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Welcome to a very hit-in-the-head Summer at the SHUDcast and we’d have it no other way! Introducing our new theme, “Everyone is Stupid Except for Me”, is Lucas and we kick it off with a new Lucas classic, 2025’s HIM. On our way we discuss a myriad of new releases, a lot of Jackasses, and even more ass-kickery!   Go to patreon.com/SHUDcast where you can sign up for all kinds of extra goodies!   00:...

Welcome to the fourth and final week (that I have to type this) of: “Now, if you’re playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film, you’ll think you’ll have experienced it, but you’ll be *ahem* cheated, it’s, uh, such a sadness that you think you’ve seen a film on your f*cking telephone. Get real!”: Horror Movies with Phones. We follow up our last episode’...

Seven days… is how long your joy will last after you listen to our episode on the J-Horror classic, RINGU. This is Cody’s choice and movie number three in Austin’s theme of (*deep breath*), “Now, if you’re playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film, you’ll think you’ll have experienced it, but you’ll be *ahem* cheated, it’s, uh, such a sadness that you...

This week we’re on our second edition of… *takes breath*... “Now, if you’re playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film, you’ll think you’ll have experienced it, but you’ll be *ahem* cheated, it’s, uh, such a sadness that you think you’ve seen a film on your f*cking telephone. Get real!”: Horror Movies with Phones, and we bring to you maybe the phone-ie...

If you think we’ve stretched the credulity of our themes before, just you wait as Austin blesses us with, “Now, if you’re playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film, you’ll think you’ll have experienced it, but you’ll be *ahem* cheated, it’s, uh, such a sadness that you think you’ve seen a film on your f*cking telephone. Get real!”: Horror Movies with...

Listen to us if you want to live. Or just have a nice little time as we discuss one of the behemoths (in more ways than one) of the entire history of cinema! That’s right, we are covering James Cameron’s 1984 dystopian, technoir masterpiece THE TERMINATOR as we wrap up “Kicking and SCREAMING!!!: Action Horror”. Before that we discuss all the other renovations we want to make to Cody’s house, and a...

Is he a cop? Is he a journalist? Is he an STI Tiger? Is he an enraged lycanthrope? Who knows?! In our third week of “Kicking and SCREAMING!!!: Action Horror” Lucas brings us a mystifying relic of Hong Kong nonsense in WOLF GUY! But before that, hear us catch up with horror at the Oscars and challenge Cody at his own game: Jeopardy!   Go to patreon.com/SHUDcast where you can sign up for all kinds o...

We’re back for more kickassery and shenanigans with week two of “Kicking… AND SCREAMING!!!” - Action Horror - and we’ve gotta be honest… this one is a lot of shenanigans. Not that there isn’t ass-kicking to be had as we talk about a whole bunch of the Resident Evil world in lead up to our discussion of Paul W.S. Anderson’s “adaptation”(?) of the namesake survival horror game that started it all! S...

Some SHUDcasters are always trying to iceskate uphill… It’s a new theme on the SHUDcast courtesy of Curtis as we delve into the roundhouse world of action horror with “Kicking… AND SCREAMING!”. We open this theme with not one but TWO punchy-bloodies in BLADE & BLADE II. So take your serum and pray to La Magra as we talk Game of Thrones, cattle prods, and how you can acquire a piece of Cody’s h...

The SHUD boys are ready to dance the night away – who’s bringing the punch?? We round out our theme “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on Drugs” with a pick we all knew was coming – Gaspar Noe’s CLIMAX, brought to you by Lucas. During the trip we talk Send Help, Friday the 13th, and drop our new theme and first movie pick from Curtis!   Go to patreon.com/SHUDcast where you can sign up for all kinds of extra...

We are the Mother Aphid! Our experience with drugged out cinema in our theme “Rrrrrreal f*ckin’ High on Drugs” takes us to the itchiest corner of cinema with master filmmaker William Friedkin’s BUG! We have arguably one of our richest film discussions digging into this fever dream of meth-soaked cinema and along the way we talk more about Cody’s Only Child Chair, Super Bowl nonsense, and some clas...

Hi Brian, not feeling too well, are we Brian? Well you’re about to chipper on up as we bring to you our discussion of Frank Henenlotter’s 1988 creature classic, BRAIN DAMAGE. It’s Curtis’ pick in Cody’s theme of “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on Drugs” and we also discuss the results of our Patreon poll in which a winner for “Coolest List” in our 2026 Horror Movie Draft was crowned, some Bone Temple acti...

Light some candles, sink into a saline bath, and turn into your primordial self as we get “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on Drugs”, our new theme brought to you by Cody! As his first pick of the theme we take a trip back down Ken Russell Avenue for ALTERED STATES. Along the way we round out our holiday watching with a bevy of flicks new and old!   Go to patreon.com/SHUDcast where you can sign up for all...

New Year, same wonderful weirdos! Tune in as we cover the final film of Lucas’ theme, “RAW and UnSENSEored” Horror Movies About the Senses” – RAW, brought to you by Austin. On the journey we discuss Austin’s birthday, some pre-Christmas viewings, more anime, aliens among us, and so very much more! At the end we give out our awards for this theme and Cody blesses us with his pick for the next theme...

Another year, another 4 lists, another 2+ hours of argument and joy, another wildly expansive set of music recommendations from Cody. That’s right, it’s our annual YEAR IN RE-SPEW!!! We break down our top 10 horror movies of 2025 and while you might think you know where we’re going (and honestly, we do that too), you could also never, ever know. Thank you all for another horrifically delightful ye...

Shh… said no one ever on this show. We dig into one of horror’s most favorite brains as we discuss Mike Flanagan’s 2016 home invasion classic, HUSH, on week three of “RAW and UnSENSEored” Horror Movies About the Senses as picked by Curtis. We also cover a TON of our late Halloween watches as well as seeing Big Daddy Carpenter in the flesh and a particular baseball team winning something.   Go to p...

We tackle a brand new sense and a different era of Hollywood for our second installment of, “RAW and Un-SENSE-ored: Horror Movies about the Senses” as Cody selects the Audrey Hepburn classic, WAIT UNTIL DARK. Hear about how we spent our Halloweens, how happy most of us are about baseball, and a wealth of other movies including a little teaser of our future discussion of Guillermo del Toro’s Franke...

We’re tantalizing ALL of your senses with our newest theme – RAW and Un-SENSE-ored: Horror Movies about the Senses – brought to you by Lucas! His first pick… maybe stretches the boundaries of the horror realm but we have a good time anyway tickling our olfactories with a discussion on PERFUME: STORY OF A MURDERER!   Go to patreon.com/SHUDcast where you can sign up for all kinds of extra goodies! 0...

The food’s a little funny at the SHUDcafe! For a special Halloween release, we’ve decided to watch and discuss TERRIFIER 2! After now years of back and forth and sideways discussion we delve deeply into the bowels of Art the Clown and fully reckon with our thoughts on Damien Leone’s slasher exploitation magnum opus! Have any of us changed our minds on this movie? Or have we dug in even deeper? Wil...

It’s week four of “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror (selected by Austin) and we’re going four….-ty Seven Meters Down courtesy of Curtis! But this is no normal 47 Meters Down… this time we’ll be… UNCAGED! Look, it’s worth it, just like reading this section of show notes is worth it. Trust us (or, specifically, Curtis). Friend and patron Ryan also joins us off-mic in the basement as we get...

Deepest, Bluest, this podcast is like a shark’s fin. What’s that mean? Heck if we know but we’re going searching for it anyway as we get into week 3 of “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror - and cover 1999’s modern shark masterpiece DEEP BLUE SEA! On the way we talk about Austin’s KILLER new short film, Cody’s dad’s reaction to Sinners, and much much more!   Go to patreon.com/SHUDcast where...

We descend to depths fully unimaginable as we watch (yet another?) horror-adjacent title and find what’s at the deep, dark center of James Cameron’s marital life in cinema… I mean… we watch The Abyss! It’s movie number two in “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror and as we discuss this potentially still under-celebrated masterpiece, we cover topics such as: Aussie spiders, roller coaster misa...

We dive deep, deeper than ever before in this episode – mostly because Austin forced us to – as we discuss the first film in our new theme, “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror with the aptly titled, UNDERWATER. On our way down we discuss tree crypto, Spike Lee, TONS of Weapons talk (spoilers marked below!), and a bunch of other films!   Go to patreon.com/SHUDcast where you can sign up for a...

We say g’day and g’night to our time in the Outback as we close out our series on Australian Horror – “I Left My Heart in the Yabba!” – with the much heralded NEXT OF KIN! Does it hold up to us? Find out and then stick around to hear who gets our SHUDcast awards for the series as well as find out where we’ll be traveling next courtesy of Austin!   Go to patreon.com/SHUDcast where you can sign up f...

We return to the sun bleached vistas of Australia for the third film in our Aussie Horror series in discussing Peter Weir’s horror of manners weirdo classic, THE PLUMBER (brought to you by Lucas)! While we’re in the Outback we discuss OnlyFans hypotheticals, spiritual journeys at music festivals, Lady Gaga, The Vista Theater, our actual plumbing needs in real life, and so so much more!    Go to pa...