Episodes
We’re all ready to catalogue a gaudy estate this week with GIRLS SCHOOL SCREAMERS! Is it a slasher? Is it a ghost story? Unclear! Seven students (college or high school?) are tasked with taking stock of the estate of the recently deceased Tyler Welles where 40+ years earlier his niece died from a tragic fall - OR WAS SHE PUSHED!? She was. Anyway, there’s some cool effects and everybody tries their best, its definitely entertaining! Yes it is I, Jennifer!
Published 09/09/22
Crop tops! Werewolf! A biker gang! Crop tops! Kato Kaelin’s mullet! Crop tops! This week we’re talking about Randolph Cohlan’s NIGHT SHADOW!!! This werewolf outing stars Brenda Vance as a young, successful anchor woman who returns to her small hometown in hopes of getting some R&R and hanging out with her crop-top-loving, himbo brother played by Stuart Quan. Unfortunately for them, they find themselves dealing with a series of mysterious murders! This movie is definitely wacky and feels...
Published 08/26/22
Audio improves at 06:20 when we realize the A/C was on! We’ve slithered our way back this week as we talk about 1976 snake movie RATTLERS!!! A herpetologist and a former war photographer are tasked with figuring out why these snakes keep killing people and I guess they kind of do? There’s like 3 movies here that they’re trying to make and none of them are particularly successful, social commentary that is muddied and unsure of its own messaging and most importantly, a ‘falling-in-love’ in Las...
Published 08/12/22
WARNING: SPOILERS!!! We saw Jordan Peele’s NOPE, we loved NOPE and if you can believe it, now we’re talking about NOPE(on the podcast)! Suuuuuunglllllllaaaaassssesssssssssss aaaaat night!
Published 07/29/22
From the mean streets of Halifax to the wilds of New Jersey, this week we’re talking about SOV gore-fest CANNIBAL CAMPOUT!!! Two couples head into the woods for some camping and cross paths with a trio of cannibalistic brothers, it does not end well for them! There’s lots of fun effects, synth music and one heck of an audacious ending. We were split on this one! Its a small, small, small, small world!
Published 07/08/22
We’re back, but Christopher’s voice isn’t! This week we’re talking/croaking about SIEGE aka SELF DEFENSE!!! When a gang of fascist cops attack a gay bar in Halifax and execute the patrons, the sole survivor escapes to a nearby apartment building where the residents hunker down and kill some fascists! There’s violence, characters you root for and it’s awesome!
Published 07/01/22
Hello! We fully intended to have an episode out this week, but I’ve contracted some sort of laryngitis and lost my voice. Feel free to laugh at my very funny Kathleen-Turner-on-a-bender sounding vocals explaining! Sorry and we’ll 100% have an episode out next week, voice or no voice!
Published 06/23/22
From the Bayou to the Mountains this week talking 1985 snowy slasher BLOOD TRACKS!!! A hair band, some models, a famous actress and some crew heads into the mountains to shoot a music video where they happen upon a family that’s been hiding out in this factory for 40 years(maybe)! There’s a million characters and they’re all incredibly dumb, like… really dumb. This whole movie is basically just a meat grinder. Anyway, it’s still pretty fun and has at least one cool death. So, there’s that!...
Published 06/10/22
We’re headed into the Bay-AWOOO (because, werewolves.) this week and talking about the 1972 werewolf made-for-TV movie, MOON OF THE WOLF!!! When a young woman is found dead with bite marks, it’s up to the Sheriff to determine which of these small-town folks is responsible. Is it the Doctor? The Socialite? Overall, this is a fun little movie with some commentary on classism, apparently only two French-speaking citizens in this Louisiana town and some fun throwback The Wolfman-style effects....
Published 05/27/22
Our Aquanet is locked and loaded this week as we dip into MAY-de For TV movies with I SAW WHAT YOU DID! From Fred Walton, the director of When a Stranger Calls, and starring genre icon Shawnee Smith alongside Tammy Lauren and Robert Carradine; I Saw What You Did is a timeless tale of two new friends who prank call a man who happens to have just murdered his ex-girlfriend while in the throes of a psychotic break. It’s great! JUSTICE FOR MEREDITH!
Published 05/13/22
We’re rising from the depths this week to talk about seminal 1976 slasher REDEEMER: SON OF SATAN!!! Six high school friends head to their 10-year reunion, only to be murdered one-by-one for their sinful lifestyles. What kind of sinful lifestyles? There’s a Lesbian, a gay-coded vain actor, a woman who wears makeup(and should’ve lived), a skeezy attorney, a woman who married rich and an a*****e! It feels like two movies mashed together that largely doesn’t make sense. JUSTICE FOR CINDY!
Published 04/29/22
Do you hear that buzzing in the air? It could only be PROJECT: NIGHTMARE!!! This is a weird one, one of our weirdest. Two men find themselves lost and pursued by an unseen force and soon things start disappearing, they have cabbage for dinner, a sentient computer that’s trapping people in a program designed to make their thoughts corporeal and a giant digital talking head! It’s wild! Must’ve been the wind!
Published 04/15/22
Prepare to head to the 1970’s this week for the first time in a while as we talk about Frederick R. Friedel’s AXE aka LISA, LISA aka CALIFORNIA AXE MASSACRE!!! Axe stars Leslie Lee as Lisa, a girl who lives in a farmhouse alone with her catatonic grandfather, but when three on-the-run murderers take them captive Lisa kills the heck out of them! It’s a very short, not-super-great-but-very-entertaining Grindhouse-y outing! Wisecracker!
Published 04/01/22
We’re back in the Emerald Isles this week for our fifth annual Leprechaun instalment LEPRECHAUN 5: IN THE HOOD!!! Written by Doug Hall and directed by Rob Spera this time around, Warwick Davis once again carries a movie on his back alongside Anthony Montgomery, Rashaan Nall and Red Grant as a trio of friends with dreams of making it big and decide to rob Ice-T in order to steal his magic flute. It’s pretty joyless, Warwick is criminally under-utilized, there’s very strange pacing issues and...
Published 03/18/22
WARNING: WE DISCUSS SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THIS EPISODE!! We wrap up Findlaybruary this week with the brutal, X-Rated TENEMENT!!! After the residents of a Bronx tenement building have the gang that’s squatting in the basement arrested, the gang returns to seek revenge - but these tenants fight back, hard! There’s an abundance of violence, imperfect heroes with substance to root for, kids with great ideas and lots of blood! Everything that was lacking in the other Findlay movies we’ve discussed...
Published 03/04/22
A*****e fiancees, little ghost girls and pizza gunge! This week we’re talking Roberta Findlay’s LURKERS!!! Once again starring Christine Moore, Lurkers follows a similar trajectory with evil villains who face absolutely no push-back in achieving their goals. When Cathy was a child she saw visions of ‘Lurkers’ coming out of the walls and haunting her - then her Mom killed her Dad and tried to kill her! Ahhh! Thirteen years later she’s engaged and a successful cellist when she starts to see the...
Published 02/18/22
Findlaybruary continues this week with PRIME EVIL!!! Starring Christine Moore, Amy Brentano (Who is absolutely a gem in this), Ruth Collins and Mavis Harris, Prime Evil is all about Alexandra as the mysterious Father Thomas grooms her to be her grandfather’s human sacrifice for the Winter Solstice, this movie is very, very disjointed with huge amounts of plot happening off screen and only told through exposition. The villains face absolutely no roadblocks or conflict until the climax and...
Published 02/11/22
We’re back with another sorority slasher this week as we kick off Findlaybruary with BLOOD SISTERS! Written and Directed by Roberta Findlay, Blood Sisters is about a sorority initiation that goes awry when a night at an old brothel leads to spectral encounters and MUUUURDER!? It has some interesting elements that it seems to abandon for a more run-of-the-mill slasher, but overall still very enjoyable! SOMEONE STOLE MY WATCH!!! 
Published 02/04/22
We’re back and we’re more silent and mad than ever! This week we’re talking 1984 3-D slasher SILENT MADNESS!!! This slasher stars Belinda Montgomery as Dr. Joan Gilmore, a committed and idealistic psychologist from Brooklyn who discovers that her hospital has accidentally released a notorious mass murderer (or have they?) and travels to a small women’s college with hopes of finding him and saving the Sorority Sisters living where the murders occurred. We’ve got some genre icons in this one...
Published 01/21/22
It’s that time of year again, in that it’s time for a New Year and SLASHER ONE-AND-DONES(THE ONES WE’VE DONE)!!! Continuing our tradition of brackets on brackets, this year we’ve pitted slasher movies without sequels(that we’ve covered on the podcast) against each other to determine which one is our favourite from Blood Lake to Bay of Blood and Blood Rage! As always, this is just for fun - and just our opinion! Happy New Year!
Published 12/31/21
Christmas and also Prom is in the air today as we celebrate the holidays with a movie that features snow, catholicism and has at least one scene with Christmas lights, PROM NIGHT IV: DELIVER US FROM EVIL!!! This fourth instalment is really its own thing; this time around it’s Directed by Clay Borris and stars Nicole deBoer, Joy Tanner, J.H. Whyman and Alle Ghadban as two couples headed to a mansion for a Prom Night of sex and terrible furniture. Prom Night IV is a great standalone slasher...
Published 12/17/21
We’re off to the Rocky Mountains this week as we talk Jim Makichuk’s atmospheric Canadian snowmobile horror GHOSTKEEPER!!! Featuring one of the most insidious a*****e boyfriends we’ve ever seen, Ghostkeeper is about three pals who end up at a defunct lodge in a blizzard where the mysterious caretaker is also the guardian of an ancient creature! Despite its production problems, this movie is an atmospheric and contained movie that is very enjoyable and kooky. How can the mountains be dangerous...
Published 12/03/21
The aliens have landed this week as we talk about Larry Thomas’ MUTILATIONS!!! A group of students, their professor and his compadre venture out to search for a crashed meteor but find themselves targeted by cow-mutilating, human-eating ALIENS! This is an interesting one, its reminiscent of 50’s B-movies and has good cinematography and death effects… but there’s no denying this is a very silly movie that barely has any plot - but with a runtime of just over an hour, it’s very charming! How’s...
Published 11/26/21
We’ve wrapped ourselves in plastic and hidden our cat this week as we talk about Nathan J. White’s THE CARRIER!!! In a sleepy little town, the downtrodden Jake is attacked by a mysterious black thing that imbues him with a strange ability; if he touches an object, it becomes cursed and dissolves whoever touches it. It’s a fantastic movie with lots of interesting story and unique plot that was obviously very thoroughly planned. We love it! We don’t have friends out here either, so what the...
Published 11/12/21
Happy Halloween! We finish off our run of themed features with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers! Resurrecting our masked embodiment of evil this time around are writer Alan B. McElroy and director Dwight H. Little with Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris and Ellie Cornell. This is an enjoyable but relatively middle-of-the-road entry to the franchise with a good cast and does a decent job at creating atmosphere!
Published 10/29/21