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Cheap Chills - On Art and Monsters
by Ben Walker-Storey
Illustrator, Ben Walker-Storey loves monsters, ghosts, creepers and kaiju. Cheap Chills: On Art and Monsters gets Ben talking with other artists and creators about how macabre movies, creepy toys and forbidden comics influenced their life and their artwork.
Episodes
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Patrick Carson Sparrow : Batman is Not a Good Person
Welcome back everybody! This very special episode is a conversation with comic-book artist, Patrick Carson Sparrow. Its also a candid chat between two people who yes, are artists who love monsters but are also middle-aged dads, trying to figure out how to get all the needs met, and sometimes...
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Director, David Hartman and The Minnesota Iceman
*STAY TUNED AFTER THIS EP! a track from the David Hartman (as Zorgon) Electronica album, D1m3n51on X This week I’m joined by Director and Storyboard Artist, David Hartman. He’s the Director of the 2016 film, Phantasm: Ravager. Plus 25 years worth of other film and Television work like Godzilla…
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Dark Rides and Haunted Houses with Animation Artist, Reed Randolph
Reed Randolph is an animation artist, most recently working as a character designer on Exposing Kittens. This week Ben's chatting with Reed about how he went from working as a teenage Scare Artist in the famous steel factory-turned haunted house, Sloss Fright Furnace to designing for an indie…
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Time-Sucks! Dealing with Procrastination and Distractions : Doomed Megalopolis the Last Megalopolis
This week, Illustrator, Creator (and your host) Ben Walker-Storey talks about his two big time-sucks: Procrastination and Distractions, what could be at the root of these problems and some thoughts, tricks and tips on working around them. Then its time to talk about monsters! We need to talk…
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Found Footage Festival's Nick Prueher on Carpenter's The Thing
Welcome to Cheap Chills on Art and Monsters. I probably need a new intro but I do love the announcer I snagged for the original cheap chills podcast. This week's guest is Nick Prueher, best known as being half of the Found Footage Festival team along with his childhood friend, Joe Pickett. Nick…
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Bride of Frankenstein with Isabel Samaras
I am so thrilled to bring you the conversation for this episode! I got a chance to catch up with my friend, world renown painter, Isabel Samaras. Years before we ever met I discovered her work through art magazines like Juxtapoz and Hi Fructose. I was blown away by Isabel’s work because she’s not...
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Horror Movies by The Bollock Brothers
Welcome to the Cheap Chills podcast, where artists can talk, mostly about monsters. This week, Ben breaks down one major bit of inspiration from his past: The Bollock Brothers song, Horror Movies. How many of the movies mentioned in this song have we seen? Then, in a very special “Let’s Check in...
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What We’ve Learned from Ed Wood and Large Marge, with David DeGrand
I think you’re really like this episode. I Got to chat with cartoonist, David DeGrand. His art is mixes elements of silly, cute and gross in a way that really gets me excited to draw. We also came in with an agenda; to talk about our shared all-time favorite movies, Pee Wee's Big Adventure and Ed...
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Black Metal / Black Toner with Dr. Wolfenbergen
This week I’m joined by Art Director, Justin Moll, who is known as Dr. Wolfenbergen by night (and likely weekends). His personal art (and upcoming zine) is stripped down, simple yet gritty...and kinda dark. So I love it. We talk about the hot rod scene, making zines, the lost art of making band...
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Talking 'Toons Creator of The Cuphead Show, Dave Wasson
Welcome to the Cheap Chills podcast, where artists and creators who love spooky, weird stuff can get together and talk spooky weird art ….talk. A few months ago, I was alone in bed watching The Cup Head show. It’s something I had tried to put on for our son when it came out but it was too creepy...
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The Monster Club, 1981- with Amanda Walker-Story - Rerelease of Ep. 8 Monsters in Turtlenecks
This week Ben is busy with something very frightening if common among us these days, bills! So we've dug up (get it? GET IT??) a spooky gem from the early days of this podcast, Monsters in Turtlenecks has Ben and his wife (who is her own person) Amanda getting into what is likely THE biggest...
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My Tubi Continue Watching List, Plus a Lost Movie, and Feeling Rusty with Drawing
Introducing a new segment, "Continue Watching?" where Ben goes through his Tubi, Continue Watching list and talks about the movies he didn't get through; gems like Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century, War of The God Monsters, The Monster Club TV show and more. Ben takes a call on the Lost Movie...
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How Horror Makes Us Feel Better and Art-Making Reveals All Our Secrets : with Jules Fischer
Hey Gang! This week I'm joined by Jules Fischer, an Indi Comic book Artist from Berlin, Germany. We get into all kinds of stuff! Her influeces, Charles Burns, Dan Clowes and Jamie Hernandez sent her down a path of self discovery through comic-book making. Plus fake food freaks her out, but in a...
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What is Your Lost Movie? Call The Hotline! : Let's Check in With Ben
Hey gang, this week Ben is taking calls on the new Lost Movie Hotline. Listeners who caught a movie when they were little, one that seared itself into their memories, can now call in with a voicemail for Ben. If he doesn't recognize your lost movie maybe the Cheap Chills community will! We do…
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Mad Monster Lady, Audrey Rose - Crestwood Monster Books, Being a Weirdo
Ben is joined this week by artist, mom and teacher, Audrey Rose, also known as Mad Monster Lady. This week's (official) topic is the Crestwood Monsters series of books. They talk about how monsters are relatable because they are also weirdos dealing with rejection. They also get into real life...
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Building Community Through Weird Films - with Kenneth Filmer of Khloaris
This week I am joined by Kenneth Filmer, who is half of a Film and Television/Promotion company in New York City called Khloaris. Khloaris produces films and hosts screening parties in unusual places like back-alleys of industrial neighborhoods and has built a community of like-minded…
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Friday the 13th...The Series! with guest, Jimmy Walker
This week Ben is joined by someone who was there for all of it, Ben’s brother Jimmy Walker. They get into memories and thoughts on the series, Friday the 13th...The Series (1987-90). That’s the one not featuring anyone with a hockey mask or machete. Instead this one stars (Louise) Robey and John…
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Hammer Films vs Disney, The Penguin Book of Comics, Thoughts on Mortality and Collecting
This week Ben’s flying solo! First its the odd tale of the time Hammer Films and Walt Disney both set out to make a film about Dr. Syn, the Pirate turned Preacher/ Smuggler. Then, in a very special Let’s Check in With Ben, he talks about the emotional roller-coaster ride that was the recent…
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Ghost Hunting with Joshua Sterling of Haunting Season
The Cheap Chills Podcast is back with a new format! Host Ben Walker-Storey talks with other creatives about the spooky, weird stuff from our younger days and how it influenced the art, film, music et cetera that we make now. This week Ben is joined by Joshua Sterling, also known as Haunting…
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Trailer - The (New) Cheap Chills Podcast
Ben Walker-Storey is back for a new kind of Cheap Chills Podcast! This is a quick check-in to let you know what we'll be doing here each week. For me, there’s nothing better than wrapping myself into a blanket-burrito and checking out something spooky and weird. Whether its a reclusive creep...
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Ep 0036 KNOW FATE
They said it wouldn't happen. But the stars aligned and Cheap Chills lives on! This time Ben and Amanda talk about fate and destiny, delving into some personal stories after delving into other personal stories for their popular "Hometown Horrors" segment. Check out Rin Tanaka's series of street...
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Ep 0035 Cults and Q&A with iDuddits - Live At Sacramento Podcast Festival
Live at STAB Comedy Theater in Sacramento, California! Ben & Amanda talk about the Hometown Horrors of the fun-zone in Grass Valley and fighting old ladies at estate sales. Then it's on to the cults! What is a cult? What is a sex-cult? Aren't they all sex-cults, really? Ben & Amanda discuss their...
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Ep 0034 Monster Funk
We're back! This time, Ben reads selections from his new self-published, Adult coloring book, Monster Funk. Friendship, rejection, career lows, embarrassment: Ben tells the incredibly personal stories that are behind the poo and fart jokes. Amanda recalls coloring with scented markers and rates…
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Ep 0033 Vampires - The Sex Monsters
In this return to greatness, Ben and Amanda unpack everything they know, think and feel about those sexy, blood-sucking fiends: Vampires. Ben starts the show with a brief rant about the age-old conflict between grumpy curmudgeons and you meddling, sardine-like teenagers. Then it's full-tilt into...
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Ep 0032 Back To Beast
Ben and Amanda talk Satan, Satanism and their experiences growing up Christian, going to church getting spooked by Devil-talk. Half-way through, the couple takes a break to have a crazy-mom-off. Then it's back to the Beast, discussing the alleged former Satanic High Priest turned "Christian...
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Ep 0031 Time Travel And Excavators
Ben and Amanda introduce a new segment, Conspiracy Something, Say Something and talk about a strange pattern emerging in children's programing. They give more thought and tips on going "Full Addams" (living like the Addams Family), then launch into the main topic: Time Travel. What would you do…
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Ep 0030 Living Fully Full Addams
Amanda is Back! We're back! Ben and Amanda talk about what happens when you are awake during surgery. They take a big step toward living "Full Addams" (Family). Then they explore the idea of "smudging" and bad vibes in a home. Plus a few personal ghost stories!
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Ep 0029 Horror On The Beach With Kristen Lucas
Ben is joined by guest, co-host Kristen Lucas. Kristen is a comedian and actor who once tried to win over the crowd at an audition with a Cry Baby reference. Ben and Kristen check out the fun in the sun and teenagers making Hey-Hey in some beach horror movies. Plus! Hear the true story of the…
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Ep 0028 Its Just Frankenstein - Josh Herbolsheimer From Super 7
Ben is joined by Super 7's Josh Herbolsheimer. They talk about the new lines of Reaction figures, Universal Monsters (Can we just call him Frankenstein, already?) Plus art school and collisions with celebrities.
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Ep 026 Halloween Memories
In this special 1 year anniversary show, Ben and Amanda veer away from movies to have a fireside chat about their most memorable Halloweens. The costumes, trick or treating, taking sexy pictures with Gramma. Plus some tangents about unfortunate swimwear.
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Ep 025 Bad Apples
Ben and Amanda start of with a bit of a State of the Podcast address as it's Episode 25 and the 1 year mark for Cheap Chills. Then it's Bad Apples spoiling....the World? at least the neighborhood. Ben and Amanda talk about their favorite bad boys, Damien from the Omen series and John Waters' Cry...
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Ep 024 Lips And Assholes
This time, Ben and Amanda watch clips from David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch then tell their stories about cockroaches and hoarders. They check out clips from Videodrome which launches Ben into a Shark Tank pitch for a ground-breaking, new adult product. One more trailer, Chatterbox gets the two…
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Ep 023 It's Friday I'm In Love
Ben and Amanda watch clips from Friday the 13th, The Series and wonder if there are cursed items in their own home. Plus Amanda gets a tour of the historic (haunted?)Cary House Hotel from Eugene Butler, The Halloween Man.
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Ep 022 Something Extra - Lowell Northrop
This time Ben and Amanda are joined by Producer, Director, Actor, Lowell Northrop (Hap & Leonard). They watch trailers to some movies about extra parts growing out of people's bodies and talk about vestigial twins, love and loss between the conjoined, an awful lot about Ben's artwork and a bit...
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Ep 021 Acker -hyphen- Men with Guest: David Weiner
Ben and Amanda are joined by Entertainment journalist and former Famous Monsters of Filmland Editor, David. Weiner. We watch trailers to films that were featured on some of our favorite, classic FM covers. We recall some classic FM memories, and that time we teamed up to cover the release of Dana...
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020 Knock-Knock. Who's There? Knock-Offs
In this episode, Ben and Amanda check out some favorite knock-offs of our favorite cult movies of the 1970s and 80s. A few trailers for movies in post-apocalyptic and barbarian genres prompt some personal stories from Ben. Amanda also explores her lifelong fear of outer space. Plus! Are we made…
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019 Full Addams
In this episode, Ben and Amanda talk briefly about the horror of knowing the people in your hometown feel very differently about current events. Which leads to the theme of the show: The Addams Family and the hosts' goal of living "Full Addams". Ben reads his Addams Code. The couple also tell…
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018 Husks And Vapors
In episode 18 of The Cheap Chills Show, Ben and Amanda delve into one of Ben's visceral fears, bodies dissolving into husks and vapors. The couple watch clips from cult classic films and discuss people melting, drying up and blowing away, turning into evil yogurt, and being left below. Plus a...
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017 In Cars
Ben and Amanda watch the trailers for Duel, The Car, Christine and Maximum Overdrive. They talk about when it was cool to be a trucker, their own road rage, car chase experiences and the terror that lays waiting in the garbage disposal. The couple caps it off by writing a possessed car-teen…
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016 An Evening With Moms VHS
Ben and Amanda wipe the dust from Mom's VHS collection. It's a lovely evening at home complete with a workout, beauty and pampering, a feature film and some late night romance.
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015 Eat Me
We watch the trailers for Parents, Soylent Green and C.H.U.D. and talk man-eaters, man-made meat, and man-meat. Plus, do younger siblings get less genetic beauty juice? And, who said Sir-we-have-no-control-over-the-robots-at-all?
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014 Baby Did A Bad Bad Job
Ben and Amanda watch the trailer for Stephen King's Graveyard Shift and swap tales of awful jobs from their pasts. Plus, reasons not to go to Art school, the wordy horror of Lovecraft and white jeans.
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012 The Jim Bray Mystery
This episode is devoted to the mysterious disappearance of Jim Bray, star (along with Linda Blair) of 1978's Roller Boogie. Ben and Amanda reveal their personal attachment to roller-skating and pitch a heavily fictionalized Jim Bray biopic.
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011 Birthday Week 1973
Ben and Amanda explore a few of the unforgettable movies of 1973, The Baby, Legend of Hell House, Godspell and Psychomania. Plus personal tales of cat attacks, a Second Coming movie pitch, and more!
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010 Birthday Week 1981
It's Birthday Week so Ben and Amanda look at some cult movies from Amanda's birth year, 1981. Time Bandits, Ghost Story and Escape From New York. They launch seamlessly into tangents about American fast food in Asia, roping dad into a John Carpenter concert, the downside of pizza and benefits of...
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009 Top 5 Childhood Destroyers
Ben and Amanda watch clips from five movies that freaked people the eff out as kids. Can it be a good thing to be traumatized as a younger?
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008 Monsters In Turtlenecks
Welcome to the Club! Ben has a religious experience while watching the 1981 film, Monster Club. Amanda is on board with the whole thing. That's a first!
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007 Just The Bad Parts
This week, Ben and Amanda check out movies about evil body parts. Amanda and Ben each pitch their own evil body part film. Plus! Nightmares from childhood. Nightmare boyfriends. And Amanda discuses her aversion to being fed romantically.
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006 Bonus Episode - Drew Platt And Pet Sematary
Bonus! Ben sits down with comedian, Drew Platt to talk about a movie that terrified him as a kid, Pet Sematary. Plus Kepi Ghoulie's cover of Pet Sematatary! Thanks Kepi!
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005 The Asphyx and all the Ghostbusters
Neighbor and comedian, Gabe Callahan joins Ben and Amanda as we examine The Asphyx, plus all the Ghostbusters. Before they delve into deep personal fears and the movies that bothered their souls, Ben, Amanda and Gabe pitch a found footage-style movie about film students who stumble on their own...
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Illustrator, Ben Walker-Storey loves monsters, ghosts, creepers and kaiju. Cheap Chills: On Art and Monsters gets Ben talking with other artists and creators about how macabre movies, creepy toys and forbidden comics influenced their life and their artwork.
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