Freaks & Psychos: The Disability in Horror Podcast

01/22/2024

Join us for our next Free Education Clinic on Tuesday, February 20th!

This clinic will focus on Transfer of Rights, Guardianship, and Supported Decision Making for Adults with Disabilities.

You can learn more about these free clinics and register to attend at: lawyers4students.com/legalclinic

09/17/2021

Honored to be part of this online screening of horror shorts touching on deafness and disability. Film journalist Charlotte Little interviewed me about disability in horror and how trends and access are changing. Watch these 4 films free for a limited time plus our discussion!

"I started the Freaks & Psychos podcast, really wanting to bring disability issues to not just an academic audience, but to a popular audience, to horror fans who might not know about accessibility, who might not think much about representation in the way that lots of people are now thinking about gender and race and sexuality within horror."

Discussion with Andrew Sydlik (Freaks & Psychos: The Disability in Horror Podcast Group) is now live, along with the full Left For Deaf programme of shorts!

All films have English captions or SDH (subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing). Watch here: https://app.curate-it.org/watch/6123b77ca97da11c2cf4bc3e

Programme curated by Charlotte Little.

08/11/2021

It was an honor to write for the Perkins School blog about how , , and Freaks & Psychos have changed my life!

Andrew Sydlik, aka "The Blind Werewolf," uses his Freaks & Psychos podcast to connect his two passions: disability advocacy and horror.

12/20/2020

Happy Holidays fellow freaks and psychos! Episode 7 out now on Christmas horror with Mark Longfield: obsession in Christmas Evil; PTSD in Silent Night, Deadly Night; & Down syndrome in Red Christmas! Also reviews of the Faculty of Horror podcast & John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Old Dreams Die.

AnDread and Dark Mark (creator of the show’s theme music!) dive into disability in Christmas horror. We discuss obsession, PTSD, and Down syndrome in Christmas Evil, Silent Night, Deadly Night, and Red Christmas. Also reviews of the Faculty of Horror Podcast and John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the O...

12/13/2020

Episode 6 of Freaks & Psychos out now! AnDread is joined by horror podcasting legend Jay of the Dead to dive into Ari Aster’s Hereditary (2018). We discuss mental illness, family dysfunction, and how these relate to the film’s supernatural aspects. Also reviews of the Stephen King Cast and Stephen King’s The Stand.

SPOILER WARNING: This is a movie that’s impossible to discuss without spoiling. Highly suggested that you see the movie first or stop listening at the 47 minute mark.

http://freaksandpsychospodcast.com/episode006/

AnDread and horror podcasting legend Jay of the Dead dive into Ari Aster’s Hereditary (2018). We discuss mental illness, family dysfunction, and how these relate to the film’s supernatural aspects. Also reviews of the Stephen King Cast and Stephen King’s The Stand. WARNING: Reading the Show No...

12/07/2020

Next Sunday I discuss one of the most disturbing horror films of recent years, Ari Aster’s Hereditary (2018) with horror podcasting legend Jay of the Dead! Toni Collette is amazing in it & was totally snubbed for not getting an Oscar nomination.

11/30/2020

Hey fellow freaks and psychos - decided to start an official Page for the podcast thanks to the suggestion of Kat Mostowy, since you can’t link directly to the Group. So if you want to mention the show in a post, you should be able to link to it after you “Like” this Page.