Scaredy Cats

Hi Scaredy Cats! Join us as we talk home invasion horror and tackle The Strangers and The Strangers: Prey at Night. We chat about true crime, what protagonist truly bothers us, and delve into why home invasion movies just hit a little differently. TRIGGER WARNING: We do cover details of the true crime cases that inspired writer/director of The Strangers, Bryan Bertino, so the conversation gets gra...

We're going all the way back to the third episode of Scaredy Cats to see if The Descent is still an all-time favourite for both of us. Spoiler alert, it is. Join us as we chat about fan theories, female rage and the little details we picked up on our latest rewatch. Just stay out of the caves, okay?

Hey Scaredy Cats! Join us as we chat about some of our favourite horror video games. We go way back to discuss classic gems like Silent Hill 2 and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem before covering more recent scarefests like Forewarned and Phasmophobia.

We're baaaack!! (Insert creepy music here) Join us, Ryan and Sherri, as we talk about the future of the podcast and, because it's been a hot minute, chat about some of the movies, shows, games, and books we've enjoyed over the last year(ish)

Join us in the Haunted Library as we chat with author Nat Segaloff about his latest book, The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear. Segaloff's history with the film go way to the film's release when he worked publicity for the Boston theatre that screened it.  As The Exorcist turns 50, Segaloff tackles the origin behind William Peter Blatty's book, the film and all that follows. The Ex...

Hey Scaredy Cats. For the longest time, I had one movie on my to watch list that was my white whale. I had seen it lauded as one of the scariest movies ever and the best horror movie you’ve never seen. I was on the hunt. It wasn’t streaming anywhere in Canada and I had resigned myself to never seeing it. But then I saw an announcement on Twitter that it was being released on blu ray by Second Sigh...

Hey Scaredy Cats. Welcome back to the month of camp carnage. I know, I know, no one goes to camp in January, but when you’re stuck in the frozen tundra that is Ontario in the winter, you gotta do what you gotta do. As a kid growing up in the eighties, slashers were all the rage. Some of the first horror movies I saw were eighties slashers. So, I definitely have a soft spot for them and the more ri...

In 1978, one of the greatest horror movie franchises was born. Only two years later, another one would enter the world of horror, but weirdly enough, the villain that we associate with that franchise was really just another victim in the first installment. This swerve is so famous that it even became part of another horror movie franchise, when Ghostface first asked Casey Becker, who was the kille...

Hey Scaredy Cats. It’s Christmas time and we’re about to head to Kingston Falls to spend time with family, friends and furry little creatures. So, stock up on some Bathroom Buddies – they’re fantastic stocking stuffers! We’re going to make some gingerbread people, get a Christmas tree from a very young Corey Feldman and watch a late night screening of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Just a word...

Hey Scaredy Cats. I still remember when I found out that Santa wasn’t real. I’m going to peel back the curtain a little bit here and admit one of my embarrassing secrets. I was in grade seven, standing in line for French class. A bunch of my classmates were making fun of me for believing in Santa because generally by the age of eleven you know the truth. But not me. Whether I was just incredibly n...

Hey Scaredy Cats. In the mid eighties, monster movies just weren’t the trend in horror. The genre was dominated by slashers like Friday the 13th. In 1984, we had movies like Silent Night, Deadly Night, Friday the 13th: the Final Chapter (spoiler alert, it wasn’t) and probably most importantly of all, A Nightmare on Elm Street. But the horror writers and directors of the eighties would have grown u...

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome to the Haunted Library. I’m Sherri… (Ryan introduces himself). We’ve talked about it on so many occasions, but we are both huge fans of haunted house stories. Since it’s October and Halloween is just around the corner, we wanted to talk about one of our favourite haunted house novels. In fact, it’s a book so scary that Stephen King has described it as one of the most impo...

Hey Scaredy Cats. Imagine you’re a young child, maybe six or seven years old. You head to your local theatre to catch a matinee all by yourself. You’re a hardened horror fan despite your young age, but what you see scares you so much that you literally pray for the sunshine to last. This movie sticks with you for decades and when you become a filmmaker, you remake it as a way of purging it from yo...

 Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome to the Haunted Library! We’re your hosts, Sherri and Ryan. It’s September, so you know what that means. Fall is officially here – ignore the haters who say that fall doesn’t officially start until September 22. Wrap yourself up in your coziest sweater, grab a pumpkin spice latte, and get comfy because we’re about to share with you some of our favourite spooky fall reads....

Hey Scaredy Cats. In 2003, Quentin Tarantino started showing double features at his house. Being the die hard film fanatic that he is, he would also play movie trailers before each film. At one such screening, his friend Robert Rodriguez suggested that they do a double feature together. Tarantino loved the idea and came up with the name Grindhouse. For the price of one movie ticket, you got to see...

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome to the Haunted Library with Sherri and Ryan. This month’s installment is all about Gloria by Bentley Little:  "Considering she had just attended her mother’s funeral, Gloria Jaymes never expected to see the woman again, but then her dead mom shows up at her house. Gloria’s mom is… different. She’s younger than when she died, dressed in clothes from the 1980s. And nob...

Picture this. Two horror legends meet and become friends. They put their collective heads together to create a horror anthology that pays homage to old comic books. Comic books that told grisly tales of murder and astonishing creatures. Bring in a special effects and make up wizard. Add a handful of familiar faces. What do you get? The absolute delight that is 1982’s Creepshow. Joining us to talk...

Hey Scaredy Cats. It’s rare for a movie to pretty much bomb upon release, practically ruining the career of its director only to be critically lauded within a couple of decades. I’m not talking about a movie becoming a cult classic after having been discovered and celebrated by fans. I’m talking about a movie that received reviews stating that the only way to deal with a movie like this was to flu...

Welcome to the Haunted Library. This month’s installment is all about the so called “last Castle Rock Story,” Needful Things. We're your hosts, Ryan and Sherri,  the founding members of the Castle Rock Book Club. I think this was the Castle Rock story that we were most looking forward to reading.  "Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his...

In October of 1973, author Lois Duncan released a young adult thriller. She was inspired to write it when she was making dinner, and overheard her daughter and a friend having a conversation about a boy. One of the girls had a crush on a boy, the other was talking about what to wear on a date she was looking forward to. The twist? Both girls were talking about the same boy. Duncan began to wonder...

Sharks are pretty much the perfect horror movie villains. They’re lean, mean killing machines. And they look so cool. Shark movies have a long and perhaps not so illustrious history. The first shark movie ever filmed was 1936’s White Death which featured author Zane Grey as he hunts for a killer shark off the coast of Queensland, Australia. It was followed by movies like The Sharkfighters and Shar...

Welcome to the first official episode of the haunted library! I’m pretty sure that I came to horror first through books and stories before I got brave enough to watch horror movies. It just makes sense to me to expand the podcast to a whole new avenue. And let’s be honest, there was a little bit of peer pressure from my friend Ryan who I nerd out with books on a pretty regular basis. So, each mont...

It’s a universally known truth that high school can be hell. That’s a given even if you don’t have masked killers picking off your friends one by one. Let’s break it down. There are the unbreakable social castes. There’s those gut wrenching unrequited crushes that you just can’t seem to talk to. There are teachers and parents who just don’t understand you. Sometimes, you don’t even understand your...

Hey Scaredy Cats. Travel with us back through history as we land in 17th century New England. It wasn’t an easy life for the Puritans who immigrated from England in pursuit of so called religious freedom. First you had to deal with the harsh elements and then you had to deal with the witch in the wood. Puritans believed in the active existence of the devil and unexplained phenomena was often blame...

We’re about to embark on a road trip along the back roads of rural Texas. A little piece of advice though… don’t go wandering off on your own. You might just run into the Sawyer family and trust me when I say that you DO NOT want to run into them. If you do, you may end up hanging from a meat hook before being served up for tonight’s dinner.  It’s time to talk about the 1974 horror classic, The Te...