Just Ghoul With It

This week Nikki and Kate watched The Ruins and discussed nuclear semiotics, gore levels, and guarding beans.   Rated R for strong violence and gruesome images, language, some sexuality and nudity Content warnings: Blood, gore, audio gore, cutting, amputation, body horror, someone struggling to breathe, broken bones, stabbing, death of a child, jump scares, trypophobia, vomit, anxiety attack, claus...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Infinity Pool and discussed Nepo Babies, emotional substance vs. viscous substances, and twenty twenty splits.    Note: This film unlocked a feral energy and as such there is some audio clipping. They’ll monitor their levels more rigorously should a future recording also contain unprecedented primal energy.   Rated NC-17 or R Content warnings: Blood, gore, audio go...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Blood Quantum and discussed the complicated history behind the title, wide shots and disorienting camera angles, and how they’d unalive each other in the event of zombification.   Content warnings: Blood, gore, audio gore, gun violence, eyeball mutilation, the dog dies (at least twice), a head is smashed, cutting, death by suicide, death of a baby, death of a child...

This week Nikki and Kate watched The Amityville Horror (1979) and discussed 1970s fashion, the Based on a True Story Effect, and the fulfilling of the demon pig prophecy.   Rated  Content warnings: Blood, gore, audio gore, bugs, intimate partner violence, child abuse, finger mutilation, a head is squashed, death of a child, jump scares, vomit, claustrophobia, panic attack, car crash, gun violence...

This week Nikki and Kate watched We Are Still Here and discussed towns with dark secrets, smoky lighting, and turtleneck counts. Content warnings: Blood, gore, audio gore, a head is squashed, possession, car accident, gun violence, cutting, someone is burned alive, eye mutilation, jump scares, shaky cam, self harm, references to death by suicide   If you like what we’re doing, rate and review us o...

This week Nikki and Kate watched 28 Days Later (finally!) and discussed the tension invoked by abandoned cities, the challenges in turning a bustling city into an empty one for filming, and Kate’s worsening British Brain infection.   Rated  Content warnings: Sexual assault, r*pe, p*edophilia, blood, gore, audio gore, death by suicide, gun violence, car crash, eye mutilation, cutting, amputation, a...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Barbarian and discussed hate sinks, subverting expectations, and Obi-Wan Kenobi.    Rated R Content warnings: Blood, gore, audio gore, sexual violence (mentions of serial r*pe and p*d*philia), inc*st, gun violence, car crash, eye gore, child sexual abuse, someone struggling to breathe, amputation, torture, jump scares, vomit, death by suicide, shakey cam, homophobi...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and discussed Murphy’s Law, Alan Tudyk’s genius, and tapeworms.   Rated R Content warnings: Bees/wasps, mention of r*pe, sexual assault, cutting, finger mutilation, someone struggling to breathe, someone is burned alive, torture, blood, gore, audio gore, gun violence, car crash, hospital scene, ableism, jump scares   If you like what we’re...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Se7en and discussed pathetic fallacy and precipitation, meticulous set dressing, and the origin of PBR.   Rated R for grisly afterviews of horrific and bizarre killings and for strong language Content warnings: Death by suicide, sexual assault/r*pe, torture, anti-fat bias, homophobia, ableism, slurs, dead animals, cutting, blood, gore, audio gore, decapitation, fin...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Jacob’s Ladder and discussed undercranking, heaven and hell in lighting, and being jumpscared by Macaulay Culkin.   Rated R Blood, gore, audio gore, racial slurs, homophobic slurs, ableist slurs, ableism, institutionalization, needles/syringes, gun violence, PTSD   If you like what we’re doing, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts- it really does help!  You could a...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Ava’s Possessions and discussed the debunked gateway drug theory, neon lights, and outer demons.   Rated R Content warnings: Blood, gore, vomit, possession, death of an animal, hospital scene, institutionalization   You can check out all of the past episodes as well as our extended episode notes on the Just Ghoul With It website, www.justghoulwithitpod.com   If you...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Byzantium and discussed the representation of sex workers in horror, classic seaside lighting, and very polite vampires.   Rated R Content warnings: Throat cut, beheading, blood, gore, audio gore, r*pe (offscreen/implied), hospital scene, needles/syringes, cancer   You can check out all of the past episodes as well as our extended episode notes on the Just Ghoul Wi...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Oculus and discussed the many uses of mirrors in horror, sterile and sickly lighting, and triple bamboozles.    Rated R Content warnings: Blood, gore, finger mutilation, audio gore, death of a dog, child abuse, someone struggling to breathe, intimate partner violence, possession, gaslighting, animal abuse, choking, teeth damage, jump scares, mental institutionaliza...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Cuckoo and discussed brood parasitism, the juxtaposition of welcoming colors and a hostile environment, and egg squiggles.  Rated R for violence, bloody images, language, and brief teen drug use. Content warnings: Blood, gore, audio gore, body horror, stalking, gaslighting, sexual assault, someone struggling to breathe, car crash, gun violence, vomit, throat mutila...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Mama and discussed the story of Genie Wiley, scare chord repetition, and hair mops.   Rated PG-13 for violence and terror, some disturbing images, and thematic elements Content warnings: Child abuse, death of a child, intimate partner violence, blood, gore, audio gore, spiders, body horror, broken bones, seizures, hospital scenes, child abduction, someone falls to...

This week Nikki and Kate watched We Are What We Are and discussed the Donner-Reed Party, nature motifs, and how public school is the real hero here.   Rated R for disturbing violence, bloody images, some sexuality, nudity and language Content warnings: Cannibalism, blood, gore, audio gore, child abuse, someone is restrained, a head is squashed, cutting, someone struggling to breathe, jump scares,...

This week Nikki and Kate watched The Void and discussed primary and secondary colors, twists on the cosmic horror subgenre, and also the utter betrayal of the closed captions.    Content warnings: Blood, gore, a head is squashed, body horror, someone is restrained, cutting, someone struggling to breathe, decapitation, someone is burned alive, amputation, eye mutilation, broken bone, seizures, fing...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Smile and discussed ethical dilemmas, the majesty of the daxophone, and monotonous trauma.    Rated R for strong violent content, grisly images, and language Content warnings: Death by suicide, blood, gore, audio gore, gaslighting, possession, death of an animal, child abuse, stalking, drug abuse, ableism, cutting, eye mutilation, someone is burned alive, body horr...

This week Nikki and Kate watched I Saw the TV Glow and discussed liminal spaces, the horror of feeling forced to apologize for your very being, and the Manscent.    Content warnings: Child abuse, intimate partner violence, cutting, self harm, blood, gore, someone is buried alive, ableism, someone struggling to breathe, asthma attack, panic attack, body horror, torture, kidnapping, clowns, vomit, d...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Talk to Me and discussed deviations from the possession film formula, the horror of laughter, and the residual haunting of the Head On commercials.     Content warnings: Death by suicide, blood, gore, audio gore, eye mutilation, finger mutilation, possession, sexual assault, death of an animal, car accident, broken bones, self harm, seizures, broken bones, hospital...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Us and discussed duality, the range required when playing two versions of yourself, and the unblinking horror of rabbits.   Content warnings: Death of a child, stalking, kidnapping, blood, gore, audio gore, animal death, spiders, finger/toe mutilation, broken bones, strangling, someone struggling to breathe, someone is burned alive, torture, self harm, PTSD, anxiet...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Jeepers Creepers and discussed the true crime origins of the opening scene, lore inconsistency, and wispy monster hair choices.   Rated R for terror violence/gore, language, and brief nudity Content warnings: Discussions of crimes against children, blood, gore, body horror, intimate partner violence, stalking, kidnapping, someone struggling to breathe, decapitation...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Frogman and discussed the differences between folklore and cryptids, humanizing characters through found footage, and first name last names.   Content warnings: Body horror, blood, gore, audio gore, stalking, kidnapping, gun violence, forced pregnancy, sexual assault (not depicted)   You can check out all of the past episodes as well as our extended episode notes o...

This week Nikki and Kate watched As Above, So Below and discussed the creation of the Paris catacombs, realism in found footage style films, and the right time to ask if you’re dead   Rated R for bloody violence/terror, and language throughout Content warnings: Blood, gore, audio gore, death by suicide, a head is squashed, claustrophobia, someone struggling to breathe, panic attacks, someone is bu...

This week Nikki and Kate watched Suspiria (2018) and discussed showing your work, compared the muted color palette of the remake to the original, and also asked ghosts for their opinions.   Rated R Content warnings: Gaslighting, blood, gore, audio gore, stalking, child abuse, sexual assault, death by suicide, self harm, finger/toe mutilation, decapitation, someone struggling to breathe, body horro...