Handle With Scare: A Horror Podcast

Throughout October we're highlighting nosophobia and the fear of contracting diseases. This week Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie visit Ogden Marsh where the water is contaminated and turning everyone infected in... THE CRAZIES (2010)! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare

Throughout October we're highlighting nosophobia and the fear of contracting diseases. This week Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie tackle a rather difficult topic... what assault does to the body and the self. The deterioration has already started in... CONTRACTED (2013)! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord:   bit.ly/handlewithscare

We're taking a look back at some classics and asking ourselves "are the greats still great?" This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going to the mall. The muzak is playing, the lights are on, the shelves are fully stocked, and something is shuffling through the corridors reaching for things it cannot use. The honest question the film has been asking for 48 years is whether tha...

We're taking a look back at some classics and asking ourselves "are the greats still great?" How well do some films hold up? This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are checking in. The vacancy sign is on. Norman has the office light burning, something warm on the stove, and he would genuinely love the company in... PSYCHO! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join...

We're taking a look back at some classics and asking ourselves "are the greats still great?" How well do some films hold up? This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouze Zombie are losing sleep as they're being hunted in their dreams in... A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! Better lock your doors and grab your crucifix.  Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Disco...

We're taking a look back at some classics and asking ourselves "are the greats still great?" How well do some films hold up? Turns out... even after 50 years some hold up pretty damn good. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouze Zombie find themselves at the mercy of the blistering Texas summer heat in one of the most physical horror films ever made. Join us as we gather at the dinner tab...

Tonight we're wrapping up our deep dive on atychiphobia and the fear of failure. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouze Zombie are spending time with someone who just wants a friend. May wanted a friend so she made one in the only way available to her. That friend opened its eyes. We'll see you on the other side of the glass in... MAY! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord...

Throughout August we'll be highlighting atychiphobia and the fear of failure. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouze Zombie are going to a place where the light is beautiful and the light is the problem. We explore an industry that does not simply use beauty - it consumes it in... THE NEON DEMON (2016)! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord:...

Throughout August we'll be highlighting atychiphobia and the fear of failure. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves in a technicolor nightmare bathed in colors of the Hollywood dream and at the center of it all is one of the decade's greatest horror performances in... PEARL (2022)! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord...

Throughout August we'll be highlighting atychiphobia and the fear of failure. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going to Hollywood. Not the Hollywood of the billboard, the premiere, and the carefully managed public image. The one underneath. The one that has always been there in... STARRY EYES. Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Di...

Throughout August we'll be highlighting atychiphobia and the fear of failure. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are diving into a psychological descent into madness and obsession. Join us as we pirouette through paranoia, identity dissolution, and the price of artistic perfection in... BLACK SWAN! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Dis...

Throughout July we'll be highlighting galeophobia and the fear of sharks. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie would rather be anywhere else right now. Strap yourselves in because we have the "pleasure" of discussing what is arguably the worst sequel in cinema history... JAWS: THE REVENGE!  Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord:   bi...

Throughout July we'll be highlighting galeophobia and the fear of sharks. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie head to Queensland for one of the most audaciously specific premises in shark cinema. Bait commits to it with enough formal intelligence to make the case that the supermarket was exactly the right place for this to happen. It's time to see what you do with a shopping ca...

Throughout July we'll be highlighting galeophobia and the fear of sharks. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going past the thermocline, past the point where the light stops, past the layer of cold water that was supposed to be keeping something very large and very prehistoric from becoming our problem. Problem is... it didn't hold. Nothing ever does. Prepare for the full...

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...