The Complete Guide to Horror Movies

There may have been some miscommunication in our transmission meaning we accidentally reviewed different versions of The Signal by complete accident! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The Signal (2007) and The Signal (2014) in our second (unofficial) Versus. episode. The Signal is a 2007 American horror film written and directed by independent filmmakers David Bruckner, Dan Bush and Jacob Gen...

She slays! The Dolls are the dolls! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss M3GAN, the 2023 American science fiction horror film directed by Gerard Johnstone, written by Akela Cooper from a story by Cooper and James Wan (who also produced with Jason Blum), and starring Allison Williams and Violet McGraw, with Amie Donald physically portraying M3GAN and Jenna Davis voicing the character. Its plot fo...

The game begins! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Ready or Not, the 2019 horror/comedy that stars Australian legend Samara Weaving. It follows Grace (Weaving), a newlywed who is hunted by her spouse's wealthy Satan-worshipping family as part of a wedding night ritual. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Instagram ↪...

He's got a heart as cold ice!   Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Jack Frost, the 1997 American direct-to-video black comedy slasher film written and directed by Michael Cooney.  It takes place in the fictional town of Snowmonton, where (on the week before Christmas) a truck carrying serial killer Jack Frost (Scott MacDonald) to his execution crashes into a genetics truck. The genetic materia...

Santa is coming to town! Run! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, the 2010 Finnish fantasy action horror comedy film written and directed by Jalmari Helander about people living near Korvatunturi who discover the secret behind Santa Claus. The film is based on the 2003 short film Rare Exports Inc. and its 2005 sequel Rare Exports: The Official Safety Instructions...

All you have to do is push the button. Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The Box, the 2009 mystery thriller by writer/director Richard Kelly that adapts an eighties Twilight Zone episode for the big screen with mixed results. The film stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple who receive a box from a mysterious man (played by Frank Langella) who offers them one million dollars if they...

Forget fictional made up horror, this is real scary sh*t. Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss 'The Nightmare', the 2015 documentary that focuses on people suffering from sleep paralysis, a phenomenon where people find themselves temporarily unable to move, speak, or react to anything while they are falling asleep or awakening. Occasionally this paralysis will be accompanied by physical experien...

The showdown of creepy smiles begins! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Smile, the most successful horror film of 2022 and Truth or Dare? The 2016 Blumhouse success in which each movie follows creepy af smiles, demons, curses and more! Which movie will win? Find out! Smile stars Sosie Bacon as a therapist named Rose Cotter, who, after witnessing the bizarre suicide of a patient, goes through...

Damn Lindsay, save some bad stripping for the rest of us! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss the 2007 cult film 'I Know Who Killed Me' starring Lindsay Lohan as Aubrey Fleming, a young woman who is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer. After surviving the abduction, she insists that her identity is that of another woman. I Know Who Killed Me was released by TriStar Pictures on Jul...

Jean Jacket is too classy for this world. Alien Superstar. Whip whip! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss NOPE, Jordan Peele's third foray into the horror genre, starring Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as horse-wrangling siblings attempting to capture evidence of an unidentified flying object. Appearing in supporting roles are Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea, and Keith David. Follow...

I don't need eyes to see, I felt you touching me Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Event Horizon, the 1997 sci-fi horror tinged thriller starring Sam Neill and Laurence Fishburne. Set in 2047, the movie follows a crew of astronauts sent on a rescue mission after a missing spaceship, the Event Horizon, spontaneously appears in orbit around Neptune, only to discover that a sinister force has co...

It's just a number! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The Number 23, the 2007 film starring Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen and directed by Joel Schumacher in which Carrey stars as a man who becomes obsessed with the 23 enigma once he reads about it in a strange book that seemingly mirrors his own life. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪...

The ultimate escape room awaits in Room 1408! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss 1408, the 2007 film adaptation of the Stephen King short story starring Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack Spoilers ahead!   Mike Enslin is a cynical and skeptical author of niche books debunking supernatural events, in which he has no belief. While promoting his latest book, he receives an anonymous postcard depic...

Karen takes on Japan!   Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The Grudge, the 2004 J-horror film starring Buffy aka Sarah Michelle Gellar.    Spoilers ahead!   The Grudge describes a curse that is born when someone dies in the grip of extreme rage or sorrow, created where the person died. Those who encounter the curse die, and the curse is reborn repeatedly, passing from victim to victim in an en...

This ain't no regular driver reviver baby! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Rest Stop, the first direct-to-video horror film released by Warner Studios' "Raw Feed" imprint on October 17, 2006. It was written and directed by John Shiban. Jess picks up his girlfriend, Nicole, to head out to California in his convertible. On the way, Nicole complains she needs to urinate, and she urges Jess to...

And I thought my parents were crazy... Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The People Under the Stairs, the 1991 film directed by Wes Craven that is partially based on a true story. Poindexter "Fool" Williams is a resident of a Los Angeles ghetto. He and his family are being evicted from their apartment by their landlords the Robesons. The Robesons, who are believed to be a married couple, call...

Rabbits are the new pennywise. Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Donnie Darko, the 2001 cult film directed by Richard Kelly and starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Set in October 1988, the film follows Donnie Darko, an emotionally troubled teenager who inadvertently escapes a bizarre accident by sleepwalking. He has visions of Frank, a mysterious figure in a rabbit costume who informs him that the worl...

Starring Hugh Grant, the personification of teeth himself! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The Lair of the White Worm, the 1988 British horror comedy film loosely based on the 1911 Bram Stoker novel of the same name and drawing upon the English legend of the Lambton Worm. The film was written and directed by Ken Russell and stars Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi. Angus Flint (Pe...

Teenagers scare the living sh*t out of me! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Eden Lake, the British 2008 horror in which Nursery school teacher Jenny Greengrass and her boyfriend Steve Taylor journey to a remote lake in the wooded English countryside. Steve has visited the spot before, and remembers it as an open area, but since his visit the land has been bought up by a development company....

Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss the first season of Chucky, the sequel television series in the Child's Play/Chucky franchise.  The series takes place after the events of Cult of Chucky. In the city of Hackensack, New Jersey, 14-year-old Jake Wheeler buys a Good Guy doll at a yard sale to use it in his contemporary art project. He later discovers that the doll is possessed by the soul of se...

You forgot the first rules with remakes, don't f*** with the original! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Child's Play, the much misaligned and hated reboot in the Child's Play/Chucky franchise. Multinational Kaslan Corporation has just launched Buddi, a revolutionary line of high-tech dolls designed to be lifelong companions to their owners, learning from their surroundings, and acting accord...

Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Cult of Chucky, the direct-to-DVD and streaming sequel to Curse of Chucky (2013) and the seventh instalment in the Child's Play/Chucky franchise.   In 2017, Andy Barclay has been torturing the disembodied head of Chucky for four years. Meanwhile, wheelchair-bound Nica Pierce has been in a mental institution after being framed by Chucky for the murders of her...

Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Curse of Chucky, the 2013 direct-to-DVD sequel that reignited the Chucky franchise as it returned to a more horror centric film. In 2013, a Good Guy doll called Chucky mysteriously arrives in the mail at the isolated home of paraplegic Nica Pierce and her mother Sarah. Sarah repeatedly and compulsively paints pictures of the same flowers. Later that night, Sa...

Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Seed of Chucky, the 2004 sequel that takes a more comedic-horror turn for the Chuck franchise. The film is set six years after Bride of Chucky and follows a young doll named Glen, the son of Chucky and Tiffany, resurrecting his parents, causing chaos. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitte...

Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Bride of Chucky, the 1998 sequel that takes a more comedic-horror turn for the Chuck franchise. Tiffany Valentine, a former lover and accomplice of serial killer Charles Lee Ray, bribes a police officer into giving her the dismembered parts of a children's doll—which Ray's soul inhabited—from an evidence locker before murdering him. Believing that Ray's soul...