Professional Horror Podcast

Happy Birthday!! It's a special day here at PHP because it is the birthday of not just your lovely and handsome host, Chris Donovan, but it's also the birthday of our guest this week, Alex Reale!! So it only makes sense that on such a wonderful day, the two of us open up this absolute gift to the world, the 2012 film Cabin in the Woods. Join the birthday boys as we go down into the cellar and see...

Spelunking anyone? Carrie is back to join ya boy, Chris Donovan as we descend into a conversation about the classic 2005 Neil Marshall film, The Descent. Along the way we will talk about director tropes, Hudsons, and sex shop glowsticks as we try to distill what about The Descent is so awe-inspiring? Is it it's impeccable cinematography? Is it the wonderful characters? Is it the claustrophobi...

SHH! Some of us are trying to read. Not every horror movie adapted from a book leaves the good stuff on the page. Sometimes, they capture the words and project it on screen bigger and better than we could've even imagined. Carolyn is back with your ole pal, Chris Donovan and we're gonna have ourselves a chat about what happens when horror leaps off the page and infects the silver screen. We a...

What's down that path over there? Well Chris Donovan and his guest Carolyn Drake-Coyle will show you. It goes all the way down to the Pet Sematary, a place where the dead speak! And also a fun but not great film that boasts a ton of quotable lines and questionable decisions. Join us as we discuss the 1989 Stephen King adaptation brought to us by the director of Halloweentown II and Mega Python vs...

Great party, isn't it! Sorry it's been a while since our last episode. I got this job taking care of this giant hotel over the winter called The Overlook and it's been consuming all of my time. I've been running through this place so much, I thought I was going to go crazy. Luckily my friend Megan Pendagast was able to stop by so we could chat about the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film, The Shining....

It's just a bunch of hocus pocus! It's Halloween tonight in Salem so why don't you join Chris Donovan and his guest Sarah David as they visit the old Sanderson house? We'll be here until sunrise talking about the 1993 Disney classic Hocus Pocus. So come on: leave your weird colonial Halloween party, grab your lucky rat tail, down a empty cup of cider, and join us as we brew up a scary fun time. Ju...

Welcome to the Loser's Club!! We've been looking for new members since our last few have mysteriously disappeared. The only members left are our fearless leader Chris Donovan and his buddies Justin Beaucage and Ryan Spooner. Join us as we take a trip to Derry, Maine and check out every sewer, circus, and haunted house to find the new clown show. We've heard it's a real scream! By that I...

We're bad to the bone! Sean Hogan is back on the show with host Chris Donovan for an odyssey of awful. In this episode we talk about our favorite affronts to the basic tenents of storytelling. Movies that failed on many levels but succeeded in winning our hearts. We'll see magic shows and musicals and mysteries, oh my! Sean and I have a lot to talk about today, so what are...

It's good to be bad! We all enjoy watching good horror movies but there's something about getting together with some friends and watching an awful horror movie that can't be beat. To celebrate that feeling, I joined with one of my best friends to talk about a movie that will add some energy to everyone's 'Bad Movie Night'. Join Sean and I as we accept the challenge of discussing Rock 'N Roll...

Let's get this party started! Justin Beaucage is back on the show with host Chris Donovan to throw a party at our house on Willow Street. Join us as we play the Monster Mash-Up, a game where each of us pick a horror movie to mix with From a House on Willow Street and then pitch our respective Frankenstein of a movie. Which pitch will come out victorious? Will it be the one wher...

Welcome to our house on Willow Street. Justin Beaucage and I are delighted you could join us. Don't be shy, let yourself in, help youself to an apple, and leave your claw ring by the door. Just don't go upstairs, something smells up there. Join us as we discuss the new film 'From a House on Willow Street', the story of a possesed girl, and the poor souls that kidnapped her. Is it a diamond in...

Be careful, this is where Chris Donovan and his guest Ryan Spooner come back for one last scare. Join us as we bring you through the moments we thought we had certain horror movies figured out only for them to turn the table on us in those cruical last frames. We venture inside Dr. Caligari's cabinet, book a room at the Overlook Hotel, and try to make sure we don't miss Mary Shaw's ventriloquist s...

  APRIL FOOL'S!!! That's what this group of college kids keeps saying during their lovely island vacation. It's April 1st and tis the season for whoopie cushions, collapsable chairs and dribble glasses. But not everyone on the island is in a joking mood. Someone is up to something on this island and they're not playing around--or are they?? Join Chris Donovan and his guest Ryan Spooner a...

Everyone is entitled to one good scare! Join Chris Donovan and his first guest, Dan Lawton as they journey to Haddonfield to discuss what happened the night HE came home. Also stick around for some professional-grade suggestions for what movies you should watch on All Hallows Eve. So grab yourself a bag of clearance candy, turn off the lights, but don't put out that Jack O'Lantern just yet. Becaus...