Episodes
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The Dark Parade #40: Sweet Home (1989)
Hey, gang! What do you know, it’s a new episode of The Dark Parade! This time, we are kicking off the rust with the help of the amazing Cort Psyops to unearth a J-horror gem called Sweet Home. Why this one? Well, it’s directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa of Pulse and Cure fame, and it has been called the...
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The Dark Parade #39: Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell
Richard Glenn Schmidt returns for a look at the gonzo J-horror silliness that is Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell. We discuss the joys of earnest rip-offs, the downsides of polo shirts on muscular bods, and oh so much more! Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell is available streaming on Shudder…
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The Dark Parade #25: Over Your Dead Body
It’s Miike time again, and that means bringing in Asian horror enthusiast Derek Bourgeois for a look at Takashi Miike’s Over Your Dead Body. We talk about the blurring of the real world and that of the play represented, dig into the themes of the movie, and wrap up with three things you might not...
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The Dark Parade #21: The Vampire Doll
We wrap up our inaugural Listener Request Month with a return to some Asian horror roots with a look at part one of The Bloodthirsty Trilogy and The Vampire Doll. Joined by Don Anelli, we look at the Hammer horror origins of the movie, the amazing Gothic vibes, and how fun it is to see the…
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Legion Podcasts: The Prisoners of the Ghostland Review
Get ready for the (mildly) crazy, it’s the Prisoners of the Ghostland review! It was a match made in movie Heaven. Sion Sono, the auteur behind Suicide Club and Exte and the underappreciated Tag teaming up with Nicolas Cage, an actor who embodies a peculiar bravado. Pepper that cinematic meal…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: A Page of Madness
On a new episode of Hero Hero Ghost Show, we kick off a sub-series called Ghost Show Classics with a look at the influential and surreal silent-era film A Page of Madness from Teinosuke Kinugasa. I look at everything from the effect of firebombing on silent Japanese cinema to the roots of this...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: One Missed Call 3
Welcome to the finale of our look at the One Missed Call series with One Missed Call 3. Joined once more by Derek Bourgeois, we take a look at this final sequel, look back at the series as a whole, and discuss the best in Asian horror movies series. Also, Derek gives some of his personal...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: One Missed Call The Television Series Part 2 2005
Derek and Bo are ack to finish a look at 2005’s One Missed Call The Television Series. We celebrate Tokumei Watch, parse out all the twists and turns, and evaluate the series as a whole before next episode’s One Missed Call finale, One Missed Call: Final! You can subscribe to Hero Hero Ghost Show...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: One Missed Call The Television Series Part 1 2005
We are joined once more by Derek Bourgeois to explore the hard-to-find but wonderful One Missed Call The Television Series aka Chakushin Ari. We talk the novelization, the similarities with Miike’s film and how terrific Yokumei Watch is. You can subscribe to Hero Hero Ghost Show on Apple…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: One Missed Call 2 2005
Just when you thought it was safe to answer your cell phone… it’s One Missed Call 2 2005! Returning champion Derek Bourgeois is back to comb over this tale of ghosts and curses, cell phones and coal mines, confusion and disappointment. Without the hand of auteur Takashi Miike at the helm can the...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: One Missed Call 2003
We’re kicking off a new run of shows examining the One Missed Call series, and this is gonna be a good one! We kick off with the Takashi Miike banger One Missed Call 2003, and this movie will do anything for a scare. We talk about everything from the lighting to the Fulci nods with our guest host...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show – Solo Sono: Tag 2015
Welcome to a Hero Hero Ghost Show side show – Solo Sono! We’re unpacking a movie from Japanese auteur Sion Sono and what better way to start than with a recent head trip of a film by the name of Tag 2015. There are mass decapitations, Lynchian character changes, pig-headed weirdoes and so much...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: The Child’s Eye
Richard Glenn Schmidt returns to round out our series on The Eye films from Danny and Oxide Pang. This last entry is The Child’s Eye, and it eschews the farting ghosts of The Eye 3 for a more defined narrative and some 3D gags. Also, we somehow end up talking about our shared love of Marvel…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: The Eye 3
Welcome to our continuing journey through The Eye series on the Asian horror podcast, hero hero Ghost Show. Up next, The Eye 3, a surprising and often silly sequel. Joined on this journey of the ocular occult by Hello! This Is the Doomed Show’s Richard Glenn Schmidt, we strive to make sense of…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: The Eye 2 (2004)
Hero Hero Ghost Show continues our series on The Eye film series from the Pang Brothers. Up next, The Eye 2 (2004), a shift away from ocular horror to further explore the world of the dead. There’s an unlikable protagonist, some quality scares, and plenty of crazy. Jump in! You can subscribe to...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: The Eye 2002
In the first part of a series, Hero Hero Ghost Show is back to look at The Eye 2002. Joined by Richard Glenn Schmidt of Hello! This is the Doomed Show, we break down the movie’s scares, the strange structure, and where it fits in the Asian horror wave of the 2000s. Be back in two weeks with The…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show Review: Train to Busan Presents Peninsula
In this very brief episode, it’s time to take a look at Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula here on Hero Hero Ghost Show. There are some mild spoilers ahead, but only general plot points, and some ensuing disappointment… ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: Bonus – A Blood Pledge with Richard Glenn Schmidt
Our time creeping through the Whispering Corridors series ends with the fifth installment, A Blood Pledge aka Yeogo goedam 5: Dong-ban-ja-sa. We wind our way through the story of this ghostly tale of suicide and key-worship before pondering a few blood pledges of our own, and we wrap things up…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: Bonus Episode – Voice w/ Richard Glenn Schmidt
We return with another installment in the Whispering Corridors series, aka a bunch of Korean horror movies set in high school with lesbian overtones. This time, we’re talking a ghost story involving an unreliable spook and, naturally, talk turns to toilet paper and Richard Jaeckel. ★ Support this...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show – Bonus Episode: Wishing Stairs with Richard Glenn Schmidt
Hero Hero Ghost Show returns with a continuation of our bonus series looking at the Whispering Corridors series. Faithful ally Richard Glenn Schmidt is on board again for the third entry, Wishing Stairs. While we intended to do both this film and the follow-up, Voice, but we were so enamored by...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show – Dark Water
Welcome back to Hero Hero Ghost Show! We have a great one this time around. Mike Marryman is here to talk Hideo Nakata’s Dark Water. Cort Psyops shows up in The G-Spot to talk Invasion of Astro-Monster. And no show would be complete without a look at divorce in Japan. So, what are we waiting for?...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Meatball Machine and Kodoku Meatball Machine
It’s here! A brand new episode of Hero Hero Ghost Show has arrived! We welcome Jerry Herring of Kill the Cast and Underwater Kaiju from Outer Space fame to chat about the bananas films, Meatball Machine and Kodoku Meatball Machine. We try to make some sense of the J-splatter silliness and manage…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show – Thirst
Welcome back to Hero Hero Ghost Show! This time around, we have a star-studded slam-bang episode! First, Cort joins us in The G-Spot to talk Mothra vs Godzilla (aka Godzilla vs the Thing) before we welcome Duncan McLeish for a discussion of Chan-wook Park’s Thirst. There’s mah jongg parties…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show: King Kong vs Godzilla
Join Cort Psyops and myself for a look at the first Technicolor appearance of the Big G, and he’s brought a monkey along for fun! We talk parasol weakness, non-habit forming narcotic berries, the Smog Monster goes to rehab, bad Hokkaido vacation packages, amazing octopi, Kong’s wicked berry…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show – Bonus Episode: Whispering Corridors and Momento Mori with Richard Glenn Schmidt
Welcome back to a brand new bonus episode of Hero Hero Ghost Show. Now in a world where no new Tomie films exist (much the shame), Richard Glenn Schmidt returns to tackle another female-centric series of films. This time, we look into the world of all-girls high schools in South Korea with the...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show – Exte: Hair Extensions
Welcome back to a new episode of Hero Hero Ghost Show! We pay respects to Ren Osugi before diving into a the Sion Sono/Ren Osugi film, Exte! Haunted hair, family drama and rampant abuse form this tale of a vengeful spirit that also serves as a surprisingly radical take on J-horror in general.…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! – Godzilla
Welcome to Hero Hero Ghost Show!, a podcast all about Asian horror, and this time around we’re going straight to Tokyo Bay with special guest Cort Psyops from Cinema Psyops to get under the scales of a temperamental gentleman named Godzilla. Did you ever wonder who came up with Godzilla in the...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! – Tomie vs Tomie & Tomie Unlimited w/Richard Glenn Schmidt
It’s Bro-mies before Ho-mies when Richard-mie joins Bo-mie for our final trip into the realm of Tomie, the cinematic adaptations of Junji Ito’s manga. And we are going out in style, friends and neighbors. In addition to discussing two of the more interesting entries into this series, we talk a...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Bonus Episode – Tomie: Beginning & Tomie: Revenge
Welcome back, everyone! In further proof of our obsession with Japanese love demons, I am joined by Hello! This is the Doomed Show’s Richard Glenn Schmidt for a stroll down Tomie lane. This time, we examine films six and seven (!) of the long-running series of films, this time helmed by original...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! – Suicide Club
We’re back, and this time… it’s personal! Well, if not personal, certainly weird. We’re talking Sion Sono’s Suicide Club with Black Annis’s Misty Marchant, and we cover this thing like pros, including why Genesis set up shop in a bowling alley, Charles Manson trivia, the gleeful black comedy of...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Valentine’s Day Special: Sadako vs Kayako
Welcome back to Hero Hero Ghost Show! I’ve been away a while, but back in time to celebrate a day of togetherness… and what better way to celebrate than with the two women that perhaps best represent Japanese horror? That’s right, we’re talking Ringu vs Ju-on, yurei vs yurei… it’s Sadako vs…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Tomie Special #2 – Tomie: Rebirth and Tomie: Forbidden Fruit
Welcome back to Hero Hero Ghost Show! Relieved of solo duties, I am joined by Hello! This is the Doomed Show‘s Richard Glenn Schmidt for our second venture into the land of Japanese love demons. We begin with Takashi Shimizu’s wonderful take on the Tomie story, Tomie: Rebirth, and it’s amazing…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Season Two: Episode Four – Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman
The solo train keeps rolling, but enough bonus content, let’s do a real episode! This time out, we take a look at a listener request in the form of Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman. Based on an urban legend, the movie is a weird blend of urban fairy tale, slasher and treatise on child abuse… maybe?...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Season Two – Special Episode: Imprint and Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies
Here we are, just the two of us. Sure, we usually have some guest yammering on about one movie or another, but if we could distill the show into its purest state, something that could lead to the dawning of a new age? Or, you could just join me for a solo show in which we discuss Takashi Miike’s...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Season Two: Episode Three – Evil Dead Trap
Ah, Asian horror… With its technicolor lighting and Goblin-esque scores, the brutal killings, the maggots on the ceilings… Hey, wait a second! That doesn’t sound like Asian horror at all! And that’s just what makes 1988’s Evil Dead Trap such an oddball piece of cinema. The movie director…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Season Two: Episode 2 – Tetsuo the Iron Man
Welcome back to Season Two of Hero Hero Ghost Show! Boy howdy, do we have a weird one tonight – the seminal Japanese body horror/cyberpunk/splatter movie, Tetsuo the Iron Man. This is one of those movies people intend to see, yet never quite get around to it. Along with my co-host Gary Hill (of…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Season Two Premiere: Ringu
Hey Ghost Show Heroes! We are back for a new ten-episode run of the best and strangest in Asian horror, and we’re starting with a bang. That’s right, it’s Ringu, the movie that made us all scared of long haired girls in wells. We dig into the iconic moments of the film, diabeetus ghosts, raising...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Bonus Episode #2 – Tomie: Another Face and Tomie: Replay
Hey there, Ghost Show Heroes! We’re still getting things ready for Season Two, but that doesn’t mean you don’t deserve your fair share of Asian horror goodness. To keep you tantalized, I have enlisted the help of both a Japanese love demon named Tomie and an American love demon named Richard…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! – Bonus Episode #1: Colette Balmain
You may not immediately recognize the name of our guest, but you will after this episode! Colette Balmain is a speaker and author specializing in Asian horror and literally wrote the book on the subject. Her book, Introduction to Japanese Horror Film, is preparing for its second edition release…
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Episode 13 – Tomie
Welcome to the final episode of season one! It has been a long and winding road, but we find ourselves at the end (for now) and in the arms of a love demon named Tomie. Joined by Richard Glenn Schmidt of Hello! This is the Doomed Show! fame and resident Tomie expert, our heroes examine heads in...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Episode 12 – Pulse
The penultimate episode of season one of Hero Hero Ghost Show has arrived! Joined by David Anders of Devour the Podcast fame (or infamy), we sit down to talk about the Japanese ghost apocalypse film, Pulse. We talk about the film’s creepy imagery, the existentialist horror of the film, how ghost...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Episode 11 – Ichi the Killer
Way back in episode one, I promised Takashi Miike would return, and boy is this a return worth waiting for. Ichi the Killer is part mob story, part twisted father/son fable and all blood-drenched (among other fluids). This movie, and the episode, are not for the faint of heart as we dive into the...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Episode 10 – Battle Royale
This is not a test! A brand new episode of Hero Hero Ghost Show is here and, brothers and sisters, it is a classic on the menu tonight. Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle ROyale is a brutal, taboo-shattering slice of Japanese cinema and has earned the moniker ‘classic’ since it’s 2000 release. Joining us is...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Episode 9 – Kuroneko
Welcome to the latest episode of Hero Hero Ghost Show! This time around, we set the Asian horror wayback machine (AHWM) to 1968 and the Kaneto Shindo ghost story, Kuroneko. Joined by The Podcast Under the Stair’s Duncan McLeish, we dive into the traditional aspects of the story, what we would do...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show! Episode 8 – Hausu
Welcome back to Hero Hero Ghost Show! So, apologies for the delay in getting the latest episode to you, but scheduling and life conspired to derail us for a couple of weeks. We’re back with a vengeance, however. This time around, Kiss the Goat and Screen Kings host Jeffrey X Martin joins us to...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show!: Episode 7 – Uzumaki
Welcome to a brand new episode of Hero Hero Ghost Show! This episode, we’re exploring the twisted (heh!) mind of Junki Ito and the film adaptation of Uzumaki. Joined by Brian Sammons, expert editor and co-host of Evil Episodes and The ABCs of Hidden Horror, we dive into the weird world of a...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show!: Episode 6 – Dream Home
Welcome back to Episode 6 of Hero Hero Ghost Show! Boy, do we have a good one today. I’m joined by Zena Dixon of Girls Will be Ghouls (a podcast you can find right here on LegionPodcasts.com) to discuss Dream Home, a Hong Kong slasher from 2010. We talk about our mutual love of House, Zena’s...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show!: Episode 5 – Phone
Welcome for round five of Hero Hero Ghost Show! We now turn our eyes to an oft-used trope in Asian horror cinema – the technological as a source of terror. For our first foray into techno-horror goodness, I’m joined by Ricky Morgan of the Hail Ming Power Hour to discuss Phone, a story of ghosts,...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show!: Episode 4 – Ju-on
Welcome back, Ghost Show heroes! First of all, thanks to all who have been listening and offering feedback. You guys are the best! Enough pandering, though, we have ghosts to talk about! In particular, Taeko, Kayako and Toshio, the unholy trinity of spooks in Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-on. Dave Zendano...
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Hero Hero Ghost Show!: Episode 3 – Versus
Welcome to Episode 3 of Hero Hero Ghost Show! This time around, we’re talking Ryuhei Kitamura’s chanbara-inspired bouillabaisse of weirdness, Versus. Is this the perfect introductory film to Japanese horror? What’s with the kicking guy? Is our lead character as feminist as he claims to be? Also…
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