Screams from the Basement

Screams from the Basement is joined on this episode by writer/director Jamie Langlands and actress Meghan Adara to chat about Jamie's feature directorial debut, The Cellar. The Cellar follows Abigail (Adara) who has been kidnapped an placed inside a mysterious cellar by a number of masked individuals, now Abigail must find out how she got their and who's behind all of this in this supernatural, ps...

Monkey see, monkey do. We saw The Monkey, how about you? On this episode of the Screams from the Basement Podcast, hosts Sam and Casey monkey around as they chat Oz Perkin's gore-gag a minute 2025 new release The Monkey, and George A. Romero's underrated Monkey Shines! Grab a banana and bang a drum for this MONKEY themed DOUBLE FEATURE! The Monkey SPOILER WARNING 1:17:00 Screams by Night | Halfway...

For 50 years Lloyd Kaufman's Troma Entertainment has been creating disruptive entertainment, including cult classics The Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet, and Poultrygeist. Now the famed independent studio is putting it's hands all across America with the "Hands Across Tromerica" Tour featuring today's guest, Brandon Bassham and his anthology Bring on the Damned! Bring on the...

Love (and murder) is in the dank basement air! Sam and Casey are celebrating Valentine’s Day with a horror-romance double feature! First up is Guillermo del Toro’s gothic period piece, Crimson Peak (2015), followed by Anna Biller’s Hammer horror throwback, The Love Witch (2016). This double feature is sure to appeal to the horrific romantic in everyone! SCREAMS BY NIGHT HORROR CON TICKETS: https:/...

Joining us in the Basement, no not a creepy one with a female mannequin like this movie, are director Jason Zink and writer Nolan Mihail to chat about their feature film Looky-loo. Looky-loo is a found footage film told the POV of a burgeoning serial killer. Looky-loo is available February 14th on Blu-ray and VHS from Scream Team Releasing: https://screamteamreleasing.com/collections/looky-loo-mer...

Hosts Sam and Casey take a dive into previously unexplored territory, filling in a major blind spot for both of them—the films of David Lynch. First, they discuss Lynch’s feature debut, 1977’s Eraserhead in all of its paternal anxiety. Then, they move onto Blue Velvet, Lynch’s suburban noir about the seedy underside of small town America. SCREAMS BY NIGHT HORROR CON TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite...

Only monsters can kill monsters is the upcoming creature feature Round the Decay! Joining us in the basement is writer, director, producer Adam Newman to chat about practical effects heavy, monster movie Round the Decay. Round the Decay his theaters nationwide January 30th! For more information and to purchase tickets: https://www.fandango.com/round-the-decay-2025-239030/movie-overview PATREON: ht...

Bundle up, because the Basement Boys are taking a trip to the arctic for a chilly double feature! Listen in as we discuss the ‘50s sci-fi classic The Thing from Another World, as well as its remake, John Carpenter’s The Thing! These movies, while born from the same source material, couldn’t be more different! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/s...

Joining us in the Basement are our Last Stop: The Series "bosses" Dominic Wieneke and Zeke Richter to chat about the upcoming premiere of the South Dakota based comedy series! Both Sam and Casey work in front of - and behind the camera - on the 7 episode season which features many local talents lending their work to the fictional retail store set comedy. Tickets for an ENCORE PREMIERE available no...

It's that time of the year! Sam and Casey sit down to each rank their personal TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES OF 2024! With titles such as The Substance, Longlegs, and Terrifier 3, what will make our lists? Listen to find out! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA AFFILIATE LINK: shop.fangoria.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENT TER...

On this episode of Screams from the Basement, the basement boys sit down for an interview with…themselves?! That’s right, we got the low down on how Casey and Sam feel about the massive year they just had, what’s in store for the future, and some of their favorite memories from 2024. Thanks to everyone for making this year a great one; we’ll see you all in 2025! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/Sc...

It's a 1984 Christmas sci-fi double feature! Screams from the Basement gets out our 10 second watch and pair of Uzi's as we chat about Night of the Comet, starring Kelli Maroney and Catherine Mary Stewart, and Empire Pictures' Trancers, starring Tim Thomerson and Helen Hunt! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA A...

Melt the rich and melt your mind as we are joined by writer/director Ryan Kruger to chat about his follow-up to Shudder's pandemic hit Fried Barry with Kruger's spiritual sequel to the cult 80's splatter film, Street Trash. Taking place on the streets of South Africa, a mind melting drug is unleashed upon a group of ragtag street dwellers as a devious plan to rid the unhoused population in the goo...

What do werewolves, westerns, college undergrads, and a jar of Satan juice have in common? Alice Cooper, of course! Hosts Sam and Casey are joined by author and podcaster Bryan Clark of Attack of the Killer Podcast to discuss this wild double feature of Monster Dog and Prince of Darkness! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basem...

Hidey-ho! Have we got a special interview for you! Sam and Casey sit down with director Thommy Hutson and executive producer Michael Perez to discuss their brand new documentary, DOC OF CHUCKY! We discuss everything, from their personal favorites of the Child’s Play franchise, to getting incredible anecdotes out of the films’ cast and crew, to editing hundreds of hours of footage into a cohesive,...

We're SCREAMING off the page on to the silver screen with this episode's double feature of two 1980's forgotten cult classics, Cellar Dweller and I, Madman! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA AFFILIATE LINK: https://www.shop.fangoria.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENT TERPBOYS AFFILIATE LINK: https://www.bu...

Does Hollywood have any original ideas anymore, ANOTHER cabin in the woods movie? Wait, this one is a satire of the entire genre, poking fun at tropes, stereotypes, and the basic conventions...count us in! We are excited to welcome back to the basement, writer, director and producer Joe Bandelli to chat about his latest horror-comedy Another Cabin in the Woods Movie! We also chat with Joe about th...

Grab your laptop, log into Skype, and watch out for glitchy people from the dark web as we chat about UNFRIENDED (2015) and UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (2018). We break down the screen life horrors including the world's worst game of "Never Have I Ever," virtual Cards Against Humanity (however that works), and the importance of never putting a blender next to your computer. Don't unfriend us because this...

Joining hosts of Screams from the Basement Sam Lenz and Casey Kelderman is filmmaker Virat Pal, writer and director of the ''Dream Girl'' segment in V/H/S/Beyond! Virat joins us in the basement to chat about the 7th installment in the acclaimed found footage series, being the first director to shoot a V/H/S segment in India, and just how quick the film went from concept, to production, to final pr...

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We know the title says not to, but we can't help but F with ghosts as we are joined in the basement by the filmmaking duo behind Don't F**k with Ghosts, Stu Stone and Adam Rodness! Stu and Adam join us to chat about their latest blend of reality and fiction, now with a supernatural twist as the duo set out to prove to the world the existence of the paranormal. Don't F**k with Ghosts begins streami...

Screams from the Basement celebrates two Halloween CLASSICS on this episode as we discuss the 1986 supernatural rock and roll horror Trick or Treat starring Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne. We also look at the ultimate Halloween movie with the 2007 anthology flick Trick 'r Treat starring everyone's favorite little pumpkin demon Sam! MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA...

October is here, and that means Halloween festivities all month long! One of our favorite festivities is the annual Halloweenapalooza Convention in Ottumwa, Iowa, put on by our Prescribed Films "fathers" Jason Bolinger and ''Insane'' Mike Saunders! The duo began the festival over 10 years ago, with this year's event set to be the biggest to date with over a half dozen cast members from the A Night...

Recorded LIVE at Little Con of Horrors in Council Bluffs, IA, Screams from the Basement ranks the TOP 10 horror movies from one of horror's greatest Scream Queens, Brinke Stevens. With over 200 acting credits to her name, we narrow the best down to the Top 10! Where will Slumber Party Massacre land? Will Nightmare Sisters make the list? How about any of the films Brinke directed? Listen to fin...

Exorcisms are on the rise in the United States in the past 15 years. The church receives hundreds of new cases each week, most of which are only a hoax. In the case of Anna Scott, her reality has becoming a living hell. NAME THE DEMON is an 2024 found footage exorcism movie from filmmaking brothers Carmelo and Nicholas Chimera, starring Danny Bohnen, Jessie Nerud, and Joe Castro. We are joined on...