The Horror Sanctum Podcast

On this special episode of The Horror Sanctum, we are joined by film producer Travis Ayers (Cyst, The Christmas Tapes, Adjust Your Tracking, Infrared), and we discussed one of his favorite films, Angel, the 1984 exploitation classic. It has a serial killer in it. Joe Bob Briggs did it on a Halloween Special on The Last Drive-In, so it counts as horror to us. Follow Travis Ayers on Instagram @Travi...

In this episode, the boys break down the most recent entry in the long-running Scream Franchise, Scream 6. The boys have lots of differing opinions on this particular film and do a super deep dive into breaking down all the ins and outs of the film and their perspectives on it. It is a fun conversation. Follow us on instagram and subscribe on youtube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast....

On our very special 38th episode of The Horror Sanctum we got the rare opportunity to get in on the press tour for a new theatrical release film, Slotherhouse, and got to do a nice interview with Screenplay Writers Bradley Fowler and Cady Lanigan. We actually got to watch the film that drops officially in theaters on August 30th. Drop what you're doing and go watch it now if it's playing i...

On this very special episode, we are joined by TJ from the band, The Nearly Deads to talk about one of her favorite films of all time, The silence of the Lambs. Silence of the Lambs was the first horror film to win the coveted Best Picture Oscar and took home 5 Oscars that year including Director, Actress, Actor, and Score. Starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in his most infamous role, Silen...

In this episode, the boys break down everyone's favorite cyborg robot children's playmate that goes psycho and starts offing people one-by-one film, M3gan, sometimes known as Megan. Produced in 2022 and released in the U.S. on January 6th, 2023, Megan is basically what would happen if you combined The Terminator with Chucky and then put it in the frame of a middle school girl who does murderous Ti...

We were honored to sit down with the legend himself, the incomparable Clint Howard and talk for a solid hour about his career, everything from Andy Griffith and Gentle Ben to Evilspeak, Ice Cream Man, and working with Rob Zombie on multiple pictures. It was a great conversation! Follow us on instagram and subscribe on youtube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Faceb...

This week we sat down with actor, Vito Trigo (Troma films: Eating Miss Campbell, Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High 1 & 2), and we talked about perhaps the most polarizing horror film in years, 2022's wrap up to the David Gordon Green trilogy, Halloween Ends. We talked the good, the bad, the ugly, and the outright confusing. It was a great conversation! Follow us on instagram and subscribe on youtu...

On this very special episode, we got to sit down with the very talented John Harrison who was a protege of George Romero in the early days and worked on such classic films as Creepshow and Day of the Dead as the 1st Assistant Director and composer. He directed many episodes of the Tales From The Darkside series as well as the 1990 Film, Tales from The Darkside. He directed multiple episodes of the...

On this episode, the gang is joined by Nashville market Horror Host, the legendary Dr. Gangrene. You can view Dr. Gangrene's horror show every week on the NECAT Roku channel every Saturday night at 9 PM CST. Our topic for today's show is the 1982 classic that some call the greatest horror anthology film of all time, George Romero's Creepshow. In this love letter to the EC Comics of the 1950's that...

On this very special experimental episode of The Horror Sanctum, we attempted a live audio commentary with a fellow member of our @thechurchhorrorsanctum Exclusive Facebook Group, Jessi Loveland of the 1987 classic, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors. We had fun doing it, hope you have fun listening along. It definitely pairs best with the film as a watch along. Follow us on Instagram...

This is our inaugural live podcast at a horror convention, The Bride of Frankencon in Knoxville, Tennessee. The sound is not as pristine and perfect as you're used to hearing because we were short one microphone and were just figuring stuff out on the fly. Overall, it turned out pretty well, and we all had a blast talking to Brian Bremer from such films as Pumpkinhead, Society, Spontaneous Combust...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the podcasts, we brought Jaws into the Horror Sanctum along with our pal, Steven Tobi, from Nashville based rock band, The Nearly Deads, to discuss it and dissect it with us. This is the original Steven Spielberg helmed 1975 classic that is 48 years young this summer. It's a perfect film for the 4th of July, and we had a blast chatting it up with S...

On this very special interview episode, we talked with the legendary George Hardy, known mostly for his iconic role as the Dad in the cult horror film from 1990 that once held the coveted Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) title of Worst Movie of All Time, Troll 2! George was also involved in the making of The Best Worst Movie (2009) Documentary about the film Troll 2 and its cult legacy. Since then,...

In this episode, the boys breakdown the severely under-appreciated release from earlier this year, Renfield (2023), starring Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Hoult, and Awkwafina. This is a fun movie. Nic Cage playing a crazy Dracula...what's not to love? We had fun breaking it down and giving our review. Follow us on instagram and subscribe on youtube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join ou...

In this episode, the guys talk with the great Brian Bremer who you may know from such films as Pumpkinhead (1988), the directorial debut of SFX wizard, Stan Winston, Society (1989), the feature film directorial debut of Brian Yuzna (Re-Animator), Spontaneous Combustion (1989), directed by Tobe Hooper, and Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker (1991), amongst many others. Brian was a great gue...

Knock, Knock...Who's there you ask? The Horror Sanctum with special guest Nash Hulse bringing one of his personal favorite movie picks to the Sanctum, 1977's Death Game. This version was itself a remake of a 1973 film with a very different vibe, Little Miss Innocence which was later remade again in 1987 as a hardcore porn. This 1977 version was remade in 2011 by horror auteur Eli Roth with Keanu R...

On this special episode of The Horror Sanctum, the boys sat down with Butch Patrick, the beloved child actor most known for playing the role of Eddie Munster in the 1964-66 television series, "The Munsters" and the 1966 film, "Munsters Go Home." Follow us on instagram @thehorrorsanctumpodcast, subscribe to our youtube channel @thehorrorsanctumpodcast, and join our exclusive Facebook Group @thechur...

On this episode of the Horror Sanctum, the boys welcome our special guest, Pastor Andy Mahoney, the lead pastor of Riversgate Church in Portland, Oregon as we break down the 2023 M. Night Shyamalan film, Knock at the Cabin, based on the book, "The Cabin at the End of the World," by Paul Tremblay. The film stars 5-time former WWE World Champion turned Marvel action hero and brooding actor extraordi...

The Co-Founder of the Frankencon and upcoming Bride of Frankencon horror conventions in the Knoxville, Tennessee area, Richard Ewell comes on the pod to talk with the guys about his love of horror, how got into the horror convention scene and of course all things Bride of Frankencon. Bride of Frankencon is happening June 9th and 10th 2023 at the Hilton Knoxville Airport. For tickets and informatio...

The whole gang is here and, for once, actually all watched a movie while it's still current and playing in theaters, so of course we had to hop on the band wagon and do a review show for it to get that sweet, sweet internet buzz everyone's always talking about. Evil Dead Rise is the 5th entry in the Evil Dead franchise that is a thing of legend in the horror community. This will mark the 2nd Ash-l...

On this very special episode of The Horror Sanctum, we got to chat it up with Matthew G. Taylor who you may know as Nemesis from Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Chongo from Detroit Rock City, Pacific Rim, Gothika, and more! It's a fun hang and convo. For more fun hangs and convos, subscribe (also rate and review) wherever you get your podcasts. Also, follow us on Instagram @thehorrorsanctumpodcast. Joi...

In this very special episode, Lena Scissorhands, from the Moldovan metal band, Infected Rain, sat down with us to discuss her favorite horror film of all time, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). We discuss our experiences with Kubrick's masterpiece and only true foray into the pure horror genre, an adaptation of a classic Stephen King novel that famously is hated by the author and deviates from...

On this very special episode of The Horror Sanctum, we got to chat it up with the great John Brennan who you may know as a Composer, Production Manager, Music Supervisor, and Actor on The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs which air's on AMC's Shudder Streaming service, beginning their 5th season on Friday April 21, 2023. John has also done extensive production work for Troma, working alongside the...

Ki Ki Ki Ma Ma Ma.  Listen up campers, we are going back to Camp Blood at Crystal Lake with the Friday the 13th Tribute Film, Victim No More and are joined by special guests, Director Bob Heckman, James Taffurelli who played Jason Voorhees, and star and 2nd Unit Director, Catherine Mary Stewart.  This is a fun conversation about one of the best fan-produced short films of the Friday the 13th franc...

On this very special bonus episode of The Horror Sanctum we had the privilege of chatting with the lovely Catherine Mary Stewart, known to genre fans by her starring roles in Night of the Comet, the Nick Castle directed The Last Starfighter, and more recently for Directing 2nd Unit and starring in the Friday the 13th Tribute Film, Victim No More.  We also discuss some other roles from her storied...