SlashU Podcast

We spent the weekend of September 5 - 7 at the Milwaukee HorrorCon. We met up with old friends and made a bunch of new ones. Listen to several short recordings from our days over the weekend and check out our social media channels for video clips and other highlights from the weekend. Thanks to everyone we met and everyone who stopped to say hello! Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_Podcast Email us a...

This week we sat down with Wisconsin horror author and all-around nice guy DJ Slater. DJ has a horror novel coming out September 16th, 2025 called Legend Has it . Full details about the book and all information about DJ can be found at DJSlaterAuthor.com . The story sounds like a great one: "Seth and his friends have always heard about a legendary 10-story haunted house that travels around the Mid...

This week we covered our second movie in our annual Shark Week departure. It's "Sky Sharks" from 2020. This one has a bit of everything; Nazi's, Zombies, and Flying Sharks. As a result, it's kind of all over the place. But in a shorter-than-usual episode we managed to cover the major plot points. This movie has so much stuff and people in it that don't really matter, it's sometimes hard to follow....

Welcome to another Shark Week here at SlashU. Every year we pick a couple of cheesy, campy shark movies to cover, deviating from our usual slasher movie format. This week's movie is one of the "best" we've ever covered here for a shark week. During the Cold War era, Russian scientists created human-shark hybrids capable of living in extremely harsh conditions, and then shot them all to the far sid...

Well we've come to the end of our Summer Camp Slasher Series here at SlashU. This week we covered "Bloody Summer Camp" from 2021. And we figured to end the summer camp theme we would pick one of the longest movies we've ever covered here on the podcast. This one sits at a mighty 2 hours and 5 minutes! But with so much time in the movie and so many characters on screen, the body count is high in th...

On this week's episode we continue our Summer Camp Slasher Series with "She Came from the Woods" from 2022. This one is a supernatural slasher movie, which we do not often touch on here at SlashU. But we thought it would be fun to cover it for our summer camp focus. Boy, what a great decision that turned out to be! This one is fun from start to finish. As Camp Briarbrook closes up for the summer a...

Moving right along in our Summer Camp Slasher series, we have "Killer Body Count" from 2024. Cami's dad thinks she's a sex-crazed sinner, but Cami's just a normal teenage girl discovering her sexuality. Doesn't matter to Dad. He ships her off to a Catholic rehab camp hoping for Cami to be absolved of her sinful ways. At camp, Cami meets a whole group of other teen girls and some teen boys. They're...

We covered one that brings back a ton of memories for us here at SlashU. From 1997 it's "I Know What You Did Last Summer." A movie that our generation loved and cherished. We decided to tackle it in time for the 2025 updated new release, which also stars Freddy Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Take a walk down memory lane with us as we pick apart one that played a key role in our youths. To qu...

We jumped back to 1988 for this one. "Cannibal Campout" is a very straightforward piece of cinema. Four friends go camping in the woods of New Jersey and discover a trio of crazy cannibals ready to hunt and eat them. Are the cannibals brothers? How'd they end up with a hunger for human meat? Why are there so many abandoned buildings and garbage in the woods of New Jersey? You won't find those answ...

We tackled "Bloody Murder" on the last episode so this week we had to jump into the sequel, "Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp." It's the story of Tracy, sister to Jason who was attacked at the end of the last film. She thinks her brother Jason is still alive somewhere up at Camp Placid Pines. It's the end of summer. Tracy and the other counselors are packing up the camp to close for the season. The c...

Here we are continuing our Summer-camp-themed Slasher movie run. This week we covered "Bloody Murder" from 2000. Sorry friends, it's not great. It's fine if you're a fan of the slasher genre. But with slow pacing, scattered backstory, and a poorly defined killer, this one falls flat. We still had a great time talking about it. Take a listen and let us know what you think. Follow us on Instagram @S...

We're back and we're continuing our summer camping series with "The Retreat" from 2021. It also touches on Pride Month here in the U.S. When a lesbian couple on a vacation at a remote cabin get attacked by extremists bent on torture and murder, they must fight their way to freedom. But not before getting bloody revenge on the ones who wronged them. It's a hidden gem, even if it's not a traditional...

We're back with the start of our summertime summer camp series. Each year during the Summer months we try to stick to slasher movies that take place in or around a summer camp, camping, the outdoors; you get the picture. This week we kick off our summer series with "Caesar & Otto's Summer amp Massacre." It's from 2009 and it's a whacky one. This is one movie in what looks like a series of "Cae...

Here we are again for another week of cheesy, campy, slasher mayhem. This week we watched "Phantom Fun-World" from 2023. The story centers around Andi, a new employee at an indoor fun park called Phantom Fun-World. The park is re-opening after a terrible tragedy happened 17 years ago and Andi has been hired as one of the staff. But a killer is stalking the place, dressed as the mascot "Phantom" an...

This week we recorded a Zoom call between your two favorite professors and discussed the premier of Professor Nick's movie "Murder Cabin." We had a screening here in Milwaukee. How did it go? How many people showed up? What happens next with this indy short film? Where to babies come from? We covered it all in our "Murder Cabin" recap. But it's the first time ever here on SlashU where we did not s...

We've got one this week in honor of all the amazing Moms out there. From 1980 it's "Mother's Day." It's the story of three college best friends who call themselves the "Rat Pack." Each year since college, they've been going on a girls' trip together to reconnect and renew their unbreakable friendship. But this year, the three ladies get kidnapped by Ike and Addley who drag them off into the forest...

Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone! Turns out there's a cheesy, campy slasher movie from 2013 called "Cinco de Mayo" and so we covered it! It's the story of El Maestro, or Mr. Valdez. He's a Mexican Studies teacher at the college. When El Maestro gets fired and mercilessly ridiculed by those around him, he snaps. He unleashes his "Aztec Bloodlust" and goes on a killing spree just in time for the holiday...

This week we jumped into another 80s style slasher classic with "Funeral Home." Alternate title "Cries in the Night" and we'll discuss all that today too. The story centers around Heather, who is visiting her grandmother to help get her Bed and Breakfast business off the ground. You see, Grandma and Grandpa used to run the community's funeral home. But when Grandpa disappeared, Grandma was forced...

Happy Easter! In honor of the Easter Season we covered "Easter Bunny Massacre" from 2021. This one's a British slasher and we had so much fun picking it apart. Sorry for our terrible accents. It's the story of a group of friends who start out celebrating graduation, but end up trying to cover up a murder. The crime comes back to haunt them a year later in the form of someone dressed as a deranged...

This week we watched "That's a Wrap" from 2023. It's a very self-aware movie-within-a-movie concept. Mason Maestro, a pompous director, just got done shooting his masterpiece slasher movie. At the wrap party with the cast, people start to mysteriously disappear. What's really going on here? We'll talk all about it on the episode. Listen and enjoy! Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_Podcast Email us at...

This week we went back to 2004 to cover "Stabbed in the Face." We weren't exactly sure who this movie was made for, but we suspect it's at least made for all those involved. Because there were points where we had no idea what was going on or why. Light on backstory, but heavy on content to make fun of. This one has some good effects and some people you are happy to see meet their demise. If you're...

This week we ventured back to 1984 to cover "Fatal Games." It's the story of a group of athletes at Falcon Athletic Academy. They're training hard for the Nationals competition with hopes to make it to the Olympics. But someone is stalking the athletes killing them one by one using a javelin as their weapon of choice. I won't spoil anything here, but this movie ends up having some very relevant to...

Here we are again, covering a movie from 2024. This one doesn't fall within the traditional "slasher" format. It's the story of Kennedy, on a date at a bowling alley that's going to shut down tomorrow. But a cult of math-enthusiasts takes over and starts killing people in the name of "transcendence." Kennedy has to team up with her estranged father to try and save the day. Let us know what you thi...

We were at the first ever Milwaukee Horror Convention all weekend! It was an absolute blast of a time. We met so many horror fans and (hopefully) invited several new listeners into the SlashU family. What an amazing, welcoming, happy community of people of all walks of life. We did several interviews and I tried to remember to link everybody below in the show notes. Thanks to everyone who came by...

What would you do to get a part in a movie? Would you kill someone? Sleep with someone? This question gets explored in the movie we watched for this week. It's "Curtains" from 1983. It's the story of 6 beautiful actresses all called to a director's home to audition for a part in his masterpiece movie. But it seems maybe one of the ladies wants to eliminate the competition through force of murder r...