Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast

We’ve been alluding to this episode for a while, but now is the time! It’s the Fangoria Gore Zone slashic that no one talks about. Gabriel Bartalos, Warwick Davis, and Karoline Brandt hold nothing back in this romantic horror comedy about love, forgiveness, high-effort methods of watching porn with your friends, and… consumerism, maybe? We’re not really sure what to make of this movie, but it fina...

What’s this, a secret Edgar Allan Poe adaptation starring Vincent Price? NOPE! Just a little Bucklecore historical fiction film about a man, his best friend, and their shared dream of accusing people of witchcraft, torturing them into confessing their witchery and devil-worship, and making a fortune in the process. What could be rapier than that? (see episode for additional sword puns). Join us as...

It’s been a year since we delved into the original transgressive masterpiece, but now we’re back to learn about the mating habits of the endangered Duane and Belial in this higher-budgeted, more comedic and less rapey installment of the Basket Case franchise. I guess Belial was an Incel in part 1, but he’s better now that he has a girlfriend, and can focus on his true passions: sloppy nutting and...

Grab your most sexually-active teddy bear before you listen to us talk about this… uhhhhh… like, I guess, some kind of a horror movie targeted at children. Specifically, children that want to see a lot of nudity… and want to watch one of their own commit weird sex crimes… Yikes! It’s going to be one of those episodes, folks, so join us for the 1-year anniversary, and possibly final episode of Loat...

A movie about people saying “La Fin Absolue Du Monde” as many times as possible in 59 minutes while a baby-faced Norman Reedus has a Eurotrash adventure across beautiful Vancouver, Canada, at the behest of Udo Keir’s poorly-decorated ambitions! Meta-commentary about the film business abounds in this gory movie-about-a-movie-that’s-more-than-a-movie. And for our Star Trek fans, there a special appe...

We watched the absurdist masterpiece and reputed first horror film from Brazil, both directed by and starring the big, strong man himself, Coffin Joe. Beware, brave listener, for this film warns you it is not for the faint of heart, and then completely delivers on that promise. An early example of a director that grew up watching horror movies, then going on to make the horror movie he wanted to s...

We got giggly and dark while reviewing this MK Ultra meets Numbers Stations spooky mash-up starring Ted Levine. We mentioned the secret ending of this movie before the spoilers… and then forgot to talk about it at the end… because we’re good at this. Join us on a fun romp through scariest movie about being friend-zoned in this, the latest episode from America’s best horror movie podcast! If you wo...

Gareth Evans told us to try a new recording software, so the audio sounds a bit like we travelled to a low-tech island where the good Lord has been usurped by some kind of gauzy vineyard witchiness. Wait, maybe I’m getting some details confused. Dan Stevens, Kristine Froseth, Mark Lewis Jones, Lucy Boynton, Michael Sheen star in this long, complex horror film about the aforementioned actors having...

This harbinger of the folk-horror renaissance won several FX awards and is a source of hope for the bright future of non-practical creature effects in cinema. Spoiler alert: if you love movie monsters, you should watch this movie immediately. Is that a spoiler? Who cares! Listen to the best podcast about horror movies, and also listen to us as we discuss the newest addition to our Top 10 list! If...

Just after adapting Salem’s Lot for television and just before directing the music video for Billy Idol’s Dancing with Myself, Tobe Hooper returned to the fringes of Southern Gothic-in-retrograde murdery wetness with this solid update on the Quasimodo/Frankenstein’s Monster story by way of David Lynch’s The Elephant Man. Clean the cotton candy off your fingers and join us for a drippy dive into th...

John and Josh wax poetic about George A Romero, zombie movies, and how these topics played a role in each of us becoming fans of Horror movies as a genre. In honor of the brilliance that is Night of the Living Dead, we’ve recorded this episode with minimal scripting and editing. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch it. It’s a great movie! If you would like to recommend a movie, tell us which director...

Wow! This classic manages to swaddle some truly transgressive, squirm-inducing discomfort in the gauzy warmth of William Asher’s 1950s-60s television eyeball. I don’t know what’s happening to my body, but I don’t like it. For a good time, watch this movie starring Jimmy McNichol, Bo Svenson, Julia Duffy, Steve Eastin, and an unfathomably epic performance from Susan Tyrell. Also, an early-career ap...

Blumhouse Productions and Sophia Takal bring the feminism back to Black Christmas and… well, they really do it up. Imogen Poots and Cary Elwes go toe-to-toe in this college campus slasher/revenge/Buffy-style flick that's more of a set-piece upcycle than an actual reimagining of the original. If you’re trying to mask how fragile your masculinity is, you might want to skip this one, bro! If you woul...

Eyeballs will be popped, squished, and chomped as Glen Morgan explores Billy and Agnes’ dysfunctional upbringing while Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert, Katie Cassidy, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, Kristen Cloke, and Andrea Martin sister around a sorority house. Is it worth watching before you listen? We concur with a solid “maybe!” If you would like to recommend a movie, expl...

Wow! Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder and Andrea Martin star in this absolute Horror masterpiece from the same director and year as Deathdream: Bob Clark. I don’t understand how Black Christmas and A Christmas Story came from the same director. Put on your Gender Studies goggles and join us for a dive into the greatest Christmas movie of all time! Content Warning: "The C-word" shows up in...

Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Bridgers, Larry Fessenden, and Sean Young star in this kind-of-great low-budget folk horror flick about a backwoods Tennessee moonshine community that worships a hole in the ground what heals ya when you get sick but also requires the occasional human sacrifice. It doesn’t break into our Top-10, but it does break into our hearts, so go watch the movie and then listen to...

A Japanese romantic horror movie that gave Josh an excuse to say “onomatopoeia?” Awesome! This icky, chunky film had John and Josh split: is it feminist? Is it misogynist? Is it nihilist? Who can say? Well, two white guys with zero expertise on the matter, that’s who! Join us for a foot-flinging good time in this gory import. Warning: The movie, and thus this episode, covers sensitive topics and i...

Buckle up for the wild ride that was called Train Amok everywhere but in the US! John and Josh tour the beautiful Yugoslavian countryside from… a train that we didn’t realize was going to be the… antagonist of this film? It’s confusing, like finding a box labeled “Explosives” to be filled with shotgun shells. But, it’s also kind of great. Watch it first: you won’t be sorry! If you would like to re...

Ben Wheatley continues his adventures in British Pagan Horror with this socially-distanced gem. A great soundtrack and peculiar intrigue set the shard-strewn groundwork for some splendid creep-outs, rapturous highs, and a microdose of some impressive practical effects. Get out your glow sticks, apply your pasties, and paint your junk for a rad party in the woods because we’re watching In The Earth...

AKA The Maddest Story Ever Told. AAKA Cannibal Orgy. AAAKA I Know Where Lon Chaney Jr. Sweated in the Summer of 1964. This ancestor of the American Domesticated Cannibal tradition offers a thrilling look at the later Lon Chaney Jr, early work of Sig Haig, and some deeply troubling portrayals of African Americans and rape victims. Yikes! It’s Jack Hill’s perpetually disturbing horror-canonical Spid...

What if Dean Koontz was a Vietnam vet with trouble remembering the name of the AK-47, a very bland collection of plunging V-neck sweaters, a weird thing for little boys, and a flippin’ sweet real estate inheritance? He would probably be the main character of Steve Miner’s 1985 comedy(?) horror film: House! This movie certainly does, and you can take that to the bank! What am I talking about? Who c...

Welcome to the show notes for the tenth episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast! A soldier’s mother prays for him to return, first from Vietnam, then from death’s cold embrace… and then he does. Yay, what a heart-warming story! Oh wait, no, this movies spirals into a fantastic exploration of the Laocoön-edged destruction visited upon real male bodies as part of the impossible expectations of war-t...

Welcome to the show notes for the ninth episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast! A desperate ex-con shows up at a sweet old lady’s house disguised as a plumber. What happens next may shock you… Nah! This little gem went from conception to screening in five weeks, all with no budget. It’s an extraordinary little achievement in movie-making. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a masterpiece. But then again...

Welcome to the show notes for the eighth episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast! An aspiring actor and a budding scientist are on a romantic road-trip through American farmlandia. But, wouldn’t you know it, through a combination of car trouble and a get-off-my-landish nookie reception, our heroes find themselves in need of the use of a sweet old lady’s phone. The good news is, she’s very hospitab...

Welcome to the show notes for the seventh episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast! Three grad students at Miskatonic University’s Temporal Studies department have uncovered the secret of time travel! Sounds like an awesome premise for a movie, right? Oh, dear Cthulhu, why? If you thought the deer deity in Black Mountain Side was unimpressive to look at, just wait until you catch a glimpse of Nate....