Binary System Podcast #148- As Above So Below, The Cell and other horror movies we like

<p>Original broadcast date October 18, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/10/binary-system-podcast-148-as-above-so-below-the-cell-and-other-horror-movies-we-like/</p> <p>It took us a long time before we'd watch horror movies, a LONG time. By the time we graduated high school we'd seen most of <em>Poltergeist</em> (a friend warned us about the face-falling-off scene) and one Freddy Krueger movie (<em>The Dream Warriors</em>, still our favorite, oh shut up.)</p> <p>So even we think it's weird that we have a collection of horror movies we actually like, though a lot of them aren't considered "successful" or "good" or even "scary." Listen in as we break down what we loved about 2014's <em>As Above, So Below</em>, and 2000's <em>The Cell, </em>and the rest of Kathryn's <a href="https://www.imdb.com/list/ls040319562/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">imdb list of horror movies</a>. (With frequent tangents into <em>Twin Peaks, Fantastic Planet</em>, and our shameless addiction to imdb trivia and jump scares.)</p> <p>This week's outro music is a clip from Scratch Massive's <a href="https://youtu.be/6Hufzuj5weo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nuit de mes reves</a>, featured on the <em>As Above So Below</em> soundtrack. https://youtu.be/6Hufzuj5weo</p> <p>We talked about the artist who inspired some of the disturbing images in <em>The Cell</em> but we never mentioned his name, it's <a href="http://nerdrum.com/paintings/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Odd Nerdrum.</a> (And he's Swedish, not Flemish.) http://nerdrum.com/paintings/</p> <p>And the sculpture that inspired the horse-sliced-apart scene in <em>The Cell</em> (and also Hannibal's display of one of his victims) is Damien Hirst's "<a href="http://www.damienhirst.com/some-comfort-gained-from-the-a" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything</a>." http://www.damienhirst.com/some-comfort-gained-from-the-a</p> <p><br></p>