Speak All Evil Podcast

Episode 335: Beware Boiuna. Roll over Anaconda, there's a new snake in the grass. Director Mike P Nelson (Wrong Turn, Silent Night Deadly Night) and writer Alan B McElroy (Wrong Turn 2003 & 2021) have teamed up again for an Amazon set creature feature that could only have come from two guys with middle initials. Starring Kiana Madeira, Jessia Rothe, and Logan Marshall-Green, and based on Brazi...

Episode 334: When Evil Lurks (2023), The Ruins (2008). A case could be made that these two bangers we’ve never covered share a kind of environmentally based horror connection and that they’re each one of the best horror films of their respective eras. This week we make that case. 

Episode 333: Resident Evil. The third feature film from writer/director Zach Cregger, the filmmaker who brought horror to the Academy Awards with Weapons (2024), takes on the long running video game adapted franchise for an entirely fresh reboot. Plus, Penny Lane is Dead, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, and more. 

Episode 332: The Psycho film franchise. The shadow of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic looms large over the later slasher boom inspired Psycho sequels but this week we check back into Bates Motel to take the films on their own terms. We all go a little mad sometimes. 

Episode 331: One Missed Call (2003 & 2008), Exhuma (2024). On an off-week from theaters we dialed up some Asian horror with one South Korean hit, one Japanese hit, and one phoned-in American remake that should’ve gone straight to voicemail.

Episode 330: Buddy. Children must escape a 90s kids television show (think Barney) when the titular pink unicorn goes on an ax welding rampage. It all makes sense as written and directed by Casper Kelly (Too Many Cooks, Fun Size) at his surrealist fever dream best. We loved it. Plus, The Banana Splits Movie, Willy’s Wonderland, and more. 

Episode 329: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. The third and final feature film installment of writer/director Jane Schoenbrun's "screen trilogy" has hit theaters as a Mubi release that was too weird for A24 but perfectly weird for us. Spoiler: We loved it. It is a cinematic gift to horror film fans and we want everyone to see it. Go to this movie. Plus, I Saw the TV Glow. 

Episode 328: The End of Oak Street. From writer/director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) and producer J.J. Abrams, The End of Oak Street promises a sci-fi survival thriller where Jurassic Park meets 1980s suburbia. And this time, the dinosaurs have feathers. Plus, in advance of the upcoming Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a look back at Jane Schoenbrun's debut feature, We're All Going to...

Episode 327: Ice Cream Man. The latest feature from Eli Roth’s Horror Section is courting controversy for all the wrong reasons. Never mind the splatter and tasteless humor (or the reference to A Serbian Film), there’s plenty more to be mad at in Ice Cream Man and we will give you the scoop. 

Episode 326: Saccharine. From the director of Relic (2020) and Apartment 7A (2024), comes a new Shudder original film that asks the question, what’s eating you? Australian filmmaker Natalie Erika James feeds us a steady diet of body horror and familial fear in this surprisingly ambitious food porn epic. Plus, a look at the forgotten Norwegian slasher franchise, Cold Prey. 

Episode 325: The Neon Demon. Episode 325: The Neon Demon. With the release of Her Private Hell, Nicolas Winding Refn’s first feature film in a decade, we take a look back at 2016’s The Neon Demon. A heavily stylized and critically polarizing journey into the dark heart of beauty starring Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, and Keanu Reeves. Because beauty isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. 

Episode 324: Evil Dead Burn. The sixth installment of the Evil Dead film franchise comes just three years after Evil Dead Rise, the shortest gap between sequels since 1990’s Army of Darkness, with a seventh film (Evil Dead Wrath) scheduled for release in 2028. How does writer and director Sébastien Vaniček’s entry stack up against the rest of the newly expanding franchise and what does it mean for...

Episode 323: In a Violent Nature - Resident Evil (2002). In anticipation of In a Violent Nature 2 and a new Resident Evil film later this year, we took a look back at the origins of each franchise, one recent and one from a distant past. Spoiler: Let's hope the new Resident Evil holds up better in 20 years than the first one! 

Episode 322: Leviticus. The feature film debut of Australian writer/director Adrian Chiarella tells the story of forbidden love between two teen boys in a deeply conservative, rural township and the curse set upon them by church leaders that turns what they love most against them. Leviticus won't get the kind attention that some horror releases have enjoyed this year but it did get a theatrical re...

Episode 321: Dolly/Heresy/Blood Creek. Out of sequence episode recorded earlier this year checking out two new Shudder original/exclusives and a 2009 Joel Schumacher deep cut about ancient Nazi vampires that was not called Nazferatu. Inexcusable. 

Episode 320: The Evil Dead (1981). In anticipation of the upcoming release of Evil Dead Burn (the sixth installment of the film franchise), we take a look back at the one that started it all, The Evil Dead, as well the third film in the series, Army of Darkness (1990). Which makes Evil Dead the first horror film franchise to be covered in complete, end to end, on Speak All Evil. A good time to dis...

Episode 319: Backrooms. The number one movie in America, the biggest opening weekend ever for an original horror film (and for A24), and the 4th biggest horror opening of all time domestic, all now belong to Backrooms. Meanwhile, horror also occupies the number two spot at the box office as Obsession continues to set records in its third weekend in theaters. Let’s get into it. 

Episode 318: Passenger. “130 million people take road trips every year. 15,400 of them are never seen again”, warns the poster for Passenger. By the end of the film, you’ll wish you were one of them. Just kidding, that fictional statistic is one of the more believable prices of nonsense you’re asked to swallow in the new road horror feature from director André Øvredal (The Last Voyage of the Demet...

Episode 317: Obsession. What feels like the first horror hit of the summer has arrived. From writer/director Curry Barker (Milk & Serial) comes a warning to be careful what you wish for in this terrifying, bloody, and squirm inducing update of the classic Monkey’s Paw story. Spoiler: we loved it. Plus, Deathdream, Wish Upon, The Monkey’s Paw (2013), and more. 

Episode 316: Hokum. From Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy (Oddity) comes another nerve jangling descent into terror and one of this year’s most eagerly anticipated horror film releases. Also this week, a look back at McCarhty’s debut feature as a writer/director, Caveat (2020). Plus, the new Japanese video game-to-film adaptation, Exit 8. 

Episode 315: Angel Heart/The Serpent and the Rainbow. Picking up on our recent conversation about The Believers (1987), we take a look at two other late 80s genre mashups combining noir crime thriller elements with supernatural religious horrors and A-list stars. Plus, revisiting The First Power, Fallen, and Sitgmata. 

Episode 314: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. Not to be confused with Brendan Fraser’s mummy, Tom Cruise’s mummy, Boris Karloff’s mummy, or any mummy brought to you by Universal Pictures. This mummy is Lee Cronin’s alone and it’s got nothing to do with any one else’s. How does Dr Cronin’s monster stack up against not only previous versions but his own past work with Deadites and evil children? Let’s unwrap...

Episode 313: Faces of Death (2026). The unlikeliest horror franchise IP resurrection that nobody asked for of all time may have now arrived in Faces of Death, a “remake” of the 1978 mondo film that went on to become part of cult horror lore in the 80s VHS boom and spawned three proper sequels. “In a remake, you can get away with murder”, warns a character in Faces of Death 2026, as the film breaks...

Episode 312: They Will Kill You. From Russian writer/director Kirill Sokolov comes an action horror comedy that wears its influences on its hyper-stylized sleeve. Starring Zazie Beetz along with a stellar supporting cast, including Heather Graham and Patricia Arquette, and produced by Andy and Barbara Muschietti (IT parts 1&2, Welcome To Derry), They Will Kill You slashed into theaters with mi...

Episode 311: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. One of three theatrical releases this year starring Samara Weaving, as the Australian actress continue to cement official Scream Queen status, and coming seven years after Ready or Not, the Radio Silence filmmaking crew is back and promising a bigger, bloodier and more cameo filled game in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. Plus, Bad Girl, The Babysitter, and Bo...