What’s your favourite scary movie? Our latest episode is pulling the mask off Wes Craven’s 1996 slasher satire SCREAM. Plug in your landline and rewind those rental videos, cos we’re heading back to the very first film in the franchise.

Final girls Molly and Chloe run rampage through the film’s production history, including Kevin Williamson’s script, the casting of Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox as its scream queens and the ensemble of David Arquette, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard. And that’s not forgetting Drew Barrymore, in the pivotal role of Casey, who is most definitely not phoning in her performance. We plunge into some big topics along the way – feminism, moral panics, queer representation – and ask how much gore is too much gore?

Lastly we dissect the best 90s moments and award the best line, weapon and cameos. As Stu says, it’s a scream, baby!

All the horror films referenced in Scream: a list.

Read more about the making of Scream in this retrospective from the Hollywood Reporter.

Correction! From 2028, there will be an Oscar for Best Stunt Design for films released in 2027 (not best stunt performance as Chloe claims!)

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Choose life. Choose a job. Choose this podcast. Yup, we are getting high on the pure unadulterated cinema that is Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting to mark its 30th anniversary.

Molly and Chloe are joined by award-winning writer and director Yasmin Godo to talk about the finer points of the film, from hypodermic needles to needle drops. We plunge into the darkest, most intense scenes (including how that toilet scene was created). And we discuss the astonishing visual flair of Danny Boyle, the dangerously charming performances from Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner and Kelly MacDonald, and celebrate its era-defining soundtrack.

Plus we’ll take a trip through the most 90s details, hand down our verdicts on the film’s best moments, plus deal some top quality recommendations for what to watch next.

Please be aware that this episode discusses a film with sensitive topics which may not be suitable for all listeners.

The opening quote is taken from an interview with producer Andrew MacDonald for Hollywood Reporter: ‘Trainspotting Oral History: Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor Reflect on Cult ’90s Brit Hit’

The short documentary about production and costume design Chloe references can be found here.

Molly quotes Danny Boyle’s appearance on Charlie Rose in 1996 talking about Trainspotting, which you can watch here.

And here’s an in-depth analysis of how Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange influenced Trainspotting.

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Yasmin’s short film for Channel 4 Random Acts, (Un)fit to Work, can be viewed by UK residents here. Her video for J Appiah’s ‘Look Back’, part of the Official Selection at Aesthetica Festival, is here.

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Alan Rickman, we love you truly, madly, passionately... juicily? In this episode, we huddle under the blankets with Anthony Minghella’s romantic ghost story Truly, Madly, Deeply.

Molly and Chloe are looking at the film emotionally, musically, deeply, as we discuss how Minghella came to write and direct his debut film, why Juliet Stevenson is heartbreakingly perfect for the lead role, and the magic touch the late Alan Rickman brings to the film as her irritable cello-playing boyfriend who’s rather unexpectedly back from the dead.

Plus we rewind the VHS on our favourite 90s details and best moments, and recommend more films about romance, grief and the afterlife.

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