2024 – Page 4 – PopCult Reviews

PopCult Podcast – Halloween Spooktacular 2024

Frankencows, J-Horror, Little Wednesday, and the Sanderson Sisters are all here to make this Halloween a scare of a good time.

PopCult Podcast – Strange Darling/VHS Beyond

The story of a serial killer told out of sequence plays with our expectations. A collection of short science fiction-horror films presents a plethora of frights.

PopCult Podcast – Robot Dreams/Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

A lonely New Yorker mail orders a companion but a series of complications split them apart and they dream of being reunited. A woman haunted by strange encounters in her adolescence returns to the old house where it all started.

Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – Solo Liminal Horror Part Three

You can purchase Liminal Horror here
You can purchase Jeansen’s Machines here
You can download the Liminal Horror Solo Starter here

Read the previous chapter here

Scene #6 – (Confrontation 5/8)

Modified: Cristian is in the local jail as the police process him trying to convince them he’s innocent – Add some trouble or bad news.
The GM asks you to: Explain what’s currently happening – activities around.
Oracle: Eliminate Prison
Doom Clock #2 – The Promethean Fire (4/6)

Cristian sits in a cell at the Sevier County Sheriff’s Department. Officer Fletcher discovered a body hidden in the back room of the crawlspace. During his interrogation, Cristian learned that it was an adult male, so it was not the missing child, and that it had been in the crawlspace for about a week. He told them he had an alibi, to call his secretary, and she would confirm that he had been to work every day for the last week until today. It’s around one in the morning, and he sits in his cell, hoping they get ahold of her ASAP. But he’s wracked by the thought of how a dead man ended up in the crawlspace under his late grandparents’ mountain cabin. And where is cousin Albert?

PopCult Podcast – Cuckoo/His Three Daughters

A teenage girl is taken to a strange German community by her family where dark secrets are hidden away. Three women gather in the apartment of their dying father to grieve and figure out who they are to each other when he passes.

October 2024 Posting Schedule

Film Series
[Horrorfest 2024 – Oct 2 thru 31]
The Wicker Man, Vampyr, The Night of the Living Dead, Hausu, Hour of the Wolf, From Beyond, Martin, Anguish, The Wailing, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Thesis, The Face of Another, The Devils, Motel Hell

PopCult Podcast – Rebel Ridge/Evil Does Not Exist

Two recent releases are in the spotlight. Jeremy Saulnier presents an entertaining & tense action film about a Black man against the local law preventing him from helping his cousin. Ryusuke Hamaguchi delivers a complicated a story of a rural Japanese village facing an outsider developer.

Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – Solo Liminal Horror Part Two

You can purchase Liminal Horror here
You can purchase Jeansen’s Machines here
You can download the Liminal Horror Solo Starter here

Read the previous chapter here

Scene #4 – (Confrontation 1/8)

Random: Deal with a difficulty – Something fails or breaks
Exploration scene: slippery, wet, flood
Skill test: setting-specific
Circumstance: Involves a puzzle, logic
The GM asks you to: Mention the weather or atmospheric conditions

When Cristian gets to the front door, the rain is coming down in heavy sheets. He slams it behind him, feeling water drip onto the floor mat. The only thing that makes sense is to strip the soaked clothes off and change into what he brought. Sopping wet clothes remain piled on the tiled bathroom floor. Waves of exhaustion spill over him, the day’s events catching up. Without looking at his phone, Cristian can’t tell if it’s still daytime or night as the sky is thick with black, rain-bloated clouds. He decides to sleep, hoping that some of this will make more sense when he wakes up. Maybe he’s having a nightmare right now.

TV Review – Batman: The Caped Crusader

Batman: The Caped Crusader (2024)
Written by Jase Ricci, Bruce Timm, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker, Adamma Ebo, Adanne Ebo, Hailey Gross, and Marc Bernardin
Directed by Christina Sotta, Matt Peters, and Christopher Berkeley

Does the world need another Batman adaptation? Probably not, but that won’t stop Warner Discovery from pumping it out to make money. Thankfully, this animated series is helmed by the legendary Bruce Timm, the showrunner responsible for Batman: The Animated Series, a program that redefined superhero media on television. He brings that same moodiness and sense of place to this series, which follows Batman in an alternate 1940s/50s noir setting. With writers like Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker onboard, that means you’re in for a show that focuses on Batman’s detective work and surprised me by making it more about the characters than big action set pieces.

Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – Supersworn: The Victory Academy Part Four

Read our previous chapter here.

[Begin a Session: Seemingly unrelated situations are shown to be connected]
Thread: Coup at the Academy & Time Cops on Patrol
Oracle: Initiate Bond

Aiden Bell attends a midnight meeting with Police Commissioner Jeremiah Maxwell at Forge City Central Police HQ. They will further develop their secret plans for the EOD (Enhanced Operations Division), the task force that the Victory Academy will funnel super-humans into. Maxwell greets Bell with a firm handshake, almost an attack, a check to see which man is stronger. Bell half smiles, half grimaces, and squeezes back until Maxwell relents.