The Buzzed Kill Podcast

Episode 146 - Tuned To Drop D(ead) As musicians ourselves, we know what it is like to strive for perfection. We’ve done the all-nighters with six sweaty dudes locked in a room, plugging away at the same song over and over until our fingers feel like they are going to fall off. Beer cans stacked to the ceiling and Taco Bell wrappers littering the floor. Ok, maybe we weren’t striving for perfection...

Episode 145: BAD BREW Piranha II: The Spawning Piranhas are any of several small South American freshwater fishes that eat other fish and sometimes plants, but occasionally also attack humans and other large animals that enter the water. Piranha 2: The Spawning is an American film, shot in Italy and Jamaica by a Canadian, with a cast of actors who look suspiciously like other actors, that tells th...

Episode 144 - A Hole Lot Of Trouble Most adults see a hole in the ground and think to themselves “Hmm, there’s a hole in the ground.” Then they go back to thinking about whatever normal, boring people think about, like the incredible deal they got on a new Chambray shirt at Lands’ End, or how excited they are to discuss the 20% Saver’s Tax Credit on their Roth IRA, at their monthly couples game ni...

EP 143 - Boar'd To Death If you’re not a pig person, this episode is going to be extremely... boaring. Haha, sorry that was just our ham-fisted attempt at being funny. You won’t actually be boar’d, because the beauty of this show is that you can still go about your daily business while listening. You can listen while you’re bacon a cake. You can listen in the porking lot while you’re waiting for y...

Episode 142 - Stay For The Pay How much would it take for you to stay in a haunted house for the night? $1000 and a six-pack of utility beer? What if the house had a very dark past, and the spirits inside were extremely restless? $10,000 and a case wine, perhaps? What if the house itself was literally alive, and could pretty much kill you whenever it was done playing sick tricks on your mind? $1,0...

Episode 141 - A Buzzed Kill Countdown - Top 10 Aliens We are back in full-force this week. J-Rog has returned from the beautiful Hawaiian Islands an honest man, we are back home at Ocean Recording Studio, and everything is right in the world. In fact, everything is almost a little TOO right in the world. It's got us feeling a little uneasy. Being horror fans, we like to find a comfortable balance...

Episode 140 - A Very Pacific Way To Die It's our second week without our sound architect, J-Rog, the producer extraordinaire. He is currently enjoying his second week in paradise with his beautiful new bride. Of course that sounds like a lovely time, but you guys should know by now that... well we worry sometimes. Call it byproduct of being horror fans, but our minds tend to go to the places that...

EP 139 - Revengers: Deadgame There seems to be a big focus on avenging these days. Avenging, to avenge, possibly carried out by an avenger of some sort. We’re not sure why everyone has this word on their lips, apparently some sort of huge cultural phenomenon or something, but all this talk has us thinking about the word Avenge and its more gritty cousin. REVENGE! They are somewhat interchangeable,...

Episode 138 - Till Death Do Us, Party! ...To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part. That’s kinda nice. Except for that whole “for better, for worse” part. What’s that all about? As horror fans our minds can go to some pretty dark places. Exactly how “worse” are we talking here...

Episode 137 - Going Full Wood It's our second, and final, week without our buddy Mike on the show, and we are really starting to feel the hurt without him here. We miss his musk. We miss his laughter, and the way that he always laughs at his own jokes. We miss the way he always ruins his jokes that actually land, by explaining them immediately after. God help us, we even miss his beautiful, stupid...

Episode 136 - Sip/Tuck Our good buddy Mike is off this week, and in full recovery mode. After years of dealing with an issue that has really affected his ability to live life to the fullest, he went under the knife to get it corrected. We were all pretty nervous about it, and wondered at times if it was something he really wanted to do. Just last week we said to him, "Listen man, it doesn't really...

Episode 135 - Dying Of Laughter Laughter is indeed the best medicine. When the chips are down, and the deck seems stacked against you, sometimes all you need is a good laugh. Your boss is being a jerk? Laugh it off. You get a speeding ticket? Laugh it off. An immortal being drains the life out of you through a hole in your neck? Chin up, pal! Torn to shreds by a pack of werewolves? Brush it off, a...

Episode 134 - Horror Of Biblical Proportions Life gets pretty hard, and things can seem pretty hopeless at times. If you’re a religious person, there is always one place you can turn in your time of need. Whether it be by picking up the Good Book, spending some quiet time praying, or perhaps indulging in a glass (or seven) of the sacrament, you can always turn to God. But what do you do when it se...

Episode 133 - Now You're A Man, A Mer Mer Man! “Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence...... of TERROR!” That’s not how that goes, but when you have an opportunity to lift a Zoolander line, you just make it work. Listen, we are simple men. Not very hard to please. We love and appreciate the beauty of all women, but we have to draw the line somewhere. We’re honestly not tryi...

Episode 132: To-be Or Not To-be Directors Spotlight: Tobe Hooper With a career spanning nearly five decades, Tobe Hooper definitely carved out a spot for himself in the annals of horror history. Whether he was introducing the world to a classic horror icon like Leatherface, propelling the careers of genre legends like Robert Englund, or working alongside industry giants like Steven Spielberg, Hoop...

Episode 131 - The Dark Brew-niverse The classic Universal monsters. Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolfman, Frankenstein's Monster, The Gillman, The Bride of Frankenstein. If you mention any of these names to a horror fan, they conjure up amazing memories of classic moments in horror cinema history. The dark, tragic, romantic, Gothic, sometimes sexy, and always horrifying imagery of those films has stood...

Episode 130 - Attack of the Killer Combos Before you freak out and start throwing away the contents of your snack cupboard, no we are not talking about the delicious cracker/pretzel treats that are stuffed with pizza flavored cheese product. When we say combos, we mean the unholy union of two or more creatures to create one finely tuned killing machine. You know, like a mix between Tiger and an Ow...

Episode 129 - The Art of the Kill This latest offering from The Buzzed Kill Podcast assembles two of the most immersive installations of horror artwork of the past decade. Each piece controversial in their own way, yet profoundly moving in execution. A haunting aura of existentialism surrounds this heterogeneous ensemble of horror personalities. An analysis of these works by The Buzzed Kill Podcas...

Episode 128 - The Details Are A Little Foggy There's a reason that we use the word 'fog' when we are describing things that aren't quite right. "I don't know, the details are kinda foggy" "I've been away for so long that it's really fogging up my memory" "Man, too many tequila sunrises last night. I woke up in a fog" "Dude we forgot to post our episode for two days. What the Fog is wrong with us?"...

Episode 127 - SNAP! CRACKLE! KILL! Hey guys!!! Jim from The Buzzed Kill Podcast here. I just wanted to jump on here to discuss a topic that is very important to me. Cereal. Breakfast Cereal. I hate it so much. Just thinking about it right now makes me want to take a knife and go stab every single box I can find... then burn down the store. Seriously, just murder every single box of breakfast cerea...

Episode 126 - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Oof. The Salem Witch Trials, amirite? Not exactly the proudest moment in American history. People would hunt “witches”, and the criteria for what made you a witch was pretty broad. You’re a married woman with no children? WITCH!!! You’re a middle-aged woman? WITCH!!! You're a woman with spoiled milk in your home? WITCH!!! You’re a..... woman? Definitely...

Episode 125 - Over The Hill, Time To Kill Getting old kinda sucks. Getting out of bed is a slow, painful process, our hair is falling out, our doctor says that if we don't stop "cramming our fat faces with pizza rolls and beer" then we're probably "going to die soon", and worst of all, for some reason whenever a group guys in their 30's try to play cops & robbers, someone always calls the real cop...

Episode 124 - Norse Mixology We'll be honest, as fans of the outdoors and beautiful landscapes, any of the Nordic countries seem like they would be a lovely place to go camping or hiking.... or drinking. However, as horror fans, we gotta say, we're a little torn on whether or not it's worth the risk. Sure, here in the States, we've got some creepy stuff going on; haunted hotels, phantom lights in...

Episode 123 - Secret Syncronicities In Cities In Sync With Syncronicities Three years ago we wrote down a list of seemingly random words. Mysterious emails, goblins, paranormal investigators, disappearing medical professionals, mothmen, conspiracies, prophecies, spirit boxes, Kentucky, Canada, Newkirk, taroh cards, abandoned train tunnel, spirit box, 3rd order, ink and black. We didn’t know why we...

Episode 122 - Mike Dies At The End Everybody has that one friend. The friend who, despite all of your desperate pleas, can never tell you about a movie without ruining the ending. However, for some reason, you keep talking to that person about movies. It is a hell of your own making, and you’ve convinced yourself that, because you love that devil so much, you don’t mind the burning. Well, guess wh...