Half Price Horror

HPH goes prime time with a look at a brand-new release coming to Shudder soon! We talk about the dysfunctional 80s, and a movie that very much wants to put that “fun” right back into “dysfunctional”.

We take a deep dive into the sewers on New York City and come back with one of the least-loved entries in the Friday the 13th franchise!

We jump into an 80s classic that drips with blood and perverse sexuality in equal quantities, and discuss the importance of consent and the brutal sadness of unrequited love.

We look at a Jason movie with a decidedly feminist bent, as telekinetic teen Tina takes on zombie Jason in a knock-down, drag-out fight to the finish!

This episode, we take a trip back in time and across the pond to watch a classic BBC teleplay about a team of scientists that attempt to explore life after death.

This time out, we’re bringing Jason back from the dead in a campy, cartoony romp that takes us back to Camp Blood for the first time since Part One!

HPH takes a trip back to the Swinging Sixties with Roger Corman’s gothic horror classic, starring Vincent Price at his peak as the sinister Prince Prospero.

In an episode that leaves me struggling to stay positive, we look at the weakest entry in the Friday the 13th franchise and discuss its problems with editing, pacing, character development, logic, and basic spatial relationships.

We go made-for-TV with this 2005 SciFi Channel monster flick, about an escaped convict who gets turned into a giant mosquito and goes a-bloodsucking. (Yes, he’s a male mosquito. Yes, he should be hunting flowers. Don’t ask.)

In this, the (not really) final Jason movie, we take a look at the intersection of teen sex comedies, revenge movies, and slasher flicks in this early stab at metatextual horror!

This episode goes into full-on gush mode, as we cover one of the best cosmic horror films ever, the 2016 indie film that looks like a blockbuster, “The Void”!

Another return to Camp Crystal Lake, this time for the Jason-iest installment of the Jason series! Comes complete with speculations on a Jason/Dexter crossover and a new drinking game!

A much-beloved 80s cult classic turns out to have a little too much of the decade’s downsides as we take a deep dive into Universal Horror homage ‘The Monster Squad’!

We take a look at the first appearance of Jason as series antagonist, and delve into his rich inner life as a building contractor, private investigator, and professional candle thief!

It’s Spooky Season, to take a look at an unconventional anthology that goes just a little too hard on the “Halloween is the most wonderful time of the year” message and a little too light on everything else.

We take a look at Classical Greek tragedy (not really) Friday the 13th, an Agatha Christie-style mystery (kinda, actually) that helped to kick off the slasher boom of the 80s!

Join us for a deep dive into the second It movie, in which we discuss ways to trim down the three-hour long epic to a reasonable running time and all the ways that if you’re going to claim you write better than Stephen King, you best bring your A-game to the writing table.

We take a closer look at this 1988 cult classic, examining the uneasy boundaries between humor and horror and once again using the word “liminal” to describe something in the movie. With special guest commentator Jiminy Cricket!

For our first episode, we do a deep dive into David Cronenberg’s body horror film ‘The Brood’ and look at misogyny, monstrosity, and how the police can miss a killer who’s just hiding under the bed.

We take a closer look at the first half of the recent adaptation of Stephen King’s sprawling horror epic and discuss the ways that splitting the movie up changed the emotional core of the film.

We jump back into the 70s for a look at the infamous house on Ocean Street, and discuss screenwriting strategy in a closer look at the structure of this haunted house tale.

A look at the debut feature of director Ari Aster and his insights into family dysfunction and the long legacy abuse can leave behind.

John takes a closer look at the much-maligned remake of the 80s classic and touches on its themes of teenage alienation, suburban paranoia, and anxiety over the Satanic Panic that fueled the original.