Brides of Frankenstein

This week is Ally's birthday, so the Brides are switching it up and goofing around by presenting a collection of Letterboxd reviews from each movie covered on the pod! There's really no structure to this one, gang - it's just Lindsay and Ally making each other laugh for half an hour, and really, isn't that what friendship is all about? Part Two coming soon! Shoutout to the Dead Mea...

Feel Bad Fall has arrived! Fire up the buggy and roast your finest pig, this week the Brides are recapping the 2022 instant classic, Pearl . Ti West's prequel, famously shot concurrently (and in secret!) to X, is a brilliant examination of slowly creeping psychosis as well as a loving tribute to the melodramatic, Technicolor extravaganzas of the 1930s and 40s. We chat about Mia Goth's abso...

AND WE'RE BACK! This week, the Brides return to your ears and go over everything that's happened since the last episode dropped in December 2021 (what is time, anyway?). Alysa spills the tea about her recent wedding, Lindsay gabs about her awesome new promotion at work, and they give a few subtle (or extremely overt) hints about the upcoming season! Get ready for Feel Bad Fall!

This week the Brides take a trip to the quiet, snow-covered, definitely not creepy at all Overlook Hotel for a spirited discussion on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining ! A faithful adaptation of Stephen King's novel, this is not. And Kubrick's treatment of Shelley Duval on set was borderline abusive (maybe even just straight up abusive)? But The Shining remains a brilliantly unsettling journey into ma...

HALLOWEEEEEEEN!!! Today is the best day of the year, so the Brides are dropping one heck of a fun episode. Today we're going into the light and chatting all things Poltergeist ! This is one of the rare horror movies that's both incredibly creepy and very, very funny, with a lot of surprisingly wholesome family dynamics. Perhaps that's because Stephen Spielberg wrote the script and also claimed he...

It's finally here - the most wonderful time of the year - SPOOKY SEASON HAS RETURNED! The Brides kick off their Halloween celebrations with yet another vampire movie, the brilliantly creepy Nosferatu! Released in 1922, F.W. Murnau's deep dive into German Expressionist horror is the first onscreen retelling of Dracula , even though the studio definitely didn't have the rights to Stoker's novel and...

It's Birthday Mandate time, and by Alysa's command, the Brides are dodging extreme acting and buckets of blood for a chat all about Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 epic, Bram Stoker's Dracula ! Alysa shares how watching this movie's trailer at a very young age during a screening of A League of Their Own traumatized her for literal years, while Lindsay recaps her experience of watching it this week for...

Today the Brides hang with some very needy ghosts who don't know they're dead - it's 1999's The Sixth Sense ! M. Night Shyamalan has spent the last 21 years trying to live up to this film's extremely lofty expectations - sometimes it works out ( The Visit ), sometimes it doesn't ( The Last Airbender, Lady In the Water, After Earth ). But what works in this movie really, really works, in no small p...

This week, the Brides get smacked around with a social commentary 2x4 as we try to find anything good to say about 2013's The Purge . You know a movie is awful when even the great Lena Headey and usually reliable Ethan Hawke can't save it. This movie is atrociously written, poorly paced, and its hamfisted attempt at SERIOUS MESSAGING ABOUT AMERICA is all the more infuriating when looked at in a po...

It's summertime, and that means a trip to Camp Crystal Lake! This week the Brides break down the unintentionally hilarious, still pretty effective Friday the 13th . It's got everything Halloween 's got...because it deliberately ripped off Halloween. Let's face it, this movie is real silly and is mainly a vehicle for gory kills, but it can't be overstated how important Friday the 13th is to the cre...

"The trailer is what I wanted this movie to be." This week, the Brides head back to Texas for a recap of the most aggressively "meh" film in our podcast's short history: the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This is one of the most toothless, gutless, boring entries in the early 2000s American remake-a-palooza (this is the one that started it all, so....you're welcome?). It's even more a...

It's a beautiful day, the beaches are open, and everyone is having a wonderful time! This 4th of July weekend the Brides are headed to Amity for the third season premiere, talking about all things Jaws ! This movie is the big bad granddaddy of summer blockbusters, in which every single thing that could go wrong on a film shoot, did so in catastrophic fashion. Seriously, who thought to build a mech...

LET THE FESTIVITIES BEGIN! This week on our season 2 finale, the Brides head to Sweden, trip out on some shrooms, and try to ignore the very large bear in our gleeful recap of the haunting, thrilling, and extremely satisfying 2019 'folk horror' film, Midsommar . This might be the most fun movie ever made about a Swedish death cult. Ari Aster is one of the most exciting horror directors working tod...

Today, the Brides are one hundred percent going to make sense of James Wan's 2010 film, Insidious . We swear. By the end of the episode, we will understand why this haunted house story turns in the last 40 minutes into a story about astral projection??? With a ton of ghost mythos that never fully gets explained???? And Lin Shaye wearing a gas mask to channel ghosts during a seance?????? We don't e...

Oh boy. On this episode, the Brides are taking a trip into the woods and dodging a flesh-eating virus and lots of early 2000s humor as we try to make heads or tails of Eli Roth's 2002 gorefest Cabin Fever . This movie doesn't quite know what it's trying to be - a parody of horror movies, a grimdark tribute to the movies Roth clearly loves, or somewhere in between. All we know is, most of it doesn'...

We promised we'd be back in the realm of completely messed up and traumatizing films and we ALWAYS deliver! This week the Brides head to Barcelona and get stuck in the worst penthouse ever as we cover the 2007 found-footage masterpiece [•REC] ! Found footage movies became almost a punch line in the mid-Aughts and 2010s, with the genre nearly over-saturating the market. But what makes [•REC] so dif...

For the first time in Brides of Frankenstein history, the Brides are in disagreement about a film! Today we are taking a drop-ship to LV-426 (aka Acheron) to discuss James Cameron's 1986 beefed-up sequel to Alien, creatively titled Aliens. Let's be real: this is not a horror movie, and if you're looking for a direct continuation of the tone explored in Ridley Scott's OG masterwork, you won't get t...

Finally, a movie that makes sense! This week, the Brides pull up to the Bates Motel for a spirited discussion on Alfred Hitchcock's seminal thriller, Psycho. We rave about the spotless editing, Anthony Perkins' legendary performance, the straight up hot opening scene, and obviously beautiful and iconic score by Bernard Hermann. I We also debate if viewing this movie through a 2021 lens makes Norma...

This week, the Brides are back in Derry and recapping the crushing disappointment that is It: Chapter Two ! Man. This is one of the most woefully messy films we'll ever cover on the show, specifically because everything that does work gets swallowed up by over-zealous directing, a script stuffed full of bloat, and characters that didn't need to be here (seriously, why is Henry Bowers in this movie...

Welcome to the Losers Club! This week, the Brides head to Derry, Maine, to talk all about 2017's It Chapter One. Topics covered in this episode include: why this Stephen King adaptation works as opposed to Children of the Corn , the pitch perfect casting for the Losers, the tendency of director Andy Muschietti to go HUGE with set pieces and imagery, Henry Bowers' truly scary mullet, and the infuri...

The Brides are back for season 2! This week, we get lost in Gatlin, Nebraska, and try to make even a little bit of sense out of the 1984 adaptation of Stephen King's Children of the Corn. Over the course of a purely chaotic hour we wonder who put Linda Hamilton in those unforgivable khakis, pick at the plot strands that go absolutely nowhere, and marvel at the clearly 35 year old 'stunt chest' in...

On this, our Season 1 finale, the Brides of Frankenstein celebrate Lindsay's birthday mandate with one of her favorite films, Wes Craven's Scream ! We rave about the brilliance of the opening scene, the genius, bordering-on-unhinged performance of Matthew Lillard, the way the characters talk and how it mirrored the way we all thought we sounded as kids (which we did NOT), and how the costumer for...

This week, the Brides open Lemarchand's puzzle box and experience the limits of pleasure and pain as we explore Clive Barker's landmark 1987 bondage-fueled horrorscape Hellraiser . Along the way, we ask the truly important questions: Is this the horniest movie we'll ever cover? Did the term 'milquetoast' get invented for the character of Larry? Is any sexual experience worth what Julia does in thi...

This week, the Brides celebrate the restoration of democracy to America by gleefully dissecting James Wan's 2013 demon-possessed masterpiece, The Conjuring .  How is this movie still so terrifying, even after multiple rewatches? We also ponder why the actual Annabelle doll is in fact scarier than the Victorian demon toy in the film, and what made Ed and Lorraine Warren so utterly compelling a...

On this special 'live commentary' episode, the Brides watch the 2007 classic anthology Trick r Treat ! Join us as we talk over this wonderful film that encapsulates some of the best things about this holiday. How terrifyingly adorable is Sam? How come nobody knows the rules of Halloween? Is the Brian Cox set-piece just a little too long? Is this the best werewolf storyline ever put on film? We als...