Scaredy Cats

Hey Scaredy Cats! 2021 was such a great year for horror. We had long awaited returns for some big franchises. We saw some absolutely bonkers films and some genuinely terrifying ones. We got another Mike Flanagan MASTERPIECE. On top of all that, a lot of great horror books came out in 2021. And while I would love to discuss them all, I’ve narrowed it down to ten of my favourites. So, sit back, pour...

Hey Scaredy Cats. When I was a kid, it became a tradition for my younger brothers and I to have a bit of a slumber party on Christmas Eve. We would all sleep in the same room. One of us would have the bed and the other two would sleep on the floor. We’d stay up late and inevitably, one of our parents would have to come in and tell us to go to sleep. Sounds cute, right? Well, there was a bit more o...

When it comes to horror fiction, there is one writer that has reigned supreme for nearly fifty years. That writer is Stephen King. He’s probably the reason that so many people, me included, are horror fiends. Ask any fan and they can tell you what King story was their initiation into his world. King has created whole worlds and mythologies that have become such a part of our culture that even peop...

Hey Scaredy Cats. It’s Halloween season, so you know what that means. Haunted houses, haunted corn mazes, everything is haunted at this time of year and some people thoroughly enjoy scaring themselves to the max by going to these haunts. Me? I love them. I prefer to be in the middle of the pack. This way, my back isn’t exposed, but I’m also not the leader. It’s the safest place to be. I do sometim...

Hey Scaredy Cats! For this extra special bonus episode, we have Heather Wixson, writer and Managing Editor for the Daily Dead, joining us to talk about her upcoming book, Monsters, Make Up & Effects: Volume One. Heather has contributed to a who’s who of horror websites and magazines.  Heather also shares five of her essential Halloween movies which may force Scaredy Sherri to rethink her opini...

Hey Scaredy Cats! Let’s travel back in time to get a glimpse into my teenage mind. If I had to choose a favourite movie monster at that time, it would have been vampires. I loved them all. The Lost Boys? Well, you may have already heard all about that. Anne Rice novels? I devoured them. Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder. Um, yes please. But one vampire reigned supreme. He was royalty after all. Yes, I’...

Hey Scaredy Cats! I hope you’ve got the Frog Brothers number handy because for this episode, we’re traveling the vampire infested streets of Santa Clara. Yep, we’re talking about The Lost Boys, my friends, the movie that birthed the 7 movie, lifelong friendship of the Two Coreys.  So, grab your holy water, your vampire survival guide and hop into Grandpa’s 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner Retractab...

We’re back, Scaredy Cats! It’s time to take on one of the most influential, but also weirdest horror movies of all time, Dario Argento’s 1977 classic, Suspiria.  It was followed by Inferno in 1980 and The Mother of Tears in 2007. The three movies make up the “The Three Mothers” trilogy which tells the tale of the Mothers of Sorrow, three witches who wreak evil havoc on the world. The narrative of...

Hey Scaredy Cats! Picture it… summer 1993.  A teenage girl takes her two younger brothers to see the movie that everyone is talking about.  As the movie ends and the credits roll, that girl’s joy and awe at what she has just seen fades when she turns to see her youngest brother, then only eight, curled up in his seat, making himself as small as he can be, hands over his ears.  The thought that pas...

Hey Scaredy Cats. There are a handful of movies that I love that I have only watched once.  Every single one of these movies had a dramatic effect on me.  The Blair Witch Project, for instance, terrified me so much that until we covered it on the podcast, I had only seen it once before.  The movie we’re about to discuss TRAUMATIZED me.  That being said, I remember being so affected by it that I to...

Hey Scaredy Cats. Lately, I’ve been feeling like a move to warmer climes.  Like so many folks, the draw of Los Angeles is STRONG.  There’s an open house at this super cute apartment complex, so I think I’ll take my daddy issues and loneliness and check it out.  I mean, I’ve heard that Los Angeles is home to a lot of nice inclusive communities that some may call cults.  Hide your cats, get into a s...

Hey Scaredy Cats.  In our last episode, we started our werewolf tour on the gritty streets of Los Angeles and the remote, rustic getaway known as the Colony.  The tour continues as we travel to England, starting out on the mysterious moors before ending up in hustle and bustle of London.  We may have talked about it just a bit in our episode on the Howling, but put on a pot of tea, grab your backp...

Hey Scaredy Cats.  The eighties were all about the werewolf movie.   You had Teen Wolf, Full Moon High, Teen Wolf Too, The Company of Wolves, and Silver Bullet.  There was one year that beat them all.  With not one, but three werewolf movies coming out, 1981 was a banner year if you liked to howl at the moon.  There was Howlen, An American Werewolf In London and the movie we’re going to talk about...

Hey Scaredy Cats.  Once I got into horror, there was one movie that I purposely avoided watching because the sheer idea of it scared me.  Once I finally got up the nerve to watch it, I was terrified.  That movie?  The Exorcist.  The first horror film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, it was nominated for nine other Academy Awards, eventually winning Best Adapted Screenplay an...

Hey Scaredy Cats.  I hope you brought your sleeping bags and maybe some Doritos.  Don’t worry about the latest news story about an escaped mass murderer on the loose.  Wait…  Did you hear that noise coming from the garage?  It sounded like… a drill??  Ah, never mind.  Grab a slice of pizza, maybe indulge in a little Maui Wowie and join the Slumber Party Massacre. Our slumber party guests, Jessica...

Hey Scaredy Cats! In France, the movie we’re about to talk about was called Weekend of Terror.  In Germany, it was titled The Horror Party.  It has a cult following and has been compared to the storyline of the Agatha Christie novel, And Then There Were None.  It’s a slasher unlike any other – with a distinct lack of on screen violence.  I distinctly remember going into my neighbourhood video stor...

Hey Scaredy Cats.  The movie we’re about to cover was definitely one my sleep-deprived parents would never have let me watch.  It’s spawned a few sequels, a remake and a tv series.  The Chicago Film Critics Association ranked it as the 20th scariest film ever made.  It also has a lot of tragedy surrounding it, leading some people to think it’s cursed.  Add to that controversy over who ACTUALLY dir...

Hey Scaredy Cats!  It’s now been over a year since COVID-19 changed the world we live in.  People have been physically isolated and had to find new ways to communicate and stay connected to family and friends.  Zoom became a HUGE deal.   One of the best things about movies, horror in particular, is the way that they can take current events and make them into a something remarkable.  In this episod...

Galentine's Day is only the best day of the year (ok, second best, because, you know, Halloween), so we brought together some of our favourite ladies, Ariana, Crystal, Katie, and Rosemary for a Women in Horror Roundtable.  It's like Lilith Fair, but with more blood and guts.     Check out the video on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/lexVyYIEXXI Don't forget to subscribe, like, and commen...

TW: this episode contains references to multiple forms of trauma [SA, MH, r*pe, violence, mention of su*c*de, misogyny) and could be triggering to some people.    Hey Scaredy Cats.  This was a tough one - Promising Young Woman deals with heavy subject matter and this episode will be inherently graphic as we discuss rape, misogyny, violence and suicide.   This is not your ordinary Scaredy Cats epis...

Hey Scaredy Cats!  We're back!  Normally, we take a horror movie, get some horror buffs to dissect it with us and break it down, every slash, every scream, every jump scare.  For this episode, we’re going to do something a little different.  Living through 2020 often felt like we were living through a horror movie.   Despite all that was horrible and terrifying about 2020, there were some gre...

Hey Scaredy Cats!  What movies are on your festive must-watch list?  One of mine is White Christmas – I can’t get enough of it, no matter how many times I have seen it.  Wait, that’s not a horror movie, you say?  You’d be right, but the movie we’re about to cover with returning guest host Samantha and newbie Jessica has a title that is a cheeky reference to White Christmas.  It’s also one of my ho...

Hey Scaredy Cats!  It’s that time of year when you better watch out, you better not cry… well, you probably know the rest.  But during the festive season, there are other things to worry about than whether you’ve made the naughty or the nice list (maybe you’re like our guest hosts who are a little bit of column a, a little bit of column b, stuck in Santa Purgatory if you will).  You do not want a...

Hey Scaredy Cats!   For this episode, we’re going to battle some graboids, scientifically known as Caederus Mexicana  and get footloose with guest host Nicole as we tackle one of her favourite monster movies.  You'll learn about leg limits and good hair as we play a little bit of Six Degrees of and we discover that it's not only about Kevin Bacon.   Follow us on social media! Twitter: @c...

Hey Scaredy Cats.   We’re going to talk about the film that launched a franchise, created an icon (or two), has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, has been voted the fifth scariest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly, and has been included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneid...