The Scare Guy Show

ART the Clown is stalking HHN 2025! Watch the full HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS panel at Midsummer Scream 2025, featuring JOHN MURDY (HHN Hollywood), MICHAEL AIELLO (HHN Orlando), the Director of Terrifier DAMIEN LEONE, and the Producer of Terrifier PHIL FALCONE!

A group of friends sneak into an abandoned spinach canning factory to film a documentary on the legend of ‘The Sailor Man,’ who is said to haunt the factory and local docks, only to find out that the legend is all-too true. It's a dark, yet over-the-top new take on the classic spinach-loving Popeye character. We talk to two stars of this new film: "scream queen" Angela Relucio (Code...

How big is the Halloween Industry, and how quickly is it growing? This week on our BIG HALLOWEEN SHOW, we examine the Creepiest season of the year, with inside reports from Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando and Hollywood, Knotts Scary Farm, the LA Haunted Hayride, and frights from across the country–including a visit to Vegas for a bit of Tiki Halloween. From haunts, to mov...

An interview with the director of DEAR DAVID, the new horror thriller from Lionsgate, in THEATERS, ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL October 13, 2023. Based on the viral Twitter thread by BuzzFeed comic artist Adam Ellis. Shortly after comic artist Adam (Augustus Prew) responds to Internet trolls, he begins experiencing sleep paralysis — while an empty rocking chair moves in the corner of his apartment. As he...

Sigrid thinks she has met her perfect match with the charming and handsome Christian, but there is one catch—he lives with a man who dresses and acts like his pet dog. It’s genuinely freaky. But we soon learn that ‘‘puppy play” isn’t as innocent as it seems as Sigrid realizes she must fight for her life in this terrorizing tale that takes cosplaying and Furry-play to a whole new level. An intervie...

Get ready to scream.... with delight! The Scare Season is here, and no none does it better or BIGGER on the West Coast than Universal Studios Hollywood! We rank our most anticipated SCARES from the 8 Haunted Houses and the Terror Tram, plus 3 Scare Zones, 2 new live shows, and Harry Potter's Death Eaters! We've got it all here.

It's GOONIES meets PREDATOR! When their parents head out of town one Halloween weekend, an all-time rager of a teen house party turns to terror when aliens attack, forcing siblings Gary and his older sister Samantha to band together to survive the night. We talk with the film’s director and co-writer, JASON EISENER, and star CALEM MACDONAL.

Michael Myers is all over the place right now, and THE SCARE GUY crew is chasing him to some of the biggest events of the year: Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights (featuring the 1978 Halloween Tribute house), Los Angeles' Son of Monsterpalooza (tons of Halloween film stars), and HALLOWEEN ENDS, the final showdown between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. #halloweenends #halloweenhorrornights...

Universal's Halloween Horror Nights, Knott's Scary Farm, Howl-O-Scream, Screamfest, Son of Monsterpalooza, Michael Myers, Spirit Halloween Stores, and of course, the Great Pumpkin! We preview of the biggest events, haunts, TV specials, and traditions of Halloween 2022 -- everything that's SCARY FUN! the BEST time of the year!

THEY'RE HERE! As part of our "Summer of 1982" celebration, THE SCARE GUY crew takes a look back at the classic haunted house story POLTERGEIST. When 10-year-old Carol Anne Freeling is pulled from this world into another, her parents enlist the help of ghost-hunters and an exorcist  in this horror classic from director Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre films) and producer and screenwriter S...

To celebrate Shark Week 2022, we sit down with Andrew Traucki, the writer/director of new Great White shark thriller THE REEF: STALKED. In an effort to heal after witnessing her sister’s horrific murder, Nic travels to a tropical resort with her friends for a kayaking and diving adventure. Only hours into their expedition, the women are stalked and attacked by a great white shark. To survive, they...

It may be sweltering hot outside, but the Halloween Season officially kicks off with Southern California's MIDSUMMER SCREAM, billed as the largest Halloween and Horror convention in the country! We preview the guests, panels, and events. And then we break down the new trailer for Halloween Ends, starring Jamie Lee Curtis battling it out with her eternal foe, Michael Myers. Join us as we celebrate...

What if Jumanji was a drinking game? In the new horror-comedy film GATLOPP, a group of old friends reunite for a nostalgic evening of fun and games and decide to play a drinking game, but soon realize this game comes with supernatural stakes. If they can’t come together to win the game by sunrise, they will be forced to play for eternity—in hell. Our special guests for this episode are Alberto Bel...

Twenty-five years after the original series of murders in Woodsboro, a new Ghostface emerges, and Sidney Prescott must return to uncover the truth. This week we review and break down the latest SCREAM film with our special guest NATE RAGON, known for his work on this film, plus Scream 4, Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity, and Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire (2019). As an added t...

She’s the final girl who gave Freddy Krueger nightmares! It’s LISA WILCOX, who played ALICE in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and its sequel, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. Along with horror icon Robert Englund, Wilcox helped establish Freddy Krueger as central to the slasher horror craze of the 80s—fun, brutal and fearless. Here, Lisa discusses her time making the tw...

Halloween Season is in full swing, and this week we've got a triple-hitter of Halloween treats: FIRST, we talk with Matt McWilliams, director of ANGEL CITY HORROR, a new short film premiering at L.A.'s SCREAMFEST; then, we discuss the brand-new MUPPET'S HAUNTED MANSION; and finally, we finish the show with a celebration of the 55th anniversary of IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN, the ultimate...

It was the scene that changed horror movies forever! A young boy returned home from trick-or-treating, grabbed a kitchen knife, crept upstairs and STABBED his older sister to death in the iconic opening scene of the film that terrified America and forever changed the face of the Halloween holiday. Now, that older sister SPEAKS in this exclusive interview. She’s an icon of 70s fanboys. A legend of...

When a possessed pair of jeans begins to kill the staff of a trendy clothing store, it is up to Libby, an idealistic young salesclerk, to stop its bloody rampage. That film is SLAXX, a hilarious and grisly mix between SCREAM and THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, and it releases on VOD, Digital HD, and DVD on September 7. This week we are talking with the co-producer/co-writer Patricia Gomez Zlatar.

It's our fist ever HYPE LIST — everything you need to know for a "killer" Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights 30! With 10 mazes and 5 scare zones, it's the biggest event EVER! Beetlejuice. Bride of Frankenstein. Leatherface. Hill House. And tons of originals — PLUS, a celebration of 30 years of the best icons to ever haunt the event (Jack is back!). See if our rankings match yours!

It’s X-File meets Million Dollar Listing on Syfy’s brand-new series SurrealEstate! Real estate agent Luke Roman is the owner of The Roman Agency, a boutique residential real estate brokerage specializing in "metaphysically engaged" properties, also known as haunted houses. Along with his team, Luke takes on the houses nobody else can or will. Our guests this week are Luke Roman himself, the actor...

A 2021 HAUNT PREVIEW: Everything we know so far about the 2021 Halloween Season: Universal's Halloween Horror Nights in both Orlando and Hollywood, Knott's Scary Farm, Howl-O-Scream, Disney's slightly modified after-hours events, Midsummer Scream, and More!

What happens when you cross the best of POWER RANGERS with the bloodiest, goriest aspects of Troma? You get the incredible PSYCHO GOREMAN, a splatter-fest that’s equal parts horror and comedy, with a bit of 90s-era nostalgia thrown in. This week we speak with MATTHEW NINABER, the star inside the monster suit of this galactic bloodbath. Crazy B-movie chaos ensues!

The summer just keeps getting scarier, and our guest on this week’s show is one reason why! You’ve seen her on the long-running CBS hit HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, Grey’s Anatomy, The Resident, NCIS and a whole lot more. You’ve also seen her in the films American Pie: American Reunion, Authors Anonymou s, and Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey , but this summer, CHARLENE AMOIA is helping to put a bit of...

It’s a PACKED episode as we kick off our fourth SCARE GUY season! Join the Scare Guy for a freewheelin’ show featuring interviews with Darren Lynn Bousman , the director of SPIRAL, and SAW 2, 3 and 4; Simon Barret , director of new horror film SEANCE, starring Suki Waterhouse; a preview of Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood and upcoming horror conventions; a hilarious Halloween video from Turkey Do...

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