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Zach Cregger's Resident Evil

Seems like eighth time's a charm for Capcom's beloved franchise on cinema screens. Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is a runaway success and the most criticall

Mumblegore

Mumblecore and its horror twin mumblegore defined indie filmmaking in the late 90s and 2000s. We take a look at a set of so-called mumblegore films and investigate how th

The Weed Eaters

Our non-prescription preoccupation continues as we take a close look at The Weed Eaters, a micro budget, pot-themed splatter film from Aotearoa.  Also includes discussio

Drugsploitation

All the cautionary tales you've ever been told come to terrifying life in this crop of drugsploitation movies. Reefer, tea, tomato, shrooms, acid - they're all

Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma

Jane Schoenbrun's third feature continues with their established themes of nostalgia, belonging and gender euphoria. This powerfully meta take on the slasher explore

Tales from the Crypt

A horror franchise with its roots way back at the birth of comic books, Tales from the Crypt has proven to be influential and formative for many a horror head. We take a

The Thing (from Another World)

It's cold, it's dark, and we're feeling paranoid as hell. The first film adaptation of John W. Campbell's classic sci-fi novella Who Goes There? turns

Liminal Horror

Germinating for years online and now exploding into cinemas, is liminal horror the new mainstream trend? Dealing in the uncanny and the unknowable, liminal horror breaks

Obsession

Curry Barker of viral success Milk & Serial has delivered another (relatively) low budget marvel. Already a huge hit, where does Obsession slot into the horror landscape?

Old Dark Houses

In this episode we take a look at a micro genre that's positively ancient by pop culture standards. A relic of early talkies that has spread across the horror landsc

Lee Cronin's The Mummy

A semi-dormant and dogged IP comes back to life with Lee Cronin's The Mummy. Beyond its baffling vanity title, how does this movie contribute to the mummy's pop

Video Nasties

One of horror's most notable periods of censorship, we examine the "Video Nasty" panic that took hold in the UK in the 1980s. How do these movies offend a conservati

Alpha

French provocateur Julia Ducournau is back with another bold piece of body horror. We break down the auteur's latest film Alpha. Is it a beautiful, life-affirming ta

Deadly Games

We're rolling the dice, playing our cards and fiddling with our joysticks as we investigate the world of deadly games. It's a surprisingly common trope now, but

Scream 7 Sucks

Scream 7 has arrived and talking about it felt like doing a post-mortem. After the controversy, the rewrite and the boycott, is it any surprise that the finished product

Edgar Allen Poe Stories & Adaptations

Featuring guest host Sarah Wolfe.  American writer and poet Edgar Allen Poe wrote hundreds of stories and poems and codified several genres in the process. In this episo

Carrie's 50th Anniversary

It's been 50 years since Carrie first graced cinema screens. We've read the book and revisited the film to see how this iconic story has aged as it's enter

Our Top 10 Horror Movies of 2025

Another year down and another clutch of movies to somewhat arbitrarily rank! We're giving you the lowdown on the movies we liked the best in 2025, along with some we

A Very Tubi Christmas

'Tis the season to hunker down and watch some execrable Christmas crap. Thankfully there are a few hidden gems amidst the lumps of coal. This year, friend of the pod

Sex-Horror

It's time we sat you down and gave you a talk about the birds and the bees. From horror's formative years through to now, we're investigating how sexuality