This week on Sitting in the Dark, we confront the horrors of suburbia, the workplace, and aging itself with Vivarium, The Belko Experiment, and The Father. We explore the unsettling truths lurking beneath the surface of everyday life, questioning the very nature of reality in a discussion about the horrors and the terrors of being an adult.
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Tommy is in the big chair leading us on a journey of discovery that leads… nowhere. That’s right, what do you get when you are forced to reckon the horrors of miscommunication? It’s nothing good… that’s what. The Mothman Prophecies, Dark Skies, and Midsommar are all on deck this week!
Long-lost Kyle Olson is back and he leads us on a journey to the deep looking at the monsters that plague deep-sea miners everywhere!
House on Haunted Hill and House of Wax are classics of the Vincent Price collection. But what happens when they’re given the 90s remake treatment? We’re talking about the Hill ’99 and Wax ’05 with Pete, Ray, and Tommy this month!
What happens when the symbols of our holidays themselves turn against us? What if we find ourselves running not from Frankenstein or Dracula or some other manifestation of desire and technology run amok, but we’re running from murderous Saint Nick himself? What happens when the things we celebrate in song are recontextualized as explicit symbols of fear? This month, Pete, Tommy, and Ray are talking all about holiday horrors!