The Horrorble People's Podcast

We're back! Alix's birthday month is here, and it's going to get weird! This week the team takes a look at two of her favorite things rolled up into one okay film: Halloween Haunts and found footage! That's right, we're covering the indie hit The Houses October Built! Follow us as we take a deep dive into the history of haunts, a solid play by play and a look at how this one JUST missed the found...

Monster May concludes with a look at the first summer blockbuster, which put Steven Spielberg on the map and changed the industry forever: It's 1975's JAWS! Join the team as they take a look at the early inspirations for the novel/film, America's fear of sharks, why sharks are cool, and one rather long dick joke (or several dick jokes strung together... we're not sure - thanks Dick Richardson). Ho...

This week the Horrorble People's Podcast team is tackling the one who started it all... Godzilla! That's right, Anthony and Alix are covering the 2016 movie Shin Godzilla! Join them as they discuss the different ERAS of this franchise, Kaiju films, as well as the production that somehow made this movie with a cool 15 million dollars. Check it out!  Also... Pay tribute to Godzilla and give us 5 sta...

For the 80th episode of The Horrorble People's Podcast we felt it was necessary to show some love to the most famous of the 8-legged creatures with Arachnophobia - directed by Frank Marshall! Continuing the tradition of monster may, we dive into a history of spiders in Hollywood, dwell on an absolutely absurd spider love making scene, and find plenty of moments to gush about John Freaking Goodman!...

As if we needed any other excuses to profess our love for Lizzy Caplan, this week the team is taking on an internet sensation turned blockbuster with a hugely talented team behind the camera: 2008's CLOVERFIELD, directed by Matthew Reeves. Join the team as they look at how a teaser trailer attached to Transformers sent the "MySpace" generation into a frenzy, a frenzy that eventually spawned a loos...

This week Anthony and Alix tackle....French pronunciation? Just kidding! It's just Anthony. The Horrorble People's Podcast is covering Alexandre Aja's feature film debut, High Tension from 2003! Your favorite duo is also talking New French Extremity and why this movie is the perfect combination of two genres the podcast has already covered at length! This episode has it all, including a heart to h...

October is here in April as the Horrorble People's Podcast partakes in its bi-annual tradition of examining the madness behind Mr. Myers. This time the team takes on a fan favorite, but will it be one of ours? Yes, we're talking Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers! Come with us on a journey exploring the exit of John Carpenter and Debra Hill, a rushed production based on an 11 day script, and...

"High school: just a mindless little breeders' machine." This week on The Horrorble People's Podcast Anthony and Alix cover the podcast's first werewolf film! They discuss Ginger Snaps and it's production and rise through cult classic territory, as well as their relationship to werewolf movies as a whole. What took this movie so long to get made? (It takes place in 1993) How long did it take casti...

N4L Gaming joins the team this week to take a look at one of the greatest sequels AND one of the greatest remakes in gaming: RESIDENT EVIL 2 (1998 and 2019)!  We go through the insane development of the first game that got so bad the team had to restart from the ground up! We take a look at how this instant success created one of the biggest hype trains in the industry and how Capcom used everythi...

It's no April Fools Joke! The team tackles YOUR VOTE this week! You asked for it, and who are we to deny you? Anthony and Alix are covering Eli Roth's directorial debut, Cabin Fever from 2003! The plethora of early 2000's humor refreshes the team and brings some much needed levity considering the current state of affairs. It's a slightly delirious week, but then again, when is it not? So strap in...

Wall Street, Yuppies, Consumerism, Masculinity, and murderous psychopathic outbursts? We're topping off March with a BIG episode, with a production almost as maddening as the film itself: We're talking Mary Harron's 2000 adaptation of AMERICAN PSYCHO! Join as we look at the rise of author Bret Easton Ellis, and how his super controversial novel shook up the literary community, and created a figure...

The season of Guillermo Del Toro continues with what might be his greatest work: the 2006 masterpiece PAN'S LABYRINTH! And oh is the team enthusiastic about this one! Anthony and Alix dive into the laborious process that started from sketches in 1993 and ended in the tears of many viewers who were blown away by this dark fairy tale. The team are not without their signature flubs, but perhaps only...

The Horrorble People's Podcast continues to celebrate Anthony's birthday month as we approach the day in question by covering another entry to the franchise that he shares a birthday with, Friday the 13th...Part III! Join the birthday boy and Alix as they tackle this addition and try to figure out just why it doesn't quite... Mesh. In the meantime, they discuss Spongebob, David Bowie (when don't t...

How about a little October in March? We're kicking off Anthony's birthday month with a dark, angsty film filled with time travel, 80's music, and TWO Gyllenhaals! Yes, we're talking about DONNIE DARKO, Directed by Richard Kelly.  Join us as we take a look how two national tragedies almost turned this directorial debut into a forgotten indie... Until Blockbuster and the internet came to save the da...

The month of ~loooove~ comes to a steamy close this week on The Horrorble People's Podcast! The team plus very special guest Mars from Gorefriends discusses the groundbreaking, beautiful, and dreamy film, It Follows from 2014! Which of our fearless hosts had the same nightmare as the director? Which male character sucked the most (spoiler alert: it's hard to pick)? Is the movie even REALLY about S...

Where do we begin?! The aesthetics? The plot?! The CAST?! What is perhaps our biggest WTF so far this season, Anthony and Alix tackle Tony Scott's debut film THE HUNGER from 1983. Why did this movie look like a music video the entire time? Is that SERIOUSLY DAVID BOWIE? And yes... Bauhaus does make an appearance. There's a lot to unpack here and we aren't sure if it's for the better. The team give...

Love month continues this week as The Horrorble People's Podcast cover not one, but TWO holiday appropriate slasher films: My Bloody Valentine AND My Bloody Valentine 3D!  We bring back the "Remake vs OG" format to cover the journey of a film franchise that... failed to turn into a franchise - TWICE. There's also plenty of reminiscing on Alix's part as one of these stars Jensen Ackles! What do eac...

Welcome to February! It's a divisive episode this week on HPP! Did this Victorian Gothic horror love story amalgamation almost break up the podcast? (no) What about bring Anthony and Alix's friendship together? (also no, they fight the Most in this episode) But you know where they do agree? David Bowie is the GOAT and Edgar Allen Poe is the Goth GOAT. It's the return to Guillermo Del Toro and that...

We're back with N4L Gaming to bring you a deep dive (oh god) into this auteur driven 2007 game, Ken Levine's Bioshock! And it's scary! Anthony, Alix, and Alex go through the early developmental struggles and how this financially strapped studio ended up with total creative freedom to create a truly horrifying piece of gaming. Can games be art? What makes Bioshock scary? All this and more in our la...

Where to even start with this one... This movie has it all! Horror movie tropes flipped and reversed in the wildest way, uncomfortable twist and turns, and dare we say it, breath taking stressful moments. That's right, we're talking about Don't Breathe from 2016!  Anthony and Alix dive into a brief history of home invasion films, as the simple production of a film that had a simple goal: scare the...

This week the team takes on a dark piece of media with a dark history behind it. Anthony and Alix take a deep dive into the legacies of Bruce and Brandon Lee, and how tragedy struck both in the prime of their careers. Also, the production was kind of madness. Yes, we're talking about THE CROW! Was the Lee Family cursed? Is the franchise cursed? DJ Joins as the team dives into the story of The Drag...

It's the end of the early Chucky era! This week the team takes on what might be the most divisive film the this killer doll franchise: Child's Play 3 - directed by Jack Bender.  Anthony and Alix take a look back at the rushed production for this third installment, as well as the media frenzy that caused it to be banned from the UK until 2002. We ask questions like: Is Andy actually an anime protag...

The team at The Horrorble People's Podcast is bringing in the new decade with a new style of episode for you: Anthony and Alix bring you a look at BOTH versions of THE HILLS HAVE EYES (and only one of them is hungover... it's Anthony)!  Join the team as they take you through Wes Craven's early inspirations for the film, like the legend of Sawney Bean, and how the nearly broke director turned his f...

MERRY CHRISTMAS! For our last episode of the year we're going big: Tim Burton origins, the advent of the Disney Renaissance, and early 2000's goth culture as we bring you Tim Burton's THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, directed by Henry Selick.  Anthony and Alix dive deep into the Burton's early days as a Disney animator, his eventual ousting and rise through Hollywood, and how such a rise allowed hi...

Oh boy, this one is weird. Join Anthony and Alix as they drink away their problems and go back to aliens this week with The Fourth Kind from 2009! In a mix of documentary and reenactment style film, horrible acting (except for one main character who we love), and alien hijinks the likes of which we have never seen. Is it an owl? Is it aliens? Is it real? Is it fake? Who cares because we didn't! Th...