Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 324 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues his New Year, New Movie with Episode 24. I saw Primate (2025), which is getting wide released this year. The randomizer selected Screams in the Night (1981). This double feature has similar themes of corrupted domestication and the ‘returnin...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 323 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., rings in 2026 by officially starting his New Year, New Movie segment. This marks number 23. The randomizer selected The Initiation (1984) and I’m pairing it with We Bury the Dead (2025). This double feature uses the concept of trapped protagonists, fa...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 322 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., celebrates the start of a new calendar year by recapping his top horror films of 2025. It will be the Top 100, Honorable Mentions and Bottom 10. I also got to see these films for Mini-Reviews: V/H/S/Halloween (2025), Cannibal Mukbang (2023), Keeper (2...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 25 of JwaC Presents Depp Dive: A Depper Look into Johnny’s Feature Filmography. Your host David Garrett Jr. is joined by his Co-Captain and wife, Jaime. For this episode, our first film was one that neither of us had seen before in Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016). This is a comedic take from Funny or Die. Then the second film is Alice Thr...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 321 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues with his Winter/Year End Round, number 30. This double feature is playing with Christmas and New Year’s. First I checked out The Carpenter’s Son (2025) and I’m pairing that up with Bloody New Year (1987). I also got to see these films for Mi...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 24 of JwaC Presents Depp Dive: A Depper Look into Johnny’s Feature Filmography. Your host David Garrett Jr. is joined by his Co-Captain and wife, Jaime. For this episode, our first film is one that David saw in the theater which is Black Mass (2015). This is a biopic about a real gangster from South Boston. We are then pairing this up with the Kevin Smith hor...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 320 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues with his Winter/Year End Round, number 29. This double feature goes farther as a Christmas double feature. First I checked out Hosts (2020) and paired this with Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025). I also got to see these films for Mini-Review...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 319 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues with his Winter/Year End Round, number 28. This double feature has a retro feel. First I checked out Night of the Reaper (2025) and paired it with The Chill Factor (1993). Where the first is new, it is a period piece of the 1980s, using VHS...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 318 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues with his Winter/Year End Round, number 27. This double feature has brutal elements. First from Japan is Liverleaf (2018). That will be paired with 2025’s Match. Both have revenge in different ways. I also got to see these films for Mini-Revi...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 317 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., moves into the holiday season. This is the first Winter/Year End Round, my 26th episode. This double feature has two films set in isolated locations. First is 2025’s Keeper. I’m pairing it with the low budget creature feature, Winterbeast (1992). I al...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 23 of JwaC Presents Depp Dive: A Depper Look into Johnny’s Feature Filmography. Your host David Garrett Jr. is joined by his Co-Captain and wife, Jaime. For this episode, this is the first time for both of us on both movies. First is a mash-up of fairy tales in Into the Woods (2014), where Johnny has a smaller role as The Big Bad Wolf. We’re pairing that with...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 316 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., celebrates his last Italian Horror Month episode for the season. This double feature is the most popular Italian horror film that I’ve not seen, Shock (1977), and pairing it with the highest rated, The Forbidden Room (1977). I also got to see these fi...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 315 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues with Italian Horror Month. This is a Mario Bava Double Feature. First I checked out Planet of the Vampires (1965). I paired this up with the odd The House of Exorcism (1975). This makes for a surreal double feature. I also got to see these f...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 314 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues with Italian Horror Month. This is a Lucio Fulci Double Feature. First I checked out Aenigma (1987) and Dracula in the Provinces (1975). Doesn’t make for the greatest combo, but here we are. I also got to see these films for Mini-Reviews: Bl...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 313 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., moves into season 6 and Italian Horror Month. I knocked off the final Dario Argento film, Masters of Horror: Jenifer (2005). I’m then pairing this with an Umberto Lenzi giallo, Eyeball (1975). I also got to see these films for Mini-Reviews: Horror Cas...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 312 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., celebrates Halloween with the last episode of Season 5. For the two Featured Reviews, I saw V/H/S/Halloween (2025) at Nightmares Film Festival, so I decided to push it for this episode. I’m pairing it up with the Mexican film, Cemetery of Terror (1985...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 311 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., got the chance to attend the tenth year of Nightmares Film Festival. I watched 14 films that will be reviewed here. I also got to see these films for Mini-Reviews: Severed (2005), The Blackening (2022), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Most...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 310 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., will celebrate this milestone episode with a list of ranking the films from 1935, worst to first. I also give what information I could find on the lost films and my stats for the year. I also got to see these films for Mini-Reviews: Embrace of the Vam...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 22 of JwaC Presents Depp Dive: A Depper Look into Johnny’s Feature Filmography. Your host David Garrett Jr. is joined by his Co-Captain and wife, Jaime. For this episode, we're starting with a first time watch for both of us where David has seen the second film. First is Lucky Them (2013), where Johnny has a small cameo. The other is a sci-fi film that ex...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 309 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., will continue with Voyage through the FiVes for episode number 24. My featured reviews are Zombies on Broadway (1945) and Good Boy (2025). What we get here are innocent characters, going to a dangerous place and doing what they can to survive. I also...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 308 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., will continue with Voyage through the FiVes for episode number 23. My featured reviews are HIM (2025) and Dead of Night (1945). The best I can say here as the common theme is people happening to things that are unexplained or supernatural. I also got...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 307 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., will continue with Voyage through the FiVes for episode number 22. My featured reviews are The Jungle Captive (1945) and pairing it with The Long Walk (2025). We have two experiments, one a literal and the other a social one, both run by mad men. I al...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 21 of JwaC Presents Depp Dive: A Depper Look into Johnny’s Feature Filmography. Your host David Garrett Jr. is joined by his Co-Captain and wife, Jaime. For this episode, this has us both seeing one of the films and a first time watch for the other. We’ve both seen Dark Shadows (2012). Jaime thought she saw The Lone Ranger (2013), but she had it mixed with an...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 306 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., will continue with Voyage through the FiVes for episode number 21. My featured reviews are The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) and Dante’s Inferno (1935). This is a double feature that features people making decisions for their best interests that have e...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 305 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., will continue with Voyage through the FiVes for episode number 20. My featured reviews are Angkor (1935) and Until Dawn (2025). We have a double feature featuring people going on a trip and getting more than they bargained for. I also got to see these...