The Silver Scream

Welcome back to The Silver Scream, don't let the title fool you...there isn't a Cat People in this movie. Instead we get a lovely, oddly personal, tale about childhood imagination and the ghost of our dad's ex-wife. The Curse of the Cat People (1944) takes place 6 years after the first film. Oliver Reed and Alice are married and have a daughter, Amy. Amy is a creative, whimsical child who struggle...

  It's Cat Girl Summer 2025   Welcome back to The Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. Sometimes we change it up and add a theme on top. It's Summer time and we're feeling shifty, so we're watching some movies about ladies who turn into cats. Join us this week as we discuss one of the original horror smash hits, Jacques Tourneur's Cat People.   Irena is...

Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies! This week we aren't doing that. Instead, we are just having a quick conversation about The Academy Awards, upcoming episodes, and other movie related stuff!   Topics of discussion include: Courtney's Wicked thoughts, Alyssa's most anticipated horror film of 2025, Michelle Trachtenberg's iconic Truth or...

Bury your gays? Not in this house!   Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. This week we are talking about the 2023 queer indie-horror, "My Animal" directed by Jacqueline Castel. This film stars two powerhouse nonbinary actors in a sapphic hazy daydream turned nightmare. Heather is a talented hockey player and closeted werewolf, her lonely...

Self-Respect. Self-Advocacy. Sexy Monster.   These are a few of the many wonderful things found in Caroline Lindy's film Your Monster, and we're here to talk about it!    Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends, and sometimes three friends, try to find some good werewolf movies. Is Your Monster a werewolf movie? We really can't say…we also really don't CARE! Because this movie is...

In this house, we respect ALL Night-Bitches!    Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends, and sometimes three friends, try to find some good werewolf movies. To say NightBitch counts as a werewolf movie is to know your history of dogs in werewolf films. This film is an excellent character study about changing, generational trauma, self-discovery, and self-empowerment. The followin...

This is part 2 of our Season 3 premiere; Spoiler alert for Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man (2025) incoming! Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends (and sometimes four friends) try to find some good werewolf movies. We're picking up exactly where we left off in Part 1; Listen in as we go over the details and decisions that made Wolf Man (2025) a unique addition to werewolf cinema! Than...

  It's finally here! The long anticipated Wolf Man remake-reboot-reimagining is here! Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends (and sometimes four friends) try to find some good werewolf movies. This episode commemorates a new season of The Silver Scream and we're kicking things off with a two-parter! In part 1 of our Wolf Man (2025) discussion, we spend time laying down the event...

Welcome to The Silver Scream! a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. We're taking some time to chat about our Season 2 movies overall, listen in as we decide which one of the 23 movies stand out (for good reasons or bad ones)    Other topics of discussion include: our letterboxed stats, books we read in 2024, television shows we forgot to talk about, and MORE!   Thanks...

 It's the season 2 finale! Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies! This week, we are once again hearing a mysterious howling noise at night...if only we had a sexy, british publisher to save us! The Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988) is based on the original novel, The Howling by Gary Bradner. The film was created under dramatically s...

More like...The Bast Without...excitement! Welcome to The Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends are watching every werewolf movie ever, even the ones that make us want to fall asleep. This week, we watched the 2024 release The Beast Within starring Kit Harrington and Caoilinn Springall. This is a slowburn (emphasis on slow, emphasis on burn!) about a bad dad who might be a werewolf? Maybe? We...

There is an argument ahead for this being the worst movie we've ever seen!   Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends, and sometimes three friends, are willing to sit through absolute awfulness in our quest to watch every werewolf movie. Sometimes we question the reasons why we do this! Full steam ahead on this week's movie "Werewolf in a Women's Prison," (2006) is one of those mo...

Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies, and sometimes really boring and bad werewolf movies. This week we were disappointed by one of the many unnecessary films that start with "The Amityville". Don't expect any ghost demon pigs or haunted houses, in fact, don't expect much of anything interesting at all! We discuss the Amityville legacy of...

Maybe don't write fanfiction about World War 2… Welcome to The Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends suffer through all the werewolf movies so you don't have to. Today's film is Werewolves of the Third Reich from 2017, directed by the late Andrew Jones (rest in peace). This film takes much inspiration from much better films and we sure talk about it.  Other topics of conversation this episode...

Unfortunately, Courtney's audio quality is not very good this episode.  Gee wow, this movie really doesn't like the women within it.   Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies and sometimes they're really old too. We are here to discuss the first ever werewolf movie filmed in color, The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) from Hammer Film Productions...

It's literally Werewolf-Girl, Interrupted  Fair warning, one of us was drinking Haterade before recording…   Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. We are once again getting ginger SNAPPED with the 2004 sequel to John Fawcett's spectacular film Ginger Snaps. Brigitte Fitzgerald is back and on the run immediately following the events of the...

Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. This week we watched a sapphic Brazilian werewolf fairytale called 'Good Manners' or 'As Boas Maneiras' in Portuguese. This film is a uniquely romantic tale with many shocking moments!    Other topics of discussion include: RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 9 episodes 8 & 9, books read & movies watched, and...

Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. Sometimes we watch a movie that made Courtney really really made in high school…it's Van Helsing time! This film is a rickety-shack of an attempted franchise for Universal and we watched it. Take off your nostalgia glasses for this one! It's time to marvel at what could have  been and what ended up bei...

Did Marvel actually make something good again?! Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. Sometimes the movie is a made-for-TV missed opportunity by Disney. Werewolf By Night is a Halloween special released to Disney+ for Marvel and it actually rocks. We discuss how this film fits in comparison to the rest of the MCU ouroboros and lament about...

We love a gimmick!   Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. This week we watched a unique whodunnit from the 1970s. The Beast Must Die is a British mystery with decorum and a gimmick. Be sure to watch before listening and enjoy the game that is this movie!    Other topics of discussion include: the return of Drag Race corner, Alyssa journey...

Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends, and sometimes three friends, try to find some good werewolf movies. Sometimes the movies are a two-part television show for cool kids in the 90s based on a cool book series. This week we are watching Season 1, Episodes 8 and 9 of Goosebumps: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp. This has been a long anticipated episode for both of us! Joining us fo...

Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. Project Metalbeast (1995) is a movie and we watched it. This film is about the potential of a werewolf super-soldier getting squandered by ethics or something!  Is it an exciting action thrill ride? Or is this beast simply rusted? Listen to find out!   Other topics of discussion include: Alyssa's Close...

Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. This week we are watching the 1990 film Mom, a movie about how creepy ponytail dudes ruin everyone's good vibe.   Other topics of discussion include: reacting to Drag Race All Stars 9 cast, Courtney's disappointing movie marathon (no spoilers), and Alyssa's brief encounter with R. L. Stine at an educat...

Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. This week we watched a movie that doesn't seem to have been seen by anyone! This low-budget British film is about the trials and tribulations of teen moms on a church camping trip, or something like that.   Other topics of discussion include: reacting to the Drag Race finale (spoilers), talking about b...

There is no werewolf scene too small!   Welcome to the Silver Scream, a podcast where two friends try to find some good werewolf movies. Sometimes a movie with a werewolf that we both really love is enough. This week we watched the 2012 horror-comedy classic "The Cabin in The Woods" - a real buffett of horror! It's a film about film cliches existing in dire situations, and also it's funny.   Other...