I enjoy a handful of horror podcasts and The Pod and the Pendulum is certainly one of them. It’s cool that they go through entire franchises from start to finish covering the good, the bad and the ugly. The hosts clearly do a good amount of research in preparation for the episodes which is appreciated and their love of cinema shines through. The only thing about the podcast that rubs me the wrong way is the social justice warrior, progressive, anti-capitalism stuff that creeps through a little bit at times and in much greater amounts other times. I was excited to listen to the Alien episode (which was generally great) but the amount of seemingly liberal or left wing opinion politics that were injected into it were a downer for me and kinda took me out of the listening experience. It’s their podcast and they can say whatever they want but it’s just not what I want to hear during a horror podcast. Overall, I enjoy the podcast and would recommend it to horror fans looking for deep dives into the films they love. I just wish they’d keep the political opinion commentary out of it. 4/5 stars.
