Dark Discussions Podcast
661 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsWWW.DARKDISCUSSIONS.COM - your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction and all that's fantastic. Your hosts discuss all things genre, including books, movies, films, video games, and comics about such topics as horror, science fiction, fantasy, and grindhouse.
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Dark Discussions - Episode 011 - The Planet of the Apes Retrospective Part 2
July 27, 2011 00:33 - 2 hours - 122 MBWelcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. With the legacy of the Planet of the Apes and its sequel behind them, an idea came about that would lead to a three story arc to round out the now classic franchise. With this in mind, Pierre Boulle’s novel The Planet of the Apes was front and center once again where the source material was mined to create a new and compelling arc that took the original novel and reversed th...
Dark Discussions - Episode 010 - Rear Window
July 24, 2011 12:25 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBWelcome to Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. Episode 010 - Rear Window. What appears to be a tight and quaint little thriller seems by today’s standards so much more. Rear Window, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces from 1954, seems more modern today than the half a century ago that it was filmed. With reality television a staple on every channel, a person with a flick of the switch can immediately become a voyeur and watch...
Dark Discussions - Episode 009 - The Planet of the Apes Retrospective Part 1
July 17, 2011 12:53 - 2 hours - 121 MBWelcome to Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. In 1952, a French World War II veteran and resistance hero, wrote a historical novel that brought him to international fame, The Bridge Over the River Kwai. Pierre Boulle became a prolific author who’s career extended into many genres which included science fiction and social fantasies. By 1963 his latest novel, Monkey Planet also translated into Planet of the Apes, grabbed the att...
Dark Discussions - Episode 008 - Let Me In
July 10, 2011 12:45 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBWelcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. During the year of our Lord 2004, the debut novel of an unknown author from Sweden changed the mythos of one of the most mysterious and dangerous monsters of horror legend. Prior to its release, vampires had slowly become the stock character of numerous romantic and teenage horror books and films. However this original take on the creature of the night stood ou...
Dark Discussions - Episode 007 - Frank Darabont Retrospective Part 2
July 03, 2011 12:51 - 1 hour - 105 MBWelcome to Episode 007 of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. By 2007, Frank Darabont had established himself as one of Hollywood’s top directors and screenwriters. Following the award nominated adaptations of some of Stephen King’s most heart warming stories, Mr. Darabont decided to go back to his roots to produce, screen write, and direct one of Mr. King’s most beloved horror stories of all time, The Mist. The movie is a sto...
Dark Discussions - Episode 006 - Frank Darabont Retrospective Part 1
June 26, 2011 14:18 - 2 hours - 122 MBWelcome to Episode 006 of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. In 1979, a young inspiring film student took advantage of an opportunity called a Dollar Baby, Stephen King’s generous way of giving back to the next generation of film makers. With the permission to make an adaption of one of the author’s short stories, Frank Darabont at the young age of twenty proceeded to make a short film which would go on to reach the semi-finali...
Dark Discussions - Episode 005 - Zombies Part 2
June 19, 2011 20:18 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBWelcome to Episode 005 of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. Once again Philip and Gordon discuss the flesh eaters known so affectionately as the walking dead and zombies. Within this episode, less familiar zombie films are brought to the attention to the listeners. Unlike the George A. Romero films and the other more well known franchises such as Resident Evil, zombie movies have been copied, ripped off, or simply reinvented b...
Dark Discussions - Episode 004 - Who Goes There?
June 12, 2011 13:13 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBWelcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. The Howard Hawks/Christian Nyby 1951 film The Thing From Another World is considered by many the greatest science fiction film of the 1950’s, rated superior to its contemporaries such as The Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth Stood Still. John Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing, though a failure at the box office, has become arguably one of the greatest horror and science f...
Dark Discussions - Episode 003 - Zombies Part 1
June 05, 2011 23:54 - 1 hour - 79.1 MBWelcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. The topic for this episode is Zombies with a capital Z. Zombies have overtaken the world's culture, entering into our media just like a virus. Books, movies, video games, comics, and even podcasts have dedicated stories about zombies and their terror. Prior to 1968 zombies were known mostly as Haitian monsters created by voodoo or possibly ghoulish demonic forces, but in 196...
Dark Discussions - Episode 002 - Sucker Punch
May 29, 2011 17:16 - 1 hour - 74 MBWelcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. A fairly recent release at theaters has brought both the mainstream critics and the genre folks camping on different sides of no man’s land arguing whether the film was great or just a complete mess. The film is Sucker Punch written and directed by genre favorite Zack Snyder. Philip takes an in depth look into what the film pays homage to, focusing on such topics as anime, s...
Dark Discussions - Episode 001 - The State of Horror
May 22, 2011 17:11 - 2 hours - 116 MBWelcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. Kicking off the first podcast in style, Gordon and Philip chat about the horror genre in general. Discussing how horror on television has taken a huge leap forward with such brilliant new programming as The Walking Dead, a zombie television show based off the graphic novel by Robert Kirkman, your hosts move to an assessment of the once hot and hip cable horror show Masters o...