A Podcast Where Film Fans Watch The Best & Worst Horror Movies EVER! LISTEN NOW
Following my fun day out at Screams by the Sea where I got to meet Ben and Andy, as well as be briefly inteviewed by them, I have been catching up with some recent episodes of their Horror Hangout Podcast. I am ashamed to admit that I didn’t really know anything about it before I leapt in but I was, at least, coming to it completely fresh. I have listened to various horror podcasts over the years and do enjoy listening to other people talking about the films I love and generally enjoying the genre.
The Horror Hangout is comfortably familiar from that point of view. Take two big horror fans, give them a microphone or two, some special guests and let them talk; it’s a formula that everyone knows, but it works brilliantly. Of course, if you also add in some daft games like the Mount Rushmore of Horror, or Mount Rushhorror and a completely nuts title rhyming game and you get a couple of hours of entertainment that any horror fan is going to enjoy.
Supported and sponsored by silentD Pictures, the BFI Film Audience Network, the National Lottery, and TreeHouse Digital, Screams by the Sea is only in its second year, but offers up a plethora of entertainment and opportunities for its delegates. Festival Director Radi Nikolov set out to create an inclusive and friendly festival for lovers of horror and has succeeded massively in pulling together something truly special for lovers of the genre.
David Edwards loves talking about films. David Earl loves listening to David Edwards talk. In this podcast they both get to do what they enjoy. Available on Various Platforms I listen on Spotify
So, a couple of months back, I had no idea what Random Movie Generator was until a work colleague mentioned it, knowing I love films. More than likely it was to try and shut me up as most of the people I work with don’t really like talking about films as much as I do but, either way, its was a darned good recommendation.
Presented by David Earl, RMG provides a platform for David Edwards to provide movie new, tips, and insights into the relative merits of various cinema snacks all while flirting with the RMG herself, Mandy. Mandy is the main focus of the podcast – every week, Mandy generates 3 films for David Edwards to then randomly select one to watch and review the following week.
You may also get the odd movie-related YouTube video (yeah, genius or madness, you tell me) or accounts of David Edward’s cinema going experiences with blue dots on the screen or a cinema manager role play where he deals with recent bereavements among his team. You really don’t know what you are going to get each episode.
It’s a simple formula, which works brilliantly. It is realiably amusing and entertaining while retaining a modicum of “meat” for the movie-going geek. I am still not sure I am convinced that David Edwards is real, but when something is this much fun, it really doesn’t matter. Does David really subconsciously dress up as Indiana Jones to go shopping, or bedgrudge sharing his white chocolate oreos with his nephew? Who knows, but it is a lot of fun hearing about it.
You may remember David Earl from such movies as Brian and Charles (one of the best films of 2022) and Cemetery Junction as well as TV shows such as After Life and Derek. I must admit to not being as familiar with David Edwards, although he was also in Brian and Charles, but RMG has been an opportunity to get to know a little more about how the mind of a move-going genius/lunatic works and, quite frankly, I am now so invested in the chemistry between him and Mandy, I am in for the long-haul.
RMG is available on various platforms wherever you get your podcasts and you can also “subscribe” via David Earl’s Patreon, which will get you access to other stuff as well as watchalongs for the RMG.
Ultimately, RMG works because it doesn’t take itself seriously, but also has a clear respect for the subject matter at hand. Give it a whirl, I think you’ll like it.
A Spotify Original – GIMLET MEDIA Quiet Part Loud, created by Monkeypaw Productions, written by Mac Rogers and Clay McLeod Chapman. Directed by Mimi O’Donnell.
Disgraced radio host Rick Egan (Tracy Letts) has finally found his chance at reinventing himself: by chronicling the cold-case disappearance of several Muslim teens from Staten Island—a group he himself disparaged—in the wake of 9/11. But Rick soon discovers this is no ordinary hate crime, as his ill-considered investigations bring him face-to-face with an ancient American evil that’s ready to offer him a monstrous bargain.
QPL is every bit as good as you would expect from something that has been anywhere near Monkeypaw Productions and, as my first audio drama, I was very impressed.
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