Horror Movie Podcast Ep. 211: Demon Seeds (Pregnant with Fear) with Screenwriter Keith Cooper and Channy Dreadful
Welcome to HORROR MOVIE PODCAST, where it’s what’s inside that counts. In Episode 211, your resident baby daddies—Dr. Shock, Wolfman Josh and Gillman Joel—welcome a discussion of babies from hell, with feature reviews of It’s Alive! (1974), Demon Seed (1977), The Unborn (1991), Hell Baby (2013). We’re also joined by podcaster and longtime HMP listener, Channy Dreadful, who brings some motherly insight to the table, as well as some discussion of the controversial Twilight: Breaking Dawn (2011) and her review of Prevenge (2016). Last, but certainly not least, we welcome Screenwriter Keith Cooper to the show, to discuss his career and his exceptional(ly scary) film which inspired this episode, Anything For Jackson (2020)! If you’d like to support our show, try a 30-day free trial of SHUDDER with Promo Code: HMP It costs you nothing and helps us a lot! Also, please subscribe to our show for free in Apple Podcasts and leave us a review! It really helps our visibility. Or just tell a friend. We’d really appreciate it. Thanks for your support and thanks for listening to Horror Movie Podcast, where we’re Dead Serious About Horror Movies! SHOW NOTES: I. Introduction —We’ll be joined later in the show by Channy Dreadful and Keith Cooper [ 0:02:30 ] II. Real Talk: BEING A DAD IS SCARY —Theme Discussion —Some personal stories from our own failures as new dads [ 0:12:22 ] III. Reel Talk: MOVIES ABOUT EVIL BABIES* *And evil artists we (used to) admire BABIES FROM HELL MOVIES Rosemary’s Baby (1968)* *Art vs Artist and Cancel Culture discussion Beyond the Door (1974) It’s Alive (1974) – feature reviewed in this episode The Devil Within Her (1975) aka I Don’t Want to Be Born aka The Monster aka Sharon’s Baby To the Devil, a Daughter (1976) Demon Seed (1977) – feature reviewed in this episode Eraserhead (1977) Alien (1979) Franchise The Brood (1979) Inseminoid (1981) The Fly (1986) The Seventh Sign (1988) A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) The Terror Within (1989) Baby Blood aka The Evil Within (1990) Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1991) The Unborn (1991) – feature reviewed in this episode The Day Of The Beast (1995) The Devil’s Child (1997) Species 2 (1998) Blessed (2004) Dawn of the Dead (2004) The Eye 2 (2004) Born (2007) First Born (2007) Grace (2009) House of the Devil (2009) The Unborn (2009) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) Delivery: The Beast Within (2013) Hell Baby (2013) – feature reviewed in this episode Proxy (2013) 666: The Devil’s Child (2014) Devil’s Due (2014) Hungry Hearts (2014) Rosemary’s Baby (TV-2014) Wandering Rose aka Demon Baby (2015) Visions (2015) Antibirth (2016) Holidays (2016) – the Mother’s Day segment Prevenge (2016) – feature reviewed in this episode Shelley (2016) Child of Satan (2017) The Devil’s Doorway (2018) Good Manners (2018) Malicious (2018) Still/Born (2018) St Agatha (2018) Satanic Panic (2019) Blood Quantum (2020) Anything for Jackson (2020) – screenwriter interviewed in this episode Castle Freak (2020) The Expecting (TV-2020) Snatchers (2020) The Unborn (2020) BABIES FROM HELL-ADJACENT MOVIES The Bad Seed (1956) Village of the Damned (1960)