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Against Everyone with Conner Habib is a podcast of deep but accessible and fun explorations of art, spirituality, philosophy, activism, and culture. This is big talk in a friendly tone with some of. the most compelling people of our time.Against Everyone With Conner Habib スピリチュアリティ
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  • AEWCH 330: HORROR UPON HORROR PT 4 - KEITH ROSSON on PUNK ROCK HORROR & GREEN ROOM

    AEWCH 330: HORROR UPON HORROR PT 4 - KEITH ROSSON on PUNK ROCK HORROR & GREEN ROOM
    2026/10/27

    Friends,
    The aesthetics of horror, at least in the US, have traditionally overlapped with heavy metal and death metal music. You know what I mean here: dark-clad figures and crazed clowns, bats, black clouds, and thorn-branched fonts. Sometimes they even share imagery, like the band Obituary’s cover for their Cause of Death album and a book of short stories by HP Lovecraft (painted by artist of the fantastique, Michael Whelan).

    I love horror with these aesthetics - but I’m glad another form seems to have opened up too. Sometime in the past 30 years, the horror trope of the final girl - the last surviving character of a horror novel or movie - began to highlight not the scariness of the monster, but the resilience of the monster’s victims.

    The trope of the final girl insists on survival in the face of a world of danger. Often dangers that were at first hard to believe, hard to convince people of, and those included (until the final girl became a thing in horror) the expectations and beliefs of the audience.

    For me, the final girl shows a shift of footing for horror as metal - immersion in the spectacle of the grotesque and dramatic - to punk: determination to fight back and connect with a force of will that was always there but not always expressed.

    Punk rock is more than just survival, however. Its starting point is a knowingness that things are not okay. Punk is music with lyrics about the state of the world, and it has a sound that reveals a world that looks and feels differently than the one we’re told to accept.

    It’s also the antithesis to the time spent in so many horror movies, where characters must spend inordinate amounts of time convincing each other that a threat exists. Punk already knows there's a problem. By the time you get to the show or play the record, you’re in the observation and receiving the sounds of the community, the solution, the alternate reality that we know can exist.

    In a horror movie, there's the monster monster, and there's the monster of people who refuse to believe what is apparent, obvious. The final girl and punk decides to live against both adversaries.

    So now that the final girl has created a sort of bridge for us from what I’ll call metal horror to punk rock horror, who is developing punk horror? Who's pushing it forward?

    On this episode - the final in this year’s horror upon horror series, I’ll be talking with an author who does just that about a film that does the same.

    KEITH ROSSON is the author of eight books so far, including Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, and his masterwork, Coffin Moon which is one of the most compelling novels I've ever read. What a huge surprise for a vampire novel! It is a swift, unstoppable thing. His most recent novel, Crone is about a girl that disappears and a correlating sightings of a strange and threatening witch-like being.

    Keith and I talk about punk rock and horror and then move into a conversation about Jeremy Saulnier's 2015 punk rock slasher horror film GREEN ROOM, in which a punk band pisses off a bunch of murderous neo-Nazis and has to figure out how to escape disastrous and confining circumstances.

    Punk rock and horror are two of my favorite genres of art - and this episode is my first comingling of the two - I’m so excited to share it with you

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  • AEWCH 329: HORROR UPON HORROR PT 3 - SARA GRAN & PAUL TREMBLAY on URBAN LEGENDS & THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

    AEWCH 329: HORROR UPON HORROR PT 3 - SARA GRAN & PAUL TREMBLAY on URBAN LEGENDS & THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
    2026/10/20
    Six authors.Four horror movies. Four episodes of Against Everyone with Conner HabibThis is Horror upon Horror.Friends, I’m sure you know the THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) by now but if not, here’s the plot: three students go out into the woods to make a documentary about local legend of a witch. They’re never seen again. A video is found later of their footage. That’s it. You probably also know that it wasn’t like other movies when it came out, but was marketed in the most bizarre and convincing ways: missing posters were put out of the three actors that appear in the film (Rei Hance, known in the film as Heather, Donaghue' Michael, C, Williams; and Joshua Leonard); and in fact their IMDB pages listed them as deceased. There was a short documentary about the documentary made, and aired as if it were real. There was all kinds of chatter on the then-burgeoning Internet about what it happened to these three students. On top of that. it wasn't filmed like other movies, not even found footage ones. The cast themselves were directors of the film, along with the overall directors of the film along with Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, since they filmed the bulk of the movie.While the characters of the Blair Witch Project were investigating folklore, the actors and producers were also creating it.In other words, the found footage was actually found footage. The directors did not know what the cast had filmed because they sent them out on missions to film and turn the refults to them later. For instance, they were sent to certain locations to talk to town residents about the legends of the Blair witch and some adjacent murders. The promptings were brilliant. There was, for instance, a actor who was a plant in a diner not spoken to until after the main actors walked around and talked to other unknowing people. The effect is that they were stimulating the idea of witch for everybody else in the diner but not involved. Later, when the cast members enter the woods to go looking for signs of the witch, they are prompted by the directors to certain sites and cues at those sites, and told to film the whole time. Their moods were intensified by bad weather, long shoots, surprises, coldness and camping. All of it brings out tremendous performances from the three of them. I went to see the Blair witch project in the theater right when it came out I saw it in Allentown, Pennsylvania was with some friends. We all thought it was real.The whole movie is tense, horrifying, truly frightening. There are moments when the screen is pitch black, so the entire theater was was pitch black too. And people were screaming.When it was done -- and I’d never had this experience before nor have had it since -- the entire audience sat in silence until the credits finished rolling.What a new dimension of horror to be brought into the world!And it’s one that echoes into our own time, with the difficulty of interpreting what is and what isn’t real on the screens that we face and encounter each day. The Blair Witch Project is the forerunner of DIY projects, of found footage, of the tensions between reality and unreality, of constant surveillance of our most vulnerable moments... So many things were set free into the world by this movie. There was nothing like it at the time, and few films take such great risks to such great effect.My guests are PAUL TREMBLAY, last on the show on AEWCH 235 (with CJ Leede) and is the author, most recently of Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep, and also Horror Movie, his most famous novel A Head Full of Ghosts and my favorite novel of his, Disappearance at Devil's Rock.&SARA GRAN was last on the show on AEWCH 233 (with Nathan Ballingrud) and is the author of what is recognized as one of the most terrifying horror novels of all time, Come Closer. She's also the author of the incredible occult-horror-detective story, The Book of the Most Precious Substance.Support the show on patreon.
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