Spooky Tuesday - A Horror Movie Podcast

Anyone else suddenly craving pancakes??? This week on Spooky Tuesday, we’re heading back out to the woods, a place where absolutely nothing good happens, with Cabin Fever (2002). Starring Boy Meets World’s Shawn Hunter as that “nice guy” you’ve been curving for the past few years and featuring a true-to-life shaving scene that will make your skin crawl, this horror story hits a little close to hom...

Ready for the return of this year’s most exciting event???? It’s Final Destination Summer here at Spooky Tuesday, and we’re back for another round with Final Destination 2 (2003). A film that tries to put its own special touches on the first movie’s mythology, FD2 starts with the infamous log truck disaster and then switches gears as it reverses through death’s order (or something) to feature snea...

You should know by now that there’s little we love more than a surprise lesbian reveal here at Spooky Tuesday — and when a movie pulls that off while throwing in a handful of Scream references, Maya Hawke, and one of the best deaths we’ve ever seen, you know it’s going to be a winner in our book. Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021) is only the first third of a trilogy, but the way it starts the stor...

There’s some debate about whether the writer intended for it to be a canonically queer movie, but A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) is pretty much the gayest thing we’ve ever seen. After one of our OG Spooky Crew members checked out the flick ahead of time, we knew we had to make it a part of our Pride Month Lineup — and we had to invite him to join us. On this week’s Spooky Tue...

We know you’re reading supernatural romance novels in Swedish, Stephenie Meyer!!! There are way too many similarities between Twilight and Let The Right One In (2008) for it to be a coincidence, but there is at least one major difference. Namely, one has sparkles, and the other has a sparkling array of trans and queer characters which makes it the perfect way to kick off our Pride Month Lineup. Th...

It’s no secret that Josie and the Pussycats (2001) is The Best Movie Ever (join the army!), so it was only a matter of time before we covered it here on Spooky Tuesday. It may not technically be a horror movie, but it is in its own way a murder mystery — and given that it’s been just about a year since we first came up with the concept of Fifth Tuesday, we knew its day had finally come. A musical...

Hope everyone has their “Rocky Mountain High” hit clips ready, because we’re traveling back to the start of the new millennium to kick off our Final Destination Summer! That’s right: We’re heading all the way back to the beginning with Final Destination (2000), and we’ll be covering one of the sequels every month for the next five months. No spoilers though!!! Not all of us have seen every movie i...

Kid Cudi, we don’t mean to be disrespectful, but — speaking strictly as film critics — we have some questions about a certain scene in X (2022). The new Ti West movie has been on everyone’s minds, and now it’s our turn to take a visit to the best little porn house in Texas. Yes, that’s a Dolly Parton reference, and apparently so is Brittany Snow’s whole performance. With a cast that also includes...

Here at Spooky Tuesday, we believe sex education is SO important, which is why we spent the objectively correct and exactly appropriate amount of time reflecting on our own history of menstruation on our Carrie (1976) episode. That’s right, the Sissy Spacek cinematic masterpiece arrived just in time for prom season, so don’t forget to get all gussied up and ready for your date with John Travolta’s...

May (2002) is a Frankenstein monster of a movie made out of bits and pieces picked out just for us. Set right down the street from Monica’s place with an aggressive lesbian for Chelsea and some blood play for Sydney, it really seems like Lucky McKee’s indie flick was tailored exactly to Spooky Tuesday’s tastes — well, almost. Starring Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, and Anna Faris, this horror has an...

We’ve gotta admit it: We were a little nervous to dip our toes into one of the most famous franchises around, but with the end of April right around the corner, we knew it was time. We’re starting the six month countdown to the spookiest day of the year by celebrating the holiday’s half-birthday the most iconic way we know how: with Halloween (1978). The film that launched Michael Myers to horror...

New liminal space just dropped!! On a new Spooky Tuesday, we’re popping V/H/S (2012) in the ol’ VCR as we watch our first ever anthology film. Packed into this one movie are five horror shorts — and one overarching story that connects all of the individual pieces. Filled with truly haunting, horrifying realities and the blessed catharsis of men-eating monsters, this is one project that dares to as...

Quick question: Should we start an experimental metal supergroup even though we can’t play any instruments? We came up with the best band name on a new Spooky Tuesday as we tackled House on Haunted Hill (1959), the Vincent Price classic that had a huge domino effect on horror as we know it. This is the film that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho — and it also, at one moment in the film, inspired...

The thing about dating is there’s only one way to win and about one million different ways to lose — which is part of what makes Fresh (2022) so horrifying. The Daisy Edgar-Jones/Sebastian Stan flick tells a whole cautionary tale in the first 33 minutes, and that’s just before the title sequence even begins. On a new episode of Spooky Tuesday, we’re talking about how public sex is the only answer,...

Everybody loves a comeback story — and everybody loves Brendan Fraser, which is why we’re thrilled to do our part for the Brendanaissance by giving Bedazzled (2000) the honor of being our second ever Fifth Tuesday film. A movie that almost (almost!!) makes it hard to root for everyone’s favorite turn-of-the-century leading man, Bedazzled is serving character growth, monkey’s paw messiness, and, mo...

Don’t let the name fool you — there’s no movie out there quite like Troll 2. Well, except for maybe Leprechaun. And Society. And The Princess Bride. And commercials for the Heinz ketchup collab with Shrek. But other than that, this 1990-era movie is truly one of a kind. Given a pseudo-sequel name and yet telling its own original story (about goblins, despite any possible confusion), Troll 2 is oft...

Are we starting to sense a theme? Anaconda and Little Shop of Horrors had a lot in common — and now Little Shop is the perfect segue into our next film. On this week’s Spooky Tuesday, we’re throwing it back to the ‘70s with Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), and space flowers are once again super relevant. But invading aliens aren’t the only thing this flick has going for it. Famously one of t...

What if we only talked about the ending of this movie? On our new episode, we’re all about Little Shop of Horrors (1986) — or at least the last few minutes of it. Compared to the stage play, the movie musical goes in a majorly different direction, and, uh, we’ve got some feelings about it. But we swear we do move on eventually, because it’s just as important that we talk about all of the CLEAR ref...

Wait, is Owen Wilson a little scream king? As Sydney pointed out during this episode, this is actually our second spooky movie featuring him — and what a spooky movie it is. On this week’s episode, we’re talking all about Anaconda (1997), the film that gave us J. Lo and O. Wil (should we make that a thing?) way before Marry Me was even a twinkle in a romcom writer’s eye. But it didn’t just star th...

If there’s one thing we learned from the new Candyman (2021), it’s that you should always steal the branded pens they give you at businesses — oh, and that you should never even joke about saying any boogeyman’s name in a mirror five times. Or is it five times in a row? Five times in five minutes? Does it count if you do it over Zoom? On our latest Spooky Tuesday, we might just be veering into the...

No thoughts, just vibes or all thoughts and no vibes? Sydney told Monica and Chelsea to get “flavor blasted” before watching The Love Witch (2016), but we definitely needed our full mental faculties for this discussion. The movie was undoubtedly a labor of love from writer/director (and producer/songwriter/editor/production designer/art director/set decorator/costume designer/shall we go on) Anna...

Is there anything more on theme for Valentine’s Day than wrapping up a literal human heart in a cartoon heart-shaped box? It’s called romance, babes, and on our latest episode, we’re talking about a killer who doesn’t do anything ~half-hearted.~ In My Bloody Valentine (1981), the mysterious miner knows how to commit to a bit — and here at Spooky Tuesday, we love when a man puts his whole Valentuss...

Here at Spooky Tuesday, we’ve always said that Scream (1996) was a love letter to the horror genre — and the new Scream (2022) is definitely a love letter to the whole Wes Craven franchise. This week, we’re diving deep into Scream 5 and trying to fit all of our many, many, many (many!!!) thoughts into just under two hours. We’re talking easter eggs, Scream’s first canon queer character, Dewey’s fo...

Last week, we celebrated Matty Lilly’s birthday. This week, we’re celebrating our first celebrity guest as Spooky Tuesday welcomes Kristian Bruun onto the pod. In honor of his debut on season 3 of the Snowpiercer TV show, we asked him to throw it back to the 20teens and explore the original Snowpiercer (2013) movie with us. A Bong Joon Ho adaptation of a French comic, the flick is packed full of s...

We know this one's a long one, but Spookies, the most important day of the year is JUST around the corner. That’s right, we’re gearing up to celebrate our king Matty Lilly’s birthday on Monday, January 24 — which is why we’re using this Tuesday to kick off a week-long party with Thir13en Ghosts (2001). A movie with a bonkers plot, an Oscar-worthy performance from Tony Shalhoub, an incredible post-...