Bring Me The Axe! Horror Podcast

Dave and Bryan take a look at a staple of the cult movie circuit, Brian De Palma's bizarre pop music opera and riff on gothic horror, Phantom of the Paradise. It's a wild ride through the nostalgia wave of the 1970's, standout performances from a bright cast, and the music of the movie's villain, Paul Williams, whose hair is just magnificent! Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9yof8cwli4 Su...

Bryan and Dave are joined this week by drag performer extraordinaire, Peaches Christ, to talk about the arch-80's vampire classic from 1985, Fright Night, starring William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, and Chris Sarandon (making his second appearance on the pod). It's an awesome movie that could have been even better for reasons we get deep in the weeds over. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P...

This week Bryan and Dave take a trip to Baltimore for a look at John Waters' transitional picture, Polyester, bridging the gap between his combative, confrontational midnight shockers of the 1970s and his commercial breakthrough in the 1980s. This tour de force let the world know that Divine was more than just an art terrorist in drag but a real, capable comedic actor. When it comes to Polyester,...

This week Bryan and Dave kick off the new year and hit peak holiday horror movie burnout when they go deep with the 1980 slasher movie, New Year's Evil. Cannon Group wasn't exactly known for horror movies and it'll take them a few years before they work it out but these nascent attempts to get a piece of the action during the golden age of the slasher turned out some really weird misfires and New...

In the inaugural episode of 99 Cent Rental, brothers Bryan and Dave take a deep dive into the world of Italian exploitation movies with what is ostensibly the perfect specimen of spaghetti apocalypse movies, 1990: The Bronx Warriors. As well as being one of the better examples of the genre, it's also the debut of one of Italy's most peculiar (and tragic) stars, Mark Gregory, a young man of excepti...

Amid the 2023 summer frenzy of Barbie-fever we discovered a movie made by the Ken doll's namesake, Ken Handler. It's a vanity project that seeks to exploit two of the mid-80's most exploitable trends: the raunchy sex comedy and the breakdance movie and commits to neither of these things. Instead, it serves as light-hearted comedic confession of Handler's classist kink for exploiting smooth, poor,...

Agnes, it's me, Billy! Bryan and Dave close out their holiday season series with a real deep dive into Bob Clark's masterpiece, Black Christmas. It's the prototype for the slasher movies that followed. It's a movie stuffed with a diabolical eye for detail and unbearable tension. There's a killer so twisted and weird that you reflexively turn away. There's a cast so likable and fleshed out that you...

This week Bryan and Dave take a look back at Bring Me The Axe! year one and all the horror movies released in 2023. They run down the losers, the winners, and the just okay. Find out where all your favorite horror movies of this year landed and prepare to be outraged by hot takes and surprising reviews. Where did Scream 6 land? How do we feel about Skinamarink? Are we just too old to properly appr...

This week, Bryan and Dave are joined by author, Joe Vallese, and hope that Santa will judge them to be good because they definitely don't want to get on his bad side as they dive head first into 1984's Santa slasher movie, Silent Night, Deadly Night. The movie that went too far. The movie that put the chill on 80's slasher movies for a couple of years. The movie that parent groups organized and pr...

Bryan and Dave have such sights to show you! This week they are joined by the co-host of the Morbid podcast, Alaina Urquhart, a demon to some, angel to others, to dive deep into one of her favorite movies and a real top-shelf of the horror canon, Clive Barker's Hellraiser. This movie sets the pace for the late 80's and the 90's in terms of horror, establishes Pinhead and The Cenobites as horror mo...

Bryan and Dave of the Bring Me The Axe! horror podcast are pleased to announce their new show, 99 Cent Rental, a podcast dedicated to the trashy, cheesy weirdness that choked video store shelves. If you like movies with hunky action star lookalikes, dubious martial arts, or breakdancing you're in the right place! Episodes drop every other monday, opposite Bring Me The Axe episodes. Listen to the a...

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Bryan and Dave dive head-first into the wildly inconsistent shit show that is Blood Rage. Marvel at the utterly deranged performance from Louise Lasser, thrill to the low budget gory special effects that are way better than the movie deserves, cringe like you've never cringed before to the movie's many intimate and sexy scenes that encapsulate the early 1980's like f...

As we near the holiday season, Bryan and Dave darken your doorstep with the low-budget howling madness of 1989's Elves, a movie that under-delivers on elves and over-delivers on incest. If you've ever wondered what Jim Wynorski's version of Gremlins would be this one lands pretty close to the mark as Dan "Grizzly Adams" Haggerty attempts to uncover the truth about a murderous elf creature and prot...

Bryan and Dave are joined by Teri Gamble of the Horror Movie Survival Guide podcast to talk about Disney's bizarro 80's period where they experimented with more mature films resulting in one of their most easily-forgotten titles, The Watcher in the Woods. At one time, Disney producers and executives were convinced that this was going to be their finest hour, a horror movie to rival The Exorcist. N...

Bring Me The Axe! concludes its exploration of the Halloween legacy just in time for Halloween with an epic-length love letter to John Carpenter, Debra Hill, and their landmark creation. Halloween represents a major paradigm shift in horror movie and sets the pace for every horror movie that came in its wake. It's elegant. Every piece of the production is working in perfect harmony with the other...

This week, Bryan and Dave are joined by The Horror Chick, Heather Wixson to get grimy and talk about Rob Zombie's arch-2000's horror movie remake, Halloween. It reimagines Michael Myers, the silent destroyer, once a little boy with a family of mean dirtbag shitheads and a loving, overprotective mother and Sam Loomis as a selfish, fame-chasing jerk. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5oFtbWv...

Bryan and Dave square off against one of the all-time horror movie greats on the most appropriate calendar date of the year. It's 1980's Friday the 13th, a movie made by pornography producers looking to take away a little of that sweet Halloween money for themselves and accidentally set the pace for slasher movies in the 80's. If you had a little cash on-hand with which to make a movie, you set it...

This week, Bring Me The Axe! kicks off their month-long examination of the Halloween legacy as Bryan drags Dave kicking and screaming through David Gordon Green's 2018 series revision. It's a deeply flawed movie that's way better than you expect a Halloween sequel or remake to be and it reduces the series to its roots while whiffing on move than a few points. Get all the details within! Trailer: h...

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Bryan and Dave take a trip to Mexico City to celebrate their favorite Ruben Galindo Jr. movie, Don't Panic. It's a blatant a cash-in on the success of Evil Dead and A Nightmare on Elm Street that has so many bizarre qualities to it that you can't help but love it. It's about the love of a grown-ass man and his dinosaur pajamas. It's about the tension between be...

This week Bryan and Dave close out their What The Fuck?? series with a children's movie that terrorized an entire generation in Canada, The Peanut Butter Solution. It's a tale of loss and woe when a child loses his hair due to a terrible fright and deals with it poorly. There's also some real nightmare material in there about being kidnapped by a teacher and forced to work in his child slave labor...

This week Bryan and Dave are joined by actor, comedian, and made-for-tv movie expert, Sam Pancake to talk about Dan Curtis (of Dark Shadows fame) and his 1976 gothic melodrama, Burnt Offerings. We cover the movie, of course, hear a nice tale of how pleasant and sweet Karen Black was, much to our delight, and hear a second-hand tale about Oliver Reed's tattooed penis. Trailer: https://www.youtube.c...

At long last, Bryan and Dave kick off their What The Fuck??? series with Ted Posts deeply troubling, alienating, and off-putting thriller, The Baby, from 1973. Dave thinks it doesn't make any sense. Bryan disagrees strongly, declaring it one of his all-time favorite movies. The Baby is unpredictable at every turn and shocks all the way to the end. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vITUjvwna...

Bryan and Dave are joined this week to close out their Stephen King Rules! series by Stephen King superfan, Julia Marchese, to talk about the picture that ended the Dino De Laurentis/Stephen King dynasty in the 1980's, Silver Bullet. It stars Corey Haim before he was the teen idol of the 1980's as well as Everett McGill and Gary Busey in a picture where it's kids vs. a werewolf. Trailer: https://w...

This week kicks off our Stephen King Rules! series as Bring Me The Axe! takes on Stephen King's first and last credit as director, the undisputed document of cocaine confidence, Maximum Overdrive from 1986. It's an ill-advised adaptation of his own short story, Trucks, that features a lot explosions, big trucks, and Yeardley Smith screaming. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwYcnnbiRB4 FYI...

This week, Bring Me The Axe! heads to Camp Arawak to explore one of slasher history's most unhinged entries, Sleepaway Camp. What could have been forgotten by history as just another Friday the 13th ripoff is elevated to a truly special place by a parade of dubious directorial decisions, a handful of positively insane performances, and a real wild twist ending that we spoil right from the get-go....