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Forgotten Fiction is a show about books, films, TV and other cultural artifacts that have gone overlooked or underrated. Hosted by Paris Brown and Tommy Brown (some relation) each episode digs up pieces of media that have been lost to time and makes the case for why they matter. From obscure horror paperbacks to childhood classics to the lesser known films of directors you already love, if it's been forgotten, we're remembering it.New episodes every Tuesday.Send your forgotten fiction to ForgottenFictionPod@gmail.com
Unknown Host hosts Forgotten Fiction, a society show with 14 episodes published.
Paris brings the only franchise in American horror where every entry is written and directed by women. The Slumber Party Massacre came out in 1982 and was originally written as a parody of the slasher genre by feminist a
Paris brings the film that started it all for Mike Flanagan. In 2011, a struggling video editor living on the outskirts of Hollywood raised $23,000 on Kickstarter and made his last independent feature film. He said so hi
Paris brings the gothic soap opera that invented the sympathetic vampire. Dark Shadows ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971, attracted nearly 9 million daily viewers at its peak, and was condemned by evangelist Jack Chick as Sat
Paris brings the funniest TV show that never aired. In 1999, Ben Stiller, a then-unknown Jack Black, and a brand new writer named Dan Harmon made a pilot about an astronaut whose brain expanded after flying too close to
Paris brings the book that invented the modern zombie before zombies existed. Richard Matheson published I Am Legend in 1954. George Romero called it his primary inspiration for Night of the Living Dead. Three film adapt
Paris brings the series that drew up the blueprint. Rod Serling came home from World War II with a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, and something to say. The Twilight Zone ran from 1959 to 1964, introduced a forgotten episod
Paris brings a vampire Western that got buried by Lost Boys two months before it hit theaters. Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 debut featured forty night shoots, a cast pulled straight from Aliens and Bill Paxton as a hitchhiking
Paris brings a Stephen King original. Not an adaptation. An original screenplay King had been sitting on since 1966 about a small island cut off by a blizzard and a stranger named Andre Linoge who knows everyone's darkes
Paris brings a 2015 found photography horror film. An entire Arizona border town of 57 people is killed or disappears overnight. The only survivor is an undocumented Mexican immigrant covered in blood. The only evidence
Paris brings the movie that almost ended Guillermo del Toro's career. Mimic. 1997. Bugs genetically engineered to save New York City evolve to mimic humans. A great concept challenged by the Weinsteins. Bob Weinstein bar
Paris brings a show NBC didn't know what to do with. Eerie, Indiana aired in 1991, ran 19 episodes, and disappeared. A 13 year old moves from New Jersey to the strangest town in America and spends one season investigatin
Paris brings a 1989 film that almost nobody has seen and yet somehow Tommy has. Riverbend follows a Black Vietnam veteran and his men who hide out in a Georgia town being terrorized by a racist sheriff and decide to figh
Paris brings Tommy a Stephen King adaptation some constant readers haven't even seen, The Dark Half, directed by George A. Romero in 1993. Two horror legends. One forgotten film. Then Tommy brings a book his daughter Ell
Before Blue Ruin. Before Green Room. Before anyone knew who Jeremy Saulnier was, he made a micro-budget horror comedy in Brooklyn with his friends about a lonely meter maid who finds a Halloween party invitation on the s
The show that kept a generation of kids up at night sits next to the 1819 novella that invented the modern vampire. Tommy makes the case for John Polidori, Lord Byron's personal physician, who wrote the first aristocrati
Paris and Tommy kick off Forgotten Fiction the way they do everything... by ignoring the plan. What was supposed to be a simple introduction turns into a deep dive on Tim Curry playing in a forgotten Tales from the Crypt
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