VHS Sisters

Buckle up for some good old-fashioned 80's childhood trauma nostalgia and prepare yourself for a VHS Sister milestone, because this is the first episode where we actually get in a FIGHT over a movie. Today, we are discussing the 1982 Don Bluth classic: The Secret of NIMH! This is one of Saysha's most treasured movie memories, and Melanie absolutely hated it, so instead of deep-diving int...

Listeners, it's another fresh weekly episode of VHS Sisters, and we are continuing down the Yellow Brick Road of Melanie's Memories in March and yapping at GREAT length about one of our childhood trauma watches: Return to Oz from 1985! This absolute fever dream of a movie really upset both of us on this latest rewatch, and we got to unpack our many feelings about steampunk, queerness, dr...

AHHHHHHHHH BLIX!!!! In March, we have a FRESH new theme for you called Melanie's Memories! Meaning, we'll be rewatching some of the old family favorites that we feel need a deep dive, VHS Sister style. Today, we start with a 1980's dark fantasy classic that shaped us, both physically and emotionally: Legend from 1985! We get FULLY feral in this episode and yap at length about fantas...

Listeners, we've finally done it! We've finally found a movie that made Melanie feel disgusted at the idea of romantic love! We, of course, are talking about the infamous jukebox musical from 2001, Moulin Rouge! Both Melanie and Saysha had a LOT of strong feelings about this one, and it brings up a lot of important side topics such as incel culture, the importance of universal healthcare...

OPULENCE! YOU OWN EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING IS YOURS! Listeners, we are in the full swing of LOVE month, and this week, Saysha is making Melanie watch yet another horny 90's costume drama- The Age of Innocence! Are we sensing a trend here? Is there anything more slutty than DDL in a tiny bowtie? Did Winona Ryder live this entire decade in a corset? Why was Michelle Pfeiffer robbed of an Oscar? H...

Hail and Well Met, O Listeners! In this week's episode we watch a LOVE movie that Saysha *thought* she remembered fondly, but was MOST unhappy to find it extremely lacking: Shakespeare in Love! Melanie and Saysha manage to ramble on for over an hour about this fluffy Oscar-bait comedy of errors, but mostly they talk about Bridgerton, bad men's haircuts, good boy drag, and yassified Will...

HELLOOOOOOO Sisterlovers!!! This month, Melanie got to pick the special monthly theme, which is...LOVE! For the very first LOVE selection, Saysha has decided on a very slow, sleepy, and special Merchant Ivory production: A Room With a View! Is this the very first incarnation of Love on The Spectrum?  What is the best way to romanticize your one wild and precious life? Is it gay to ask to see anoth...

HELLO CLARICE!!! It's our last episode of Actual Good Movies, and Saysha picked yet another problematic fav as has been known to do! Today we chat about the 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs, directed by Jonathan Demme and oooooooh boy do we have so much to say! Did Melanie completely fall for a cannibalistic psychopath who wears other people's faces? Tune in to find out! Also, HUGE...

Helllllo and Happy F@scist Winter to all of our Sisterlovers out there! We regret to inform you that we are NOT being very cozy this month and are continuing the January theme of Actual Good Movies that address Real Issues! In today's episode, we yap AT LENGTH about the classic Bob Fosse-directed film Cabaret, and we get into extensive discussion about bisexuality, flapper haircuts, German la...

OUR HATERS SAID IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN!!! We are BACK for Season 2 babyyyyy and we have something super special cooked up for you today! We yap at LENGTH (or mostly Saysha does) about one of the greatest horror movies of all time, The Shining! We dig into some wacky fan theories, describe all the cursed hotels that inspired the Overlook, and discuss how much money it would take to get us to be a wi...

HOLY SMOKES Sisterlovers!!! We actually made a whole ass season of movie recaps and posted them on the internet. To celebrate ourselves, and to also give YOU a special holiday bonus treat, Melanie is running the show today and asking some spicy Teen Beat-style queries to get to the bottom of the most critical questions that were presented in S1: like who was HOT, who was NOT, who was the very best...

Wowowwow, how is it almost 2026?!?! Time to cuddle up with one of Saysha’s all-time favorite cursed childhood Christmas classics- GREMLINS!!! Why was Saysha allowed to watch this when she was five years old? How has Melanie lived to 33 without ever seeing this? Why did they film this in California during the middle of summer? Can a Mogwai flying from NYC to LA be fed at 9 am PST without mutating?...

Happy Holidays, O Loyal Listeners! Nothing says the holidays like a prolonged rant about how AI is both super uncool and boring, RIGHT? Well, that's what you get in this episode, along with plenty of discussion about puppet class war, the importance of animatronics and in-camera effects, various marshland modes of transportation, the power of platonic male friendship, and a HARD breakdown of...

OOOOOOO we are getting cozy now, O Loyal Listeners! We officially kick off full-fledged festive season with THE undisputed best adaptation of Little Women that has ever been made- the 1994 version! We mostly rave about how this is a stone-cold Christmas 90s girl power classic, but also talk about how hot young Christian Bale is, the importance of historically accurate fabrics in film, Jo March as...

Hey Loyal Sisterlovers! Guess what? It's freezing, it's dark, and the big tree is up at Rockefeller Center! In honor of this VERY festive time of year, Saysha makes Melanie watch one of THE MOST quintessential New York romantic comedies set during the holidays that features zero people of color! Most of the time they talk about Jewish deli food, the importance of decentering men, Upper W...

DON'T DREAM IT, BE IT! Listeners, today is a VERY special day because this is the first time we are doing a FULL musical on this podcast (The Worst Witch and Labyrinth don't count! FIGHT ME IF YOU THINK SO!!!) We discuss the classic cult midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and get into its humble beginnings as a stage show, its massive influence on subculture and the punk move...

SOMETIMES DEAD IS BETTER!!! Hooooooo boy, today Saysha really shoots herself in the foot, making Melanie and herself watch yet another Stephen King movie that has NOT held up well over time: Pet Sematary! Together, they navigate the dark woods of this highly flawed horror classic, but manage to find some interesting things to chat about —mostly about video store nostalgia, autumnal vibes, travel w...

DANCE MAGIC DANCE!!!! Wowee wow, Listeners, do we have a really great episode for you! Saysha *finally* forced Melanie to watch the weirdly beloved Jim Henson/Brian Froud collab-Labyrinth! This one is a stone-cold VHS classic, and we discuss many things at length, including, but not limited to, sexy puppet love triangles, dream castings for the Labyrinth remake (please email us with your suggestio...

FEVER DREAM ALERT!!!! Greetings, Loyal Listeners! Please indulge us this week as Saysha completely spirals and forces Melanie to listen to one of her earliest movie memories—the completely batshit adaptation of Angela Carter's short story, "The Company of Wolves." We discuss women, men, dogs, menstruation, wolves, dolls, apples, trees, and how Angela Carter is the grandmother of mag...

Surprise!!! We have ANOTHER special 'ween ep just for YOU, Devoted Listener. Today, we do a long, deep dive into the overwhelmingly horny 1992 vampire romance/horror Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. This movie is Saysha's Roman Empire and one of her Special Interests, so buckle up for some long infodumps and highly detailed costume descriptions. We also touch on in...

OOOOOOOOOOO this is gonna be an ooky, spooky, kooky episode indeed!  Can you believe Melanie has never seen the legendary primetime TV adaptation of the great Stephen King novel It?  I forced her to watch it so we could share some sisterly clown trauma and discuss how and why this was made for television to traumatize an entire generation of kids! This is our second film featuring Tim Curry and th...

MMMMMMMMMM!!!! Today's episode is SUPER special for us because it took MANY MANY months of cajoling to get Melanie to actually sit down and watch this! And even though The Dark Crystal was not marketed as an actual *horror* movie, we are keeping with our spooky movie theme this month because Melanie definitely got some new nightmare fuel from this film. We yap about more puppet trauma, the im...

So many munchings and crunchings! This week Saysha realizes that one of the movies she has recommended to Melanie perhaps does NOT stand up to scrutiny. However, there is still MUCH to discuss, including but not limited to overdone fantasy tropes, TTRPGs, annoying voice acting choices, and how early to mid-80s fantasy movies were mainly created to put the fear of death into a generation of young k...

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN ON HALLOWEEN!!! We are kicking off October with one of Saysha's favorite unhinged childhood classics-The Worst Witch from 1986! We have a TON of fun discussing cozy witch academia, inappropriate age-gap crushes, green screen shenanigans, and how J.K Rowling is the biggest loser hack of all time! Enjoy!!! Correction: Bella Ramsey's pronouns are they/them :) Link to ful...

Greetings, Fellow Witches! We are *really* getting into some spooky season favorites now and breaking down the childhood trauma classic, The Witches! Melanie has neither read the book nor seen the movie, so we get a whole fresh take on the scary witch prosthetics and the adorable mouse puppetry. We also discuss at length how a long holiday by the sea could fix us both!  The actual Witches hotel: h...