Welcome to the blog version of our podcast ... This Place Scares Us!
Come to us to hear all of the strange, disturbing reasons why literature, movies, serial killers, and strange events make your skin crawl and your spine tingle.
Clinkies!
Katya and Laramie
(with support from Ryan and Davey)
www.thisplacescaresus.com
Summer is in full swing and we are releasing an episode that wasn't recorded this past winter! We hope this episode will keep you creeped out as you travel for your summer fun. Maybe you can bring us with as you visit a ghost town or check out a haunted house.
This week Katya and Laramie discuss Stephen King's Salem's Lot, (specifically the 1979 TV miniseries directed by Tobe Hooper). Laramie discusses the horror of vampirism and why Salem's Lot shows us that the sexual appeal of vampires is scarier than anything. Katya and Laramie also discuss if the events of Salem's Lot could take place today and the terrifying parallels between vampirism and drug addiction.
Also, Katya and Laramie discuss many of Laramie's wonderful works of art, what Katya has been up to these past several months, and why language matters so much in horror and life.
Welcome back, scaredy cats! We recorded in January, but our wrath is still relevant! We're talking about all kinds of fun scat, including my 40th birthday party in HAWAII!!!! Here, to begin, are some whales we saw:
And the awesome edition of Gaywyck that I found at an awesome used bookstore in Lahaina -- I'd heard of it before, and now I can read it for myself!
This cover (above) is the edition that I purchased (and I will read it!) ...
... but I dig this edition as well! It's always been my theory that if something I want to read doesn't exist, then I'll just right it m'own damn self. Which apparently is a philosophy that Mr. Virga embraced as well. THE FIRST GAY GOTHIC ... how ballah is that?!?
It's back! Our first hit single! Sing it with me now:
birds Birds BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS!!!
The attack of the crows over Amy and Aaron's house!!! They tend to amass in the trees over yonder at sunset ... a whole giant murder of the bastards. Check out the House Party episode to experience the awesomeness that is Amy and Aaron.
And now ... for tonight's topic ... Gillberto Valle, THE CANNIBAL COP!!!
Keep it classy, New York Post.
This is the kind of thing I found when I was doing photo research on our fiend, er, friend, Mr. Valle:
Bluebeard, courtesy of Graham Ingels and Tales from the Crypt!
The Vertigo zoom in JAWS:
The amazing advertisement that my husband made for this episode:
Here's this muthafuckah's novel:
THROW. AWAY. THE DAMNED KEY.
Stephen King's The Outsider. Not for the faint of heart. Go to.
We hope you are having a wonderful start to summer and enjoying the warmth and sun. Cookouts are a wonderful summer tradition and this week we decided to bring you an epicurean focused episode.
Gilberto Valle, dubbed the "Cannibal Cop" is a former NYPD officer who was found guilty of conspiracy to commit kidnapping in 2013, and later had his conviction overturned in 2014. Gilberto's charges stemmed from his behavior in online chat rooms regarding fantasy writing involving the rape, murder, and cannibalization of numerous women. To say this case is complex is an understatement, but Katya and Laramie dig into what makes this such a scary situation.
Also, Katya and Laramie struggle with New York geography, discuss diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5 and try to pin down where the line is between thought crimes and real crimes. So join us for some ups and downs on this wacky episode!
...my Dracula scripts came! I've been waiting for this moment forever, since I was a little kid writing and illustrating myriad adaptations of Dracula (maybe I'll post some of my earlier efforts). I wrote my first full length Drac script while on vacation in Yellowstone Park in 8th grade (wonder if I still have it somewhere?), and I actually used some of the imagery (the coffin sliding onstage at the end) in this version.
So here they are, and here are some photos from our production in 2016, courtesy of Elan West-Badminton.
Monroe Ayers as the Sea Captain.
Dracula (Diego Kjelland) attacks Van Helsing (Hunter White).
Dracula (Diego Kjelland).
Dracula (Diego Kjelland) and Lucy (Iris Jandreau).
Dracula (Diego Kjelland) attacks Mina (Emma Swartz).
Jonathan Harker (Nicolas Crepeau) in the Underworld.
Jonathan Harker (Nicolas Crepeau).
Van Helsing (Hunter White) hypnotizes Mina (Emma Swartz).
Vampire Lucy (Iris Jandreau) taunts Mina (Emma Swartz).
Lucy (Iris Jandreau) attempts to seduce Van Helsing (Hunter White).
Lucy (Iris Jandreau).
Mina (Emma Swartz) and Dracula (Diego Kjelland).
Harker (Nicolas Crepeau) and Mina (Emma Swartz).
Mina (Emma Swartz) and Lucy (Iris Jandreau).
Mina (Emma Swartz) and Lucy (Iris Jandreau).
Van Helsing (Hunter White) explains the rules of vampirism to Mina (Emma Swartz) and Harker (Nicolas Crepeau).
We're reporting to you from the doldrums of winter, even though now it's the beginning of June! So travel back in time with us to the dark horrible-ness of January and experience the awesome-ness that is my favorite holiday movie ... Gremlins!
My newest touring play!
Below is the Orson Welles' Macbeth so you can watch Lady M leap from the mountain, hit the side ... and bounce.
And here is the trailer for We Have Always Lived in the Castle!
For Lindsey -- some Carmilla action!!!
And some Vampire Lovers!
A reminder repost of how amazing Lindsey is with these birds.
Gremlins cereal! Basically Captain Crunch in, what I'm guessing are supposed to be Mogwais. Mogwum?
Me with my stuffed Gizmo that I wish was the original that I received for Christmas in 1984. That one is lost to the ages; this one I picked up in Paducah, Kentucky, while I was in grade school.
Mrs. Deagle's death grimace! I will own this someday.
More Gremlins merchandise!!! I had most-to-all of this stuff.
Dammit, Shannon!
I feel like this still exists at my parents' house somewhere ... wonder if I could get it to work? Anyone ... anyone ...?
Henry Thomas and the woman with one finger from Cloak and Dagger ...and I think that's Roman Castavet from Rosemary's Baby!
The Howling!
Belinda Belaski faces a werewolf in The Howling! "But Mr. Quist, it's Christmas!"
Amazing makeup from The Howling: Eddie Quist, werewolf extraordinaire.
C'mon ... it looks so real!!!
When does after midnight become before midnight?
Buy this and read it right now.
The hotness that is Zach Galligan. I guess I had a very specific type when I was a kid. Observe Charlie from Fright Night ...
... and David from An American Werewolf in London ...
Oh man. I really did.
The poster for Ted Geoghegan's We Are Still Here!
See, Katya? See????
Deputy Brent, then and now.
"I need help, Rose!" Kate's monologue. Watch it, we'll wait.
The Coreys.
Tiger Beat, just for you.
Lynn Peltzer versus the Gremlins (don't watch this if you ... you know what, just watch it. Be a grown up.)
And here's something cool ... a few months after we recorded this episode, I picked up this lunchbox at Time Bomb Collectibles in Spokane, Washington -- check 'em out when you're there! (And here's Gizmo in his famous pink Barbie car! Supah dupah queer. Gizmo as a gay pride icon!)
Here's the Gremlins don't drink and drive PSA (featuring Stripe's awesome death):
