Bret Easton Ellis' controversial 1991 novel brought to life in 2000 by director Mary Harron who co-wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner. It stars Christian Bale, Reese Witherspoon, and Willem Dafoe.

Fact Check: Francis Ford Coppola is Nicholas Cage's uncle. Sometimes famous family trees are hard to remember.

We were right! The hotel scene starts on page 135, so 55 pages before the end.

Aoyama's final line is "I don't know. Nothing really."

Our next book is The Man In My Basement by Walter Mosley. It debuts in select theaters and on Hulu September 12.

Next month's novel is Audition by Ryu Murakami.

Based on the 1954 novella I am Legend by Richard Matheson, the 1971 film Omega Man  starred Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash, and Anthony Zerbe. Screenplay by John William Corrington and Joyce Corrington, directed by Boris Sagal, it tells the story of Robert Neville, the last man on earth after a disease wipes out the population and turns them into vampires.

There was another adaptation prior in 1964 (The Last Man on Earth) starring Vincent Price. Maybe we should have watched that one?

We were so excited we forgot our intro!

The movie and book are heavy in symbolism and Susie tried her best to explain what she remembers from an Apocalyptic Literature theology class she took over 20 years ago with gaps filled in from quick internet searches. She takes full responsibility for any inaccuracies.

We're looking for book suggestions since The Vampire Lestat is off the table for this year. E-mail us at: scarymbc[at]gmail.com to send in some suggestions.

I Am Legend with Will Smith was from 2007, Book of Eli with Denzel Washington was 2010. Both movie posters were rocking similar vibes. Give them a google.

A few show notes:

Special Effects were done by George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic.

The dinosaur that squirts toxins is a Dilophosaurus (we were in the ballpark but no way were we getting a home run on the name).

The actual numbers discrepancy between expected and found velociraptors was 8 expected and 37 found. Yes, Susie's eyes did fall out of her head.

Stephen King's Dollar Baby program ended December 31, 2023. He posted on Twitter that it was due to "Margaret, the Mistress of Dollar Babies is retiring." Margaret managed the program.

Osgood Perkins' father is Anthony Perkins (who acted in Psycho). His death is mentioned in Vanity Fair's article featuring an interview with Osgood Perkins.

"The Monkey's Paw" was written by W.W. Jacobs in 1902.

Two of the stories, "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" and "The Crate" were both previously published as short stories. The former was originally titled "Weeds" (1976) and appeared in Cavalier Magazine, while the latter was published in 1979 under the same title in Gallery.

The movie, directed by George A. Romero, featured a plethora of familiar faces such as Leslie Nielsen, Ed Harris, and Ted Danson.

We want to apologize for the sound quality on Kristine's mic. Sound check was good but it must have shifted shortly after because upon playback it sounded like she was far away from a mic that was literally pinned to her shirt.

This month marks the first actual appearance of Vlad the tuxedo cat (all prior appearances cut for time).

Apologies for the speed variances. We were really excited to discuss and our mouths often got away from us.

Clarification on the screenplay: Kristine gives credit to Harris as a screenplay writer but it was all Ted Tally.

For the first time ever we have a pod-guest, Emily from Tell Tale Books, who you can watch on YouTube for more book-discussing goodness.

In the episode we talk about Project Gutenberg for all your classics-reading needs if you want to delve further into Lovecraft without purchasing a giant tome.

Susie mentions Arkham Horror: the Card Game from Fantasy Flight Games as a gateway to Lovecraftian understanding.

Emily briefly talked about Lovecraft being on the autism spectrum (gosh I hope I'm describing that the right way). A google search brings up lots of message boards and even a book wherein the author delves into the possibility, but nothing on the first page that seems at all conclusive... probably because the man is dead.

Madeleine Arthur we mentioned was on "The Magicians" as Fragile Human, but the descriptor is "Frail".

A google search will bring up many articles explaining how the color Magenta doesn't actually exist. Check out Sci Show's video about it (because Sci Show is awesome).

Finally, if anyone wants to produce some fine art of a person with Arden's Anthology of Shakespeare in one hand, Complete Works of H. G. Wells in the other, and the Complete Works of Lovecraft on a utility belt that would be rad. We'd love to see it.

When talking about Interview With the Vampire we neglected to provide the name of the actress who had taken over the role of Claudia. That's Delainey Hayles.

Kristine mentions The Exorcist being based on a true story. That is true. There was an exorcism in 1949 which inspired Blatty's novel.

The King/Barker piece is 1997's made for television movie Quicksilver Highway.

Our friend's podcast is Wave Makers Audio Plays. Found here on Podbean as well as other major distributors including Apple.

It's a short episode this month. When it comes to the references to real life events most of the timeline was compiled using the Wikipedia page for the novel. A few side searches yielded results but most of it was the casual curiosity that started and ended with wiki.

Lots of show notes for this one so...

The actor who played Renfield in "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" was Peter MacNicol. Mel Brooks actually had Renfield be the visitor to Dracula's castle and then cast Steven Weber as Mina's beau Johnathan Harker, who stayed at home.

Princess Weekes' YouTube video is entitled 'How Mina Murray Became Dracula's Girlfriend' It can be watched here.

The Bram Stoker Estate webpage is simply bramstokerestate.com and has a plethora of nifty information about his lost journal and other stuff, worth a look.

Susie credited the statement about actors who don't work to Michael Caine. She's having a hard time finding evidence of it to make sure he said it. Someone on a forum suggested Christopher Walken had a similar quote. Can't find evidence of that either. She'll have to keep looking.

She did find the Carrie Fischer quote about no bras in space (she actually said "underwear"), and you can listen here.

Richard E. Grant's quote about wearing tights can be found on his X page, here.

We had a lot of fun discussing this month's pairing but while editing we realized it may require a warning so...

Trigger Warning: This discussion contains talk of a character's suicide, self-mutilation/flaying, and vines crawling under your skin.

(Fun Fact: Podbean won't allow a 4-letter title. Go figure.)

Did you love the book? Sad you borrowed it instead of buying a copy? Want to gift one to a friend? If you feel lucky Goodreads has a giveaway for the month of July. You could be one of the lucky 24 people to win.

We have a talk about movie posters. Susie mentions one and now looking it up finds that it's a fan design by Andrew Swainson, not the actual. You can see his movie poster here: https://www.andrewswainson.com/jaws

We hearken back to our Exorcist episode when we compare the cost of the shark ($500,000 each) to the cost of the refrigerated set ($50,000) without going back and checking some numbers.

We've been recording in a new space and it seems to be eating up our sound. Let us know if we need to crank up the volume by emailing us:  scarymbc[at]gmail.com.

Numbers are hard, so the intro says it's episode 4, part 2. It's actually our first BONUS (episode 5 part 2).

A group of vampires can also be called a coven, though we corrected ourselves to the word "nest". Never second guess your gut.

Anne Rice's pick for Louis was Tom Hanks. Who would be his Lestat? Contact us with your picks! scarymbc at gmail.com.

Spoilers for the end of Season 1 start with a verbal warning to skip ahead at 39:44 and end at 57:37 when we say we're back.

Special Thanks to Emily Schmidt of Tell Tale Books who set Kristine up with her copy.

Post-Recording Correction: It did not win best picture, it was the first horror film nominated for best picture, but the first win went to Silence of the Lambs.

During this episode we mention the website doesthedogdie.com, for those who need to know ahead of time if the dog survives the horror movie.

Disclaimer: We recorded this during the winter holidays... the struggle to form sentences was real. Thank you for your patience and understanding.