🌽🏚️ EPISODE 171: SMALL TOWNS ARE TERRIFYING 🏚️🌽
Everybody waves at you. All at once. In unison. 👋
Andrew’s back from a “relaxing” weekend in a town of 212 (well… 213 now), the tap water tastes a bit metallic, and Matty would like everyone to know he fled Northwest Indiana for a reason. This week we’re asking what really lurks behind the white picket fences.
🩸 In Horror in Real Life, Andrew takes us to Skidmore, Missouri, where a man was shot dead on Main Street in broad daylight and nobody saw a thing. Then it’s Picher, Oklahoma, a town slowly poisoned by its own mines, and Forsyth County, Georgia’s history of racial terror. We also talk about the murders of Matthew Shepard and Brandon Teena, and what life in rural America still looks like for queer people today. Matty brings the flip side: 12 small towns where queer folks are thriving, from Eureka Springs to Saugatuck. 🏳️🌈
🎬 THE CRAZIES (2010): Something is in the water in Ogden Marsh, Iowa. Timothy Olyphant (and his remarkably long torso) tries to get his pregnant wife out of town while his neighbours turn into killers and the military seals the exits.
🎬 VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1995): John Carpenter, Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Mark Hamill, and a whole classroom of silver-haired children who never, ever blink.
Plus: Whatcha Been Watchin’, Bitch (IT: Welcome to Derry, Crystal Lake and more) and a round of Hottie of the Episode. 🔥
