Fear of the Dark
A film podcast about race and horror. Hosted by Matthew Vernon and Stacey Baran.
Episodes
On this episode of Fear of the Dark, Matthew and Stacey talk about the 2005 film The Descent, which follows a group of women who go on a caving trip in Appalachia in honor of one of their friends who has recently passed. We ask ourselves: where does the true horror of this film really lie? Is it with the blind, cryptid crawlers who hunt the women as they search for an escape from the collapsed cave - or in the women themselves?
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In this mini-episode of Fear of the Dark, Stacey and Matthew follow up on the previous episode with a short conversation on Robert Eggers’ 2024 adaptation of Nosferatu. Join us for a not-so-sympathetic take on this particular rendition of the vampire’s legacy.
Film: Nosferatu (Robert Eggers, 2024)
Theme Music: “Play the Game” (Library of Congress Free Music Archive)
Fear of the Dark is a film podcast about race and horror, hoste...
In this episode, Matthew and Stacey sit down to talk about Werner Herzog’s 1979 Nosferatu and how the process of adaptation integrates both new and old conceptions of the Other.
Film: Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)
Theme Music: “Play the Game” (Library of Congress Free Music Archive)
Fear of the Dark is a film podcast about race and horror, hosted by Dr. Matthew Vernon and Stacey Baran. Episode edited by Matthew Ver...
In the first episode of Fear of the Dark, Stacey and Matthew talk about Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s 2025 supernatural horror film. Met with immediate critical acclaim, it stars Michael B. Jordan as identical twins Smoke and Stack, whose Mississippi juke joint gets terrorized by vampires on opening night.
Is Sinners really a horror film? What is the role of memory and sentimentality in its broader narrative? And in the incredible dancin...
They’re here…! And by “they” we mean “us.” Welcome to Fear of the Dark, a podcast on race and horror with Dr. Matthew Vernon and Stacey Baran. In this brief trailer, we share a little bit about who we are, our approaches to talking about film, and who we hope is listening.
Fear of the Dark is a film podcast about race and horror. Hosted by Dr. Matthew Vernon and Stacey Baran.
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