Not Quite Dead

We’re kicking off spooky season with a genre of scary movies that’s fun for the whole family: Kids’ Horror!  This season premieres with the 90s Disney cult classic Hocus Pocus. Join the NQD gals as they discuss the Sanderson sisters, the perfection of New England fall vibes, and the rules around black flame candles. 

Thank you for joining us for Season 8: Comedy! In this finale, we have some fun segments for you: mad libs, bingo, and a Cabin in the Woods inspired craft!

What kinda movie is this? A dark comedy, an homage to George Romero, a not scary movie about the end of the world? Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die might be a head-scratcher, but it's a fun one. Join Not Quite Dead for the last movie of the horror comedy season and all of its meta humor!

The 1996 Tim Burton helmed Mars Attacks! marks a turning point in the notable filmmaker's career - and boy do the Not Quite Dead team have a lot to say about it. As a fleet of Martian spacecrafts are invading planet Earth, it is up to the incompetent global governments, overeager American military, and hapless citizens to fight back. The cast is stacked, the CGI is campy, and the heads are enormou...

Is this a horror-comedy, or one of the best buddy comedies ever made? The Not Quite Dead gals adore Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2011), directed by Eli Craig. The story of two redneck best friends whose  vacation is ruined when ignorant college students mistake them for serial killers is irresistible - and we hope you feel the same!

The 2009 smash hit Zombieland was the cultural phenom that brought us the concept of a double tap, reinvigorated America's love for Twinkies, and gave us one of the best Bill Murray cameos of all time. The Not Quite Dead gals talk about the many "rules" of surviving a zombie apocalypse, the practicalities of a cross-country roadtrip, and the early 2000s appeal of Jesse Eisenberg. Starring Woody Ha...

Well, they're not all winners. Scary Movie kickstarted a decade's worth of spoofs, from the long-running franchise itself to the dismal Epic/Date/Disaster Movie series. The movie has its laughs but join us in this quickie episode as Not Quite Dead tears apart the very dated jokes.

Beetlejuice....Beetlejuice....Beetleju -- Not Quite Dead! The first of two Tim Burton-helmed flicks this horror-comedy season is Beetlejuice! With an over-the-top performance from Michael Keaton and iconic turns from Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara, this movie was an instant comedy classic. The Not Quite Dead gals also get into the creepiness of this movie, from post-post-modern interior design...

The Cabin in the Woods (2011) is a quintessential Joss Whedon flick - irreverent, effortlessly funny, and punctuated with moments of surprisingly brutal violence. This meta horror-comedy plays on classic horror movie tropes - a group of hot college kids are stalked and murdered one by one in a remote cabin in the woods. Boring? No way. The B plot is a workplace comedy about the office workers orch...

To discuss Gremlins 2, Not Quite Dead is joined by the hosts of the movie discussion podcast High On Film, Brad Davis and Chris Maxwell! Gremlins 2: The New Batch is the silly, Looney Tunes-riffing, meta little brother of the original Gremlins movie. In this episode, we talk the surprisingly great comedy and horror moments, and most controversially, which other sequels outshine their predecessors....

Who you gonna call? Not Quite Dead!  This beloved 80s mega-hit gets the NQD treatment to kick off Season 8: Horror Comedy! Join us as we weigh scares against laughs and go over the many underrated merits of Rick Moranis. 

Thank you for joining us for Season 7: Vampires! In this finale, we have some fun segments for you: a vampire trait commonality matrix, a genre trivia quiz with a special guest, and a build a vampire craft!

To close out the season, an honest-to-goodness, true vampire horror movie: 30 Days of Night. Cleverly set far in the Northern Hemisphere where a small town is plunged into continuous darkness, 30 Days is actually frightening! No sparkly vamps here, just monsters ready to devour a weak and scared populace. Listen to the NQD gals relish in some true horror in this episode.  Episode edited by Me...

Slap on your Hot Topic choker and zip up those combat boots - we're going to the Underworld! Len Wiseman's 2003 Underworld hit all of the goth fantasy movie notes: vampires vs lycans, pleather aplenty, and a moody, kind of weird romance plot. Everyone is wet, everyone is in a corset, and the NQD gals are just wondering where the heck this movie takes place.

These aren't your average teen rebels! They also eat people! Set in idyllic, fictional Santa Carla, California, The Lost Boys wrap beach town vibes, a boyhood coming-of-age story, and 80s culture with the spooky veil of vampirism. In this episode, we discuss Joel Schumacher's fun career, the conflicting vampire lore posited, and, of course, the Frog Brothers. Episode edited by Megan Prior-Pfeifer....

Leaning into multiple genres - superhero, horror, and action - Blade (1998) was a revolutionary counterpoint to other caped crusader fare of the decade. You won't find blood soaked raves in a Batman movie, at the very least. Listen in as the NQD gals discuss the intersection of monsters and superheroes and the leather obsession of the late 90s.

One Dracula movie, ah ah ah. Two Dracula movies! Ah ah ah. THREE, three Dracula movies, ah ah ah! This mega episode covers three adaptations of the Dracula novel: Nosferatu, Count Dracula, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. All with varying degrees of fidelity to the book (and acting quality), the Not Quite Dead gals cover the highs and the lowest of lows in these movies (looking at you, Keanu's British a...

Starring the 90s superstars of Anne Rice's nightmares, Interview with the Vampire was the blueprint for many gothic vampire fantasies. The Not Quite Dead gals are back for a new season talking about everyone's favorite undead aristocratic monsters. Put on your frilliest shirt and enjoy the first episode of our Vampire season!

Do you feel like your Christmas movies aren't bizarre enough? Your live action movie is missing the charm of animated sequences? Do you want to see a crew of gingerbread demons attempt to kill a child? Well, you're in the right place! Krampus, the remarkably well-rated Christmas horror comedy, stars some of our all-time faves: Toni Collette, Adam Scott, and David Koechner. It features the eponymou...

A sorority Christmas horror story with multi-dimensional female characters and delightful montages of ultra-violence make the Black Christmas (2019) remake a fun, festive movie. Riley and her closest sorority sisters are staying at Hawthorne College over winter break, but their seasonal cheer is threatened as girls start disappearing. Listen in to this very special episode and get in the Christmas...

Don't get them wet, don't expose them to sunlight, and don't feed them from 12:00AM to 5:47AM - wait no, just don't feed them after midnight. If only it were more specific! Did you also forget this was a Christmas movie? Well, strap in, because the tale of lovable scamps turned murderous gremlins is also a holiday treat. Episode edited by Cate Smith. Music by Zach Pfeifer .

Scary Christmas! For this seasonal special, we're covering your favorite movie from the 6th grade - The Nightmare Before Christmas! "But that's not a horror movie!" you cry in despair. And to that we say, how many Christmas movies involve the kidnap and torture of Sandy...ahem...Santa Claus? Get festive with us as only Not Quite Dead can! Episode edited by Megan Prior-Pfeifer. Music by Zach Pfeife...

We're wrapping up the season with a few of our favorite things: ranking items judgmentally, crafting, and celebrating friendship. Thanks for listening and share your favorite rituals with us! Episode edited by Megan Prior-Pfeifer and Cate Smith. Music by Zach Pfeifer.

That board game you played during high school sleepovers gets a movie made about it! As thrilling as a Dream Phone movie would be, this movie is (un)fortunately about Ouija boards. Feeling more like a vehicle to sell more board games at Target than putting together a plot-driven movie at times, Ouija attempts to tell the story of a girl investigating the mysterious death of her best friend. With p...

A guys' trip wrought with anger, grief, tension, and a shortcut through a dense Swedish forest. Sounds like a blast to us!  The Ritual (2017), directed by David Bruckner, explores the dynamics of male friendship in the wake of their friend's murder against the backdrop of a remote hiking trip. The men are pursued by what seems to be a creature in the forest, but also by their own shame and gu...