This week on The ALTER Tapes, Bobby and Joe go on a date with Clement Jochem's 'It's Not About Fear' (2023). We're talking about surviving trauma, great creature design, and emotionally investing too much in fictitious characters.

Premise: Having invited a date over for dinner, James struggles to hide from her the monster that has been haunting him for weeks.

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> Bobby: @BobbyTorrez / @People_Scares

> Joe: @bstolemyremote / @HorrorQueers

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This week on The ALTER Tapes, Nichole and Joe discuss Lola Blanc's 'Pruning' (2023), suburban Karens, the Right's inability to debate, why the short needs to be on-the-nose and how it has a lot more going on than its detractors give it credit for.

Premise: When a far-right political commentator discovers she has inspired a mass shooting, she must contend with her conscience - by any means necessary.

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> Nichole: @BodiesHorror

> Joe: @bstolemyremote / @HorrorQueers

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This week on The ALTER Tapes, Jamie and Nicole discuss Astrid Thorvaldsen’s short ‘Who Goes There?’ (2020). What would you do to heal your sister? Is trusting a stranger worth the risk? The only way to find out is to invite him in.

Premise: Minnesota 1880: The trust of three Norwegian sisters is tested when a stranger appears on their prairie. When the eldest invites him in to heal her dying sister, she doesn’t realize that a supernatural force is crossing her threshold.

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> Jamie: @glitterburrito / @bloodybroadpod

> Nichole: @bodiesofhorror

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