Description

Jared and Lauren take on the curse of Kayako in 2004's The Grudge.  They discuss what made it so scary, the effectiveness of the non-linear storytelling, PG-13 vs. the unrated version,  the complexity of the story, and how it personally changed what horror could look like for us.

Timestamps
3:00 - Audience Question
26:42 - Negronomicon
42:00 - Crit
1:34:44 - Final Curls

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Credits

Host and Producer: Lauren La Melle - instagram.com/laurenlamelle

Host and Editor: Jared Hudson - instagram.com/blossomsandbooks93

Production Intern: Andrew Fernie - instagram.com/andrewfernie.films

Communications Intern: Mikayla Wells

Gems from Episode 68

• Pod Meets World 
• Courage the Cowardly Dog (1996)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• Eyes Without a Face (1960)
• Parasyte: The Maxim (2014)
• The Thing (1982)
• Castlevania (2017)
• Love Death + Robots (2019)
• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1994)
• Invader Zim (2001)
• The Frog Prince (1971)
• Saw (2004)
• Scream (2022)
• Halloween (2019)
• Saw V (2008)
• Jigsaw (2017)
• Saw: The Final Chapter (2010)
• The Sandman (2022)
• Day Shift (2022)
• From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
• John Wick (2014)
• Army of the Dead (2021)
• Army of Thieves (2021)
• The Afterparty (2022)
• Werewolves Within (2021)
• Only Murders in the Building (2021)
• Take Me Out (2022)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Gone Girl (2014)
• Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn, Crown Publishing Group, 2012, Print)
• Game of Thrones (2011)
• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018)
• Hercules (1997)
• Coraline (2009)
• Ironheart (2023)
• Precious (2009)
• The Ring (2002)
• The Strangers (2008)
• The Grudge (2004)
• Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
• Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (2003)
• The Faculty (1998)
• Girl, Interrupted (1999)
• She’s All That (1999)
• But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
• Twin Peaks (1990)
• Child’s Play 2 (1990)
• Tales from the Crypt (1989)
• Suicide Club (2001)
• Audition (1999)
• Private Practice (2007)
• Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
• Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
• The Stepford Wives (2005)
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
• Scooby Doo 2 : Monsters Unleashed (2004)
• Pulse (2006)
• Dark Water (2005)
• The Grudge (2020)
• The Grudge (2006)
• Silent Hill (2

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