Terror And Tacos

Separated by 1,700 miles, Christie and Michael correspond as impending doom lurks around every corner.

Gretel & Hansel (2020). We review the latest from Oz Perkins, and talk fairy tales, folk horror, and the sheer joy of having the movie theater all to ourselves.

Horror Story (2013). Ghost Stories (2020). Senda Del Sabor Taqueria. Our special guest Maryam Baig talks to us about the histories and traditions of horror movies in India and Pakistan, the rise of Hindi-language horror on Netflix, and much more.

Crawl (2019). Pollo Regio. Our first episode of 2020 delves into Crawl, creature features, alligators, and primal fear. And, of course, tacos.

A Christmas Carol (2019). Tacos La Banqueta. We finish off 2019 talking about our favorite taco place, Victorian ghost stories, updating the classics, and the magic of Christmas. Happy New Year, TAT listeners!

Black Christmas (2019). We spent Friday the 13th seeing the latest remake of Black Christmas. It was unlucky, indeed. Join us for a discussion of the death of nuance and what it feels like to get hit over the head with a hammer for 90 minutes straight.

The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015). #Horror (2015). Girls coming of age has long been a staple of horror stories. We try to figure out why by delving into two of our favorite newish movies on the subject.

Doctor Sleep (2019). Can a movie serve two masters? We fight our way through the disparate styles, different stories, homages to Kubrick, and tributes to King that are Doctor Sleep.

We set-up shop in the lobby of Theatre Three before a performance of our adaptation of Dracula to talk to audience members about their favorite monsters. We had some great conversations, but ended up selling tickets, directing people to the bathroom, and dealing with the general insanity of a pre-show lobby. We'll be back in the comfort of the TAT studios next week, but we had a good time getting out there amongst the people.

We know sometimes you're too busy to watch a movie, so we're here to provide some quick hits of horror that can help you keep it spooky while you're on the go this Halloween season.

Marianne, X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Night Gallery, etc. Tacos La Banqueta. Fall finally fell in Texas (kind of), so we're back to help you plan the season and keep it spooky everyday with some of our favorite scary TV shows and episodes.

Halloween (1978), The VVitch (2015), etc. La Pasadita #2. We try to figure out what makes the perfect horror movie score, and we each rank our Top 5. Also, we tried a new pupuseria, and the food was delicious!

Our schedules have gotten the best of us, but we managed to get together over burgers and colas for a short talk about our upcoming stage adaptation of Dracula, Victorian cultural constructs, and why we almost always root for the monster.

IT: Chapter Two (2019). Our 50th episode sends us into an existential crisis as we try to deal with how bad IT: Chapter Two is, but in the end we accept that the world is a terrible place.

Exorcist III (1990), Deep Red (1975), and many more. We delve into some our favorite scary moments in horror and try to figure out why they terrify us so much. Some of the movies are brilliant, some are terrible, but all of them managed at least one truly scary moment.

Pet Sematary (2019). Homemade papas con huevos. The ground is sour, the changes are a mess, and the horror is gone. We talk the new Pet Sematary, having our nostalgia pumped for money, and the right way to make a taco classic.

The House of the Devil (2009). La Victoria Restaurant. We're back to talk about one of our favorite movies, one of our favorite directors, and the sheer insanity of living through the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s as kids.

Midsommar (2019). We're back to review Midsommar, talk about bad relationships, and discuss our first two weeks of making a horror movie.

Aliens (1986), Scream 4 (2011), and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) are just a few of the sequels we get into on this rapid-fire, early morning, breakfast taco episode of TAT.

The Dead Don't Die (2019). Taqueria La Huasteca. Special guest Bob McVay joins us to break down Jim Jarmusch's new zombie picture, the past and future of the zombie subgenre, and movies that scared us when we were kids.