https://simplecast.com Cheaper than therapy. Let the healing begin. en Mon, 25 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Mon, 25 May 2026 11:00:13 +0000 https://trauma-box.simplecast.com https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/5989c37b-3593-4661-9135-beba51e3d68a/6927838d-9ac8-4332-bca0-b426e89a85ad/3000x3000/tblogo01.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://trauma-box.simplecast.com episodic Cheaper than therapy. Let the healing begin. Tyler Stevens, Shawn O'Sullivan true https://feeds.simplecast.com/Bad0Eo7G exploitation cinema,horror movies,nostalgia,retro,vhs boxes Tyler Stevens traumaboxpodcast@gmail.com 9550c006-e96e-4b30-b0e6-437054d94b62 Mon, 25 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000 traumaboxpodcast@gmail.com (Tyler Stevens) https://trauma-box.simplecast.com/episodes/004-xtro-4P9d5dv6 004: Xtro Tyler Stevens 00:54:07 The Trauma Box bites back this week with Xtro, Harry Bromley Davenport's offering from 1982, an impossibly grim and upsettingly British ode to ooze. Why do we keep watching horrific films with dead/absent fathers and animated toys? What the hell is our problem? And, more pressingly, what drugs was Harry Bromley Davenport on? The Trauma Box bites back this week with Xtro, Harry Bromley Davenport's offering from 1982, an impossibly grim and upsettingly British ode to ooze. Why do we keep watching horrific films with dead/absent fathers and animated toys? What the hell is our problem? And, more pressingly, what drugs was Harry Bromley Davenport on? true full 4 f9032931-8635-463e-9595-7ef154686909 Mon, 18 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000 traumaboxpodcast@gmail.com (Tyler Stevens, Shawn O'Sullivan) https://trauma-box.simplecast.com/episodes/making-contact-6ENGUrij 003: Making Contact Tyler Stevens, Shawn O'Sullivan 00:52:45 Once again Tyler and Shawn open up the Trauma Box to investigate one of the great sources of childhood horror: the Ventriloquist Dummy. Is there anything scarier than an evil talking puppet? With 1985's Making Contact, Roland Emmerich (yes - the director of Independence Day) answers that question in a truly chilling fashion: by presenting us with a *German* evil talking puppet. A nightmarish perversion of Spielbergian childhood wonder-terror, Making Contact will haunt you for years to come. Once again Tyler and Shawn open up the Trauma Box to investigate one of the great sources of childhood horror: the Ventriloquist Dummy. Is there anything scarier than an evil talking puppet? With 1985's Making Contact, Roland Emmerich (yes - the director of Independence Day) answers that question in a truly chilling fashion: by presenting us with a *German* evil talking puppet. A nightmarish perversion of Spielbergian childhood wonder-terror, Making Contact will haunt you for years to come. nostalgia, exploitation cinema, horror movies, retro, vhs boxes true full 3 c9881045-096d-479f-80ac-d1bb0b6fdb85 Mon, 11 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000 traumaboxpodcast@gmail.com (Tyler Stevens, Shawn O'Sullivan) https://trauma-box.simplecast.com/episodes/squirm-FM6yoggC 002: Squirm Tyler Stevens, Shawn O'Sullivan 00:46:04 This week, Tyler and Shawn writhe their way through the Trauma Box with Squirm! Jeff Lieberman's proto-Lynchian 1976 horror flick is a puzzling, downbeat musing on Georgian small-town affairs (think spaghetti-swilling sheriffs, worm farms managed by yokels, arch Southern belles, etc) that winds its way heck of a slithery payoff. Your intrepid Trauma Boxers should help this one go down as smooth as an egg cream. This week, Tyler and Shawn writhe their way through the Trauma Box with Squirm! Jeff Lieberman's proto-Lynchian 1976 horror flick is a puzzling, downbeat musing on Georgian small-town affairs (think spaghetti-swilling sheriffs, worm farms managed by yokels, arch Southern belles, etc) that winds its way heck of a slithery payoff. Your intrepid Trauma Boxers should help this one go down as smooth as an egg cream. nostalgia, exploitation cinema, horror movies, retro, vhs boxes true full 2 f759124d-d10e-4f5c-a048-a58d8f50f2f1 Fri, 3 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000 traumaboxpodcast@gmail.com (Tyler Stevens) https://trauma-box.simplecast.com/episodes/001-the-exterminator-ACv0Hc5a 001: The Exterminator Tyler Stevens 01:00:26 In our inaugural episode, Tyler and Shawn open up the TraumaBox with The Exterminator, James Glickenhaus’s 1980 opus horrificus. This grim viewing prompts us to explore post-’Nam generational trauma, Reagan-era projections of Big Apple deviancy, and our own relationships to depictions of masculinity in the Video Store of yore. In our inaugural episode, Tyler and Shawn open up the TraumaBox with The Exterminator, James Glickenhaus’s 1980 opus horrificus. This grim viewing prompts us to explore post-’Nam generational trauma, Reagan-era projections of Big Apple deviancy, and our own relationships to depictions of masculinity in the Video Store of yore. true full 1