You can subscribe on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Amazon Music, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. But when Holloway and a few others get sick, the crew realizes that they may have been wrong about the benevolence of their creator Gods.īe sure to subscribe to the podcast to get a new episode every Wednesday. There they discover a strange pyramid with remnants of a group of Engineers.

Last week we celebrated Alien Day 2023 with a look back at Ridley Scott‘s 2012 Alien prequel, Prometheus. In the film, scientists Elizabeth Shaw ( Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway ( Logan Marshall-Green) partner with the Weyland Corporation, run by its elderly benefactor ( Guy Pearce) and supervised by his android “son” David ( Michael Fassbender), to investigate the origins of mankind on a distant alien world. Trace and I are recovering from our live show at Salem Horror Festival this past weekend, but in April we kept busy with episodes on Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Tony Scott’s The Hunger, and, most recently, queer Black writer/director Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess (which just celebrated its 50th anniversary!) You can also unlock hundreds of hours of content in The Barrens (Patreon).įacebook | Instagram | Twitter | Patreon | Store For further adventures, join the Club over long days and pleasant nights via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. Until then, stream the book episode below and stay tuned next week when the Losers offer up an unusual episode for April Fool’s Day. “You see something in the bowl that’s not supposed to be there-that’s scary,” he told CBS at the time.Īll of this is to say nothing of Lawrence Kasdan’s reviled 2003 film adaptation, which the Losers will be unpacking come April. And as the author made clear in a number of interviews, there’s a good reason the story places such an emphasis on the bathroom and our bowels. Dreamcatcher’s relentless musings on death and pain hit that much harder when viewed through the lens of King’s own recovery.

Is it as bad as its reputation suggests? Yes and no.

Join Losers Randall Colburn, Mel Kassel, Jenn Adams, and Ana Marie Cox as they probe and dissect a book that astounds as much as it baffles. There’s telepathic aliens, viral mold, psychotic government operatives, and “shit weasels” that eat their way out of people’s buttholes. It was the first fiction novel he released following his near-fatal 1999 accident, and the author famously wrote it while blown out of his mind on painkillers. Few Stephen King novels have as lousy a reputation as Dreamcatcher.

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