SOUTH JERSEY HORROR

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Bonus Material : Brief introduction regarding Ed Gein "The Butcher" of Plainfield, Wisconsin. The inspiration behind Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  A violent teen and three others kidnap a young  nurse while escaping from a Texas mental institution. Pursued by a  vengeful sheriff, the disturbed young man embarks on a murderous rampage  that shapes him into a legend...

***** DISCLAIMER ***** I do not own the rights to the audio clips that were uploaded in this episode. Wrong Turn (2021) Backwoods terror and never-jangling suspense meet when Jen (Charlotte Vega) and a group of friends set out to hike the  Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers  stray off course-and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a  hidde...

***** DISCLAIMER ***** I do not own the rights to the audio clip taken from YouTube I have added a YouTube Audio Clip that is a rare Death Row Interview with Richard Ramirez conducted by Inside Edition and uploaded on February 22, 2020.  On Netflix is Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer – a true crime docuseries exploring the crimes of notorious murderer Richard Ramirez, who terrorize...

*** DISCLAIMER *** I do not own the right to the interview in the beginning of the episode. That interview was provided by "Serial Killer Minds" which was uploaded to YouTube on February 6, 2021. Edmund "Ed" Kemper, the notorious "Coed" Killer from Santa Cruz, California. Killing, dismembering, and portraying postmortem heinous acts with the victims' bodies. Although declared legally sane during h...

When Season 2 Launches (date still undetermined) - the name of the Podcast is going to be changed to South Jersey Horror.   The Podcast episode will remain the same, with the same fundamentals that I have been going with.  The special edition of "Home Brews & Horror" - In each episode, I will introduce a local beer from the South Jersey area that I am trying for the first time. If an...

***** DISCLAIMER *****  I do not own the rights to the song "Mother" - the song was written and performed by Danzig. I also do not own the rights to the audio clips that have been uploaded into this episode.  In this bonus episode, I discuss how the movie "Child's Play" from 1988 was inspired by a a real life, voodoo doll named Robert. I also talk about the comparison of the 1988 & 2...

The Strangers is a 2008 American psychological horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino. ... The screenplay was inspired by two real-life events :  the Manson family Tate murders, a multiple homicide, as well as a  series of break-ins that occurred in Bertino's neighborhood as a child. This horrifying home invasion film was regrettably inspired by real-life violent crimes, inclu...

***** DISCLAIMER *****  I do not own the rights of the sound/audio clips in this episode. 'The Silence of the Lambs' is not based on a true story. It is based on the book of the same name written by Thomas Harris. He based the character of Hannibal Lecter on a convicted killer he had met at a prison in Mexico. Gary Heidnik was a  serial killer whose crimes would become the inspiration fo...

***** DISCLAIMER - I do not own the rights of the audio clips that are played in this episode ***** In this episode I compare the two versions: Tobe Hooper's 1982 and Gil Kenan’s 2015 version. It's the The Freelings vs. The Bowens. For almost 40 years, director Tobe Hooper’s PG-rated horror classic has existed and made us afraid of closets, new housing developments, televisions that are on past mi...

***** DISCLAIMER *****  I do not own the rights to the Friday the 13th theme song nor to the audio clip of Jason's Mother; I acquired those from Zedge. From Sean S. Cunningham's 1980 version to Rob Zombies 2009 version, Friday the 13th has come a long way when it comes to a bloody blockbuster about a hockey mask maniac wielding a rusted machete. However, there is the aspect of the evolving te...

Who was the Zodiac Killer? The Zodiac Killer took credit for several murders in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s but he was never caught. The self-proclaimed Zodiac Killer was directly linked to at least  five murders in Northern California in 1968 and 1969 and may have been  responsible for more. He taunted police and made threats through letters  sent to area newspaper...

As a veteran member of a South Bronx precinct, NYPD Sgt. Ralph  Sarchie (Eric Bana) has seen more than his share of dark and horrifying  events -- so many that they have begun to poison his soul. Sarchie  further finds his beliefs and understanding pushed to the limit when he  and his partner investigate a particularly bizarre  incident. He forms an alliance with a renegad...

The Amityville Horror is one of the most iconic and best-known haunted house stories of the past century. Following the publication, a 1977 novel about the incident, a blockbuster film premiered in 1979 that subsequently spawned copious amounts of sequels, reboots, and knockoff films in every decade since. To date, the unassuming and purportedly haunted Long Island home has featured in nearly two-...

In this episode I talk about what inspired Wes Craven to create the first A Nightmare on Elm Street and the famous villain, Freddy Krueger. As part of A Nightmare on Elm Street oral history (via Vulture), Craven recounted the story that influenced the creation of Freddy Krueger. He recalled a Los Angeles Times article from the 1970s about a family that escaped the Killing Fields in Cambodia. After...

Malevolent boxes abound in horror movies (the Rubik’s Cube-like container of “Hellraiser” being one of the most memorable), their contents inevitably wreaking havoc on humankind. The ratty receptacle in “The Possession” is no different: This demon possession movie starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Natasha Calis, and Kyra Sedgwick is basically about a young girl who buys an antique box at a yard sale a...

Based on a True Story - In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a  dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start  happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror. In desperation,  Carolyn contacts the noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine  Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area  steeped...

In this episode, I explain the events that transpired in late early 1949 that inspired an author to write a book to later become a Hollywood Horror Blockbuster film.  The Exorcist (1973) claimed to be the scariest film of its era, it had a great negative on the public and those who conveyed in watching the movie. A movie about possession and exorcism, definitely a masterpiece of the horror su...

In all facets of his public-facing life, Dennis Rader appeared to be just a "regular" guy. Dennis Lynn Rader is an American serial killer known as BTK or the  BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer. Between 1974 and 1991, Rader killed  ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters  to police and newspapers describing the details of his crimes.  Also in this episode, there is an e...

The true crime story about Wayne Williams and the missing Atlanta children. Between 1979 and 1981, approximately 29 African-American children,  teens, and young adults—mostly boys—were kidnapped and murdered.  A  majority of the killings shared common details. The FBI joined the  multi-agency investigation in 1980.  For the three long years that the disappearances and killings were engulfing Atlan...

Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped,  raped, and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and  possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, before his  execution in 1989 he confessed to 30 homicides that he committed in  seven states between 1974 and 1978. This episode also includes rare audio archive of a reporter who witnessed Ted Bundy's e...

Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer who took the lives of 17 males between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer was captured in 1991 and sentenced to 16 life terms. He was killed by fellow prison inmate Christopher Scarver in 1994.  Well-known books about Dahmer include: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare, by Donald A. Davis. It was published just a few months after Dahmer’s arrest, in Nove...

Welcome to The Horrorverse and thank you for tuning in! From the paranormal to the supernatural, the dark side of horror has always fascinated those who seek to understand what lurks in the hearts of men and women.

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home in the 1960s.

Welcome to South Jersey Horror! My name is Benjamin Dutill and it's an absolutely pleasure to be your host for this unique podcast. I certainly hope that I grab your attention and curiosity as we dive deeper into the dark hole together to discover what lies beneath the psyche of our minds and why we are intrigued by death and the macabre. Truly, we can find out what we must know; what drives men a...