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Time to siphon some gas, tune your guitars, and scare the hell out of an unsuspecting diner crowd as we take a trip into hardcore hell and discuss Jeremy Saulnier’s 2015 thriller GREEN ROOM. And along the way we discuss doppelgangers, John Cena, SIGNS & TWISTER, and we pepper in some of our own backroad stories from when a few of us toured in bands. Also, stick around and get our own answers f...

CLICKETY CLACKETY! CLICKETY CLACKETY! This week we venture deep into the Northeastern woods and get totally and completely lost trying to trick Cody into saying the title of this week’s movie, we talk about the ongoing strikes, and discuss some new releases that really got our pumpkins tingling. All of this en route to the baby mojito shack where we find THE WITCH!   00:00 - 8:00ish - Friendship:...

SKOL and happy SHUDsommar!!! We’re taking a little detour into the wildly weird and artistic world of A24 horror (AMPTP – pay your f*cking artists) and we’re starting in lovely Sweden with MIDSOMMAR. In the meantime catch up with us as we discuss the cultural phenomenon that is Barbenheimer, and the strange new universe we live in where Austin likes The Lord of The Rings movies and Curtis has beco...

BREAKING NEWS: For the foreseeable future the “S” in SHUDcast stands for “Strike”! And as such, we’ve decided to pivot our upcoming episodes and cover films from the only studio honorable enough to give SAG the agreement they’re looking for — A24! Being that it’s the middle of summer, we’re going to start this series with MIDSOMMAR! So grab your bros, your partner, your red-headed cousin, and your...

Welcome to the middle of the summer and boy have we heated up our pool of blood-paint for you! We discuss what it takes to be a viral sensation, our CROWBOCOP tagline winner, shark movies, all leading up to Lucas’ incredible arthouse fever dream come true… SANTA SANGRE!   00:00 - 19:00ish The Friendship portion of the show! Viral internet trends, how we think naming stadiums works, our Crowbocop w...

Dance with us under the light of a full blood moon as we celebrate the return of Lucas from Japan, Austin’s near death Independence Day experience, and Curtis and Cody’s idiotic levels of love for questionable movies as we get down and hairy with THE HOWLING and THE HOWLING II: YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF or THE HOWLING II: STIRBA - WEREWOLF B*TCH!   00:00 - 15:00ish - Friendship! Lucas returned fro...

Vision quest with us into the Canadian wilderness as we discover sweat lodges, finger necklaces, Graham Greene’s hardcore badassery, and how to not clean a fish when you want to eat it as we descend into the darkness of CLEARCUT. Amongst the forest horror you can find us discussing Dead by Daylight, leaking beams in your house, Josh Hartnett’s hotness, our complete lack of literary knowledge, and...

Welcome back! We’ve moved on from France and have come back home to the filthy, crusty, problematic South! Along the way we take some detours discussing our recent viewings of some recent flicks like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Little Mermaid (we’re well-rounded folk over here), and take a pit stop at the Inland Empire and talk a little David Lynch. But our destination awaits as we di...

Oui oui au Francais! We go back to the Croisette – where we are immediately escorted far, far away – and finish what we’ve started with a TRIO of the most famous horror films in the New French Extremity movement of the early 2000s. That’s right, grab your finest pair of shears, dust off that old concrete saw, and flay your skin off your body as we cover INSIDE (2007), HIGH TENSION (2003), and MART...

Out of the jungle and into… the woods! We pack our camcorders, grab our tents, and homemade wooden sacraments and take an in-depth trip to Burkittsville, MD where we cover everything under the Blair sun. Hear about our histories with The Blair Witch Project, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, and Blair Witch and our thoughts on their places amongst the pantheon of horror greats and... oddities. Meanw...

Pack your bags and prepare for the lush vistas, the culinary delights, and the satanic rituals of South Korea as the crew embarks upon the epic masterpiece, THE WAILING! Along our journey we’ll continue to argue about how many 5th graders Lucas erroneously thinks he can beat up, discuss our friend day Verhoeven double feature, listen to Curtis wrap up his Korean cinema adventure (for now), and go...

We walk beyond the rows this week as Austin has selected for us an ‘80s horror classic – and yes, we believe it definitely is such – in CHILDREN OF THE CORN (1984)! Drive into the emptiness of Middle America with us as we also discuss our rich person in-home theater dreams, how cemeteries work according to Lucas, and the beginnings of a whooole lot of Korean cinema intake! As always, follow us @Sh...

We’ve come down from the Arthouse mountains and are sloshing our way back into our trashy trenches with today’s double feature! But before we make our trek back into beautiful South Korea for The Witch: The Subversion and The Witch Part 2: The Other One (not not the reason Lucas picked this duology), we get into some spoiler-free discussion of Scream VI, video games, global politics, and the Oscar...

Look, we’re all human. Even if we prefer to think of ourselves as dark-dwelling, bloodthirsty creatures, there is always something that will remind us that we’re just big sacks of goo that can easily be dismantled – or forget to hit record on our podcast. We dive deeper than we maybe have before this week and face new elements of existential crisis tackling our first foray (at least on the show) i...

Welcome back to you all and to Lucas who rejoins us after a one-episode break! It’s a cause for celebration indeed because apparently we’re much more palatable when we’re together and there’s four of us (but let us know what you think! Is there a weak link you’d like to see gone or worse??). We discuss recent watches including INFINITY POOL and KNOCK AT THE CABIN and once again trick the hell out...

Well, since Lucas was so vocal in his disdain for POSSESSION in our last episode, he’s banned… Just kidding. He was unable to join us for this episode so Austin, Cody, and Curtis went ahead with a zoom version of your favorite podcast and introduced a new format for a yearly episode: Horror movie predictions! The three of us (and including Lucas, throwing us wild cards via some write-in prediction...

Welcome back to a premiere+ episode of the SHUDcast! We know all of our episodes are premiere+ in our hearts, but it isn’t every week we come across a film that divides a room as interestingly as this one. That’s right, we’re talking one of the holy grails of ‘80s video nasties – POSSESSION. Which side do the guys fall on? Which of us thinks it’s a masterpiece? Which of us thinks it’s like a newly...

Happy first episode recorded in 2023! We’d love to tell you we’re coming in all “new year, new us”, but f*ck that… that’s not why you’re here. You’re not here to listen to us grow and change and all that nonsense. No way. How about “New year, worse us” (thanks, Lucas). Look, all I’m trying to say is that we hadn’t recorded in a while and we had a lot of movies to catch up on and also tonight’s mov...

Happy 2023 SHUD-dy Buddies! We’re sailing over the roiling seas once again to Indonesia where we revisit one of our most favorite filmmakers, Joko Anwar, and his new flick, SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION. We haven’t been more excited for a release since, well, Joko’s last movie so color us stoked! We also get into some of our final watches of 2022 which leads up to our Year in Re-Spew, which is alrea...

Shuddy Shudd-idays!! It’s a horror-days special as we take a break from our regularly scheduled Shudder discoveries to recap our 2022 horror experiences! What a f*cking year it was too… We each present our top ten horror movies released in 2022. What is Austin’s number one? How many times will Curtis try to cheat? Did Lucas change his list after we recorded this? And just how high will Cody be ran...

We all may be in the thick of our holiday merriment, but we’ve got some Halloween closure to tend to (as if it ever really closes). There is an extensive list of titles that we all watched before this episode which we think makes for a pretty killer group of recommendations! And then after all of that, we head back to a country and filmmaking family near and dear to our demonic hearts – Italy. Or...

We're back from Halloween in our physical bodies but not in our eternal spirits! If you're still feeling the haunted hangover of the most glorious of holidays, get a nice little chaser of chills and hear about our October delights as we went through them. Spoilers, there was a lot of Beyond Fest. Or if you're already yearning for the Yule, skip right ahead to our discussion on the classic indie, P...

Back with our regularly scheduled programming....BIRD BOY, the cartoon I know I needed when I was a child. Other important tidbits: Curtis' obsession with Roadhouse; The Northman: The Musical; superheroes - we're digging into it friends. Enjoy. We love you.    00:00 - 13:40ish Intros: Happy post Halloween! We discuss how we always assume we’ve all made it to the release of these since we record th...

It’s here. The day and episode you’ve all been waiting for: HALLOWEEN. Enjoy the culmination of your spooky season with John Carpenter’s classic that started it all. This is the first title we’ve double covered, having done a deep, deep dive into the Halloween series during our inaugural HallowStream in 2020 but dammit this one deserves it! Listen as we unpack what this movie and what John Carpent...

We take a step a week back in time as the October SHUDcast Shuntathon continues! Before we decided to give you a full slate of episodes in October, we selected Prince of Darkness to cover and release unknowingly on its 35th anniversary! Happy birthday to this underrated gem from our favorite master of horror!   00:00 - 24:00ish Intros: What constitutes a “staff pick” being displayed in our homes a...