Earth Station Boo

One hundred episodes. One hundred years. One film per decade. Spilled Tea and Karen the Writer are joined by a very special guest for Earth Station Boo's 100th episode, our Friend and Executive Producer Mike Faber.  A journey through a century of horror from the twisted expressionist nightmare in 1920 all the way to the new haunting films in 2020’s. Eleven films. Eleven decades. One big questi...

The uncle left you a mansion, a fortune hidden somewhere inside it, a terrifying housekeeper, and twelve ghosts. All you need to see them is a pair of special glasses - and the courage to look through the red filter. Tea, Karen and their friend Bella dive into William Castle's 1960 supernatural gem 13 Ghosts - the Illusion-O gimmick film that gave audiences the choice to see the ghosts or not...

The money is buried in the graveyard. The ghouls live underneath it. Karen and Tea dive into Lurking Fear - the 1994 Full Moon Entertainment adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's 1923 short story and compare it to the original work. And debate which was better. Will we ever know?! Subscribe now to Earth Station Boo where we talk all things horror. Let’s Get Spooky!   Find all our links here:👉 https:...

An abandoned funeral home. A Halloween party. A séance that goes catastrophically wrong. And one of 80s horror's most magnetic and underappreciated demon icons. Karen and Tea are crashing Angela's party at Hull House for a deep dive into Kevin Tenney's 1988 cult classic Night of the Demons - the film that tripled its budget in a limited regional release, never got the nationwide theatr...

The road ends here. The Carters just did not know it yet. Tea and Karen dive deep into Wes Craven's 1977 survival horror masterpiece - The Hills Have Eyes - the raw, uncompromising desert nightmare that pitted a suburban American family against a cannibal clan in the Nevada hills and asked which family was really more savage by the end. Michael Berryman's unforgettable debut as Pluto, the...

Five college friends. A remote cabin. Something terrible in the basement. You think you know exactly how this goes. You do not. Spilled Tea & Karen plus our friend Jake are entering Cabin in the Woods. 2012’s meta horror masterpiece that dismantled every horror trope it lovingly deployed, making Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford two of the scariest people in any horror film that year, and e...

He gave us the most iconic villain in midnight movie history. He gave us the clown that scared a generation. He gave us the butler who did it, the lord of darkness, and a voice that could make you feel every emotion simultaneously. On August 25, 2026, the world lost Timothy James Curry at the age of 80 and horror, theatre, animation, and pop culture lost one of their greatest treasures. Tea and Ka...

Dragon Con happened and Tea & Karen lived to tell the tale. Tune in as your favorite Horraholic hosts recap every spooky, chaotic, and absolutely unforgettable moment from Dragon Con 2026 - the panels they were on, the cosplays that stopped traffic, the moments that made them laugh, and everything in between. And we are saving the best for last because the episode closes out with the Earth Sta...

Valentine's Day. Easter. Mother's Day. Father's Day. Halloween. Christmas. New Year's Eve. St Patrick's Day. Eight holidays. Eight horror directors. Eight reasons to never look at the calendar the same way again. Karen and Spilled Tea are coming home for the… Holidays.  This 2016 anthology horror film that assembled some of the sharpest voices in contemporary genre filmmaking a...

Written by Diablo Cody. Directed by Karyn Kusama. Starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried. Marketed to the absolute wrong audience and dismissed by critics who never understood what they were watching. Tea & Karen are diving deep into Jennifer's Body, with our friend BellaRose. The 2009 feminist horror classic that Hollywood failed, audiences reclaimed, and horror fans have been obsessing o...

Dragon Con 2026 is almost here, and Earth Station Boo is bringing the spooky! The Horraholic Hosts, Tea & Karen, are joined by Derek, Director of the Horror Track, and Carol from the Urban Fantasy Track are spilling on everything happening at Dragon Con. They talk celebrity guests, parties, shows, panels, and get sneak peeks at some of the exciting programming coming to the convention. Beth, S...

Same script. Same cabin. Same flesh eating virus. Completely different results. Spilled Tea and Karen the Writer are heading into the woods twice for a full versus breakdown of Eli Roth's 2002 cult debut Cabin Fever and the 2016 remake that used the exact same screenplay, With Roth's blessing as executive producer. We compare the casts, the practical effects, the visual styles, the dark co...

They don't scream. They don't run. They just watch - with those ancient eyes and that smile that says they already know how your story ends. Tea and Karen are joined by Thomas as we get into one of horror's most enduring and psychologically rich archetypes… the Creepy Kid. From the changeling folklore of ancient mythology to Regan MacNeil, Damien Thorn, Samara Morgan, and Gage Creed, t...

We are checking out the documentary Sliders of Ghost Town: Origin (2016), a behind-the-scenes look at the world of scare acting and one of the most iconic techniques in haunt culture... sliding. The film explores the performers who bring haunted attractions to life, revealing the physical demands, creativity, and passion behind the screams. From character creation and improvisational scares to the...

Something attached itself to the hull. Something left a substance in the water supply. And now the crew is running out of time, out of options, and out of people to trust. Karen and Spilled Tea dive deep into Sea Fever — the 2019 Irish aquatic horror thriller written and directed by Neasa Hardiman that nobody saw coming and nobody forgot. They cover the slow burn claustrophobic dread, the eerily p...

She doesn't smile. She doesn't hug. She doesn't fit in anywhere... and she never wanted to. The Horraholic Hosts and our friends Beth & Sarah Rose are checking into Season 1 of Netflix's Wednesday, the Tim Burton produced Addams Family reimagining that broke streaming records, launched a TikTok dance craze, and gave Jenna Ortega one of the most iconic roles in recent horror tel...

From a janky haunted mansion on the Atari 2600 to PT breaking the internet's brain to streamers building entire careers screaming through Phasmophobia — horror video games have come a LONG way. Tea & Karen are joined by Twitch streamers BellaRose0810 and DrakeThe_Snake getting into the full history of horror gaming and so much more. They cover the survival horror golden age of Resident Evi...

A young woman pours acid over her face. A loving husband murders his wife. A headteacher throws her pupils out of a window. And the only thing connecting them all? The secondhand clothes on their backs. Karen and Tea dive deep into Ghost Virus — the first book in Graham Masterton's Patel & Pardoe supernatural detective series — where possessed charity shop clothing is turning ordinary Lond...

The USSR developed unkillable sharks. They launched them at the moon. And somehow that got made into a movie with a $10,000 budget and we watched every single second of it so you don't have to… or so you absolutely will want to. Karen and Tea dive deep into Shark Side of the Moon , the 2022 Asylum production that is equal parts sci-fi, horror, Cold War paranoia, and pure unhinged chaos. They b...

Last week we reviewed Sinners . Now we need to talk about what it MEANS. Karen and Spilled Tea return to Ryan Coogler's genre defining horror masterpiece for a deep dive into its cultural significance with our friend Michael W. Collins. We cover the sacred roots of the blues, what the vampires are REALLY representing, why the juke joint matters more than you think, and what it means for horror...

Sinners Review Part 1 Twins. A juke joint. A blues prodigy. And something very hungry waiting in the Mississippi Delta. Tea, Karen and Lysa are diving deep into Ryan Coogler's Sinners , the 2025 horror film that took the world by storm. They cover the rich folklore that opens the film, the music that earned every single one of its awards, the characters that felt achingly real, the stunning vi...

Eight possessed animatronics. Zero words spoken. One very sacred pinball break. Spilled Tea and Karen are clocking in for the night shift at Willy's Wonderland . The 2021 Nicolas Cage horror comedy that somehow made a man silently beating animatronic mascots to death one of the most compelling performances of the year. They break down the Cage factor, the killer animatronic designs, the Five N...

They went to save the rainforest. The rainforest had other plans. Tea and Karen dive deep into Eli Roth's 2013 cannibal horror love letter The Green Inferno — a film that takes a group of well meaning student activists, drops them in the Amazon, and lets a very hungry tribe sort out the rest. They cover the brilliant dark irony of the premise, the stunning practical effects, the complicated et...

He's strong to the finish — but what exactly is he finishing? Spilled Tea and Karen dive deep into one of internet horror's most visceral and compelling fan films — Popeye the Slayer Man. From the surprisingly dark and violent origins of E.C. Segar's original comic strips to the creepypasta culture that reimagined a beloved sailor into something truly sinister, this episode covers it a...

He lived in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas, faced unspeakable horrors every week, and did it all for the love of his family. Karen and Shannon are diving deep into one of the most beloved, bizarre, and genuinely terrifying cartoons ever made — Courage the Cowardly Dog . From King Ramses to Freaky Fred, from the psychology of anxiety to its lasting impact on horror and animation, this episode covers...