The Best Little Horror House in Philly

We're saying hello to Mary Lou and Prom Night 2, because Betsy Sodaro is in the horror house! We're talking about loving trash, being in Hubie Halloween and what horror franchise is next, putting Prom Night 2 squarely in the Big Grande's Teacher's Lounge-iverse, and much more! Don't miss this one, it's a great one! Join the Best Little Horror House in Philly Patreon to get early, ad-free, video an...

Get ready for goop, because we're talking about a Croney Classic today! Joe Wengert is in the house to chat about The Fly remake from David Cronenberg, and all the Goldblum workouts, baboon anecdotes, and practical effects that go with it! Don't miss this one folks. Join the Best Little Horror House in Philly Patreon to get early, ad-free, and even bonus and video episodes, plus fun things like me...

Cody Ziglar (Dark Weeb Podcast, Rick and Morty, Siege Society Vol. 1) makes his triumphant return to the horror house, shifting from Oscar-winning fare Get Out to bodacious B-movie Xtro 2! Get you a podcast guest who can do both! This episode is a preview of the spotlight episodes on the Best Little Horror House in Philly Patreon.  For early, ad-free, and bonus episodes, plus much more, sign up to...

Woah yes, wait a minute Mr. Postman... is there a letter is your bag for me? We're hitting the mailbag today and answering burning questions like:  What one-off slasher should have had a franchise? How would I take down Gritty in a horror movie? How much time goes into the show every month?  and several more!  If you want this to happen again, let me know by sending an email with your questions to...

All hands on deck for the Trustees meeting - today's episode features a panel of nine guests plus myself to discuss one of my favorite and earliest watched horror movies, Friday the 13th Part II!  We're talking about all the big moments from Friday the 13th 2 - the frog boys, the rat, the brown underwear, plus the cut footage and more! Don't miss this one!  The panel is comprised of "Trustees", or...

October 8th, 2020 marks the 1 year anniversary of the Best Little Horror House in Philly, and we wanted to get a really awesome guest in the horror house to commemorate it. And we were able to deliver - Rich Sommer (Mad Men, Devil Wears Prada, Summer of '84, GLOW) is here to talk about George Romero's Creepshow - featuring a bevy of great actors like Ted Danson, Ed Harris, Tom Atkins and more, plu...

This week on the Best Little Horror House in Philly - the police station may be closing but Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh and I are just getting started, because we're pitching the 2015 low-budget feature Last Shift as the best horror movie ever made! You won't want to miss this one, but you might not trust your own eyes after! Support the show as a patron at Patreon.com/Littlehorrorphl to get early a...

Forget milkshakes, because we're talking about David Durston's I Drink Your Blood! G.G. Graham is here to school us on both the origins of grindhouse cinema and new examples like Hobo With a Shotgun and Devil's Rejects, chat about the power of a dance background, and discuss all the trashy goodness that comes with b-movie territory. Don't miss it!

This week Kevin Cole (Haque, Pretend Friends, Space Kings) and I go on an emotional roller coaster - he picked Slither, but upon rewatch, wasn't sure he actually felt it was the best?! We go through the movie together and by the time we've broken it down, we got there in the end; Slither is in fact, the best horror movie ever made.  Plus we had fun chatting about it and his tastes in horror at lar...

We're working with our friends at Film Rage on the All The Horror charity drive - an October event that raises money for the Scares that Care charity (scaresthatcare.org). To that end, since it was a repeat visitor, we decided to talk about a movie that I love, and since they're from the great white north, we decided to talk about my favorite Canadian horror movie - Cube, from 1997! We also talk a...

Hot off having one of his own movies, Last Shift, picked as the best horror movie ever made.... Anthony DiBlasi is here to set the record straight and say that the correct answer is actually the beefcake bloodbath from 1987, Predator! We talk about his passion for horror and what he likes to create vs watch, then talk about the alternate timeline where Rick Baker designed the Predator, the incredi...

Glen Matthews is visiting BLHHiP this week to talk about the hit mockumentary with pangs for fangs, What We Do in the Shadows! Glen has plenty of experience with vampires having written and directed the short film Teething, recently nominated for Best Short Film by the Director's Guild of Canada! We're getting into the tropes, the homages, and the laugh out loud comedy of this film, plus check in...

Brittni Martin joins us from Montreal to talk about Canadian horror classic Ginger Snaps! We discuss a bevy of icons from the great white north including the Goosebumps TV show, Final Destination, Supernatural, and of course, the actors Katherine Isabelle and Emily Perkins, then get into this werewolf wonder that manages to subvert and honor its predecessors. Don't miss out! Become a patron at Pat...

Fresh from Fantasia Fest, Quinn Armstrong is in the Horror House this week to talk about their pick for the best horror movie ever made - Peter Tscherkassky's 1999 short Outer Space! We also get into the Lynchian horror of the mundane, his feature debut Survival Skills, and the way experimental film challenges its viewers. You aren't going to want to miss this one, and the whole short can be found...

When this episode released it was election week, and here at the Best Little Horror House in Philly we felt it was appropriate to celebrate the horrific state of American politics with a governmentally inclined episode about the movie Kubrick himself called a "nightmare-comedy", Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. We talk about what makes it so horrific, how it ho...

A stranger has blown into town... and it's the delightful Joan Haley Ford, here to talk about her pick for the best horror movie ever made, The Witches of Eastwick! We talk about the improvements from the book, the progressive themes, and wax poetic about how great Veronica Cartwright is even among a cast featuring Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson! Don't miss this one!

This week we're going across the pond to chat with English youtuber Dan from TYTD Reviews, and then hopping our seaplane to Summerisle and reviewing his pick for the best horror movie ever made, The Wicker Man (1973)!  We break down the long road to getting this movie made and released, talk about the incredible performances and Christopher Lee's passion for this project, and much more in this sup...

Get me one cigarette and a bottom of Dom Perignon, because Kelly McAndee is in the Horror House to talk about the Stephen King classic that grounds the terror in his own psyche, Misery!  We talk about alternate casting choices, the death of Richard Bachman, and break the case wide open on if James Caan's role in Elf was secretly Paul Sheldon. Don't miss out, and join the patreon to support the sho...

Ryan Goldsberry returns after his Legal Thriller episode appearance on the Patreon, fired up enough to say that not only is 2002's Panic Room the best David Fincher movie but it is in fact, the best horror movie ever made! We're breaking down this technical and aesthetic marvel that was almost completely different, including the class stratification, the alternate casting choices, and the cinemato...

Elizabeth Noland is in the Horror House and we're exploring the past... an alternate past, that is, where Max Schreck was secretly a real vampire and Nosferatu aligned with F.W. Murnau's descent into madness! That's right, we're talking about Shadow of the Vampire, E. Elias Merhige's vampiric classic starring Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich - who could ask for more? NOBODY, because it's the best h...

Kelly Hughes (2-Bit Horror, Grungesploitation.com) and George are talking about The Suckling AKA Sewage Baby, a 1990 monster movie with its roots deep in the hygiene films of the early exploitation era! We come up with a plan for a sequel, admire some questionable fashion, and pay homage to the cooking of director Francis Teri's mother - and much much more! Don't miss out! Become a patron at Patre...

The Best Little Horror House is back from the dead... or at least, hiatus, thanks to the power of Re-Animator! George is joined by Jefferson Dutton (Sloppy Boys, Birthday Boys) to discuss this powerhouse of practical effects, Jeffrey Combs and his Anthony Perkins comparisons, lament the lack of a cast recording for Re-Animator: The Musical, and much much more! Don't miss out! Become a patron at pa...

The host of the Spark Parade is here to tell us why the french extremist horror film Martyrs is what sparks his passion this week in the Horror House! We talk about the shocking violence, the difference between a movie like this and "torture porn" like Hostel, the twists and turns, and the thought-provoking message in the ambiguous ending! Just a heads up though - if you haven't seen this movie al...

A candy-colored clown they call Joe Saunders tip-toes to the horror house every night just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper "Blue Velvet is the best horror movie ever made" Joe Saunders (Solar Opposites, Comedy Bang! Bang!, The Breadcast) is here and we're talking about the one and only David Lynch's surrealist horror-noire, Blue Velvet! We're getting into the the layered meanings, the incredib...

Neil Campbell (Comedy Bang! Bang!, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) is in the horror house to talk about The Host, Bong Joon-ho's monster movie from 2006! We're diving into curating the ultimate horror marathon, the incredible genre blending of South Korean cinema, Song Kang-ho's brilliance and just what makes this movie so dang good! Use offer code BEST20 at Tuck-Ins.com for 20% off your order.