Halloween is Forever

In the sequel to a podcast, we feature sequels versus a wholly original and new movie. Once again we'll find out what's the worst film with the best scene in ...    A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) vs The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994) vs Skinamarink (2022)   Can Anthony feed on past wins for a two-peat, or is he merely dreaming? Will Steve be writing about th...

Brian and Steve get Thai'd up in a Netflix debut about fighting zombies. There's far more than 8 limbs in this action horror film, but is there something fishy about it? When a film tries to channel The Raid, Train to Busan, and The Sadness all at once but pulls all of its punches, you'll want nothing more than to simply be watching those better movies. Or The Protector. Lots of Protector talk. Go...

When the Brian is away, the bigfeet will play. Specifically Bigfoot Ben and Steve who wears a size 15. But oh no! Mistake! They were bamboozled. They're not watching a bigfoot film about the making of the Patterson-Gimlin film. It's a mockumentary about the making of low-budget sasquatch movie running afoul of something completely out of this world. Despite being squatchwinked and footflammed, the...

It's fun in sun sponsored by Buzzzz Cola and glam zombies. Brian has been clamoring for stupid fun and this week, with the power of his punishment film, he gets it. Steve gets swept up in the gnar and his wetsuit rips and his butt comes out. BOWBOW. Tune in for a cavalcade of household names from the 80s, that no one under 35 would recognize today in a madcap sex-comedy with an impossible Beach Bo...

Cuter and creepier than the Labubu craze sweeping the nation, we're searching for the most cute but creepy horror movie villain in ...    Black Sheep (2006) vs Jurassic Park (1993) vs Zoltan: Hound of Dracula (1977)   Can Steve baa-sh his opponents, or is he simply flocked? Will Louie have his opponents blinded, or is his pick built on action figure fiction? Is Brian set to be the leader of the pa...

This week we take a break from the movies to talk about books like a bunch of nerds. We get into our favorite book not by Stephen King, because we have an entire episode on King already. This time we feature Dan Simmons, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Mark Danielewski, Kathe Koja and more. We've got all hosts of vampires, psychic and proper, ghosts, and Scooby-Doo cons. Also Spider-Man vs Predato...

This week we're talking about a new to streaming indie film from Philadelphia. What if instead of blood, Dracula fed off of your time through frivolous lawsuits? Thus comes Draculaw! Brian and Steve discuss the horror comedy about lawyer vampires, restoring faith in the law, Looney Tunes monsters and Superman III plots.    Plus we announce our July guest and give thoughts on the new Toxic Avenger...

This week Brian and Steve watch an early contender for best horror of 2025 in a twisted retelling of Cinderella from Norway. Also from Poland. And somehow Romania. The Ugly Stepsister reframes the classic tale from the point of view of the villain, much like Wicked. But instead of Ariana Grande, this film is full of blood, maggots, vomit and cum. Honestly, I haven't seen Wicked so I can't say thos...

A vampire, a skinwalker, and a demon walk into a haunted house, Brian and Steve want to turn the movie off. After an unfair loss in the Korean Horror Showdown by audience vote, we're made to watch more sloppy found footage on Tubi instead of something awesome. The Monster Project is half a boring found footage, half a first person POV haunted house and neither the two shall gel. Plus there's some...

It's the first Monday in June in America, so you know what that means; we're coming out ... in favor of Korean horror films! And we'll find the best when it's ...    Thirst (2009) vs Gonjiam: Haunted Ayslum (2018) vs Save the Green Planet! (2003)   Can Brian slake his need for winning, or will his faith run dry? Can Dan represent the patrons to internet fame, or is he about to be institutionalized...

Brian and Steve watched the perfect horror movie for brainrotted, Draft Kings addicted, second screen young adults. Too bad they're old adults. Come for the soundtrack, stay for surprisingly well done brutality. Story and character motivation? Yeah they technically exist. Perhaps it's best we move on from the 80s. The kids in this film would be applying for their AARP cards and voting against thei...

Brian is dedicated to turning Steve into a Jack Sholder fan. First it was Renegades. Then he didn't hate Freddy's Revenge as much. And now he's trying to get Steve to love Kyle MacLachlan's first turn as an FBI agent. But before he chased the embodiment of evil in Twin Peaks, he chased a giant space slug beetle in LA. Part buddy cop. Part horror thriller. All fueled by yayo.   Plus we talk Dune, M...

Against the wishes of the hosts, the audience has chosen to make them watch the rest of the Elm Street series which leads to . . . A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) vs Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) vs A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master Can the patrons rack up a sequel win, or will they be left stranded in the desert? Can anything Barr Steve from takin...

Against the wishes of the hosts, the audience has chosen to make them watch the rest of the Elm Street series which leads to . . .   A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) vs Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) vs A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master   Can the patrons rack up a sequel win, or will they be left stranded in the desert? Can anything Barr Steve from t...

Against the wishes of the hosts, the audience has chosen to make them watch the rest of the Elm Street series which leads to . . .   A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) vs Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) vs A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master   Can the patrons rack up a sequel win, or will they be left stranded in the desert? Can anything Barr Steve from t...

In a special mini-minisode, Steve is flying solo and talking about Sinners. After almost 6 days without electricity, schedules were ruined and the previously planned episode was postponed. Now Steve gives a shorter than usual review on the recent joint venture between Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan. Is it the best vampire film of the 21st century? The last decade? Maybe just the year? Tune in...

This week is steeped in Irish folklore as we talk about the recent Shudder exclusive Fréwaka from director Aislinn Clarke. Perhaps the most Irish film we've ever watched mixing faeology, historical trauma, and Catholic trauma. Then it does it all in Gaelic. A film's lore as rich as its cinematography, some are calling it the Irish Hereditary. It was Brian. Steve is sick and has some other things t...

Another showdown, another loss. This month Kellie of the Final Girls took home the title and now she's making Brian and Steve watch her favorite dinosaur cat film. A surprisingly stacked cast full of hasn't beens, once weres, and never agains all take on a prehistoric beast on their vacation to Big Bear Lake. Karate and knife play from people who should never do either are their only hope. Also we...

Once again the sea calls to us in the deep recesses of our minds and begs Steve and The Final Girls Podcast to once again weigh the Creatures of the Deep against each other in ...   Sea Fever (2019) vs Underwater (2020) vs Deep Rising (1998) vs Dagon (2001)   Does Steve have the fever for more championships, or is he cursed by the Irish? Can Kellie Steward(t) herself to a win as a first time guest...

A slight delay in recording our April Showdown has us headed down a different road. The road of Stephen Cognetti's latest film and first diversion from the Hell House LLC franchise. Is 825 Forest Road the first in a new lineage of ghost tales, or is it a dead end? We discuss what works and a lot of what doesn't of this latest Shudder exclusive.    Plus we draw our May Showdown Voting Bloc   Find U...

This week we're getting put back in the retirement home. No not because we're old millennial podcasters, but because we're watching the latest Shudder release. The Rule of Jenny Pen features Geoffrey Rush as a judge being physically and psychologically tortured by John Lithgow with a puppet. We also give a mini review of A Cursed Man and talk film school films with New Zealand's Once Were Warriors...

This week, by listener request, we go back to the 1950s with one of the genre classics. Based on the John P. Campbell story, "Who Goes There?" and would later inspire John Carpenter's 1982 masterpiece The Thing. We get into the comparisons of the film and discuss the context of the looming Red Scare and McCarthyism. We also spend a lot of time talking about dog wrestling. So, something for everyon...

It's the true story of St. Patty's Day! Saint Patrick didn't chase the snakes out of Ireland; he buried the original vampire under some rocks and that's why we all eat cabbage today because it looks like tiny boulders. Chat is this true? Guess you'll have to listen to this episode and watch this film to find out if that Bram Stoker was full of it. Also, find out if Brian drinks enough to attempt a...

From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to very smelly Sharkenstein, our patrons having won last week's Showdown have decided to punish us appropriately. From the sick and twisted mind of Mark Polonia comes the tale of Tri-State Area terror. But not really. It's another junk slapdash video to trick high people on streaming using one of the three magic SEOs phrases of shark, Amityville or Bigfoot. We don'...

Is it the march of time or the time of March that's led us to here to a showdown about the time of the Victorian Era; it's fancy dandies menaced by gothic ghouls when ... Black Sunday (1960) vs Crimson Peak (2015) vs Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)   Do the patrons have a princess pick, or will they be branded as losers for 200 years? Will Steve keep his titles locked away in his estate, or is...