Andy and Alyssa venture out of the Gooseverse and read Diane Hoh's The Train (a Point Horror book). They discuss inappropriately lighthearted endings, train travel, sociopaths, ceiling cat, trans-coded villains and evil butches, cash on delivery, traveling west, the Donner Party, Zombieland (2009), The Hills Have Eyes (1997), Lovecraft Country (book, 2016; series, 2020), bullying bullies, Tormented (2009), gendered/sexual shaming, Freaks (1932), Freaks and Psychos podcast, Bedlam, deinstitutionalization, Cruel Intentions (1999), train horror, Wolfgang Schivelbusch's The Railway Journey (1977), Strangers on a Train (1951), Train to Busan (2016), Snowpiercer (film, 2013; series, 2020-present), class exploitation horror, Charles Dickens' The Signal-Man (1866), The Ballad of John Henry, guilty conscience stories, Emily Carroll's "His Face All Red," Paranoid Park (2017), Memento (2000), pretending to be a dead person, Vertigo (1958), Imposter (2012), trans(masculine) horror, Gayly Dreadful's "Transmasculinity in Horror" (2021, available online), Homicidal (1961), Hereditary (2018), vengeance for a lover, Mandy (2019), Oldboy (2003), queerness & class, the growth of the pink economy in the 90s, Benjamin Disraeli, and a surprising history of the Gap. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com
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