The Whorrors!

A stranger knocks at your isolated home in the dead of night, but what if letting him in is actually a good idea?  Find this thought experiment and other precious artifacts in our unpacking of 2024’s Oddity. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual violence, cancer Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriel...

What will make you murder your family and join a farming commune that worships an agricultural god?  IT’S CORN!!! (in 1984’s Children of the Corn). ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of cults, harm against a child  Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com ) Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by...

In honor of National Dog Day, we’re back in Maine to visit a man’s best friend…but a mother’s worst nightmare in Cujo (1983). ***CONTENT WARNING: harm against a child, harm against an animal, sexual harassment, domestic abuse   Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com ) Music: Epic Industrial...

Weapons is the talk of the town, but what is it truly about?  We won’t spoon feed you this one, just take a 2:17am stroll with us as we discuss the wigs, the witches, and the weaponry of Zach Cregger’s 2025 box office success. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of addiction, police brutality, gun violence, self-harm, harm against children Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewh...

Welcome to Club Juke— where bloodlust means a killer playlist. The only sin about Sinners (2025) is if you haven’t seen it yet. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of racism, racial violence & discrimination, colonization, enslavement, hate groups Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com ) Music: E...

Lack of eye contact ratio continues to be a problem 30 years later for the young adults of Southport.  WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?  Listen to find out if the new person behind the slicker got slick-er in 2025’s I Know What You Did Last Summer. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion about addiction Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fat...

All aboard the Antonia Graza where the entertainment is to die for and horrors are senza fine.  Travel back in time to a more grim time (2002) as we explore the seas in Ghost Ship. ***CONTENT WARNING: death of a child Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com ) Music: Epic Industrial Music Trai...

Today we check another movie off Elyse’s “Never Will I Ever Watch” list where the aliens may not look at much, but they hear all.  Skip the bag of chips and don’t make a sound as we whisper through 2018’s A Quiet Place. ***CONTENT WARNING: death of a child Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriellefatula....

Maxine Minx has gone Hollywood and is on the run from more than just Pearl and her farmhouse.  Enjoy the third installment of Ti West’s franchise with a view from the Hollywood sign in 2024’s MaXXXine. ***CONTENT WARNING: violence against sex workers, drug use, religious trauma, true crime involving sexual assault Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.c...

In anticipation of the holiday weekend, we’re headed to the beach to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the summertime slasher that started it all: Jaws (1975). ***CONTENT WARNING: death of a child Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com ) Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd...

This month’s theme has been one hell of a ride, but we’re slowing to a stop to get a clear snapshot of death’s design in 2006’s Final Destination 3. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, 9/11 Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com ) Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd...

As the lore begins to pile up, we have to log everything we know about death’s design before we submerge too far and lose sight of the surface.  See how clear these rivers truly are in 2003’s Final Destination 2. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, loss of a child  Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@...

When 7 people cheat death’s design, the path forward isn’t as Clear as it appears.  Come find out why you don’t want to mess with the Mack Daddy Grim Reaper in 2000’s Final Destination. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion 9/11, hanging, suicide  Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com ) Music: Epi...

A night of Sax and Stars on the boardwalk opens up a underworld of glam rock aesthetics, motorcycling on the beach, and vampires…what could go wrong?  Celebrate Shay’s birthday with the 1987 bloodsucking bash, The Lost Boys. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of child abuse, sexual abuse Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula...

Iris was ready to spend a relaxing weekend by the lake with her boyfriend - but when she’s forced to kill the host of the party, she realizes that her relaxing was never a part of the program.  Make sure your voice command settings are turned off before tuning in to 2025’s Companion. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual assault, suicide  Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us a...

When Reese gets a crush on a theater nerd, he’s faced with the Troy Bolton conundrum of love or football…and he’s going to wish he chose football.  Sneak into school with us after hours to catch a midnight performance of The Gallows (2015). ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of hanging  Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (...

For Elyse’s birthday episode, we’re taking it way (way, way) back to one of the oldest horror films to grace our screens (except this time it’s in 4k).  Join us as we unwrap the most twisted love triangle to date in Nosferatu.   ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of childhood sexual abuse/grooming, death of children, necrophilia  Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspod...

Happy Mother’s Day!  Make sure you water your plants on stable ladders, avoid unnecessary globe-trotting, and check your kid for birthmarks before tuning in to our coverage of the poster-child for being child-free by choice in 1976’s The Omen. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, infanticide, religion  Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Art...

A night of roleplay with a stranger from a bar ends with a homemade breakfast in a farmhouse in the woods - but this isn’t the romance you may think.  Join us on a misadventure of expectations in 2023’s Strange Darling. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual violence & assault Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (...

What do you get when you cross the DNA of a human, salamander, kangaroo, fish, stingray, and bird?  A very twisted encore to body horror month with 2009’s Splice. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual assault, incest, domestic abuse, forced pregnancy, death of an animal Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle...

Beware the stare of Mary Shaw She had no children, only dolls This movie may be insufferably blue But bite your tongue, and we’ll Dead Silence (2007) to you Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com ) Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd Standard Music License  Sources:  Dead...

We’re back from spring break and taking on a MisterRei(d) full of religious horror in 2024’s Heretic. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of religious trauma, entrapment Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com ) Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd Standard Music License  Sources...

To close out our body horror month, we’re discussing an extraterrestrial being that brings with it extra-tentacle effects in 2011’s prequel to the 1982 classic, The Thing. ***CONTENT WARNING: mention of sexual assault, suicide Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com) Music: Epic Industrial Mus...

We’re taking some active recovery during our body horror month with The Stuff (1985)…it’s never enough. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of racism, diet culture  Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com ) Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd Standard Music License  Sources:  Eg...

Before brat juice and The Substance, there was another green serum that was raising hell in the 80’s.  Listen in as we take on our second installment of our body horror month with 1985’s Reanimator. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of sexual assault, death of an animal Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ( gabrielle@gabr...