Straight Chilling: Horror Movie Review

Sheriff Dan Gillis investigates a string of murders in a sleepy, coastal town. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Robert Englund, sex on the beach, and the spooky seaside sleeper, Dead & Buried (1981).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:30) Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:56) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (18:40) Rotten Tomatoes (67:35) Trivia (74:40) Cooter of the Week (80:00) What...

After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple is forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are attacked by three masked strangers with no mercy and seemingly no motive. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss unnecessary remakes, elusive inhalers, and the first part of a new Strangers trilogy, The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024).   Show Notes: H...

Two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show, but it is mysteriously canceled. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss mid 90's teen TV programming, not fitting in, and standing idly by as your life passes you by in Jane Schoenbrun's feel sad movie of the summer, I Saw the TV Glow (2024).     Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:36) Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:20) Spoile...

In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being raped and murdered by an unknown assailant. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss true crime, Korean killers and Bong Joon Ho's second feature film, Memories of Murder (2003).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (6:35) Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:20) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (15:...

A woman travels home with her two kids for her sister's wedding and finds herself defending her family against blood seeking old people. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss German farmhouses, understaffed nursing homes, and the Netflix original, Old People (2022).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:48) Back of the Box/Recommendations (12:25) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (17:00) Rotten To...

After a group of criminals kidnap the ballerina daughter of a powerful criminal figure, they retreat to a secluded mansion and try to survive the next 24 hours. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss ensemble casts, inescapable mansions, and Radio Silence's bloodiest film to date, Abigail (2024).     Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:40) Back of the Box/Recommendations (9:08) Spoiler Warnin...

Happy Walpurgisnacht to all! Crack open a maibock, decorate your May bush, and stoke those bonfires as high as you can. But beware, witchcraft is afoot! On this week's episode… Join the crew as we celebrate Halfway to Halloween by reviewing The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) ! Then follow us down a deep, dark path into the woods as we discuss the ancient history of another spooky, Celtic holiday fille...

A loan officer who evicts an elderly woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to save her soul while evil forces push her to her breaking point.   On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss demon winds, haunted hankies, and the soulless nature of American financial institutions in Sam Raimi's, Drag Me to Hell (2009).     Show...

Randy and Bob once again made the trek over to New Orleans for The Overlook Film Festival and lived to tell the tale! It was another year filled with patires, Q&A's, anniversary screenings, loads of genre movies and much more.   On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Abigail, Cuckoo, Red Rooms, I Saw the TV Glow, Oddity, Azrael and many other films we watched at The Overlook Film Fest...

A journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss the fruitless nature of war, the necessity of a neutral press, and Alex Garland's harrowing new film, Civil War (2024).     Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:50) Back of...

A group of people fight for survival at a truck stop when machines become homicidal. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Emilio Estevez, cocaine, and Stephen King's only directing credit to date, Maximum Overdrive (1986).     Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:28) Back of the Box/Recommendations (8:07) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (14:44) Rotten Tomatoes (59:30) Trivia (67:07) Cooter of th...

In a small town, brutal killings start to plague the community. Marty Coslaw, a paraplegic boy, is convinced the murders are the doings of a werewolf. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Stephen King, Corey Haim, and Gary Busey in the classic werewolf movie, Siilver Bullet (1985).       Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:34) Back of the Box/Recommendations (9:40) Spoiler Warning/Full Revi...

A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss late night talk shows, the satanic panic, and Faustian tales in, Late Night with the Devil (2024).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:16) Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:02) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (16:17) Rotten Tomatoes (72:26) Cooter of t...

A brilliant scientist's discovery renders him invisible, but transformers him into an omnipotent, dangerous megalomaniac. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss government-funded experiments, Kevin Bacon's bacon, and Paul Verhoeven's take on the Invisible Man, Hollow Man (2000).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:50) Back of the Box/Recommendations (12:45) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (18:3...

A group of troubled teenagers are led by social workers on a California wilderness retreat, not knowing the woods they are camping in have been infested by bloodsucking, mutated ticks! On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Seth Green, illegal grow operations, and unfortunate stereotypes in the made for TV creature feature, Ticks (1993).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (6:58) Back of the B...

When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within the city of the dead. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss treasure hunting, the Parisian catacombs and the hellish found footage film, As Above, So Below (2014).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:07) Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:42) Spoiler Warning/Ful...

In the dying days of the old west, a sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town's doctor from a group of cannibalistic cave dwellers. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson and S. Craig Zahler's horror-western, Bone Tomahawk (2015).    Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:45) Back of the Box/Recommendations (10:40) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (16:10) Rotten...

Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers finds out she is her generation's vampire slayer. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, and 90's nostalgia in Fran Rubel Kuzui's, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:53) Back of the Box/Recommendations (10:15) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (18:22) Rotten Tomatoes (68:26) Trivia (76:41) Coot...

The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright's incredibly effective Zom-Rom-Com, Shaun of the Dead (2004).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (5:15) Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:00) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (16:20) Rotten...

A group of scientists have developed the resonator, a machine which allows whoever is in range to see beyond normal perceptive reality. But when the experiment succeeds they are immediately attacked by strange life forms.   On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss H.P. Lovecraft, Barbara Crampton in tight leather, and Stuart Gordon's other worldly film, From Beyond (1986).    Show Notes...

A man finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a woman living off grid who is captive to a pack of mysterious figures above. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss the dangers of the desert, evil kids, and Barnaby Clay's hot horror film, The Seeding (2024).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:10) Back of the Box/Recommendations (12:09) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (15:54) Rotten Tomatoe...

In Barnaby Clay's new film, The Seeding, a man finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a strange woman living off grid who is being held captive by sadisitc figures.  On this special episode... The crew sits down with writer, director, editor Barnaby Clay for a spoiler free discussion about the inspirations for his new film, what draws him to the desert and what horrors you can look forward...

When the unburied dead return to life and seek human victims, seven refugees shelter in a house in the Pennsylvanian countryside. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss remaking a classic, Tony Todd's first horror movie, and Tom Savini's only directorial credit to date, Night of the Living Dead (1990).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:40) Back of the Box/Recommendations (8:46) Spoiler Wa...

The incredible tale of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist, Dr. Godwin Baxter. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Yorgos Lanthimos' sexually charged Frankenstein story, Poor Things (2023).   Show Notes: Housekeeping (5:15) Back of the Box/Recommendations (9:17) Spoile...

A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source. On this week's episode… Join the crew as we discuss the Shaw Brothers, martial arts, and the Hong Kong horror movie, Human Lanterns (1982).    Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:25) Back of the Box/Recommendations (8:55) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (14:22) Rotten Tomatoes (73...