Cadaver Dogs

**SPOILERS AHEAD** How many times has this happened to you: You pull up to a motel, or visit your mother after publishing your latest best-seller, then some raving lunatic comes along and tries to convince you that everything you’ve experienced is a fabrication. Do you live in your comfortable fiction or do you march forward and brave the truth? David and Devin dissect James Mangold’s IDENTITY (20...

David and Devin review the latest installment of the Insidious franchise! First half spoiler-free. Ten years after the events of the first two Insidious films, we revisit the Lambert family. In an attempt to preserve their mental well-being, Dalton and his father have been made to forget the trauma they experienced. But is that really for the best, or does it simply leave them helpless when the do...

But we aren't going away! Rob is saying good-bye, but David and Devin are still here. We'll be restructuring a bit, listen for details. Follow us at:  instagram.com/cadaverdogspod twitter.com/cadaverdogspod . Send us your film suggestions at: cadaverdogspodcast@gmail.com Cover art by Omri Kadim. Music featured in this episode: 80s Synth by White Bat Audio. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attri...

Hot takes incoming! David and Devin begin this month’s discussion with John Carpenter’s Stephen King adaptation CHRISTINE (1983). Classic nerd Arnie Cunningham has a killer new car - emphasis on “killer.” But when the self-driving self-healing automobile goes on a murderous rampage, and Arnie changes into a real jerk, are we sure it’s all Christine’s responsibility? Or has our geeky hero been hidi...

Announcing next month's films:  CHRISTINE (1983, dir. John Carpenter) - available to rent on Amazon. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (2011, dir. Lynne Ramsay) - available to stream on Tubi, Peacock, Redbox, or Pluto TV. . . Are killers made or are killers born? What do we do when we learn our children have a darkness inside of them? We'll be looking at two films in which teenagers go on... some sort o...

Sup Vagasil? School’s out for the millennium, and everyone is possessed. Demons and aliens run amok in the Dogs’ After School Special where the possession metaphor is used to describe the hell that is being a teen. In this episode, we take a look at JENNIFER’S BODY and THE FACULTY. We’ll discuss how the media either idolized or failed American teenagers in the late 90s / early 00s, obsess over our...

Announcing next month's films:  JENNIFER'S BODY (2009, dir. Karyn Kusama) - available on HBOMax. THE FACULTY (1998, dir. Robert Rodriguez) - available on HBOMax. . . Presenting this after school special! I was a teenage demon - or maybe was I an alien? Huh. Maybe both are accurate metaphors to describe the horrors of being a teenager. Through these films, we'll discuss how the media either idolize...

TITLE Minisode: Top Horror Mothers w/ Rakefet Abergel   DESCRIPTION Tell your mom you love her, because she's been through HELL! The Dogs are joined by award-winning genre filmmaker Rakefet Abergel to rank our favorite mothers in horror. And bring out your notebooks for this one, because we have a lot to learn about female anatomy. Say hi to your mother for me. . 09:43 - Number 3s 21:33 - Number 2...

What makes a house haunted? Hi Mutts, join the Dogs as we dig into our newest episode and one of the strangest films ever directed with HOUSE (1977) directed by Nobuhiko Obayahsi and inspired by his 10-year-old daughter Chigumi Obayashi followed by an American movie of the same title HOUSE (1985) directed by Steve Miner. It’s not the ghosts that make these houses haunted but something a whole lot...

Announcing Next Month's Films: HOUSE (1977 Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi) Available on HBO Max . HOUSE (1985 Dir. Steve Miner) Available on Pluto, Sling, Roku and Youtube Premium . . Don't you wish you could just forget the past? Every generation has its skeletons in the closet, too bad we they sometimes come out. We're covering two films this month with a twist, they have the same title!  This is HOUSE...

Move over Ant-Man: David and Rob are discussing the original shrinking Scott, of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957). In director Jack Arnold and writer Richard Matheson’s scifi classic, a man exposed to stray radiation begins to steadily shrink, as his humanity is stripped away layer by layer. What makes a man, a man? We’re talking emasculation and the artificiality of the American Dream. Meanwhi...

Announcing next month's films:  THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957, dir. Jack Arnold) - available to rent on Amazon. GODZILLA (1954, dir. Ishiro Honda) - available to stream on HBO Max, Pluto TV, or Crackle. . . The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens, ended World War II, and initiated the nuclear arms race that continues to this day. Ye...

The Mother Shelley of all questions: who is the monster - the creature or the man who made them? Or, in this episode, who is the barbarian and who is the muse??  Looking back at two top films from the past year, the Cadaver Dogs examine how the post #metoo era is presented in horror… through a male perspective. Travis Stevens’ artistic film A WOUNDED FAWN (starring Josh Ruben of Werewolves Within...

Announcing next month's films:  BARBARIAN (2022, dir. Zach Cregger) - available on HBOMax. A WOUNDED FAWN (2022, dir. Travis Stevens) - available on Shudder. . . #MeToo changed the film industry, society, and of course, horror. Next month, the Dogs are diving yet again into gender politics to analyze men's response to #MeToo through horror films. How did male filmmakers represent gendered terror t...

Are you really going to re-use those needles? That’s the question we ask in this episode of Cadaver Dogs podcast where we cover not one but two reboots of classic horror franchises. First up, EVIL DEAD (2013), the Fede Alvarez remake of the Sam Raimi Classic. Does the classic cabin turned demon rehab hold up to the original violent entry? Second, we chain ourselves up for HELLRAISER (2022), the 11...

The Dogs are giving their top 3 horror films of the year! Our unique tastes gave quite a spread, but which two films made it on multiple lists? In addition to toasting our favs, we chat about what films we missed in 2022 (and hope to binge in the days before the new year!), as well as what movies we're most looking forward to in 2023. 00:59 - Movies We’ve Seen Recently 05:28 - Number 3s 11:52 - Nu...

Announcing Next Month's Films:   HELLRAISER (2022 Dir. David Bruckner) available on Hulu  . EVIL DEAD (2013 Dir. Fede Alvarex) available on Hulu . . It's the new year 2023 when this episode drops. Stay sober mutts as we're covering drug addiction in our newest episode Re-Used Needles! Watch these reboots in the meantime to prepare. . . Follow us at:  instagram.com/cadaverdogspod twitter.com/cadave...

The power of Christ compels you! To celebrate the holidays, the Cadaver Dogs have a conversation about God… or rather, about a couple of horror films that are quite sold on “God is real.” THE EXORCIST (1973) is one of the most acclaimed movies in the genre, but does the plot basically boil down to an embrace of Catholic ideologies, or is there something deeper? As a film in the 70s, we will also b...

Announcing next month's films:  THE EXORCIST (1973, dir. William Friedkin) - available to stream on HBO Max. THE CONJURING (2013, dir. James Wan) - available to stream on HBO Max and for free on Tubi. . . You ever notice how so many horror films seem to revolve around Judeo-Christian ideologies? We have. And we want to talk about that. If the Devil is real, so is God. And indeed, through the proce...

Wait you're not Rob! You’re David in Rob’s body! This week we cover all things body swapping and Racial appropriation as our protagonists guard themselves against the evil of stealing their life and body! Devin and David go it alone this month first venturing to New Orleans with the hoodoo horror THE SKELETON KEY and following it up with the Oscar winning smash hit GET OUT. Hope they don’t stumble...

Announcing next month's films:  GET OUT (2017, dir. Jordan Peele) - available for rent on all platforms. THE SKELETON KEY (2005, dir. Iain Softley) - available for free on Peacock and to rent on all platforms. . . Horror has always been a way to talk about our issues with othering - through gender, traits, and race. Next month, the Dogs will talk about the representation of race in these films. We...

A curse on you and your family! JK JK That’d be pretty terrible wouldn’t it?  This month, the Cadaver Dogs explore two films dealing with ancient curses in which main characters trade their humanity - or lose it - and become a beast of vengeance! Starting way back to the classic Universal horror movie that started Hollywood’s love for werewolves with THE WOLF MAN (1941, dr. George Waggner). David,...

Announcing next month's films:  THE WOLF MAN (1941, dir. George Waggner) - available for rent on all platforms. PUMPKINHEAD (1988, dir. Stan Winston) - available for free on Tubi and Pluto TV. . . Get into the Halloween spirit as the Cadaver Dogs take a deep dive on curses! From the golden age of Universal monsters to the 80s boom of slasher and B-horror, doom, gloom, and premonition have persever...

Back to where it all began… Camp Crystal Lake, otherwise known as Camp Blood. This is FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980). Slasher films are often discussed as a genre, but in 80s America they were also a movement, a response to the politics of the day. That’s right, we’re talking Ronald Reagan! Sex is sin, and teens who reject abstinence and fail to “say no to drugs” are the perfect victims for the Voorhees f...

Remember the first horror movie that terrified you so bad you had to sleep with your parents? Or the one that made you go "wait a minute... I actually love horror!" The Dogs think back to those early days and recall the films that started it all and just what it is we love about horror... with with special guest Ava Fields of Apt Horror. We also go off topic and rant about the bad rap horror fans...