Speak All Evil Podcast

Episode 148: Big shorts. Two box office hits from first time feature film directors that began life as buzzy shorts, including the most financially successful horror movie of 2022. Lights Out (2016), Smile (2022). 

Episode 147: Chronologically back to back 1970s David Cronenberg films, one of which could be called a Christmas movie, in Shivers (1975) and Rabid (1977). 

Episode 146: Aaron B Koontz of Paper Street Pictures (Old Man, The Pale Door, Scare Package) was kind enough to sit for a session and talk about his upcoming anthology sequel film, Scare Package 2: Rad Chad's Revenge (12/22 Shudder) as well as his many other projects past and future. 

Episode 145: Travis Stevens and Sarah Lind. We caught up with the director/co-writer of the new Shudder exclusive, A Wounded Fawn, as well as the film’s co-star. Travis and Sarah have extensive recent histories in horror film and the conversation turned from Fawn to projects both past and present. 

Episode 144: Airbnb Horror. Racist hosts, hidden cameras, hidden basements, and more in the gig economy lodging hell of Airbnb. The cleaning fees are the least of your worries! The Rental (2020), Barbarian (2022).

Episode 143: SAE welcomes special guest Josh Ruben to talk about A Wounded Fawn, the upcoming Shudder exclusive from Snowfort Pictures, as well as his past work (Scare Me, Werewolves Within), future projects, and Freddy Kruger impressions. 

Episode 142: Halloween costume contest winner week. Two legendary names in Italian horror filmmaking came together in the mid 80s to give us two stone cold cult classics in Demons (1985) and Demons 2 (1986). "They'll make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs."

Episode 141: Ooze Cruise. Two absolute oozers, each having played limited theatrical runs to later become cult classics, in the 1977 grindhouse mess, The Incredible Melting Man and the 1985 Larry Cohen horror comedy classic, The Stuff. 

Episode 140: Listener Recommendations. Two listener picks in the Kevin Smith horror comedy, Tusk (2014) and the iconic A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). 

Episode 139: Blasts From The Past. Two thrillers, one based in part upon the other, from two continents featuring men who thought they had put the past behind them, only to be reminded that there are some things one can't outrun. Caché (2005), The Gift (2015)

Episode 138: Halloween Never Ends. Two Halloween themed horror movies and two certified cult classics involving plenty of hanky panky in, Night of the Demons (1988) and May (2003). 

Episode 137: Witchy pumpkin Halloween spice. It's hard to make October matter to a horror podcast but we do our best with an early 80s rarity in Superstition (1982) and a celebrated cult oddity in Pumpkinhead (1988). 

Episode 136: The Waniverse. Two entries in two of the most successful horror film franchises of the century, each brought to us by way of James Wan, in Insidious (2010) and The Nun (2018). 

Episode 135: Speak No Saloum. Two new releases, each anticipated after buzz generating festival runs, from two very different parts of the world in Speak No Evil (2022) and Saloum (2021).

Episode 134: Tricks and Treats. Two Halloween horror anthology film collections boasting a bag full of filmmakers, performers, tributes and cameos to celebrate evil season. Trick r Treat (2007/09), Tales of Halloween (2015). 

Episode 133: Taboo spoiler week. You should have watched pitch black comedy, The Death of Dick Long (2019) by now. We start there, spoil that, then get into La Bête aka The Beast (1975). Two transgressive films with as much humor as darkness and a connection to the wild side. 

Episode 132: Poorly received and obscure lady vampires. Checking out the legendarily disastrous Anne Rice adaptation, Queen of the Damned (2002) and the lesser known but far superior Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975).

Episode 131: Tubi 90s SOV Week. Taking a break from the polished, higher production value films of the past few episodes to drop down a Tube hole and explore a more street level side of horror filmmaking. The Necro Files (1997), Bloody Muscle Body Builder In Hell (1995/2012). 

Episode 130: Hulu. Two films from this year including the most watched Hulu premiere of all time, Prey (2022), and the Finnish coming of age body horror, Hatching (2022). 

Episode 129: Two recent Shudder originals by newer feature filmmakers in The Advent Calendar (2021) and What Josiah Saw (2022), each with a lot of moving parts and twist upon twist. Chaos reigns. 

Episode 128: Alien week. Not the legendary Alien film franchise but other movies about aliens, including an Alien crossover franchise with a recently released new installment in Predator (1987) and the 1996 Tim Burton effort, Mars Attacks!

Episode 127: Ken Russell. Two movies from the legendary and controversial British filmmaker, one early and one a decade later in The Devils (1971) and Altered States (1980).

Episode 126: Film within a film. Two very different movies, one older and one of this year, about making movies. One unanimously accaimed by our hosts and one not so much. X (2022), Return To Horror High (1987). 

Episode 125: Unsafe Travels/People Being Turned Into Things. Two family owned roadside attractions on the way to transcendence from the human form to higher planes of existence like mannequins controlled by telekinesis or fritters. Tourist Trap (1979), Motel Hell (1980). 

Episode 124: Summer Lovin'. Deep in the heart of summer and spirit of the season, SAE checks out a couple of school's out slashers with a lot in common from two very different eras in The Burning (1981) and I know What You Did Last Summer (1997).