000/s but it was shown in the 80s. Prop department needs to do their job
Also another just said “Harry Potter” LOL or “Worse than the emoji movie”
Tyler has been the editor in chief of Signal Horizon since its conception. He is also the Director of Monsters 101 at Truman State University a class that pairs horror movie criticism with survival skills to help middle and high school students learn critical thinking. When he is not watching, teaching or thinking about horror he is the Director of Debate and Forensics at a high school in Kansas City, Missouri.