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Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business, the most excellent and rad podcast in the land. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys. On this episode we’re discussing a small sampling of the films of the great Larry Cohen: 1974’s It’s Alive and 1982’s Q: The Winged Serpent. There were some minor audio issues this episode so we apologize in advance!

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We begin by talking about what horror related things we had done lately. Liam discusses his recent venture to Chicago to attend the annual Cinepocalypse Festival where he was lucky enough to interview Eric Roberts for his other podcast Eric Roberts Is The Fucking Man. This ties in with this episode Liam was also fortunate enough to mingle with the likes of Larry Cohen out in Chicago.

Liam also discusses some of the films he saw while in Chicago, including The Lodgers, Lowlife, Snowflake, and Downrange. He also talks about catching the films Hellhouse LLC on Shudder. Justin talks about being misfortunate enough to see the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre film Leatherface that leads into a brief discussion on Stephen Dorff being an underrated actor. The obsession with horror remakes trying to make the villain endearing is briefly touched upon. Justin also talks watching The Vault, and then we briefly talk about Stranger Things and the upcoming adaption of Hellboy.

Up first is 1974’s It’s Alive. We start by giving a background on the work of Larry Cohen. We discuss the sort of surprise success of the film, especially given the studios reluctance to release the film given the somewhat controversial subject as well as the successful marketing campaign for the film.