Shudder Buddies

We're not dead yet! This week's episode covers the perfect game part 2! Movies include From Beyond (1986), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979), Primate (2025), Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025), Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018), and Jason X (2001).  Support the show

Sorry for the late upload, buddies, but we're here with PART ONE OF THE PERFECT GAME! Movies this week are: Malignant, Lake Mungo, Barbarian, The Innocents, The Monkey, 1408, and The Twilight Zone!  Support the show

Line jump! We're sinking our teeth into Saccharine (2026), a movie about weight loss, GLP-1s, and eating human ashes! Cyrus and Katie both liked a lot about this one, but also discuss a few of the elements that undermined the idea of body-positivity and looped right back around to fatphobia. That being said, this movie was still a real feast for the eyes.  As you can probably imagine, we talk...

Bambi has entered the public domain and the first thing we decided to do with it was make a shitty horror movie! Bambi: The Reckoning is an unpleasant little cash grab of a movie that wasn't good....but also wasn't really bad enough to be all that interesting. What a sell, huh?  Support the show

Well friends, this week Cyrus and Katie watched Baghead (2023), a movie about, well, a ghost or a witch or the ghost of a witch with a bag on its head that can reconnect you with your deceased loved ones - sort of. This one really suffers from being a crappier version of talk to me, but the creative choice to have the central horror figure straight up Eat An iPhone is one we'll be talking abo...

This week, your intrepid horror homies dive into Bad Things (2023), a pretty obvious homage to the Shining about maybe-haunted hotels, messy queer friend groups, withholding moms, how hot Molly Ringwald is at fifty-right, and how hard it is to be a terminal fuckup.  Support the show

Shudder really is the gift that keeps on giving, and this week it gave us the brainchild of Nathan Shepka, The Baby in the Basket (2025), a movie that is trying really really hard to be a love letter to the tradition of gothic horror and nunsploitation but instead is just kind of a total nothingburger. Conversation includes our car-buying woes, the merits of just Winnie-the-Pooh-ing, and how long...

This week, we're jumping the line to Speak No Evil, a Dutch/Danish co-production and SHUDDER original released in 2022. We've previously watched the Blumhouse remake of this film, released in 2024, and wanted to check out the much-more-brutal original and boy did we have a good time with it. Topics of conversation include our impossibly stupid chickens, the difference between the Danish...

Bad Moon is what happens when you cross a Hallmark movie from the POV of a dog with a schlocky werewolf movie with lots of nudity and a weirdly long sex scene---and yet, as good as that sounds, Katie and Cyrus were less than impressed. It's all about the duality of man and wolf, man.  Support the show

In celebration of THE ORIGIN OF EVIL (Katie's birthday), we're talking about one of Katie's favorite movies: From Dusk Till Dawn! We talk about the big twist, the joys of practical effects, and the fact that Sex Machine is CLEARLY a trans man. Cyrus will accept no alternatives.  Brutality: 3 Aesthetic: 4 Scariness: 1 Horniness: 4 Support the show

It's always a bummer when a movie that bills itself as a queer and transgender film is not nearly as good as the reviews might lead you to believe — especially when it was also directed by an 18-year-old. Luckily Cyrus is trans and Katie hates teens, so they're both here to set the record, erm, straight. Cyrus talks at length about their complicated feelings on how queer representation i...

For your listening pleasure today we have The Babadook (2014), a highly regarded Australian horror film that asks the hard questions like: Is unexamined grief likely to turn us into a monster even those closest to us don't recognize? Or are children just The Worst? And am I rocking this top hat??? Support the show

Starting of the B's strong with french body horror film Baby Blood (1990), a gory pregnancy horror film that has titties covered in blood AND strong feminist themes! It kind of whips. This movie has everything: a squid driving a bus, an exploding leopard, carjacking the bloodmobile, and a guy named Roger Placenta.  Support the show

We did it! We finished the A's! This week, Cyrus and Katie sit down to wrap up the first letter of Shudder's alphabet - we BASH the entire category, remark upon our highs and lows (here's lookin' at you, 825 Forest Road), and look forward to a future full of Blood.  Support the show

This week, Cyrus and Katie cover Azrael (2024), a movie we've seen before and didn't really care for, but we won't let that stop us from shitting all over it for twenty minutes of our precious lives for your listening enjoyment. Azrael is a movie with a gimmick it doesn't deserve, a lead actress who is Better Than This, and a goat baby. We've also reached the end of the A&...

This week, Cyrus and Katie take a brief diversion from Shudder movies to go see Obsession (2026), which is just so so so so good. Please go see it.  A really well done and remarkably written/acted take on the "careful what you wish for trope", with one of the best performances of the year so far. Also mentioned are Katie being called out for misremembering a book, Cyrus being called out...

In this episode, we watch The Autopsy of Jane Doe, where the main antagonist is a motionless corpse and in which Bryan Cranston DOES NOT STAR, but there is an avant-garde version of this movie where Walter White suddenly starts having a very bad time.  Support the show

This week, Cyrus and Katie tackle Attachment (2022), a Danish/Jewish/queer horror/romance (that's a lot of slashes) that begs the question: can a mother be too overprotective if her child is possessed by an evil spirit? Our sources say yes, but only if it interferes with her U-Haul Lesbian Dreams. Support the show

Heeeeeeeello buddies and welcome to SHARK WEEK - no, wait, shark DAY, the day we watch a really bad shark movie and complain about it. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged asks the question "what if a bunch of scantily clad teenagers were in a submerged Mayan city and also a shark was there and the shark was blind" which is kind of a hat on a hat, or maybe a hat on a shark.  Support the show

You know what's scary? BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG winter coat. This week Cyrus and Katie watched ATM, a movie about three stockbrokers who get trapped inside a parking lot ATM by a murderer in a parka. This movie has a 12% on Rotten Tomatoes, but Cyrus makes a passionate case for why it should maybe have more like, a 25%.  Support the show

This week, Cyrus and Katie cover classic werewolf horror/comedy, An American Werewolf in London (1981)! If you're even tangentially into horror, you've probably heard of this one, and for good reason - it's got dong, nazis, body horror, annoyed ghosts, real live wolves, and a man with the longest and most beautiful eyelashes we've ever seen.  Support the show

This week, we dig into Ash, a sci-fi horror movie that...tried its best? A movie that is aesthetically pleasing, does some cool stuff with goo, but ultimately suffers from a potent mixture of cliches and the male gaze. Also discussed are how much we want there to be more ugly and unlikeable women in horror movies, how hard it is to copy The Thing's homework successfully, and bisexual lighting...

Line jump! We couldn't wait to get to the C's before checking out Caveat. This movie was a fascinating puzzle box that doesn't spoon-feed you the answers, and we left it feeling befuddled in the best way possible--but the more we've thought about it afterward, the more the movie starts to open itself up. It was also written and directed by Damian McCarthy, who also wrote/direct...

What happens when you mix a tarantula, a camel, and a starfish with Hungry Hungry Hippos, and then throw it at Nicolas Cage? You get Arcadian, the movie we watched this week! Don't get too excited, it also has annoying teen drama. But seriously, the aliens were pretty cool. Support the show

Hello friends! Katie has been sick as a dog for a li'l bit so today we present you with Together, a non-Shudder movie released last year that we both really, really liked! Turns out making movies about marriage *with* your spouse leads to chemistry, nuance, and penis de-gloving. We were super into it.  Support the show