Straight Chilling: Horror Movie Review

In Texas 1979, a young group of amateur filmmakers set out to make a porno. When their elderly hosts find out their not just renting a cabin for vacation but using it as a film set, they have to fight to survive the night. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss fleeting youth, the art of filmmaking and Ti West's slasher, X (2022).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:44) Back of the Box/Reco...

A young woman inherits an old hotel in New Orleans. After a series of supernatural accidents she learns the building was constructed on top of one of the entrances to Hell. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Italian horror, Dardano Sacchetti and Lucio Fulci's video nasty, The Beyond (1981).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:26) Back of the Box/Recommendations (12:40) Spoiler Warning/F...

The horrors of modern dating as seen through one young woman's defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend's unusual appetite. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Sebastian Stan, Daisy Edgar-Jones, online dating and black market cannibalism in Mimi Cave's, Fresh (2022).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:00) Back of the Box/Recommendations (8:03) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (11:52) Rott...

The Transylvanian vampire, Count Orlock, expresses interest in purchasing real estate in Wisborg, Germany. With him he brings the shadowy death bird who engulfs all it encounters, strangling their hearts and damning their souls to rot eternally in the cursed Earth Belial's seed was born from. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss vampires, Bram Stoker, and F.W. Murnau's Symphony of H...

An anarchic hip-hop inspired comedy that follows 4 city boys on a wilderness trek as the try and escape a mysterious huntsman. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Run the Jewels, Vince Staples, Danny Brown and 4 impressionable youths getting stoned in the wilderness in Ninian Doff's comedic romp, Get Duked! (2019).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:30) Back of the Box/Recommendations (...

After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Leatherface, Sally Hardesty, and Fede Alvarez in David Blue Garcia's sequel to an all time classic, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:38) Ba...

In the Iranian ghost town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the citizens are unaware they're beating stalked by a vampire. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss skateboards, vampires and love in Ana Lily Amirpour's, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:51) Back of the Box/Recommendations (9:37) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (14:55)...

A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Vincent Price, Patricia Owens and teleportation in Kurt Neumann's 1958 classic , The Fly.   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:00) Back of the Box/Recommendations (10:29) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (15:25) Rotten Tomatoes (76:47) Trivia (80:45) Cooter of t...

In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss fascism, consumerism and Pier Paolo Pasolini's extremely controversial film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:25) Back of the Box/Recommendations (9:33) Spo...

Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend trip, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifying and brutal consequences. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and an unruly gang of kids on bikes in James Watkins' Eden Lake (2008).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:34) Back of the Box/Recommendations (8:45) Spoiler Warning/Full...

Twenty-five years after the original string of murders in Woodsboro, a new Ghostface appears and Sidney Prescott must return to uncover the truth. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox in Radio Silence's sequel to Wes Craven's classic franchise, Scream (2022).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:06) Back of the Box/Recommendations (9:16) Spoil...

Space marines are sent to investigate strange happenings at a research facility on Mars and find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Richard Brake and Rosamund Pike in the foul mouthed video-game turned movie, DOOM (2005).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:10) Back of the Box/Recommendations (9:1...

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Kurt Russell, Rob Bottin and Keith David in John Carpenter's classic creature feature, The Thing (1982).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:15) Back of the Box/Recommendations (13:43) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (19:08) Rotten Tomatoes (79:15)...

Another year has come and gone! On this week's episode… Join the crew as we wrap up 2021 by counting down our top 10 horror films. We also mention a few films to avoid, discuss honorable mentions and look forward to 2022.   Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:30) Top 10 (7:28) Bottom 3 (86:52) Honorable Mentions (103:00) Most Anticipated of 2022 (117:10)   Connect with us: Support us on Patreon Website Fa...

An ambitious carny with a knack for manipulating people hooks up with a psychiatrist that is even more dangerous than he is. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, and Willem Dafoe in Guillermo Del Toro's book turned movie, Nightmare Alley (2021).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:45) Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:58) Spoiler Warning/Fu...

A woman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas eve. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we get holly and jolly while discussing Alexandre Aja, Rachel Nichols, and Wes Bentley in Frank Khalfoun's killer Christmas movie, P2 (2007).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:55) Back of the Box/Recommendations (14:03) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (21:08) Rotten Tomatoes...

A meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect like creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. Gamera shows up to deal with the ever evolving space oddity, but the battle may result in him losing his bond with humanity. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss kaiju films, tokusatsu and everybody's favorite Toho turtle in, Gamera 2: Attack of Legion.   Show Notes: Housekeeping (4...

Chucky is reunited with his previous lover and the two go on a killing spree in attempt to rid themselves of their doll bodies. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Don Mancini, Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, and Katherine Heigl in Ronny Yu's Bride of Chucky.   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:05) Back of the Box/Recommendations (14:20) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (18:49) Rotten Tomatoes (...

Visions of a deceased girl and her doll bring doom to the visitors of a deserted house. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Italian horror, Umberto Lenzi and the sequel to Evil Dead you didn't know existed, Ghosthouse.   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:00) Back of the Box/Recommendations (6:43) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (13:28) Rotten Tomatoes (63:37) Cooter of the Week (69:22) Hotli...

A possessed high school girl turns into a succubus and begins killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put a stop to it? On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried and Diablo Cody in Karen Kusama's teenage bloodbath, Jennifer's Body.   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:24) Back of the Box/Recommendations (6:50) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (12:33) Rotten Tomato...

After an acrimonious break up, the Mystery Inc. gang are individually brought to an island resort to investigate strange goings on. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar in Raja Gosnell's live action interpretation of Scooby-Doo (2002).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:25) Back of the Box/Recommendations (7:14) Spoiler Warnin...

Carrie White, a shy, friendless girl who is sheltered by her hyper religious mother unleashes her telekinetic powers on her high school classmates after being humiliated. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, and Brian DePalma's adaptation of Stephen King's first novel, Carrie (1976).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:52) Back of the Box/Recommendations (8:16)...

The satiric adventures of a working class family in the misfit city of Springfield. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss episodes V-VII of the Simpsons Halloween tradition, Treehouse of Horror .   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:52) Back of the Box/Recommendations (6:26) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (8:15) Hotline Scream (102:00)   Connect with us: Support us on Patreon Website Facebook...

Picking up where Halloween 2018 leaves off, Michael Myers survives Laurie Strode's burning basement and continues to slash his way through Haddonfield on Halloween night. Who lives? Who dies? Does it matter? Tune in and find out. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Michael Myers, Jamie Lee Curtis, and the entire town of Haddonfield in the second installment of David Gordon Green's...

Halloween: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.   Halloween 2: Picking up where the original film left off on Halloween night 1978, a now traumatized Laurie Strode is rushed to the hospital. Sheriff Brackett and Dr. Loomis hunt the evil Michael Myers as he...