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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean the Andromedans aren't after you. Chad and Marc give a brief Stranger Things wrap up before disenta...
For Halloween, we always like to do something a little special, and this year we decided to ask some of our fellow fiends (Meg Elison, Joshu...
28 Years Later (2025) seems to have divided fans of the franchise. The original film raged into theaters with an absolutely fresh take on th...
Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025) is the sixth installment in a (mostly) beloved franchise of fright films. Fans consider it one of the b...
Companion (2025) comes to us at a great time in our culture's history. As of this writing, AI hucksters are incinerating the planet so anyon...
In this episode, we sink our yellowed fangs into Nosferatu (2024). It's one of our best conversations in a while. Likely due to our occult p...
The Substance (2024) is a nearly perfect example of what we like in movies. It's dripping with weighty ideas about bodies and power's putrid...
David Fincher's first film, Alien 3 (1992), is a notorious example of studio meddlers clashing with an auteur-minded director, leaving a fra...
Alien$ made an enormous amount of money because James Cameron asked "What if there were a lot of aliens?" and "What if there were a ton of m...
Behold! In part two of our conversation about Alien (1979), we get more into speculative territory about UFO sightings, how a trillion dolla...
Alien (1979) is a perfect movie. Which is why there is an entire Weyland-Yutani freighter worth of commentary about it. In this, our first e...
Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) is responsible for dozens of film studies books and an inexhaustible number of undergrad student theses–and n...
Chad and Marc return from the prison of their career commitments to the nihilist hellscape of Amazon Prime's dystopic series Fallout Marc is...
Clueless (1995) is one of those films that almost everyone has a soft spot for. It defined a time and place, riffed on a classic, upholds pr...
When faced with the recent dreary Christmas horror offerings of the past year or two, we felt nothing but apathy. Which is a terrible positi...
It's been a while—but fear not—we have returned, just in time for Halloween! This episode covers 10 loosey-goosey horror themes that we've b...
Andy Weir's novel The Martian (2011) is top-shelf hard sci-fi for nerds who love space and MacGyver situations. Just four years after (offic...
The Craft (1996) is a beloved teen witch movie that helped define the 90s mall goth experience. It also made supporting actress Fairuza Balk...
This episode we talk with our comrade Alexander Herbert about his great new book, Fear Before the Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Unio...
Hear Chad and Marc tackle the monolithic drones of metal duo Sunn O))). They discuss witchery and ritual, gear and sculpture, fandom and inf...
Nick "The Tooth" Gullo is a 2x IBJJF Jiu Jitsu Black Belt world champion, co-host of the Infinite Worlds podcast, a writer, lawyer, world tr...
Halloween Ends (2022) is Blumhouse's last shot at making that Michael Meyers money. But rather than do more of what sort of works, they intr...
Our first DOUBLE FEATURE episode covers Jack Hill's Spider Baby (1967) and Rob Zombie's The Munsters (2022). Why these films together? Well,...
Drag legend and horror icon Peaches Christ (Joshua Grannell) is back for a fourth episode. This time we're exploring the spooky secrets of T...
Dan Trachtenberg's 2022 Predator offering, Prey , is one of the better films in the franchise. If you're a truly misguided soul, (like Marc)...
Karyn Kusama's 2009 film Jennifer's Body, is finding an audience thanks to a mix of #metoo reckoning, queer analysis, oughts nostalgia, and...
The second half of Stranger Things 4 was fun. Even Argyle and Lucas managed to have great moments. In this episode we talk about why this se...
We started our show talking about the first season of Stranger Things , so we are compelled to continue. Thankfully for everyone, the end is...
The Evil Dead (1981) and Evil Dead 2 (1987) are both unimpeachable classics of horror comedy. After our longest hiatus, we delve into the cu...
We started Scary Thoughts back in 2016. The years since have been–eventful. This episode rambles hard as we attempt to answer the question,...
Let us help you slide into this not-quite-new not-quite-normal-not-quite-post-pandemic with some answers to your questions. You asked about...
Julia Ducornau's Titane (2021) features a lot of dancing and gender theory. So who better to have as a guest than Monique Jenkinson, AKA Fau...
Don't Look Up came out on Netflix just in time to brighten everyone's 2021 holidays. The director, Adam McKay, is one of the most successful...
Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021) isn't horror. But this episode was requested by quite a few people, and we aim to please. We discuss this ver...
Halloween Kills (2021) is Blumhouse's second film in what will undoubtedly, and unfortunately, be an ongoing series. Like many entries in th...
James Wan's Malignant (2021) is a lot of things. Giallo homage. Action film. 90s horror. But even when it feels familiar, it delivers some g...
Grady Hendrix's Final Girl Support Group (2021) is a love letter to the golden age of slasher movies. This episode is essentially a love let...
In this episode we take a look at Halloween (2018), the third film of the same title, in the same franchise. Yes folks, this is the age of t...
Bo Burnham's Inside (2021) is one of the most unique things you'll see on Netflix. It's an angsty and existential one-man musical comedy abo...
This episode we cover the 1997 sci-fi horror film Event Horizon—with deep digressions into the nature of reality, L. Ron Hubbard, QAnon, mar...
Dungeon Synth is as obscure as it gets for music genres, but it might be everywhere soon. We explore the fetid foundations and eldritch evol...
This episode follows a long and unplanned break caused by a plethora of personal calamities (spoiler: Chad got The 'Rona). Rather than focus...
Back in October of 2020 we hosted an online screening of the 2020 indie sci-fi film, The Vast of Night. The event was put together by Fulcru...
The Purge franchise's first film was released in 2013. There are now four flicks, two seasons of a TV series, and a host of questionable fan...
Jordan Peele is an important Black filmmaker and a horror nerd's horror nerd. His 2019 film Us is packed full of references to obscure class...
Glenn Danzig's Verotika (2019) is a failure. But has it failed in an interesting way? That all depends on how much you like boobs. In this e...
Gather 'round boils and ghouls, it's our annual Halloween episode! This year we're covering It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966). Sh...
Writer Michelle Tea, writer Meg Elison, and composer Lawrence English join us for a trio of COVID-19-era conversations. We ask them each, "I...
Rick and Morty is one of those shows people love making video essays about. It's smart, it uses philosophical ideas to deliver dick and fart...
Shudder's Zoom-based film Host (2020) is the belle of the COVID-19-horror-film ball. This fun and imaginative movie is a great way to spend...