SlashU Podcast

Well, we did the 1981 version last year.  So it's time for our first SlashU Extra Credit episode.  We jumped to 2009 to cover the My Bloody Valentine remake.  Don't worry, we didn't do a side by side comparison of the two movies.  That would be boring.  Although, if that's what you're looking for, let us know.  This more modern version of the mining town classic joins...

Welcome back to SlashU and the start of Season 4!  We're excited to be back after a January, 2022 hiatus.  And we dive right back into the Slasher fun with American Gothic from 1987.  As it turns out, you don't just have to worry about Sasquatch in the Pacific Northwest.  When a group of friends gets stranded on an island after flying out of Seattle, they meet Ma and Pa and the...

Right out of the gate there are NO SPOILERS in this quick episode.  We are continuing our brief time off for the month of January.  But with what's essentially Scream 5 hitting theaters, we decided to just connect real quick to let our students know what we thought.  It also gives us a little chance to test and make sure we can take phone calls.  So Nick called in from the Slas...

Hello Students and thanks for tuning in while we're on a break for January.  This week we bring you a taste of episodes past that all have a theme.  It's Pranks Gone Wrong this week.  Many slasher movies have the premise of a prank that goes way off the rails and as a result, a slasher starts killing.  Is it revenge?  Is it vengeance?  Is it a third word that also mea...

Take your seats, students and get ready to take notes too.  It's our annual recap show!  SlashU has been around for over a year now.  So at this point we're reviewing what we've watched in Seasons 2 and 3 of SlashU and handing out some Slashy awards.  If you're new to the podcast, this is a good spot to jump in.  We're talking briefly about all the various movies we watche...

Of course we have to release a Christmas episode this week and of course we had to look at Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2.  Last year we watched Part 1, and the sequel is still within our preferred movie timeframe.  And the benefit to SNDN Part 2 is that you don't have to watch Part 1 to understand what's going on.  Part 2 literally recycles tons of footage from the first movie a...

No it's not The Reindeer: Son of Santa.  It's all the way back to 1978 today.  This one had your co-hosts a little mystified by some of the things in the movie, but overall pretty satisfied with how it turned out.  The plot centers around six people who each live different but sinful lives.  They're all headed to their ten year high school reunion.  What they don't know is...

What happens when a mental hospital accidentally releases a patient due to a clerical error?  And then what happens when that patient turns out to be a homicidal killer who goes back to the college where he murdered four sorority girls years earlier?  And then what happens when a doctor from that hospital tries to track down the killer while trying to expose her employers for their mista...

Yes, that's supposed to say "StageFright" as one word.  That's how the movie was released.  In this week's episode, we get a group of actors locked inside at their theater rehearsing, making for an easy killing ground for the slasher.  We also get more incompetent police work.  There's even a nice kitty, that doesn't get harmed at all.  Check out StageFright from 1987. &nb...

Hello SlashU students and welcome to another week.  We hope your Thanksgiving holiday (here in the USA) was a good one.  And to help you recover and get back to your regular routines we give you a fresh episode today.  We're talking about The Toolbox Murders from 1978.  It's a fairly easy story to follow.  A masked maniac is killing women around an apartment complex using...

Well students of SlashU, this movie has one of those titles that pretty much sums it up.  There's a killer in the woods, so don't go in there.  But what happens?  A bunch of people go in the woods anyway.  Hilarity ensues.  From 1981 and directed by James Bryan.  In a complete coincidence, we sat down to record this episode on 11/20/2021 which, according to IMDB, is the exact 40 year anniversary o...

Well SlashU Students, we're sorry but not all the movies we watch are winners.  Enter, Sledgehammer from 1983.  Listen to the episode to see how we ranked this one as one of our worst movies that we've watched.  The story starts with an abusive mother locking her son in a closet so she can fool around with her lover.  They're both cheating on their spouses.  Well, apparent...

Hello students of SlashU.  Welcome to our very first clip show.  Now that SlashU is 50+ episodes strong, we decided to go down memory lane and re-visit some of our favorite inside jokes and references here at SlashU.  We sometimes refer to past episodes or pop off jokes that might not be familiar to everyone if they haven't heard a past episode.  In this episode, we went back a...

We're back after a brief hiatus.  And this time we recorded in front of a live audience!  We were so honored to host an episode of SlashU at the Very Famous X-Ray Arcade in Cudahy, Wisconsin.  We played the movie for our audience, and afterwards sat down and recorded this episode.  It was so much fun and we can't wait to do it again soon.  Hack-O-Lantern is an excellent Ha...

Wow!  We've made it to 50 episodes.  If we go back and listen to episode 1 I'm sure you'll all agree that we've come a long way here at SlashU.  Your hosts Nick and Andy are just coming back after a short time away due to us both getting and surviving the dreaded COVID-19 virus.  We're fine and happy and ready to go this week to talk about The Majorettes from 1986.  It's a...

This week we jump into another great flick filmed in Wisconsin.  And we didn't even know it when we picked it!  Tiny Tim plays Marvelous Mervo the Clown in 1987's Blood Harvest.  When Jill comes home from college to visit her parents, she finds her house vandalized and her parents missing.  Then things get worse when Jill's closest friends start to disappear one by one.  A...

Well we're back after taking a couple of weeks off due to just being really busy in our non-podcasting lives.  We're out of practice just a little bit, but don't worry.  We still brought you a great episode.  This week we're talking Sweet Sixteen from 1983.  When Melissa and her family move into a small town in Texas, Melissa gets a lot of attention from the local boys.  B...

Andy here, just giving you all a quick “hello” in case you were wondering where we’ve been. Everything is fine, we’re just really busy. So watch the next movie and get your butts ready for a Live Podcast on October 28th.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/slashu/support Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_Podcast Email us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.com Check out the Facebook p...

For this week's episode we got to watch a movie featuring the late, great Bill Paxton.  It's Mortuary from 1983.  After the death of her father, Christie Parsons is having trouble coping.  She sleepwalks, she's less intimate with her boyfriend Greg, and she suspects her father's death wasn't an accident.  Her suspicions lead her to the local mortuary where Paul Andrews (Paxton)...

This week SlashU goes back to school with a good old-fashioned sorority movie.  We watched The Initiation from 1984.  It's about a group of pledges who need to pull off a big prank to finish off their initiation into a sorority.  One of the pledges named Kelly has had amnesia of everything in her life that occurred before age 9.  And also, she has started having a recurring nig...

This week Nick and Andy don't play by the rules.  In fact, they even get into a decent little argument!  But don't worry, SlashU isn't in danger of shutting down.  If anything, it makes us stronger.  We called up the Party Line for your listening pleasure.  It's a fun, sexy flick from 1988.  The story centers around Seth and his sister Angelina who had a troubled chil...

If you like movies where the killer has Mommy issues, have we got a doozy for you!  This week Nick and Andy take on Don't Go in the House from 1979.  Depending on where you watch it; the main title sequence might call it "The Burning."  So we touched on that a little bit.  It's not too heavy on the Kill Count, but definitely heavy on the psychological issues with Mom.  Don...

This week Nick and Andy take on one of the worst movies we've ever had here at SlashU.  Nick even said it's his second least favorite behind Final Exam way back in Season 1.  It's X-Ray or Hospital Massacre from 1981, or maybe 1982, possibly 1983.  It's different depending on where you look the movie up.  When Susan Jeremy goes to the hospital to get her results from a routine...

What happens when a lawyer and the love of his life get in a horrible car accident, she passes away, but he gets mistakenly partially autopsied, only to wake up, murder the medical examiners, and take up residence in an abandoned asylum for 10 years killing anyone who crosses his path?  Well, that's the plot of this week's movie; Doom Asylum.  Nick and Andy were a little at odds with the...

When old man Lester Bacon is threatened with foreclosure on his property, he ends up sending his mentally slow son Buddy on a killing spree against his enemies. That’s right! It’s “Slaughterhouse” from 1987. We had a bellyful of a good time dissecting this gory, campy, meat-filled classic. Enjoy. Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_Podcast and check out www. SlashUPodcast.com. Listen, subscribe, and te...