Category Archives: Body Horror

Episode 212 – Frankenstein (2025)

Body Horror, Creature Feature, Netflix Original, New Release, Period Piece, Theatrical Release, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Guillermo del Toro’s love of monsters means he saps The Creature of any real sense of menace. It’s a shame, because it’s a gorgeous movie, with top-notch performances from its two leads.

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Episode 210 – V/H/S/Halloween

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The eighth installment in the found footage anthology franchise is a half-step up from the period-piece trilogy, but until they extricate themselves from this splatstick rut, these films will never live up to the promise of the first two.

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Episode 202 – Bring Her Back

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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

Aliens, 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, Zombies

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

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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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