Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 2 of JwaC Presents Depp Dive: A Depper Look into Johnny’s Feature Filmography. Your host David Garrett Jr. is joined by his Co-Captain and wife, Jaime. For this episode, we briefly discuss his role in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), where he makes a brief cameo. It is from there that we look at his next two films. Both feature great casts surroundi...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 226 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., moves into March and goes back into celebrating Centennial Club. The first feature is from 1924 and it is The Hands of Orlac. I’m pairing it with Stopmotion (2023). What I like here is that we have a silent film and form of animation that is used less...

Hello and welcome listeners to Bonus Episode 22 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., is going through a haul that I got from Full Moon Features thanks to Scandal Coactive. This has two shorts that I’ll start with in Scream of the Blind Dead (2021) and The Seduction of Rose Parrish (2021). I then get to delve into the sleazy giall...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 224 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., moves into February with Black Appreciation - Episode #10. The first feature is the 2024 release of Skeletons in the Closet, which is found on Shudder. I’m pairing this with Street Tales of Terror (2004). This is an anthology found on Tubi. Both work...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 23 of Side Quest Podcast. On this episode, your hosts, Jake from Guitar Case Full of Reviews and David from Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast stick with the theme of slasher films with Savage Weekend (1979). What is interesting here and we delve into this, we have a movie in this sub-genre before the boom. It plays more like a giallo or a proto...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 224 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., moves into February with Women Appreciation - Episode #10. The first feature is going to be In My Skin (2002). I’m pairing that up with Lisa Frankenstien (2024). Both are written, directed and starring women. There’s also body horror used in different...

Hello and welcome listeners to Bonus Episode 20 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., is continuing with another literary review. This is Episode 4. The first book I’m covering was an interesting text covering Vampires on the Silent Screen: Cinema’s First Age of Vampires 1897 - 1922. Then I got to read the third book in the series...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 223 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., moves into February with Black Appreciation - Episode #9. The first feature doesn’t fit the theme well, but ends up being women appreciation. The movie is Underground (2023) and features a cast of women as well as an assistant director and co-writer....

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 2 of JwaC Presents Depp Dive: A Depper Look into Johnny’s Feature Filmography. Your host David Garrett Jr. is joined by his Co-Captain and wife, Jaime. For this episode, we briefly discuss his role in Platoon (1986). It is from there that we look at his next two films. First we look at the John Waters’ film starring Johnny in Cry-Baby (1990) and then follow i...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 222 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., moves into February with Women’s Appreciation - Episode #9. The first featured review has a woman co-writer/director with Good Manners (2017). That was paired up with Destroy All Neighbors (2024) on Shudder. Not the greatest double feature, but both h...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 221 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., finishes his final New Year, New Movie for 2024, this is number 18. I went to the theater for a 2024 slasher with Founders Day (2023). I have this paired with a different serial killer style with The Cell (2000). This was selected by the randomizer. A...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 1 of JwaC Presents Depp Dive: A Depper Look into Johnny’s Feature Filmography. Your host David Garrett Jr. is joined by his Co-Captain and wife, Jaime. Johnny Depp is her favorite actor so we are working through his filmography. We introduce more as to why we decided to do this. We briefly discuss his first role in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). It is from...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 220 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues with his New Year, New Movie for #17. My first featured review is a screener for a 2024 release of Project Dorothy. Then the randomizer selected Red White & Blue (2010). This is a double feature of leads who are problematic and fall into...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 218 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., brings back his New Year, New Movie. This is episode #15. The randomizer selected the sequel, so I figured this time around I’d do a Wyrmwood double. I’ll do the original, Road the Dead, and then follow it with Apocalypse. Also on this episode are Min...

Hello and welcome listeners to Bonus Episode 20 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., is doing another literary review. This is Episode 3. First is a futuristic, fantasy novel of Leo Trevelion and the Lion Ring. Then my second review is of The Pictish Princess: …and other stories from before there was a Scotland. This is a collect...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 219 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues with his New Year, New Movie for the 16th time. The randomizer selected Almost Human (2013) for a featured review, which is a Joe Begos blindspot. Then the second featured review is Night Swim (2024), having seen that in the theater.  Also o...

Hello and welcome listeners to Bonus Episode 19 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., is joined by his beautiful wife, Jaime, for a Richard O’Brien Triple Feature. First wetake on the cult classic of The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1975. Then on to the loose sequel, Shock Treatment (1981). We end with the remake, The Rocky Horr...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 217 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., runs this Top Horror Films of 2023. I go through every release that I watched, which is going to be recapping from 100 all the way to 1. Also on this episode are Mini-Reviews of The Ones You Didn’t Burn (2022), Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 216 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues with my Winter and End of Year Prep. This is Episode #21 of these. This Double Feature pairs Cobweb (2023) and Dead End (2003). This pairing gives us an interesting look at determining what is real and what’s not. Plus the horrors of decisio...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 215 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues with my Winter and End of Year Prep. This is Episode #20 of these. This Double Feature pairs Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023) and Blood Glacier (2013). This doesn’t make the best double feature, but we do have a winter the...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 214 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continuing with my Winter and End of Year Prep. This is Episode #19 of these. This Double Feature pairs Godzilla Minus One (2023) and A Cold Night’s Death (1973). This doesn’t make the best double feature, but we are getting bleak landscapes and Sci-F...

Hello and welcome listeners to Bonus Episode 18 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., is once again jumping into doing literary reviews. First is a fantasy/adventure story geared toward children with Ocellus: The Story of the Twelfth Stone. The other is a bit more grounded with Sister of Darkness: The Chronicles of a Modern Exorci...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 213 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., moving in my Winter and End of Year Prep. This is Episode #18 of these. This Double Feature pairs V/H/S/85 (2023) and Curtains (1983). This doesn’t make the best double feature, but we get interesting elements with the latter giving that cold, winter...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 212 of Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast. In this episode, your tour guide, David Garrett Jr., continues his celebration of Italian horror month. This is Episode #20. This Double Feature pairs the most popular Italian co-production that I hadn’t seen in Bones and All (2022). I set it up with The Demon (1963) which was the highest rated first ti...

Hello and welcome listeners to Episode 211 of Side Quest Podcast. On this episode, your hosts, Jake from Guitar Case Full of Reviews and David from Journey with a Cinephile: A Horror Movie Podcast celebrate kids going back to school with a slasher film. This one is poignant in this political climate with Psycho Cop (1989). We delve into what works, what doesn’t and what we would have done differen...