The Scariest Things Podcast Episode 171: The ABC’s of Horror

It's an exercise we all learned from the moment we started reading. Learn your ABCs by associating words with letters. Imagine if you learned how to read and write by associating the alphabet with horror movies. That's the theme of The Scariest Things Podcast episode 171. Write your own list, before you listen to our selections, and play along!
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Thorns (FrightFest UK 2023) Review

⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Intensity: 🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

What do you get when you combine Doug Bradley, religious horror, practical effects, signals from space, and a cool retro vibe? Who cares! It's DOUG BRADLEY! Sorry. I mean, Thorns! And it's a fun, often nostalgic-feeling ride.

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Herd (FrightFest UK 2023) Review

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Intensity: 🩸🩸🩸

A tense, character-driven survival flick played against a background of feuding paramilitary groups and an epidemic of zombie infection.

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Trailer Alert: Slotherhouse (2023)

Is there any creature more unlikely to be a horror threat than a sloth? Slotherhouse puts that conceit to the test, with the notoriously slow and peaceful creature cast as a vicious killer, set loose in a sorority house. Brilliant? Ridiculous? Both? The film Arrives in Theaters on August 30. See the trailer here!
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Scary Live Theater in Los Angeles: Lobelia

Hello Angelinos! For those of you looking for something to do in the post-Hurricane environment of LA in September, we recommend you catch Lobelia, a Gothic Vincent Price homage from playwright and good friend of Scariest Things, Sharon Yablon.
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The Scariest Things Podcast Episode 170: Vacation and Tourism Horror

As we celebrate the end of Summer, the Scariest Things is offering up a menu of cautionary tales. Going on Vacation may be the last thing you do. Eric, Liz, and Mike suggest you stay safe at home where you won't become victim to organ thieving maniacs. (Unless they decide to invade your home... we have another podcast for that). So listen in to our advice before entering the last dying days of summer for vacation horror!
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Mike’s Review: Watchdog (2023 Popcorn Frights Film Festival)

★★.5 out of ★★★★★ In the latest installment to the cringe-inducing horror sub-genre, Home Invasion Horror, we get a fair-to-midland entry with a little heart. Think Funny Games, but less terror, suspense, and sadism. Just some light torture and some fun cameos. 
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Hundreds of Beavers (2023 Popcorn Frights Film Festival)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 🩸🩸out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 For Gonzo cartoon violence Hundreds of Beavers is a genre and expectation defying film. It is a black and white "silent" black comedy, using furries and Looney Tunes manic comic violence to huge effect. This indie darling has been racking up best-of-film awards at numerous film festivals, and The Scariest Things can thank the Popcorn Frights Film Festival for this screening. One of the funniest things you are likely to see, and a big theater showing would be a blast. (Only horror adjacent though)
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Mike’s Review: The Banality (2023 Popcorn Frights Film Festival)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 🩸out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 Imagine if Terrance Malik directed a horror film. This isn’t the start of a bad joke with an equally bad punchline. Would it have gore? Chainsaws? Over the top supernatural happenings? Or would it be a somber and contemplative affair? If you know the films of Terrance Malik then you know the answer. 
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Wintertide (Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2023)

★★★ out of ★★★★★ 🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 In the proud Canadian tradition of sex, disease, and madness, Wintertide follows a woman struggling with depression in a post apocalyptic winter where the sun hasn't come up in 100 days and people are turning into unthinking strays, gone mad from isolation and lonliness.
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Ghosts of the Void (Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2023)

★★★ out of ★★★★★ 🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 A struggling married couple who have been evicted from their home makes a fateful decision to sleep the night in their car on a wooded road. At times thrilling, and at other times head scratching, this film has a great heart but a flawed mind. Convincing performances by Tedra Milan and Michael Reagan make this worth watching.
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Mike’s Review: Puzzle Box (2023 Popcorn Frights Film Festival)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 for screaming and addiction recovery. Skinamarink with real scares! Found footage follies! The year of Australian horror! Puzzle Box is the complete horror spook show! If you haven’t been paying attention 2023 really is the year of Australian horror.
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Sorry Charlie (Popcorn Frights 2023)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 Sorry Charlie is a one-woman showcase for actress Kathleen Kenny, who plays Charlie, a crisis hotline volunteer who survives a serial rapist attack, but is convinced that he is still stalking her. A great cat and mouse thriller with a compelling central figure who has managed to avoid being just another victim.
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) Review

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

Horror maestro André Øvredal has turned the story of Dracula into a 19th Century period piece version of Alien. A doomed ship of sailors are unknowingly transporting Dracula in his coffin to England, and a merchantman sailing vessel is a perfect hiding place for the devil that is Dracula. The much anticipated movie is dreadful, as in FULL OF DREAD. About as scary as you're going to be able to get with Dracula.

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The Scariest Things Podcast Extra: Queer Screams Film Festival 2023

The latest addition to the Portland Horror Film Festival scene arrives on August 18-20, the Queer Screams Film Festival! Filmmaker J.T. Seaton spends some quality time with Eric to describe the fabulous offerings that this festival is serving up in this exclusive Scariest Things Interview!
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Spooky Time Epsiode 20

Spooky Time looks back at ONE MILLION views, and marvels at how this little engine that could, did it! Also, Mike talks about his experience with Sharksploitation, Liz is overloaded with Fantasia reviews, and we discuss if the Exorcist trailer has us more or less excited about the upcoming Reboot.
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