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Eric and Mike got a wonderful opportunity to host an on-stage conversation with genre icon, Mick Garris, live at the Hollywood Theater for the Portland Horror Film Festival! Listen up all's y'all!
The Scariest Things were gifted with an interview at the Overlook Film Festival with Satanic Panic's Producer, Amanda Presmyk, who gave us her behind the scenes insights on her new movie and the movie business. Get the scoop in our Podcast Extra!
The Scariest Things went to the Big Easy and saw LOTS of movies, and for good measure also checked out some really cool live panels. Many of these films will be getting wide release later this summer and fall, so give a listen for a preview of what's worth checking out!
The book was better! Or was it? Our book expert Liz and Eric talk about some of their favorite adaptations from the page to the screen.
MICK GARRIS, WORLD PREMIERES, AND MONSTERS APLENTY AT PORTLAND HORROR FILM FESTIVAL™ JUNE 5th-8th
Once again, the Overlook Film Festival is stocked with a veritable treasure trove of movies to be screened. The Scariest Things will be in the Big Easy to preview for you all the great indie horror to come out of Overlook.
We're going on a trip to the far east, where Horror delves where Hollywood had feared to tread. We're trading in the hillbilly horror for some scary little girls with wet hair! Join Liz, Eric, and Mike for a combo plate of some of our favorite offerings from across the Pacific.
Aaaaaand… ACTION! Here are the video clips of Mike and Eric’s Episode 60 favorite opening scenes from horror movies. Beware,...
Forget the slow burn, let's get this show off with a BANG! It doesn't guarantee that the movie is going to be great, but making a good first impression, like a blind date, can shape the rest of your experience.
That's Vegetarian as in this time the plants are eating YOU! The tables are turned, and these plants are looking for some long deserved payback.
This might sting a little. (Aiiieeeee!!!) Jeff Dean joins Eric and Mike again in taking on our favorites Hospital Horror shows.
We're getting a little trippy, a little sexy, and going full-on grindhouse... here comes the 1970's!
Put on some Warren Zevon (Little old lady got mutilated late last night. AH-HOOOO! Werewolves of London, again. ) and get your wolfsbane handy, because Eric and Mike are going to talk all things lycanthropic.
A Patreon special request! What horror movie scenario would be you least like to be subjected to, either as a victim or as the monster? Mike and Eric dive into deep movie fears in Episode 55.
When at a comic convention, you've got to talk comics! The last of our Wizard World interviews is with Ben Goldsmith, author of the just released horror comic The Seance Room from Source Point Press. This was a fun interview!
Keeping it Weird at Wizard World! Mike is joined by Brian "The Unipiper" Kidd and Todd Werkhoven, hosts of Portland at the Movies to talk about some oddball horror movies shot in Portland.
Wizard World 2019 gave The Scariest Things an opportunity to meet some of our Oregon sibling horror organizations, and in this interview we got a chance to sit and talk with Lee Despain of the Dread Fright & Brew Podcast and Brandy Dixon of The Theatre of Horrors cosplay for charity organization.
The Scariest Things had the good fortune at Wizard World Portland to get a quick interview with Xander Harris himself, Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Nicholas Brendon. As a bonus, Nicholas even sang for us!
At Portland Wizard World we were fortunate enough to do a panel in front of a live audience, where we got to be your discount Rick Steve's travel guides for a trip around the globe and looking at other countries through their horror films!
We're talking Cults in episode 54! Mike and Eric are joined by our Patron pal Matt Howl for this episode. Start the Satanic Panic Propaganda!
Eric and Mike examine the late 60’s, getting beyond Night of the Living Dead and Rosemary’s Baby to recommend some...
It's an extra special treat for your ears! The Scariest Things talk with author Mallory O'Meara
The Scariest Things is proud to announce the winners of the Best of the Horror Genre for 2018! We honor all the films, big and small from the year that was.
The Sixties is when Horror grew up. And the international scene led the way to a more sophisticated palette... for the most part. Eric and Mike break down some of our favorites from the front end of the 1960's.
You’ll howl at the moon with laughter as you read Carnivorous Lunar Activities!
One year in the books, and it's time to reflect upon our experience as Podcasters and Writers!
No more strange distortions and echoes! No more Eric sounding like he's in another room! A new audio experience for the Scariest Things is coming soon to a streaming device near you.
We've put a wrap on 2018, now it's time to look forward to 2019! Let's hope we (Mike) are better prognosticators of what good movies are coming up.
Horror films are ripe with characters that you just want to die horribly in the movie. Mike and Eric discuss some of Horror's most despicable characters.