Presenting The Juniors: An Imagine Fantastic Film Festival Podcast which will dive into the world of fantastic media, behind the scenes titbits and controversial film opinions. Hosted by the junior programmers, Seth Verhaart (⁠⁠⁠@sethverhaart⁠⁠⁠) & Elina Meinerte (⁠⁠⁠@eliina.mein⁠⁠⁠). During this episode we talk about everyone's favourite film social media platform Letterboxd. What does Letterboxd mean for the community? We also create Seth's Hooptober 12 Challenge list of films live on air! 

Timestamps: 

0:00 – Intro 

1:08 - What Did We Watch Recently? 

19:09 – A Tentacular Touch: Programme & Trailer 

20:10 – What is Letterboxd? 

23:57 – Letterboxd as a Social Media Platform 

25:00 – Uwe Boll's Delusional Letterboxd 

26:53 – Our Favourite Letterboxd Users 

28:16 – What Kind of Reviews We Like & Write 

33:15 – The Genre film Community on Letterboxd: Hooptober 

35:46 – Making Seth's Hooptober List & Discussing Elina's Hooptober List  

Elina's Hooptober List: 

The Funhouse (1981) by Tobe Hooper 

Braindead (1992) by Peter Jackson  

Night of the Dead (1968) by George A. Romero 

[REC] (2007) by Paco Plaza & Jaume Balagueró 

Prince of Darkness (1987) by John Carpenter 

Black Sheep (2006) by Jonathan King 

Noroi: The Curse (2005) by Koji Shiraishi 

Society (1989) by Brian Yuzna 

Digging Up the Marrow (2014) by Adam Green 

Martyrs (2008) by Pascal Laugier 

Psycho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock 

The Long Walk (2025) by Francis Lawrence 

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) by John Harrison 

Fear Street: 1994 (2021) by Leigh Janiak 

The Mist (2007) by Frank Darabont 

Night of the Comet (1984) by Thom Eberhardt 

Blade (1998) by Stephen Norrington 

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) by Ariane Louis-Seize 

Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979) by Grigori Kromanov 

Cat People (1942) by Jacques Tourneur 

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) by Wojciech Jerzy Has 

Frogs (1972) by George McCowan 

Onibaba (1964) by Kaneto Shindo 

All the Colors of the Dark (1972) by Sergio Martino 

Doctor X (1932) by Michael Curtiz 

The Wizard of Oz (1939) by Victor Fleming 

Seth's Hooptober List: 

Braindead (1992) by Peter Jackson 

Dawn of the Dead (1978) by George A. Romero 

Black Sheep (2006) by Jonathan King 

Versus (2000) by Ryûhei Kitamura 

Premutos: The Fallen Angel (1997) by Olaf Ittenbach 

Noroi: The Curse (2005) by Koji Shiraishi 

Martyrs (2008) by Pascal Laugier 

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) by Don Siegel 

Clown in a Cornfield (2025) by Eli Craig 

Jaws (1975) by Steven Spielberg 

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski 

A Quiet Place (2018) by John Krasinski 

The Mist (2007) by Frank Darabont 

Nope (2022) by Jordan Peele 

Tigers are Not Afraid (2017) by Issa López 

eXistenZ (1999) by David Cronenberg 

Viy (1967) by Georgi Kropyachyov & Konstantin Ershov 

The Wolf Man (1941) by George Waggner 

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) by Wes Craven 

The Birds (1963) by Alfred Hitchcock 

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) by Robert Wiene 

The Blob (1988) by Chuck Russel 

All the Colors of the Dark (1972) by Sergio Martino 

The Mummy (1932) by Karl Freund 

The Wizard of Oz (1939) by Victor Fleming 

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) by Tobe Hooper 

Black Swan (2010) by Darren Aronofsky 

Confessions (2010) by Tetsuya Nakashima 

Helter Skelter (2012) by Mika Ninagawa 

Häxan (1922) by Benjamin Christensen 

Mentioned in 'What Did We Watch Recently': 

Fear Street Trilogy (2021) by Leigh Janiak 

Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025) by Matt Palmer 

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) by David Blue Garcia 

The Grudge (2004) by Takashi Shimizu 

The Botanist (2025) by Jing Yi 

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) by Stanley Kubrick 

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Credits: 

Hosts: Seth Verhaart & Elina Meinerte 

Editor: Seth Verhaart 

Producer: Seth Verhaart 

Executive Producer: Rabia Sitabi Stigter 

Artwork: Anna Kallos 

Music: Benjamin De Murashkin - Can You Imagine (The Juniors Theme)