Category Archives: Body Horror

Episode 202 – Bring Her Back

June 22, 2025Body Horror, Found Footage, New Release, Possession, Theatrical ReleaseA24 Horror, Ari Aster, Danny Philippou, Hereditary, Michael Philippou, Pet Sematary (1989), Sally Hawkins, Talk To Me, The Mummy (1999)shockdoctors

The sophomore feature from the Philippou Brothers underwhelmed us about as much as their debut, Talk to Me. What’s worse is that the flashes of originality in that film are almost entirely absent here, in a borrowed hodgepodge indebted most obviously to Hereditary.

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Episode 200 – Matt and Jim’s Best and Worst

June 1, 2025Aliens, Anthology, Body Horror, Creature Feature, Creepypasta, Crime Procedural, Cursed Object Movie, Exorcism, Folk Horror, Foreign Film, Found Footage, Halloween, Haunted House, Horror Comedy, Period Piece, Possession, Prequel, Remake, Sequel, Serial Killer, Slasher, Slender Man, The Conjuring Universe, Universal Monsters, Vampires, Video Game Adaptation, Zombiesshockdoctors

After 200 podcasts, we’ve watched some great movies and a whole lot of crap. Give a listen as we pick out our favorite and least favorite subjects of past episodes.

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Episode 199 – Until Dawn

May 18, 2025Body Horror, Found Footage, Horror Comedy, New Release, Theatrical Release, Video Game AdaptationChristopher Landon, David F. Sandberg, Edge of Tomorrow, Ella Rubin, Gary Dauberman, Groundhog Day, Happy Death Day, Kill Baby Kill, Lights Out, Pet Sematary (1989), Peter Stormare, The Cabin in the Woods, Time Loop, Until Dawn (2015)shockdoctors

Not for the first time, Gary Dauberman piles up a bunch of underwhelming monsters in an attempt to scare us by sheer volume, and not for the first time, he fails. A waste of strong source material.

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Episode 194 – Wolf Man (2025)

February 5, 2025Body Horror, Creature Feature, New Release, Remake, Theatrical Release, Universal MonstersAntlers, Christopher Abbott, Daddy’s Head, Julia Garner, Leigh Whannell, Pacific Northwest, Ravenous, The Barrens (2012), The Fly (1986), The Invisible Man (2020), The Strain, The Wolfman (2010), Wendigo, Werewolvesshockdoctors

Seemingly at war with itself and unable to settle on its core themes, Wolf Man is a big step down from Leigh Whannell’s first Universal Monster flick, 2020’s The Invisible Man.

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Episode 193 – V/H/S/Beyond

January 19, 2025Aliens, Amazon Prime Original, Anthology, Body Horror, Found Footage, New Release, Shudder Original, VOD ReleaseGrave Encounters 2, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Justin Long, Kate Siegel, Mike Flanagan, Phoenix Forgotten, The Atticus Institute, The Jaunt, The Landlady, V/H/Sshockdoctors

The seventh installment in the found footage anthology franchise is perhaps a half-step above the period-piece trilogy that preceded it, but as Matt says, it’s getting increasingly hard to care or sit through the undifferentiated stew we’re presented with time and again. The Flanagan-Siegel segment is an exception.

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Episode 192 – Nosferatu (2024)

January 5, 2025Amazon Prime Original, Body Horror, Folk Horror, Found Footage, Listener Request, Netflix Original, New Release, Period Piece, Remake, Shudder Original, Theatrical Release, Vampires, VOD ReleaseAaron Taylor-Johnson, Bill Skarsgard, Emma Corrin, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Ineson, Robert Eggers, Schalcken the Painter, Shadow of the Vampire, Simon McBurney, Willem Dafoeshockdoctors

It may not be Eggers’ best work, but that’s a very high bar to clear. This is a beautifully shot, handsomely mounted reimagining of the landmark silent film, with standout performances all around.

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Episode 191 – Stopmotion

December 15, 2024Amazon Prime Original, Body Horror, New Release, VOD ReleaseAdaptation (2002), Aisling Franciosi, Black Swan, Blood Tea and Red String, Coraline, James and the Giant Peach, Mad God, May (2002), Repulsion, Robert Morgan, Vincent (1982), Wendell & Wildshockdoctors

Robert Morgan is a gifted animator, but the stopmotion vignettes that give this film its narrative spine don’t tell enough of a story to keep us fully invested. That said, Aisling Franciosi is terrific.

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Episode 190 – Apartment 7A

December 1, 2024Amazon Prime Original, Body Horror, New Release, Period Piece, Prequel, VOD ReleaseDianne Wiest, Inferno (1980), Inside (2007), Julia Garner, Kevin McNally, Natalie Erika James, Relic (2020), Rosemary's Baby, Suspiria (1977), Suspiria (2018), The Company (2003), The First Omen, The Sentinelshockdoctors

This Rosemary’s Baby prequel has visual style and strong performances, but fails to engender the same paranoid dread as the original.

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Episode 187 – Smile 2

October 27, 2024Body Horror, New Release, Possession, Sequel, Theatrical ReleaseAll That Jazz, Apocalypse Trilogy, Black Swan, Cat’s Eye, Firestarter (1984), In the Mouth of Madness, Naomi Scott, Parker Finn, Peter Jacobson, Prince of Darkness, Ray Nicholson, The Thing (1982), Vox Luxshockdoctors

Bigger and dumber than its predecessor, Smile 2 trudges through an interminable series of foregone conclusions while screaming its themes at the audience as loudly as possible.

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Episode 185 – The Substance

October 6, 2024Body Horror, New Release, Theatrical ReleaseAltered States, Angst (1983), Antiviral, Black Swan, Braindead, Coralie Fargeat, Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid, Giallo Murder Gnome, Margaret Qualley, Requiem for a Dream, Seconds (1966), Society (1989), The Double (2013)shockdoctors

The Substance is a movie with three standout performances and a lot of panache that is weighted down by its own excesses, and a habit of repeating itself.

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