Faculty of Horror · Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

Episode 136. Curse of Fack: 2024 Year in Review

January 28, 2025·1 hr 49 min·10 clips

Alex and Andrea kick off their 2024 horror review by wrestling with bloopers and debating whether to use Letterboxd or just rely on memory.

The year closes with a bit of ceremony. Alex and Andrea treat the 2024 roundup like the final period on the previous year, a chance to name what landed, what stuck around, and what they are watching for next. Dante breaks the premise right away. That small interruption fits the episode: there is structure, but it still feels like two critics talking across a room. Letterboxd turns into a pressure point. One host gets why sharp, funny reviews work there, while still pushing back on the chore of logging every reaction. The other admits memory needs backup. Audible becomes a useful archive, less a lifestyle badge than a way to remember what actually moved through the year. Then Hugh Grant takes over the table. A story about naming a famous actor starts silly and turns into the kind of Faculty of Horror detour that sneaks into criticism. The room mocked the answer. The host defends it anyway, partly out of heritage loyalty and partly because the story explains how expectations shape a later watch. That brings them to the movie argument. One host wanted Hugh Grant's character to bring sharper ideas. The other reads his shallow rhetoric as the point, not a weakness. The disagreement stays friendly. Nobody is trying to win the room. They are testing whether belief against corrosive disbelief can hold enough tension when the antagonist is limited on purpose. The analysis is blunt but careful. A foolish professor, faithful young women, and bad rhetoric become the pieces of a debate about what the film adds to a familiar online argument. Near the end, the view pulls back. Moving into their twelfth year, the podcast has grown from a rewarding hobby into a community with merchandise, Patreon support, and a stronger sense of belonging. The gratitude feels unvarnished. The episode works because the ranking show format leaves space for memory, disagreement, private jokes, and critics taking stock before the next door opens.

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A year-end horror conversation that mixes favorites, memory lapses, and banter that only longtime co-hosts can pull off.

Faculty of Horror uses its year-end slot to look back at 2024 with Alex West and Andrea Subasati, moving through favorites, what landed, and what they are hoping to hear more of next.

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