The Complete Guide to Horror Movies (The Complete Guide to Horror Movies)
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| 14 May 2022 | #15 - Trouble in Paradise | Hostel (2005) | 00:12:45 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Hostel, the only movie to be correctly designated with the 'torture porn' label. Follow the 'Talking SH!T - The Complete Guide to Horror Movies' podcast on our social channels below. Subscribe to our YouTube channel | |||
| 05 Aug 2023 | #74 - Scary Movie 2 (2001) Retrospective | 00:31:04 | |
View our Scary Movie shop Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Scary Movie 2, the 2001 American supernatural parody film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. It is the sequel to Scary Movie and the second film in the Scary Movie film series. The film stars Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans (all reprising their roles from the first film, despite their characters having seemingly been killed off), as well as Tim Curry, Tori Spelling, Chris Elliott, Chris Masterson, Kathleen Robertson, David Cross and James Woods. The film is the last in the series to feature the involvement of stars Marlon and Shawn Wayans, and director Keenan. Marlon would eventually go on to produce a similar horror-themed parody, A Haunted House, and its sequel, both starring himself. In the latter film, Wayans pokes fun at the Scary Movie series' decline in quality after his family's departure. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Chapters 00:00 Intro - Deleted Scene 00:35 Title Sequence 00:52 Introducing Scary Movie 2 01:39 Overall Thoughts 06:06 Favourite Parts 11:33 What We Disliked 14:38 Trivia 25:02 Ratings 27:22 Final Thoughts 29:54 Thank You 30:25 Ride Wit Me 30:54 Alternative Ending Clip Where the original film was mainly based on the slasher films of the 1990s, Scary Movie 2 parodies an array of supernatural and haunted house films from various decades, namely The Haunting (1999), Stigmata (1999), The Exorcist (1973), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), The Amityville Horror (1979), Poltergeist (1982), The Legend of Hell House (1973), House on Haunted Hill (both the 1959 and 1999 versions), The Changeling (1980), What Lies Beneath (2000) and Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984) while also making many references to the slasher flick I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998). It also spoofs the comedy film Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) and some contemporary films, such as Hannibal (2001), Hollow Man (2000) and Charlie's Angels (2000). Scary Movie 2 was commercially successful, grossing $141.2 million worldwide from a $45 million budget, but received largely negative reviews from critics. A sequel was released in 2003, grossing $220.7 million against a $48 million budget, and received generally negative reviews. #alternativeending #scarymovie2 #annafaris #reginahall #behindthescenes #movie #death #horrorfilm #deathscene #blood #gore #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #scarymovie #theexorcist #hellhouse #hillhouse #thehaunting #hannibal #charliesangels #nike #brendameeks #cindycampbell | |||
| 10 Sep 2022 | #35 - Peep Show | Eden Lake (2008) | 00:31:30 | |
Teenagers scare the living sh*t out of me! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Eden Lake, the British 2008 horror in which Nursery school teacher Jenny Greengrass and her boyfriend Steve Taylor journey to a remote lake in the wooded English countryside. Steve has visited the spot before, and remembers it as an open area, but since his visit the land has been bought up by a development company. Despite “Keep Out” signs, they proceed to the lakeside, where they meet Adam, a young boy gathering insects. As Steve and Jenny relax beside the lake, the peaceful setting is disrupted by a gang of rowdy teenagers, who have ridden their bicycles to a spot within a few metres of the young couple. Steve asks them to keep the noise down, but is met with abuse, and one boy accuses Steve of ogling his girlfriend. The next morning Steve and Jenny find their food supplies infested with insects, and their car tire damaged by a bottle left behind by the teens. Driving into town for breakfast, Steve spots a house with bikes outside that he thinks belong to the teens. When no one answers the door, Steve enters the house and proceeds to snoop around. But on the return of Jon, the surly homeowner, Steve is obliged to make his escape from an upstairs window. Back at the lake, Steve goes scuba diving while Jenny sleeps on the shore. Steve has been planning to propose, and is starting a story about “finding” the ring in the lake when he discovers that the bag with their car keys, phone and wallet is missing; their car is also gone. Returning to town on foot, they avoid collision with their own car, driven recklessly through the woods by the gang's psychopathic leader, Brett. Finding the gang in the woods after nightfall, Steve demands the return of his belongings, only to be pounced by the knife-wielding teens. In the scuffle, Brett's rottweiler Bonnie is mortally knifed, provoking Brett into a maniacal rage. The couple grab the keys and drive off, but the gang throws stones at them, causing Steve to crash the car. With Steve trapped, Jenny is forced to run for help. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, 80% of 28 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 6.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "A brutal and effective British hoodie-horror that, despite the clichés, stays on the right side of scary."
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| 15 Oct 2022 | #39 - Shut Up & Drive | Rest Stop (2006) | 00:27:44 | |
This ain't no regular driver reviver baby! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Rest Stop, the first direct-to-video horror film released by Warner Studios' "Raw Feed" imprint on October 17, 2006. It was written and directed by John Shiban. Jess picks up his girlfriend, Nicole, to head out to California in his convertible. On the way, Nicole complains she needs to urinate, and she urges Jess to find a rest stop. After exiting the building, she finds her boyfriend gone. A deranged truck driver throws her the red cell phone from the convertible, convincing her he has Jess. Nicole goes to look for help, notices an RV, bangs on the door, and asks for help. She has a short eerie ride with the passengers until she is eventually thrown out for looking at the deformed individual hidden in the back of the vehicle. She then returns to the restroom, where she hears a girl coughing up blood (Tracy) with cuts all over whimpering in the maintenance room. She cautions Nicole about the deranged killer who tortured her. The girl then bleeds profusely, and as Nicole's attention is diverted, she disappears, blood and all. Nicole finds Tracy's missing person poster and discovers the girl has been missing since 1971. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook The film has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 3.3/10 however It was a relative success on video, with close to $5 million in domestic video sales at retail. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #reststop #lizziemcguire #rihanna #shutupanddrive #lawandordersvu #bilymadison #antm #chrisfarley #adamsandler | |||
| 24 Sep 2022 | #37 - The Philosophy of Time Travel | Donnie Darko (2001) | 00:49:00 | |
Rabbits are the new pennywise. Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Donnie Darko, the 2001 cult film directed by Richard Kelly and starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Set in October 1988, the film follows Donnie Darko, an emotionally troubled teenager who inadvertently escapes a bizarre accident by sleepwalking. He has visions of Frank, a mysterious figure in a rabbit costume who informs him that the world will end in just over 28 days. Frank begins to manipulate Donnie to commit several crimes. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. Development began in late 1997 when Kelly had graduated from film school and started writing scripts. He took an early idea of a jet engine falling onto a house with no one knowing its origin and built the story around it. Kelly insisted on directing the film himself and struggled to secure backing from producers until 2000, when Barrymore's Flower Films agreed to produce it on a $4.5 million budget. Filming took 28 days in the summer of 2000, mostly in California. The soundtrack features a cover of "Mad World" by Tears for Fears by American musicians Gary Jules and Michael Andrews, which went to No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks. The film premiered on January 19, 2001 at the Sundance Film Festival, followed by a limited theatrical release on October 26. Because the film's advertising featured a crashing plane and the September 11 attacks had occurred a month and a half before, it was scarcely advertised, which affected its box office performance; it grossed just $517,375 in its initial run. Donnie Darko received positive reviews and was listed No. 2 in Empire's "50 Greatest Independent Films of All Time", and No. 53 in Empire's "500 Greatest Movies of All Time". After reissues, it went on to gross $7.5 million worldwide. The film went on earning more than $10 million in US home video sales and gained a cult following. Kelly released Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut in 2004. The film was adapted into a stage production in 2007 and a sequel, S. Darko, followed in 2009 without Kelly's involvement. In 2021, he announced that work on a new sequel is in progress. Tune in next week to our recap on Wes Craven's 'The People Under the Stairs'. #donniedarko #jakegyllenhaal #franktherabbit #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #teenangst #mcr #mychemicalromance #teenagers #bluesclues #sethrogen #pineappleexpress #amberheard #drawntogether #daveighchase #madworld #chucky #riverdale #drewbarrymore #thepeopleunderthestairs #wescraven | |||
| 25 Dec 2024 | #92 - Talking Terrifier and Projects with Samantha Scaffidi | 00:51:15 | |
Today we have an extra special guest joining us. You'll know her from the blood-soaked Terrifier franchise in which she plays Victoria Heyes, the infamous final girl turned villain and today Samantha Scaffidi joins us to discuss her career as a scream queen, actor, director and activist. Please welcome Samantha! Chapters 00:00 Introducing special guest Samantha Scaffidi 00:35 Samantha’s current project 'Open Your Eyes' and the inspiration behind her short film 01:31 How did Samantha get her start in acting and filmmaking? 04:57 How did Samantha originally become involved in the Terrifier franchise which is now a huge beast at the box office! 07:02 How does Samantha feel about the impact that the Terrifier movies have made on the horror genre? 8:38 Samantha’s new book "I Didn't Know How To Tell You" and the process behind it 12:54 Samantha’s views on the horror genre 15:55 The Substance and Samantha’s thoughts on Coralie Fargeat 17:05 Samantha’s work with the nonprofit organization RAINN 26:06 Samantha’s upcoming Spanish film Ocaso and other projects? 28:49 Could Terrifier work in a TV Adaptation and would Samantha star in one? 30:31 Are the Terrifier movies misunderstood as misogynistic? 34:17 Do you have a favourite horror film? 39:39 Final Destination 3 and tanning beds 41:15 Samantha’s advice for exploring acting and directing 46:20 Recognition at fan conventions and imposter syndrome 47:07 Samantha’s hopes for future of the horror genre 49:25 Terrifier sending a signal to major studios for original creativity SHOP OUR STORE https://completeguidetohorror.threadless.com/collections/new/ Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd Find out more about RAINN ↪ https://rainn.org/ Follow Samantha Scaffidi on Instagram ↪ https://www.instagram.com/sscaffidi/ Check out Samantha's website https://www.samanthascaffidi.com/ Prefer the podcast version? Download via Spotify, Apple, Anchor, iHeartRadio and more below; https://linktr.ee/completeguidetohorror #terrifier #samanthascaffidi #horror #podcast #interview #podcast #completeguidetohorror #arttheclown #clown #blood | |||
| 19 Nov 2022 | #44 - Oh Hell No! | Nope (2022) | 00:46:24 | |
Jean Jacket is too classy for this world. Alien Superstar. Whip whip! Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. The film has been characterized as containing themes related to spectacle and exploitation. GQ's Gerrick D. Kennedy wrote that Nope "is a movie about spectacle. More specifically, our addiction to spectacle... Nope is about holding a mirror up to all of us and our inability to look away from drama or peril." Kennedy also states that "the erasure of black contributions" to the history of filmmaking plays a significant role in the film. Writer-director Jordan Peele was partly inspired to write Nope by the COVID-19 lockdowns and the "endless cycle of grim, inescapable tragedy" in 2020. Critical Reception Box Office #nope #jordanpeele #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #jeanjacket #kekepalmer #idontknowwhothismanis #meghantrainor #no #creature #alien #twilightzone #americandad #scifi #aliens #paranormal #barbieferreira | |||
| 23 Oct 2024 | #87 - The Horror Movie Report ft. Stephen Follows | 01:23:29 | |
Today, our special guest is Stephen Follows, author of The Horror Movie Report. Stephen is an established data researcher in the film industry whose work has been featured in the New York Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Mirror, Newsweek, AV Club, Indiewire and more. No matter how many scary movies you’ve logged on your Letterboxd account this October, Stephen Follows has you beat. The British film researcher has devoted his career to the quantitative study of film, using data to identify trends in the entertainment industry from a bird’s eye view. His latest work, the second edition of “The Horror Movie Report,” saw him analysing every existing horror movie that he could identify — 27,000 by his count — with the hope of offering artists, executives, and fans some clarity about what he sees as a criminally misunderstood genre. Check out The Horror Movie Report below https://stephenfollows.com/reports/the-horror-report/ SHOP OUR STORE https://completeguidetohorror.threadless.com/collections/new/ Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd #horror #movie #report #data #analytics #stephenfollows #film #professional #screenaustralia | |||
| 08 May 2022 | #14 - Break the Rules | Spiral (2021) | 00:19:55 | |
| 15 Dec 2022 | #48 - Push the Button | The Box (2009) | 00:27:25 | |
All you have to do is push the button. Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The Box, the 2009 mystery thriller by writer/director Richard Kelly that adapts an eighties Twilight Zone episode for the big screen with mixed results. The film stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple who receive a box from a mysterious man (played by Frank Langella) who offers them one million dollars if they press the button sealed within the dome on top of the box, but tells them that, once the button has been pushed, someone they do not know will die. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #thebox #camerondiaz #jamesmarsden #franklangella #scifi #aliens #spooky #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #twilightzone #spongebob #vine #sugababes #pushthebutton | |||
| 30 Oct 2023 | #78 - Talk to Me (2023) - Retrospective and Review | 00:35:00 | |
Join BP, Coop, Pablo and Justin as we review Talk To Me, the Australian supernatural horror film directed by Danny and Michael Philippou and written by Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman, based on a concept by Daley Pearson. It stars Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto, Zoe Terakes, Chris Alosio, Marcus Johnson, and Alexandria Steffensen. The film follows a group of teenagers who discover they are able to contact spirits using a mysterious embalmed hand, only for things to go too far. Chapters 00:00 Queen Miranda Otto 00:16 Title Sequence 00:33 Introducing Talk to Me 00:52 Overall Thoughts 05:18 Favourite Parts 16:38 What We Disliked 23:25 Trivia 29:52 Ratings 33:29 Thank You 34:34 Talk Like That Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! Talk to Me premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival on 30 October 2022, and was released in Australia on 27 July 2023 by Maslow Entertainment. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised its story, direction, horror sequences, practical effects, sound design and performances, with Sophie Wilde and Joe Bird receiving particular praise. It was a box office success, grossing $90 million worldwide against a $4.5 million budget, becoming A24's second highest-grossing film. A sequel is currently in development. #talktome #mirandaotto #rackaracka #a24 #australia #talklikethat #thepresets #sketchshe #review #retrospective #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #trivia | |||
| 18 Mar 2023 | #60 - Funniest Home Videos | Sinister (2012) | 00:33:29 | |
What kind of name is Bughuul any way? Sounds like a yoga pose Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Sinister, the 2012 horror film starring Ethan Hawke as a struggling true-crime writer whose discovery of videos depicting grisly murders in his new house puts his family in danger. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #sinister #ethanhawke #fastforward #australia #sketchcomedy #ginariley #roguetraders #watchingme #super8 #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 01 May 2022 | #12 - End of an Era | Saw 3D aka Saw: The Final Chapter (2010) | 00:25:00 | |
| 13 Nov 2024 | #89 - Smile 2 (2024) Review | 00:38:40 | |
Join BP, Coop, and Justin as we review Smile 2, the 2024 sequel to the hit horror film 'Smile', both written and directed by Parker Finn. Smile 2 stars Naomi Scott as Skye Riley, a pop star who begins to experience a series of increasingly disturbing events just as she is about to embark on tour due to the Smile curse being passed to her. It also features Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson, Ray Nicholson, Dylan Gelula, and Raúl Castillo, as well as Kyle Gallner reprising his role from the first film. Smile 2 was released theatrically in the United States on October 18, 2024. Like its predecessor, the film received positive reviews from critics, and grossed over $124 million worldwide. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 00:30 About Smile 2 01:49 Overall Thoughts 06:15 Favourite Parts 12:22 What We Disliked 26:18 Trivia 32:52 Ratings 37:49 Thank You 38:25 Stop smiling at me SHOP OUR STORE https://completeguidetohorror.threadless.com/collections/new/ Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd
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| 30 Jul 2022 | #29 - Crazy Stupid Love | Bride of Chucky (1998) | 00:20:35 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Bride of Chucky, the 1998 sequel that takes a more comedic-horror turn for the Chuck franchise. Tiffany Valentine, a former lover and accomplice of serial killer Charles Lee Ray, bribes a police officer into giving her the dismembered parts of a children's doll—which Ray's soul inhabited—from an evidence locker before murdering him. Believing that Ray's soul still inhabits the doll, Tiffany stitches and staples Chucky back together and reenacts the voodoo ritual which had instilled Ray's soul inside the doll ten years prior. Though her incantations appear to fail, Chucky comes alive and smothers Tiffany's goth admirer Damien to death with a pillow as Tiffany watches in excitement. Tiffany presents Chucky with a ring he had left behind the night he was killed, which she believed to be an engagement ring. When Chucky explains he never intended on marrying Tiffany, she locks him in a playpen and taunts him with a bride doll. Chucky escapes the playpen and murders Tiffany by electrocuting her in a bathtub. He then transports her soul into the bride doll, and says they must retrieve a magical amulet that was buried with his human body in order to transfer their souls into the bodies of Tiffany's neighbor Jesse and his girlfriend Jade. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel After the release of Child's Play 3, Don Mancini and David Kirschner decided that the series required a new direction, and decided against returning the character of Andy Barclay. Work on the film began in 1996, with the working title Child's Play 4: Bride of Chucky, inspired by the release of Scream. Mancini said, "Like most genres, the horror genre goes in cycles and I think we can thank Kevin Williamson and Scream for reinvigorating the market. Over the years, I had been imagining new scenarios for this series. With his previous successes, we knew it was just a matter of time before we'd be bringing Chucky back and David Kirschner and I both felt that it was important to bring him back in a new way -- we wanted to elevate the series and re-invent it, go beyond what we'd done before. And what we've ended up with is—incredibly—part horror, part comedy, part romance and part road movie. It's a really cool blend of the genuinely creepy and the really funny." Ronny Yu was hired to direct the film after Kirschner and Mancini were "amazed" by his film The Bride with White Hair, and was allowed to use his creative freedom and the ability to hire his collaborators Peter Pau and David Wu from Hong Kong. The inspiration to create a girlfriend for Chucky came from David Kirschner after he saw a copy of the classic Bride of Frankenstein in a video store. Mancini loved the idea and created Tiffany. He said, "After all, two dolls running around the country together and killing people a la Natural Born Killer Dolls or Barbie and Clyde is really pretty funny." Mancini chose Tilly as his first choice to play Tiffany, after being impressed with her in Bound and Bullets Over Broadway. Gina Gershon, Tilly's co-star in Bound, encouraged her to take the role. Several months | |||
| 17 Apr 2022 | #08 - A Medical Mystery | Saw III (2006) | 00:19:30 | |
| 28 May 2022 | #19 - Dark But Just A Game | Would You Rather (2011) | 00:10:50 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Would You Rather, the 2011 film. In the movie, Iris, a young woman caring for her sick brother Raleigh (stupid name), is unable to afford the costs of his treatment for leukaemia. Raleigh's oncologist Dr. Barden introduces Iris to Shepard Lambrick (also stupid name), a philanthropist who heads the Lambrick Foundation that manages schools and hospitals in third world countries. He offers her a deal, if she wins a parlour game at a dinner party he is hosting, he will pay for Raleigh's treatment and use his foundation's influence to shortlist a bone marrow donor for him. The following day at Shepard's manor, Iris is introduced to his son Julian and the other contestants: Lucas; Travis, a war veteran; Linda, a paralysed elderly woman; Peter, a gambling addict; Amy; Conway, an alcoholic debtor; and Cal. A steak and foie gras dinner is served but Iris, a vegetarian, initially declines to eat it. Shepard then offers her $10,000 to compromise her principles; she reluctantly accepts his offer and eats the steak. When Shepard realizes Conway is a recovering alcoholic, he offers him $10,000 to drink a glass of wine. When Conway declines, Shepard offers him $50,000 to drink an entire decanter of Scotch, which Conway accepts. After dinner ends, the game begins. Shepard reveals it to be a version of the party game "would you rather" in which players must choose between two options. After Shepard's butler, a former MI5 agent named Bevans, wheels in an electric shock machine, Conway attempts to leave but is shot dead. The remaining contestants learn how serious and deadly the game is, and realize they can only win the game if they are the last surviving player. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel #completeguidetohorror #scarymovie #horror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #gore #bood #graphic #wouldyourather #parlourgame #games #lanadelrey #marioparty #minigame #naomismalls #dragrace #vegasrevue #nebrasksthunderfuck | |||
| 15 Apr 2022 | #03 - Love Rollercoaster | Final Destination 3 (2006) | 00:32:10 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we analyse the third instalment in the Final Destination franchise. Are you also traumatised by tanning? Let us know in the comments! Follow the 'Talking SH!T - The Complete Guide to Horror Movies' podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel | |||
| 11 Nov 2023 | #79 - One Hour Photo (2002) - Retrospective and Review | 00:30:00 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we review One Hour Photo, the 2002 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, and Eriq La Salle. The film stars Williams as a photo technician who develops an unhealthy obsession with a family to whom he has long provided services. The film premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, was given a limited release on August 21, 2002, and was given a wider release on September 13. One Hour Photo received positive reviews from film critics, including praise for Williams's against-type performance, which earned him the Saturn Award for Best Actor. The film was also a commercial success, grossing $52.2 million against a $12 million budget. Chapters 00:00 Robin Williams 00:06 Title Sequence 00:24 Introducing One Hour Photo 00:45 Overall Thoughts 06:45 Favourite Parts 13:13 What We Disliked 20:49 Trivia 24:22 Ratings 25:00 Final Thoughts 29:00 Thank You 29:01 Obsessed Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Letterboxd Trent Reznor, of the band Nine Inch Nails, was originally asked to compose the film's score. However, early in the process, Romanek was allegedly pressured by the studio to hire a "real composer" and Reznor was dropped from the production. Some of the music Reznor created for the film evolved into material found on the Nine Inch Nails EP Still. In accordance with the photography-themed movie, the names of several characters are drawn from actual photographers: Sy's assistant at the Savmart, Yoshi Araki (named for Nobuyoshi Araki), manager Bill Owens (Bill Owens); Det. Van Der Zee (James Van Der Zee); Det. Outerbridge (Paul Outerbridge); Maya Burson (Nancy Burson); and Savmart customers Mrs. von Unwerth (Ellen von Unwerth) and Mr. Siskind (Aaron Siskind). In one of the voice-over pieces Sy can be heard to say, "They actually believe that any idiot that attends a two-day seminar can master the art of making beautiful prints in less than an hour. But of course, like most things, there's far more to it than meets the eye." Williams prepared for the role by training for two and-a-half days in a Southern California photo development lab. In an interview, Romanek said that he was inspired to create this movie by films from the 1970s about "lonely men", notably Taxi Driver (1976). In the DVD commentary, Romanek says that Jack Nicholson was first approached to play the lead character. Nicholson turned down the role reportedly because he thought the character was too similar to the role he played in The Shining (1980). #onehourphoto #mariahcarey #obsessed #thriller #judgejudy #ratings #lawandordersvu #lawandorder #screamqueens #review #retrospective #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #trivia #robinwilliams | |||
| 26 Jun 2023 | #72 - Thir13en Ghosts (2001) Retrospective and Review | 00:24:05 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss the remake of Thir13en Ghosts, starring Embeth Davidtz (Miss Honey) Tony Shalhoub (Monk) and Shannon Elizabeth (Nadia from American Pie). In Thir13en Ghosts, a family inherit a futuristic mansion, the twist? 13 ghosts are released one-by-one to torment the family. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Letterboxd | |||
| 15 Apr 2022 | #04 - What About NASCAR? | The Final Destination (2009) | 00:24:23 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we analyse the fourth and WORST movie in the Final Destination franchise. Ever wondered how this $40 Million travesty got made? We investigate. Follow the 'Talking SH!T - The Complete Guide to Horror Movies' podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel | |||
| 05 Nov 2022 | #42 - I'll Be Your Enigma | The Number 23 (2007) | 00:23:23 | |
It's just a number! Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. The Number 23 has an approval rating of 7% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 189 reviews; the average rating is 3.50/10. The site's consensus reads: "Jim Carrey has been sharp in a number of non-comedic roles, but this lurid, overheated, and self serious potboiler is not one of them. The Number 23 is clumsy, unengaging, and mostly confusing." Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "B−" on scale of A+ to F. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone declared the film the year's worst star vehicle on his list of the Worst Movies of 2007, while Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent said the film "delivers a rambling, confusing narrative with only a few stylistic elements thrown in". On its opening weekend, The Number 23 took in $14,602,867, coming in behind Ghost Rider's second weekend. After five weeks of release, the film grossed $35,193,167 at the domestic box office and $42,373,648 overseas, for a worldwide total of $77,566,815. The film was released on Region 1 DVD on July 24, 2007; The release contains both the theatrical version and an extended version, which runs an additional four minutes. This is the last in New Line's Infinifilm series. Special features include deleted scenes, such as a much more abstract alternate opening and an alternate ending that gives a few more details about Walter's prison sentence and hints at the possibility that the son could be subject to the same obsessions as his father. The disc also includes interviews with mathematicians, psychologists, and numerologists. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #scarymovie #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #psychologicalhorror #23enigma #enigma #milecyrus #jimcarrey #mikewillmadeit #partycannon #podcast #retrospective #review #filmreview | |||
| 10 Apr 2024 | #82 - Bloody Famous ft. Wayne River Sorrell | 00:41:24 | |
We have a special guest! Wayne River Sorrell joins us to discuss his roles in the just released Bloody Famous, the impact of the SAG-AFTRA strike and his favourite horror movies! Follow Wayne River Sorrell on Instagram below ↪ Instagram Watch Bloody Famous now out on Amazon Prime and Tubi! ↪ Amazon Prime ↪ Tubi Bloody Famous is a new horror tv show in which each season, a bachelor or bachelorette leads a dangerous dating show where love is a high-stakes game – elimination equals death. Bloody Famous stars David Lami Friebe, Emmanuel Jalbert, Derek Ocampo, Tamara Alsaied, Gavyn Michaels and Wayne River Sorrell. Bloody Famous is directed by Steve Balderson. Follow his YouTube channel here Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd #horror #bloodyfamous #vondutch #charlixcx #hauntingofqueenmary #wayneriversorrell #crystallowe #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #tubi #amazonprime #finaldestination | |||
| 03 Jul 2022 | #25 - Back to the Future | Scream 5 (2022) | 00:36:30 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Scream aka Scream 5, the 2022 fifth iteration of the meta-slasher franchise. The film takes place twenty-five years after the original Woodsboro murders, when yet another Ghostface appears and begins targeting a group of teenagers who are each somehow linked to the original killings. Similar to previous entries, Scream combines the violence of the slasher genre with elements of black comedy and "whodunit" mystery to satirize the trend of reboots and legacy sequels. The film also provides commentary on the horror fandom culture, particularly the divide between "elevated horror" and classic slasher films. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Although fifth and sixth Scream instalments were discussed after the release of Scream 4 in 2011, Craven, writer Kevin Williamson, and executive producer Harvey Weinstein had doubts about proceeding with more films following the less-than-expected box office performance of the fourth film. After the 2017 sexual assault allegations against Weinstein and the closure of The Weinstein Company, the rights to the Scream franchise were obtained by Spyglass Media Group in November 2019, who confirmed a new film would later be made. It was praised by critics for honouring Craven's legacy and offering thoughtful meta-commentary on horror films, with some calling it the best of the Scream sequels. In January 2022, Neve Campbell and the film's directors expressed interest in making future films in the series. A sixth film was officially green-lit on February 3, 2022, with the same creative team returning. Courteney Cox confirmed her involvement that March, while also stating she had received the script and production would begin in Canada in June 2022. Also in March, the sixth film's release date was set for March 31, 2023. In May 2022, it was announced that Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, and Jenna Ortega would also return for the sixth film. The following day, it was also announced that Hayden Panettiere would reprise her role of Kirby Reed from the fourth film. Dermot Mulroney was announced as part of the cast on June 3, 2022. On June 6, Neve Campbell announced she would not be reprising her role as Sidney for the sixth film, saying "I felt the offer that was presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise", but added, "To all my Scream fans, I love you. You've always been so incredibly supportive to me. I'm forever grateful to you and to what this franchise has given me over the past 25 years." #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #scream #scream2 #nevecampbell #courtneycox #davidarquette #randymeeks #jamiekennedy #sidneyprescott #college #90sfilms #galeweathers #billyloomis #stumacher #scream2022 #jillroberts #kirbyreed #justiceforkirby #nicotortorella #jennaortega #redrighthand #remake #reboot #death #trilogy #weinstein | |||
| 12 Feb 2023 | #54 - Zombie Play School | Little Monsters (2019) | 00:23:50 | |
This is the type of school excursion I wanted! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Little Monsters, the 2019 zombie comedy film written and directed by Abe Forsythe, starring Lupita Nyong'o, Alexander England, Josh Gad, and Kat Stewart. The story centres on a washed-up musician, a children's television personality, and a kindergarten teacher teaming up to protect a group of young schoolchildren during a sudden zombie outbreak. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #littlemonsters #australianfilm #ladygaga #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #lupitanyongo #joshgad #katstewart #abeforsythe #tropfest #shock #australianhorror #monster #thefamemonster #azealiabanks | |||
| 10 Mar 2023 | #59 - Ghostface Takes Manhattan | Scream VI (2023) CONTAINS SPOILERS | 01:00:05 | |
There's never been a ghostface like this one... Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss the just released Scream VI film. THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS In Scream VI, the survivors from the previous instalments are attacked by a new ghostface in New York City. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #screamvi #scream6 #nospoilers #ghostface #stumacher #kirbyreed #galeweathers #deweyriley #taracarpenter #jennaortega #samanthacarpenter #scream2022 #radiosilence #toxicfandom #courtneycox #haydenpanettiere #nevecampbell #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 19 Aug 2023 | #75 - Scary Movie 3 (2003) Retrospective | 00:38:49 | |
View our Scary Movie shop And twins! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we take a look back at Scary Movie 3, the 2003 American parody film which parodies the horror, sci-fi, and mystery genres. It is the sequel to Scary Movie 2 and is the third film in the Scary Movie film series, and the first to be directed by David Zucker. The film stars Anna Faris and Regina Hall reprising their roles as Cindy Campbell and Brenda Meeks, respectively. New cast members include Charlie Sheen, Simon Rex, Anthony Anderson, Kevin Hart, and Leslie Nielsen. It is the first film in the series to feature no involvement from the Wayans family. The characters of Shorty Meeks and Ray Wilkins, previously played by Shawn and Marlon Wayans, do not appear, nor are they referenced. The film's plot significantly parodies the films The Ring, Signs, The Matrix Reloaded and 8 Mile. The film grossed $220.7 million worldwide, becoming the second highest-grossing film in the series. A sequel, Scary Movie 4, was released in 2006. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Chapters 00:00 Cindy the TV's leaking 00:26 Title Sequence 00:44 Introducing Scary Movie 3 01:25 Overall Thoughts 04:45 Favourite Parts 17:34 What We Disliked 23:50 Trivia 33:58 Ratings 35:55 Final Thoughts 37:49 Thank You 38:27 And twins! On November 22, 2002, Dimension Films announced a third Scary Movie without the Wayans brothers returning. The movie was given the title Scary Movie 3: Episode I — Lord of the Brooms, and the movie was supposed to spoof the Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter franchises. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer were the writers of the movie. David Zucker was going to shoot that script but eventually decided to not use it. Filming started on March 12, 2003 and wrapped on July 16, 2003. The movie was shot in British Columbia and in Washington, D.C. #scarymovie3 #annafaris #reginahall #alternativeending #deletedscenes #thering #signs #8mile #eminem #behindthescenes #movie #death #horrorfilm #deathscene #blood #gore #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #scarymovie #theexorcist #hellhouse #hillhouse #thehaunting #hannibal #charliesangels #nike #brendameeks #cindycampbell | |||
| 08 Apr 2023 | #63 - I'm Like a Bird | The Mothman Prophecies (2002) | 00:28:30 | |
"It's a bird! it's a plane! It's Debra Messing from Will and Grace?" Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The Mothman Prophecies, the 2002 film that follows John Klein (Richard Gere), a reporter who researches the legend of the Mothman. Still shaken by the death of his wife two years earlier from Glioblastoma, Klein is sent to cover a news piece and ends up inexplicably finding himself in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where there have been sightings of an unusual creature and other unexplained phenomena. As he becomes increasingly drawn into mysterious forces at work, he hopes they can reconnect him to his wife, while the local sheriff (Laura Linney) becomes concerned about his obsessions. The film claims to be based on actual events that occurred between November 1966 and December 1967 in Point Pleasant, as described by Keel. It was shot in Pittsburgh and Kittanning, Pennsylvania and was released to mixed reviews. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:15 Title Sequence 00:52 Introducing The Mothman Prophecies 03:14 Overall Thoughts 05:11 What We Liked 09:58 What We Disliked 18:33 Trivia 20:40 Nambucca Heads Creature Folklore 23:07 Trivia (Continued) 24:58 Ratings 25:41 Final Thoughts 27:19 Thank You 27:46 Murder #mothman #richardgere #nellyfurtado #imlikeabird #flanders #debramessing #aprilfoolsday #aprilfools #drawntogether #thesimpsons #meme #2000smovies #2002 #chaneloberlin #00shorror #thewaterboy #kathybates #familyguy #agathachristie #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 14 Jul 2023 | #73 - Scary Movie (2000) Retrospective | 00:21:39 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Scary Movie, the 2000 American slasher parody film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and written by Marlon and Shawn Wayans (who both also star), alongside Buddy Johnson, Phil Beauman, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Starring Jon Abrahams, Carmen Electra, Shannon Elizabeth, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, Regina Hall, Lochlyn Munro, Cheri Oteri, and Dave Sheridan, it follows a group of teenagers who accidentally hit a man with their car, dump his body in a lake and never talk about it again. A year later, someone wearing a Ghostface mask and robe kills them one by one. The film is a parody of multiple genres including the horror, slasher, and mystery film genres. Several 1990s films and TV shows are also spoofed, and the script primarily follows the plot of the slasher films Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Some films and TV shows like Halloween, The Shining, Friday the 13th, The Usual Suspects, The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project, and The Matrix, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer were also parodied in some scenes. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:16 Title Sequence 00:54 Introducing Scary Movie 01:44 Overall Thoughts 04:57 Favourite Parts 10:03 What We Disliked 10:58 Trivia 15:49 Ratings 17:03 Final Thoughts 19:04 Thank You 19:35 Scary Movie 20:56 Post-Credits Scene involving Doofy #postcreditscene #scarymovie #annafaris #reginahall #lochlynmunro #behindthescenes #scream #ghostface #iknowwhatyoudidlastsummer #movie #death #horrorfilm #deathscene #blood #gore #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy | |||
| 10 Dec 2022 | #47 - Sweet Dreams | The Nightmare (2015) | 00:30:15 | |
Forget fictional made up horror, this is real scary sh*t. Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss 'The Nightmare', the 2015 documentary that focuses on people suffering from sleep paralysis, a phenomenon where people find themselves temporarily unable to move, speak, or react to anything while they are falling asleep or awakening. Occasionally this paralysis will be accompanied by physical experiences or hallucinations that have the potential to terrify the individual. In the film, Ascher interviews each participant and then tries to re-create their experiences on film with professional actors. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. The Nightmare premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2015 before making its way to South by Southwest on March 13. The film entered a limited theatrical release on June 5, 2015 while also attaining an online release. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. It holds a rating of 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 58 reviews. The critic's consensus reads: "Part documentary, part thriller, The Nightmare works just well enough in both respects to deliver a uniquely disturbing viewing experience". On Metacritic, the film has a 69 out of 100 rating based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews". ##horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #thenightmare #documentary #sleepparalysis #iwanttobelieve #boogeyman #jumpscare #truehorror #bogeyman #beyonce #sweetdreams | |||
| 02 Jul 2022 | #24 - New Decade, New Rules | Scream 4 (2011) | 00:24:00 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Scream 4, the fourth instalment in the meta-slasher Scream franchise! On the 16th anniversary week of the original Woodsboro murders, high school students Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper are murdered by Ghostface. Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro the next day to promote her book with her publicist, Rebecca Walters. After evidence is found in her rental car, Sidney becomes a suspect in the murders and must stay in town until they are solved. Sidney's cousin, Jill Roberts, who is coping with the infidelity of her ex-boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon, gets a threatening phone call from Ghostface, as does her friend Olivia Morris. Jill and Olivia, alongside their friend Kirby Reed, are questioned about their calls by Dewey Riley, now the town's sheriff, while his deputies – Judy Hicks, Anthony Perkins and Hoss assist him in the case. Gale Weathers, Dewey's wife, is struggling with writer's block and decides to investigate the murders against her husband's wishes. In the years since its release, many have credited Scream 4 with foreshadowing the effects of social media on today's youth and the extreme lengths they go to achieve internet fame. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #scream #scream2 #nevecampbell #courtneycox #davidarquette #randymeeks #jamiekennedy #sidneyprescott #college #90sfilms #1997 #galeweathers #billyloomis #stumacher #scream2022 #jillroberts #kirbyreed #justiceforkirby #nicotortorella #roryculkin #remake #reboot #death #trilogy #weinstein | |||
| 12 Jun 2023 | #70 - Speak No Evil (2022) | Don't Speak | 00:24:35 | |
Don't speak! I know just what you're thinking Join BP, Coop and Justin as we review Speak No Evil, the 2022 psychological horror thriller film directed by Christian Tafdrup from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Mads. It is produced by Jacob Jarek and is distributed by Nordisk Film. Filming took place in Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy, and most of the film is shot in English, with some scenes in Danish and Dutch. The film centers on Bjørn (Morten Burian) and Louise (Sidsel Siem Koch), a Danish couple who are invited by Patrick (Fedja van Huêt) and Karin (Karina Smulders), a Dutch couple, to their country house for a weekend holiday; the hosts soon begin to test the limits of their guests as the situation escalates. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Linktree Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:17 Title Sequence 00:54 Speak No Evil (2022) 01:42 Overall Thoughts 04:29 Flashback to Episode 53 05:13 Favourite Parts 11:13 What We Disliked 15:00 Trivia 21:01 Ratings 21:46 Final Thoughts 23:07 Thank You 23:36 Don't Speak 24:01 Like and Subscribe The film received an invitation to the Midnight section of the 38th Sundance Film Festival, which included: "horror and comedy works that defy genre classification", where it premiered on 22 January 2022. Box office Speak No Evil grossed $631,249 against a production budget of $3.1 million. Critical response On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 84% of 90 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "A social satire with razor-sharp teeth, Speak No Evil offers a darkly delicious treat for fans of misanthropic thrillers." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Sundance Film Festival touted the film as a "brilliantly provocative and simmering satirical work of horror [that] incriminates both sides". Remake In April 2023, it was announced Blumhouse Productions was developing a remake of the same name, with James McAvoy attached to star and James Watkins writing and directing. The film is currently set to be theatrically released on 9 August 2024 by Universal Pictures. #dontspeak #speaknoevil #europe #horror #sundance #filmfestival #remake #nodoubt #gwenstefani #tonykanal #hilaryduff #thehotchick #annafaris #robschneider #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 18 Jun 2022 | #23 - Hollywood Undead | Scream 3 (2000) | 00:13:10 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we analyse Scream 3, the third instalment in the Scream franchise. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #scream #scream2 #nevecampbell #courtneycox #davidarquette #randymeeks #jamiekennedy #sidneyprescott #college #90sfilms #1997 #galeweathers #billyloomis #stumacher #scream2022 #parkerposey #hollywood #hollywoodundead #setlife #trilogy | |||
| 16 Apr 2022 | #06 - The Humble Beginnings of Torture Porn | Saw (2004) | 00:15:20 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we analyse the concept of 'Torture Porn' and the first instalment in the Saw franchise. Follow the 'Talking SH!T - The Complete Guide to Horror Movies' podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel | |||
| 17 Dec 2024 | #91 - How to Make a Short Horror Film ft. Kayley Atkinson of Profound Visions | 01:44:49 | |
Joining us today is special guest Kayley Atkinson, writer, director, producer and assistant director based in Brisbane Australia. Kayley is in post-production for her new short film 'Sentient', which focuses on the perils of social media and what happens to a group of friends whop decide to forgo their smart phones during a getaway trip, but nothing is as it seems! Kayley joins the podcast to discuss Sentient, how it came to be, the incredible cast and crew, how Kayley fell into the filmmaking world and we muse on The Substance, Smile 2, horror franchises and more. Follow Kayley on social media below ↪ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profoundvisions_ Keep up to date with Sentient the short film below ↪ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sentient.thefilm CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 00:50 Tell us about your career in the Film, TV and Radio industry? 02:22 Video Hits, RAGE, Channel V inspiring a career as a music video director 04:42 Trusting your gut instinct, networking 05:40 Sentient the short film 07:42 Dangers of misinformation, the internet, AI and social media 14:50 Sentient behind the scenes and the importance of colour grading 19:45 Social media insecurities and anonymous cyber-bullying 26:37 The cast and crew behind Sentient 27:50 The 48 Hour Film Project 30:55 Dynamics on set 34:11 How Kayley cast the lead actress for Sentient 36:30 Casting the ensemble 38:07 Filming in Federal NSW, Logan and Bundaberg 41:47 How a Facebook group created a spectacle while filming 45:04 Parallel parking is hard to do 46:35 Plans for Sentient’s release including the film festival circuit 49:20 Thoughts on the Australian film industry 52:15 Cinemas are going extinct 53:25 Gaining experience on film sets 54:55 Creating content from a genuine vs. false intent 56:57 What is the best advice you’ve ever received? 1:00:32 Should you follow a creative or corporate career path? 1:02:00 The impact of YouTube and ARG on mainstream horror including Skinamarink 1:04:00 Constructive criticism and first-time screenings at film festivals 1:07:45 What are your favourite horror movies? 1:08:25 Hereditary 1:09:40 The Substance 1:11:09 Mulholland Drive 1:13:00 Seeing Hereditary at a premiere screening 1:16:02 Horror movie remakes, sequels, reboots and requels 1:17:00 The curse of Blumhouse 1:24:10 Smile was originally a short film called Laura Hasn’t Slept 1:28:30 Scream 4 is the best in the franchise 1:31:45 The Halloween franchise 1:34:20 Dennis Quaid is the most horrifying part of The Substance 1:38:47 mother! 1:40:10 Watching Requiem for a Dream on edibles 1:41:15 Seeing It Follows in NYC while paranoid off bad weed 1:43:45 Follow Kayley, Profound Visions and sentient on social media SHOP OUR STORE https://completeguidetohorror.threadless.com/collections/new/ Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd Prefer the podcast version? Download via Spotify, Apple, Anchor, iHeartRadio and more below; https://linktr.ee/completeguidetohorror #sentient #shortfilm #australia #48hourfilmproject #sydney #brisbane #kayleyatkinson #profoundvisions #australia #australianfilmindustry #film #production #filmfestival #completeguidetohorror #podcast | |||
| 25 Feb 2023 | #57 - Like a Surgeon | American Mary (2012) | 00:22:09 | |
This is body modification to the extreme. Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss American Mary, the 2012 Canadian body horror film written and directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska and starring Katharine Isabelle as a destitute medical student who begins taking clients from the extreme body modification community to solve her financial troubles. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #americanmary #beyonce #prettyhurts #bodymodification #surgery #plasticsurgery #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 12 Nov 2022 | #43 - The Outer Limits | Event Horizon (1997) | 00:22:40 | |
I don't need eyes to see, I felt you touching me Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. The film had a troubled production, with filming and editing rushed by Paramount when it became clear that Titanic would not meet its projected release. The original 130-minute cut of the film was heavily edited by the studio's demand, to Anderson's consternation. On release, the film was a commercial and critical failure, grossing $42 million on a $60 million production budget. However, it began to sell well on home video; its initial DVD release sold so well that Paramount contacted Anderson to begin working on a restoration of the deleted footage, but it had been either lost or destroyed. In the years since, the film has slowly built a cult following and is referenced in other works of popular culture. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #eventhorizon #dreadit #reddit #familyguy #smilemovie #arianagrande #breakfree #theouterlimits | |||
| 17 Sep 2023 | #76 - Scary Movie 4 (2006) Retrospective and Review | 00:29:00 | |
View our Scary Movie shop Join BP, Coop and Justin as we analyse Scary Movie 4, a 2006 American science fiction parody film. It is the sequel to Scary Movie 3 and the fourth installment in the Scary Movie film series, as well as the first film in the franchise to be released under The Weinstein Company banner since the purchase of Dimension Films from Disney. It was directed by David Zucker, written by Jim Abrahams, Craig Mazin, and Pat Proft, and produced by Robert K. Weiss and Craig Mazin. The film marks the final franchise appearances of the main stars, Anna Faris and Regina Hall (who portray Cindy and Brenda, respectively), and concludes the original story arc. This was initially intended to be the final film in the Scary Movie film series, until Scary Movie 5 was released by The Weinstein Company on April 12, 2013, in a different storyline, with Simon Rex, Charlie Sheen, and Molly Shannon in different roles. It grossed $178 million dollars, becoming the third highest grossing film in the series. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Chapters 00:00 The Grudge 00:25 Title Sequence 00:42 Introducing Scary Movie 4 01:26 Overall Thoughts 04:30 Favourite Parts 13:23 What We Disliked 19:26 Trivia 23:43 Ratings 25:45 Final Thoughts 28:01 Thank You 28:27 Karma Chameleon Box office In its opening weekend, the film grossed a total of $40.2 million, the third best opening weekend of the Scary Movie franchise. It has the best Easter weekend opening weekend ever, beating Panic Room which made $30.1 million in its opening and also the second best April opening, only $2 million behind Anger Management's record. As of October 18, 2006, the film has grossed a total of $90,710,620 at the United States box office and $178,262,620 worldwide. Critical response Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 34% of 126 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 4.60/10. The site's consensus states, "Sure to inspire a few chuckles, but not enough to compensate for the recycled material from its predecessors." On Metacritic, film has an average of 40 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C+" on a scale of A+ to F. Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post stated that while "Scary Movie 4 never takes you close to death by laughter... it's funny enough to turn the hands on your watch much more quickly than you can believe." Nathan Lee of The New York Times' described the film as being "organized on the principle of parody, not plot... it's an exercise in lowbrow postmodernism, a movie-movie contraption more nuts than Charlie Kaufman's gnarliest fever dream. It's cleverly stupid." Accolades The film won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress (Carmen Electra, also in Date Movie). #scarymovie4 #warofthewowrlds #thegrudge #saw #jigsaw #annafaris #reginahall #retrospective #behindthescenes #movie #death #horrorfilm #deathscene #blood #gore #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #scarymovie #brendameeks #cindycampbell #karmachameleon #cultureclub #boygeorge | |||
| 29 May 2022 | #20 - And They Were Roommates! | Captivity (2007) | 00:19:40 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss 'Captivity' the worst movie of all time! Captivity is a 2007 horror film of the "torture porn" subgenre, directed by Roland Joffé, written by Larry Cohen and Joseph Tura, and starring Elisha Cuthbert and Daniel Gillies. Considered an entry into a subgenre popularized by such film series as Hostel and Saw, the film centres on Jennifer Tree, a rising fashion model. On an evening out alone, Jennifer is stalked and drugged. She wakes up in a cell containing personal items taken from her apartment. Jennifer is shown recordings of victims who were tortured in the same cell, as well as records of her interviews. She screams and pleads to be let go, but no one replies. Jennifer is subjected to various forms of psychological torture. She then discovers that a young man, Gary Dexter, is being held captive in an adjoining cell. The two make contact and attempt to find an escape. They both make it to a garage containing a vehicle, but are knocked out by sleeping gas. Jennifer wakes up in her cell, and sees a recording of Gary being threatened in his cell. Afterwards, he is thrown into her cell. She rushes over to help him, and they proceed to have sex. Yes you read that correctly Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel #completeguidetohorror #scarymovie #horror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #gore #blood #graphic #captivity #dragrace #houseofwax #elishabutherbert #tyrasanchez #tatianna #thesimpsons | |||
| 07 May 2022 | #13 - Future Nostalgia | Jigsaw (2017) | 00:18:55 | |
| 03 Dec 2022 | #46 - Turn That Frown Upside Down | Smile (2022) VS. Truth or Dare? (2018) | 00:40:10 | |
The showdown of creepy smiles begins! Which movie will win? Find out! Smile stars Sosie Bacon as a therapist named Rose Cotter, who, after witnessing the bizarre suicide of a patient, goes through increasingly disturbing and daunting experiences, leading her to believe what she is experiencing is supernatural. Truth or Dare follows star Lucy Hale and her group of college students who play a game of truth or dare while on vacation in Mexico, only to realize it has deadly consequences if they don't follow through on their obligations. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. Smile has reached over $200M at the Box Office, ensuring a sequel is fast-tracked. In April 2018, Jeff Wadlow discussed ideas of a sequel to Truth or Dare, stating, "If the movie is a success and I'm asked to come up with other good ideas, there are other stories that could be told through the filter of a supernatural game of truth or dare. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #smile #smilemovie #truthordare #blumhouse #blumhouseproductions #caitlinstasey #smiling #scarysmile #horror2022 #horror2016 | |||
| 17 Sep 2022 | #36 - Monster Mash | The Lair of the White Worm (1988) | 00:37:00 | |
Starring Hugh Grant, the personification of teeth himself! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The Lair of the White Worm, the 1988 British horror comedy film loosely based on the 1911 Bram Stoker novel of the same name and drawing upon the English legend of the Lambton Worm. The film was written and directed by Ken Russell and stars Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi. Angus Flint (Peter Capaldi) is a Scottish archaeology student excavating the site of a convent at the Derbyshire bed and breakfast run by the Trent sisters, Mary (Sammi Davis) and Eve (Catherine Oxenberg). He unearths an unusual skull which appears to be that of a large snake. Angus believes it may be connected to the local legend of the d'Ampton 'worm', a mythical snake-like creature from ages past said to have been slain in Stonerich Cavern by John d'Ampton, the ancestor of current Lord of the Manor, James d'Ampton (Hugh Grant). When a pocket watch is discovered in Stonerich Cavern, James comes to believe that the d'Ampton worm may be more than a legend. The watch belonged to the Trent sisters' father, who disappeared a year earlier near Temple House, the stately home of the beautiful and seductive Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe). The enigmatic Lady Sylvia is in fact an immortal priestess to the ancient snake god, Dionin. As James correctly predicted, the giant snake roams the caves which connect Temple House with Stonerich Cavern. Lady Sylvia steals the skull and abducts Eve Trent, intending to offer her as the latest in a long line of sacrifices to her snake-god. Before Lady Sylvia can execute her evil plan, Angus and James rescue Eve and destroy both Lady Sylvia and the giant snake. However, Lady Sylvia bites Angus before she dies, and Angus finds himself cursed to carry on the vampiric, snake-like condition, after he finds, to his shock, that the snake anti-venom he used was actually a new form of arthritis medication he got by mistake. When Lord D'Ampton invites him for a dinner celebration, Angus sinisterly smiles and accepts his offer. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. On movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, as of September 2021, the film had an approval rating of 68%, based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. Roger Ebert gave it two stars out of four and called it "a respectable B-grade monster movie." Variety called it "a rollicking, terrifying, post-psychedelic headtrip." Russell said the movie "became a cult film, appropriately enough, down under. It did well in other countries, but not in Merrie England, where our dour-faced critics insisted on taking it seriously. How on earth can you take seriously the vision of Catherine Oxenberg, dressed in Marks & Spencer’s underwear, being sacrificed to a fake, phallic worm two hundred feet long?" Russell later used Donohoe and Davis in The Rainbow. Donohoe says there was some talk of a sequel but none was made. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #hughgrant #thelairofthewhiteworm #britishhorror #bmoviehorror #monster #monstermash | |||
| 04 Feb 2023 | #51 - Hide & Seek | Ready or Not (2019) | 00:21:45 | |
The game begins! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Ready or Not, the 2019 horror/comedy that stars Australian legend Samara Weaving. It follows Grace (Weaving), a newlywed who is hunted by her spouse's wealthy Satan-worshipping family as part of a wedding night ritual. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #readyornot #samaraweaving #radiosilence #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #screamvi #scream6 #andiemacdowell | |||
| 30 Apr 2022 | #11 - Spinning Around | Saw VI (2009) | 00:19:44 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Saw VI, the sixth instalment in the Saw franchise. We talk shit on all things Hoffman, insurance, carousel, steam and the twist ending. Follow the 'Talking SH!T - The Complete Guide to Horror Movies' podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel | |||
| 30 Oct 2022 | #41 - Hotel? Trivago | 1408 (2007) | 00:24:55 | |
The ultimate escape room awaits in Room 1408! Mike Enslin is a cynical and skeptical author of niche books debunking supernatural events, in which he has no belief. While promoting his latest book, he receives an anonymous postcard depicting The Dolphin, a hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City, bearing the message: "Don't enter 1408." Viewing this as a challenge, Mike travels to The Dolphin and requests room 1408. The hotel manager, Gerald Olin, attempts to discourage him. He explains to Mike that in the last 95 years, no one has lasted more than an hour inside of 1408; the latest count is 56 deaths. Olin attempts to dissuade and even bribe Mike, but at Mike's insistence and threat of legal action against the hotel, preparations are reluctantly made. While Mike describes the room's boring appearance and absence of supernatural behavior on his mini-cassette recorder, the clock radio suddenly starts playing The Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun", and the digital display changes to a countdown starting from 60:00. Mike begins to see ghosts of the room's past victims, along with flashbacks of his deceased daughter Katie and his terminally ill father. Mike makes numerous attempts to leave the room, all in vain. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. In November 2003 and 2004, Dimension Films optioned the rights to the 1999 short story "1408" by Stephen King. The studio hired screenwriter Matt Greenberg to adapt the story into a screenplay. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 79% based on 175 reviews, with an average rating of 6.70/10. The site's critical consensus reads "Relying on psychological tension rather than overt violence and gore, 1408 is a genuinely creepy thriller with a strong lead performance by John Cusack." On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 64 out of 100, based on 27 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale. In its opening weekend, the film opened in second place at the box office, grossing US$20.6 million in 2,678 theaters. 1408 had a production budget of US$25 million. The film went on to gross US$132 million, of which US$71.9 million was from Canada and the United States. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horrormovie #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #stephenking #hauntedhotel #dantesinferno #hell #curse #death #podcast #essay #retrospective #pitbull | |||
| 26 Nov 2023 | #80 - An American Werewolf in London (1981) - Retrospective and Review | 00:22:00 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we review An American Werewolf in London, the 1981 comedy horror werewolf film written and directed by John Landis. An international co-production of the United Kingdom and the United States, the film stars David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne and John Woodvine. The title is a cross between An American in Paris and Werewolf of London. The film's plot follows two American backpackers, David and Jack, who are attacked by a werewolf while travelling in England, causing David to become a werewolf under the next full moon. Chapters 00:00 David! 00:11 Title Sequence 00:29 Introducing An American Werewolf in London 00:55 Overall Thoughts 04:24 Favourite Parts 09:40 What We Disliked 13:42 Trivia 16:29 Ratings 17:49 Final Thoughts 21:09 Thank You 21:42 She Wolf Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! About the Film Landis wrote the first draft of the screenplay for the film in 1969 and shelved it for over a decade. Prospective financiers believed that Landis' script was too frightening to be a comedy film and too humorous to be a horror film. After achieving success in Hollywood with the comedies The Kentucky Fried Movie, National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues Brothers, Landis was able to secure financing from PolyGram Pictures to produce An American Werewolf in London. An American Werewolf in London was released in the US by Universal Pictures on August 21, 1981. It was a critical and commercial success, winning the 1981 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film and the first ever Academy Award for Best Makeup. Since its release, it has become a cult classic. A sequel, An American Werewolf in Paris, was released by Hollywood Pictures in 1997 and received mostly negative reviews upon its release. Filming took place between February and March 1981 because director John Landis wanted the film to take place during poor weather. The moors were filmed around the Black Mountains in Wales, and East Proctor is in reality the tiny village of Crickadarn, about six miles (9.7 km) southeast of Builth Wells off the A470. The Angel of Death statue was a prop added for the film, but the red phone box is real, though the Welsh road signs were covered by a fake tree. The pub shown in the film known as the Slaughtered Lamb was actually a cottage located in Crickadarn, and the interior scenes were filmed in the Black Swan, Old Lane, Martyrs Green in Surrey. An American Werewolf in London was the first film allowed to shoot in Piccadilly Circus in 15 years. Landis accomplished this by inviting 300 members of London's Metropolitan Police Service to a screening of his new film The Blues Brothers. The police were so impressed by his work that they granted the production a two-night filming permit between the hours of 1 and 4am. Traffic was stopped only three times for two-minute increments to film the automobile stunts involving the double-decker bus. Other filming locations included Putney General Hospital, Chiswick Maternity Hospital, Redcliffe Square in Earl's Court, the area around Tower Bridge, Tottenham Court Road Underground station, London Zoo, Putney High Street, Belgravia, Hampstead and Southwark. Filming also took place at Twickenham Film Studios in Richmond Upon Thames. #anamericanwerewolfinlondon #werewolf #review #retrospective #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #trivia #childsplay #creature #spooky #johnlandis #shakira #shewolf | |||
| 21 May 2022 | #17 - Vegas Slaycation | Hostel: Part III (2011) | 00:13:10 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Hostel Part III, the direct-to-dvd trash that killed the entire genre of splatter/torture horror. Follow the 'Talking SH!T - The Complete Guide to Horror Movies' podcast on our social channels below. Subscribe to our YouTube channel #hostel #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #gore #bood #graphic #torture | |||
| 17 Apr 2022 | #07 - The Sweet Escape | Saw II (2005) | 00:11:30 | |
| 26 Mar 2023 | #61 - Vampires Suck | Fright Night (1985) | 00:27:00 | |
"Vampires are make believe, just like elves, gremlins and eskimo's" - Homer Simpson. Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Fright Night, the 1985 cult classic horror film that follows young Charley Brewster, who discovers that his next-door neighbour Jerry Dandrige is a vampire. When no one believes him, Charley decides to get Peter Vincent, a TV show host who acted in films as a vampire hunter, to stop Jerry's killing spree. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #frightnight #80shorror #chaneloberlin #vampiressuck #ladygaga #jerseyshore #twilight #vampire #puppets #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 15 Apr 2023 | #01 - Planes, Trains and Premonitions | Final Destination (2000) REMASTERED | 00:20:30 | |
This is just plane wrong. In celebration of our one year anniversary, we have remastered our first original podcast episode into a brand spanking new video format! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we analyse the first movie in the Final Destination franchise. Have you ever had a weird coincidence, premonition or deja vu? Let us know in the comments! Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Linktree In Final Destination, high school student Alex Browning boards Volée Airlines Flight 180, a Boeing 747 with his classmates for their senior trip to Paris from John F. Kennedy Airport. Before take-off, Alex has a premonition that the plane will explode in mid-air, killing everybody on board. When the events from his vision begin to occur in reality, he panics until a fight breaks out between him and his rival Carter Horton, resulting in both of them being removed from the plane, along with Alex's best friend Tod Waggner, Carter's girlfriend Terry Chaney, teacher Valerie Lewton, and students Billy Hitchcock and Clear Rivers. None of the other passengers, except Clear, believe Alex about his vision until the plane explodes on take-off. Can the remaining survivors escape death? Chapters 00:00 Fear of Flying 00:33 Title Sequence 01:10 Introduction to the Podcast 01:51 Introducing Myself 02:58 Introducing Co-Hosts BP and Coop 03:58 Overall Thoughts 07:21 What We Liked 10:38 What We Disliked 13:23 Trivia 17:06 Final Thoughts 19:29 Thank You 20:12 Later Losers #finaldestination1 #horror #movie #death #kills #2000s #finaldestination #highway #pileup #clearrivers #alilarter #deathscenes #devonsawa #seannwilliamscott #premonition #amandadetmer #planecrash #podcast #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 20 May 2023 | #67 - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire | House on Haunted Hill (1999) | 00:45:50 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss House on Haunted Hill, the 1999 remake by Dark Castle Entertainment in which a group of strangers who are invited to a party at an abandoned insane asylum, where they are offered $1 million each by an amusement park mogul if they are able to survive the night. Produced by Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver, it is a remake of the 1959 film of the same title directed by William Castle, and features special effects by famed make-up artists Gregory Nicotero and Dick Smith. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Linktree Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:21 Title Sequence 00:59 Introducing House on Haunted Hill 02:59 Overall Thoughts 09:05 Favourite Parts 16:41 What We Disliked 23:04 Trivia 40:01 Ratings 41:57 Final Thoughts 44:25 Thank You 44:59 1999 45:41 Like and Subscribe Box officeHouse on Haunted Hill was released theatrically in the United States two days later, on October 29, opening at number one at the U.S. box office and earning over $15 million in sales its opening weekend.Critical responseHouse on Haunted Hill received generally negative reviews. In contrast to the original's 78% score on Rotten Tomatoes, the remake received a 31% rating, based on 62 reviews, with an average rating of 4.80/10. The site's consensus reads, "Unsophisticated and unoriginal film fails to produce scares.Metacritic reports a score of 28 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale. #houeonhauntedhill #famkejanssen #horror #williamcastle #darkcastle #1999 #90shorror #horrorremake #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #chaneloberlin #geoffreyrush #alilarter #finaldestination | |||
| 15 Apr 2022 | The Complete Guide to Horror Movies (Video Trailer) | 00:02:10 | |
Want some unsolicited explicit opinions on your favourite horror movies and franchises? Join Justin, Coop and Byron as we take you through each horror movie franchise, sub-genre, time capsule and more as we examine each film, trivia and give our harsh truths and loud praises to the most underrated and underappreciated genre in the filmmaking world. Horror!
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| 09 Jul 2022 | #26 - Toy Story | Child's Play (1988) | 00:21:15 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Child's Play, the original and first instalment in the chucky franchise. In Childs Play, Detective Mike Norris chases fugitive serial killer Charles Lee Ray through the streets of Chicago and into a toy store. After being shot by Norris, a dying Ray performs a voodoo chant to transfer his soul to one of the Good Guy-brand talking dolls on display. The store is struck by lightning and explodes, and Norris finds Ray's lifeless body in the rubble next to the doll.. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Screenwriter Don Mancini first conceived of the concept while studying as a film major at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mancini was inspired by the consumerism of the 1980s and the effect of marketing on children based on his experiences with his father, an advertising executive. Mancini's troubled relationship with his own father and his experiences of alienation as a gay man caused him to centre the script around a child with a single mother and no father figure. He was also influenced by the Cabbage Patch Kids, Trilogy of Terror, Magic, Poltergeist, the character of Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll". The film's executive producer David Kirschner, who would produce all seven films in the Chucky series, claimed in the same interview that he had wanted to make a film about a killer doll after reading The Dollhouse Murders. The director Tom Holland has also affirmed that the My Buddy dolls played a role in Chucky's design. Mancini's original script was titled Batteries Not Included, with the title later changed to Blood Buddy after it was discovered that a different film with the same name was being made. During production it was nearly retitled again in order to avoid confusion with Sidney Lumet's 1972 horror film of the same name. It would have featured a doll filled with fake blood that would allow it to bleed if played with roughly, and it would have come alive after Andy mixed his own blood with the doll's. The doll would have represented Andy's suppressed rage, and would have targeted his enemies. Mancini's original script would have been a whodunit story which dealt with the effect of advertising and television on children. Mancini's original script was also written to toy with the audience a bit longer, making it ambiguous whether Andy or Chucky was the killer. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #chucky #charlesleeray #andybarclay #donmancini #braddourif #catherinehicks #toy #toystory #woody #yougotafriendinme #yougotafriendofme #johnlasseter #lineoffire #theveronicas | |||
| 04 Mar 2023 | #58 - Stupid Old B***h | Relic (2020) | 00:31:25 | |
It all runs in the family! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Relic, the 2020 Australian horror film that focuses on a terrifying physical manifestation of dementia. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #relic #australia #rupaul #callmemother #australiahorror #dementia #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 11 Jun 2022 | #22 - I Wanna Be In The Sequel | Scream 2 (1997) | 00:21:05 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Scream 2, the 1997 sequel to the runaway slasher success. Scream 2 takes place two years after the first film and again follows the character of Sidney Prescott (Campbell), and other survivors of the Woodsboro massacre, at the fictional Windsor College in Ohio, where they are targeted by a copycat killer using the guise of Ghostface. Like its predecessor, Scream 2 combines the violence of the slasher genre with elements of comedy, satire and "whodunit" mystery while satirizing the cliché of film sequels. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Trivia The film suffered controversy following its significant issues with plot information leaking onto the Internet, revealing the identity of the killers. Combined with the film's rushed schedule, the script was rewritten often; pages were sometimes completed on the day of filming. Despite these issues, Scream 2 earned $172.4 million at the box office, only $683,362 less than Scream, and received positive reviews from critics, with some arguing that it surpassed the original in quality. Beltrami received positive critical reception for his score for evolving the musical themes of the characters created in Scream, although some critics claimed that the most memorable pieces from the film were created by composers Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer. Elfman's contribution had been specially written for the film, but Zimmer's score for Broken Arrow was controversially used in the film, replacing Beltrami's own work. The film's soundtrack achieved moderate sales success, reaching number 50 on the Billboard 200. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #scream #scream2 #nevecampbell #courtneycox #davidarquette #randymeeks #jamiekennedy #sidneyprescott #college #90sfilms #1997 #galeweathers #billyloomis #stumacher #scream2022 #shakaya #ladygaga #paprazzi #stopcallingme #vampiressuck | |||
| 05 Feb 2023 | #52 - Slay Girl | M3GAN (2023) | 00:34:10 | |
She slays! The Dolls are the dolls! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss M3GAN, the 2023 American science fiction horror film directed by Gerard Johnstone, written by Akela Cooper from a story by Cooper and James Wan (who also produced with Jason Blum), and starring Allison Williams and Violet McGraw, with Amie Donald physically portraying M3GAN and Jenna Davis voicing the character. Its plot follows the eponymous artificially intelligent doll who develops self-awareness and becomes hostile towards anyone who comes between her and her human companion. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #m3gan #tiktok #dojacat #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #blumhouse #atomicmonster #doll #chucky | |||
| 22 May 2022 | #18 - Look What You Made Me Do | I Spit On Your Grave (2010) | 00:17:10 | |
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| 13 Oct 2024 | #86 - Cherry Falls (1999) Retrospective and Review | 00:27:00 | |
Join BP, Justin and your host Coop as we discuss the 1999 American slasher film directed by Geoffrey Wright, and starring Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr, and Michael Biehn. The plot focuses on a small Virginia town where a serial killer is targeting teenaged virgins. After being submitted to and rejected by the MPAA numerous times, Cherry Falls was screened at several film festivals in some countries in late 1999 and early 2000, but did not have a theatrical release in the United States. Finally, it was purchased by USA Films, who telecast it on the USA Network on October 20, 2000. SHOP OUR STORE https://completeguidetohorror.threadless.com/collections/new/ Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:18 Title Sequence 00:55 Introducing Cherry Falls 01:23 Overall Thoughts 06:05 Favourite Parts 11:02 What We Disliked 18:18 Trivia 23:17 Ratings 26:14 Thank You 26:40 Class Dismissed! Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree Production In October 1998, Variety announced Geoffrey Wright as director. Wright promised an intelligent script full of irony. In 1999, the filmmakers began scouting locations in Virginia, using the town square in Warrenton; the high school used in the film was Thomas Jefferson High School, located in Richmond. The residents of Richmond lambasted the making of the film because of its brutality. The film's set was described as "tense" by writer Ken Selden, due to the thirty-day production schedule falling behind, which led to budget issues from October Films. Director Geoffrey Wright kept Selden's original script relatively unchanged, but re-wrote the film's final "orgy scene", which had originally been conceived by Selden as featuring the teenagers having a mass sex party under a giant white sheet. Wright opted to shoot the scene with the cast nude, which resulted in much of the scene being cut in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. Release Cherry Falls was shopped at the Cannes film market in 1999, and was sold for theatrical distribution in all international territories across the world. The film had a tentative theatrical release scheduled for November 2000. However, the film was troubled by censor disapproval in the United States, and the distributors' relationship with USA Films led the company to make the decision to release it as a television movie in the United States, syndicated on the USA Network. As a result, it became (and remains) the most expensive television film ever made, with a production budget of $14 million. The film shown at the in May 1999 at Marché du Film in France. Cherry Falls was released in the United States on October 20, 2000. The film had successful theatrical runs in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe. It opened in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2000. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 63% of 19 surveyed critics gave it a positive review. Doug Brod of Entertainment Weekly rated it A− and wrote that "it might just be the wittiest, most subversive teen thriller since Heathers". AllMovie gave it a favorable review: "Of all the teen slasher flicks that premiered after the wildly successful Scream series (Urban Legend, etc.), Cherry Falls will possibly go down as one of the most creative, but sadly unseen ones in the bunch". Derek Elley of Variety called it "a semi-successful spin on familiar material that could build minor cult status". Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club wrote: "Smart at times but not nearly smart enough, and peppered with good ideas it doesn't really know how to exploit, Cherry Falls is just good enough to make you wish it were far, far better". Chris Parcellin of Film Threat rated it 3/5 stars and wrote that "it aspires to be another Heathers or Rivers Edge, but doesn't make it". Total Film rated it 3/5 stars and wrote: "If you're not already sick to death of the teen horror genre, you might want to give this a look". Matt Serafini of Dread Central ranked Cherry Falls number seven in a list of the top ten high school horror films from 1996 to the present. #cherryfalls #brittanymurphy #jaymohr #horror #blood #virgin #tv #urbanlegends #mulhollanddrive #davidlynch #blockbuster #mtv #2000s #1990s | |||
| 23 Jul 2022 | #28 - Toy Solider | Child's Play 3 (1991) | 00:21:45 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Child's Play 3, the 1991 sequel in the chucky franchise. Eight years after Chucky's second demise, the Play Pals company resumes manufacturing Good Guy dolls and re-opens the abandoned factory. A splash of blood from Chucky's corpse is inadvertently mixed in with the plastic being used to produce the dolls, reviving him in a new body. Chucky is given to Play Pals CEO Mr. Sullivan. Chucky strangles him to death, then uses computer records to locate Andy Barclay. Now 16, Andy has been sent to Kent Military Academy. Colonel Cochrane, the school's commandant, advises Andy to forget his "fantasies" about the doll. Andy befriends cadets Harold Aubrey Whitehurst; Ronald Tyler, an 8-year-old cadet; and Kristin DeSilva, for whom he develops romantic feelings. He also meets Brett C. Shelton, a sadistic lieutenant colonel who routinely bullies the cadets. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Universal Studios had Don Mancini begin writing the third installment for the series before Child's Play 2 was released, causing pressure to him to draft a storyline on such a tight schedule. The film was formally greenlit after the successful release of its predecessor with a release date nine months away. Mancini initially wanted to introduce the concept of "multiple Chuckys" in the movie, but due to budget constraints the idea was eventually scrapped. Mancini later used this concept for the 2017 sequel Cult of Chucky. It also was intended to open with a scene of a security guard portrayed by John Ritter frightening off a group of trespassing children at the Good Guys factory by telling them scary stories about Chucky. After Mancini decided to make Andy Barclay 16 years old, he considered recasting the role with Jonathan Brandis before hiring Justin Whalin. Before Jack Bender became director, Mancini wanted to hire Peter Jackson. A suggested link with the film was made after the brutal murder of James Bulger. The killers, who were ten years old at the time, were said to have imitated a scene in which one of Chucky's victims is splashed with blue paint. Although these allegations against the film have never been proven, the case led to some new legislation for video films. Psychologist Guy Cumberbatch stated, "The link with a video was that the father of one of the boys – Jon Venables – had rented Child's Play 3 some months earlier." However, the police officer who directed the investigation, Albert Kirby, found that the son, Jon, was not living with his father at the time and was unlikely to have seen the film. Moreover, the boy disliked horror films—a point later confirmed by psychiatric reports. Thus the police investigation, which had specifically looked for a video link, concluded there was none. Despite this, the film remained controversial in Europe, and both Sky Television in the United Kingdom and Canal+ in Spain refused to broadcast the film as regular programming. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #cr | |||
| 06 Jun 2024 | #84 - Saw X (2023) Retrospective and Review | 00:24:37 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss SAW X, the 2023 sequel and 10th instalment in the SAW franchise serving as both a direct sequel to Saw (2004) and a prequel to Saw II (2005). It stars Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith who reprise their roles from the previous films, alongside Synnøve Macody Lund, Steven Brand, Renata Vaca, and Michael Beach. The film sees John Kramer (Bell) travelling to Mexico in hopes that an experimental procedure may cure his terminal cancer. John later discovers that the operation is a scam, prompting him to kidnap those responsible and subject them to his trademark death traps as retribution. Chapters 0:00 Get some rest Cecilia 0:07 Title Sequence 0:44 Introducing Saw X 1:58 Overall Thoughts 4:43 Favourite Parts 8:14 What We Disliked 18:35 Trivia 21:22 Ratings and Final Thoughts 23:33 Thank You 23:55 Karma Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd A tenth installment was reported to be in development with Twisted Pictures in April 2021, when Stolberg and Goldfinger, writers for the previous two entries of the series, announced that they had completed the script in December 2021. Greutert, who had directed two other installments of the series and edited six, was also confirmed as the film's director. Filming took place from October 2022 to February 2023 in Mexico City. Saw X was theatrically released by Lionsgate Films on September 29, 2023. It has grossed $111 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics, in turn becoming the best reviewed Saw film. A sequel, Saw XI, is scheduled for release in September 2025. #saw #karma #jigsaw #sawx #johnkramer #tobinbell #shawneesmith #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #podcast #review #retrospective #jojosiwa | |||
| 23 Apr 2022 | #09 - See What I Sequel | Saw IV (2007) | 00:15:00 | |
| 20 Aug 2022 | #32 - Beware of the Plastics | Cult of Chucky (2017) | 00:24:10 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Cult of Chucky, the direct-to-DVD and streaming sequel to Curse of Chucky (2013) and the seventh instalment in the Child's Play/Chucky franchise. In 2017, Andy Barclay has been torturing the disembodied head of Chucky for four years. Meanwhile, wheelchair-bound Nica Pierce has been in a mental institution after being framed by Chucky for the murders of her family. Nica now believes she was responsible for the murders and that Chucky was a manifestation of her psychosis. Dr. Foley, Nica's doctor, has her transferred to a medium-security psychiatric hospital. In group therapy, Nica meets Malcolm, a man with multiple-identity disorder; Angela, a woman who believes she is dead; Claire, a woman who burned her house down; and Madeleine, a patient who smothered her infant son. Foley introduces a therapy technique involving a Good Guy doll. Most of the patients are unsettled except for Madeleine, who treats it as her baby. Nica is visited by Tiffany Valentine, the legal guardian of her niece Alice, and is devastated to learn that Alice has died. Tiffany leaves Nica a Good Guy doll, which she claims was a gift from Alice. That night, Chucky awakens and discovers Nica has slit her wrists. The next morning, Nica finds that her wrists have been stitched up and that Angela has been killed. After realizing "Valentine" was the last name of Chucky's girlfriend, Nica realizes Chucky is real. Fearing Madeleine is in danger, Nica has Malcolm warn her. Madeleine throws both the doll and Malcolm into an empty grave, but they are rescued by orderlies. Malcolm begins to refer to himself as "Charles" and act in a manner similar to Chucky, making Nica suspect he has been possessed. Chucky then kills Claire by decapitating her. Andy learns about the murders and realizes Chucky has somehow managed to transfer his soul into multiple bodies at once. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel In December 2013, following the release of Curse of Chucky, Don Mancini confirmed that he was planning on developing a seventh installment in the Chucky franchise. By February 2015, Mancini was in the process of writing the script for the film. A year later, Mancini, Jennifer Tilly and Fiona Dourif confirmed that shooting would soon begin for the film. The production office for the film was opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in December 2016. Subsequently in January 5, the premise, cast, production schedule and distribution details for Cult of Chucky were revealed, with shooting set to commence four days later. Tony Gardner returned as one of Chucky's puppeteers. In an October 2013 interview, Mancini revealed that since Child's Play 3, he had always wanted to introduce the concept of "Multiple Chuckys" but was unable to do so due to budget constraints. He eventually used the concept in Cult of Chucky, 26 years later. A reference to Glen/Glenda (a character from Seed of Chucky) was cut out of the film, although it was something that Mancini "definitely wanted to keep". The film received a nomination for Best DVD or Blu-ray Release at the 44th Saturn Awards and is followed by the Chucky television series, r | |||
| 01 Apr 2023 | #62 - Life of the Party | April Fools Day (1986) | 00:18:40 | |
"What is going on?!?" - Xandir P. Wifflebottom. Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss April fools Day, the 1986 cult classic murder mystery/horror that follows a group of college students vacationing during April Fool's Day weekend on an island estate, which is infiltrated by an unknown assailant. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #aprilfoolsday #aprilfools #drawntogether #thesimpsons #meme #80shorror #ashleesimpson #murder #bittersweetworld #chaneloberlin #thewaterboy #kathybates #familyguy #agathachristie #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 14 Feb 2023 | #55 - Till Death Do Us Part | Valentine (2001) | 00:44:35 | |
Love Hurts! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Valentine, the 2001 slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks and starring Denise Richards, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw, and Katherine Heigl. Loosely based on the novel of the same name by Tom Savage, the film follows a group of women in San Francisco who are stalked by a killer wearing a Cupid mask. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #valentine #deniserichards #horror #davidboreanaz #marleyshelton #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #deathscene #jessicacapshaw #jessicacaufield #katherineheigl #legallyblonde #countryboyiloveyou #vine #tiktok #urbanlegends #passions #jamieblanks | |||
| 25 Dec 2022 | #50 - Beware the Snowman | Jack Frost (1997) | 00:22:20 | |
He's got a heart as cold ice! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Jack Frost, the 1997 American direct-to-video black comedy slasher film written and directed by Michael Cooney. It takes place in the fictional town of Snowmonton, where (on the week before Christmas) a truck carrying serial killer Jack Frost (Scott MacDonald) to his execution crashes into a genetics truck. The genetic material causes Jack's body to mutate and fuse with the snow on the ground. Jack is presumed dead and his body melts away. However, he comes back as a killer snowman and takes revenge on the man who finally caught him, Sheriff Sam Tiler (Christopher Allport). Despite being critically panned, the film has developed a cult following for its comical death scenes and poor special effects, and was followed by a sequel in 2000, Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman. Jack Frost also marked the film debut of Shannon Elizabeth. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #shannonelizabeth #jackfrost #slasher #blackcomedy #funny #snowman #serialkiller #lastchristmas #wham #rupaul | |||
| 26 May 2023 | #68 - Reader Beware, You're In For a Scare | Evil Dead (1981) Vs Evil Dead (2013) | 00:35:54 | |
Join BP, Coop, Justin and returning special guest Pablo as pit Evil Dead (1981) against Evil Dead (2013). Who will win? Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Linktree Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:13 Title Sequence 00:49 Introducing Evil Dead (1981) and Evil Dead (2014) ft. Pablo 01:17 Overall Thoughts 08:54 Favourite Parts 19:41 What We Disliked 25:53 Trivia 28:41 Ratings 30:49 Final Thoughts 34:09 Thank You 34:49 Dead By Dawn 35:32 Like and Subscribe The Evil Dead is a 1981 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, and Theresa Tilly. The story focuses on five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a remote wooded area. After they find an audio tape that, when played, releases a legion of demons and spirits, four members of the group suffer from demonic possession, forcing the fifth member, Ash Williams (Campbell), to survive an onslaught of increasingly gory mayhem. Raimi, producer Robert G. Tapert, Campbell, and their friends produced the short film Within the Woods as a proof of concept to build the interest of potential investors, which secured US$90,000 to begin work on The Evil Dead. Principal photography took place on location in a remote cabin located in Morristown, Tennessee, in a difficult filming process that proved extremely uncomfortable for the cast and crew; the film's extensive prosthetic makeup effects and stop-motion animations were created by artist Tom Sullivan. The completed film attracted the interest of producer Irvin Shapiro, who helped screen the film at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Horror author Stephen King gave a rave review of the film, which resulted in New Line Cinema acquiring its distribution rights. The Evil Dead grossed $2.4 million in the United States and between $2.7 and $29.4 million worldwide. The Evil Dead spawned a media franchise, beginning with two direct sequels written and directed by Raimi, Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1992), a fourth film, Evil Dead (2013), which serves as a soft reboot and continuation, a follow-up television series, Ash vs Evil Dead, which aired from 2015 to 2018, and a fifth film, Evil Dead Rise (2023); the franchise also includes video games and comic books. The film's protagonist Ash Williams is considered to be a cultural icon. Evil Dead is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by Fede Álvarez (in his feature directorial debut), who co-wrote the screenplay with Rodo Sayagues. Dubbed a "re-imagining" of The Evil Dead (1981), the film is the fourth installment in the Evil Dead film series. It stars Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, and Elizabeth Blackmore. The story follows a group of five people under attack by deadites in a remote cabin in the woods. Evil Dead had its premiere at South by Southwest on March 8, 2013, and was released in the United States on April 5, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $97 million worldwide against a production budget of $17 million. A fifth installment, titled Evil Dead Rise, was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 21, 2023. #evildead #samraimi #scarymovie #evildeadrise #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 15 Oct 2023 | #77 - Scary Movie 5 (2013) Retrospective and Review | 00:37:44 | |
View our Scary Movie shop Join BP, Coop and Justin as we review Scary Movie 5 (stylized on-screen as Scary MoVie) the 2013 American parody film and standalone sequel to Scary Movie 4 and the fifth and most recent instalment in the Scary Movie film series. The film is the only instalment of the franchise not to feature Cindy Campbell (played by Anna Faris) or Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall). The film parodies various horror films and other popular culture. The film received negative reviews from critics. With a gross of $78 million, it is the lowest grossing film in the Scary Movie series. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Chapters 00:00 Demon killer her 00:06 Title Sequence 00:23 Introducing Scary Movie 5 00:40 Overall Thoughts 03:42 Favourite Parts 09:27 What We Disliked 16:30 Trivia 31:32 Ratings 34:09 Final Thoughts 36:12 Thank You 36:53 Miss Belladonna The main films parodied in Scary Movie 5 include Paranormal Activity, Black Swan, Mama[ and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Other films parodied are Sinister, Inception, Ted (only in the unrated DVD), Evil Dead (which was released a week prior to the film), The Cabin in the Woods, Insidious and The Help. The film also parodies the best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey and Tyler Perry's character Madea. #scarymovie5 #ashleytisdale #ericaash #mollyshannon #simonrex #bigang #planetoftheapes #sinister #paranormalactivity #blackswan #evildead #mama #davidzucker #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 15 Apr 2022 | #02 - Highway to Hell | Final Destination 2 (2003) | 00:17:00 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we analyse the second movie in the Final Destination franchise. Do you have a fear of driving behind log trucks? Ever cheated death? Let us know in the comments below! Follow the 'Talking SH!T - The Complete Guide to Horror Movies' podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel | |||
| 29 Aug 2024 | #85 - Paranormal Activity (2009) Retrospective and Review | 00:28:30 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Paranormal Activity, the 2007 American supernatural horror film produced, written, directed, photographed, and edited by Oren Peli. It centers on a young couple (Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat) who are haunted by a supernatural presence inside their home. They then set up a camera to document what is haunting them. The film uses found-footage conventions that were mirrored in the later films of the series. Originally developed as an independent feature and given film festival screenings in 2007, the film was shot for $15,000. It was then acquired by Paramount Pictures and modified, particularly with a new ending that cost an additional $200,000. It was given a limited U.S. release on September 25, 2009, and then a nationwide release on October 16, 2009. The film earned nearly $108 million at the U.S. box office and a further $85 million internationally for a worldwide total of $194 million. Paramount/DreamWorks acquired the U.S. rights for $350,000. It is often cited as the most profitable film ever made, based on proportionate return on investment, although such figures are difficult to verify independently as this is likely to exclude marketing costs. Chapters 0:00 GET OUT 0:14 Title Sequence 0:52 Introducing Paranormal Activity 1:56 Overall Thoughts 8:06 Favourite Parts 11:21 What We Disliked 15:40 Trivia 21:08 Ratings and Final Thoughts 26:01 Thank You 26:19 Freak like Me Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd The monetary success of Paranormal Activity compared to its budget made it the most profitable film of all time, surpassing The Blair Witch Project (1999). It directly led to found footage becoming a horror movie trend for years, with The Last Exorcism, Apollo 18, The Devil Inside, and the V/H/S series arriving in its wake. Mockbuster group The Asylum created their take on the film, titled Paranormal Entity, which would later spawn a series of its own. In Japan, a sequel entitled Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night was released in 2010. On March 7, 2010, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin performed a spoof of the film as part of the 82nd Academy Awards. A Haunted House, a parody film, was released in 2013. #paranormalactivity #creepy #paramount #katiefeatherston #micahsloat #podcast #freaklikeme #sugababes #drawntogether #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 15 Apr 2022 | #01 - Planes, Trains and Premonitions | Final Destination (2000) | 00:23:29 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we analyse the first movie in the Final Destination franchise. Have you ever had a weird coincidence, premonition or deja vu? Let us know in the comments! Follow the 'Complete Guide to Horror Movies' podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ TikTok ↪ Instagram ↪ Twitter ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Tip us $5 #finaldestination1 #horror #movie #death #kills #2000s #finaldestination #highway #pileup #clearrivers #alilarter #deathscenes #devonsawa #seannwilliamscott #premonition #amandadetmer #planecrash #podcast #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 13 Aug 2022 | #31 - Bury a Friend | Curse of Chucky (2013) | 00:31:35 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Curse of Chucky, the 2013 direct-to-DVD sequel that reignited the Chucky franchise as it returned to a more horror centric film. In 2013, a Good Guy doll called Chucky mysteriously arrives in the mail at the isolated home of paraplegic Nica Pierce and her mother Sarah. Sarah repeatedly and compulsively paints pictures of the same flowers. Later that night, Sarah is found dead from a stab wound and her death is ruled as a suicide. Nica is visited by her sister Barb, accompanied by her husband Ian, their daughter Alice, live-in nanny Jill, and priest Father Frank. Alice finds Chucky and is allowed to keep him. That evening, while Alice and Nica are making chili for dinner, Chucky secretly pours rat poison into one of the dinner bowls. Father Frank eats the poison. After he leaves, he gets sick and ends up in a car accident that decapitates him. That night, Nica wonders where the doll came from and investigates Chucky on the internet; she finds news articles about the murders tied to both the doll and Charles Lee Ray. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel In a post-credits scene set six months later, Chucky, still in his doll body, is delivered to Andy, now an adult. When Andy turns his back to answer a phone call from his mother, Chucky cuts his way out of the package with a knife. Chucky looks around the house, only to have Andy shoot him with a shotgun. In an August 2008 interview, Don Mancini and David Kirschner spoke of a planned reboot of the Chucky franchise, to be written and directed by Mancini. They described their choice of a remake over a sequel as a response to the will of the fans, who "want to see a scary Chucky movie again... to go back to the straightforward horror rather than the horror comedy." They indicated that Brad Dourif would return as the voice of Chucky. In a subsequent interview, Mancini described the remake as a darker and scarier retelling of the original film, but one that, while having new twists and turns, would not stray too far from the original concept. At a 2009 horror convention, Dourif confirmed his role in the remake. At a reunion panel at the Mad Monster Party horror and sci-fi convention, the cast and crew from the original film confirmed that both a remake and a spin-off are in development. Writer Don Mancini and producer David Kirschner worked on a sequel then titled Revenge of Chucky. On Rotten Tomatoes, 76% of 21 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The site's critics consensus states: "The franchise hex of disappointing sequels is broken by going back to basics in this chilling entry, restoring a sense of playfulness to the Chucky saga." According to Metacritic, the film received "mixed or average reviews" based on an average score of 58 out of 100 from 5 critics. An early review posted on Bloody Disgusting on August 2, 2013, was very favourable of the film. In it, Brad Miska stated, "Curse of Chucky may just be the best home video sequel since Wrong Turn 2. It's alarmingly good, which puts pressure on Universal to answer as to why they didn't let Mancini shoot this for theaters." He continued to say, "Ch | |||
| 14 May 2023 | #66 - The B In Apartment 23 | Evil Dead Rise (2023) | 00:30:20 | |
Join BP, Coop, Justin and special guest Pablo as we discuss Evil Dead Rise! The 2023 film and latest entry into the classic Evil Dead franchise in which two estranged sisters try to survive and save their family from deadites. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Linktree Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:14 Title Sequence 00:50 Introducing Evil Dead Rise and Special guest Pablo 01:32 Overall Thoughts 04:41 Favourite Parts 07:10 What We Disliked 19:22 Trivia 23:50 Ratings 25:42 Final Thoughts 29:06 Thank You 29:43 Out of the Woods 30:10 Like and Subscribe The film's development was preceded by scrapped plans for direct sequels to Evil Dead (2013) and Army of Darkness (1992), and a fourth season of Ash vs Evil Dead (2015–2018). By October 2019, Sam Raimi announced that a new film was in development, with Rob Tapert producing, Raimi and Bruce Campbell executive producing, and Cronin writing and directing the project. New Line Cinema (the first film's distributor) was announced as a production company involved. Principal photography took place in New Zealand from June to October 2021. The film was originally set to premiere on the streaming service HBO Max, but distributor Warner Bros. Pictures opted to release the film theatrically first after positive test screenings. Evil Dead Rise had its premiere at South by Southwest (SXSW) on March 15, 2023, and was released in the United States on April 21, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and has grossed over $118 million worldwide against a production budget of $15–19 million, making it the highest-grossing film in the series. #evildeadrise #horror #review #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #podcast #evildead #chaneloberlin #drawntogether #donttrustthebinapartment23 #apartment23 #funny #meme | |||
| 27 Aug 2022 | #33 - The Worst Remake in History | Child's Play (2019) | 00:34:20 | |
You forgot the first rules with remakes, don't f*** with the original!
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Child's Play, the much misaligned and hated reboot in the Child's Play/Chucky franchise. Multinational Kaslan Corporation has just launched Buddi, a revolutionary line of high-tech dolls designed to be lifelong companions to their owners, learning from their surroundings, and acting accordingly, quickly becoming a worldwide success. At a Kaslan assembly factory in Vietnam, an overworked employee is fired by his supervisor for unsatisfactory performance. In retaliation, he tampers with the Buddi doll that he is assembling by disabling all of its safety protocols before committing suicide. The doll is packaged alongside others for its international delivery. In Chicago, widowed retail clerk Karen Barclay and her twelve-year-old hearing-impaired son Andy have moved into a new apartment. In an attempt to cheer Andy up for the relocation and the presence of her new boyfriend Shane, Karen blackmails her boss in order to procure a Buddi doll, giving it to Andy as an early birthday gift. It is revealed to be the defective model. Once activated, the doll names himself "Chucky" and becomes attached to Andy. Over time, Chucky helps him to befriend two other children, Falyn and Pugg, but also begins to display violent tendencies. He tries to strangle the Barclays' pet cat after it scratches Andy and, while he and his friends gleefully watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Chucky starts mimicking the violence, approaching the trio with a kitchen knife before Andy disarms him. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Tip us $5 Child's Play was theatrically released in the United States on June 21, 2019, by Orion Pictures through United Artists Releasing. The film grossed $45 million worldwide with a $10 million budget, with the Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus calling it "predictably gruesome" and "generally entertaining". At WonderCon, Grahame-Smith said that if the film does well, they would love to make a sequel. Director Lars Klevberg discussed his ideas for a possible sequel: "For me, this was just trying to make this the best movie possible. Like, never foreshadowing any detailed plan of where you want to go as a franchise. But yeah, for me I think I love the Buddi bear concept". In July 2020, Klevberg said he would love to make a sequel, but was waiting for approval from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #gay #lgbt #chucky #charlesleeray #andybarclay #donmancini #braddourif #childsplay #gayhorror #cultofchucky #tiffany #tiffanydoll #jennifertilly #oliviarodrigo #good4u #simpsons #glitch #goodguys #rupaulsdragrace #thepitstop #bobthedragqueen #aubreyplaza | |||
| 04 Sep 2022 | #34 - Teenage Dirtbag | Chucky - Season 1 (2021) | 00:45:00 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss the first season of Chucky, the sequel television series in the Child's Play/Chucky franchise. The series takes place after the events of Cult of Chucky. In the city of Hackensack, New Jersey, 14-year-old Jake Wheeler buys a Good Guy doll at a yard sale to use it in his contemporary art project. He later discovers that the doll is possessed by the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray, who in this form is known as Chucky. Jake soon becomes a suspect in a series of strange events involving the doll, who unleashes a wave of shocking murders around the town. Some of the boy's classmates will also see themselves linked to these events. In addition, a series of flashbacks explore Charles's past as a seemingly normal kid who somehow became one of Hackensack's most notorious killers Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. Mancini, who began working for television on the Hannibal series, wanted to "reinvent" the Chucky franchise by bringing it to this format, and subsequently expand its fandom. He took a somewhat autobiographical approach to Jake's character, a gay teenager whose father is not accepting of the boy's "burgeoning sexual and romantic identity". The director cites this conflict as referential to his own adolescence. The show is a direct sequel to Cult of Chucky (2017), where the cliffhanger ending puts the titular character "on the road to a sexual exploration" after he transfers his soul to a female body. As an innovation for the character, Chucky is also used as a "metaphor" of the real life bully, guising himself to be "charming [and] funny" and manipulating people (what Mancini called "the ultimate bully"). By making him close to Jake, whose struggles are related to those of the LGBT community, the series also acknowledges that "Chucky himself has a queer kid" (Glen/Glenda, from Seed of Chucky). #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #gay #lgbt #chucky #charlesleeray #andybarclay #donmancini #braddourif #childsplay #gayhorror #cultofchucky #tiffany #tiffanydoll #jennifertilly #devonsawa #scifi #scifichannel #lexi #tvshow #chuckytvseries #chuckytv #glen #glenda #nonbinary #transrights #wheatus #teenagedirtbag | |||
| 10 Mar 2024 | #81 - Oculus (2013) - Retrospective and Review | 00:17:00 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as review Oculus, the 2013 American supernatural psychological horror film co-written, edited, and directed by Mike Flanagan. It is based on his short film Oculus: Chapter 3 – The Man with the Plan, and stars Karen Gillan and Brenton Thwaites as two young adult siblings who are convinced that an antique mirror is responsible for the death and misfortune that their family had suffered. The film had its world premiere on September 5, 2013, at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and received a wide theatrical release on April 11, 2014. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and was a box office success. Chapters 00:00 Mirror Mirror 00:11 Title Sequence 00:29 Introducing Oculus 01:10 Overall Thoughts 04:20 Favourite Parts 08:03 What We Disliked 10:17 Trivia 14:19 Ratings 16:08 Thank You 16:33 Mirrors Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree Oculus is based on director, co-writer, and editor Mike Flanagan's earlier 2005 short horror film, Oculus: Chapter 3 – The Man with the Plan. The short contained only one setting, a single actor, and a mirror. The short became highly acclaimed, and interest quickly arose regarding the adaptation of the short into a feature. Initially, studios were interested in found footage format; however, Flanagan was opposed to this and passed on such offers. Eventually, Intrepid Pictures expressed interest in producing the film "as long as you don't do it found footage". Expanding the premise to a feature-length screenplay proved challenging, as Flanagan felt like he had "pushed the limit" of what could be done with the premise in the short. The solution Flanagan came across was to combine two storylines, past and present, intercut with one another. The idea was to "create a sense of distortion and disorientation that would be similar for the viewer as it was for Tim and Kaylie in the room." In early drafts, it was difficult to distinguish between the two timelines, until the team hit upon the idea of writing all of the scenes from the past in italics. Inspired by the stories of H. P. Lovecraft, Flanagan chose to not explain the mirror's origins, explaining that he liked how Lovecraftian literature often seemed to be an "alien force that if you even were to try to comprehend it completely it would drive you mad." He expanded: "Evil in the world doesn't have an answer." #oculus #mikeflanagan #mirrors #justintimberlake #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 28 Nov 2022 | #45 - Mistaken Identity | I Know Who Killed Me (2007) | 00:45:30 | |
Damn Lindsay, save some bad stripping for the rest of us! I Know Who Killed Me was released by TriStar Pictures on July 27, 2007, and was deemed a critical and commercial box office failure and it has since been called one of the worst films ever made. The film was the most awarded at the 28th Golden Raspberry Awards, winning eight of nine nominations, including Worst Picture and Lohan tying with herself to win Worst Actress as well as Worst Screen Couple for both characters she portrayed. It did, however, attain a more successful home video performance, having almost quadrupled its U.S. box office gross in estimated domestic DVD sales. The film subsequently developed a cult following and several screenings of it have been put together by historic theatres and film festivals. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. In the first week of production, filming was halted after Lohan was hospitalized, her representative saying "she was overheated and dehydrated." Production stayed halted soon after as Lohan underwent appendix surgery. Filming was soon then delayed even longer after the incision was infected and the filmmakers were waiting for a doctor's approval for Lohan to continue working. This all occurred around the same time Lohan admitted herself to the Wonderland Center rehabilitation facility for a 30-day stay. During the stay she continued shooting the film, returning to the facility at night. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #gimmemore #britneyspears #lindsaylohan #Iknowwhokilledme | |||
| 08 May 2024 | #83 - MA (2019) VS. mother! (2017) Retrospective and Review | 00:43:40 | |
That’s mother right there! Tune is as BP, Coop, Justin and special guest Pablo discuss two different themed ‘mother’ movies in our latest Versus episode! MA! Is a 2019 movie starring Octavia Spencer in which a group of teenagers befriend a lonely middle-aged woman. She lets them party in her basement, and they end up being terrorized by her. The film was produced by Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions company, along with Tate Taylor and John Norris. Mother! Is the 2017 controversial film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Jennifer Lawrence as a young woman whose tranquil life with her husband at their country home is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious couple. Chapters 00:00 – MA 00:24 – Title Sequence 01:01 – Introducing MA vs. mother! 01:24 – Overall Thoughts 06:57 – Favourite Parts 18:58 - What We Disliked 32:14 - Trivia 37:03 - Ratings 41:56 – Thank You 42:19 – Greedy Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd Based on the original screenplay by Landes, Ma came together as a result of Taylor's desire to direct a film about "something fucked up" and Spencer's desire to break away from the kinds of roles she usually gets to play. Taylor and Spencer are longtime friends, having worked together in films such as The Help and Get on Up. Later, in 2018, Taylor and Blumhouse Productions began developing the film, with Taylor directing, Landes writing, Blum producing and Spencer starring. Principal photography on the film started in February 2018 and wrapped in March 2018, in Mississippi, with some parts shot in Natchez. Ma was released in the United States on May 31, 2019, by Universal Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances (particularly those of Spencer, Lewis, and Pyle), but criticized the pacing, unrealized potential, and depiction of the male teenage characters. The film grossed $61.2 million against a $5 million budget. It has since gained a cult following online. mother! premiered on September 5, 2017, at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, where it was selected to compete for the Golden Lion. It was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on September 15, 2017. The film grossed $44.5 million worldwide and received positive reviews from critics, who praised Aronofsky's direction and the performances, particularly those of Lawrence and Pfeiffer, while its biblical allegories and depiction of violence was scrutinized by some media outlets. The film received both boos and a standing ovation during its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. #mamovie #mother #mothermovie #jenniferlawrence #octaviaspencer #toxicgossiptrain #mirandasings #colleenballinger #versus #screamqueens #review #retrospective #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #trivia #blumhouseproductions #bible #jesus | |||
| 24 Nov 2024 | #90 - Your Monster (2024) Review | 00:20:40 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we analyse "Your Monster", a 2024 American romantic comedy-horror film written and directed by Caroline Lindy, based on her 2019 short film. The film stars Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Edmund Donovan, Kayla Foster, and Meghann Fahy. In Your Monster, Melissa stars as Laura Franco, a young actress enduring a cancer diagnosis and upsetting relationship breakup when she discovers a terrifying, yet weirdly charming Monster living in her closet played by Tommy Dewey. CHAPTERS 00:00 Your Monster 00:41 Introduction to Your Monster 1:28 Overall Thoughts 4:40 Favourite Parts 12:14 What We Disliked 17:15 Ratings 19:45 Thank You 20:27 Get Out Monster SHOP OUR STORE https://completeguidetohorror.threadless.com/collections/new/ Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd The film premiered in the Midnight section at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2024. In March 2024, Vertical acquired North American distribution rights to the film, releasing this on October 25, 2024. Rialto distribution subsequently acquired distribution rights for Australia with select cinemas playing Your Monster form the 28th November. Get your tickets now! Critical Reception On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 74% of 72 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The website's consensus reads: "A wickedly delightful genre mashup led by Melissa Barrera, Your Monster is pleasantly packed with songs, guts, and heart." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 62 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. #horror #yourmonster #melissabarrera #tommydewey #comedy #romance #monster #ladygaga #disease #review #podcast | |||
| 15 May 2022 | #16 - I Can't Get No Sadistfaction | Hostel: Part II (2007) | 00:12:55 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Hostel Part II, the controversial sequel to the runaway success of 'Hostel'. Follow the 'Talking SH!T - The Complete Guide to Horror Movies' podcast on our social channels below. Subscribe to our YouTube channel | |||
| 22 Oct 2022 | #40 - Black Widow | The Grudge (2004) | 00:36:00 | |
Karen takes on Japan! Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. In late 2002, the unexpected success of the English-language remake of The Ring finally gave Sony Pictures confidence to green-light an English-language remake of Ju-On: The Grudge. That same day, Takashi Shimizu, the director and creator of the original film, was hired to direct the film, with Stephen Susco writing the screenplay, and Sam Raimi through its Ghost House Pictures banner producing the project, alongside Robert Tapert and Takashige Ichise. Shimizu was eager to work on a remake of his own film, as he saw it as an opportunity to improve and fix some of the perceived problems and flaws that were present in the original film. Principal photography on the film began on January 26, 2004, with reshoots occurring in July 2004 in Tokyo, Japan. Sarah Michelle Gellar filmed her scenes in Tokyo within three months before returning for the reshoots. In late 2002, the unexpected success of the English-language remake of The Ring finally gave Sony Pictures confidence to green-light an English-language rem | |||
| 08 May 2023 | #65 - Office Politics | The Belko Experiment (2016) | 00:28:55 | |
"I am not easy to manage" - Kelly Kapoor Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The Belko Experiment, the 2016 film directed by Greg McLean and written by James Gunn, who also produced the film with Peter Safran. It stars John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley, Melonie Diaz, Josh Brener, and Michael Rooker. The film follows eighty Americans working abroad for a company named Belko Industries in Bogotá, Colombia. One day after they arrive at work, they are locked inside the building, and a mysterious voice announces that they have to start killing each other or else. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd Chapters 00:00 The Office 00:11 Title Sequence 00:47 Introducing The Belko Experiment 01:54 Overall Thoughts 08:37 Favourite Parts 15:55 What We Disliked 20:44 Trivia 24:57 Ratings 25:60 Final Thoughts 27:51 Thank you for watching! 28:23 California Dreamin' #thebelkoexperiment #theoffice #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #gregmclean #jamesgunn #funny #californiadreaming | |||
| 06 Aug 2022 | #30 - Problem Child | Seed of Chucky (2004) | 00:17:35 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Seed of Chucky, the 2004 sequel that takes a more comedic-horror turn for the Chuck franchise. The film is set six years after Bride of Chucky and follows a young doll named Glen, the son of Chucky and Tiffany, resurrecting his parents, causing chaos. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel The film, shot in Romania, continues the series' evolution from the pure horror genre of the first three films to a hybrid horror-comedy. It was the last Child's Play film from the original continuity to be released in theaters, with all future instalments to be released direct-to-video until the 2019 reboot. The film was followed by another sequel, Curse of Chucky, released on home video and Netflix in 2013. Seed of Chucky grossed over $24 million against a $12 million budget, and received "mixed or average reviews" according to Metacritic. Production on a new film called Son of Chucky began on October 18, 1998, two days after the successful release of Bride of Chucky, whose director Ronny Yu was unable to return due to scheduling conflicts. Don Mancini, who is gay and was interested in exploring LGBT-related themes in the next film, decided to write a screenplay inspired by the 1953 cult classic Glen or Glenda in which Chucky's son is an innocent person suffering from gender dysphoria. He also decided to continue the shift in the series towards comedy after noting that horror villains such as Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger became less scary as they became more familiar with audiences. Universal Pictures, which produced the previous three films and had expected a more conventional slasher film with the son being a murderous villain, rejected the script with the note "This is too gay." Production ultimately resumed when the project was approved by Focus Features after the successful release of Cabin Fever in 2003, and was ultimately released through Rogue Pictures. Mancini claimed in a podcast that prior casting Redman, he had offered to cast Quentin Tarantino as himself but he declined. All of the animatronic and makeup effects were the handiwork of Effects Designer Tony Gardner, who also appears in the film as himself in a cameo, and his company Alterian, Inc. In Australia, Seed of Chucky opened at #8 with $260,958 for the week of February 6–8, 2005 #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #chucky #charlesleeray #andybarclay #donmancini #braddourif #childsplay #gayhorror #seedofchucky #tiffany #tiffanydoll #jennifertilly #sclub7 #hannahspearitt #kids #kylieminogue #robbiewilliams #sclubparty #johnwaters #gay #lgbt #britneyspears #familyguy #scarymovie #glen #glenda #redman | |||
| 18 Feb 2023 | #56 - Ghost Town | House of Wax (2005) | 00:32:35 | |
"My face like a mannequin" - Britney Spears Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss House of Wax, the 2005 slasher film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, in his feature directorial debut, and written by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes. The film stars Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt in a dual role, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, and Robert Ri'chard. It is a loose remake of the 1953 film of the same name, itself a remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum, based on the story "The Wax Works" by Charles S. Belden. The film soundtrack features music by Deftones, My Chemical Romance, and Interpol. House of Wax premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released in United States theaters on May 6, 2005, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film grossed over $70 million worldwide and received mixed or average reviews from critics, who criticized its lack of originality, screenplay, and characters, but praised the performances and atmosphere. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #houseofwax #slasher #parishilton #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #movieworld #australia #elishacuthbert #chadmichaelmurray #onetreehill #theoc #riverdale #britneyspears #mannequin | |||
| 02 Oct 2022 | #38 - Arrested Development | The People Under the Stairs (1991) | 00:28:00 | |
And I thought my parents were crazy... Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The People Under the Stairs, the 1991 film directed by Wes Craven that is partially based on a true story. Poindexter "Fool" Williams is a resident of a Los Angeles ghetto. He and his family are being evicted from their apartment by their landlords the Robesons. The Robesons, who are believed to be a married couple, call themselves Mommy and Daddy. They have a daughter named Alice, to whom they are extremely abusive. Leroy, his associate Spencer, and Fool break into the Robesons' house by using Spencer to pose as a municipal worker. The Robesons leave the home shortly, but Spencer does not return. Fool and Leroy break into the house to look for Spencer and Fool finds his dead body and a large group of strange, pale children in a locked pen inside a dungeon-like basement. The Robesons return and Fool flees while Leroy is shot to death by Daddy. Fool runs into another section of the house where he meets Alice. She tells him that the people under the stairs were children who broke the "see/hear/speak no evil" rules of the Robeson household. The children have degenerated into cannibalism to survive and Alice has avoided this fate by obeying the rules without question. A boy named Roach whose tongue was removed as punishment for having called out for help to escape (thus breaking the "speak no evil" rule enforced by Mommy and Daddy) also evades the Robesons by hiding in the walls. Fool is discovered by Daddy and is thrown to the cannibalistic children to die. However, Roach helps Fool escape, but is critically wounded. As he dies, he gives Fool a small bag of gold coins and a written plea to save Alice. Fool reunites with Alice and the two escape into the passageways between the walls. Daddy releases his Rottweiler dog Prince into the walls to kill them. Fool tricks Daddy into stabbing Prince and he and Alice reach the attic where they find an open window above a pond. Alice is too afraid to jump and Fool is forced to escape without her, but he promises to return for her. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. Craven has stated that The People Under the Stairs was partially inspired by a news story from the late 1970s, in which two burglars broke into a Los Angeles household, inadvertently causing the police to discover two children who had been locked away by their parents. The film was a surprise commercial success, and has been analyzed for its satirical depiction of gentrification, class warfare, and capitalism. Craven at one point said he would like to remake the film along with The Last House on the Left and Shocker. However, after the release of the 2009 remake of The Last House on the Left, news of a remake fell dormant until 2015, when it was announced (shortly before Craven's death) that the director was developing a People Under the Stairs TV series for Syfy. On October 30, 2020, Collider reported that Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld signed on to produce a remake under Monkeypaw Productions for Universal Pictures. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary # | |||
| 29 Apr 2023 | #64 - Interview with Special Guest Yan-Kay Crystal Lo | 00:45:32 | |
Our special guest Yan-Kay Crystal Lo (aka Crystal Lowe) joins us to discuss the iconic tanning bed scene, her career as an actress and director, her short film 'After Glow', the legacy of being a scream queen, her favourite horror movies and more! Yan-Kay stars in Black Christmas (2006) Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007), Wonder (2017) various Hallmark Movies and of course Final Destination 3 (2006) and has been working in the industry since she was 15! Let us know which Final Destination movie is your favourite and show our special guest some love in the comments! Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Visit our website! ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Linktree Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:12 Introducing Special Guest Yan-Kay Crystal Lo 02:10 Asian Representation in Cinema and the Oscars 02:46 The Pressure of Hollywood Assimilation 06:05 After Glow, the short film written and directed by Crystal 08:12 Hallmark Movies and Women in Film 09:07 Black Christmas (2006) and Jessica Harmon 09:53 Working with Glen Morgan 10:52 Lack of Women’s Voices in Film and Inequality for Female Creators 12:20 Crystal’s advice to filmmakers, actors and creators 13:32 Will Scream Queen Crystal return to the Horror genre? 14:35 Hellboy II is underrated! 16:32 A Little Bit Zombie 17:34 Crystal’s Role in Wonder 18:18 The Infamous Tanning Bed Scene 20:13 Imitators of the Tanning Bed Scene in Other Horror 20:37 What Was It Like Filming the Tanning Bed Scene? 21:19 Stunt Doubles in Final Destination 3 22:12 Choose Your Fate Alternative Death Scene 23:57 Prosthetics in Final Destination 3 vs. Black Christmas (2006) 24:52 Funny Behind the Scenes Story with Prosthetics Artist from Black Christmas (2006) 25:35 Justin’s Validation of His Irrational Fear of the Tanning Bed Scene 26:00 How the Burn Gel from Final Destination 3 became Industry Standard 26:41 Does Crystal Find It Difficult to Watch Her Death Scenes? 27:48 The Princess Bride 28:41 Cold Reading for Wonder and her Iconic ‘Unforgiveable’ Character 29:35 The Legacy of Ashley and Ashlyn 30:22 Is Crystal Surprised by the Legacy of Final Destination 3? 30:44 Crystal’s Love for Horror Fans 31:36 Ashley and Ashlyn are Gay Icons 34:36 Pop Artists Slayyyter Recreated the Tanning Bed Scene for her Mixtape Cover 35:33 Drag Queen Performs Love Rollercoaster in Sydney 36:10 Burlesque vs. Drag 37:41 Crystal Lo’s Connections to Australia and Previous Trips to Melbourne and the Gold Coast 39:17 Cultural War Between Sydney and Melbourne 40:15 Follow Crystal on Cameo, Instagram and the socials 41:59 Justin tries rewatching the tanning bed scene 44:50 Thank you for watching! 45:16 Love Rollercoaster! #yankaycrystallowe #finaldestination3 #horror #movie #death #kills #tanningbed #tanningbeddeath #tanningsalon #chelansimmons #crystalrowe #2000s #rollercoaster#loverollercoaster #tanning #gym #camera #finaldestination #podcast #retrospective #wrongturn #blackchristmas #hallmarkmovies #afterglow #childrenofthecorn #slayyyter #lgbt #gayicon | |||
| 24 Dec 2022 | #49 - Santa's Slay | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) | 00:19:10 | |
Santa is coming to town! Run! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, the 2010 Finnish fantasy action horror comedy film written and directed by Jalmari Helander about people living near Korvatunturi who discover the secret behind Santa Claus. The film is based on the 2003 short film Rare Exports Inc. and its 2005 sequel Rare Exports: The Official Safety Instructions by Jalmari Helander and Juuso Helander, both of which involve a company that traps wild Santa Clauses and trains and exports them to locations around the world. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #wednesday13 #santaclaus #spongebob #squidward #vine #rareexports #christmas #tale #rupaul | |||
| 04 Jun 2023 | #69 - Jennifers Body (2009) | Maneater | 00:21:20 | |
She's a maneater, wish you never ever met her at all! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Jennifer's Body, the 20009 underrated horror/comedy written by Diablo Cody and directed by Karyn Kusama. Starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, J. K. Simmons, Amy Sedaris, and Adam Brody, the film follows a demonically possessed high school student who kills her male classmates and devours their flesh in order to survive, with her childhood friend striving to end her killing spree. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Linktree Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:13 Title Sequence 00:50 Introducing Jennifer's Body (2009) 01:14 Overall Thoughts 04:43 Favourite Parts 09:55 What We Disliked 13:18 Trivia 16:32 Ratings 17:27 Final Thoughts 19:31 Thank You 19:48 Maneater 20:45 Like and Subscribe In 2018, Constance Grady reported in Vox that a new critical consensus was forming that appreciated the film as a "forgotten feminist classic". She stated that after the Me Too movement highlighted routine sexual harassment and misconduct in the media industry, the film's story of "a group of powerful men sacrificing a girl's body on the altar of their own professional advancement" became "uncomfortably familiar." This, according to Grady, allowed viewers to see the film, rather than as a sex fantasy, as a revenge fantasy as Jennifer uses her abused body against her attackers. According to the screenwriter, Diablo Cody, the film was marketed "all wrong". She had argued with executives who wanted "to market this to boys who like Megan Fox. That's who's going to see it. And I was like. No! This is a movie for girls too! That audience, they did not attempt to reach." In a 2022 essay on its status as a classic queer and bisexual film, Carmen Maria Machado wrote that Jennifer's Body speaks to "what it means to experience parallel sexualities with your best friend as you punch through the last vestiges of childhood." Machado rejects accusations that the film is guilty of queerbaiting, considering it instead an effective depiction of the "central body of water that is bisexuality" which many queer people spend at least some of their life in. #jennifersbody #meganfox #amandaseyfried #revenge #vampire #demon #nellyfurtado #maneater #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic | |||
| 24 Apr 2022 | #10 - Just a Little Crush | Saw V (2008) | 00:17:20 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Saw V, the fifth instalment in the Saw franchise. We talk shit on all things Hoffman, Strahm, that crushing ending and 'the fatal five'. Follow the 'Talking SH!T - The Complete Guide to Horror Movies' podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel | |||
| 15 Apr 2022 | #05 - Bridge Over Troubled Waters & A New Life | Final Destination 5 (2011) & Final Destination 6 (TBC) | 00:33:24 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we analyse the fifth instalment in the Final Destination franchise PLUS Exclusive information on the upcoming sixth instalment! Follow the 'Talking SH!T - The Complete Guide to Horror Movies' podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel | |||
| 03 Nov 2024 | #88 - The Substance (2024) Review | 00:47:35 | |
Join BP, Coop, Pablo and Justin as we review The Substance, the 2024 satirical body horror film written, directed, co-edited, and co-produced by Coralie Fargeat. It follows a fading celebrity (Demi Moore) who uses a black market drug that creates a much younger version of herself (Margaret Qualley) with unexpected side effects. An international co-production between France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the film had its world premiere on 19 May 2024 at the 77th Cannes Film Festival main competition, where Fargeat won Best Screenplay. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom and the United States by Mubi on 20 September, and is scheduled for release in France by Metropolitan Filmexport on 6 November. The film received positive reviews and grossed over $42 million on a $17.5 million production budget. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 00:27 Introducing The Substance 02:14 Overall Thoughts 05:58 Favourite Parts 18:46 What We Disliked 30:00 Trivia 43:42 Ratings 46:47 Thank You SHOP OUR STORE https://completeguidetohorror.threadless.com/collections/new/ Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd Fargeat explained that her motivation for creating The Substance came from personal experiences with body image and societal pressure. She began writing the film in her 40s, a period when she was confronting negative thoughts about her relevance and appearance. "I really started to think and hide these voices in my head like, 'Now your life is over. No one is going to care about you.'" In another interview she expanded on her thoughts: "I couldn't say that I experienced it in a real way in my life, but those thoughts were absolutely real in my brain." Fargeat decided that the main character should be an actress to explore societal perceptions of bodies. She also chose to have Elisabeth Sparkle host an aerobics class, inspired by Jane Fonda's transition from a successful actress to her second career producing exercise tapes. Fargeat wrote the 150-page script with minimal dialogue, dedicating a mere 20 pages to spoken lines and focusing instead on detailed visual descriptions, rhythm and sound. This approach made images and sound the primary "grammar" of the film, in place of dialogue. The birth scene was the first that Fargeat wrote, which she describes as "the most important scene of the film". She had the idea while in the shower. Fargeat chose to omit character backstories, instead conveying information through actions, locations, and attire. Colors were written into the script to symbolize character traits – Elisabeth Sparkle's yellow jacket representing a "superhero-like" quality before her transformation, and Sue's pink leotard signifying her femininity. #thesubstance #mubi #horror #review #bodyhorror #demimoore #margaretqualley #coraliefargeat #dennisquaid #hollywood | |||
| 03 Jun 2022 | #21 - The Original Scary Movie | Scream (1996) | 00:19:45 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Scream, the 90's cult classic directed by Wes Craven that reinvigorated the horror genre by satirising cliches of the horror genre and whodunnit murder mystery tropes to present a meta self-aware take on your typical slasher. Scream follows Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), a high school student in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California, who becomes the target of a mysterious killer in a Halloween costume known as Ghostface. The film satirizes the clichés of the slasher genre popularized in films such as Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980) and Craven's own A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Scream was considered unique at the time of its release for featuring characters aware of real-world horror films who openly discussed the clichés that the film attempted to subvert. Inspired by the real-life case of the Gainesville Ripper, Scream was influenced by Williamson's passion for horror films, especially Halloween (1978). The screenplay, originally titled Scary Movie, was bought by Dimension Films and was retitled by the Weinstein brothers just before filming was complete. The production faced censorship issues with the Motion Picture Association of America and obstacles from locals while filming on location. The film received positive reviews and was a financial success, earning $173 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing slasher film until the release of Halloween (2018). It still remains the highest-grossing slasher film in adjusted dollars. It received several awards and award nominations. The soundtrack by Marco Beltrami was also acclaimed, and was cited as "[one] of the most intriguing horror scores composed in years". The score has since earned "cult status". Scream marked a change in the genre as it cast already-established and successful actors, which was considered to have helped it find a wider audience, including a significant female viewership. Scream was credited with revitalizing the slasher genre in the 1990s, which was considered to be almost dead following an influx of direct-to-video titles and numerous sequels to established horror franchises of the 1970s and 1980s. Scream's success spawned a series of sequels. These sequels drew decreasing financial and critical success, as they exploited clichés upon which films in the genre had become reliant. In the years following the release of Scream and its sequels, they were accused of inspiring and even inducing violent crimes and murders. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #scream #nevecampbell #drewbarrymore #rosemcgowan #nickcaveandthebadseeds #redrighthand #michaeljackson #janetjackson | |||
| 16 Jul 2022 | #27 - Fresh Out the Box | Child's Play 2 (1990) | 00:19:05 | |
Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss Child's Play 2, the 1990 sequel to the original and first instalment in the chucky franchise. Two years after the first film, the Play Pals Corporation, which produces the Good Guy dolls, recovers from the negative publicity and reassembles Chucky to reassure its stockholders that there was nothing actually wrong with the doll. During the process, a power surge electrocutes one of the assembly line workers. Mr. Sullivan, the executive of the company, orders his assistant Mattson to cover up the accident and dispose of Chucky, unaware that he has been revived. Meanwhile, Andy Barclay, now eight years old, has been in foster care ever since the murders, his mother having been institutionalized for backing up Andy's story about the killer doll. Andy goes to live with foster parents Phil and Joanne Simpson, who are also fostering Kyle, a cynical, street smart teenage girl. Chucky discovers Andy's whereabouts by using Mattson's car phone to call Grace Poole, the manager of Andy's foster center, before suffocating Mattson with a plastic bag. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ Facebook ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Originally the film was intended to open with a courtroom scene of a jury sentencing Karen Barclay to a mental institution for insisting that Chucky was alive, and both Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon were intended to reprise their roles as Karen and Detective Mike Norris from the first film. However, their scenes were cut from the scripts because of budgetary constraints, and as a result of their omission the film is much shorter than the other installments in the series. The courtroom scene would be recycled as the ending of Curse of Chucky in 2013. It also would have contained a scene where Chucky's remains were held in a police evidence locker alongside Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers's masks, an idea which came to be reused in Bride of Chucky in 1998. Principal photography began on November 6, 1989 with a $12 million budget. Unlike the first film which was mostly shot on-location in Chicago, most of the second film was shot in Universal Studios Lot in Universal City, California. Brad Dourif recorded all of his dialogue as Chucky in advance, which allowed his words to match up with his facial movements better than in the first film. Kevin Yagher returned to do the special effects and puppetry, directing several scenes of the film himself.[9] The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees picketed the shoot to demand that the production company stop using non-union employees, with the crew voting to sign a union contract in January 1990 shortly before filming wrapped. Graeme Revell, whose only scoring experience was the 1989 Australian psychological horror film Dead Calm, was hired to compose the music after lying to the studio that he had composed an orchestral composition before. Kevin Carlson, Van Snowden, and N. Brock Winkless IV were credited as part of the puppeteers of Chucky. #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie | |||
| 11 Feb 2023 | #53 - Transmission Over | The Signal (2007) vs. The Signal (2014) | 00:20:25 | |
There may have been some miscommunication in our transmission meaning we accidentally reviewed different versions of The Signal by complete accident! Join BP, Coop and Justin as we discuss The Signal (2007) and The Signal (2014) in our second (unofficial) Versus. episode. The Signal is a 2007 American horror film written and directed by independent filmmakers David Bruckner, Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry. It is told in three parts, in which all telecommunication and audio visual devices transmit only a mysterious signal turning people mad and activating murderous behaviour in many of those affected. The Signal is a 2014 American science fiction thriller film directed by William Eubank, and written by William and Carlyle Eubank and David Frigerio. The film stars Brenton Thwaites and Laurence Fishburne and follows three MIT students – Jonah, Nic, and Haley – are on a road trip to move Haley to California, a decision that stresses Nic's relationship with Haley. Nic walks with forearm crutches, and the possibility of muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, or some other degenerative disease is implied but never specified. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. #thesignal #versus #zombie #scifi #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #roguetraders #americandad #laurencefishburne #dontyouwananfeel #nataliebassingthwaighte | |||
| 17 Jun 2023 | #71 - X VS. Pearl (2022) | Mia Goth Renaissance | 00:25:55 | |
This is a certified Mia Goth stan account. Join BP, Coop, Justin and returning special guest Pablo as we analyse X and Pearl, the 2022 horror films by director Ti West. X is a 2022 American slasher film written, directed, produced and edited by Ti West. It stars Mia Goth in dual roles: a young woman named Maxine and Pearl, an elderly woman. The film also stars Jenna Ortega, Martin Henderson, Brittany Snow, Owen Campbell, Stephen Ure, and Scott Mescudi appearing in supporting roles. The film follows a cast and crew who gather to make a pornographic film on an elderly couple's rural Texas property, but find themselves threatened by the killer couple. Pearl (subtitled An X-traordinary Origin Story) is also a 2022 American slasher film directed by Ti West, co-written by West and Mia Goth, who reprises her role as the title character, and featuring David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, and Emma Jenkins-Purro in supporting roles. A prequel to X (2022) and the second installment in the X film series, it serves as an origin story for the title villain, whose fervent aspiration to become a movie star led her to committing violent acts on her family's Texas homestead in 1918. Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:15 Title Sequence 00:53 Introducing X and Pearl 02:01 Overall Thoughts 07:54 Favourite Parts 15:24 What We Disliked 17:25 Trivia 21:26 Ratings 23:22 Final Thoughts 24:57 Thank You 25:15 Sweet But Psycho #x #pearl #tiwest #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic #a24 #wizardofoz #avamax #sweetbutpsycho | |||