The Horror Pod Class: Live From the Weird Symposium-The Beach House
Tyler: Live from the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial High School AV Room
Basement Welcome to episode 102 of The Horror Pod Class. My name is Tyler and I run Signal Horizon a magazine dedicated to exploring genre fiction in and out of the classroom.
Orrin: HEY
Tyler: Tonight on the Horror Pod Class we are going to spend some time talking about what we have been watching and reading, we will help you find some free genre content on the internet and finally we will spend the remainder of the episode discussing Weird Eco Horror flick The Beach House. As you might have noticed this season you can check out all of back episodes on Itunes and other podcatchers and the live version on our Youtube channel!
Wat are we watching: Gearing up for Fantasia Fest. Love Lovecraft Country. Finished Malorie. It is really good even if I didn’t love the ending.
Dark Corners: Free 30 DAYS FROM THE WEIRD SYMPOSIUM, SHUDDER, and The Horror Pod Class!! Some Movies we reccomend
La Llorona
Revenge
Tigers are not Afraid
Host
Blood Quantum
Noroi
Essential Question: How does eco horror fit in with the GREATER WEIRDING
Initial Reactions to The Beach House
The weird anti drug message seems a bit out of place.
It was great to see Jake Weber. The Dawn of the Dead remake is really fun and I have a soft spot for early seasons of Medium.
Some rad body horror. YIKES!
Cast
| Cast overview: | |||
 | Liana Liberato | … | Emily |
 | Noah Le Gros | … | Randall |
 | Jake Weber | … | Mitch |
 | Maryann Nagel | … | Jane |
 | Michael Brumfield | … | Police Officer |
 | Matt Maisto | … | Creature in basement |
 | Steven Corkin | … | Infected neighbor |
 | Dan Zakarija | … | CB Radio Voice |
 | Veronica Fellman | … | Radio |
Really dig the first look at the plants from the ocean. Sargossa from another planet if you will.
For real though we go to the beach a lot and Sargossa is becoming a big issue mostly do to global warming, It feels a little alien when surrounded by it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/great-atlantic-sargassum-belt-here-stay/593290/
Lets talk some about eco horror and global warming/weirding
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
Other Example of Eco Horror
Of course The Happening-Its my skype photo
The Bay
Every Kaiju film right?
Shivers
AND OF COURSE ANNIHILATION
Sea Fever
Day of the Animals and, frankly, most of those “animal attack” movies from the ‘70s.
Lets spend some time talking about The Global Weirding.
The Weird Ecologies of Mary shelly’s Frankenstein
Jed Mayer
Science Fiction Studies
Vol. 45, No. 2, Frankenstein (July 2018), pp. 229-243
So Weird Ecologies are REALLY INTERESTIN
Abcanny Waters: Victor LaValle, John Langan, and the Weird Horror of Climate Change
Guy Witzel
Science Fiction Studies
Vol. 45, No. 3, SF and the Climate Crisis (November 2018), pp. 560-57
The Question of Global Warming according to the Weird
“Is a question of misrecognition not a question of repression. Its a transition we are not prepared for. A transition that is not human focused. The lack of human focus is REALLY interesting. Like its evolution and we are being left behind.”
Amazon One Star Review
EVERYONE CRAWLS. ALL THE TIME.
Bland bland bland. The movie opens with the usual mounting tension. We are introduced to the main character who is easily the most knowledgeable person in the show. Yet as the threat shows itself, she seems unable to provide any insights into how this functions, what to do about it, or how to avoid becoming a victim. Instead we are treated to the usual formula of watching the characters fall away one by one. The threat assumes so many formats that one is left wondering if they left anything out. As if the writers had a checklist of “what form the threat could take” and deciding to just go with the whole list. There is simply no theme, as they try to keep the phenomena as indeterminate as possible. However, instead of creating fear, it just looks like it was written for an intoxicated audience. To top it off, the characters are weak, insipid and uninspiring. They are not relatable and just seem like bumbling idiots. The only good thing about the ending was that the movie was over.
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Next Week: The Old Dark House
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.