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Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast105. Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence (2021)Greatest secret super-villain origin story film of all time? Yeah, I think so. Join us for a movie you think is going to be pompous, but then is low-key shlocky mad scientist music saw. So... you're welcome for another instant-classic episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast for sad white men to find companionship and enlargening gummies for 50% off when you use coupone code: LOATHSOMETHINGS on check-out!
2025-04-131h 03Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast98. David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone (1983)A Stephen King novel adapted for the screen, directed by David Cronenberg, and with Christopher Walken playing the main character. Surely this is a recipe for an out-of-this-world amazing horror cinema experience... right? Johnny Walken Black wakes up with low-grade molestation powers and angles his career toward spending alone time with children while folks at the highest levels of society disregard his scams, or maybe he can see the future when people will die... or sometimes the past when someone who was thought dead didn't die? It doesn't matter, what matters is that I'm getting something, someone important to y...2025-01-051h 14Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast97. Kuei Chih Hung's Corpse Mania (1981)A Shaw Brothers kung-fu giallo from the unsung king of Hong Kong cult films. Let the bodies coat with worms! It's Loathsome Things: A podcast about the horror movies your mom wouldn't be happy to find you watching!
2024-12-221h 12Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast96. Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981)Charmingly outdated-by-1981-standards practical effects, wild borrowings from the best of recent and distant masterpieces of influence, and maybe a pinch of the ol' booger sugar informed this revered Italian director's take on the supernatural something set in 1980 New Orleans for reasons not fathomable, but from a fathomableness of The Beyond! That's right, the year was 2024, the medium was a podcast, and the rss feed was Loathsome Things: A podcast for horror movie fans who don't expect too much from their podcasts!
2024-12-081h 14Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast95. David Moreau's MadS (2024)Welcome to the Neo-French Extremity? New French Post-Extremity? Who can say? It's a really rad zombie movie about youthful, drug-fueled sex and paranoia, poor parenting, and a very strange relationship with authority... or is it? Enter one of the top 5 greatest zombie movies of all time. Possibly THE greatest? I don't know. It's Loathsome Things: a high production value storytelling podcast known to cause constipation and diarrhea in child and dogs under 10 years of age.
2024-11-241h 05Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast94. Brian De Palma's Sisters (1972)Not actually about Brian De Palma's female siblings, this film is instead about Brian De Palma weird, hazy, perhaps deeply subconscious feelings about white women, their role in society, their capabilities as functional humans, and the role that black men play in his feelings. Also, it's a Hitchcockian something-or-other in a decidedly pre-masterpiece phase of Brian's directorial development. Call it De Palchcockian. Anyway, it's actually a pretty enjoyable flick most of the time, and warms our very specific cockles due to its precursoriness to Basket Case, a film especially beloved by Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast you can...2024-11-101h 19Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast93. Benjamin Barfoot's Daddy's Head (2024)Is it folk horror? Is it Babadookie? Is it sci-fi? We're not really sure from whence this sub-step monster was spawned, but we know we mostly liked it with a few quabbles. How long can we spend discussing the quabbles you ask? Well, you're in luck, because you're about to find out while listening to this thoughtful and un-biased think piece about the 2024 horror film Daddy's Head nowhere else but here on Loathsome Things: the best podcast to listen to while going to sleep if you're an idiot.
2024-10-271h 11Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast92. Pascal Laugier's Martyrs (2008)New? Not so much. French? Absolue! Extremity? Not for long. Join us as we explore the surprising twists and turns of this horror masterpiece directed by a real piece of work. That's right, it's Pascal Laugier's 2008 masterpiece: Martyrs. Are we all victims, monsters, or dancers? You be the judge, then witness your own guilt... or something. Bourgeoisie!
2024-10-131h 14Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast91. Osgood Perkins' Longlegs (2024)Do we mention Nicolas Cage? Did we find out that the Devil makes a variety of cameos in this movie before we recorded this episode? Are we more giddy with movie-watching glee than we are actually making a podcast? Find out the answers in this Satanic episode of Loathsome Things: the Horror Movie Podcast your mom wouldn't let you listen to, but then you secretly did and who knows what will happen because of it.
2024-09-291h 01Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast90. Sean King O'Grady's We Need to Do Something (2021)We watched a cool little indie flick about a family stuck in their bathroom during an apocalypse, and somewhere along the way we lost the full entirety of our cool. Was it before we even started recording? You tell us after listening to this high-quality film review featuring bleeding-edge audio editing and extremely professional vocal skills. It's Loathsome Things: The Horror Movie Podcast you mistakenly chose as the only podcast you could bring with you to a desert island!
2024-09-151h 09Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast89. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980)Listen as two people with strong feelings about a movie struggle to discuss said movie. It's Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie for morons and the people willing to forgive them enough to listen to them.
2024-09-011h 18Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast88. Damian Mc Carthy's Caveat (2020)A dude is chained up in a house with some dude's bonkers niece while spooky things happen. The real question is: why? Join us as we proceed to not tackle that question in this lively and frolicking episode of Loathsome Things: A Good Podcast to Listen To At Work!
2024-08-1859 minLoathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast87. Rodrigo Aragão's Dark Sea (2013)This film is a strong recommend from us. Enjoy a uniquely splatterific experience!
Rodrigo Aragão is from Espirito Santo, Brazil. His father was a magician and cinema owner. Rodrigo was influenced by The Empire Strikes Back and Evil Dead. He worked as a make-up effects artist in the 90s until he started with his own horror play, Mausoleum, and then started directing short films, then premiered his first feature film, Mud Zombies, in 2008. He just became one of our favorite gory movie directors, thanks to this gem.
2024-08-041h 05Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast86. Daniel Haller's The Dunwich Horror (1970)Welcome to the Loathsome Vault, where you get to hear an old, previously unreleased episode of Loathsome Things from the days of yore: 2001! This time, we reviewed the official film of "What H.P. Lovecraft, but with dirty sexy hippies?" We'll be back to our regularly scheduled podcasting next hence!
2024-07-211h 11Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast85. Tom Daley's The Lamp (1987)Likely the greatest horror movie in Houston, Texas, horror movie production history. This little gem manages to be campy and horrifically transgressive in a way that won't make anyone feel good! It's The Lamp, AKA The Outing, on this fortnight's episode of Loathsome Things: A good podcast to listen to when you're depressed and the Lexapro isn't working!
2024-07-071h 14Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast84. Jean Rollin's The Grapes of Death (1978)It's 1978 France and the wine has taken on a toxic zombessential quality. Great legs, though!
2024-06-231h 06Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast83. John D. Hancock's Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)Join us for a fun little slice of pre-slasher arthouse something, Jessica! We're not gaslighting you, you're gaslighting us!
2024-06-091h 10Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast82. Frank Henenlotter's Brain Damage (1988)Our first non-Basket Case flick by Frank Henenlotter, and our last(?) movie to use the Loathsome Things scoring system you've come to be entirely unaware of!
2024-05-261h 17Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast81. Ishirô Honda's Matango (1963)This Attack of the Mushroom people by the guy who made Godzilla sure doesn't have a lot of Mushroom People action in it. Is it still good? Read John's review of Amando de Ossorio’s The Ghost Galleon to find out!
2024-05-121h 10Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast80. Lucky McKee's May (2002)It's time for everyone's favorite manic pixie dream frankenstein to ditch the snooze and get all rizz'd up, 2002 style! That's right, we're reviewing May, a complicated, weird, silly, serious, strange conflagration of emotions and inputs, straight from yore and into your brain. It's Loathsome Things: the best podcast to find horror movies you might've otherwise never seen!
2024-04-2858 minLoathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast79. Satanic Hispanics (2022)John and Josh review an anthology film for the very first time. Will they mess up, do a good job, or just incoherently repeat themselves? Find out on today's episode of Loathsome Things: A Podcast About Horror Movies You Don't Care About!
2024-04-141h 05Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast78. Dennis Iliadis's The Last House on the Left (2009)Content Warning: all the bad things.
2024-03-311h 01Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast77. Wes Craven's The Last House of the Left (1972)Eh, what's the point.
2024-03-171h 02Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast76. Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1960)We’re doing it, folks. It’s a 3-episode month and we’ve almost certainly made a mistake by going with The Virgin Spring, Last House on the Left, and Last House on the Left. O cruel world with such people in it! Here, we review the classic Swedish masterpiece about a Swedish lord, his Swedish daughter, their Swedish family, some Swedish pagans, and a trio of Swedish brothers. What kind of light-hearted hijinks will they get up to? Find out on this giggly episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast that is, yes, very afraid to go into t...2024-03-031h 11Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast75. Remi Weekes' His House (2020)Get your dollar-store, off-brand tissues ready, because this one’s a tear-jerker! Rial and Bol are refugees of the Sudanese Civil War, trying to create a new life for themselves in the land of opportunity: slummy ol’ England! To start over, they’ll have to endure fairly mild (by American standards) interpersonal racism, run-down living conditions, intense psychological trauma, ghosts, and an evil entity. Get ready for a wild one, folks, for this gut-wrenching episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast for those who are paying attention to the actual horrors happening around us.
For more inform...2024-02-1859 minLoathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast74. Nia DaCosta's Candyman (2021)Add this one to your watchlist of remakes that may be better than the sequel, and definitely among to top of any list of high-quality reboots. Clive Barker’s non-Hellraiser franchise is brought back around to no longer focus on the plight of white women in this stunning, complex, and challenging reframing of the classic.
And here are some links to the figures discussed in the closing credits.
The Lynching of Anthony Crawford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Anthony_Crawford
The Wrongful Conviction and Execution of George Stinney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge...2024-02-041h 21Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast73. Antonia Bird's Ravenous (1999)Be the food you want to eat! The Memento guy, the Trainspotting guy, the principle from Ferris Bueller, and a celebrity’s husband star in this off-kilter delight that dares to ask the question: what if Dances with Wolves was a wendigo movie lightly sprinkled with a Mel Brooksian soundtrack? Turns out, you might get something like this. Show up for what was obviously Robert Carlyle’s inspiration for Rumpelstiltskin, stay for the weird sense of human and overall high level of enjoyability of this episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast that you haven’t listened to yet!2024-01-211h 01Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast72. David R. Ellis’ Final Destination 2 (2003)Something about death’s design, a list, this time it happens backwards… who knows. Welcome to 2024, Loathsome Things style! It’s all epic action-disaster stunt sequences between bouts of really depressingly bad line delivery. Start the year off with the best horror movie podcast for people that are tired of all the other horror movie podcasts as we watch a movie that one podcaster described as “I Know What You Did Last Destination!”
2024-01-071h 16Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast71. Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (2010)Somewhere in the Finnish reindeer wilderness, there is a mountain that is secretly the gigantic sacred grave of MFing Santa Claus. In this episode of Loathsome Things, you’ll hear us review the actions taken by a squad of rugged snow-daddies who, perhaps, receive a bit too much focus on whether or not they have sufficiently spanked their sons. What’s more, we’ll reveal to answers to all things and we detail their adventures,including:
The Mystery of the Too-Soon-Dead Reindeer
How Old Should My Son Be Before I Give Him a Gun?
How to Sho...2023-12-241h 04Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast70. Perry Blackshear’s They Look Like People (2015)Content Warning: suicide and self harm
You are a mountain and this is the first part of Perry Blackshear’s Monster Trilogy sees childhood chums Wyatt and Christian reunited as alcoholic adults who’ve suffered failed relationships and mental and emotional disturbances. Christian’s self-help iPod has seen him get a great job at Behemoth, where he’s romantically pursuing his badass boss, Mara. Meanwhile, Wyatt is suffering from severe Capgras delusions and is doomsday prepping in a decidedly hardware store fashion. Will he use his ultra-powerful nail gun to save the world? Will Christian do horizontal judo wit...2023-12-1059 minLoathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast69. James L. Conway’s The Boogens (1981)From the director who brought us some actually good episodes of Star Trek later in his career, this movie… it’s terrible. Bad jokes, unexciting nudity from Rebecca Balding, and one of the worst movie monsters you’ll ever see. You know that uncle or cousin of yours, the one that puts off an icky vibe? This is probably one of their favorite movies. So, skip the flick and just enjoy our re-telling of the story that is the movie The Boogens. This isn’t usually the case, but sometimes the podcast is better than the movie on Loathsome Things...2023-11-2656 minLoathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast68. Demián Rugna’s When Evil Lurks (2023)Content Warning: violence against children and by children is depicted in this film, as is violence against and by animals. This includes a scene in which an animal commits violence against a child.
God is dead, welcome to beautiful Argentina! This time we reviewed a demonic possession apocalypse movie that absolutely slams. Put away your flashlights, your gunpowder, and your fear of death, because they won’t help you here! That’s right, it’s a zombie movie where instead of zombie you get demonic possession and the attempts of devils to be born into the world via Se...2023-11-121h 16Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast67. Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me (2022)Content Warning: self harm
Australian youths supplement their substance abuse with a fun demonic possession game. It the story secretly about substance abuse? Mental illness? Grief? Loss? White people? You tell us after listening to this podcast about horror movies. A podcast where we summarize the plot of a horror movie at you so you can decide whether or not you want to watch the movie after you find out everything about it. Wait, is that what this podcast is for? Wait a minute, is this movie secretly about the degradation of the family unit and the...2023-10-291h 02Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast66. Brian Duffield’s No One Will Save You (2023)An Etsy girl makes a go of living her best life in her childhood home in a town full of people who hate for something that she did in her childhood. Also, there’s aliens and almost zero dialogue. Will it be good? Pack yourself up a pic-a-nic basket and head on out to a loved-one’s grave and plot your sorry ass in that ancestral grass to listen to this fortnight’s episode of Loathsome Things: a podcast about scary movies where we tell you which movies are scary, which movies are not scary, and break them down so you...2023-10-151h 08Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast65. Elliot Goldner’s Final Prayer (2013)Content Warning: A smidge of animal cruelty is depicted in this movie, which we describe and may/may not do vocal sound effects for…
John and Josh strapped microphones to the inside of their mouths for an entire day to bring you their first full-fledged found footage film review! This little gem blends found footage with possession/exorcism, folk horror, and [spoiler]. What a cool combination!
A priest guy and a professional gadget-haver spend a lot of run time getting acquainted with one another and slowly building what will turn out to be a life-long fr...2023-10-011h 23Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast64. Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. What else is there to say?
Content Warning: this film contains nearly as much deeply disturbing gruesome topic matter as it does wildly offensive ableism. And since it’s in the movie, it is also in the words we speak.
Join us as we revel in the just amazingness that is, as one man was mis-quoted as putting it, “the most upsetting movie I didn’t hate.” It is a masterpiece and it is deeply troubling. If you worry you might not be up for the film, give us a listen a...2023-09-171h 10Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast63. Ulli Lommel’s The Devonsville Terror (1983)Do you ever think about the town you live in? Did your ancestors live there? What did they do when they lived there? Were they bad to other people, maybe women or indigenous populations? Do you ever wonder if you are them? Has a doctor ever made you feel like you’re a buckle-hatted pilgrim wielding a knife of revelation while inducing seizures in your chaw-addled brain?
Well, then you may be a Pendleton, of the Devonsville Pendletons!
You see, 300 years ago the entire town of Devonsville did a witch hunt. Later, they were all na...2023-09-031h 12Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast62. Jay Woelfel’s Beyond Dream’s Door (1989)Did you know that when you forget your dreams, they get mad at you? It doesn’t matter if those are dreams of attractive young women in thin gauze, skinless bears coming for you in the closet, fake little brothers with bulgy eyes, or janitors with prosthetic limbs that fall right off. You see, when you go beyond dream’s door, the hatred doesn’t discriminate. Maybe it’s a fleshy tooth-book chomping your foot, maybe it’s a balloon that just wants to follow you and make an annoying sound before exploding, maybe it’s not-Pennywise cackling from the sewers o...2023-08-201h 11Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast61. Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm (1979)We reviewed a classic and scared John as a child and confused Josh as an adult. Imagine The Goonies, but with big naked California tits, fountains of blood, and the childhood drama of having everyone you love die. There, that’s Phantasm. Is it as simple as that? No! It’s much more confusing! Phantasm features multiple allusions to Dune, some strange overlap with Star Wars, and manages to be a strikingly singular piece of storytelling. Do we have any idea what the story it’s telling is? Can we explain it in the slightest? Did Josh tell a story...2023-08-061h 22Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast60. Francis Teri’s The Suckling (1990)In 1990, first-time director Francis Teri pulled together a tiny budget, a team of mostly non-actors, and some really cool practical effects to make an amazingly tasteless, uncomfortably semi-humorous, and entirely baffling horror movie about a young woman receiving an abortion against her will and her aborted fetus becoming one of the most mind-bogglingly powerful horror movie monsters of all time. That’s right, it’s an abortion monster, and boy does it have a really weird plan! Tune in for an exploration of the thing you didn’t think could go wrong when you outlaw abortion in this episode of Loa...2023-07-231h 14Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast59. The Mo Brothers’ Macabre (2009)The Jo Brothers cover The Mo Brothers with this delightful jaunt down the road to a slasher commonly referred to as The Indonesia Chainsaw Massacre for entirely appropriate reasons. What starts off as torture porn then devolves into madcap mindless violence before finally metamorphosing into some really tremendous fight scenes that make the film’s early goings-on worth it. This movie is an underappreciated gem that suffers for being from a country that western audiences have largely ignored. Listen to us break it down and really get after it in this all-new episode of Loathsome Things: A Highly-rated Podcast fo...2023-07-091h 09Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast58. Joe D’Amato’s Beyond the Darkness (1979)From the New French Extremity to some old Italian Sleaze, good, clever Loathsome Things is here to make everything nice for you, our sweet, sweet babies! From the guy that mostly did hardcore porn with a splattering or horror-porn crossover films, comes a film that advanced the boundaries of gore and showed us that the most potent strains of marijuana in history looks surprisingly exactly the same as 1970s euro-lady pubes. That’s right, it’s schlocky, it’s exploitative, it’s unfortunate, and it’s all set to Goblin’s most perplexing soundtrack, it’s the 1979 horror cinema experience fro...2023-06-251h 16Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast57. Marina de Van’s In My Skin (2002)Content Warning: self-harm. It’s not just featured in the film, it is at the center of the film’s theme. We describe the self-harm in this episode so, you know, be careful with your emotional well-being.
“Dans ma Peau” is an underappreciated body horror film that really puts the “extremity” into the New French Extremity genre. Esther is an up-and-coming professional in some sort of business industry, but she develops a new hobby that may put all that at risk. Will she be able to power through this new fixation and get that promotion? Will her jealous frie...2023-06-111h 10Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast56. Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991)Lo, we have returned with the prophesied episode, that which much come after the others doth came. And on the third Basket Case, they wept. And it was bad. So say we all. Wait, what? Remember at the end of Basket Case 2 how after a really boggy round of lump rutting between Belial and Eve, Duane decided it was time to reconnect with his brother? No? Well, no worries, because this movie begins with a “previously on” segment, and then it’s all downhill from there! Join us as we watch Granny Ruth and the gang take the Basket Case f...2023-05-281h 13Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast55. Jack Cardiff’s The Mutations (1974)In the 1970s, someone thought it’d be a cool idea to mix the ideas of Tod Browning’s Freaks with a Frankenstein story genetically modified with DNA. This horror movie trades in the objectification of people that are different, women tits getting a breath of fresh air, and really cool fast-motion plant footage. We tried to be careful with our language and ableism discourse. Maybe we didn’t nail it, but we tried our darndest and are always striving to get better. Speaking of getting better… uh… keep listening to Loathsome Things: the best place to get horror movie summ...2023-05-141h 09Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast54. Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers (1993)At long last, we arrive at our destination of having gotten through all that snatch with this 90s-tastic piece of something from the something-addled something of someone’s something. What am I talking about? Have I been taken over by some sort of horrific racial superiority mindset noodling its way through the ranks of the military? That’s right, the year is 1993, the director is Abel Ferrara, the female nudity is portrayed as either being of minors or done to minors, because … well… I really don’t know. We enjoyed but can’t really recommend that you watch this remakester o...2023-04-301h 13Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast53. Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)Join us as we embark on an ultra-cosmic journey from some unknown corner of the universe all the way to a post-psychedelic and mega-starchy San Francisco with this tremendous effort in scifi/horror movie remakesmanship! Leonard Nimoy makes one of his greatest non-Star Trek appearances, a studly young Jeff Goldblum does his best Alan Alda impression, Veronica Cartwright shows off some sick hand and vocal skills, Donald “Donny South” Sutherland brings the action and Brooke Adams gets topless instead of the credit she deserves in this sometimes brilliant, sometimes confusing film, which is a strong contender for greatest remake of a...2023-04-161h 20Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast52. Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)Cease your philandering ways and listen up, kiddo, for this April we’re putting together a 1-2-3-punch comparison of bodily snatchery starting with the original maybe-Red Scare classic about creepy white people being replaced with even creepier white people in well-to-do 1950s America. Sure, that was one sentence! From the director that brought you Flaming Star and Two Mules for Sister Sara comes this dazzling classic starring the guy Piranha and none other than Dagmar Wynter and her flagrantly stuffed brazier. Hey, wait a minute, you’re not our listeners! Oh well, it would seem you’ve been r...2023-04-0258 minLoathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast51. Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski’s The Void (2016)Bow down and rejoice for the bountiful practical effects goodness this movie granteth! Through the files of movie production hell, The Void emerged renewed and pure for our plentiful enjoyment…eth… It’s good enough to get Josh to rethink how he grades movies for this podcast. Repent of your flesh and step through the mysterious triangle of the play button as you listen to this cosmic episode of Loathsome Things: the best horror movie podcast of fans of H.P. Lovecraft-inspired film, but not the dude, himself!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tells...2023-03-191h 05Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast50. Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971)Extreme Animal Cruelty Content Warning: this movie contains one of the single most despicable scenes of actual violence against animals either of us have likely ever seen in cinema. Kangaroos are shown being shot, struggling to escape, and slowly, painfully dying. There is a shot of a pile of severed kangaroo upper torsos that the camera lingers on. Do not watch this movie if that is the kind of thing that will upset. It upset John and it upset Josh. It’s a really good movie in all respects, other than the depiction of inexcusable animal cruelty. Yes, we kn...2023-03-051h 23Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast49. Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink (2022)We left all the static and background noises in this episode as an artistic attempt to recreate the movie-going experience of this nightmarish-ish experimental film from jolly ol’ Canada. We both liked it, we both hated it. It’s art, folks! For this one, you don’t necessarily need to watch it first. We spoil the whole thing, but it’s impossible to spoil the experience of watching this movie, which follows two young people around a spooky house during a forever night full of dreamy transitions, cartoons from the yore of your mind, and a strikingly confusing concept of what...2023-02-191h 15Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast48. Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981)Content Warning: this movie depicts domestic violence, child endangerment and psycho-sexual assault
Sexy tentacle aliens will fill up your holes all night long in this movie full of chunky blood, broken eggs, spilled milk, oozing jism, allusions to world politics and some of the most gut-dumping relationship trauma you’ll ever see in a horror movie. Isabelle Adjani gives the performance of a lifetime, and you get to see a young and spermy Sam Neill. Andrzej Żuławski was in artistic exile from his home country of Poland while filming this epic post-Eraserhead, pre-Mother! body-horror masterpiece. Watch the...2023-02-051h 35Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast47. Terence Fisher’s The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)Two chummy science buddies unlock the secrets of pseudobiology while strutting from stage left to stage right in the Frankenstein barony’s most maze-like castle and daring to ask the question “what if instead of lightning we, I don’t know, just kind of dunked stuff in big aquarium full of science tea?” This film put Hammer on the map as the Wizard of Oz of color-gory horror movies and served as the foundation of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing’s friendship and collaborative success in billions of horror movies to come. It’s worth the watch just for the history...2023-01-221h 13Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast46. Ken Wiederhorn’s Shock Waves (1977)Supernatural experimental underwater Nazi uber-soldiers (band name, called it!) rise from the waves just as Gilligan, The Skipper, and the alcoholic, porn-plastering 3rd member of the crew, Dobbs, are bringing their vacationing cargo around for a lovely time on a desert island inhabited only by Herr Professor Peter Cushing. What could go wrong? Find out what kind of weird things we say about this semi-classic something-or-other of a horror movie on this episode of Loathsome Things: Das Horror Movie Podzinger!
If you would like to recommend a movie, send us your erotic Shock Waves fan fiction...2023-01-081h 01Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast45. Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004)Content Warning: The film we are about to review contains torture, suicide, deicide, public execution, themes of antisemitism, transphobia and ableism. By continuing to listen to this podcast, you expressly agree to hear blasphemous and sacrilegious statements.
We’re keeping the Christ in Christmassacre by beating the Christ out of Christmas as we review Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ on this most holly, jolly episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast!
If you would like to recommend a movie, blaspheme with us, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do s...2022-12-251h 02Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast44. Amando de Ossorio’s Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)This time vosotros reviewed a low-budget euro-70s movie about knights templar-themed zombies that rise from the dead to vampire up slutty blood and ride around town on mysteriously-sourced horses. It’s wacky. It’s zany. It likes to give the audience a reason to not be sad when a character dies. Perhaps they’re creepy. Perhaps they experimented with homosexuality in their youth. Perhaps they’re some kind of criminal. Content Warning: we discuss this movie’s casual depiction of sexual assault and rape. The movie doesn’t seem to think it’s that big of a deal, but it's hones...2022-12-111h 07Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast43. Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses (2003)After spending a year and a half NOT reviewing a Rob Zombie joint, we decided it was high time to review the robbest of all zombies, the one-thousandest of houses, the 90-minute music video interlude itself: House of 1000 Corpses. It was a delight to watch and a delight to discuss. Did we do a good job discussing it? You’s to say! We referenced a lot of things in this episode, so here’s a list of things to watch, listen to, or read about that’re all probably better than listening to this newest episode of Loathsome Things: A Horr...2022-11-271h 01Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast42. Ti West’s X (2022)Ti West absolutely plows it with this Chain Saw-esque Debbie Decimates Dallas spectacle. It’s sexy, it’s disturbing, it’s confusing, it’s thought-provoking, it’s gory, it’s schlocky, it’s… it’s just great, y’all! Every death scene is a micro-masterpiece in its own right. At first you think this is all style, no substance, and then it turns on you. Watch the movie, then listen to us giggle and sigh while never once mentioning Mia Goth’s boobs. Tropes are subverted, big things are foreshadowed, and horror movies are loved in the newest episode of Loathsome Things: A...2022-11-131h 05Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast41. Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie (2013)Chloe Grace Moretz & Co did a great job of re-making Carrie in the least-interesting way possible: a technically proficient and almost flavorless retelling that lands squarely in the middle of the original and the made-for-TV movie on every front. It’s almost enough to make one sit back and ask “what do horror movie fans actually want in a reboot?” For these and other reasons, John and Josh do a speedy summary so they could get to the part they were most excited about: talking about all the other great horror movies and TV shows they’ve been watching in Octob...2022-10-301h 09Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast40. David Bruckner’s Hellraiser (2022)35 years after the original, we finally get our first Hellraiser reboot! And it’s… well, you’ll have to listen to find out what we think about it. Set in beautiful Belgrade, Massachusetts, this visually striking reimagining of the Clive Barker original focuses on addiction, betrayal, and strips of delicious human bacon. The Pascal Laugier movie we tried to remember was Incident in a Ghostland (2018), the movie that caused permanent scarring to a young actor’s face because of some combination of greed and incompetence, so fuck that movie! The other things we couldn't remember the names of? Who knows! I...2022-10-161h 23Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie PodcastSuch Loathsome Things: The Hellraiser FranchiseJohn and Josh watched all 10 Hellraiser movies in anticipation of David Bruckner's upcoming reboot of the franchise, and who have some things to say! Join us as we dive into one of the less-talked-about major horror movie franchises and check out the new movie, which drops Friday!
Ranking the Franchise
John
Josh
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Clive Barker's Hellraiser (1987)
Clive Barker's Hellraiser (1987)
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Tony Randel's Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
Tony Randel's Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
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Anthony Hickox's Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)
Kevin Yagher's Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996)
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Kevin Yagher's Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996)
Gary J. Tunnicliffe's Hellraiser: Judgment (2018)
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Rick Bota's Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)
Scott Derrickson's H...2022-10-0543 minLoathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast39. David Carson’s Carrie (2002)“Angela Bettis! Angela Bettis! Angela Bettis!” said David Carson into the camera, and poof! She was there to provide one of the few redeeming qualities in this made-for-TV wad. Directed by the guy that directed Captain Kirk’s death and co-starring Dualla from Battlestar Galactica, this movie features Windows 98 screensaver-grade CGI a flat, lifeless retelling of the story from the same era at the mini-series version of The Shining. Join us for part 2 out our 3-part series of Carrie: Who Wore It Best on this most October 2022est episode of Loathsome Things: A Podcast in which two jerks talk about...2022-10-021h 09Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast38. Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)WOW! Sissy Spacek absolutely slayed in this nutty jamboree of a high school prom horror that Piper Laurie, Nancy Allen and John Travolta all thought was a fun, over-the-top comedy when they were filming it. Is it still OK for say “slay, queen” now that someone else’s queen is dead? I’m gonna slay “Yes!” Also in this movie is William Katt’s amazing hair, now contextually placed as the forebear of Kevin Van Hentenryck’s Basket Case hair. In my untethered-to-reality mind, William Katt’s Tommy secretly survived, changed his name to Roger, and became a famous horror novelist wi...2022-09-181h 09Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast37. Jackie Kong’s Blood Diner (1987)Boobs, silly gag humor, and the most ridiculous forms of cannibalism are just the tip of this zany masterpiece of 80s Horror-Comedy! Jackie Kong achieved greatness in this packed era of the sub-genre, making what is quite possibly the most ultimate 14-year-old boy movie possible. As a pair of wizened 14-year-old boys, ourselves, we thank her for her contribution. From topless aerobics and fully nude martial arts to Hitler-wrestling, epic projectile vomiting, squirty stump-driving, and, of course, seeing how hamburger condiments would accurately splatter against a farty ass in full moon, this semi-sequel to Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Blood Feast is...2022-09-0454 minLoathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast36. Lawrence Kasdan’s Dreamcatcher (2003)Thomas Jane, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Jason Lee, Tom Sizemore and Morgan Freeman star in this sci-fi-fantasy-horror movie about evil alien penis monsters that shoot out of your butt and the man-children gifted with the exact combination of bench-warmer X Men powers needed to stop them… or something. You know, it gets a little confusing in there. It’s a Stephen King something, and we both remembered it more fondly than we watched it! So, join us for this experimentally 1-hour episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast where we didn’t talk about Rob Zombie.
If...2022-08-2158 minLoathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast35. Jim Gillespie’s I Know what You Did Last Summer (1997)Oh, last summer, how memorable you were! With your floppy hats, plunging necklines, and fertile youths frolicking about on sandy beaches, full of hope and possibilities. The mind that brought us Dawson’s Creek and Scream also brought us this movie, where Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Ghost Whisperer struggle through the teenage turmoils of love, friendship, and vehicular manslaughter. Can these busty teens come up with even the vaguest idea of how to solve a mystery? Will Ryan Phillippe look at Jennifer Love Hewitt’s boobs? Will it turn out that David Egan or Billy Blue actually matt...2022-08-072h 16Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast34. Alex Garland’s Men (2022)We go on at length about this polarizing folk-slasher from the dude that wrote the screenplay for 28 Days Later. It’s very high concept and bookends Hagazussa nicely as an opposite of Saint Maud. Really, these three films have been a great leading-lady triple feature. If you wanted to listen to us spend way too much time comparing and contrasting the careers of Glenn Danzig and Rob Zombie instead of talking about this movie that has nothing to do with either of them, please listen to this newest episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast!
If...2022-07-242h 28Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast33. Hagazussa (2017) ein Film von Lukas FeigelfeldWe really schatten the bed with this blutty film about how much it sucked to live with emotional trauma in the Black Plague-era Alps while being identified as any combination of a witch, heathen or Jew. Here, I’ll horn in a content warning: this episode unqualifiedly discusses rape, infanticide, cannibalism, and anti-semitism. Now that feuer of you are interested hearing what we’re going to chuckle about, please watch the movie and listen to this newest episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tell us what you...2022-07-101h 39Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast32. Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)Technical difficulties and illness plagued our recording of this absolute masterpiece from Rose Glass. An emotionally unwell woman with idiosyncratic religious convictions works as an in-home nurse for a sin-loving woman dying of cancer. Can they get over their differences and personal challenges to solve the murder mystery before it’s too late? No! Watch the movie before you listen to the most difficult episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast!
If you would like to recommend a movie, help Josh find those missing Rose Glass short movies, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you ca...2022-06-262h 18Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast31. Gabriel Bartalos’ Skinned Deep (2004)We’ve been alluding to this episode for a while, but now is the time! It’s the Fangoria Gore Zone slashic that no one talks about. Gabriel Bartalos, Warwick Davis, and Karoline Brandt hold nothing back in this romantic horror comedy about love, forgiveness, high-effort methods of watching porn with your friends, and… consumerism, maybe? We’re not really sure what to make of this movie, but it finally got Josh to watch The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for the first time, so we also get to talk about that on the latest episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror M...2022-06-121h 30Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast30. Michael Reeves’ Witchfinder General (1968)What’s this, a secret Edgar Allan Poe adaptation starring Vincent Price? NOPE! Just a little Bucklecore historical fiction film about a man, his best friend, and their shared dream of accusing people of witchcraft, torturing them into confessing their witchery and devil-worship, and making a fortune in the process. What could be rapier than that? (see episode for additional sword puns). Join us as we delve into one of the Unholy Trinity of English Folk Horror grandpappies in the most 30th episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast.
If you would like to recommend a...2022-05-291h 53Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast29. Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case 2 (1990)It’s been a year since we delved into the original transgressive masterpiece, but now we’re back to learn about the mating habits of the endangered Duane and Belial in this higher-budgeted, more comedic and less rapey installment of the Basket Case franchise. I guess Belial was an Incel in part 1, but he’s better now that he has a girlfriend, and can focus on his true passions: sloppy nutting and murder! Grab a tube of your favorite horse paste and climb into the dog bed with the lump you love to listen to the newest episode of Loaths...2022-05-151h 42Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast28. Lew Lehman’s The Pit (1981)Grab your most sexually-active teddy bear before you listen to us talk about this… uhhhhh… like, I guess, some kind of a horror movie targeted at children. Specifically, children that want to see a lot of nudity… and want to watch one of their own commit weird sex crimes… Yikes! It’s going to be one of those episodes, folks, so join us for the 1-year anniversary, and possibly final episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast!
If you would like to recommend a movie, leave us a review of http://sammysnyders.com/, or ask us horror...2022-05-012h 18Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast27. John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns (2005)A movie about people saying “La Fin Absolue Du Monde” as many times as possible in 59 minutes while a baby-faced Norman Reedus has a Eurotrash adventure across beautiful Vancouver, Canada, at the behest of Udo Keir’s poorly-decorated ambitions! Meta-commentary about the film business abounds in this gory movie-about-a-movie-that’s-more-than-a-movie. And for our Star Trek fans, there a special appearance from none other than B'Etor/Chief Examiner Nimira’s own Gwynyth Walsh. Join us as we review this episode of Masters of Horror in the latest installment of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast!
NOTE: Due to technical...2022-04-171h 33Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast26. José Mojica Marins’ At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964)We watched the absurdist masterpiece and reputed first horror film from Brazil, both directed by and starring the big, strong man himself, Coffin Joe. Beware, brave listener, for this film warns you it is not for the faint of heart, and then completely delivers on that promise. An early example of a director that grew up watching horror movies, then going on to make the horror movie he wanted to see. Join us for this breath of foamy air on the latest episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast!
If you would like to...2022-04-031h 32Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast25. Blair Erickson’s Banshee Chapter (2013)We got giggly and dark while reviewing this MK Ultra meets Numbers Stations spooky mash-up starring Ted Levine. We mentioned the secret ending of this movie before the spoilers… and then forgot to talk about it at the end… because we’re good at this. Join us on a fun romp through scariest movie about being friend-zoned in this, the latest episode from America’s best horror movie podcast!
If you would like to recommend a movie, pose a horror movie trivia question, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching out to u...2022-03-201h 24Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast24. Gareth Evans’ Apostle (2018)Gareth Evans told us to try a new recording software, so the audio sounds a bit like we travelled to a low-tech island where the good Lord has been usurped by some kind of gauzy vineyard witchiness. Wait, maybe I’m getting some details confused. Dan Stevens, Kristine Froseth, Mark Lewis Jones, Lucy Boynton, Michael Sheen star in this long, complex horror film about the aforementioned actors having to band together to prevent Iko Uwais from getting to the top of the fertility goddess’ high-rise… wait… Ok, I think I got confused again, either that or I just came up with...2022-03-061h 46Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast23. David Bruckner’s The Ritual (2017)This harbinger of the folk-horror renaissance won several FX awards and is a source of hope for the bright future of non-practical creature effects in cinema. Spoiler alert: if you love movie monsters, you should watch this movie immediately. Is that a spoiler? Who cares! Listen to the best podcast about horror movies, and also listen to us as we discuss the newest addition to our Top 10 list!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tell us about your favorite movie monsters, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching...2022-02-201h 59Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast22. Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse (1981)Just after adapting Salem’s Lot for television and just before directing the music video for Billy Idol’s Dancing with Myself, Tobe Hooper returned to the fringes of Southern Gothic-in-retrograde murdery wetness with this solid update on the Quasimodo/Frankenstein’s Monster story by way of David Lynch’s The Elephant Man. Clean the cotton candy off your fingers and join us for a drippy dive into the schlocky wonder of Dennis Hopper’s… I mean, Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse (1981), possibly most-popular among folks image-searching “Elizabeth Berridge nude.”
If you would like to recommend a movie...2022-02-061h 59Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast21. George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)John and Josh wax poetic about George A Romero, zombie movies, and how these topics played a role in each of us becoming fans of Horror movies as a genre. In honor of the brilliance that is Night of the Living Dead, we’ve recorded this episode with minimal scripting and editing. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch it. It’s a great movie!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tell us which director you’d like to see make a zombie movie, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by...2022-01-232h 13Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast20. William Asher’s Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)Wow! This classic manages to swaddle some truly transgressive, squirm-inducing discomfort in the gauzy warmth of William Asher’s 1950s-60s television eyeball. I don’t know what’s happening to my body, but I don’t like it. For a good time, watch this movie starring Jimmy McNichol, Bo Svenson, Julia Duffy, Steve Eastin, and an unfathomably epic performance from Susan Tyrell. Also, an early-career appearance by "William" Bill Paxton, because Billy needed to be menaced by more enemies!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tell us what we’re getting wrong about gend...2022-01-091h 38Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast19. Sophia Takal’s Black Christmas (2019)Blumhouse Productions and Sophia Takal bring the feminism back to Black Christmas and… well, they really do it up. Imogen Poots and Cary Elwes go toe-to-toe in this college campus slasher/revenge/Buffy-style flick that's more of a set-piece upcycle than an actual reimagining of the original. If you’re trying to mask how fragile your masculinity is, you might want to skip this one, bro!
If you would like to recommend a movie, nerd out with us about Zoë Robins’ Nynaeve portrayal, defend your honor by challenging us to a fight, or ask us horror...2021-12-261h 44Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast18. Glen Morgan’s Black Christmas (2006)Eyeballs will be popped, squished, and chomped as Glen Morgan explores Billy and Agnes’ dysfunctional upbringing while Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert, Katie Cassidy, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, Kristen Cloke, and Andrea Martin sister around a sorority house. Is it worth watching before you listen? We concur with a solid “maybe!”
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Please rate a...2021-12-191h 55Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast17. Bob Clark‘s Black Christmas (1974)Wow! Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder and Andrea Martin star in this absolute Horror masterpiece from the same director and year as Deathdream: Bob Clark. I don’t understand how Black Christmas and A Christmas Story came from the same director. Put on your Gender Studies goggles and join us for a dive into the greatest Christmas movie of all time!
Content Warning: "The C-word" shows up in the movie, and is quoted in the episode, as is an out-of-nowhere unpleasant remark about rape.
If you would like to recommend a movie, te...2021-12-121h 44Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast16. Chad Crawford Kinkle‘s Jug Face (2013)Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Bridgers, Larry Fessenden, and Sean Young star in this kind-of-great low-budget folk horror flick about a backwoods Tennessee moonshine community that worships a hole in the ground what heals ya when you get sick but also requires the occasional human sacrifice. It doesn’t break into our Top-10, but it does break into our hearts, so go watch the movie and then listen to us talk about it, because that’s why we’re all here!
If you would like to recommend a movie, show us your pottery, lodge a complaint, or ask...2021-11-281h 30Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast15. Miike Takashi‘s Audition (1999)A Japanese romantic horror movie that gave Josh an excuse to say “onomatopoeia?” Awesome! This icky, chunky film had John and Josh split: is it feminist? Is it misogynist? Is it nihilist? Who can say? Well, two white guys with zero expertise on the matter, that’s who! Join us for a foot-flinging good time in this gory import.
Warning: The movie, and thus this episode, covers sensitive topics and intense violence.
If you would like to recommend a movie, share your college essay, draw attention to our inadequacies, ask us horror movie-related questi...2021-11-142h 02Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast14. Jeff Kwitney’s Beyond the Door III (1989)Buckle up for the wild ride that was called Train Amok everywhere but in the US! John and Josh tour the beautiful Yugoslavian countryside from… a train that we didn’t realize was going to be the… antagonist of this film? It’s confusing, like finding a box labeled “Explosives” to be filled with shotgun shells. But, it’s also kind of great. Watch it first: you won’t be sorry!
If you would like to recommend a movie, demand that Josh apologize for his tasteless jokes, Explain Yugoslavian history to us, sell us a neat cane, ask u...2021-10-312h 19Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast13. Ben Wheatley‘s In The Earth (2021)Ben Wheatley continues his adventures in British Pagan Horror with this socially-distanced gem. A great soundtrack and peculiar intrigue set the shard-strewn groundwork for some splendid creep-outs, rapturous highs, and a microdose of some impressive practical effects. Get out your glow sticks, apply your pasties, and paint your junk for a rad party in the woods because we’re watching In The Earth!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tell us all about Oliver Wendell Holmes, tell us about how the crystals you wear make you more in-tune with the mycorrhiza, send us a c...2021-10-171h 39Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast12. Jack Hill‘s Spider Baby (1967)AKA The Maddest Story Ever Told. AAKA Cannibal Orgy. AAAKA I Know Where Lon Chaney Jr. Sweated in the Summer of 1964. This ancestor of the American Domesticated Cannibal tradition offers a thrilling look at the later Lon Chaney Jr, early work of Sig Haig, and some deeply troubling portrayals of African Americans and rape victims. Yikes! It’s Jack Hill’s perpetually disturbing horror-canonical Spider Baby!
If you would like to recommend a movie, help us identify cars, tell us a lie about this movie, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by re...2021-10-031h 34Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast11. Steve Miner‘s House (1985)What if Dean Koontz was a Vietnam vet with trouble remembering the name of the AK-47, a very bland collection of plunging V-neck sweaters, a weird thing for little boys, and a flippin’ sweet real estate inheritance? He would probably be the main character of Steve Miner’s 1985 comedy(?) horror film: House! This movie certainly does, and you can take that to the bank! What am I talking about? Who can say?! Join us as we realize so many things about a movie with what is almost certainly one of the top-10 intentionally wall-mounted horror movie props of the mid...2021-09-192h 20Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast10. Bob Clark‘s Deathdream (1974)Welcome to the show notes for the tenth episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast!
A soldier’s mother prays for him to return, first from Vietnam, then from death’s cold embrace… and then he does. Yay, what a heart-warming story! Oh wait, no, this movies spirals into a fantastic exploration of the Laocoön-edged destruction visited upon real male bodies as part of the impossible expectations of war-time masculinity. It’s Bob Clark’s forgottish masterpesque, Deathdream (or “Dead of Night”), released the same year as his magnum opus, Black Christmas.
If you would like t...2021-09-051h 44Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast9. Matt Mercer and Mike Testin‘s Dementia Part II (2018)Welcome to the show notes for the ninth episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast!
A desperate ex-con shows up at a sweet old lady’s house disguised as a plumber. What happens next may shock you… Nah! This little gem went from conception to screening in five weeks, all with no budget. It’s an extraordinary little achievement in movie-making. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a masterpiece. But then again, neither is this episode! Grab your most Canadian possessions and join us as we watch Matt Mercer and Mike Testin’s Dementia: Part II!
...2021-08-221h 29Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast8. Devereux Milburn’s Honeydew (2020)Welcome to the show notes for the eighth episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast!
An aspiring actor and a budding scientist are on a romantic road-trip through American farmlandia. But, wouldn’t you know it, through a combination of car trouble and a get-off-my-landish nookie reception, our heroes find themselves in need of the use of a sweet old lady’s phone. The good news is, she’s very hospitable and kind. The bad news is, this devolves into delightful chunks of horror movie madness. It’s Honeydew, a movie named that for some reason!
If...2021-08-081h 27Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast7. Gus Holwerda‘s Intersect (2020)Welcome to the show notes for the seventh episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast!
Three grad students at Miskatonic University’s Temporal Studies department have uncovered the secret of time travel! Sounds like an awesome premise for a movie, right? Oh, dear Cthulhu, why? If you thought the deer deity in Black Mountain Side was unimpressive to look at, just wait until you catch a glimpse of Nate. Cozy up with the one you love and plunge your sensory organs deep into the unpleasant depths of Gus Holwerda’s disasterpiece: Intersect!
If you would like to r...2021-07-252h 15Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast6. Nick Szostakiwskyj’s Black Mountain Side (2014)Welcome to the show notes for the sixth episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast!
In the northern Taiga Cordillera, some dudes found something strange between bouts of playing cards and drinking, so they did the only natural thing to do: get some other dude to come here. Enter Black Mountain Side, a movie that, at its heart, is about male friendship, fellowship, and camaraderie. Also getting in on the feel-good action is a Lovecraftian deity that manifests as a deer standing up on its hind (get it!) legs. What a wacky crew! Go enjoy yourself a watch...2021-07-111h 31Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast5. Christian Nyby/Howard Hawks’ The Thing from Another World (1951)Welcome to the show notes for the fifth episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast!
In this episode we discourse the original Thing that would later be adapted by John Carpenter to create one of the greatest, if not the greatest, horror movies of all time. The Thing from Another World is a black-and-white classic about soldiers fighting the twin evils of an invasive alien plant-monster and the scientists that wish to study them. If that doesn’t sound like your thing, you might enjoy all the self-congratulatory white people business or the amazing scene were EVERYTHING IS ON...2021-06-271h 31Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast4. David Prior‘s The Empty Man (2020)Welcome to the show notes for the Fourth episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast!
We watched the under-the-radar sensation that some people are calling “The Empty Man.” Going by the trailer, this movie is a dumb pile of ass. But, after actually watching the movie, this movie kind of kicks asses into a pile. It starts off in the mountains of Bhutan and ends up in … sleepy, small-town Missouri. Along the way, there’s plenty of wet-teeth noises, solidly unsettling business, something about a teddy bear, adults lurking outside of high schools to lure young girls (or women) i...2021-06-132h 30Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast3. Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973)Welcome to the show notes for the third episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast!
For this episode, we reviewed Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. This classic horror movie centers on the characters portrayed by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie: a married adult couple that find it much easier to talk to, talk about, think about, and run around as in some sort of game with the spirit of their dead child, rather than their only living offspring. Set in the “someone’s gotta clean that aquarium” era of Venice, this film takes its time allowing the viewer...2021-05-301h 51Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast2. Frank Henenlotter‘s Basket Case (1982)Welcome to the show notes for the second episode of the ground-breaking, teeth-gnashing, future award-losing Loathsome Things Podcast! The best podcast about horror movies!
For this episode, we reviewed Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case. This fever dream of a movie is an absolute assault on the one’s better judgement, resulting in maniacal humor, passages of violent low-budget greatness, and a unique style that threatens the viewer with a higher plane of absurd horror movie bliss. This combination lulls an audience into a false sense of good cheer, before throwing that good mood out the window with some...2021-05-161h 30Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast1. Elle Callahan‘s Head Count (2018)Welcome to the show notes for the pilot episode of the ground-breaking, teeth-gnashing, future award-losing Loathsome Things Podcast! The best horror movie podcast located outside of Texas!
Herein John and Josh, two dudes who love horror movies, review Elle Callahan’s Head Count, an independent horror film wherein a bunch of youths alternate between substance amusements, awkward sexual tensions, unenthusiastic outdoor recreation, and general in-house pastiming with spookity occurrences therein.
To learn more about this film’s director, and find a link where you can watch Head Count for free(!), please visit her website: http://www...2021-05-041h 53