100 Horrors

It is a sad (but true) fact that teenagers are 3 times more likely to crash their cars than people over the age of 20. It is however, entirely possible that these figures have been skewed by teens driving possessed cars, as Arnie Cunningham, the protagonist in John Carpenter's Christine does. This week we welcome Mr George Martin (not that one, or that one) into the studio to discuss an often over...

Hollywood: The creative centre of the universe... until it runs out of ideas and looks to the East for already successful Japanese movies to remake. I'll be honest, I'm glad they did this. Gore Verbinski's 2002 remake of Ringu (The Ring) is one of the last few films on this poster that I absolutely love. Gorgeous cinematography, excellent narrative pacing and a scene where a horse gets churned up...

Which is the worse Friday? The one the kids in Sean S Cunningham 1980 genre cementing slasher flick have to endure while vacationing at Camp Crystal Lake, or the one that Rebecca Black subjected us all to that summer in 2011? We know which one we’d vote for, but as you know by now, our ability to rate anything is sketchy at best, so our answer is surely going to alienate the majority of the popula...

Children: Murderous? Sometimes. Fanatical? Occasionally. Easy to batter? Always. Just why the two leads in this Stephen King adaptation don’t realise that children are the optimum size for a boot in the face is beyond us, but a lot of the kids in Fritz Kiersch’s 1984 Children of the Corn look like they’ve already taken a blow or two to the face anyway, so maybe that’s not the best way to correct b...

Rumour has it that a lot of the more brutal scenes in Last House on the Left have been lost to the ages, and I say 'Thank God'. This film is a filthy, sordid little turd on the shoe of cinema history, but for some reason people seem to love it. This week we got stuck in to Wes Craven's seminal rape-revenge picture The Last House on the Left to see if we could work out why... (SPOILERS: We couldn't...

This week we buddied up with our ex-friends Spoils of Horror to do an episode swap. I say "ex-friends" because while we sent them the EXCELLENT movie 'The Greasy Strangler', they sent us the diabolical Q: The Winged Serpent. You can listen to their hilarious take on The Greasy Strangler by searching for Spoils of Horror on any podcast outlet, and you can hear us gripe about how much we disliked th...

Ah, masculinity. Beautiful. Fragile. Terrifying. American Psycho was written by a gay man and directed by a woman and is a fiercely satirical glimpse into what it's like to be a man in the modern(ish) world. The film is an absolute classic and offers a rare glimpse into the fabled female gaze, something which is all too rare within the horror genre. AND, it's also a fantastic opportunity to see Ch...

We've had the pleasure of exploring some incredible films over the last 60 something weeks. We got to explore Rosemary's Baby, a film that digs deep into society's treatment of women and the systematic delegitimizing of the state of motherhood. We watched The Hills Have Eyes, which while boring, did pose a series of interesting questions around morality and ethics in modern America. This week we w...

We love a special guest. We love when we're related to that special guest. We love when that guest is frightened of horror films, and we especially love when they still find Wes Craven's 1996 Meta-Slasher actually scary! Ash Murray is on the show this week to discuss the only horror film she can watch "without shitting [her] pants"... her words, not ours...

Life in a Swedish suburb looks grim enough as it is. I hate the cold. Perma-snow. Perma-snotty-nose. Perma-coats. Throw a vampire into that mix and you have Hell. An actual living Hell. But, is viewing this film as grim as being in it looked? Tune in to episode 064 to find out!

Directed by Roman Polanski in 1968, this film ruined the marriage of it's leading lady, and if superstitious nutters are to be believed, it directly caused the murder of pregnant Sharon Tate only months after its release. Yeah, it's one of THOSE movies... Tune in to hear what we had to say on the matter!

Some films take on legendary status due to their incredible performances, some for their insightful narratives, some for the impact they make on the wider society, and some because they're just disgusting torture porn that leave a sick legacy of poor imitations in their wake. This week we discuss Eli Roth's 2005 film Hostel. We'll let you decide which of the aforementioned categories this one fits...

The term "modern classic" is thrown around all too often these days, and 2014's Annabelle is no exception. Directed by John Leonetti, Annabelle is a prequel (who doesn't love those, right?) to 2013's The Conjuring. Both films are based on the sordid lies of the Warren family, and so you can disregard everything about this being a true story. Honestly, look at the doll in this and then google "the...

Believe it or not, Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" is based on a true story. In 1961 the residents of Capitola in California were viscously attacked by flocks of gulls that had become infected with a brain eating parasite. It was by all accounts, a horrific attack... And yet, I feel that the savagery about to land in our inboxes is going to way overshadow the events in Capitola on that dark day in...

This week we welcome Mr Patrick Jordan back to discuss Joe Dante's Gremlins; a film which holds legendary status for those who grew up watching it. As you can tell, we did not grow up watching it. Please address all complaints to @100Horrors on twitter. The instagram inbox is getting considerably clogged... 

Fun Fact: In our first year of broadcast, over 2000 people started listening to an episode of 100 Horrors and then turned it off after just one minute! I guess we're not to everyone's taste, much like today's film - Bird Box (nice segue, I know...). Released straight to Netflix in 2018, Bird Box is a Susanne Bier directed relatively big budget genre bending horror film that you'll either love or h...

Yeah, we'd never heard of this one either. Apparently it's Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece... there's another name we'd not come across. Honestly, I wish this poster would start to throw a few classics our way for us to sink our teeth into... Nah, it's a classic, obviously! Big thanks to Josh for coming down to guest on the show for the second time in two weeks! 

Dogs are hard. Soldiers are hard. DOG SOLDIERS ARE PROPER HARD! Join us this week as we delve into the directorial debut of British directing powerhouse Neil Marshall. 

In Stephen King's novel, Carrie is described as being "slightly unattractive", overweight with pimples on her neck, back and arse. Brian De Palma threw this description out of the window for the film adaptation and instead spent a week shooting nude scenes with Sissy Spacek and her 20-something friends in what is one of the most gratuitous opening scenes of any horror film ever. Surprisingly, the...

Picture this - A population gripped with fear and torn apart by violence. Streets overflowing with litter. The stench of rot is everywhere and those who are unlucky enough to survive have to all pile into single room apartments too cramped to even swing a cat... This is London... Now imagine how bad it would be in the middle of a (sort of) zombie apocalypse!! Seriously though, you don't have to im...

100 Horrors is a comedy podcast that seeks to rank the best one-hundred horror films of all time (as dictated by a poster that one of us owns). Every week we bicker over another film in an attempt to give it an overall Scare-Factor and secure its place in the 100 Horrors list. With features such as I don’t want to die, but at least I won’t die like that and What would you say at the victim’s funer...

People love movies. People love video games. Do people love video game movie adaptations? Of course they don't, they're terrible. Tune in to find out if Christophe Gans' 2006 adaptation of Silent Hill bucks this trend. 

If it's in a word, or its in a look, it's probably in Jenifer Kent's 2014 creature feature The Babadook! A massive horrid home invading being? Check! A subtext about the LGBTQ community? Check! People throwing up a load of black stuff? You'd better believe that's a check! Tune in to this week's 100 Horrors as we discuss the lot!

This week we welcome back our zombie expert, Mr Rick Baker to discuss 2009's Nazi Zombie horror Dead Snow! Directed by Tommy Wirkola, Dead Snow blends the scariest villains from history with the scariest villains from the horror world, but does this double dose of horror translate successfully to the screen? Tune in to this week's 100 Horrors to find out!

WOAH! WE'RE HALFWAY THERE, WO-AH LIVING ON A SCARE!! Seriously though, for the halfway mark of 100 Horrors we decided to dive right into a stone cold classic and explore John Carpenter's Halloween! We even had an impromptu visitor come along for this episode, who we instantly outraged with some pretty low scoring... you know where to send the hate mail...