Kill By Kill: Talking Horror Characters One Death At A Time

Walk the lonely road with us as we tear shirts, bell-bottom pants, and THE INCREDIBLE HULK on this episode of TV Terrors!! Is the tuba the saddest instrument for your personal theme music? Why do you need a stock room filled with pirate’s rum barrels?  If you were going to impersonate Bigfoot, would you add clothes to the costume? Is that one lady going to eat her dog? Why does the Hulk sound like...

To celebrate our Patreon crossing the century mark, we're unlocking one of our favorite episodes from that feed this year, the Listener Request of 1988's BLACK ROSES!! It's Satanic Panic, but neither Canada nor Satan seems to have a very concrete plan as to how to take over the world. This devil-may-care attitude leads to some underwhelming public defacement, some uncomfortable teacher seductions,...

For God’s Sake, Get Out of your holiday rut and into Amityville For Christmas!! It’s a brand new tradition here at Kill By Kill, where we head home for the holidays, only it’s a home with a demon pit in the basement and flying pigs in the kid’s windows! This year, we’re completing the “Orig Trig” by opening our doors to THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979), talking malicious money pits, over-the-top perfo...

We’re changing TGIF to Thank God It’s Urkel!! That’s right,  we’re returning to the TV Terrors well for a second week and with a major guest: Director of Scare Me and Werewolves Within and the star of A Wounded Fawn, out now on Shudder, the one the only Josh Ruben! And what better use of his time than to watch and talk about an 8th-season episode of Family Matters entitled STEVIL? Along the way, w...

Tune in and drop dead! That’s right, we’re flipping the channel on our off-week shows and programming a block of the weirdest TV TERRORS we can find. This week, run in slow motion with us as an attempt to rescue the Baywatch Nights episode “Space Spore!” This was season 2 of Baywatch Nights when they switched from a sexy detective show to a not-too-sexy X-Files rip-off. Along the way, we talk abou...

Smile and the whole world screams with you! That’s right, we’re showing teeth and talking about the biggest horror hit of the fall, SMILE!! Along the way, we dig into how the film both explores and exploits mental health, why this just might be the most J-Horror film not filmed in Japan, and the relief you feel when you give up on something stupid and come clean about how the film triggered our ow...

Would you like to play a game… for the 3rd year in a row?! That’s right, thank Jigsaw it's the Friday after Thanksgiving because we’re headed back to the town so nice, they never name it once, for Saw 3D: The Final Chapter! Trapped with us for our longest episode yet is someone who is no stranger to games - the co-commissioner of the Screen Drafts podcast , the one and only Clay Keller!! And the w...

In Space, no one could hear my son flinch! That’s right - we’re returning to the Nostromo for a special episode of Kill By Kill, revisiting the 1979 sci-fi horror classic ALIEN! Along for this terrifying ride through deep space is Patrick’s son, Oliver, for his first watch. So, like any caring parent, Patrick has shoved a mic in front of his child’s face to ask him what he thinks about xenomorph b...

Life in the big city can come at you fast, especially if you’re being chased by WOLFEN, everyone’s 3rd favorite kinda werewolf, kinda not flick of 1981! In this episode, we skin walk our way through this wild artifact of crumbling NYC infrastructure, find direct connections to both Predator, Verotika, and Boogie Nights, pitch a solid Gregory Hines/Tom Noonan two-hander, and the least convincing on...

Come on over and stay a while. A long while. That’s right - we’re talking about one of the fall’s horror phenoms, BARBARIAN, on Kill By Kill!! And don’t worry, we go spoiler-free to start before we get deep into this remarkable flick. Along the way, we talk about the ABRs, why using your expectations against you is the ultimate flex, compare and contrast cinemas' many bad listeners, the convenienc...

You might think that our coverage of CREEPSHOW is crawling to a halt, but actually, They’re Creeping Up On You with cohost of Waiting To X-hale podcast and Returning Champion Wynter Mitchell!! Well, there was bound to be an episode of the show that made us bug nuts, and this is it! We're talking cockroach farming techniques, exploring why the Jerry Lewis telethon was such required viewing, pitchin...

There’s a whole lot to unpack on this week’s episode of Kill By Kill as we unlock vol. 4 of CREEPSHOW and discuss The Crate with Scored To Death author and documentarian J. Blake Fichera ! Along the way, we consider the coding of Henry and Dexter’s relationship, expound upon the actual nature of boxed Yeti powers, pour ourselves some Booze Milk, then consider who qualifies as a “sack of wet,” and...

The tide is high, but we are holding on for the next volume of CREEPSHOW, talking Something To Tide You Over with filmmaker, YouTuber, and Returning Champion Patrick H. Willems!! Along the way, we discuss the artistic merits of fart machines, consider AV snobbery, formulate some sand burial escape plans, fawn over Leslie Nielsen, and discover our secret connection to Ted Danson and the BJ & th...

Kick back with some sauce as Creepshow Vol. 2, The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill, crashes into us! Here to help us pry open this meteoric segment of the movie with us is another one of the gang from We Hate Movies and a Returning Champion - the one the only Eric Szyszka!! Along the way, we discuss medical-grade cleavers, imagine a nu-metal Joker, rank Stephen King’s onscreen performances (sorry...

Want cake?! Well, you’re in luck as we page through the first of our new five-volume series exploring the classic George A. Romero and Stephen King collab, CREEPSHOW! And here, demanding his own slice of the Father’s Day segment, is one of the gang from We Hate Movies and Returning Champion to Kill By Kill, Stephen Sajdak!! Along the way, we talk undead reactions to Oscar winners, investigate the...

Hold us close because we’re teetering over the edge as we discuss the season - if not the series - finale of Hannibal on the DISH BY DISH: A Hannibal Rewatch! Your eyes do not deceive you - this is the second episode of the week!! But it’s not all good news as we peruse the menu of Season 3’s final episode, The Wraith of the Lamb! We discuss the show’s difficulty with keeping red food coloring and...

Goodness, gracious, rolling wheelchairs on fire!! We’re in the home stretch as for the first episode of this double-header DISH BY DISH Friday, we dig into the penultimate Hannibal episode of season 3 - The Number of the Beast is 666!! We get demonic right away with Children of the Corn’s tech prowess, we rank who is second smartest in the cast next to Hannibal, we ask if it’s possible to have sym...

You can check in to the Bates Motel, but then you need to check out Kill By Kill as we explore the highly underrated PSYCHO II! Along the way we discuss how where Norman fits in Reagan’s America, debate why the Bates’ fruit cellar turns so many couples on, consider the erotic power of toasted cheese sandwiches, Patrick spills his behind-the-scenes A Christmas Carol cast stories, uncover the film’s...

In today’s second DISH BY DISH, we’re under siege as we explore the 11th episode of Hannibal’s 3rd season, … and the Beast from the Sea! Along the way, we delve into the possibility that this particular ep might qualify as filler, consider what eating a priceless painting will do to your digestive tract, celebrate Francis in tiny boxer briefs, and unpack that nerve-shredding home invasion scene! P...

For our first episode of DISH BY DISH: A Hannibal Rewatch Project of the day, we’re looking to make a meal of Season 3, Episode 10 “… and the Woman Clothed in the Sun!” Along the way, we delve into our feelings about Baz Luhrmann’s ELVIS, our varying levels of knick knack usage, we explore the very nature and reality of sex within the show, and we do a complete compare and contrast of all the Red...

Grab some beers, the ugliest frat guys you can find, and perhaps a corpse you found in the pool because we’re ready to pledge to THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW!! And here’s to help us graduate into Greek life is actress (Friday the 13th Part VI: The New Blood) and author of All The Girls In Town, Staci Greason ! Along the way, we discuss hot scalpels, debate how to convince someone to stick their head...

We’re making art this week on a new episode of DISH BY DISH: A Hannibal Rewatch Project as we dig into Season 3’s “And the Woman Clothed with the Sun.” Along the way, we explore file delivery systems, wonder where all the sexy Frankensteins are, consider the idea that Francis Dolarhyde here is a BSY (born sexy yesterday) character, and openly question whether the flashbacks occur during the Dust B...

It’s all coming back around again as we drive straight into the disaster that is FINAL DESTINATION 2! And along for the ride is a Returning Champion, the one - the only - Elissa Wagner ! Once the danger starts barreling out of control at us, we discuss Jason Voorhees’ Murder Island, the fear of driving behind wood, the film’s hidden connection to Ratatouille, the franchise's most useless conspirac...

It’s time for us to become… DISH BY DISH: A Hannibal Rewatch Project, and we’re transforming in front of your very eyes! We’ve reached the home stretch of Season 3 as we start The Great Red Dragon and discuss the many versions of Francis Dolarhyde, how much Anthony Hopkins deflated the balloon of his version of Hannibal, and surprise Chris Elliot cameos! All this, plus sexy Tolkien dwarfs, too man...

We are tipping over the trashcan this week on Kill By Kill as we descend into the allegorical, the phantasmagorical, and the uncanniest valley-cal as we desperately try to make any kind of sense out of the truly terrifying CATS. Yes, that CATS! You asked for it. You demanded it! Now, we all have to suffer for it as we explore the madness of constant ear-twitching, the terror of unzipping your own...