Horror Movie Talk

We watched Constantine on HBO Max and I realized that I had a bunch of unfounded ill-will toward this movie, which is pretty good. @dgoebel00  on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his  website . https://youtu.be/DEa508Xmmio Synopsis Constantine is about John Constantine ( Keanu Reeves ), a DC character whose job is essentially to send demons back to hell....

Mad God is the new Phil Tippett stop motion animation movie available exclusively on Shudder . In this Patreon only review, we talk a lot about this movie and what we loved and hated about it. To support our show and gain access to the following Patreon only Pretentious reviews, support us on Patreon! Movies you can only hear us review on Patreon: Mad God (2022) The Vanishing Cat People (1942) Zom...

For Pride month this year, we decided to review a great LGBTQ+ horror movie. Saying Stranger By The Lake is a horror movie, is pretty generous, since it is more on the light end of thriller. But what it lacks in horror, it makes up in homoeroticism. Artwork by Dusting Goebel (@dgoebel00 on Instagram) Synopsis At a French lake, Franke spends his summer days cruising for gay sex. Along the way he be...

We went and saw Crimes of the Future and witnessed David Cronenberg ‘s return to body horror in one of the most upsetting films of the year. @dgoebel00  on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his  website https://youtu.be/xyCI741MqPY Synopsis Crimes of the Future is a story about the far flung future, where the earth has succumb to environmental havoc...

This film is the epitome of body horror, done by the master of body horror: David Cronenberg. If you have never seen The Fly, you’ll definitely be saying to yourself “Ew, David”. Artwork by Dusting Goebel (@dgoebel00 on Instagram) Synopsis Jeff Goldblum plays Seth Brundle, a brilliant scientist that has successfully developed a working transporter. When he shows it to Geena Davis...

We went and saw Men and, for most men it will be a similar viewing experience to staring into a mirror for an hour and a half. @dgoebel00  on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his  website https://youtu.be/HKJ4Thgk1Js Synopsis Men is a movie about a woman named Harper ( Jessie Buckley ), because of course you can’t have men without women – or can you? Harper h...

Synopsis An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland’s fables if they are intimate together. Review of Cat People (1942) Like most movies from the 40s, there is a lot of things you have to get used to stylistically before you can see through the time period and production quality to get to the value of the film. A few films sta...

Just like prodigy sang: I’m a firestarter, twisted firestarter; You’re a firestarter, twisted firestarter. This Blumhouse remake of the 80s classic is more twisted, but is it worth a watch? Listen to our review to find out. Artwork by Dustin Goebel @dgoebel00 on instagram Synopsis Firestarter is the second adaptation to Stephen King’s 8th novel. It tells the story of a young girl Charl...

We watched The Sadness before it was available for streaming in the US because we are a big time movie review podcast. I can easily say that this is one of the craziest movies I’ve ever seen, and will stick with me for a long time. @dgoebel00  on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his  website https://youtu.be/VUR1DWh7eLs Synopsis The Sadness follows boyfri...

Don’t let the subtitles turn you off. This is one of the best theatrical horror movie releases of the year. The Hatching will stay with you, especially if you were raised by a narcissist . Artwork by Dustin Goebel @dgoebel00 on instagram Synopsis Finnish freshman director Hanna Bergholm heads this chilling talk of Tinja, a 12 year old gymnast and her toxic relationship with a giant bird pers...

We watched The Wailing on Shudder.com and found out just how badly a well meaning dad can fuck up his entire family. A lesson I learned long ago. @dgoebel00  on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his  website . https://youtu.be/43uAputjI4k Synopsis Jong-goo ( Kwak Do-won ) is a local policeman and caring father to Hyo-jin ( Hwan-hee Kim ), the precocious young daught...

The movie that launched a thousand stationary camcorders. Paranormal Activity cracked the code of found footage to make one of the most successful horror movies of all time. Listen to our review and see if it still holds up. Artwork by Dustin Goebel @dgoebel00 on instagram Synopsis Paranormal Activity follows Katie and Micah, young twenty-somethings that are steady dating and living with each othe...

We saw Willow Creek on Vudu and it was everything that I remember about talking to Bigfoot believers. @dgoebel00  on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his  website . https://youtu.be/wJ5GEkHsnrs Synopsis Willow Creek is a found footage film focused on bigfoot enthusiast and documentarian Jim ( Bryce Johnson ) and his girlfriend Kelly ( Alexie Gilmore ).  Jim an...

The Possession of Hannah Grace does the smart move and doesn’t make itself a carbon copy of all The Exorcist copycats. This is an interesting twist on the demon possession sub genre and is well crafted enough to overcome its repetitiveness. Art by Dustin Goebel @dgoebel0 on insta Synopsis The possession of Hannah Grace is not like other possession movies. If you are expecting an exorcism in...

We watched Puppet Master on Tubi and were reminded of a simpler time, a time when puppets rules the earth and we were helpless to prevent their tyrannical rule. @dgoebel00  on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his  website . https://youtu.be/KK3NYrORvdk Synopsis Puppet Master is the “story” of Andre Toulon, a master of puppets who has found an ancient egyp...

Is X going to give it to you? Yes, indubitably, X is going to give it to you. Artwork by Dustin Goebel @dgoebel on Insta Synopsis In the Halcyon days of mid-coke, pre-aids 1979, a fledgling porn production crew sets off to Rural Texas to try and film the next mainstream breakout porno, ala Debbie Does Dallas. They find an old farm house to rent from an elderly couple and try to hide the production...

We went and saw Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil and it reminded me how stupid college kids are. @dgoebel00  on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his  website . https://youtu.be/l1t8OZn_uhE Synopsis Tucker ( Alan Tudyk ) and Dale ( Tyler Labine ) are headed into the woods to fix up Tucker’s new vacation cabin. It’s going to be a weekend of fishing, fixing, and get...

Ever want to see the Foo Fighters in a horror movie? To bad you’re getting one anyway. Artwork by Dustin Goebel @dgoebel on Insta Synopsis Studio 666, starring the Foo Fighters, tells the story of the band recording it’s 10th album in a haunted mansion. Decades earlier the mansion was the site of an infamous rock band murder suicide. Sloooooooowly as the plot unfolds, it’s revealed that there is a...

We watched the wildly popular and controversial new film on Netflix, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and were shocked by the amount of home renovation involved in this iteration of the classic slasher franchise. @dgoebel00  on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his  website . https://youtu.be/zcI6SFiK_yk Synopsis A group of fresh young social media influencers flo...

Drag Me To Hell brings Sam Raimi back to what he does best. Over the top, tongue in cheek horror. If you haven’t seen this one, you should. Synopsis Drag Me To Hell, Directed by Sami Raimi, and starring Alison Lohman and the Mac guy, follows Christine Brown as she suffers the consequences of a Gypsy curse. She is cursed because she denies an old creepy woman a bank loan. Through the curse, s...

We watched 13 Ghosts on HBOMAX and it was exactly what I thought it would be, which is Ghost Ship meets Event Horizon with a side order of Wrong Turn . @dgoebel00  on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his  website . https://youtu.be/n1yZl9HVLd0 Synopsis 13 Ghosts is a movie about a ghost collector who leaves his massive house to his distant relative family...

The Silence of the Lambs is known and memed today, over 30 years after it’s release. There is a reason for that, it’s one of the best movies ever made. Synopsis The Silence of the Lambs stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee tasked with interviewing a psychopathic serial killer and psychologist Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to try to elicit his help in finding a ser...

We went and saw Scream and it was pretty much exactly what I figured it would be. @dgoebel00  on Instagram provided this amazing artwork. Follow him and check out his  website . https://youtu.be/-TfkyBWEoWY Synopsis Scream is a story about a movie about a movie. A young girl get’s called on the phone and brutally attacked by a masked murderer known as Ghostface. As the teen and her friends try to...

This hostel is so… hostile! This week we review Hostel , Eli Roth’s torture-porn masterpiece. Synopsis College school student Josh is a good student and nice guy – albeit a little predictable. He is unceremoniously dumped by his whorish girlfriend. Among the people he turns to in his hour of despair is his Icelandic pal, Oli and American buddy Paxton. Josh, impulsively for a chan...

We watched Dawn of the Dead (2004) on Amazon because our Patrons told us to and I was not disappointed in the least. https://youtu.be/j69OPw9nFHw Synopsis A nurse, policeman, young married couple, and a salesman walks into a mall…  Following the downfall of humanity, they do their best to survive and return to some form of normalcy while in the mall, but are constantly reminded of the scourge...