Shudder Buddies

In celebration of THE ORIGIN OF EVIL (Katie's birthday), we're talking about one of Katie's favorite movies: From Dusk Till Dawn! We talk about the big twist, the joys of practical effects, and the fact that Sex Machine is CLEARLY a trans man. Cyrus will accept no alternatives.  Brutality: 3 Aesthetic: 4 Scariness: 1 Horniness: 4 Support the show

It's always a bummer when a movie that bills itself as a queer and transgender film is not nearly as good as the reviews might lead you to believe — especially when it was also directed by an 18-year-old. Luckily Cyrus is trans and Katie hates teens, so they're both here to set the record, erm, straight. Cyrus talks at length about their complicated feelings on how queer representation i...

For your listening pleasure today we have The Babadook (2014), a highly regarded Australian horror film that asks the hard questions like: Is unexamined grief likely to turn us into a monster even those closest to us don't recognize? Or are children just The Worst? And am I rocking this top hat??? Support the show

Starting of the B's strong with french body horror film Baby Blood (1990), a gory pregnancy horror film that has titties covered in blood AND strong feminist themes! It kind of whips. This movie has everything: a squid driving a bus, an exploding leopard, carjacking the bloodmobile, and a guy named Roger Placenta.  Support the show

We did it! We finished the A's! This week, Cyrus and Katie sit down to wrap up the first letter of Shudder's alphabet - we BASH the entire category, remark upon our highs and lows (here's lookin' at you, 825 Forest Road), and look forward to a future full of Blood.  Support the show

This week, Cyrus and Katie cover Azrael (2024), a movie we've seen before and didn't really care for, but we won't let that stop us from shitting all over it for twenty minutes of our precious lives for your listening enjoyment. Azrael is a movie with a gimmick it doesn't deserve, a lead actress who is Better Than This, and a goat baby. We've also reached the end of the A&...

This week, Cyrus and Katie take a brief diversion from Shudder movies to go see Obsession (2026), which is just so so so so good. Please go see it.  A really well done and remarkably written/acted take on the "careful what you wish for trope", with one of the best performances of the year so far. Also mentioned are Katie being called out for misremembering a book, Cyrus being called out...

In this episode, we watch The Autopsy of Jane Doe, where the main antagonist is a motionless corpse and in which Bryan Cranston DOES NOT STAR, but there is an avant-garde version of this movie where Walter White suddenly starts having a very bad time.  Support the show

This week, Cyrus and Katie tackle Attachment (2022), a Danish/Jewish/queer horror/romance (that's a lot of slashes) that begs the question: can a mother be too overprotective if her child is possessed by an evil spirit? Our sources say yes, but only if it interferes with her U-Haul Lesbian Dreams. Support the show

Heeeeeeeello buddies and welcome to SHARK WEEK - no, wait, shark DAY, the day we watch a really bad shark movie and complain about it. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged asks the question "what if a bunch of scantily clad teenagers were in a submerged Mayan city and also a shark was there and the shark was blind" which is kind of a hat on a hat, or maybe a hat on a shark.  Support the show

You know what's scary? BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG winter coat. This week Cyrus and Katie watched ATM, a movie about three stockbrokers who get trapped inside a parking lot ATM by a murderer in a parka. This movie has a 12% on Rotten Tomatoes, but Cyrus makes a passionate case for why it should maybe have more like, a 25%.  Support the show

This week, Cyrus and Katie cover classic werewolf horror/comedy, An American Werewolf in London (1981)! If you're even tangentially into horror, you've probably heard of this one, and for good reason - it's got dong, nazis, body horror, annoyed ghosts, real live wolves, and a man with the longest and most beautiful eyelashes we've ever seen.  Support the show

This week, we dig into Ash, a sci-fi horror movie that...tried its best? A movie that is aesthetically pleasing, does some cool stuff with goo, but ultimately suffers from a potent mixture of cliches and the male gaze. Also discussed are how much we want there to be more ugly and unlikeable women in horror movies, how hard it is to copy The Thing's homework successfully, and bisexual lighting...

Line jump! We couldn't wait to get to the C's before checking out Caveat. This movie was a fascinating puzzle box that doesn't spoon-feed you the answers, and we left it feeling befuddled in the best way possible--but the more we've thought about it afterward, the more the movie starts to open itself up. It was also written and directed by Damian McCarthy, who also wrote/direct...

What happens when you mix a tarantula, a camel, and a starfish with Hungry Hungry Hippos, and then throw it at Nicolas Cage? You get Arcadian, the movie we watched this week! Don't get too excited, it also has annoying teen drama. But seriously, the aliens were pretty cool. Support the show

Hello friends! Katie has been sick as a dog for a li'l bit so today we present you with Together, a non-Shudder movie released last year that we both really, really liked! Turns out making movies about marriage *with* your spouse leads to chemistry, nuance, and penis de-gloving. We were super into it.  Support the show

Did you know they got good movies on Shudder? I sure didn't! This week, Cyrus and Katie tackle Anything For Jackson (2020), a film about parenting, grandparenting, satanism, and dental hygiene. Discussion topics include our adolescent chickens, what a satanist is supposed to look like, and our overall enjoyment of what was just a really good movie. Support the show

Hello buddies, be careful listening to this episode, for this is Shudder Buddies: the Deadliest Podcast Ever Made! All who listen to it perish!!!! This week we cover mockumentary Antrum (2018), which paints itself as a documentary about a cursed or possessed film. It's...sort of successful?  Support the show

This week, Cyrus and Katie cover The Angry Black Girl and her Monster (2023), a retelling of Mary Shelleys classic horror novel 'Frankenstein' through a modern urban lens! This film asks a lot of difficult questions, revels in a little bit of gore, and finally lets us in on what happens when a man and a machete love each other very much. Also discussed are our scaredy-cat chickens, disap...

It's a real brutal one this week, buddies! We watched Amigo, a 2019 Spanish film starring Javier Botet and David Pareja, and BOY HOWDY was it good. And devastating. But so good. Also, on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Cyrus published some erotica! And that's about the only play that the H in our BASH scale gets this episode.  Support the show

A line jump today, but a Shudder movie, so therefore no one can criticize us! This week, Katie and Cyrus chat Grafted (2024), a New Zealand body horror movie that has a lot going for it in concept and not quite as much going for it in execution. Also mentioned are our enormous chickens and their enormous poops. Fair warning.  Support the show

We're back after a longer winters nap and ready to talk about out favorite horror films of 2025! Unsurprisingly, we had a lot of overlap. Also unsurprisingly, Katie threatens to throw down with another director in a parking lot. Things will not be changing in 2026. Support the show

What is it with us and anthologies? This week, Cyrus and Katie tackle 'All The Creatures Were Stirring', a 2018 Christmas-themed horror anthology that begs the question "should some movies maybe just not get made?" and then answers itself with a resounding "yes". Other topics of discussion include our plan for the month of December, our never-ending quest to find good...

Hello buddies, it's time for another line-skip, this time up to the P's to watch 1981 cult classic Possession starring Sam Neil and Isabella Adjani as two people who perhaps should not be married to one another, goo monster not withstanding.  Support the show

Whoah, these aren't Shudder movies! Please enjoy this re-release of our ALL TEN SAW bonersode! Should we do another bonersode about the SAW escape room? We beefed it soooo badly.  Support the show