The Spooky Screamer: Horror in the News
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Have you heard?! King Charles's 'blood ritual portrait' that has a striking resemblance to Dracula and Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters 2?... ...The Met Gala missed the point of the dystopian short story theme they chose?Gross! ...Also, Stormy Daniels, among other things she's up to lately... is directing horror? Yikes! We gotta talk about this! In this episode we look at current events from this month (and this week!) that have surprising and even shocking horror connections. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spookyscholars/message
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