Abby Normal Podcast

We are back this week with another review for you all, we will be discussing the latest film Cocaine Bear directed by Elizabeth Banks. We are really excited to be going over this film as it one of the few horror-comedies we've covered on the podcast, and we've heard so many good things about it from others!

Hello friends! We're back after a week long break to review The Menu which was released in 2022. Collin enjoyed it a lot more than I thought he would. Be sure to follow Alea on Letterboxd for more reviews on other horror films she has watched over the years.

We hope you all are fond of our guest specials because we have one more for you. This week we will be discussing Smile (2022) with Josh Bragg of Haunting Season. We really enjoyed talking with Josh about the film along with the ever growing horror community on social media, it is always fun to talk with fellow fans of the genre.

We have another movie review this week with some amazing guest hosts. This week we are joined by Steve Goldberg and Sean Parker from Mostly Horror Podcast to go into a deep dive review of M3GAN, one of the highest grossing films of the year (so far). We are so excited to be inviting more guests on the podcast and we hope to have more surprises for you in the coming weeks/months/years!

Happy (Belated) Valentines Day to everyone. We sat down with Ben Scrivens, the Owner/President of Fright-Rags and reviewed this 1981 classic holiday horror, My Bloody Valentine. We hope you enjoy this week's episode, Ben shares a lot of fascinating stories with us and was a joy talking to about all things horror.

Happy Sunday! This week we may possibly be wrapping up this franchise review as the 2021 film Spiral is still unavailable to stream for the time being, if so then we hope you enjoy this week's episode as we discuss the seventh and eighth film of the Saw series; Saw 3D and Jigsaw.

Hello listeners, wanna play a game? We are going to be continuing the Saw franchise review and covering films Saw V and Saw VI. The games get more intense as we go through each film along with real world concepts included in the plots of each movie. Make sure to tune in next week as we go forward in this franchise.

Happy Birthday to Collin! If you've been with us since season 2 of the podcast then you know we like to treat ourselves to personal movie selection reviews for our birthday episodes. This week's episode is brought to you by Collin who has chosen Fred Dekker's The Monster Squad (1987).

Welcome back to part 2 of the Saw franchise review. If you made it thus far, we applaud you and your strong stomach. In this episode we will be discussing the films Saw III and Saw IV both directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Leigh Whannell.

Ever since Alea watched almost all of the Saw movies (with the exception of Spiral) late last year, she has been dying to unpack everything she has taken in. In this episode we will be discussing the first two films of the franchise Saw and Saw II.

We're kicking off 2023 with a cryptid episode! There are plenty of horror films that highlight all types of cyrtid creatures and in this weeks episode, we will be covering the Chupacabra. A reptilian/canine type creature known for sucking the blood out of livestock. We will also be highlighting a film starring the mythical being, Chupacabra: Dark Seas aka Chupacabra Terror.

Happy Holidays listeners! We're wrapping up the year with a Winter Holiday Horror Movie Review! We've dabbled a bit on the 2015 film Krampus in recent years but this year we're going on a deeper dive on our favorite holiday horror movie. From the director who brought you our favorite Halloween horror flick Trick R' Treat, we hope you enjoy our episode.

This is going to be an interesting episode because only Alea has watched Barbarian and Collin has not, so Alea is going to break down the movie in detail to someone who has not seen it yet. Let's see if she can sell the movie to Collin or paint such an off-putting word picture that will scar him for life. Spoiler Warning & Trigger Warning as this movie contains themes of sexual assault/rape/suicid...

Hey listeners! We're still sick with the flu but we're pulling through for you! We watched Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities collection of short stories and we're ranking each of them from best to worst between Alea's list and Collin's list. We hope you enjoy this week's episode and look forward to the next few week's as we approach the end of the year and the end of a season for the Abb...

We're so sorry for the delay for this week's episode.  A lot was going on at the Abby Normal homestead that we had to take care of, but it did give us a little extra time to prepare for our general review of a 1987 Thanksgiving horror flick called Blood Rage. If you celebrate Thanksgiving, we hope you all enjoy the holiday and have a safe weekend and we'll be back next week hopefully at our regula...

On this weeks episode we play not one but two rounds of Trivial Pursuit games. We play a round of the Horror Edition of Trivial Pursuit in the first half of the episode, then we played a fun round of Nightmare Before Christmas Trivial Pursuit in the second half so our listeners are getting twice the fun of trivia in one episode. This weeks episode also comes with a poll for our listeners to vote i...

Just because Halloween is over doesn't mean we can't talk about it, nor does it mean we can't play a Halloween based trivia game of our favorite show. If you like Bob's Burger's and have seen all of the Halloween episodes, then follow along and enjoy the silliness that is Belcher Family Halloween.

Happy Halloween everyone! (or Abbyween if you're Collin). This week's episode we'll be going over our Halloween weekend festivities. Collin's band had a great turn out at the Bug Jar on Friday night, we got to experience a memorable Meet & Greet event at the Little Theatre on Saturday and spent a leisurely artsy Sunday. We got married on October 30th, 2021 so this Sunday was really special for bot...

Good evening. Welcome to another episode of the Abby Normal Podcast. This week we will be discussing the Universal 1931 film Dracula and it's 1992 remake Bram Stoker's Dracula. We both enjoyed the original and its remake version, but if you want to know which one we found more compelling, tune in and enjoy your weekly program. Spoiler Warning: Major plot points of the following films will be discu...

Hello listeners! We worked very hard to bring Part 2 of our interview with Carolyn to you all. We talk a lot about recent movie release and the plots of them so a spoiler warnings now before you go in. We hope you enjoyed listening to our conversations with Carolyn because we might bring her back for more movie reviews.

Oh my god! You guys are in for a treat! If you know us and have been following the podcast for a while then you know a bit about our friend of the pod, Carolyn Prevost. Carolyn is our good friend who enjoys all things horror, so much so that she is our movie theater buddy so we wanted to get her on the podcast to discuss horror in depth. We had such as great interview that we had over 3 hours of r...

Hi listeners, we're so exited for this weeks episode because we're joined with our friend Adam Kramer from So I've Been Told Podcast to talk about his favorite horror franchise, Sleepaway Camp. This franchise has five films surrounding the events of a girl named Angela committing grisly murders on campgrounds. We hope you enjoy this weeks episode as much as we did and we'll be booking more intervi...

Yes, you read it right. We recently discovered a Trivial Pursuit game centered around Alea's absolute favorite movie from her childhood A Nightmare Before Christmas (which explains a lot). Play along with us as we ask questions in categories of Behind the Scenes, Halloween Town, Christmas Town, Trick or Treat and Alea's personal favorite SONGS. Stick around, you might Alea actually sing some of he...

Hi friends! We're going to wind down a bit this week with a fun conversation about fan theories in the horror genre movie that we love. We'll be looking into more theories in the months to come but if you, our audience have horror theories of your own you would like for us to discuss, look out for our Instagram stories. We'll be asking our followers to submit theories to us for future Horror Theor...

The wait is finally over, and so is this entire franchise review! We thank those who have stuck with us these past few weeks while we tried our best to provide good episodes for you all. The amount of time researching, recording, editing and posting can take hours but it's been taking us a couple of days to wrap up this final installment and we really appreciate the patience from our wonderful lis...