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

Thank Freddy it’s Friday... again?! We’re reliving the bad dream of 2010’s A Nightmare on Elm Street remake with Returning Champion Gonzales (Deep in Bear Country & Del Toro Time pods) in order to understand why so many good ideas get turned into brown mush! It’s a very lively discussion that includes exploring “Bad Man” preschool, delving into what actually works in this version, why Drake fo...

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than Sexy Murder? On a special bonus episode of Kill By Kill: After Dark, we're talking about the Crimetime After Primetime classic, Silk Stalkings (Season 3, Episode 11), which also guest stars Up All Night host Rhonda Shear! Here to help us put the cuffs on is Returning Champion Michael Varrati!! Suit up in your most garish color combos as we explore...

There's nowhere to run... nowhere to hide... Axe Gang (local 238) of the New World has us in their sights! Patrick & Gena are ready to put these psychos away as we finish up the horror-procedural Cobra and discuss the most important thing about it: prop comedy! Or is it how to advertise a cult in the Penny Saver? No - it's Shelly Finkelstein cosplay!! We also talk a lot about grenades, and we...

Thank Cobra it’s Friday! That’s right, we’re combining our love of horror and 80s action cheese as we attempt to charm the very deadly Sylvester Stallone cop classic, COBRA, with Returning Champion Patrick Bromley (F This Movie). Along the way, we talk about Axe Gang Diversity, Marion Cobretti’s filthy bat cave kitchen, and ask the important question: Do snakes like hugging? Then we have the longe...

Thank Freddy for Wes Craven! On this episode of Kill By Kill, we're getting serious - mostly - about one of the best horror films to emerge from the 1990s, Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Gena & Patrick are joined by FANGORIA writer and A Horror Movie A Day’s author Brian Collins as we dig into the pure Hollywood tale of the lengths one master moviemaker will go to torture his leading lady... onsc...

Ready for one last present? The gift that keeps on giving is Fear No Evil, and here to help us send it to heaven or hell is the one and only Jonathan Barkan. Along the way, we all discuss the geometry of demonic crotch shots, why Patti Smith is so popular in blue-collar dive bars, six-shooter fingering techniques, and the diaphanous lingerie wear of fallen angels. Of course, we nail ourselves to t...

Thank Lucifer it's Friday the 13th! It's our favorite day, and what better way to celebrate than talking about the "reason for the season" - the Devil. Gena & Patrick are joined in this special holiday celebration of Omensploitation with Returning Champion and #HorrorQueers podcast cohost Joe Lipsett! Together, we all discuss school shower seduction techniques, surprise girl gangs, a...

Thank Freddy's it's Black Friday!! Why risk life and limb trying to get a bargain TV when you can risk your sanity with Patrick & Gena as they put the last stake in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. Along the way, we talk Freddy's poor joystick technique, "incredible" warehouses, what all that crap is in the Krueger basement, sperm skeletons, and the set of MTV Unplugged. All this,...

All bad dreams must come to an end and so must our favorite “dream demon” in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. Returning Champion, actor, burlesque performer & horror enthusiast Elissa Wagner joins us again to shove a stick into the ear of the first half of the film to talk pipe bomb nuisances, raising the moistness levels and learning to find the desire to kill again. Ear violence, the Univ...

Dance Belts! Cocaine Buffets?! Disco Wolverine?? It’s the Halloween episode of Kill By Kill, and there is nothing scarier than the 1979 roller disco “classic” Skatetown USA! Even the tricks are treats when we talk woke af Billy Barty, learn who is “Virginia Woolf’n It” off the pier, leer at Patrick Swayze, delve into the magical origins of an Omega Man vampire DJ, and even play Choose Your Own Dea...

It's one small step for man, one giant leap for Kill By Kill as Gena and Patrick conclude their exploration of the final frontier as they unpack all the gory details of Galaxy of Terror! Along the way, they discuss auditions for active seniors, the deadly force of Mr. Hand, the many butts of Morganthus, Gymkata, Kermit the Xenomorph, and so, so much more. We also explore the strange not-so-new wor...

Thank the Game Master it's Friday! Gena & Patrick are back with a brand new bonus episode blasting off into the first half of the 1981 Roger Corman cult classic, Galaxy of Terror, with the help of the boys of Predict-O-Cast - Josh Hollis and Brian Skinner. Along the way, we discuss Cocktail Pong, washing machine monsters, Flinstones spaceships, and we debate the effectiveness of human seat bel...

Have we got a special delivery for you! Patrick & Gena are joined by horror journalist and writer Nat Brehmer (The Complete History of Puppet Master) to birth the final Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child episode with a flurry of shocking twists and surprises. We connect Dream Child to Spaceballs, learn about Chekhov's Rap, uncover the truth about the Elm Street parent divorce rate, and...

Thank Jason it's Friday the 13th! And it's Kill By Kill's 100th episode!! You were warned. You are doomed - to listen to a Best Of clip show of Patrick & Gena as they take a quick tour through some of the better bits and fan-favorite moments from the first four episodes of the show covering the 1980 slasher classic Friday the 13th! Relive all the excitement of dry humping in a boathouse, throwing...

Congratulations, it’s a… new episode of Kill By Kill!! Patrick & Gena welcome a new edition to the franchise and talk A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child with the help of gear guru Jamie Grayson . Along the way, we dig into Dan’s problematic denim addition, old-timey underwear suits, amusement park retirement plans, Peanuts sex, and so, so much more! Plus, we learn what happens when a...

Trademark Satan! John Huston Climbs Stairs! Sex On Fur Coats! Since Patrick is off to haunt Europe, we’re dipping into the archives and unlocking one of our favorite "listener pick" Patreon episodes: the Italian devil-sploitation freakout classic, The Visitor! Gena revels in every Shelly Winters line reading while Patrick starts to go insane just trying to recount the plot of this Omen-m...

Karate Goth! The Acquired Skill of Asthma! The Nunchuck Theory of Sigmund Freud! We finally master A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master with the help of Returning Champion and fantastic writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Trainwreck, Maw, The Neighbors) as we delve into important subjects like falling asleep in the middle of a poop, how to order gum in a restaurant, invisible man brawls, deeply...

Cool Guy/Jock Paradox! Freddy In Drag! Sleep Demon Regrets! The new episode of Kill By Kill has it all as Patrick and Gena are reunited with writer and Horror Noire producer Ashlee Blackwell of graveyardshiftsisters.com . Along the way, we discuss fire-water suplexes, Freddy’s vacation photo etiquette, and the "She’s All That" maneuver - plus a little game of Choose Your Own Deathventure...

Karate Kidding! Chekhov’s Cockroach! Drunk Dad Energy! The students of Nightmare on Elm Street films have arrived at the feet of the Dream Master! In this slightly disjointed episode, Patrick & Gena get the lay of the land before being joined by Retuning Champion, Brennan Klein of Attack of the Queerwolf to talk flaming dog pee, hot crocodiles, and Andy Sidaris centerfolds before a rousing edi...

Thank Chainsaws it’s Friday! We’re putting it all together for the 1982 cult classic Pieces, so Patrick and Gena assembled a dream team consisting of Returning Champion Megan Sunday ( Let’s Get Weirding podcast ) and… that’s it. Why would we need anything else when the movie already has Giallo Will Ferrell, Kung Fu professors, pronouncing Willard as “Will-Lard,” and the guy from Pod People’s dick?...

Like John Saxon arriving on a cloud of fairy dust, the time has come to bury A Nightmare on Elm Street in hallowed ground. There’s no one better suited to help Gena & Patrick with that task than our own personal Wizard Master and Returning Champion, Omar Najam ( Thanks For Questing ). Along the way, we learn how John Saxon pays his bills, Gena shares some “Cool Dad” stories, wonder if Freddy h...

Thank Freddy it’s Friday! Patrick & Gena are ready to re-enter the battlefield that is Dream Warriors with a little help from Bryan Christopher ( dailydead.com , Rue Morgue Magazine ). In this episode, we ponder the great mystery that is Dr. Expository, we uncover the Nightmare on Elm Street version of a #GetBunked, what incident reaches “Hot Fuzz-levels of denial,” and we indulge in a little...

This Friday, the Dreams FIGHT BACK! That’s right, Patrick & Gena are ready to take on the much-beloved Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors with Returning Champion, the effervescent & entertaining Stephanie Crawford ( The Screamcast ). Along the way, we talk about going full Freddy for your birthday, we all attempt Elaine Parker voices, we try to flowchart a Dokken song, track unmonit...

Thank Freddy it’s Friday! We’re back and ready to get our final Revenge with the help of our returning champion, John Brandon (Square Roots podcast). We finish out Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 with a little boiled bacon, flaming wieners, Elm Street key parties, Freddy hates decorative plates and table settings, and the return of Boom Box Teen! All this, plus a Party Size version of Choose Your O...

Thank Freddy it’s Friday! It’s time once again to combine the body and brains of Patrick & Gena to talk Freddy’s Revenge with the help of two of our favorite #HorrorQueers, Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman! We break it all down, including what’s in Jesse’s drawers, balls, “polite fisting,” small-town gay bar tan lines, balls, delayed reactions, towel-snapping day jobs, balls, a conspiracy theory...