Horror Movie Talk

Have you ever lit your worst enemy on fire, decapitate them, and use their still burning severed head to light your cigarette? Better yet, have you seen Nicolas Cage do it? Mandy is an exercise in world bending drug trips, fantasy novels, 70’s & 80’s horror movie tropes, and insane revenge. It starts in the woods in 1983 and ends up in some crazy fantasy land that I don’t understand, but I lov...

This episode we review the cult classic Sleepaway Camp . This campy slasher combines the most horrifying elements of the eighties: over-the-top teen bullies, and casual pedophilia. Listen to Horror Movie Talk’s take on this fun thriller. Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 teenage slasher that has become a bit of a cult classic. The film follows Angela Baker (played by Felissa Rose ), a painfully shy g...

Escape Room is a movie best described as tense, fun, and bad in a good way. It has a solid premise and uses it in creative ways to up the tension and suspense for the audience. At times is goes over the top, but mostly in fun ways. Escape Room is a thriller about a group of strangers who are brought together by an unknown presence that sends out a puzzle to each of them. When they complete the puz...

This episode we review Bird Box , which is available to stream only on Netflix. It’s probably one of the best horror movies of 2018. Even though it was released the Friday before Christmas, it has already been watched over 45 million times according to Netflix . Bird Box tells the story of Mallorie (played by Sandra Bullock ) as she experiences the fallout of a worldwide invasion of monsters...

If you don’t know what Gremlins is about, what the fuck are you doing? This is a movie about a Mogwai, and the sleepy little town of Kingston Falls, that wakes up to a very unusual Christmas day! https://youtu.be/XBEVwaJEgaA If you want to watch Gremlins use this link to rent it on Amazon and you will do your part to help support this podcast. Watch Gremlins Gremlins Full Movie Click here to Watch...

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension is available to stream on Amazon and is probably the weakest movie in the Paranormal Activity franchise. This is a Christmas horror movie as the whole thing involves a house with a Christmas tree in it. Let’s face it, that’s as close to Christmas horror as you should want to get. It does do that satisfying thing that all the Paranormal Activities do which i...

This week, we rented Silent Night, Deadly Night and to be honest, it might be one of my new favorite horror movies. https://youtu.be/hNBJfv5pIdY Silent Night, Deadly Night can be found for rent on Google Play, iTunes, YouTube, and VUDU. If you want to own the recently release Blu-ray edition, click through to Amazon . Silent Night, Deadly Night is about a young man named Billy who witnessed the mu...

If you loved the story of Ralphie and his red ryder b-b gun in A Christmas Story , then you’ll love this other Christmas classic by Bob Clark . In Black Christmas , the Pi Kappa Sigma Sorority receives a strange and obscene phone calls during their Christmas party right before Christmas break. The reactions to the phone call range from disgust and offence to amusement. Barb played by Margo Kidder...

The House that Jack Built isn’t getting a wide release until December 14th, but we went to a one night only showing of the director’s cut a month early at the Cinema 21 in Portland. So this is a rare instance where we can provide a review well in advance of a wide release. https://youtu.be/c6DuLPGZIoQ The film tells the story of an unassuming, yet prolific serial killer named Jack. It’s told...

ALL HAIL NETFLIX! Now that we have that out of the way let’s talk about The Ritual , a Netflix original movie that was released on the streaming platform in February of 2018. I can’t believe that movies of this caliber, that is to say, theatrical release worthy movies, are created in the quiet depths of a streaming platform. I didn’t hear much about the production of this movie. Instead, it just s...

If you want to watch Hereditary , please consider renting or purchasing the movie through this amazon link to help us support the podcast. If you haven’t seen Hereditary , and you are reading this, STOP! Watch the movie. It’s available to stream on Amazon. I don’t want to argue about this, go now, watch it. Here is the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/embed/V6wWKNij_1M You should go into thi...

If you want to watch Overlord , please consider renting or purchasing the movie through this amazon link to help us support the podcast. Overlord was fun, very loud, and not to be taken too seriously. https://www.youtube.com/embed/USPd0vX2sdc Overlord is a fun action-horror movie with intense emphasis on disturbing body horror and super stereotypical Nazi bad guys. It’s got everything you need for...

If you want to watch Suspiria (2018), please consider renting or purchasing the movie through this amazon link to help us support the podcast. We went and saw Suspiria , and there is a lot to unpack with this one… https://www.youtube.com/embed/3uGIEY7tdg8 Suspiria takes place in the politically tumultuous 1977’s Berlin and follows a young woman, Susie Bannion, played by Dakota Johnson , seek...

You wanted to know a bit more about your Horror Movie Talk hosts, David Day and Bryce Hanson, so here it is. First of all, we love horror movies – but why we love them is important. In this episode, we delve into what drove us to our horror movie addictions, share some of our horror tastes, and our top five favorite horror movies. Happy Halloween 2018, be safe and have fun! What Got David Into Hor...

If you want to watch Halloween (1978), please consider renting or purchasing the movie through this amazon link to help us support the podcast. John Carpenter’s original Halloween released in 1978 is a pillar of the horror movie genre. Halloween helped to pave the way for slashers and created tropes and techniques that are still used to this day to great effect. When it comes to fun, seasonal horr...

Halloween is the direct sequel to the original Halloween released in 1978 that ignores the story lines and continuity of the 9 other sequels and/or reboots . There have been so many Halloweens, that this is the third one called, just, Halloween . This round is helmed by David Gordon Green who wrote it with Danny McBride . Yes, that Danny McBride. If you want to watch Halloween (2018) please consid...

If you want to watch Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich please consider renting or purchasing the movie through this amazon link to help us support the podcast. Synopsis of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich is a reboot of one of the most popular cult classic horror franchises in the past 30 years, and it’s fun for all the right reasons. It is irreverent, funny, fun...

Spiral is an independent horror film that we got an advance screener for. The filmmaker for Spiral reached out to us on Facebook and invited us to review the movie. This made us feel like hotshots, so of course we’re going to do it. It was… interesting. If you want to watch Spiral , you should be able to watch it on Amazon Prome Video. If you want to watch a better movie, please consider renting o...

Hellfest is a traveling horror night that rolls into town and a group of friends get VIP passes to go and enjoy the spooks. Think of it as a haunted house that covers an entire theme park. Little do they know that hidden among the park employees is a masked killer that picks off visitors that aren’t scared. Hellfest is Directed by Gregory Plotkin , and I feel he took a huge Plotkin on the slasher...

The Evil Within is the first and only film from writer, director Andrew Getty. The film follows a mentally handicapped thirty year-old man named Dennis ( Frederick Koehler ), and tangentially, his older brother John ( Sean Patrick Flanery ). Dennis is haunted by his dreams, where a nefarious presence played by Michael Berryman , seeks to torture and ultimately possess him. The nightmares quickly b...

When was the last time that you had a total blast watching a movie? For me it was this weekend at The Predator . This movie is a blast from start to finish. While not technically a horror movie, The Predator is tied to a “horror/action/sci-fi” franchise that is subsequently tied to the Alien franchise.  If you want to watch The Predator, please consider renting or purchasing the movie through...

The Nun is another entry in the Conjuring Universe. This film delves into the backstory of the scary painting from The Conjuring 2 . If that seems unnecessary to you, than you will probably find it unnecessary to watch this movie. If however, you just can’t get enough of the world of the conjuring, then this is a decent entry in that series. https://youtu.be/pzD9zGcUNrw The Nun Trailer The N...

The Little Stranger is a little known horror film that came out in 2018 that toes the line between murder mystery and horror movie. It is very English in it’s sensibility and might remind you more of the Turn of the Screw or The Remains of the Day than The Conjuring If you love scary movies, but wish they were more like The Remains of the Day , then you might like The Little Stranger . It ca...

The Meg is a run-of-the-mill, but well-executed monster movie starring Jason Statham and the sovereign nation of China. Jason Statham plays Jonus Taylor, an expert rescue diver who is retired after a tragically failed rescue, which Jonus blames on a giant fish or something (but no one believes him). He is brought out of retirement after another diving accident befalls his ex-wife who was researchi...

The hardest part about watching Slender Man , for me, is having to sit down and write about it now. Don’t get me wrong, the watching of the movie was not fun in any way, shape, or form. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the individual parts of this movie because there really weren’t any. It was one big confusing mess that director Sylvain White cobbled together from writing duo David...