Handle With Scare: A Horror Podcast

Throughout July we'll be highlighting galeophobia and the fear of sharks. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going to war... both of them. Beast of War is part war movie, part shark movie, and features one of the more inventive (but also comical) warning signs of the impending danger of the great white shark that's circling the water. Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM...

Throughout June we'll be highlighting thalassophobia and the fear of deep waters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are getting in the water for one of the most entertaining exploitation films ever made - PIRANHA 3D. This one brings all the B's, features extensive and practical gore, and knows EXACTLY what kind of movie it is trying to be. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30P...

Throughout June we'll be highlighting thalassophobia and the fear of deep waters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are getting low. We're talking crawlspace low, face down in rising floodwater low, and alligator at eye level low for Alexandre Aja's CRAWL. Joining us is Evan from The Kilt and The Redneck Reviews for a film that takes the most minimal possible premise and buil...

Throughout June we'll be highlighting thalassophobia and the fear of deep waters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going deeper. We're going past the point where light reaches, past the point where institutional authority means anything, and past the point of no return that somebody in a position of power decided to cross anyway because the deadline said so. DeepStar Six...

Throughout June we'll be highlighting thalassophobia and the fear of deep waters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going underwater, or rather, we're getting pulled into it. We're covering a film that has spent nearly 50 years being dismissed as a Jaws knockoff and deserves considerably better than that. Orca: The Killer Whale is not a film about a shark. It is a film ab...

May's phobia is decidophobia and the fear of making decisions. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are dive into Jordan Peele's GET OUT. The horror at the heart of Get Out isn't simply that Chris makes the wrong choices. It's that the choices available to him were never really choices at all. We get into why Get Out is one of the most precisely constructed horror films of the l...

May's phobia is decidophobia and the fear of making decisions. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are digging into David Guy Levy's Would You Rather, a film that takes one of childhood's most innocent games and transforms it into one of a pointed exploration of class, desperation, and moral compromise. We talk about why the real horror begins long before anyone sits down at La...

Throughout May we'll be highlighting decidophobia and the fear of making decisions. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves targeted by the Jigsaw Killer and chained inside a decrepit bathroom where it's escape or face dire consequences in SAW. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare Totem's vtuber twitch (5x a week - 5...

Throughout May we'll be highlighting decidophobia and the fear of making decisions. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves being drawn into a sinister game of truth or dare where being dishonest or refusing to do a task is lethal in BLUMHOUSE'S TRUTH OR DARE. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare Totem's vtuber twitc...

Throughout April we've been highlighting technophobia and the fear of technology. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie turn to our community's selection - THE TERMINATOR. It's been over forty years since James Cameron sent a killing machine back through time to hunt a waitress in Los Angeles, and The Terminator hasn't aged the way most action horror films of its era have.  Kick...

Throughout April we'll been highlighting technophobia and the fear of technology. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves in the prolonged and violent world of POSSESSOR where technology is used to implant one's consciousness into another person's body to commit a murder.  Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare Totem's...

Throughout April we'll been highlighting technophobia and the fear of technology. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves trapped inside a complex with a military robot that can rebuild itself in HARDWARE.  Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare Totem's vtuber twitch (5x a week - 5PM PT):   twitch.tv/ashcroftvt

Throughout April we'll been highlighting technophobia and the fear of technology. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie see what happens when you can no longer differentiate between the performer and the performance because of a doppelganger in CAM.  Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare Totem's vtuber twitch (5x a week - 5PM PT):...

Throughout April we'll been highlighting technophobia and the fear of technology. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves on the early days of the internet when anonymity was a new category of danger in STRANGELAND. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare Totem's vtuber twitch (5x a week - 5PM PT): twitch.tv/ashcroftvt

Throughout March we've been highlighting cleithrophobia and the fear of being trapped. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves bunkering down into suffocating paranoia in 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare

Throughout March we're diving into cleithrophobia and the fear of being trapped. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves trapped inside a secluded venue pitted against red shoelaces in GREEN ROOM (2015)! Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare

Throughout March we're diving into cleithrophobia and the fear of being trapped. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves trapped inside a highrise corporate office amidst a twisted death games social experiment in... THE BELKO EXPERIMENT!  Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare

Throughout March we're diving into cleithrophobia and the fear of being trapped. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves trapped inside a cabin in the woods admist a flesh eating virus outbreak... CABIN FEVER!  Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare

Tonight we're wrapping up teraphobia and the fear of monsters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are hunted down by a shape shifting alien in Antarctica leading to the most discussed ambiguous ending in cinema history - THE THING (1982).  Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare

Throughout the month we'll be taking a look at teraphobia and the fear of monsters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie encounter a monster with no anamoty to exploit. It's only mass, movement, and appetite in THE BLOB (1988).  Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare

Throughout the month we'll be taking a look at teraphobia and the fear of monsters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie encounter a parasite out in Texas that reconfigures its host's locomotions entirely in SPLINTER. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare

Throughout the month we'll be taking a look at teratophobia and the fear of monsters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie seek refuge at the bar while all hell breaks loose in the adrenaline fueled and action packed creature feature FEAST (2005).  Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare

This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie seek out the witch in the woods in the Adams family's latest Shudder release MOTHER OF FLIES (2026). Sometimes healing can come through darkness. What one deems monstrous might offer salvation. One of our fiends had a new book drop on JANUARY 2ND -  Vampires of Shanghai ! It would mean a lot if you could click the amazon page and order a copy...

This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie return for the next installment in the 28 Days Later franchise with its latest theatrical release 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE (2026). The Bone Temple may be a middle chapter but it's bold, uncompromising, and features one of the most memorable needle drops in cinema history. One of our fiends had a new book drop on JANUARY 2ND -  Vampires...

It's time for us to look back and reflect on the year that was in the horror landscape. Tonight the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie wrap up their year end retrospect with their definitive top 10 horror films of 2025 before sharing some of their most anticipated releases of 2026. One of our fiends had a new book drop on JANUARY 2ND -  Vampires of Shanghai ! It would mean a lot if you coul...