October 12, 2023

The Docket 10.12.23 Horror Stories

Do true crime and horror serve similar needs?

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It’s an interesting time of year for true-crime commentators and consumers, and today we’re pondering the Venn of true crime and horror movies/ghost stories; Timothy Olyphant’s original hairline in Scream 2; how Halloween lets us lean into our more prurient pop-cult interests; the detective journey of a haunting; and which horror creators we’d like to tackle real cases. Take that Blair Witch 2 videotape back to Blockbuster and listen to this instead!

show notes

• the Best Evidence RSS feed

• SDB on the Amityville case

• “Hans Holzer, Ghost Hunter”

• the tropes of Prom Night

• SDB on Wendigo

• the “looking through a pet’s ears will reveal a ghost” thing isn’t just SDB

• one of our many ruminations on ol’ Onion-Skin Berlinger

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