I Love Splatter

In which Amie, Adrienne & Heather discuss the AMAZING Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022), Directed by Michelle Garza Cervera. Featuring layers upon layers of meaning, and the horrors of being trapped in a hetero-normative nuclear family.

Amie talks with filmmaker Toby Poser (Adams Family Films / Wonder Wheel Productions) about her and her family's passion for making indie films, her inspirations - and what's next!

In which Amie and Adrienne watch SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (2021), Directed by Danishka Esterhazy. Featuring many twists and turns, lots of camp, and some of the funniest lines we've ever heard.

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss Mirror, Mirror (1990), Directed by Marina Sargenti . Featuring a L.A. Goth girl in Iowa, bad wigs, creepy demon hands, and the longest sandwich making scene ever put on film. “Face eating’s always on the table for me...” - Adrienne Reflecting on Marina Sargenti’s Teenage Horror ‘Mirror, Mirror' | Bloody Disgusting https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/370742...

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss XX (2017), an anthology Directed by Sofia Carrillo, Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin & Karyn Kusama. Featuring hopeless horror, a rapping panda, camping bros, and a devilish sequel. 

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss THE LURE (2015), Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska. Featuring man-eating mermaids, a neon 1980’s nightclub, the grossest surgery EVER, and some of the most fantastic musical numbers of ALL TIME. Alexandra Waliszewska Artworks: https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/147928 Interview: Agnieszka Smoczyńska on Heeding the Siren Call of “The Lure” | Moveable Fea...

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss SAINT MAUD (2019), Directed by Rose Glass. Featuring twisted religious obsession, thumb tacks, queer love, and FIRE. Writer/Director Rose Glass Keeps the Frightening Faith with ‘Saint Maud’ | Rue Morgue https://rue-morgue.com/exclusive-interview-writer-director-rose-glass-keeps-the-frightening-faith-with-saint-maud/ Revelations: An Interview with ‘Saint Maud’ D...

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss the works of our Gothic Queen Anne Rice! Including how they first discovered her books, Tom Cruise understanding the assignment in Interview with the Vampire, and the Nu Metal disaster of Queen of the Damned. The Legacy of Anne Rice: The Modern Day Queen of the Vampires | Slash Film https://www.slashfilm.com/742364/the-legacy-of-anne-rice-the-modern-day-queen-o...

Amie talks with Kate Dolan about her first feature film, YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER - just released in theaters and on demand. 

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss FREDDY’S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE (1991), Directed by Rachel Talalay. Featuring the (supposed) death of Freddy Krueger, Breckin Myer hopping like a cartoon, throwing stars, and stunt casting. [Interview] ‘Freddy’s Dead’ (For Now, Anyways…): Director Rachel Talalay! | Bloody Disgusting https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/27226/interview-freddys-dead-for-no...

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss CENSOR (2021), Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond. Featuring video nasties, gorgeous giallo colors, VHS glitches, the horror of conservative values, and male inadequacy revenge catharsis. ‘Video nasties’: It was the 1980s, and moral madness stalked the land - The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/video-nasties-it-was-the-1980s-and-moral-madness-sta...

[CW: sexual assault] In which Amie & Adrienne discuss M.F.A. (2017), Directed by Natalia Leite & PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020), Directed by Emerald Fennell. Featuring a comparison of these revenge-filled films, and a discussion of what we liked about them. ‘M.F.A.’ Director Natalia Leite Faced Her Sexual Assault By Directing a Rape-Revenge Thriller | IndieWire https://www.indiewire.com/2017/10/mfa-...

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1992), Directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui! Featuring slapstick humor, 90’s spandex, many parade floats, DREAMY LUKE PERRY, and the funniest vampire death sequence ever. AMC Backstory: Buffy the Vampire Slayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nki7Ed-hHsw Buffy's' Gnarly Date With Destiny - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss HONEYMOON (2014), Directed by Leigh Janiak! Featuring a couple who should 100% NOT be married, lots of slime, very squirm-worthy body horror, and the worst interpretation of “hiding” ever. ‘Honeymoon’: How Leigh Janiak Subverts the Traditional Role of Women Within the Home | Screen Queens https://screen-queens.com/2019/09/27/honeymoon-how-leigh-janiak-subv...

Part two of our Mary Lambert discussion, in which Amie & Adrienne discuss PET SEMATARY TWO (1992)! Featuring peak Edward Furlong, a topless woman with a dog head, massacred kittens, atmosphere LIKE WHOA, and a whole lotta rabbits. 1989 ‘Pet Sematary’ Director Mary Lambert On Working With Stephen King, Going Dark, ‘Pet Sematary 2’ and More | Slash Film https://www.slashfilm.com/mary-lambert-int...

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss PET SEMATARY (1989), Directed by Mary Lambert! Featuring giant trucks, scary roads, reanimated pets, AMAZING set design, and the best, scariest lil tot ever. NOW I WANT TO PLAY WITH YOUUUUUUUUUUU  ‘Pet Sematary’ Director Mary Lambert on Using Old-Fashioned Effects for Scares in Pre-CGI Stephen King Adaptation | Variety https://variety.com/2020/artisans/pro...

In which Amie & Adrienne talk about THE BYE BYE MAN (2017), Directed by Stacy Title! Featuring a memorable catchphrase, an imagined love triangle, lots of train imagery, a town with ONE SINGLE JOURNALIST, Faye Dunaway! and a hairless devil dog. Special Features from The Bye Bye Man DVD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ0w-U350vw Stacy Title (The Bye Bye Man), Trevor Macy (Oculus, The Strangers...

In which Amie & Adrienne talk about SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE (1986), Directed by Carol Frank for their TENTH EPISODE! Featuring extreme memory loss, an awkward fashion montage, a psychic link, and the least secure asylum ever. In Praise of 1986’s Sorority House Massacre | Coming Soon Net: https://www.comingsoon.net/horror/features/846411-in-praise-of-1986s-sorority-house-massacre

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss VAMPS (2012), Directed by Amy Heckerling! Featuring a killer cast, drinking rats with straws, vampires reconciling their taxes, and the best Van Helsing casting EVER. Interview with VAMPS Director Amy Heckerling | Women & Hollywood: https://womenandhollywood.com/interview-with-vamps-director-amy-heckerling-f3014fff12bc/ Alicia Silverstone's partnership with...

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss AMULET (2020) , Directed by Romola Garai. Featuring toxic #notallmen masculinity, a crumbling old mansion, a kindly nun, SEVERE plumbing problems, and birthing bat babies! AMULET Trailer: https://youtu.be/uV_lUlOc4mQ ‘Amulet’ Writer/Director Romola Garai Breaks Down the Horror Film’s Ending - VARIETY: https://variety.com/2020/film/features/amulet-ending-romola-...

In which Amie interviews the filmmaking team behind LUCKY (2020): Director Natasha Kermani, and Screenwriter & Star Brea Grant! Lots of great inside info on true indie filmmaking, the horror genre, and why the voices of marginalized groups need to be heard across all genres and fandoms. Watch LUCKY on Shudder: https://www.shudder.com/ Learn more about Natasha Kermani: http://www.natashakermani...

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss SPELLBINDER (1988), Directed by Janet Greek! Featuring the worst LA lawyer bros ever, a seductive enchantress, aggro ponytail warlock dude, a secret satanic mansion, a prepper fortress, a giant pencil, and a TURKEY that reveals witchy powers! Think BIG store (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Big_(store) Movie Tropes in Spellbinder: https://tvtrop...

In which Amie & Adrienne discuss THE RAGE: CARRIE 2 (1999), Directed by Kat Shea! Featuring the real-life awfulness that inspired these HATE SINK JERK JOCKS, coveting 90’s fashion, the darkest high school ever, bad tattoos, spear gun cabinets, and Walter (the dog). ‘Spur Posse’ Goes on the Defensive - LA TIMES: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-20-me-13082-story.html Trouble in L...

In which Amie and Adrienne talk about Black Christmas (2019), Directed by Sophia Takal, and co-written by Takal & April Wolfe, why straight-up remakes are boring as hell, not having enough time to do what you want creatively, and how much they love social justice warrior garbage in their horror movie plots. Director Sophia Takal calls her Black Christmas remake a 'fiercely feminist film' - EW:  ht...

In which Amie and Adrienne talk about Coralie Fargeat's amazing female gaze in Revenge (2018), toxic men, rape culture, culpability, ownership, and how kick*ss it would be to brand yourself with a beer can, strap on some weapons, and make the men who hurt you pay.  Content Warning: sexual assault Matilda Lutz & Coralie Fargeat on women fighting back in Revenge: https://youtu.be/m0O2H5NarW...