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The Box - A woman finds an old box full of X-Files-like journal reports that she takes to be a writing project. When she starts a podcast to read them, things start to get out of control. I'm four episodes in and it's not bad.
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Slamhound posted:The Box - A woman finds an old box full of X-Files-like journal reports that she takes to be a writing project. When she starts a podcast to read them, things start to get out of control. Sweet I've run out of audiobooks and podcasts to listen to. Been binge listening to things during this work week from hell. Just two days left.
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Len posted:Sweet I've run out of audiobooks and podcasts to listen to. Been binge listening to things during this work week from hell. Just two days left.
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theblackw0lf posted:Writer of The Magnus Archives recommends Knifepoint Horror and says it was one of the main inspirations for his show. Knifepoint is hit or miss a f but when it's on its on
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I finished up lifeafter today and I think I liked The Message more overall. The ending was pretty okay up until he goes back to his wife that chose her long dead sister over him. She faked her death and left him miserable for 8 months and he's just going to forgive her? That seemed a stretch to me but I've not had to deal with bereavement so maybe it isn't?
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Dec 24, 2016 04:36
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The season finale of Wolf 359 was pretty loving dynamite. Hell of a cliffhanger.
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I listened to the first four episodes of the Box and boy howdy is it garbage. Do not listen unless you're really that desperate for modern anthology horror and have finished every other such podcast ever recommended in this thread.
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Dec 29, 2016 10:48
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it feels like this is like the fifth time I've heard this Blood Bag story the Magnus Archives just did. Not really complaining because he did fine with it it's just the first time it feels like he's covering heavily trod area.
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Dec 29, 2016 19:22
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Hell, I'm just glad they're back.. Its amazing to me that they can pull off this well thought out podcast with a 30 minute story every week and TANIS and The Black Tapes have been off for about, what, 4-5 months without content now? I know they both have Patreon content, but I can't justify $10 for them honestly.. My favorite non-fiction podcast "Laser Time" only has a $5 Patreon paywall for multiple additional weekly podcasts plus other content. (Very highly recommend them if you're looking for non-fictional entertainment, by the way! They're more of a pop culture podcast about old cartoons, movies, video games, etc - just take a topic, do some research, and talk about it for an hour or two.)
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Dec 29, 2016 19:59
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Tatum Girlparts posted:it feels like this is like the fifth time I've heard this Blood Bag story the Magnus Archives just did. Not really complaining because he did fine with it it's just the first time it feels like he's covering heavily trod area. Where else have you heard it? I was probably too amused to be spooked since I work in a mosquito lab similar to the one in the story. The writer must have done his research on the cages and whatnot, he described them pretty well.
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Amateur Sketch posted:Where else have you heard it? I think it's mainly just I did a binge of some horror stuff and shockingly 'during a disease outbreak I worked with blood/other medical stuff and something spooky happened' isn't exactly a rare topic. Still a good story, and for sure one of the better versions I remember.
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Dec 30, 2016 04:47
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Anyone else listen to Alexandria Archives? I just got done with the first episode and I'm digging it, the first story was pretty solid and I think they did a good job with the late night college radio format.
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Echophonic posted:Anyone else listen to Alexandria Archives? I just got done with the first episode and I'm digging it, the first story was pretty solid and I think they did a good job with the late night college radio format. Yeah I checked it out after the last bright Sessions callout. Reminds me of night Vale with creepy pasta instead of music
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Oh god why is The Box doing a black lives matter episode? I feel like a paranormal story podcast is not the best place to soapbox.
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So SAYER will be resuming, funded by a kickstarter.
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Mokinokaro posted:So SAYER will be resuming, funded by a kickstarter. Wish it was Patreon, but I'll contribute to that and anything the marscorp guys do
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Len posted:Oh god why is The Box doing a black lives matter episode? I feel like a paranormal story podcast is not the best place to soapbox. Just listened to this one too. Wow, that was pretty bad. I kind of like The Box, it reminds me a lot of the early episodes of The Black Tapes (the good and bad). It's a terrible idea to try to tackle something like this when you don't know how. A 30 minute podcast, with 10 minutes of edited together news audio tacked onto the front. It wasn't enough for the incredibly short story to just happen to give the character a chance to awkwardly get on a soapbox and drop a bunch of racism 101 knowledge, but she has to do it herself too for the outro. And since I haven't seen it mentioned recently, SPINES was good. They just finished their first set of 8. Even though the pitch is just girl with amnesia investigates strange cult ritual, it's probably worth mentioning that it's really more of a weird fiction tale (very weird).
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Mokinokaro posted:So SAYER will be resuming, funded by a kickstarter. I'm interested in hearing more about how he intends to continue the story, because it seems like the ending would be pretty tough to write around. I'm on board if he has somewhere interesting to go with it, but there's too much else out there to jump back in if he's making more just for the sake of making more.
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Sinteres posted:I'm interested in hearing more about how he intends to continue the story, because it seems like the ending would be pretty tough to write around. I'm on board if he has somewhere interesting to go with it, but there's too much else out there to jump back in if he's making more just for the sake of making more. The current rumour is season 4 will be a prequel set before the comic. Use this if you want to be notified once the KS is up http://eepurl.com/cvuDHL
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Terrible Opinions posted:I listened to the first four episodes of the Box and boy howdy is it garbage. Do not listen unless you're really that desperate for modern anthology horror and have finished every other such podcast ever recommended in this thread. I am listening to that and I loving lost it when a man who I am just going to assume is Resident Evil Character Barry Burton yelled "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?". e: The gently caress is this lovely monologue. I don't know you or care about you lady I don't want to know about your stupid college experience. ee: This is such garbage. Shame on you, poster who thought this was good. Paul Zuvella fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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Paul Zuvella posted:I am listening to that and I loving lost it when a man who I am just going to assume is Resident Evil Character Barry Burton yelled "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?".  I thought it had promise, but ultimately it's a goddamned mess. In later episodes they leave in multiple takes of the same line.
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At this point I'm still listening BECAUSE of the trainwreck aspect
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Finished Homecoming, it was a solid listen. Decent story elevated by superb acting and production values. I'm glad they wrapped it up at six episodes to avoid padding. One tiny quibble, it was offputting how each episode including a self-congratulatory "making of" feature, and felt the need to remind the listener ten times that this is an Eli Horowitz production, written by Eli Horowitz, directed by Eli Horowitz, craft services by... etc.. That stuff is fine, but why after each short episode? Release all that after the series is over.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Finished Homecoming, it was a solid listen. Decent story elevated by superb acting and production values. I'm glad they wrapped it up at six episodes to avoid padding. Homecoming is really good. Probably my favorite of the big-name productions.
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The box goes to poo poo pretty much immediately after she decides to steal the books and go on a road trip. Like goddamn the quality drop was insane
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Burned through the first six episodes of Lesser Gods. Seems like a lot of really fun ideas struggling against the format. I went in expecting the last young people on Earth to, you know, interact, but it's more like listening to a handful of narrators read sections of a book report.
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Good pre-production meeting today. It'll be a while before we can afford to produce season 3, but we've got some one and two-parter story ideas to fill the space in between.
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Well, Archive 81 is back for season 2, and drat it seems to have taken a nose dive. Completely different tone, a terrible framing device, annoying sound effects and none of the half-decent weird fiction I liked.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Well, Archive 81 is back for season 2, and drat it seems to have taken a nose dive. Completely different tone, a terrible framing device, annoying sound effects and none of the half-decent weird fiction I liked. Oh that doesn't sound good. I listened to all of the Deep Vault but I found the tone to be really inconsistent. It didn't handle swinging from horror to comedy as well as something like King Falls usually does.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Well, Archive 81 is back for season 2, and drat it seems to have taken a nose dive. Completely different tone, a terrible framing device, annoying sound effects and none of the half-decent weird fiction I liked. I'm not liking the first episode of S2 at all. Guess I'll give it a few before giving up on it.
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I kinda liked it. It's very very very different, but we're definitely coming into some interesting or unusual business.
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Yo, check out Termsquote:On election night, two-term president Oliver Pierce watches in disbelief from the White House as Charles Dunwalke wins a controversial electoral college victory. With only 73 days before Dunwalke’s inauguration, president Pierce makes a secret decision to act, with historic and possibly catastrophic consequences. It has really good production and acting, and don't worry about it being like irl, for one thing POTUS and PEOTUS are Republican, and Dunwalke may actually be Hitler???
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Kraps posted:Yo, check out Terms So it is real life then. 
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I actually didn't mind S2E1 of Archive 81, but I don't have high hopes for it.
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Kraps posted:Yo, check out Terms It's pretty eerie. I especially liked when Dunwalke scared the crap out of European allies by saying that he didn't think the U.S. should unconditionally support them. Dunwalke's more overtly religious than Trump, but other than that they're almost identical. The creator, Lindsey Graham (no, not that one) swears up and down that he's been working on the story for years. I think the only unrealistic thing is that the departing president is a two-term popular, centrist Republican, which hasn't really happened since Eisenhower (maybe Reagan if you're VERY generous with your definition of "centrist").
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I actually liked the new Archive 81 episode more than last season. I could be biased, since my friend plays one of the new characters, but I'm not sure I would have made it through all of season 1 if she hadn't been cast. The new one is so bonkers it had my attention the whole time.
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effervescible posted:The new one is so bonkers it had my attention the whole time. Same here, I like how they went from building up "eldritch goings-on/conspiracy" in the background to maximum weird in the foreground. Makes things much more interesting than the usual "found-footage" type of horror podcast, and I'm really interested to see where they go with it.
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Just finished Mabel. In short it's Silent Hill meets old fairie stories. Except these aren't the cute kind with wings and little dresses. They're more like the faceless nurses staggering around with rusty weapons. Excellent stuff.
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I just did my second listen-through of Within the Wires, and it's still amazing. I'm extremely particular, and the first episode was annoying, but once you understand that information will be iterated many times you will listen remember comprehend
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Solid Poopsnake posted:I just did my second listen-through of Within the Wires, and it's still amazing. I'm extremely particular, and the first episode was annoying, but once you understand that information will be In the next exercise, you are going to stop breathing.
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