Brides of Frankenstein

The ooky-spooky season continues! This week the Brides head on back to Haddonfield to discuss the better-than-it-has-any-right-to-be 2018 sequel to Halloween , also titled Halloween ! We explain how the script retcons everything past the original film AND nails Laurie Strode's trauma, and generally wax rhapsodic about Judy Greer's genius. We also bemoan the  crazy amount of true crime podcast...

It's the most wonderful time of the year! To celebrate the ooky-spooky season, the Brides are coming at you with THREE episodes this month! And we we had to start with a trip to Haddonfield. That's right, today we're celebrating the Daddy of slasher pics, John Carpenter's Halloween ! We discuss what makes this movie so good (a holy combination of acting, directing, and Debra Hill), how every victi...

"It's just a sea of butts." This week is Alysa's birthday, so she picks the movie - no vetoes allowed. The Brides head to Ipswich, MA, and attempt to make sense of the 2006 Renny Harlin bro-d out witchcraft movie, The Covenant. Did anybody know how homoerotic this was going to turn out? Why does this movie sound like a drug PSA but with witches? Does the director know any human women? Why is the m...

"I did not enjoy watching this." This week, the Brides gnaw on some homemade headcheese and get delirious with heat stroke as we discuss one of cinema's sweatiest films: Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.  Along the way, we touch on the truly horrific conditions of the shoot, how one of the best shots in horror almost didn't make the cut, and Hooper sincerely trying to get this movie rate...

It's an extraterrestrial body horror extravaganza! This week, the Brides board the Nostromo and recap/discuss Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi classic, Alien. Why do people ignore quarantine protocol? Is Ash's secret a worthwhile addition to the film?  Could all of this have been avoided if everyone listened to Ripley? (Yes.) We also engage in the obligatory "H.R. Geiger's house of steampunk organs...

This week, the Brides lean all the way into isolation and head to Antarctica to recap John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi thriller classic, The Thing. This movie has everything - tone, tension, brilliantly placed humor, exploding eyeballs, a head that turns into a spider, even computerized chess. It's all here! Plus, Lindsay has a lot of opinions about the critical response to the film and celebrates the...

This week, the Brides pop in Sclera lenses, load up on Karo syrup, and open the Necronomicon in our gleeful recap of Sam Raimi's beloved demonic gorefest The Evil Dead. We discuss the brilliance of Bruce Campbell, the sheer nightmare that was this film's production, and how Raimi's background as a magician helped him pioneer some of the coolest looking shots in horror film history. We also touch o...

This week on our first official episode, we tackle the 1977 Dario Argento classic, Suspiria, as well as the fantastic 2018 Luca Guadagnino remake of the same name. What makes a remake good? Why are the magical rules at the end of the movie? Why does Mother Markos look like Pizza the Hutt? And does Alysa's impression of Madame Tanner sound like Italian Dracula or Chef Boyardee? Stay tuned at the en...

In which the Brides introduce themselves, their love of horror, and their long friendship that hearkens back to the glory days of Livejournal. Plus, Lindsay and Alysa admit their love of Basic White Men.