Cast Me To Hell: A Horror Movie Podcast

Summer is officially here and as we prepare for our annual Summer Slasher Season, we thought we'd kick things off with some Must See Horror debates. We're revving up the gore for this selection of Must See Horrors, and as we've already covered the iconic 1974 original, we thought we'd take a look at the slasher remake that kickstarted the whole early to late 2010s slasher remake craze. Featuring J...

We return to our quick look at horror genre spoofs as we look at meta horror-comedy The Final Girls. Still reeling from the tragic death of her mother, a teen finds herself magically transported to the slasher film that her mother starred in as a young adult. Released in 2015, The Final Girls features a well known cast of young actors and aims to riff on the classic camp slasher as well as try and...

The boys return to the Scary Movie franchise with the film that started it all. Spoofing 90s slasher classics Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scary Movie introduced us to Cindy, Brenda, Shorty, Ray and many other characters who become part of the early 2000s cultural zeitgeist. But how does this movie hold up after 20 years? And how does it compare to the most recent return to the fran...

The Wayans Brothers have returned to the Scary Movie franchise after 25 years! In a time of reboots, requels, legacy characters and returning villains, Scary Movie looks to spoof everything and anything horror and pop culture. Taking aim at elevated horror, gen-z, "woke" and even K-Pop, The Wayan Brothers promise that no line will remain uncrossed. But how does this type of parody hold up after tw...

After 25 years, The Wayans Brothers return to the Scary Movie franchise! Riffing on requels, reboots, returning legacy characters and a whole manner of recent horror movies and pop culture events, Scary Movie sees the return of franchise favourites Cindy, Brenda, Shorty and Ray as they take on a new Ghostface. But how does the Wayan Brothers return go down after all this time? Is their finger stil...

Our Monster Movie Season concludes with 2020s reimagining of The Invisible Man. Written and directed by modern horror master Leigh Whannell, The Invisible Man reinvents the iconic character as a narcissistic tech billionaire and stars Elizabeth Moss as his victim. Featuring a great modernisation of a classic character and the exploration of domestic abuse, manipulation, control and gaslighting, 20...

Our monster movie season continues with 1933's The Invisible Man! Loosely adapting H.G Wells novel of the same name, The Invisible Man stars Claude Rains as the titular villain in a film that is equal parts mind-blowing special effects, classic monster movie horror and unintentional hilarity as an invisible naked man wreaks havoc and hijinks. We discuss some differences and similarities to the nov...

Curry Barker's directorial debut Obsession has just released in cinemas and it seems to be blowing up all over the internet.  In a classic tale of 'be careful what you wish for', Obsession sees a lovesick man's wish backfire. Featuring a truly phenomenal performance from Inde Navarrette, Obsession promises creepy scenes, black humour and some pretty squeamish moments.  But does Obsession live up t...

Straight from the cinema, the boys bring you their spoiler free review of Curry Barker's Obsession. Proving that you should always be careful what you wish for, Obsession follows a lovesick man who makes a last ditch wish that throws his love life on its head. It's a bit of a slow burn that's as humorous as it is creepy, and balances some interesting themes of codependency with some gory good time...

This week the boys take a trip to the beginning of the 2010s as they look at the often maligned and forgotten The Wolfman. Largely adapting the original story but blending in a bit more action and gothic horror vibes, 2010s The Wolfman features a star-studded cast comprised of Benicio Del Toro, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Mr Hugo Weaving (Mor-dor) and Rick Baker returning to the werewolf...

It's a full moon this week as the boys continue their Monster Movie Season with a 1940s classic in The Wolf Man. Featuring a star-studded line up of Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi and Claude Rains, The Wolf Man delivers some full moon frights, some 1940s gender stereotypes and some scenes that lead the boys on some x-rated tangents. But how does the film stack up nearly eighty years later? Is this jus...

Monster Movie season officially begins with 1932's Universal Monster Movie The Mummy! The boys take a trip back in time as we discuss an early monster movie and one of the first on-screen iterations of the legendary Mummy. Featuring Boris Karloff as the titular villian and a heap of early horror tropes, The Mummy frightened audiences and paved the way for many iconic horrors that came after it. Bu...

This week the boys bring you their full spoiler free review of Lee Cronin's The Mummy. After bringing The Evil Dead back to the big screen with Evil Dead Rise, Lee Cronin takes a spin at modernising an iconic monster with his take on everyone's favourite sarcophagus dweller. Gone are the bandages and slow-shuffling zombie and instead we get an interesting take on a possession film with a whole hea...

Straight from the cinema, the boys bring you their spoiler free review of Lee Cronin's The Mummy. After the success of Evil Dead Rise, Lee Cronin turns his hand to modernising a classic universal monster movie.  Telling the story of a missing girl being discovered eight years later in a sarcophagus, Lee Cronin's The Mummy features a blend of slow burn investigation, possession tropes and a healthy...

We bring our Body Snatcher Season to a close as we discussed some of our favourite sci-fi horrors and give our recommendations for some films that work as both an entry point to the genre and some recommendations that may have flown under the radar. From iconic critiques of Reganomics and consumerism to slow burn sci-fi horrors and everyones favourite family-oriented film star, we discuss why thes...

This week, the boys are going to need a bigger boat as they discuss Netflix’s new shark movie Thrash.   Originally supposed to be released in cinemas in 2024, the film languished between many different studios and names before finally finding a home at Netflix. Taking a leaf out of Crawl’s book, Thrash sees a hurricane leave a coastal town flooded and the last few remaining residents stuck in a de...

We've popped back to our Body Snatcher Season with a quirky little small town horror in Slither. Before he helmed the D.C universe, James Gunn made his directorial debut with 2006s Slither. Featuring Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks and Michael Rooker, Slither sees James Gunns brand of off-kilter humour blended with some gross out body horror and weird alien body snatching. This was a film that we...

This week's Body Snatcher Season takes us to the 90s and to a film we both watched far too young. The Faculty sees Kevin Williamson bring his trademark characterisation to the sci-fi horror genre with Robert Rodriguez taking the helm in a move that serves as a modernised Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Featuring a star studded cast including a young heartthrob Josh Hartnett, Robert Patrick and a p...

Our Body Snatcher Season continues as we discuss 1988's The Blob. Following in the sensation, gross and body horror-fied remakes of The Thing From Outer Space and The Fly, The Blob drags the iconic black and white horror into the 80s, updating the gore, the goo and making the whole thing a bit more black humour. Whilst it was a box office bust, the  gruesome deaths, shocking subversions and classi...

Our Body Snatcher Season continues with some genre-blending B Movie horror! What do you get when you mix alien body snatching, slugified zombies, skeletal slashers and a prime Tom Atkins? Well, you get the wacky and weird Night of the Creeps. Though it flopped at the box office, Night of the Creeps solidified itself as a cult classic amongst horror fans. But that begs the question,  this one cult...

We're kicking off a new season as we look at some iconic sci-fi horror that focuses on body snatching! Featuring alien parasites, unspecified goo and pod people, we're looking at some horror genre classics.  And what better way to start the season than by combining it with out Must See Horror feature, as we discussed 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers.  Featuring Donald Sutherland, a young Jeff...

Scream 7 is upon us and it seems to have split not just the Cast Me To Hell boys but the horror community as a whole! Marred by production controversy and massive rewrites, scream 7 sees the return of Neve Campbell as the iconic final girl Sidney Prescott as her attempts to live a normal life and move on from her past see not only herself but her family become the victim of a new Ghostface. There'...

Straight from the cinema the boys bring you their divided opinions on Scream 7. After a big rewrite due to the departure of Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, Scream 7 sees Neve Campbell return to play iconic final girl Sidney Prescott as Ghostface once again appears to terrorise her. Featuring some returning favourites, intense chases and an upped gore level, Scream 7 looks to return to the roots...

Ahead of the hotly anticipated Scream 7, we thought we would discuss the last time Kevin Williamson wrote a Scream film. Scream 4 sees Wes Craven's final directorial duties, as Sydney Prescott returns to Woodsboro just in time for another slaughter. Arriving after a slew of torture porn, paranormal films and a bunch of gritty reimagining of classic horror remakes, Scream 4 centres around the idea...

Sam Raimi has made his return to horror cinema with Send Help! Starring Rachael McAdams and Dylan O'Brien, Send Help sees the overlooked and overworked Linda team up with nepo baby Bradley as their plane crashes in the middle of the ocean. Featuring some Misery-esque elements and some Survivor inspired elements all wrapped up with some expected wild and wacky Raimi-isms, Send Help is taking the bo...