Cherry Pop Horror

"Subway - Eat Fresh, am I right ladies." As per request Dylan joins me this week for our 69th Episode (nice) with their first time watching - X (2022). We're at the tail end of the 70's and there's a change in the industry, the sex industry to be exact as the invention of the Home-Video meaning that people can enjoy erotic movies in the comfort of their own home. With big ideas Director Wayne sets...

So it turns out mouthwash has multiple uses...who knew. This week we're joined by a brand new guest MacKenzie and we decided to tackle Cabin Fever (2002) A group of College graduates decide that to celebrate they'll head to a cabin the woods for a short holiday ('cause that's only ever turned out well). Some raunchy sex, a bet on who can last the week drinking only beer and roasting marshmallows o...

"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to." Despite joining at the beginning of Cherry Pop Horror's inception this week was Kat's first CHERRY-PIE episode as it was both their and my first time watching Dolores Claiborne (1995) Dolores (Kathy Bates) is caught red-handed, standing above her employer, the frail and decrepit Vera Donovan, with a marble rolling pin - ready to strike. T...

"The unholy trinity - Satan, the Anti-Christ and the False Profit." Kaleb has returned this week to tackle another classic - The Omen (1976) Robert and Katherine are just 'beautiful people'. And bad things don't happen to beautiful people. Sadly the happy couple looses their son in childbirth but a friendly priest offers them the chance to adopt a boy born in the same hospital, a boy whose mother...

Sometimes everything at the buffet just kinda sucks Rory returns this week to help me tackle our first anthology movie - V/H/S (2012) A group of men is hired to break into a house and steal a particular Video Tape, unfortunately they didn't ask for any more details than that. Exploring the house they find many tapes and aren't sure which one it is they need, so they pop a few in to check what they...

Alf is love - Alf is life. Dylan and I picked this movie based purely of the color of the DVD case - The Loneliest Boy In The World (2022) Oliver is a strange guy. He's been a shut-in for the majority of his life thanks to his Mother but now she passed away and with the threat of being institutionalized on the line Oliver has to do one very important thing - make a friend. Not an easy task sadly a...

Was it the Government, some rich guys sick game or just plain old aliens? This week we welcome Anje to the Cherry Pop Family with Cube (1997) Six strangers wake in a room. There's a small crawlspace on each wall that leads to another room with six small crawlspaces on the way - every room is the same design, the only thing that changes is the colour. It's up to these people, who've never met befor...

There's bad dates and then there's this. This week Leilani has brought along something fun and Fresh (2022) Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) has had a string of bad dates - each one a different variety of Chad. She's about ready to give up when she stumbles upon a seemingly wonderful man, Steve (Sebastian Stan). He's cute, he's charming and he likes her. There's nothing she can do but fall head-over-heels...

Welcome to our New Years Party...at least I think it's a New Years Party. JP has arrived again to celebrate the New Years with - Terror Train (1980) A few years ago Alana (Jamiee Lee Curtis) along with her boyfriend Doc and a few of the other Frat college kids made the mistake of playing a prank on a young and impressionable Kenny. Things went wrong and changed everything forever - no more Frat pa...

There's three rules...spoilers...they break the rules Bronwyn is back and to even things out we're doing a proper Christmas movie this time - Gremlins (1984) Billy is a young man - he works at the bank alongside his crush Kate and fends off the ever so unpleasant Mrs. Deagle. But one night, just before Christmas, his Dad returns home with an usual present. It's cute and fuzzy and comes with a lot...

"I just wanted Christmas to be liked it used to be." I'm joined this week by a brand new guest and I get to introduce them to my yearly Christmas treat - Krampus (2015) Max is still a kid but is starting to realize that Christmas isn't all smiles like it used to be when he was younger. His parents Sarah (Toni Collette) and Tom (Adam Scott) don't love each other like they used to, he doesn't get to...

God Damn Demon Snowmen Pip sits down with me to talk Jack Frost (1997) Jack Frost is an infamous serial killer who's on his way to be executed for his crimes when suddenly the transport vehicle crashes. In the aftermath Jack is sprayed with an unknown chemical and becomes one with the snow. With all this new found power he can finally enact a promise, a promise to get the small-town Sheriff who ca...

I do believe in Santa. Sarah's suggestion this week, so we took in the holiday cheer that is Violent Night (2022) A holiday get-together does not go as planned as young Trudi and her divorced parents Jason and Linda meet up with the rest of the family to take in the Christmas spirit. Grandma Gertrude is exceptionally wealthy with three-hundred million casually sat in the vault downstairs. But Gran...

We've all got the one neighbour. Shawn is back and this week they brought along one of their favourites - The 'Burbs (1989) Ray (Tom Hanks) is just your typical white suburban man...he's got the wife (Carrie Fisher), the kid, the white picket fence and the green lawn. He's surrounded by other houses just like his - that is until the house next door becomes a little too spooky. Now with the help of...

Popcorn shotguns, balloon animal hunting dogs and a shadow T-Rex - what more do you want? Destiny and I sit together again but this time it was their first time with - Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) Mike and Debb are just your typical couple, hiking out to make-out point they see a shooting star but little do they know that this is the just the beginning to the strangest night of their life...

"I don't wanna waste your time." Well this week's movie certainly didn't waste our time as Jake and Myself discuss our first watch of Train To Busan (2016) Seok-Woo is a successful salary-man, he has his own office, he makes good money but what he doesn't have is the love of his family; his wife has left and his daughter Su-An thinks she's a waste of his time. They board a train to reunite Su-An w...

You don't understand, the hellscape has brinner! Destiny is back this week and this time it's my first watch of Coraline (2009) Young Coraline (Dakota Fanning) is a bit of an odd child but it's more than that, she's a bit of a lonely child. Her parents push her aside, choosing their work over affection and attention. This seems to be the norm until Coraline finds a passageway to another world and...

Is the Boogeyman real? Ryan has come again to tackle another older film, this time the legacy slasher - Halloween (1978) Michael Myers killed his sister one night with a kitchen knife and has spent the better part of 15 years in a mental institute, never speaking a word...until one stormy night he escapes. Laurie (Jaimee Lee Curtis) is just your regular high school student and tonight she'll be ea...

Leave the jack-o'-lanterns lit, they keep the dark spirits away. Dylan has returned again and it's their first time watching Trick 'r Treat (2007). We journey through an anthology of a movie this week. A group of girls work to find dates for a party, Danielle trying to finally get her sister Laurie (Anna Paquin) to lose her virginity. A couple of school kids are collecting jack-o'-lanterns to hono...

It sure is an unlucky day. Jade is back again but this time we're taking on a true legacy horror - Friday The 13th (1980) A group of councilors arrive at an old abandoned camp to start getting it ready for the campers who'll arrive in just a few short weeks. There's gutters that need replacing, walls that need painting, archery ranges to set up and a pantry to stock. What no one seems to have told...

A ghost story brought to life in the early days of Tim Burton. Kat returns again and is very excited about our first Holloween Special - Sleepy Hollow (1999) Icabod (Johnny Depp) is a man of science but in 1799 the world is so convinced of their own righteousness that there's no room for proof. Due to his insistence Icabod is sent to the town of Sleepy Hollow where a series of brutal beheadings ha...

They have brought damnation upon themselves. Jess is back with our first look at a movie based on a game - Silent Hill (2006) Mother Rose is extremely worried about her young daughter Sharon, who has been having a series of nightmares and calling out the name of an old coal mining town; Silent Hill. Thinking it may be the only way to save her Rose takes a trip with Sharon to the deserted town agai...

CHERRY-PIE, that means neither myself nor my guest had seen this movie before the podcast. "I just wanted to be loved." Kat D is back with another odd-ball movie, this time we both had our first watch of the Korean anime styled Beauty Water (2020) Ye-ji has not got much self-confidence and comes to the conclusion that to succeed in life you must be beautiful. It all comes to a head when she's humi...

Detention slip for you, detention slip for you...oh and one for you. Jess D has joined me again for another wild ride, this time we sit down to talk Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992) - that's right before there was a hit TV series there was a movie. Buffy is your typical popular high school student until she's approached by an old man who tells her she is the next Slayer. It's taken Merrick (Donald...

Gonna get some amazing pictures on this holiday. Chelsea is back joining me again for another crazy feature, this time it's The Ruins (2008) A group of friends on holiday in Mexico are offered the chance of a lifetime when they meet a German stranger at the pools whose brother is off exploring the ruins of an undiscovered Mayan temple. The friends Jeff, Eric, Stacy and Amy travel with Mathias and...