That Horrorcast

A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point. To check out more information about That Horrorcast, take a look at our website:  https://thathorrorcast.com/ Art and other work done by host, Dmitry Samarov can be found on his site:  https://www.dmitrysamarov.com...

After a crazy run-in with a bat in his bedroom, a white-collar businessman named Peter meets a woman in a nightclub. Later, while having sex, she suddenly reveals her fangs and bites his neck. Immediately after, Peter convinces himself that he, too, is turning into a vampire. He seems to be sensitive to light, starts cockroaches and pigeons, buys himself a pair of plastic fangs when his vampire fa...

After a powerful storm damages their Maine home, David Drayton and his young son head into town to gather food and supplies. Soon afterward, a thick fog rolls in and engulfs the town, trapping the Draytons and others in the grocery store. Terror mounts as deadly creatures reveal themselves outside, but that may be nothing compared to the threat within, where a zealot calls for a sacrifice. To chec...

Late on a cold night somewhere in the U.S., teenage Casey sits alone in her attic bedroom, scrolling the internet under the glow-in-the-dark stars and black-light posters that blanket the ceiling. She has finally decided to take the World's Fair Challenge, an online role-playing horror game, and embrace the uncertainty it promises. After the initiation, she documents the changes that may or may no...

In Wes Craven's classic slasher film, several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a disfigured midnight mangler who preys on the teenagers in their dreams -- which, in turn, kills them in reality. After investigating the phenomenon, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) begins to suspect that a dark secret kept by her and her friends' parents may be the key to unraveling t...

Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangiers, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survi...

Today we are joined again by one of our favorite guests, D.T. Robbins, to talk about Hell House LLC. We talk about found footage films, haunted houses, John Hughes, and so many other unrelated things.  D.T. Robbins lives in Southern California with his wife and kids. He’s the founding editor of Rejection Letters , author of THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LEAVE ME ALONE from Rejection Letters,...

Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet (Kate Winslet) transfers from England to Christchurch, New Zealand, with her family, and forms a bond with the quiet, brooding Pauline (Melanie Lynskey) through their shared love of handsome big screen tenor Mario Lanza and games of make-believe. But when their parents begin to suspect that their increasingly intense friendship is becoming unhealthy, the...

Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractiv...

As hordes of zombies swarm over the U.S., the terrified populace tries everything in their power to escape the attack of the undead, but neither cities nor the countryside proves safe. In Pennsylvania, radio station employee Stephen and his girlfriend, Francine, escape in the station helicopter, accompanied by two renegade SWAT members, Roger and Pete. The group retreats to the haven of an enclose...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American horror film written and directed by Tobe Hooper . When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked on...

The Box is a 2009 American psychological thriller film based on the 1970 short story " Button, Button " by Richard Matheson , which was previously adapted into an episode of the 1980s iteration of The Twilight Zone . The film was written and directed by Richard Kelly and stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple who receive a box from a mysterious man (played by Frank Langella ) who offers...

Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is a blue-collar Chicagoan who is disappointed with his ordinary life -- until he lets his wife's sister (Illeana Douglas) put him into a hypnotic trance at a party for fun. After waking up in a cold sweat, Tom realizes he has a psychic connection with his son, Jake who already has an eerie connection to the paranormal. Tom begins having alarming hallucinations of a dead g...

In this episode, Mallory and Dmitry discuss Bram Stoker's Dracula. They discuss the acting, Anthony Hopkin's bad accent, weird erotic scenes, and whether this was a good film or not. But before all of that, they give a quick recap about seeing the new Scream movie.  As for Dracula: Young barrister Jonathan Harker is assigned to a mysterious village to finalize a land deal where a former barri...

In this episode, Dmitry and Mallory discuss the "Body Snatcher" movies. We take a look at the four films that are based off of Jack Finney's 1954 sci-fi novel, Body Snatchers . Each film centers around the concept of people being replicated into emotional automatons. Whether it be by strange seeds drifting to earth from space, mysterious pods, or a virus, each plot follows a community of people th...

In this episode, Dmitry and Mallory discuss the eerie horror film, The Witch. The Witch, is a period drama/horror film by first-time writer/director  Robert Eggers , that describes itself as "a New England folktale.” The film follows a family in 1630s New England that is torn apart by the forces of paranoia, witchcraft, black magic, and possession. Banished from their pilgrim colony, a self-r...

In this episode, we discuss the psychological horror drama: Possession. We also get into weird film cameos, Chicago films that Chicagoans are supposed to like, and Kristen Stewart (again). But we mainly stay on the topic of marriage and divorce which are the central themes of this dark and twisted film. In this movie, we don't get faced with supernatural demons or slashers that can't be killed. We...

In this episode, Dmitry and Mallory set out to discuss the 1976 horror classic, The Omen. Whilst The Omen is central to the podcast, they somehow pivot into a million other directions. Mallory talks about Clifford The Big Red Dog , Dmitry hates on photographers, and eventually, they discuss every amazing movie Kristen Stewart is in. But here is some info for those who aren't familiar with The Omen...

D.T. Robbins from Rejection Letters joins Mallory in an attempt to convince Dmitry that Scream is a good movie. There's not much more to be said. They discuss their favorite scary movies, what is the actual definition of a horror film, and many weird things after that but Scream is the focus. They go off topic only to discuss California, YouTube, Mallory's fear of clowns, and Dmitry's lost Henry P...

In today’s episode, Dmitry and Mallory discuss Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer . Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is about a serial killer named Henry who is released from prison following his mother's murder. He supplements his job as an exterminator with a series of indiscriminate and violent murders. Fellow jailbird and drug dealer Otis becomes a willing accomplice in Henry's bloody killin...

In this episode, Dmitry and Mallory discuss the movie Run. It takes them almost 30 minutes to get around to actually talking about the film and the episode ends as awkwardly as the film does.  Run is a 2020 American psychological thriller film starring Sarah Paulson as a twisted mother with dark secrets. It's a Hulu original that gives off similar vibes that other streaming service films do w...

In this episode, Dmitry and Mallory discuss the french horror movie, Raw. Raw is about a strict vegetarian Justine who encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. The young woman soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true...

In this episode, Dmitry and Mallory get into their usual tangents and eventually The Thing and then back to their usual tangents. They discuss this 80's cult classic while also discussing book covers, blurbs, new horror films, and Chicago in general. The Thing The Thing is a 1982 John Carpenter cult classic. In it we follow a group of American research scientists in Antarctica that are disturbed a...

In this episode, Dmitry and I discuss the 1992 version of Candyman with the new 2021 version. We get into gentrification, white savior films, and what really drives urban legends. As per usual, we also go into a weird amount of tangents but somehow manage to stay most focused on the films. As Chicagoans, these movies meant a lot more to us. Both films are centered around the housing project, Cabri...

Let The Right One In is a 2008 Swedish horror movie about a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a strange child who just moved into his building. Initially reserved with each other, they slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl. Eventually, she shares her dark, macabre secret with him, revealing her connection to a string of blood...