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Hosted by Nik & Katy Oliver · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 22 episodes
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Join English grads (and husband and wife duo) Nik Oliver, MFA and Katy Oliver, PhD as they bring a literary twist to horror movie analysis. Using the Iowa Writers' Workshop model, they discuss and critique the storytelling in beloved but flawed horror films. Then, each of them attempts to fix the movie's flaws by writing a new revised draft of the story.
Nik & Katy Oliver hosts The Devil's Workshop, a tv show with 22 episodes published.
Evil has never looked more banal than it does in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate (1999)... but in a good way! Listen as Katy goes toe-to-toe with her archnemesis, the ending of the movie, then revel as Nik tightens the t
This episode, we're just a couple of babes in toyland as we cavort with David Schmoeller's Puppet Master (1989) . Cackle with glee as Nik cranks the gore up to 11, and then goggle with delight as Katy gives this movie mo
We're headed into the underworld--that is, the world down under--as we tackle Zak Hilditch's Tasmania-bound zombie-drama, We Bury the Dead (2026) ! In a wild Uno Reverse that no one saw coming, Nik reaches for a classica
Put on your straw hats and overalls and throw away that toothbrush, folks, because we're headed to the West Virginia mountains for Rob Schmidt's Wrong Turn (2003). Listen as Katy tries to flesh out the thin as a whisper
Put on your straw hats and overalls and throw away that toothbrush, folks, because we're headed to the West Virginia mountains for Rob Schmidt's Wrong Turn (2003) . Listen as Katy tries to flesh out the thin as a whisper
We're hitting the grimy streets of late-80s New York City to investigate a very upset public servant in William Lustig's Maniac Cop (1988). Listen as both Nik and Katy play the role of good cop for a movie that misses th
This episode we crash land in flyover country to ask the question, "What if Superman sucked?" with David Yarovesky's Brightburn (2019)! Listen to Nik and Katy grab our utility belts and don our super suits to fight the r
If you thought The Wolfman wasn't self-serious and vapid enough, then boy do we have the movie for you! It's From Hell (2001)! Listen as Katy physically restrains herself from bringing up the (much better) Alan Moore com
We see and hear a lot of evil on this podcast, but we'll speak no evil about the brilliant and underappreciated Monkey Shines (1988)! Cheer as Nik cuts this badboy down to a tight 90, then put that cheer in reverse as Ka
A friend of a friend of my cousin's babysitter told me that this episode, we're covering Urban Legend (1998). Listen as we chant the name "Wes Craven" into a mirror three times, hoping a better movie will appear! Worksho
This episode we don our top hats and straitjackets as we're involuntarily committed to Joe Johnston's troubled remake, The Wolfman (2010). Werewolves are such rich fodder for metaphor and the filmmakers made perhaps the
It's back to 1941 as we climb the Carpathian mountains for Michael Mann's would-be masterpiece, The Keep (1983). Come to hear Nik read history's longest tagline - stay to hear Katy try to fix World War II. Workshop begin
We're headed back to Nik's awkward high school years for Geoffrey Wright's Cherry Falls (2000)! Listen as we do everything we can to make sure this episode - nay, this entire podcast - is never monetizable! Workshop begi
We have orders to head to an Alabama military base to witness the high speed collapse of the blended family in Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers (1993). Listen as we spend an hour gushing over what is undoubtedly the best mo
We're checking ourselves into the Swiss Alps for a dose of Gore Verbinski's visual feast, A Cure for Wellness (2016) - an appopriately timed subject not because Verbinski's next movie is out in theaters right now (Good L
We're heading back to the 80s to survive the apocalypse with Regina and Samantha Belmont in the dusty, red-tinted world of Night of the Comet (1984). Listen to us agree that there are tonal problems, and then pick a side
We're doing a postmortem on Johannes Roberts' Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021). As fans of the Capcom source material, we appreciate the 90s setting and the 1:1 recreation of the R.P.D., but as writers, we h
It's Hannibal (2001)! Workshop begins at 25:52. Revisions begin at 1:52:07. E-mail us at thedevilsworkshoppod@gmail.com. Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedevilsworkshoppod/ And Bluesky! https://bsky.app
It's The Frighteners (1996)! Workshop begins at 12:07. Revisions begin at 1:08:05. E-mail us at thedevilsworkshoppod@gmail.com. Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedevilsworkshoppod/ And Bluesky! https://b
It's Ghost Story (1981)! Workshop begins at 7:58. Revisions begin at 1:33:23. E-mail us at thedevilsworkshoppod@gmail.com. Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedevilsworkshoppod/ And Bluesky! https://bsky.a
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