Chewing the Scenery Horror Movie Podcast

Women in Horror Month continues with Black Sunday (1960). Yes, episode 71 introduces you to the magnificent Barbara Steele. As if that’s not enough, Mario Bava directs this one, and each frame is like a beautiful black-and-white photograph! Before talking about this good film, Will sternly warns you about an incompetently bad one he recently watched. Does the story of Black Sunday peak too early w...

Women in Horror Month continues with Alien (1979). This is an unprecedented feat in horror genre filmmaking. This film takes the haunted house story and sets it in a spaceship. It takes everything you’d previously known about a horror movie story and turns it inside out. Jolyon even did a deep dive into earlier sci-fi, inspired by his re-watch of "Alien". Is the “chestburster scene” a good startin...

This is a special announcement to let our dear listeners know that the episode that would've dropped on Tuesday will instead drop on Friday. "Why?" you may ask. "Because we will not give less than 100%. It's Women in Horror Month, Dammit!" we may answer. So, join your kind hosts on Friday, February 17th as we discuss the 1979 classic, "Alien".

Episode 69 gets “Women in Horror Month” started right. You guessed it, “Messiah of Evil” (1973) was co-written, co-produced and co-directed by Gloria Katz and her husband, Willard Huyck. And, although they went on to assault you with "Howard the Duck", they were also kind enough to write screenplays for "American Graffiti” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”. So there. But, before getting i...

Episode 68 Is about a 2016 movie with a bossy title: “Don’t Breathe”. When this movie isn’t telling you what to do, it’s putting you on edge and stressing you out. Not that this is a bad thing! Your hosts all liked it so much that major spoilers are avoided! After a brief discussion of Unsolved Mysteries and the Oakville Blobs (not a basketball team) your hosts puzzle over why there aren’t found f...

Episode 67 takes you to Summer Camp. In the woods. On a lake. Are you picturing a hockey-masked killer yet? Well, stop it already, we’re talking about the often overlooked 1981 slasher, “The Burning”! Your hosts watch this one live, so please cue up the movie and follow along…it just might be fun! There is an origin story for the Cropsey killer and it turns out he has good follow through. He shoul...

Episode 66 is a special “Live Watch” of the 80’s slasher “Pieces”. Join Will, Jolyon and Richard as they have a little fun with a lesser-known (and lesser-quality) slasher from Spain/United States. Yes, that’s a joint effort, using only the best of the best in international film making! You’ll see a time-traveling pushbutton phone. You’ll see a guy who has eyebrows just like the other guy’s mustac...

Episode 65 checks in with your kind hosts after a snowy break. Jolyon kicked off the New Year with Bruce Lee, while Richard watched Citizen Kane, which is the Citizen Kane of movies. Will hung out with Turkish soap operas, as you might expect. He’s the same guy who wants to edit the shark out of Jaws 2. Then, the episode takes you across time and space, traveling to Monster Island in 1967. You kno...

Episode 64 invites you along on it’s mysterious job that it no longer cares about keeping secret. That’s right, “Troll Hunter” (2010, Norway) is the featured movie to ring in the New Year! Considering how high of a body count 2016 had, this found footage “mockumentary” should feel very comforting. "Troll Hunter” isn’t dull, though. It reveals the mythology of trolls in stages, has good FX and the...

Episode 63 is a return to form. Jolyon is back with Will and Richard for a discussion of Guillermo del Toro’s “Crimson Peak” (2015). But first, there’s a lot of catching up to do. Jolyon has a great list of things he watched while ill. There are some gems here, so get out your pens and paper, dear listeners! Then Richard watched “The Ref” for some Christmas cheer followed by a whole list of movies...

After an unexpected hiatus, Chewing the Scenery is back with a special Christmas release, talking about the Finnish film, “Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale” (2010). Will thinks this story idea is Finntastic. Normally, the episodes drop every Tuesday, but Santa has something a little different in store for you, dear listeners. Hosts Will and Richard are joined by Krampus expert Mike C, who holds a Ma...

Episode 61 is just what you needed and never knew you needed it. That’s right, Jason Voorhees in space! Sounds absurd, right? You could be on to something, but why stop at nine of these movies when you can make a tenth one? Look, the great director David Cronenberg shows up in this movie. He doesn’t direct it or anything...he just gets killed by Jason. His idea. Jolyon comes up with the idea of Ja...

Episode 60 takes you on a trip through time. There’ll be dinosaurs, gorillas and pterodactyls! There’ll also be exploding heads and sword fighting skeletons. Yes, that’s right, your hosts will be talking about some favorite historic special effects! Before all of that history gets underway, there’s discussion of how your hosts used to find porn in nature. Who left all this porn lying around the fo...

Episode 59 is a special one. Richard recorded a Q&A after a screening of “Hatchet II” where director Adam Green and star Kane Hodder discussed the making of this horror film and the rest of the franchise. This vivid and rare 35mm print of the film looked just as Adam intended, but the MPAA wanted to hack this slasher classic to bits. Adam pushed back and you’ll find out all about it. You’ll hear p...

Episode 58 finds your hosts celebrating an anniversary! Yes, “Manos: Hands of Fate” turns 50 the very day this episode drops! What happens when a fertilizer/insurance salesman makes a bet that he can make a feature-length movie? “Manos”, that’s what! On a $19,000 budget in 1966, an idea ended up on celluloid. Along with about 30 minutes of driving footage. Will considers that the best part! Would...

Episode 57 brings the inevitable: your hosts discuss Dario Argento’s “Tenebrae” (1982). "Not so fast,” you say “what about your 31 Days of Halloween Horror Movie Challenge lists?”. Yes, dear listeners, that is covered. You know, just in case you’re a November denier, clutching desperately to October. Even if you suffer from Halloween Fatigue, you’ll still want to write some of these down. Will tal...

Episode 56 arrives a day early because HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Your hosts kick it off with some lists of Halloween favorites and “31 Days of Halloween Horror Movie Challenge” movies. We still haven’t seen “The Slashening”, but Will did see “The Machine that Killed Bad People”. And Richard saw “Gog”…with more killer robuts than “Chopping Mall”. Jolyon mentions movies to get you out of ever babysitting aga...

Episode 55 finds your hosts welcoming back author Stephen Graham Jones to discuss sequels Halloween II (1981) Rob Zombie directed Halloween II (2009). Stephen is fresh off of re-watching the “Scream” movies, just in time for the holiday. Meanwhile, Jolyon somehow survived all the movies of “Halloween” franchise…and “Werewolf in Bangkok”, which he describes as “more of a tubby rat-man”. Your hosts...

Episode 54 gives you something “Phantasm” movies 1 through 4 could not- ”Phantasm: Ravager”. Yes, part 5 of the series is available to rent just before Halloween. As the great philosopher Meatloaf once said: “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad”. Well, that’s true unless those two dislike your movie more than a little bit. The other host likes about two thirds of “Phantasm: Ravager” but can’t seem to do th...

There are three things your hosts will cover in episode 54, one from 1951, one from 1982 and one from 2011. What's something Kurt Russell couldn't do in Antarctica? Kill a mosquito. But Richard can… live in the studio! Your host talk a little about 1979's "the Warriors" and the themed gangs. Were the New York Mimes dangerous? Well, let's just say you won't hear them coming! After some talk about W...

Episode 52 marks ONE YEAR of weekly podcasts from your kind hosts! To celebrate, we are talking about Lucio Fulci’s 1979 “Zombie”. Or “Zombie 2”. Or “Zombi”. Maybe ”Zombie Flesh Eaters”…aww, just pick one! Fulci wanted to make a sequel to Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead”, so he just did. Pretty much. For years, this was Will’s favorite Zombie movie. For years, Richard thought he had seen this but hadn'...

Episode 51 is large in stature due to our celebrity guest. We’ve been holding on to this audio since April, but now it’s time to share. “Big Daddy” from George A. Romero’s “Land of the Dead” joins Richard for an interview at Walker Stalker Con Denver. Yes, Eugene A Clark steps forth from the crowd of zombies to talk about his great Halloween mask, that time he was on Kung Fu but really wasn’t, a s...

An important member of the CTS family (and dedicated listener) has the most important day of his life coming up. How else would we announce it? Listen and find out... it's short, sweet and to the point!

Episode 50 is another Netflix double-header and somehow turns out to be a good movie up against a bad movie again! Jolyon was out again, finishing up Tales from the Crypt, but he’ll be more than ready for the next one! Will and Richard start off with a brief discussion of Obi Wan Kenobi and his judgmental ways, then go on to question Vikings and their shenanigans. But do you know who your hosts re...

Episode 49 is a Netflix double-header! With Jolyon off working on a “Tales from the Crypt” comic, Will and Richard talk about a pair of movies - Night of the Wild (2015) and Hush (2016). With “Night of the Wild”, it seemed at first the movie was executed in a “kinda sincere” way, but the wheels came off of that in short order! Right away we meet a man who acts like a cartoon hillbilly and some flu...