This week Bee & Ryan are finally tackling the underlooked 80's slasher from Ken Hughes, Night School.
It has everything you could want from a slasher, decapitations, nudity, a super cool ensemble for our killer, and a misogynistic & predatory professory to root against! In a year full of slashers, we see how this one ranks against the rest!
Plus in our pop-culture check-in, we talk Halloween movies, Beyond fest & more!
You've seen the poster hanging in your childhood video store, but have you seen the film? Ryan & Bee dive into the cult slasher, Pieces directed by Juan Piquer Simón. The co-eds of a Boston college campus are targeted by a mysterious killer who is creating a human jigsaw puzzle from their body parts.
Plus in their pop culture check-in they discuss Ryan's birthday, the films Scare Me, The Strings, the Bill & Ted movies, The Babysitter & its new sequel, and Bee recommends her most recent reads, Fear Street: Party Games & The Family Upstairs!
As a group of teens trains for the upcoming Olympics, an insane murderer begins to inventively pick them off. Bee & Ryan look into this low budget slasher, full of confusing plot lines and full frontal nudity to figure out just how well it stacks against other slashers.
Plus in our pop culture check-in we discuss the new twilight book Midnight Sun, Amazon Prime's Get Duked, 90's horror including Body Bags & Stir of Echoes, Dave Franco's directorial debut The Rental, and more!
Before there was A Nightmare on Elm Street there was Alone in the Dark! This week Bee & Ryan are joined by Brennan Klein as they go kill by kill to analyze this early slasher. Directed by Jack Sholder & produced by Bob Shaye, this 80's slasher follows a quartet of murderous psychopaths who break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
This week we are talking about the "black sheep" of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, Freddy's Revenge!
The film directed by Jack Sholder and starring Mark Patton & Robert Englund brings our favorite gloved killer back. Fred Krueger has new rules & even more kids on Elm Street to kill. We look to see how well this franchise entry hits the slasher tropes we know and love.
Plus in our pop culture check-in, we talk about Scream Queen: My Nightmare on Elm Street, the 2019 documentary about actor Mark Patton's story of starring in Freddy's Revenge and how it has impacted his life until now.
One, two Freddy's coming for you. This week we dissect Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street, the slasher that forever changed the genre and created a pop culture icon. Listen as we gush about the importance of this film and its impact on the genre.
Plus in our pop culture check-in we chat Frozen II, Dumbo, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Room, Villians, The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek & HBO's Euphoria.
This week we dissect 1980's Maniac where a psychotic man with serious mommy issues stalks and slashes the attractive women of NYC.
We obsess over Tom Savini's special effects, marvel at the weird dialogue and dive into what this proto-slasher has to offer.
Plus in our pop culture check-in we talk divorce, Colorado, The Boy 2 & To All The Boys I've Loved Before.
Susan Jeremy, Valentine's Day, and a really weird hospital. This is all you need to know about 1981's Hospital Massacre. Follow along with us as we try and make sense of this bonkers 80's holiday slasher.
Plus in our pop culture check-in we discuss Zombieland 2, One Cut of the Dead, Ready or Not, Detective Pikachu & Bad Times at the El Royale.
Happy New Year! We are kicking off 2020 with a low budget winter slasher from 1988, Iced!
Iced is a soapy, formulaic slasher about a group of friends who find themselves invited to a new ski lodge only to be stalked and slashed. Plus in our pop culture check-in we discuss Underwater, the new Grudge, Scooby-Doo & Pokemon Sword.
This year, it's not the turkey being carved for Thanksgiving. This week we discuss 1981's Thanksgiving-inspired slasher Home Sweet Home, which involves a PCP maniac with a "Body by Jake" and a ranch full of horny men and women to create a mostly fun film despite the budget.
Plus in the pop culture check-in, we talk The Lighthouse, The Old Dark House,
Jerry Maguire, Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Spy Who Dumped Me. Molly’s Game. The Impossible and Crawl.
Ryan and Bee celebrate back to school with one of the original college teen screams, 1983's House on Sorority Row. This whodunnit is a beautifully filmed slasher complete with sorority girls, a prank gone wrong and a den mother with a mysterious past. Plus in their pop culture check-in they talk Hustlers, It: Chapter 2, and The Eyes of my Mother.
Bee & Ryan go to camp this week, Cheerleader Camp that is. Listen as they discuss this Leif Garret staring slasher that has some awesome surrealist dream sequences, decent kills, a final girl gone "crazy" & plenty of misogynistic themes to dive into.
PLUS they talk Nevada City Film Fest, Satanic Panic, 90's thrillers, & Magic Mike in their Pop Culture Check-In."
This week Ryan & Bee are joined by Aaron Dries & Brennan Klein for a very special episode dissecting 1988's The Carpenter. This Wings Hauser led Canadian slasher has a lot more to unpack than you would think and our hosts really dive into it. We talk kills, quirky dialogue, character motives, and even who we would cast if we remade the film. (Somebody, please, pay us to remake this film)
Ryan and Bee are back after a small break and in a big way. Before the pop culture check in, they break down some new and exciting news, both personal and podcast wise. During the check in, Ryan has seen some new theatrical releases, both genre and not, while Bee takes a trip back through her visit into the Child's Play franchise and both saw a new Netflix release. Finally, a full blown dig into one of the most decorated and celebrated slashers of all time, Friday the 13th.
Bee has done a TV binge on two vastly different networks and Ryan covered a variety of films, ranging from children's movie to classic ghost story. Then, they dive into FALL BREAK! Wait, we mean...THE MUTILATOR!
Back from our break that you didn't even know about, Bee and Ryan have shared a few movies, including the biggest movie EVER (probably) Avengers: Endgame and the cute Netflix original Someone Great. Plus, some sick ass disco as we cover Prom Night and Liam's first podcasting appearance!
Well Ryan and Bee gush over a teen drama...or two or three. What's new? We also touch base with our journey back through Harry Potter, our New Year's resolutions and then jump full tilt into the ass burning hyperbole of Happy Birthday to Me!
To celebrate the launch of Attack of the Queerwolf over at Blumhouse, Ryan and Bee have Brennan Klein with a questionable slasher but with definite homoerotic subtext. Plus, a whole bunch of Netflix, weird dancing bears, and a follow up to Child's Play!
Still riding the high from Midsummer Scream, Bee and Ryan have a TON of pop culture check-in titles and then discuss the iconic Brad Dourif in his first venture as everyone's favorite doll in CHILD'S PLAY!
Oh, that's right, Ryan and Bee both talk about Dawson's Creek AGAIN. They also both saw Upgrade, a brief mention of A Quiet Place, some old school horror and then we dive head on into the seminal summer cult classic The Burning!