My Bloody Podcast

On Episode #195 of My Bloody Podcast, Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta return to this glorious blood-soaked relic to celebrate its nightmare-fuel vampire creatures, marvel at some truly baffling casting decisions, and unpack the single film review so spectacularly misguided it managed to unite everyone in disbelief. It's equal parts horror criticism, affectionate roasting, and a love letter to an er...

There are movies people revisit because they reveal something new with age. There's The Godfather. There's Casablanca. Of course, there is There Will Be Blood. And then there's The Human Centipede. This week on Episode #194 of my Bloody Podcast, Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta finally descend into the cinematic sewer that is Tom Six's notorious 2009 cult shocker. The post Episode #194 – The Human C...

This week, for Episode #193, Bryan Kluger, Preston Barta, and Chelsea Nicole point their flashlights skyward toward Steven Spielberg’s 2005 alien panic attack, War of the Worlds. With Spielberg’s latest blockbuster, Disclosure Day, currently vacuuming up box-office dollars, the trio revisits what may be the director’s meanest film in a post-9/11 nightmare disguised as a summer popcorn movie. The p...

For Episode #192, however, something unusual happens. They hated the movie. Not in the performative internet sense, where outrage is monetized, and every disappointment is treated like a constitutional crisis. No, this was genuine horror-fan heartbreak. The film in question is Scream 7, the latest entry in a franchise that has spent nearly three decades cleverly mocking nostalgia before eventually...

For Episode #191, Bryan and Preston sink their teeth into the glorious 2002 relic Queen of the Damned, the film that gave us Aaliyah as the impossibly cool vampire queen Akasha and Stuart Townsend as Lestat, replacing Tom Cruise's version of the character with considerably more eyeliner and approximately three hundred percent more Hot Topic energy. Revisiting the film today feels a bit like openin...

In Episode #190, the pair descend into the deeply perspiring nightmare of Magic from 1978, a film in which Anthony Hopkins gives one of the most alarming performances of the 1970s, armed with nothing more than a ventriloquist dummy, emotional repression, and the posture of a man who has not slept since Watergate. The post Episode #190 – Magic (1978) first appeared on Boomstick Comics .

This time, Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta welcome the ever-game Mena Suvari, who arrives bearing fangs and stories from her new film, Vampires of the Velvet Lounge. Suvari, who first scorched herself into the pop-culture psyche in American Pie and later drifted, ghostlike and unforgettable, through American Beauty, has since built the sort of career that zigzags cheerfully between cult oddities an...

In Episode #189, Bryan and Preston welcome filmmaker Paul Boyd for a lively autopsy of his career, from directing music videos for Shania Twain to his latest horror film, Scared to Death. The conversation inevitably wanders into the haunted corridors of The Shining, a film the podcast has tackled before but now revisits with the benefit of 2026 hindsight. Does it still scare? Does the drama hold u...

On this episode, we sit down with the indestructible Lin Shaye,  a woman who has stared into more cinematic abysses than most of us have stared into our refrigerators as we discuss her latest plunge into the macabre, Scared to Death. Shaye, who long ago achieved the status of horror’s benevolent high priestess, approaches terror not as a gimmick but as a craft that is calibrated, precise, and just...

In Episode No. 188, Bryan and Preston decamp to a luxurious house in the middle of nowhere, because nothing bad ever happens there to sip wine, fork into chocolate cake, and discuss Keeper, the 2025 film from Osgood Perkins. Yes, that Osgood Perkins who is the man behind The Monkey, The Blackcoat's Daughter, and Longlegs, which is a filmography that, for Bryan, has inspired less devotion than a ki...

On Episode #187, Bryan and Preston retreat to the great outdoors, which is never a wise decision in horror, to revisit Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever (2002), which is the film that announced Roth as a new maestro of cinematic misery. The post Episode #187 – Cabin Fever (2002) first appeared on Boomstick Comics .

As with all episodes of My Bloody Podcast, order eventually collapses. Chelsea yells, then cries, sometimes simultaneously. Preston patiently excavates the humanity buried inside the horror. Bryan, true to form, steers the conversation toward naked tits, because someone has to keep things honest. It’s a triple-threat episode. It's funny, thoughtful, and just unhinged enough to feel alive. Listen e...

My Bloody Podcast returns in 2026 the way any sensible, well-adjusted cultural institution should. It's by diving headfirst into a movie about a man whose job description includes repeatedly murdering the dead. Episode #185 marks our first outing of the year, and rather than easing back in with something polite or familiar, we chose Cemetery Man (1994), a film so obscure, deranged, and strangely r...

This week, My Bloody Podcast hangs a stocking over the fireplace and then promptly sets it on fire. In a very special, tinsel-drenched episode, we lean all the way into the holiday spirit with Silent Night, Deadly Night, a brand new remake of the 1984 Christmas-horror chestnut now resurrected, sharpened, and sent back down the chimney by a returning champion of the show, Mike P. Nelson. The post B...

Today, we’re rolling out the proverbial red carpet for someone making his debut appearance on My Bloody Podcast, director Stephen Shimek. If the name rings a bell, don’t worry, you’re not suffering from cinematic déjà vu. You’ve probably stumbled across Invitation to a Murder, The Maze, Joey and Ella, or the delightfully enigmatic The Magician’s Raincoat. Yes, Stephen made those. And if that’s not...

Joining us for this canine-and-carbine opera are two men who know their way around both a frame and a fight. Aaron Eckhart, the square-jawed statesman of The Dark Knight, Erin Brockovich, and Thank You for Smoking, and the film’s director John Stahlberg Jr., who has quietly been constructing a small universe of his own with the Muzzle franchise. The post Bonus Episode with Aaron Eckhart and John S...

In Episode #184 of My Bloody Podcast, we plunge scalpels-first into John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), a film that has aged better than most of its human characters. We roam through the eerie lineage of the story, revisiting the 1950s original, back when aliens were tall, wooden, and shaped vaguely like your uncle’s coat rack, and marvel at the alternate-universe casting choices that nearly befell...

There are few things more sacred in the horror podcasting world than two friends on a long phone call dissecting a film where a creepy man also loves to make phone calls. On Episode #183 of My Bloody Podcast, Chelsea and I pick up our proverbial Black Phones and dial directly into the cultural juggernaut currently haunting theaters. The Black Phone 2. The post Episode #183 – Black Phone 2 (2025) f...

On Episode #182 of My Bloody Podcast, two death-defying dolls, Bryan Kluger and Chelsea, pick up their metaphorical scalpels to stitch together their thoughts on May, the 2002 horror film that nobody remembers except, of course, Bryan Kluger. (This is a man who spent twenty years watching nothing but horror movies and occasionally, when the moon was right, eating chicken wings.) The post Episode #...

On Episode #181 of My Bloody Podcast, the trio of cinematic slashers, Bryan, Preston, and Chelsea, sneak up on 2016’s Hush, Mike Flanagan’s lean, mean, and surprisingly quiet home-invasion thriller. You might remember Hush as the film that came after Oculus (the haunted mirror one) and before Flanagan ascended to Netflix sainthood with The Haunting of Hill House. It’s the movie that whispered, lit...

Episode #180 of My Bloody Podcast is, to put it lightly, a pumpkin-spiced fever dream. It’s that time of year again, spooky season, when the air smells faintly of nutmeg, Spirit Halloween stores rise from the dead in defunct Pier 1 Imports, and every barista becomes a horror enthusiast with an oat milk frother. Naturally, we leaned into the madness and tackled one of the more bewildering entries i...

Episode #179 of My Bloody Podcast doesn’t so much begin as it laces up its sneakers. Bryan, Preston, and Chelsea, our well-worn trio of cinematic mall walkers summon a special guest, Susan Kamyab Stephens of ThisChixFlix, to join them on their longest journey yet, a brisk conversational trek through The Long Walk, Stephen King’s first stab at a novel, dashed off while he was still in college, pres...

On Episode #178 of My Bloody Podcast, three horror aficionados do what any sensible millennials facing sky-high real estate prices would never dare. They metaphorically buy a house, albeit a haunted one. Their choice? The colonial fixer-upper from The Conjuring (2013), a property that’s been terrifying audiences for twelve years and is now worth, one assumes, at least three exorcisms over asking....

Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta of Dallas, Texas, two men who can quote John Carpenter faster than they can recite their social security numbers, sat down with Canadian filmmaker Sean Cisterna, whose polite menace belies his latest creation: Silver Screamers. The documentary, which will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, follows Sean as he wrangles a group of senior citizens into...

Episode #177 of My Bloody Podcast begins like a bad idea. The kind that usually ends with a bottle of whiskey, an Amazon rental receipt, and an apology text the next morning. Instead, it ends with four grown adults: Bryan, Preston, Chelsea, and our honorary demon-fighting deputy of the law Dan, watching an animated, family-friendly Netflix film about a K-pop girl group battling literal demons from...