The Horror Sanctum Podcast

Today on The Horror Sanctum Podcast we cover the divisive John Carpenter film Ghosts of Mars. Set on a colonized Mars in the 22nd century, the film follows a squad of police officers and a convicted criminal who fight against the residents of a mining colony who have been possessed by the ghosts of the planet's original inhabitants. Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channe...

Today on The Horror Sanctum we are discussing the wonderful 2017 time loop slasher film Happy Death Day! The film follows college student Tree Gelbman, who is murdered on the night of her birthday but begins reliving the day repeatedly, at which point she sets out to find the killer and stop her death. Don't forget to like and subscribe! Follow us on Instagram. Join our exclusive Facebook Grou...

Today in the sanctum, you know what you did last summer, and so do we. That's right, today we bring the late 90's slasher boom classic, I Know What You Did Last Summer, to the sanctum in all its 90's glory. 4 hot early 20-somethings playing 4 hot late teen somethings at the peak of their 90's powers, Jennifer Love Hewitt in peak Party of Five fandom, Sarah Michelle Gellar in her fi...

Today in the sanctum we welcome back our friend, Justin Beahm of Reverend Entertainment, who helmed the wonderful special edition release of 2019's Haunt for Ronin Flix where he is now on staff as producer. From the Writer/Directors of A Quiet Place, 65, and Heretic, Haunt is a great little gem of a horror film focused on haunted houses gone wrong, produced by Eli Roth. Justin finally helped t...

Today on The Horror Sanctum we are the new horror video game adaptation Until Dawn! The story revolves around a group of friends trapped in a time loop, where mysterious foes chase and kill them in gruesome ways, and they must survive until dawn to escape it. Don't forget to like and subscribe! Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our...

Today in the sanctum, we tackle David Fincher's neo noir masterpiece, Seven (1995) starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, and Gwyneth Paltrow., with our gal pal Julia Blakemore. It's a dark but wild ride covering all the deadly sins. So, strap in and let’s find out what’s in the box together. Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast....

Today in the horror sanctum we go back to summer camp, Gen Z horror summer camp that is with that tall skinny kid from Stranger Things and his pal who directed and wrote this homage to 80's camp slashers, Hell of a Summer. So, lather up your sunscreen, roll up your cut off jeans, and dive into the lake with us for some fun summer scares. Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our c...

Full disclosure. This was a rare live show for us, and we had some technical issues, so enjoy this bonus where Jay and John sound great! The show was on Fright Night, the 1985 vampire classic starring Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowell. It's primo 80's in all the best ways. It was the first time Kelan had ever seen it, and we get a run-in from a real life vampire on the show. So check it out, and f...

Today on The Horror Sanctum we are talking Clown In A Cornfield, the newest hit slasher film based on the novel by Adam Cesare. This is the story of a new girl in a fading midwestern town in which Frendo the  clown , a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying killer. Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebo...

Today in the horror sanctum we are joined for the first time by our newest surprise co-host, and we are talking Deadstream, the 2022 Shudder original found footage horror comedy that is a loving homage to the Evil Dead franchise, directed by married couple, Joseph and Vanessa Winter. It's a wild and fun ride full of deadites and social media likes, so strap a go pro to your head and join us in...

This week in the sanctum we talk all things AI and when relationships get overly complicated in the recent thriller starring Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher, Companion. It's a tight and taught, action-packed flick with nods to genre classics like Terminator 2. Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @theho...

After having Psycho Goreman himself, Matthew Ninaber, bring his new movie, A Knight's War, into the Sanctum, we decided to dish out Psycho Goreman from our hallowed bucket of mystery films and dish on it. This was Kelan's first watch ever... Will he love it, hate it, or meh it? Tune in to find out on this fun romp through the galaxy with lot of splatter to go around. Follow us on Instagram...

Joe Castro is a living legend to independent horror filmmaking as a practical special effects make up artist, director, producer, screenwriter...the man has done it all and continues to be prolific in the genre we all know and love. He is our esteemed guest in the sanctum this week where we discuss much of his career and a little about his most recent film he's promoting, Unspeakable, Beyond t...

Today in the sanctum, we are joined by our friend, actress and sfx artist, Kaylie Mahoney Guerrero who brought one of her favorite films of all time for us to talk about, the 1973 William Friedkin directed classic, The Exorcist. It's the film that terrified moviegoers of our parents' generation, but how does it hold up to the scrutiny of the sanctum? Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on...

We are honored to have a true Ice Man on the show with us in the sanctum today, Shawn Ashmore, promoting his most recent horror film, It Feeds (2025), directed and written by Chad Archibald. It is a real creepy one, kinda like It Follows meets Insidious. A real good time. Shawn also talks with us about some of his other career genre including Adam Green's Frozen (2009) and The Ruins (2008). Fo...

This week on the Sanctum, we take on the latest dark comedy horror sensation, The Monkey, based on a Stephen King short story that definitely has no relation to the 1988 film, Monkey Shines which is based on a Non-Stephen King Novel, even though TJ for reasons unknown to all thought it was somehow. No, this Osgood Perkins film is bonkers in tone and is like a dark comedy version of Final Destinati...

Today on the sanctum, we bring for your viewing consideration the 63 minute long youtube found footage movie produced by a couple of pranksters about a couple of pranksters (Very Meta, huh?) except their pranks go horribly and sometimes comically wrong. How wrong, does it go?...you may ask. Well, check out our hot and variable takes on this 2024 found footage film, and witness a good prank gone ba...

Today in the sanctum we welcome Director Matthew Ninaber, known to horror fans as the man behind the makeup of Psycho Goreman, and star Kristen Kaster to talk about their latest film available now on Video On Demand TVOD services, A Knight's War. A Knight's War draws on heavy influences from everything from popular video games and The Edge of Tomorrow to Dante's Inferno, The Bible, and...

On this lucky charmed kinda day in the Sanctum we celebrate with all the wee lads and lasses the ol' day of good ol' Saint Patrick in the only way we know how...with goofy gore and mayhem led by Willow, I mean Wicket the Ewok, I mean Larry the Leprechaun...whatever his name is...he does have a name right?...he's not just a leprechaun, that's gotta be some kind of racist I'd ass...

We are happy today to have our guest, Ryan Barton Grimley, creator, actor, writer, and director of Hawk and Rev, Vampire Slayers and the very personal thriller, Listen Carefully. Ryan is a funny guy with good instincts and has made a couple interesting and fun films that we were happy to chat with him about. Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum pod...

In this now third remake/retelling of the 1941 Universal Horror Monster property, The Wolf Man, director/writer Leigh Whannell of such better movies as the original Saw, Insidious, and the wonderful Invisible Man remake from 2020 gets to take his shot at rebooting an iconic monster and THE werewolf icon of all werewolf icons. Does he stick the landing, or is it utter drivel? Join us in the sanctum...

For the first time ever in the history of the show, the guys take on 2 films and a little bit of a TV show follow up when we tackle 2014's Creep and the direct sequel from 2017, Creep 2. We also touch on the recent Creep Tapes without a formal review for that. All films and the show stars the incomparable king of the mumblecore genre, Mark Duplass. These are two of the creepiest films you'...

Today on the sanctum, Jay and TJ had the pleasure of chatting with the director of Fried Barry and Street Trash 2024. Wild movies and a fun chat with a certified cool cat and wild man of the horror genre. The horror sanctum says check it out! Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow u...

For this week, we honor the history of Valentine's Horror films with the seminal holiday classic early slasher film, My Bloody Valentine. For this historic entry into the podcast, we welcome our friend Melissa Ann, owner and curator of Horror Geek Life. So, get ready for a collaboration that will tear your heart out with tons of Pick Axe Fu, Canadian love triangles, coal mines, and BDSM with c...

It is our honor and privilege to welcome genre director and Powerman 5,000 frontman, Spider One to the sanctum to discuss a little bit about his music and a lot bit about his films Little Bites, Bury The Bride, and Allegoria. It was a fun chat with a unique and intriguing artist with a fun cameo at the end. Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podc...