Last week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, @wildeatheart.bsky.social and I invited an old friend for dinner to tear into a big cannibalism get: Silence of the Lambs! @thelitcritguy.bsky.social joins us for to talk through class, gender, transmisogyny and the particulars eating people for dinner.

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, @thisisdavemaher.bsky.social and I descend into the tunnels of the subway, with author/professor @eleanoir.bsky.social, to slice into 2008's The Midnight Meat Train. We talk public transit, the art world on film, the meat industry and Clive Barker.

we covered both of them on @tendersubject.bsky.social and I talked so much about how deeply affecting they are black flame is my favorite, tho, and I'm writing an album about it

Are the lambs still screaming Clarice? That’s right: @wormbuxx.bsky.social and @wildeatheart.bsky.social are joined by author @thelitcritguy.bsky.social from Horror Vanguard to tackle a big one: Silence of the Lambs! We talk through genre, gender, class and cannibalism in this monster of a film.

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social! a world with no pain, new organs and performance art is all the rage! Join Kayte and @thisisdavemaher.bsky.social as we delve into the gorgeously grotesque Crimes of the Future. We talk wounds, art, pleasure without pain and more!

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social we are joined by comedian @feraljokes.bsky.social and writer @raygonne.bsky.social to talk Frankenstein. We dissect the book and the 2025 film through queer and Marxist theory and get into why the film often let us down. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

On @tendersubject.bsky.social we were joined by @feraljokes.bsky.social and @raygonne.bsky.social from @culdesacofblood.bsky.social to talk Frankenstein! We dissect the book & the 2025 film through queer & Marxist theory & get into why the film often let us down. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

After you watch Videodrome in @criterionchannl.bsky.social’s VHS forever collection, check out our @tendersubject.bsky.social ep with @thisisdavemaher.bsky.social & @feraljokes.bsky.social. We talk Marshall McCluhan, techno-utopians, techno-fascists, kink & more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/040

Criterion Channel@criterionchannl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

😍 Now playing on the Criterion Channel 😍 Not yet subscribed? Sign up now to start your free trial!

Two books we used to talk through Frankenstein are Capitalism: A Horror Story by @thelitcritguy.bsky.social (from @horrorvanguard.bsky.social) and Skin Shows by Jack Halberstam, both excellent reference books for your horror theory library!

Tender Subject@tendersubject.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, we are joined by comedian @feraljokes.bsky.social and writer @raygonne.bsky.social to talk Frankenstein. We dissect the book and the 2025 film through queer and Marxist theory and get into why the film often let us down.

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, we are joined by comedian @feraljokes.bsky.social and writer @raygonne.bsky.social to talk Frankenstein. We dissect the book and the 2025 film through queer and Marxist theory and get into why the film often let us down.

Check out @eversonpoe.bsky.social over on @tendersubject.bsky.social talking Jess Franco!

Tender Subject@tendersubject.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, @eversonpoe.bsky.social and I are joined by Jane Altoids to dissect two Jess Franco surgery films: The Awful Dr. Orloff & Faceless. We discuss Franco as a complicated auteur, his mythology/legacy, & get into two body horror movies that bookended his career!

Attention Jess Franco fans! This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social we dissect The Awful Dr. Orloff and Faceless, two surgery horror films that bookended his career!

wormbuxx@wormbuxx.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, @eversonpoe.bsky.social and I are joined by Jane Altoids to dissect two Jess Franco surgery films: The Awful Dr. Orloff & Faceless. We discuss Franco as a complicated auteur, his mythology/legacy, & get into two body horror movies that bookended his career!

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, @eversonpoe.bsky.social and I are joined by Jane Altoids to dissect two Jess Franco surgery films: The Awful Dr. Orloff & Faceless. We discuss Franco as a complicated auteur, his mythology/legacy, & get into two body horror movies that bookended his career!

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, @eversonpoe.bsky.social and I are joined by Jane Altoids to dissect two Jess Franco surgery films: The Awful Dr. Orloff & Faceless. We discuss Franco as a complicated auteur, his mythology/legacy, & get into two body horror movies that bookended his career!

Happy holidays from all of us @tendersubject.bsky.social. Hope you all get what you deserve 😘

still so honored that we got @scumbelievable.bsky.social on here, and that she also had some very nice things to say about @tendersubject.bsky.social <3 <3 <3 also, i watched this movie 3 times this year and cried every time; it's a rough watch but it's so beautiful

Pleasers & Punishers Podcast@pleaserspunishers.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Mind your manners and hold your tongue, it’s Albert’s turn to talk! @scumbelievable.bsky.social joins us for an in-depth discussion on Peter Greenaway's singular 1989 film starring my biggest celebrity crush, Helen Mirren. Apple: tinyurl.com/mtbmsbyz Spotify: tinyurl.com/bdenhtmn

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, im joined by by @pyramidmaster.bsky.social from @deathsentencepod.bsky.social for a discussion about Sayaka Murata's books Earthlings and Convenience Store Woman. We talk biopolitics, cannibalism both literal and figurative, trauma and living in a society.

Speaking of China and Hong Kong, I went on @tendersubject.bsky.social with @scumbelievable.bsky.social and @wormbuxx.bsky.social to discuss the sexual political economy, class politics, and embryo-munching in Fruit Chan's "Hong Kong Horror" movie "Dumpings": tendersubjectpod.podbean.com/e/dumplings/

As you head out for your very own blood feasts this week, check out our @tendersubject.bsky.social episode on Hershel Gordon Lewis’s splatter fest Blood Feast with @laborkyle.bsky.social from @horrorvanguard.bsky.social. On the menu: Egyptomania! Walter Benjamin! So much blood! Enjoy!

As you head out for your very own blood feasts this week, check out our @tendersubject.bsky.social episode on Hershel Gordon Lewis’s splatter fest Blood Feast with @laborkyle.bsky.social from @horrorvanguard.bsky.social. On the menu: Egyptomania! Walter Benjamin! So much blood! Enjoy!

This was an enjoyable listen

Tender Subject@tendersubject.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Long live the new flesh! This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte, @thisisdavemaher.bsky.social and guest @feraljokes.bsky.social dig into David Cronenberg’s weirdo masterpiece, Videodrome. Marshall McCluhan, techno-utopians, techno-fascists, kink and more!  podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Listening to this episode in my car and fondly reminiscing, while they talk about Nicki Brand, of the time that I had a date purely so I could find out what it felt like to get properly whipped and then I handed her to syringes and said “do you wanna pierce my ears?” And she did.

Tender Subject@tendersubject.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Long live the new flesh! This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte, @thisisdavemaher.bsky.social and guest @feraljokes.bsky.social dig into David Cronenberg’s weirdo masterpiece, Videodrome. Marshall McCluhan, techno-utopians, techno-fascists, kink and more!  podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Well, that was incredible

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte and @eversonpoe.bsky.social are joined by JJ from @culdesacofblood.bsky.social to sink our teeth into @scumbelievable.bsky.social’s novel Cuckoo. We talk unknowable monsters, family horror and ecological colonialism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte and @eversonpoe.bsky.social are joined by JJ from @culdesacofblood.bsky.social to sink our teeth into @scumbelievable.bsky.social’s novel Cuckoo. We talk unknowable monsters, family horror and ecological colonialism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte and @eversonpoe.bsky.social are joined by JJ from @culdesacofblood.bsky.social to sink our teeth into @scumbelievable.bsky.social’s novel Cuckoo. We talk unknowable monsters, family horror and ecological colonialism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

It’s my birthday today so you have to listen to @tendersubject.bsky.social

wormbuxx@wormbuxx.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte and @eversonpoe.bsky.social are joined by JJ from @culdesacofblood.bsky.social to sink our teeth into @scumbelievable.bsky.social’s novel Cuckoo. We talk unknowable monsters, family horror and ecological colonialism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

If you're digging through the @criterionchannl.bsky.social's Body Horror feature, check out our @tendersubject.bsky.social episode on Shivers/Rabid. We dig into sexual repression, white flight, zombies and wonder, does Shivers have a happy ending? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...

019 -Rabid/Shivers with Dave Maher

Podcast Episode · Tender Subject · 04/24/2024 · 1h 9m

podcasts.apple.com

Long live the new flesh! This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte, @thisisdavemaher.bsky.social and guest @feraljokes.bsky.social dig into David Cronenberg’s weirdo masterpiece, Videodrome. Marshall McCluhan, techno-utopians, techno-fascists, kink and more!  podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

NEW EPISODE @wormbuxx.bsky.social from @tendersubject.bsky.social joins us at the Movies! We have watched Eddington and Weapons and have the full range of opinions, from hatred to liking to not sure! Links below: