Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 3/5 😷

Damien: 3/5 😷

More importantly, we introduce our next season of the Lowbrow Lowdown: Unpacking the Undead.

Season 2 of the Lowbrow Lowdown is all about zombies. We will explore the hypothesis that zombie movies, TV series and books provide us with a snapshot of culture and society at the time of their creation.

Damien and Natasha will explore the zeitgeist, through a trashy, undead lens that touches mostly upon horror, but will cross over into action, comedy, sci-fi, dystopian and apocalypse sub-genres. 

We can’t wait to watch (and in Damien’s case, rewatch) lots and lots of zombie flicks. And to share our laughter-filled opinions with you. 

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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Natasha and Damien endured this story so you don't have to.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 0.5/5 😷

Damien: 1/5 😷

More importantly, we introduce our next season of the Lowbrow Lowdown: Unpacking the Undead.

Season 2 of the Lowbrow Lowdown is all about zombies. We will explore the hypothesis that zombie movies, TV series and books provide us with a snapshot of culture and society at the time of their creation.

Damien and Natasha will explore the zeitgeist, through a trashy, undead lens that touches mostly upon horror, but will cross over into action, comedy, sci-fi, dystopian and apocalypse sub-genres. 

We can’t wait to watch (and in Damien’s case, rewatch) lots and lots of zombie flicks. And to share our laughter-filled opinions with you. 

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

Intro music

Book Bag by E's Jammy Jams is part of the YouTube Audio Library (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/...).

Artist: E's Jammy Jams - https://goo.gl/tuVmjd

Also includes music by:

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As a reader, you will gain a new insight into the relationship between Thor and Loki, Odin and Freya and of course the Valkyrie.

Natasha and Damien were pleasantly surprised by this complex and detailed story.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 4.5/5 😷

Damien: 4.5/5 😷

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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COVID Cupid (Book 1) is a rough draft of a series of vignettes where, admittedly, the dire state of dating is definitely on show. If anything, this is yet another item of proof that there's a gap in the market for editors of self-published short stories.

Natasha and Damien find out how to solve a crime from an unexpected perspective.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 🤷🏻‍♀️ (she's got nothing)

Damien: 😷 (for managing to navigate the Amazon publishing portal, also not racist which has been a struggle for a lot of these books)

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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When we tell you that you simply must read Martin Cross' Co[r]vid: A novella, you really must.

From the author himself: "CO[R]VID, is a crime story with a difference. The difference being that the detective is a crow."

You may baulk at the concept, but we're here to tell you that it works. My god it works.

Natasha and Damien find out how to solve a crime from an unexpected perspective.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷

Damien: 😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷😷

Yes, we both gave it 10/5 face masks. We make the rules, and we're gonna break the rules, because it is absolutely off-the-scale good.

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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Join Natasha and Damien for wheeze-laughing that requires medical attention.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 😷😷

Damien: 😷😷 (and a half)

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Join Natasha and Damien for a fabulous series of drabbles, and then a serious discussion of what makes a horror story and does

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 😷😷😷

Damien: 😷😷😷

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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Join Natasha and Damien for a surprisingly heartfelt experience.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 😷😷😷😷😷

Damien: 😷😷😷😷😷

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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Join Natasha and Damien for bad motives and abysmal police work in The COVID Killder.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha and Damien: 😷 (combined, they gave half a mask each).

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Natasha and Damien despite leaving COVID-erotica, we're still in a world of questionable science and improbable love-interests. Although the world-building of the questionable science is markedly better.

Join Natasha and Damien for irresistible nerds with magic powers and questionable ideas about appropriate behaviour in Death Vaxxers.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 😷😷😷

Damien: 😷😷😷

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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Natasha and Damien are back in the world of questionable science, wild imaginations and protagonists that have very questionable approaches to the world.

Join Natasha and Damien for useless hazmat suits, cum-guzzling frat boys, and 19th century dance parties in Courting the Coronavirus.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 😷

Damien: 😷😷

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Natasha and Damien move on from the wild science of Kissing the Coronavirus to the wild imagination of Chuck Tingle, the most prolific (in terms of volume) writer we've seen so far. A writer who reads the news in the morning and has published a novel by lunchtime. Come down the rabbit hole of this crazy story.

Join Natasha and Damien for public confrontations, hockey-masked serial killers and an abundance of chocolate milk in, My Handsome Sentient Face Mask Protects Me Despite The Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories That He Won't Also He Pounds My Butt.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 😷😷😷😷 (and a half)

Damien: 😷😷😷😷

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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In Kissing the Coronavirus 3: The Mutant Strain, Dr Alexa Ashingtonford and Dr Kelly Cauldron are distant memories, as we meet Dr Amy Amyson, a microbiologist who knows human anatomy in the way only a microbiologist can. Look, we were puzzled by that too. Join us to find out all about the mind-bending sex of the world of microbiology. Oh! And don't forget, the mutant strain of COVID that will change everything.

Join Natasha and Damien for mile-high antics, Big Momma's House 2 and characters who are truly defined by their job in this parade of provocative pathogens.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 😷😷

Damien: 😷😷

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 😷😷😷😷

Damien: 😷😷😷😷

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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We promised erotica and after a bumpy start, in Episode 2 Natasha and Damien break down Kissing the Coronavirus. Join us for waterslides, hotdogs and a cavalcade of fun park analogies as we find out how COVID can get steamy.

Rating out of five masks:

Natasha: 😷😷😷

Damien: 😷😷😷 (and a half)

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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Here we are thinking this whole thing will be a slew of bad erotica, and the first title we pull out of the hat is an alt-right COVID thriller. Yes your eyes don't deceive you, we're about to see how a right-wing conspiracy theorist writes a character with an arts degree. Major content warnings, this dude is racist, sexist, homophobic and never learnt the principles of 'show don't tell'.

Do you have questions, comments or want to share your thoughts on what we're reading? Email us at lowbrowlowdown@gmail.com.

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Season 1 is all about pandemic prose, the self-published literature of coronavirus.

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Little Monsters (2019) is the hilarious zombie-romance starring Lupita Nyong'o, Alexander England and Josh Gad. This is absolutely a romantic comedy that features the walking dead, and not the other way around.

In the season finale of Camp, Scary and Squee, Damien O'Meara (@damoo_la) is joined by his friend David Micallef (@saysdavid) and the world realises that we both just watch films for the man candy...

• Follow Dave on Twitter and hear about his PhD studies:@saysdavid
• Follow the Melbourne Queer Film Festival on Twitter: @MQFF

Follow Camp, Scary and Squee on Instagram and Twitter: @campscarypod.

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Gremlins 2: Here they grow again (1990) might not be the comedy-horror sequel to break the mould, bit it certainly was the one to become a cult-classic. Where else can you see the high-camp of hundreds of gremlins singing New York, New York?

Damien (@damoo_la) and his mate Chris (@sumo_21) talk about the film that dared to parody Trump before SNL and the problematic nature of the 90s. Perhaps we realise that Gremlins 2 was more prescient than we thought as we compare it to our own experiences on the corporate laddr

• Follow Chris on Instagram for some of the most striking and beautiful photography you've every seen: @sumo_21

Movies mentioned in this episode:

• The Burbs
• Gremlins

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Anjelica Huston and Christina Ricci shine as camp icons in The Addams Family (1991), one of the great camp horrors.

Damien (@damoo_la) and his wonderful friend Ellen talk about appreciation of the affectation and exaggeration of high-camp in spooky movies.

• Follow Ellen on Instagram: @elenfae
• Follow Ellen on Twitter: @elenfae

Movies mentioned in this episode:

• The Addams Family Values
• Beetlejuice
• Edward Scissorhands
• Men in Black
• Wild Wild West
• Sister Act
• Hairspray

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When it comes to zombie horror, I'm often a purist for the shuffle zombie over the sprinting zombie. But Sang-ho Yeong's Korean horror, Train to Busan (2016) might just be the exception to the rule. This film knows how to keep the pace going, engage with the human condition and keep the the walking dead as a consistent and frightening threat.

Damien O'Meara is joined by horror aficionado, Daniel Clarke to talk about the incredible Train to Busan (2016).

• Follow Daniel on Instagram: @abrewtifulboy
• Daniel highly recommends our podcast friends at Wonderfully Done.

Movies, television shows and books named in this episode:

• Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide
• Oldboy (2003)
• #Alive (2020)
• Peninsula (2020)
• Kingdom (2019 - current)
• Lovecraft Country (2020)

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Damien is joined by his friend Nyari to find out why she thinks the horror-comedy film, Teeth (2007) is a film everyone should see. Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein and starring Jess Weixler, John Hensley and Lenny von Dohlen, this film poses the question: What if vagina's evolved to have teeth?

Think about how the world would change. How cultural ideas of power would change. But right at the end, Nyari makes a point that brings it all into perspective.

Movies and television shows named in this episode:

• Teeth (2007)
• The Incredibles (2004)

Content note: This episode includes discussion of rape and sexual violence.

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Halloween (1978) is a horror film that follows the rules with the unstoppable Michael Myers. Perhaps more accurately, this American classic starring Jamie Lee Curtis is a scary movie that sets the rules. And these unwritten rules of the horror genre are something filmmakers and audiences alike are still trying to shake more than 40 years later!

Camp, Scary and Squee goes international when Damien (@damoo_la) is joined by his old friend Frazer, all the way from Scotland to talk about how much they love Halloween (1978).

Movies and television shows named in this episode:

• Halloween (1978)
• Halloween 2 (1981)
• Halloween (2018)
• Jaws (1975)
• Alien (1979)
• The Terminator (1984)
• Hostel (2005)
• Saw (2004)
• Scream (1996)

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Damien O'Meara is joined by Horror Maven, Lisa Rufus to talk all about Host (2020). This is going to ruin Zoom meetings for work on Monday.

While 2020 has delivered its fair share of crappy times, Director, Rob Savage found a great opportunity, a 56 minute long horror movie, filmed over Zoom... Host (2020) is a beacon of innovation and terror that we needed to survive this bleak excuse for a year.

• Find out more about Lisa Rufus on her website.
• Follow Lisa on Instagram and Twitter: @ThatBlogChick.
• Lisa has contributed to a book that you can pre-order: Hannibal for Dinner.

Movies and television shows named in this episode:

• Evil Dead (1981)
• Jaws (1975)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• Creep (2014)
• Chronicle (2012)
• Searching (2018)
• The Den (aka Hacked) (2013)
• Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
• The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

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You know that feeling when you love a movie, and you find out your friend has never seen it? The level of anxiety and anticipation as you get them to watch it for the first time, praying that they love it.

Well, Link has never seen Scream (1996)! And continuing our theme of love letters to the horror genre, it seemed like the perfect film to introduce him to the genre. Will he love it? Or will I be bitterly disappointed?

Damien O'Meara is joined by Lincoln Law to find out if Scream (1996) really is that good, or perhaps teenage Damo has blinded grown-up Damo to what this really is. Does it hold up?

You can hear more fabulous quips from Link on Twitter: @Link_Law.

Podcast Mascot Stella the Staffy makes a noisy appearance towards the end.

Movies and television shows named in this episode:

• Psycho (1960)
• The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
• Halloween (1978)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• Scream (1996)
• I know What you Did Last Summer (1997)
• Final Destination (2000)
• Scary Movie (2000)
• Scooby Doo (2002)
• Tenet (2020)

Follow Camp, Scary and Squee on Instagram and Twitter: @campscarypod.

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This is the horror fan's horror movie, because it's a love letter to and a critique of the genre. Does that make it good though? Well that's the question, because this is a genre ripe with people who say that if it doesn't follow the rules, then it's just not cricket... I mean horror.

Damien is joined by the always insightful Dave to talk all about The Cabin in the Woods (2011). Because when it comes to horror, we want to see the most self-aware, self-referential, up it's own ass horror movie - and you know what.. we love it!

Check out Dave's podcast, the Brewery Street Playground.

Movies and television shows named in this episode:

• The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Evil Dead (1981)
• Doll House (2009-2010)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
• Cloverfield (2008)
• Ringu (1998)

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"Admit it, Buffy. Aren't there times when you just feel... less than fresh?"

Were you ever obsessed by a movie when you were a teenager? We were. But is all that nostalgia clouding our vision of this camp-horror classic? And was it really as good as we remember?

Damien is joined by fabulous friend, Emma to talk all about Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). And these two Aussies try to unpick if this movie gave them unrealistic expectations about life as an American high-schooler, cheerleading and the role of handkerchiefs in dramatic death scenes. Most importantly, Sarah Michelle Gellar will always be Buffy Summers.

Movies and television shows named in this episode:

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

Note: It turns out that setting up a home studio for a podcast is a journey. This episode is Day 1 of that journey and I promise it gets better.

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