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The Dread Lottery

The Dread Lottery

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Hosts Red and Puffer have created an elaborate lottery as a way to discuss horror movies. We've tossed 100 tiles into a bag, each representing a horror movie—from the obscure to the classics—that we've watched together. Then every episode we take 2 of these movies, randomly chosen, and force ourselves to figure out what they have in common. Watching the movies this way entices us to compare and contrast in a manner that reveals interesting, often hidden, meanings and subtext, and shapes our discussion in unexpected ways. It's not about reviewing these movies; we're interested in how they speak to us, and the truths they reveal about each other and the world. Come. Join us.2018 The Dread Lottery Art
Episodes
  • The Dread Lottery 2020 Halloween Special
    Oct 12 2020

    In which hosts Red & Puffer take a break from the rigors of the Lottery to celebrate Samhain by watching all of 9 of the Halloween movies. (We did not watch the Rob Zombie reboot.) Pitting each against the next at random, the final of which will be the ultimate Halloween movie that represents the franchise in the Lottery. Honestly, this is just more off the cuff then usual but we had some fun with this.

    Halloween Theme arranged and performed by Occidental Dirt Farmers.

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    57 mins
  • 029 - Alice Sweet Alice - Sinister
    Sep 30 2020

    In which your hosts spend some time with creepy kids, in the homicidal coming of age period piece ALICE SWEET ALICE (1972) and the supernatural creepiness of SINISTER (2012). Red and Puffer dig deep into the burdens of the structures that bind us, family, religion, and things kept hidden. Two terrific, scary movies and a good discussion.

    Episode music and theme by Ulrike Mod. Sound design by Dread Lottery.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 028 - C.H.U.D - Impossible Horror
    Aug 24 2020

    In which your hosts explore a couple of neighborhoods to chase down that which is hidden: lower Manhattan in the mid-80s in C.H.U.D (1984), and a Toronto apartment complex after dark in IMPOSSIBLE HORROR (2017). Red & Puffer join in a search for  mysterious screams and subterranean monsters, and hunt for meaning in the dark.

    Episode music by Emily Milling from the Impossible Horror soundtrack (available at https://emilymilling.bandcamp.com/album/impossible-horror-ost).

    Sound design by Dread Lottery.

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    42 mins
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