MARCH MADMEN

A typically exacting dissection of David Gordon Green’s "Halloween Kills" begins with spoiler-free analysis of the 2021 sequel (including our take on this incarnation of Michael Myers) and a big announcement about the next season of our show!

And now, the grand finale of the Toby Awards, as the March Madmen pay tribute to top moments from this season’s films and laugh at the lowlights. Most important of all is the inauguration of our tournament’s winner: the greatest haunted house movie ever made! Will it be The Shining, Terrified, Lake Mungo or Oculus? The ballots are in...

We begin our final show of the season, a look back at the highs and lows of the 32 haunted house movies vying for the title of “greatest ever made.” Part Oscars, part Razzies, all stark raving mad, the Toby Awards are our way of appreciating the good, bad and terrifying about this unique subgenre of horror. Woo-hoo!

It’s the final episode of the final autopsy of the first season! Get ready for all the Oculus talk you can handle — we’re through the Lasser Glass here, people! It’s a whole lotta lightbulb crunchin’, pottery-stabbin’, pendulum-swingin’ goodness.

Mike Flanagan’s 2013 fright-fest Oculus was the 6 seed in our haunted-house tourney, but it’s stormed all the way to the Fatal Four. The March Madmen have their instruments sharpened and ready — how will this apparently divisive film fare? Let’s go!

Plumbing the darkest depths of 2008’s Lake Mungo, the Madmen ponder the implications of Alice Palmer’s plight and an ending that is more chilling than it appears on the surface. This movie is making a late run at the title of "greatest haunted house movie ever made…"

Mungoheads, rejoice! It’s time to visit the quaint Australian town of Ararat and meet tragically doomed Alice Palmer and her family. That’s right, we’re beginning our examination of Joel Anderson’s highly underrated 2008 haunted house movie. Gonna get spooky up in here!

And now, the thrilling conclusion of Terrified’s thorough (but loving) autopsy! How did 2017’s Argentinian chiller fare, laid bare on the March Madmen’s slab? Give this track a spin!

Continuing our in-depth study of the Fatal Four, this episode examines Argentina’s 2017 revelation Terrified (Aterrados), written and directed by Demian Rugna. This movie really lives up to its name, folks! What’s its secret? Listen as the Madmen take it apart, piece by bloody piece…

Tonight we conclude our insanely thorough dissection of a Stanley Kubrick classic and assess its case for the title of Greatest Haunted House Movie Ever Made. But this tourney is far from over — there are three more movies to dig into on the Madmen’s slab!

It’s all come down to this: the Fatal Four! Each of our finalists get the most definitive analysis you’ll find in podcast form. First up is No. 1 seed The Shining. Don’t hide in a cupboard, you’re safe with us, we promise…

Can one of the season’s most divisive films continue its run? John sure hopes not. It’s the chilling conclusion to this Evil Eight grudge match! Bayona! Rugna! Vehicular carnage and ghostly visitations! Get some.

Tonight it’s Argentina vs. Spain, and we're not talking football! To kick things off (sorry) the Madmen visit the most haunted neighborhood on Earth and document Demian Rugna’s Aterrados (aka Terrified). Hope you don’t have "a condition.”

It’s the contentious finale of a brutal matchup — two modern classics go head to head, and only one can survive. Brad Anderson! Mike Flanagan! Mirror eyes! Eerie recordings! I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

It’s a heavyweight fight tonight! Sacred grotesque cows are threatened and we get REAL feisty about Brad Anderson's Session 9! Can (Peter) Mullan and the mullet prevail, or will that macabre mirror triumph again?

It’s time for a deep dive into David Twohy’s Below! Only one movie makes it to the next round — will it be what is probably the scariest sub movie ever made, or Australia’s hidden gem?

Two watery spirits collide in their effort to influence the living: in this case, to convince John, Vik and Rich to vote for their movie! First up is our examination of the No. 2 seed in the tourney, Lake Mungo, the haunting tale of a teen stricken by a terrifying glimpse of her future...

How’d you like some ice cream, Doc? We burrow deep into the bowels of the Overlook Hotel (ew) to study The Shining! Will it beat The Devil’s Backbone? Que es un fantasma? All shall be revealed!

Tonight we’ve got a battle of grubby ghost moppets and bathtub-dwelling hags! Can Guillermo Del Toro’s 2001 chiller knock off a Stanley Kubrick classic? Stranger things have happened…

To conclude our culture clash of ‘80s Iran and early 21st century America, let’s put Under the Shadow under the microscope. Which haunted house flick shall prevail? Guess you gotta listen...

In the final matchup of our tournament's Sinister Sixteen, a malevolent mirror matches up with a djinn in two very different tales of families haunted by supernatural forces. Part 1 examines Mike Flanagan’s 2013 film, Oculus. Set your timers now...

What’s worse, having your whole neighborhood be haunted, or discovering your basement is full of a Nazi doctor’s victims, and they’re not happy? It’s a classic March Madmen conundrum! Tune in to see who wins this supernatural smackdown between two terrifying films: Terrified and Ouija: Origin of Evil.

As the Sinister Sixteen rolls on, Guillermo del Toro goes toe to toe with an oscillating fan cam and the Spanish Civil War squares off against a 1980s suburb! Also: John is humbled, anal sex jokes, and undetonated ordinance. It’s The Devil’s Backbone vs. Paranormal Activity 3, March Madmen style! Don’t forget to watch ‘em with your mother-in-law.

Hello, Gordon... This episode pits Simon and the orbitoclast against hiders in the house and Google Maps gone ghosty. Two kickass films, but only one can move on in our little competition. Listen and decide for yourself!

An upset is brewing as evil steak and a killer clown toy duke it out with baby baghead and a gnarly auto vs. pedestrian tango! Find out why John hates the ending of El Orfanato and Poltergeist’s roller-coaster ride isn’t as rich a broth for Vik. Rich’s vote decides which flick forges ahead and which is put to rest...