The Blind Rage podcast: Horror Movie Commentaries

“I don’t think you’re alone in this house… You should get out of there. Now.” For the second week of 2025, The Blind Rage Podcast takes a look at Fred Walton’s sequel to his 1979 classic. In WHEN A STRANGER CALLS BACK, we’re introduced to Julia (Jill Schoelen), a babysitter who is menaced by a voice on the other side of the door, as opposed to the other end of the phone. A man claims to have had a...

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE BLIND RAGE PODCAST!!! We’re kicking off 2025 with 1979’s WHEN A STRANGER CALLS, a film which has been terrifying audiences for decades with it’s portrayal of a babysitter (Carol Kane) who receives menacing phone calls from a psychopath who is a lot closer than she thinks. Though she manages to escape, he re-enters her life seven years later, now putting her new family in ha...

The Blind Rage Podcast is ending 2024, and DeCoteau DeCember, with a film that barely qualifies as such. BEASTLY BOYZ is an experiment in alternative filmmaking, though it doesn’t veer from David’s familiar style very far. Shot without sound, zero dialogue (we have only a slight bit of narration meant to let the viewer in on the intended story), and a plot that is so wafer-thin the script was a gr...

The Blind Rage Podcast enters week four of DeCoteau DeCember with 2001’s THE BROTHERHOOD, which was essentially the birth of David’s in-your-face homoerotic horror productions. Set on the campus of Drake University, we meet Chris (Sam Paige), an all-American boy next door, who quickly hits it off with Devon (Bradley Stryker), leader of the school’s most exclusive fraternity. Chris believes he’s fi...

It’s week three of DeCoteau DeCember on The Blind Rage Podcast! For this installment, we’re kicking back to watch one of David DeCoteau’s many, many Full Moon features, 1999’s WITCHOUSE. This micro budget quickie follows a group of post-adolescents, who receive an exclusive invitation to attend a party thrown by Elizabeth, a former classmate with a reputation for pulling bizarre pranks and harbori...

DeCoteau DeCember continues on The Blind Rage Podcast! For week two, we’re taking a look at David DeCoteau’s 1989 MURDER WEAPON, starring and co-produced by the legendary Linnea Quigley. This thinly-plotted quickie is probably the goriest of David’s many films and truly showcases his desire to exploit hard-bodied men, who spend most of the movie running around in no more than Speedos and short sho...

It’s DeCoteau DeCember on The Blind Rage Podcast! All month long, we’re celebrating cult filmmaker David DeCoteau! The festivities kick off with 1988’s NIGHTMARE SISTERS, starring the legendary Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, and Michelle Bauer. The trio of Scream Queens play nerdy sorority sisters who stumble upon a crystal ball, which inhabits the spirit of an evil psychic medium. After a few sp...

The ELM STREET celebration comes to an end this week on The Blind Rage Podcast. Putting a bloody period (did I seriously just write that?) at the end of the sentence is DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR KIDS ARE?, an episode of FREDDY’S NIGHTMARES that aired midway through the second season. In the tradition of young adult thrillers of its time, the story focuses on Lisa, a high school student who reluctantl...

The 40th anniversary celebration of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET continues on The Blind Rage Podcast! For our third venture to Springwood, we’re having a look at DREAM COME TRUE, which kicked off the second season of FREDDY’S NIGHTMARES. A dream therapist takes the stage of a local talk show to hawk his new book when he meets an audience member in desperate need of his help. She’s a young mother whos...

The Blind Rage Podcast continues the 40th anniversary celebration of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET with SAFE SEX, which closed the first season of FREDDY’S NIGHTMARES. Written by Splatterpunk essential David J. Schow (THE HILLS RUN RED, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III), this sleazy tale focuses on a pair of high school boys with only one thing on their minds: sex. And a girl with only one thing on her...

This month, The Blind Rage Podcast is celebrating the 40th anniversary of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET with back-to-back episodes of FREDDY’S NIGHTMARES! Kicking off the festivities is DO DREAMS BLEED?, a high school love story intertwined with a series of axe murders. John, a star quarterback, dreams of the killings committed by a maniac dubbed The Chopper. These dreams turn his world upside down wh...

The Blind Rage Podcast is closing out Herschell Gordon Lewis month with 2009’s THE UH-OH! SHOW, a horror comedy centered around a game show where you don’t just lose…you lose a limb. Contains one of the last on-screen appearances of Brooke McArtur (THE LOST BOYS) before his untimely passing in 2015.

Behold! Montag the Magnificent is going to dazzle the eyes with a trick never before seen! He’s going to saw a woman in half…only this woman isn’t tucked neatly in a box…and he’s going to use an actual running chainsaw. It’s week three of Herschell Gordon Lewis month on The Blind Rage Podcast! This time, we’re taking a look at the original 1970 splatterfest THE WIZARD OF GORE, the story of a magic...

Herschell Gordon Lewis month continues on The Blind Rage Podcast! For week two, we’re taking a look at 1965’s COLOR ME BLOOD RED, the story of Adam Sorg, a struggling artist, who finds it impossible to locate the perfect shade of red. That is, of course, until his girlfriend cuts her finger open and a lightbulb goes off. Adam’s paintings gain the attention of a respected art dealer and he is encou...

YEEEEEEEEE-HAW!!! The Blind Rage Podcast is celebrating the month of October with horror icon Herschell Gordon Lewis! Kicking things off is TWO THOUSAND MANIACS, a film that has been delighting genre devotees with its over-the-top gore and off-brand of delinquent humor the past 60 years! The small Southern town of Pleasant Valley is holding a very special ceremony…err…I mean celebration. There’ll...

“We’re almost not even related anymore…” Fall is upon us and The Blind Rage Podcast is wrapping up A September of School Scares with John Fawcett’s 2000 cult classic GINGER SNAPS! Sisters Ginger and Bridgitte (Katherine Isabelle and Emily Perkins) are teenage outcasts. On the night of a full moon, they encounter something that furthers their inclusion among their peers. Ginger is brutally attacked...

A September of School Scares is rapidly coming to an end here on The Blind Rage Podcast. For the penultimate episode, we’re taking a look at Katt Shea’s severely, disgracefully, criminally underrated THE RAGE: CARRIE 2. In this sequel to Brian DePalma’s immortal classic, we’re introduced to Rachel Lange (Emily Bergl), a high school outcast whose world is shattered when her best and only friend (Me...

The Blind Rage Podcast carries on A September of School Scares with PLEDGE NIGHT, a late ‘80s oddity exposing the real life horrors of fraternity hazing. Well, sort of. While penning the script, Joyce Snyder visited fraternities to investigate what members of the university elite were forced to endure before being offered the golden ticket. Many of these rituals were incorporated into the story, a...

The school scares are far from over here on The Blind Rage Podcast! This week, we take a look at THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW, a fairly paint-by-numbers slasher involving an innocent prank gone wrong, leaving a dead body in its wake. As always, our ensemble (this time, a group of seven sorority sisters) decide to conceal the crime instead of calling for aid. But someone’s seen… Someone knows… Someone...

It’s back-to-school month on The Blind Rage Podcast! Kicking things off is MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, an experiment in ‘70s exploitation notorious for waiting until the last scene to show any adults (teachers, parents) and for being an undeniable inspiration for the 1989 cult classic HEATHERS. When David (Derrel Maury) transfers to Central High at the insistence of an old friend (Andrew Stevens), h...

The Blind Rage Podcast is using a sticky hand to wave a fond farewell to Sleazy ‘70s month. With its graphic depictions of violence and sexual assault, Wes Craven’s original 1972 THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT outraged a nation. Surprisingly, Roger Ebert, a man known for being incredibly vocal about his revulsion for all things horror, gave the film a near-perfect score in his original review. Though...

“Dying’s easy. It’s over in a second. This hurts worse…” The Blind Rage Podcast is keeping it sleazy with the original 1978 cult classic THE TOOLBOX MURDERS! A series of brutal killings are committed at a small Californian apartment complex, all of them carried out by way of implements found in an average toolbox. The killer appears to be targeting young, attractive women in their twenties, but th...

“Suck it, bitch.” The Blind Rage Podcast continues Sleazy ‘70s month with Meir Zarchi’s original 1978 cult classic I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, a film so notorious that it not only spawned its own subgenre, but inspired dozens of copycats over the past 40+ years. Jennifer Hills, a New York City native, rents a cabin in the remote wilderness of Kent, Connecticut. There, she plans to spend the summer month...

A lost brother. A satanic cult. A Party City Halloween costume including a pair of cheap vampire teeth. Oh, and a large chalice filled to the brim with clumpy, discolored seminal fluids. It’s Sleazy ‘70s Month on the Blind Rage Podcast and we’re kicking things off with one of Tom DeSimone’s earliest foray’s into the world of adult cinema: 1973’s SONS OF SATAN. To say it’s unpolished would be putti...

This week, The Blind Rage Podcast takes a look at SHALLOW GRAVE, a straight-to-video quickie that, up until a few years back, was available exclusively on a long out-of-print VHS. Vinegar Syndrome has since found the original 35mm negative and gave this rarity the Blu-ray star treatment. But was it worth the effort? Ehh… SHALLOW GRAVE is the story of four friends known for causing trouble at their...