Scary Thoughts #132 - Backrooms (Kane Parsons – 2026)
Backrooms (2026) director Kane Parsons became an auteur horror phenom through one of the strangest, but possibly increasingly common, paths...
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Scary Thoughts #131 - Obsession (Curry Barker – 2025)
Obsession (2026) is a film for anyone who's ever been unlucky in love or wished for the impossible. It's won praise as an indie horror darli...
Scary Thoughts #130 - Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett – 2026)
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) picks up minutes after where the previous, and enjoyable, installment left off. If you liked the first on...
Scary Thoughts #129 - Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos – 2025)
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...
Scary Thoughts #128 - "What was your first scary movie and what was the damage?"
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...
Scary Thoughts #127 - 28 Years Later (2025)
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...
Scary Thoughts #126 - Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)
Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025) is the sixth installment in a (mostly) beloved franchise of fright films. Fans consider it one of the b...
Scary Thoughts #125 - Companion (Drew Hancock – 2025)
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...
Scary Thoughts #124 - Nosferatu (Robert Eggers –2024)
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...
Scary Thoughts #123 - The Substance (Coralie Fargeat – 2024) with Monique Jenkinson aka Fauxnique
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...
Scary Thoughts #122 - Alien3 (David Fincher – 1992)
David Fincher's first film, Alien 3 (1992), is a notorious example of studio meddlers clashing with an auteur-minded director, leaving a fra...
Scary Thoughts #121 - Aliens (James Cameron – 1986)
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...
Scary Thoughts #120 - Alien (Ridley Scott – 1979) [part two]
Behold! In part two of our conversation about Alien (1979), we get more into speculative territory about UFO sightings, how a trillion dolla...
Scary Thoughts #119 - Alien (Ridley Scott – 1979) [part one]
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...
Scary Thoughts #118 - Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock – 1954)
Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) is responsible for dozens of film studies books and an inexhaustible number of undergrad student theses–and n...
Scary Thoughts #117 - Fallout (2024)
Chad and Marc return from the prison of their career commitments to the nihilist hellscape of Amazon Prime's dystopic series Fallout Marc is...
Scary Thoughts #116 - Clueless (1995)
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...
Scary Thoughts #115 - Rick and Morty, Season 7, Episode 10, Fear No Mort (2023)
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...
Scary Thoughts #114 - Top Ten Tropes and Grievances of 2023
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...
Scary Thoughts #113 - The Martian
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...