In Episode 13 of Out To Get You, we are joined by Jadzia Axelrod, author of The DC Book of Pride, Galaxy: As The World Falls Down, and the upcoming Justice League: Dream Girls, to take the shape of Philip Kaufman’s adaptation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

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This episode contains discussion of gaslighting, systemic othering and eradication, referring to a character by the actor’s name, and more topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

In this episode, we discuss the collapse of the social contract, through the lens of personal autonomy, social murder, and the threat of forced assimilation, in this 1978 sci-fi thriller starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum, and Leonard Nimoy.

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In bonus episode of Out To Get You, we fold space and time for Transgender Day of Visibility in order to rerelease our 2023 pre-launch collaboration with the Anatomy of a Scream Podcast Network as we take on Good for Her Horror and Brian Michael Elmore's Bit.

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This episode contains discussions of rape and sexual violence, drug abuse, kidnapping, suicidality, homophobia, transphobia, referring to vampire clans as covens, and other themes that may be sensitive for listeners.

This episode was recorded on January 10th, 2023, which seems like a world away for the trans people in your lives. Since that day, 44 more trans people have been murdered simply for the crime of existing. This year is already proving heartbreaking and fatal for our community. While this podcast is for entertainment, it is impossible to completely decouple ourselves from the campaigns of violence we face, in the streets we live and in the legislatures which paint us as unfit and as threats to society, as well as the resulting anguish and rage they continue to produce. We ask that you consider your emotional and mental health before engaging with this episode. [Originally posted Mar 13, 2023 on the Anatomy of a Scream podcast network. The situation has since continued to deterioriate.]

In this episode, we explore the intoxicating nature of power through the lens of minority representation, fascist dehumanization, and corrupting influences, in this blood-soaked trans teen horror-comedy starring Nicole Maines, Diana Hopper, Zolee Griggs, and more.

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In Episode 12 of Out To Get You, we are joined by writer, researcher, and host of Referential, Dr. Khaliden Nas, to read between the margins of Stephen King's convalescent spine-chiller, Misery.

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This episode contains discussion of torture, substance abuse, molestation, stalking, racism, infanticide, and many more topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

This episode was recorded prior to hiatus, May 11, 2025, several months before the heartbreaking deaths of Rob and Michele Singer Reiner. We are choosing airing today's episode as recorded, with love in our hearts for a great American filmmaker who had not yet left us. May their memory be a blessing.

In this episode, we discuss the spiraling nightmare of success through the lens of stan culture, undying IPs, and parasocial projection, in this timeless thriller from Rob Reiner, starring Kathy Bates, James Caan, and Richard Farnsworth.

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In this bonus episode of Out To Get You, we launch our series on the dread of deep space, fears of future past, and more, with a Class 7 probe of Star Trek’s The Gorn.

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This episode contains discussion of speciesism, space opera, and having beloved stories co-opted by right-wing corporate fascists.

Drop in for a casual chat on intergalactic blood libel, the diminishing returns of big budget sci-fi, and filing the serial numbers off H.R. Giger’s xenomorphs.

Questions for the next two recording sessions are now open!

We’ll be joined by Jadzia Alexrod, author of the DC Book of Pride, the upcoming Galaxy: As The World Falls Down, and more, for pod persona paranoia in 1978‘s Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

After that, author, comics crit luminary, and co-creator of The Forgotten Five, Sara Century (Best Issue Ever,) swoops in to pick apart Hitchcock’s 1963‘s avian apocalypse, The Birds!

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In Episode 11 of Out To Get You, we are joined by software developer, Justin Park, to punch in for 2019's sublime and darkly comic award-winning powerhouse, Parasite.

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This episode contains discussion of extreme poverty, social abuse, gaslighting, grooming, poisoning, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

In this episode, recorded April 13th 2025, we discuss the dangerous allure of the unattainable through the lens of social mobility, the poverty trap, and class conflict in Bong Joon-Ho's modern classic starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Jang Hye-jin and Park So-dam!

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In Episode 10 of Out To Get You, we are joined by Eisner Award-Winning Women Write About Comics' small press editor and writer, Kat Overland, to debug the soul of Alex Garland's 2014 psychological thriller, Ex Machina.

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This episode contains discussion of racism, medical/technological torture, slavery, colonialism, misogyny, dicks who have way too much money, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

In this episode, we discuss the terrifying onus of consciousness through the lens of technocratic overreach, the lie of the great man, and the horror of who pays the price for progress, in this slow burn sci-fi nightmare starring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, and Oscar Isaac.

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In Episode 9 of Out To Get You, we are joined by award-winning cartoonist, printmaker, and educator, Cathy G. Johnson (Black Hole Heart, The Breakaways) to light a fire under the folk horror forebearer, 1973's cult classic, The Wicker Man, from Anthony Shaffer and Robin Hardy.

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This episode contains discussion of child sexual abuse and grooming, misogyny, colonialism, ritual murder, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

In this episode, we discuss the nature of sacrifice through the lens of social stratification, context collapse, and the fear of being unmoored from modernity, in this timeless diamond in a rough, starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, and more.

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Questions are still open for Mulholland Drive (2001) with Connor Goldsmith and Perfect Blue (1997) with Jordan Blok!

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In Episode 8 of Out To Get You, we are joined by writer, academic, and paleontologist, Taryn Freeman, to gestate the horror that is Ridley Scott’s 1979 xenomorph masterpiece, Alien.

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This episode contains discussion of sexual violence, forced birth, misogyny, capitalist exploitation, colonialism, bodily fluids of various viscosities, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

In this episode, we discuss the nightmare of our future present through the lens of even-later-stage capitalism unleashed, the evisceration of bodily autonomy, and the loneliness of space and survival, in this timeless sci-fi horror starring Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, Bolaji Badejo, and more.

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Questions are still open for Ex Machina (2014) with Kat Overland, and Mulholland Drive (2001) with Connor Goldsmith.

And questions have been re-opened with Perfect Blue (1997) with Jordan Blok!

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