Rotten Horror Picture Show

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda are going back to the beginning of one of horror cinema’s most legendary eras with The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)! Directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing as the brilliant but morally bankrupt Victor Frankenstein and Christopher Lee as the Creature, this landmark film helped launch Hammer Film Productions into ho...

The countdown to Crystal Lake continues on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast ! As Clay and Amanda prepare to cover the new series, they’re bringing another installment of their Friday the 13th Patreon series to the main feed. This week, it’s Friday the 13th Part 3 from 1982, the glorious third chapter in the slasher franchise that finally gave Jason Voorhees his iconic hockey mask. So before...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda are letting the winner of their recent horror movie trivia game choose the next film for them to cover! The winning selection? Lamberto Bava’s 1985 Italian horror classic Demons , a blood-soaked nightmare about moviegoers trapped inside a theater with some particularly unfriendly monsters. It’s the perfect movie to get the gang...

The countdown to Crystal Lake is officially underway on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast ! With the upcoming series set to return audiences to the world of Camp Crystal Lake, Clay and Amanda are preparing by digging back into the franchise’s history. And what better way to get ready for Crystal Lake than by bringing one of their Friday the 13th Patreon episodes to the main feed? This week, t...

Welcome back to The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , where this week Clay and Amanda take on The Wailing , the acclaimed 2016 Korean horror mystery that has earned a spot at #3 on Rotten Tomatoes’ Best Horror Movies of All Time list . Directed by Na Hong-jin, this sprawling, unsettling nightmare follows a small-town police officer investigating a series of bizarre illnesses, violent incidents,...

Welcome back to The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , where Clay and Amanda are getting ready for their upcoming coverage of Crystal Lake by bringing some classic slasher mayhem back to the main feed! Before they dive into the new series, they’re opening up the vault and releasing their previously Patreon-exclusive episodes covering the Friday the 13th franchise. That means hockey masks, summer...

Welcome back to The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , where this week Clay and Amanda sink their teeth into the stone-cold horror classic Dracula from 1931! Starring Bela Lugosi as the legendary Count Dracula, this foundational Universal monster movie helped establish the look, mood, and mythology of the cinematic vampire for generations to come. Clay and Amanda are here to talk about Lugosi’s...

Welcome to a special edition of The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , where Clay and Amanda have done something truly shocking: they have left the comfort of their homes and ventured into the legitimate theater to see the new Paranormal Activity stage play. That’s right—actual actors, a real stage, a live audience, and presumably at least one person coughing directly into their hand before touc...

Welcome back to The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , where this week Clay and Amanda sink their teeth into one of the greatest vampire films of the 21st century: Let the Right One In . The acclaimed 2008 Swedish horror drama blends coming-of-age heartbreak with icy Scandinavian atmosphere, telling the story of a lonely young boy who befriends an equally lonely girl who just so happens to be a...

Welcome back to The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , where this week Clay and Amanda sink their teeth into one of the defining horror films of the 1970s: The Omen . Richard Donner's chilling classic follows diplomat Robert Thorn as he slowly realizes that his adopted son Damien may not just be a troublesome child, but the literal Antichrist. Along the way, there are mysterious deaths, creepy p...

Welcome back to The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast ! Things are a little different this week, as Amanda is out of town, leaving Clay to hold down the fort all by himself. But don't worry—he's not completely alone. Joining him are two longtime friends of the show, Grim Santo, proprietor of the horror-themed bakery Grim Delights , and Listener Kyle, who will no doubt remind everyone that he is t...

Welcome back to The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , where this week Clay and Amanda set sail for one of the strangest, most influential horror films of the 1930s: Island of Lost Souls , the classic adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau . Starring Charles Laughton as the delightfully unsettling Doctor Moreau, the film tells the story of a remote tropical outpost where science h...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda are giving listeners a special sample of their Patreon sequel coverage with a deep dive into the gloriously chaotic Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Directed by Joe Dante, this sequel takes everything from the original Gremlins and cranks it to absolute cartoon insanity—mutant gremlins, fourth-wall breaks, satire of corporate America,...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda take on Death Becomes Her (1992)—the glossy, macabre comedy from Robert Zemeckis that turns vanity, immortality, and Hollywood rivalry into a deliciously twisted spectacle. Starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis, the film follows two women who discover a magical potion promising eternal youth… with some *very* visi...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda revisit the sleek, anxiety-inducing franchise starter Final Destination (2000), the film that taught an entire generation that death doesn’t need a face—just a plan. Centered on a premonition of a catastrophic plane crash and the survivors who think they’ve cheated fate, the movie spins a clever web of inevitability, paranoia, a...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda dive into the twisted, candy-colored nightmare that is The Loved Ones (2009), the Australian horror gem that takes the idea of prom night and turns it into something deeply, deeply wrong. Directed by Sean Byrne, the film follows a teenage boy who makes the unfortunate mistake of turning down a classmate’s prom invitation—only to...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda turn their attention to one of the most haunting and elegant horror films ever made: Eyes Without a Face (1960). The French classic from Georges Franju is a chilling blend of poetic beauty and surgical nightmare, telling the story of a brilliant but unhinged doctor determined to restore his daughter’s disfigured face—no matter t...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda travel into the haunting, melancholic world of Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone . Set during the final days of the Spanish Civil War, the film blends ghost story, historical tragedy, and gothic atmosphere into one of del Toro’s most emotionally powerful works. Clay and Amanda explore the film’s themes of memory, loss, a...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda hit the gas with a discussion of Duel (1971), the lean, mean thriller that marked the feature debut of a young Steven Spielberg. Originally produced as a television movie, Duel was so effective, so tightly constructed, that it was later expanded and released theatrically—launching Spielberg’s career with a simple but terrifying...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda sink their teeth into one of the most intriguing and offbeat horror releases of the year: Sinners (2025), the blues-soaked vampire film that blends supernatural horror with Southern gothic vibes and music steeped in sweat, sorrow, and soul. They’re joined by special guest Wes from The Pensky File, who helps unpack the film’s blo...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda are creeping back to one of the most influential horror hits of the 21st century: Paranormal Activity (2009) . The low-budget found-footage phenomenon changed the genre overnight, proving you didn’t need monsters, gore, or even much movement to terrify audiences—just a quiet house, a static camera, and the creeping feeling that...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda are taking a trip into the strange, dreamlike world of Dario Argento’s 1985 cult oddity Phenomena . It’s one of Argento’s most notorious films from his wildly experimental ’80s era — full of surreal imagery, pulsing Goblin music, murder mysteries, and a young Jennifer Connelly wandering through the Swiss countryside. Clay and Am...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda tackle one of the more controversial entries in modern holiday horror: the 2019 remake of Black Christmas . It’s a film that takes the bones of the 1974 slasher classic and retools them for a new generation, leaning hard into social commentary, glossy production, and a very different kind of menace lurking on a snow-covered coll...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , Clay and Amanda are celebrating a major milestone in horror history: the 100th anniversary of the 1925 silent film classic The Phantom of the Opera . Starring the legendary Lon Chaney in one of the most iconic monster performances ever put on film, this adaptation helped define cinematic horror, gothic atmosphere, and studio-era spectacle. Clay...

This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show , Clay and Amanda turn their attention to one of the freshest cult sensations of the decade: Late Night With the Devil — the stylish, sinister, ‘70s-soaked horror throwback that asks, “What if Johnny Carson accidentally unleashed a demon on live television?” Directed by Cameron and Colin Cairnes, the film recreates the world of late-night TV with uncanny...