Rotten Horror Picture Show

Just an archetypical group of friends spending the weekend up at the creepy cabin–what could go wrong? We all know the answer is “everything,” but WHY do we all know that? What is behind the universal horror movie formula? This question of group knowledge of […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

How far would you be willing to go for a magic spell? We’re talking real magic, real angels, real demons? 2016’s A Dark Song asks those questions in intense, uncomfortable fashion, and this week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show we’re here to drink some […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

“Do you like scary movies?” One of the most iconic horror movie lines of all time, from the film we’re covering this week, the film that many argue raised the horror genre from the dead, 1996’s Scream. Coming off some questionable horror showings early in […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

Dysfunctional family dynamics can be quite a strain, so who’s to blame a dad for wanting his family to have some bonding time in their new fixer-upper mansion? Well, some brutal killers dressed in matching animal masks apparently! This week on the Rotten Horror Picture […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail....

Spooky ghosts in the heart of 1980’s Americana is the name of the game this week, as we take a stroll through the unassuming sub-divisions with a dark sinister secret with the Tobe Hooper classic Polgergeist! Or is it the Steven Spielberg classic Poltergeist? Either […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

You ever feel like maybe you just didn’t belong? Like maybe you were adopted, and that your family was actually incestuous, semi-lovecraftian, goop monsters who secretly run the world when they’re not fusing their bodies together in a gelatinous goop orgry? Well then do we […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gm...

Before Freddy, before Jason, hell, even before Michael, there was Billy, the crazed, unseen killer of Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, the Canadian prototypical slasher film that dropped on fine fall day in 1974. Arguably well ahead of its time, Black Christmas created the template for […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfil...

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s got the most monstrous childhood of all? Mirrors have been a staple of horror movies for a very long time, but very rarely are the mirrors themselves the monster. Mike Flanagan brings out the demons in Oculus, a paranoia […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

Clowns. Scary, right? Well this week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show, we’re spending some time floating with the granddaddy of scary clowns, the monstrous Pennywise, as we head into the sewers of 2017’s IT! The second adaptation of Stephen King’s sprawling love letter to […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gm...

Time to throw on your night-vision-green party lamps and shake it like a handheld camera, because this week Rotten Horror Picture Show takes its first dive into the found footage genre with the classic Spanish zombie (or zombie-adjacent) film, 2007’s REC! It’s got outbreaks, it’s […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilev...

Vampires, werewolves, grizzly ghouls from every tomb closing in to seal your doom, fearless vampire killers — it’s the most fun a horror fan could have, and it’s all here for you in this week’s episode of The Rotten Horror Picture Show, as we dive […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

It’s never a good sign when you find a dead woman in the dirt floor of a basement, but it’s an even worse sign when she turns out to be a vengeful witch, hell-bent on wreaking vengeance on you from beyond her undead grave! And […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

1982 was a hell of a year for movies, spear-headed by the blockbuster Steven Spielberg classic ET, but 1982 also might have been the greatest single year for cult classics of all time. Bladerunner, The Dark Crystal, Creepshow – the list goes on – but […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

Candyman…Candyman…Candyman…Candyman…CANDYMAN!!! Did it work? Are you dead? Are WE dead? Well assuming we’re both alive (unless this is now a podcast from the afterlife), this week on Rotten Horror Picture Show we delve into the depths of haunted Chicago, and the history of racial prejudice […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.c...

40 years ago it was “the night HE came home!” Well now he’s back again, free from the shackles of mental institutions and 38 years of convoluted continuity, and The Shape is looking to pick up right where he left off – stabby stab stabbing […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

You’ve heard it before: “high school is hell!” Well among the countless teenaged horror stories out there, there’s one that sits high atop the monstrous peak as arguably the most brutal, heart wrenching “high-school-as-horror-story” of all time, and that’s Brian DePalma’s 1976 classic, Carrie. Not […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mai...

The 1980’s – heyday of neon colors, trickle-down economics, synthesizer music, and the golden age of the horror-comedy. In this episode of The Rotten Horror Picture Show, Clay and Amanda dig up arguably the most underrated horror-comedy of all time, 1985’s Return of the Living […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfi...

What happens when you take Hollywood’s foremost cinematic comedian, pair him with the 80’s headiest gross-out filmmaker, and put them in a transportation pod along with a campy 50’s horror classic? You get something unique, disgusting, and effective: David Cronenberg’s The Fly. Produced by Mel […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail :...

We’re throwing it back and taking it forward this week on the Rotten Horror Picture show. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night shows up on our screens in stark black and white, evoking classic vampire films that started the genre, such as Nosferatu and […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

Don’t you hate it when you’re trying to go on a fun roadtrip with some friends, but your invalid brother ends up getting in the way and you end up getting kidnapped and prepared as dinner after your friends are brutally murdered by a family […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

College is such a drag. You’ve found your dream apartment off-campus with a great landlady, but you need cash now or else you’re gonna lose it, so you answer an ad for a last-minute babysitter. Easy as pizza pie, right? Well turns out there’s no […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

Quiet halls, darkened doorways, movement caught out of the corner of your eye, creaking floorboards on a vacant floor – if you’ve ever been home alone, you’ve probably had a chill run up your spine once or twice thanks to your mind playing tricks on […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

If you remember the days of home video trailers, you probably remember that most trailers were for movies that looked way worse than whatever last-minute rental you grabbed as your mom honked at you from the parking lot to hurry up, but every once in […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

What’s the goriest movie you’ve ever seen? Well take that movie and triple it, and maybe you’ll come close to the glorious gorefest that is Peter Jackson’s 1993 “splatstick” epic, Dead Alive (or Braindead, if you live outside the United States)! A masterpiece of flying […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail....

Vampires! Children! Vampire-children! Blood paints the walls of the apartment complex this week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show as we cover the English remake of the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In, 2010’s Let Me In! Starring Chloe Grace Moretz and a […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com