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The Generation Splice

Oct 31, 2021

Its Halloween!! In honor of the holiday we cover one of Raphael’s all-time favs, THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS. Raquel isnt sure what to make of this films mix of horror, camp, & exploitation. Is this an urban HOME ALONE? Is this the ur-text for Jordan Peele’s GET OUT? Raphael admits that it actually scared him as a...


Oct 24, 2021

We continue our apartment horror discussion this week with WAIT UNTIL DARK. Raphael makes the case for this being not being a thriller but horror, & Raquel seems to agree. We can also mark this as another film that terrified her when it first came out. And isnt Alan Arkin just the coolest looking creep in this?? For a...


Oct 17, 2021

ITS OUR ANNIVERSARY! A year ago this week we put our first episode out there! And to celebrate we talk about one of the all time great films of the 20th century: ROSEMARY’S BABY. This was close to the first movie Raquel wanted to talk about on the podcast, but we waited a year so she could get her practice in before...


Oct 10, 2021

Madness, axe-murder, & Joan Crawford! What more could you want?! This week we talk about one of scariest movies from Raquel's youth, STRAIT-JACKET. Raphael absolutely cannot understand how this film could have ever scared anyone, so mom has to put him in his place and contextualize it back to 1964. William Castle gets...


Oct 3, 2021

We decided to podcast deliciously this week and talk about the modern American folktale, THE VVITCH. Immediately Raquel & Raphael refuse to agree on the crimes committed. Yet beginning a film at the end of a trial seems to do it well. Is the family punished by the sins of the father? Or does each individual member have...