All Things Horror

Joined by special guest Ashley Savage we discussed SAW. Saw  is a 2004 American horror film directed by James Wan, in his feature directorial debut, and written by Leigh Whannell. It is the first installment in the  Saw  film series, and stars Whannell alongside Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, and Ken Leung.

The Evil Dead  is a 1981 American supernatural horror film written and directed by  Sam Raimi. The film stars  Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker  and Theresa Tilly. The story focuses on five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a remote wooded area. After they find an audio tape that, when played, releases a legion of demons and spirits, four members...

Halloween III: Season of the Witch  is a 1982 American sci-fi horror film and the third installment in the  Halloween  film series. It is the first film to be written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. John Carpenter and Debra Hill, the creators of  Halloween  and  Halloween II , return as producers. Starring: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin & Dan O'Herlihy

Killer Klowns from Outer Space  is a 1988 American science fiction horror comedy film. Written, Directed and Produced by the Chiodo Brothers. Starring:  Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson and John Vernon. It concerns a clan of evil extra-terrestrials who resemble clowns. They arrive on Earth and invade a small town in order to capture, kill and harvest the human inhabitants to use as...

Friday the 13th Part 2 is a 1981 American slasher film produced and directed by Steve Miner in his directorial debut. It is a direct sequel to Friday the 13th (1980), and the second installment in the franchise.  Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, and Walt Gorney reprise their respective roles from the first film as Alice Hardy, Pamela Voorhees, and Crazy Ralph.  Amy Steel and John Furey also star. Taki...

Scream  is a 1996 American slasher film directed by  Wes Craven  and written by  Kevin Williamson. It stars  David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich  and  Drew Barrymore. Set in the small American town of Woodsboro,  Scream 's plot follows high school student Sidney Prescott and her friends, who, on the anniversary of her mother's murder, b...

Aliens  is a 1986 science fiction action horror film written and directed by James Cameron. It is the sequel to the 1979 science fiction horror film  Alien , and the second film in the  Alien  franchise. Set in the far future, it stars  Sigourney Weaver  as Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of an alien attack on her ship. When communications are lost with a human colony on the moon where her crew fi...

Hellbound: Hellraiser II  is a 1988 supernatural horror film directed by Tony Randel. Starring Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham and Doug Bradley. The second film in the  Hellraiser  franchise,  Hellraiser II  draws heavily upon (and was made by much of the same cast and crew as) its precursor,  Hellraiser , which was released a year before. Ashley Laurence reprises her role as Kirst...

Halloween II  is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Rick Rosenthal, in his directorial debut, written and produced by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence who reprise their respective roles as Laurie Strode and Dr. Sam Loomis. It is the second installment in the  Halloween  film series and is a continuation sequel to Halloween (1978). The plot picks u...

The Fly II  is a 1989 American science fiction horror film directed by  Chris Walas . The film stars  Eric Stoltz  and  Daphne Zuniga , and is a sequel to the 1986 film  The Fly. Stoltz's character in this sequel is the adult son of Veronica Quaife and Seth Brundle, a scientist who became a human-fly hybrid as a result of an experiment gone awry, played by  Jeff Goldblum  in the 1986 film. Wit...

The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel of the same name. The film stars Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow & Jason Miller. The story follows the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother's attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.

ATH welcomes special guest Lana Stacey to the show for her first (and hopefully not last) appearance. Christine is a 1983 American supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter. Starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky and Harry Dean Stanton. Based on Stephen King's 1983 novel of the same name, the movie follows the changes in the lives of Arnie Cunningham, hi...

Creepshow is a 1982 American horror comedy anthology film directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King, making this film his screenwriting debut. The film's ensemble cast includes Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye, E. G. Marshall, and Viveca Lindfors as well as King himself. Creepshow consists of five short stories: "Father's Day&quot...

Hellraiser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on Barker's 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart.  Its plot involves a mystical puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between pain and pleasure. The leader of the Cenobites is portrayed by Doug Bradley, and identified in the se...

Friday the 13th is a 1980 American independent slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller. Starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon. Its plot follows a group of teenage camp counselors who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while attempting to re-open an abandone...

Nightbreed is a 1990 American dark fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella Cabal. It stars Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, and Doug Bradley. The film follows an unstable mental patient named Aaron Boone who is falsely led to believe by his doctor that he is a serial killer. Tracked down by the police, his doctor,...

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut), with P. J. Soles and Nancy Loomis in supporting roles. Set mostly in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, the plot centers on a mental patient, Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitari...

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, who, after coming across a mysterious derelict spaceship on an uncharted planetoid, find themselves up against an aggressive and deadly extraterrestrial set loose on the Nostromo. The fil...

Joel Schumacher's teen vampire thriller blends horror, humor, and plenty of visual style with standout performances from a cast full of young 1980s. Lucy along with her two sons, Michael and Sam moves to a small town in California. Soon, the two boys are sucked into the mysterious and dangerous world of bikers, vampires and vampire hunters. The film's main cast includes: Jason Patric, Kief...

Host is a 2020 British screenlife supernatural horror film directed by Rob Savage. Host takes place on a screencast of a video call on Zoom, and is presented as a computer screen film. Starring Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova and Caroline Ward, it features a group of friends who attempt to escape a deadly supernatural force inadvertently spawned during a séance. After...

The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter A group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extra-terrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms. The group is overcome by paranoia and conflict as they learn that they can no longer trust each other and that any of them could be the Thing....

Insidious is a 2010 supernatural horror film directed by James Wan, written by Leigh Whannell, and starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Barbara Hershey. It is the first installment in the Insidious franchise, and the third in terms of the series' in-story chronology. The story centers on a married couple whose boy inexplicably enters a comatose state and becomes a vessel for a variety of demon...

An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 comedy horror film written and directed by John Landis. The film's plot follows two American backpackers, David and Jack, who are attacked by a werewolf while travelling in England, causing David to become a werewolf under the next full moon.

For our first episode we will be discussing The Fly from 1986. A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.