As controversial as it was influential, Taxi Driver
remains an unflinchingly uncomfortable portrait of how one man's
self-imposed loneliness spirals out into explosive violence. On
this episode, we're taking a closer look at Rober DeNiro's iconic
performance as Travis Bickle and investigating how he became
one...
On this episode, we're heading to the idyllic town of Cradle Bay to
investigate their mysterious Blue Ribbon program. Although its
participants initially showed promising results, a few of them have
recently been exhibiting some... Disturbing Behavior.
But the more sinister story here might be what happened to...
We're not quite ready to put Halloween behind us, so we
decided to take a look at a story about one that seemingly never
ends. On this episode, we're opening up a case file on The Holiday
Killer from Batman: The Long Halloween and investigating
the origins of this seminal comic book and the recent
animated...
The final moments of Halloween II had been intended to
kill off Michael Myers for good, but the film's box office success
all but guaranteed another sequel. The only way creators John
Carpenter and Debra Hill could be lured back for another entry was
with the promise that they could come up with an entirely
new...
The popularity of occult horror had been on the rise since the
late 60s, but it was the success of The Exorcist in 1973
that led to a slew of other films attempting to cash in on that
craze. One of the more notable efforts was Richard Donner's debut
feature The Omen.
On this episode, we're investigating how Donner...
Kristen, Mike, and Chris investigate pop culture's most memorable villains, antiheroes, and misunderstood monsters to find out how they make being bad look so good. New episodes every other Wednesday.