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

Remember when we went gaga over Mary Lou? Or maybe a little tyke named Mikey? Well, get ready for us to become the internet’s biggest fans of the most incomprehensible horror anthology ever - 1985’s NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR - and “The Case of Claire Hansen!!” Strap in as we try to make sense out of the truly senseless!! Witness breakdancing train angels!! An extended riff on Paula Abdul and MC Skat K...

What better way to celebrate our seventh year of podcast excellence than to discuss David Fincher’s feel-good hit of 1995, SE7EN !! I can’t think of one, and it’s not for a lack of trying. Along the way, we explore the film’s ties to grime-core classics like SAW, consider stacking hot babies, debate if John Doe will get his security deposit money back, weigh just how bad of a cop Mills is, and wax...

Welcome… to Kill By Kill’s TV Terrors! Again!! That's right, our night patrols have caused some disruption on the pod, so we're releasing this Patreon Exclusive to everyone so you don't have to go solo! This episode covers Starsky & Hutch 's season 2 episode, The Vampire, with a very special guest star, John Fucking Saxon! Witness John's high-collared dancewear! Shakedown a sleazy G. W. Bailey...

Life is full of ups and downs… and so is Death when we break down FINAL DESTINATION 3 this week with Dennis Satterfield and Scot Burkin of the Inside The Idiot Box podcast!! Along the way, we talk about the enigma that is Franklin C. Cheeks, Esq, we explore the film’s obsession with seeing women’s underwear, mourn the loss of perfectly good textbooks, celebrate Polanski and Clark - the Beat Cop In...

That’s right - we’re back in the Creepshow business! Only this time, we’re talking about the best story of the bunch as we float along with The Raft from CREEPSHOW 2 !! Along the way, we try to stay afloat of the film’s many production problems, track the oil blob’s burps and farts, pick apart the differences between Stephen King’s original short story and movie, waterproof joint transportation, b...

It’s April Fool’s Day in June… until 12 pm? Listen, the 1986 Euro-slasher SLAUGHTER HIGH has a lot of rules, and it likes to switch ‘em up as it goes, but Kill By Kill is up to the test. Along the way, we openly regret our Stockard Channing slander, struggle to remember which character is who, enjoy a solid skeleton scream, sleep it off in a brown velvet spaceship bed, celebrate an automotive #Get...

Terrifying things come in small packages! Welcome one and all to our new off-week format, where we make a meal out of one story from a horror anthology - we call it Kill By Kill: Bite Size! This week, we bring home the standout segment from 1972’s TRILOGY OF TERROR entitled Amelia - but you know it better for its antagonist, the Zuni Fetish Doll!! Along the way, we talk about creating distance bet...

Are you ready to fight the horror of robots programmed to kill? Well, how about robots who can shoot guns but don’t possess a trigger finger? 1983's RUNAWAY is an acid-filled mechanical nightmare, and here to help us crack the code is writer ( Bubble, Pop's Chock-lit Shoppe of Horrors ) and beloved podcast host ( Jordan Jessie GO ) Jordan Morris!! Along the way, we attempt to decipher the film’s S...

Animal Attack April has left us a little on the mauled side, so we're heading back to space for a special, supersized flashback episode discussing the ever-goopy GALAXY OF TERROR!! Now you can relive (or experience for the first time) this deep dive into Alien-sploitation! In the first half, we're joined by Josh Hollis and Brian Skinner as we discuss space-based Happy Hour games, decide if human s...

We’re going out on a high as we meet COCAINE BEAR in the bathroom to close out Animal Attack April 2023!! Don’t worry, we start spoiler-free for those who haven’t seen it before. Only then do we do some rails with everyone’s favorite coked-up killer ursine before we dig to the point where we can’t feel our faces! We talk baby ball pits, working mom bears, Patrick’s Eagle Scout animal attack traini...

Pack your bags and slip on your worst hiking shoes - we’re trekking across the wilderness this week as Animal Attack April continues with the William Girdler semi-classic, DAY OF THE ANIMALS!! Taking this walk with us is the cohost of Waiting To X-hale podcast and Returning Champion, Wynter Mitchell, as we delve into holes in our personal ozone layers, decide which woodland creature deserves a Tha...

It’s the most dangerous time of the year!! That’s right, we go from a nibble to a munch as we begin Animal Attack April with 1982’s rat-tacular DEADLY EYES with the help of Returning Champion and our Resident Rat Rampage Expert, Adam Peacock!! Along the way, we explore the best ways to serve steroid corn, marvel at contractually obligated sex scenes, discuss the best time for Shredder and the Foot...

On the season finale of TV Terrors, we’re re-hassling the Hoff and talking about another sterling episode of BAYWATCH NIGHTS with writer Nathan Rabin ( Weird Al: The Book and The Joy of Trash: Flaming Garbage Fire Extended Edition )!! This time, Mitch is up against humanity’s greatest threat: Unfrozen Viking Warriors!! Along the way, we talk about absentee scientists, Lou Rawls' poor attitude abou...

We’re not playing around, people! We’re upgrading your usual Friday by talking about the first sensation of the new horror year, M3GAN !! Along the way, we discuss how screenwriter Akela Cooper makes over-the-top so damn satisfying, debate if parents really do want to spend less time with their children, consider M3GAN’s real sunglass needs, and explore the world of super-sized children!! All this...

Welcome… to Kill By Kill’s TV Terrors, where we make several deals with the Devil this week when we discuss an episode of FANTASY ISLAND !! Along the way, we explore the bureaucracy of the island, why smoke keeps erupting from Roddy McDowell’s butt, debate Mr. Roarke’s power levels, wonder what it takes to make Tattoo look like Blackbeard, pine for Mark McKinney’s Satan from Kids In The Hall, and...

Ghostface puts us in a "New York State of Murder" as we unpack all the delightfully improbable fun of SCREAM VI!! To start, we go spoiler-free for everyone who hasn’t made out to the theater yet before digging into our favorite Flop House bits, detail the grizzly deaths of professors, killers, and coeds, debate who can pull off a bucket hat better, explore our growing love for the Meeks-...

Death doesn’t take much of a holiday on TV Terrors as we venture to the islands with Jessica Fletcher on a voodoo-tinged episode of Murder She Wrote ! Along the way, identify persistent kookaburra noise syndrome, struggle to accurately quantify the level of racism bubbling beneath the episode’s surface, wonder why every character has a different Jamaican accent, and covet serpentine wedding gifts!...

In This House… we’re talking about the lo-fi creep-fest, SKINAMARINK !! Yeah, the movie experiment where almost nothing happens… we’re breaking it all down! Along the way, we dig into our goofy childhood fears, into Warren Beatty’s maniacal Dicy Tracy rights squatting, launch our campaign for The Knife That Stabs, and take an auditory tour of the homes we grew up terrified in. All this, plus we di...

The Kill By Kill podcast… we can rebuild it! That's good because we are tearing down this 1976 episode of THE BIONIC WOMAN titled The Ghosthunter!! Listen in as we try to piece together exactly how this cyborg lady works, wonder why a tennis pro makes the perfect spy, dismantle the pervasive yet hilarious misogyny built into the series, look out of GhostVision, pine for the stately bedroom of Kris...

Feeling hungry? Good news - there’s a whole lot to chew on as we bite into BONES AND ALL !! We start spoiler-free before digging into the film’s underwhelming marketing push, discuss performances that “go full M-O-O-N spells moon” and which ones don’t, meet a cannibal sidekick, explore the dirty 1980s of the Boomer generation that haunts every frame, sink our teeth into some amazing acting and pho...

It’s the ultimate in alien terror. Well, maybe not THE ultimate. Join Patrick and Gena as they crack the space egg that is Mork & Mindy ’s supernatural season two episode, The Morkville Horror!! Along the way, we scramble our memories of both the show and Robin Williams, try to unlock the Happy Days effect on sitcom characters, decipher the mysterious appeal of The Cannonball Run, unveil the “...

Do you know that moment when everything that could go wrong does go wrong? Well, that encapsulates this episode of Kill By Kill as we talk to Gavin and Louie of The Mixed Reviews podcast about 1992’s ALIEN3 . First, Gena’s audio is scuttled by a loose facehugger, and then the catastrophes extend to the insanely complicated production history of the film; we explore the dueling themes of a film mad...

When a police detective is shot in the face and given a talking car as a partner to fight crime, the first case you think they should tackle is “Rear Window but with a dude in a gorilla suit.” That’s right - we’re talking KNIGHT RIDER on TV Terrors this week. Specifically, in the Halloween Knight episode, the main goal of the producers appears to be making Alfred Hitchcock do multiple 720s inside...

Order up! Have we got a tasty new episode for you! Enjoy this exclusive seating at Chez Kill By Kill as we dish on 2022’s THE MENU ! To add a burst of flavor, we welcome Square Roots host and Returning Champion John Brandon back to the pod! First, we serve up an amuse bouche of our non-spoiler feelings about the film before our main course, which includes low thigh stabs, executive producer drama,...

We were warned. We are doomed. That's right, there's only one Friday the 13th all year, so you know we had to do something to commemorate it! That's why we're jailbreaking a Patreon exclusive commentary of the original FRIDAY THE 13th, so you can watch along with it and celebrate the many, many silly deaths on display! We get right back into the action with folk songs that make us hot, talk Red Ha...