Horror News: Horror Host Live (Dead) Stream Panel!

Our guest host for Episode 101, David Dastmalchian is having a special streaming event tomorrow night! Or... tonight, depending on when you see this. If you are a fan of late-night horror hosts, you'll want to catch this panel and a watch party for the Karloff Classic The Old Dark House.
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The Scariest Things Podcast Episode CI: Drug-Induced Horror! (With David Dastmalchian)

David Dastmalchian is one of Hollywood's good guys, and he is on the cusp of something very big, playing Polka Dot Man in the deliriously entertaining (with gore worthy of a horror movie) DC Comics movie The Suicide Squad. If you want to get to know our friend a little better, take a listen to our Episode 101, Drug-Induced Horror, where David shares some wonderfully personal tales of recovery and redemption. Congratulations David, on the big hit film!
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Horror Short: Desert Quarantine (2020)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ "Timely, topical, and terrific." Well that's what the Scariest Things Podcast would say if Variety came calling for a pull quote. Joe Burke's (Four Dogs) brand spanking new horror short Desert Quarantine is a perfect reflection of a perfect reflection of society's current spate of worry, hate, fear, and confusion.
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A Celebration of Slashers Part 2: Slasher Movie Bracket Fight!

What's the best slasher film of all time? What better way to find out by doing a bracket fight! 64 of the most notable horror films face off in a tournament-style bracket. The all-time classics you know face off against the underground fringe exploitation fare... who comes out on top? You pick!
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Eric’s PHFF Review: Witness Infection (2020)

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ When worlds collide! Witness Infection is a goofy and fun mashup of mob movie and zombie movie tropes. Family, duty, and mob justice become secondary for nice-guy Carlo when tainted Italian sausages ignite a zombie pandemic. Ooooo, maybe you shouldn't have had seconds!
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Eric’s PHFF Review: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (2020)

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ "Let me DIE! Let me Die!" The Brain that Wouldn't Die is a loving note for note recreation of one of the great B movies of the 1960s. Cheeky and continually winking at the audience, the film embraces the silly camp classic and giving it a fresh coat of 4K technicolor paint.
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Mike’s PHFF Review: Uncle Peckerhead (2020)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ Pulling off a feature length film takes some serious gumption. Pulling off a film that balances impeccable comedic timing, a fully realized soundtrack, empathetic characters, complicated friendships, and a heaping dose of spatter gore -- well, that's a whole different story. Directed by horror short filmmaker Matthew John Lawrence, Uncle Peckerhead hits every single note and simultaneously manages to bang out a gory film that would make Herschell Gordon Lewis blush.
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A Slasher Film Celebration Part 1 of 2: Ranking 120 Slasher Films into Tiers (for Fears)

We are celebrating the influence of the slasher movie to the horror genre by ranking them in tiers! The sheer volume of knife-wielding psycho movies is almost overwhelming, but The Scariest Things has taken the time to accumulate as many mad slasher films as we could and compared them to each other. The cool thing? If you disagree, you can shuffle the deck and make your own choices!
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The Scariest Things Podcast: Episode XCIX: Technological Horror

Do you ever feel like you are being monitored? That your communication device of choice is actively working against you? That the soulless automatons of industry are going to rise up and crush you? Well, we do! Join the Scariest Things as we talk about technology and horror!
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The Portland Horror Film Festival Goes Streaming!

It's Alive! It's ALIVE! IT'S ALIIIIIIVEEE!! The Portland Horror Film Festival is going virtual this year, which means more access to more people. Come join the festivities June 17-21st. A wealth of horror shorts and independent features await!
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Eric’s Chattanooga Film Festival Review: Jumbo (2020)

★★★★★ out of ★★★★★ A young woman gets a job at an amusement park, and falls romantically in love with an amusement park ride, in this bizarre and brilliant dark fantasy. Not so much a horror movie, but it is an absolutely brilliant coming of age piece about madness and unconventional affection.
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Mike’s Review: The Siren (2019)

★★.5 out of ★★★★★ A somber, quiet, and contemplative affair. This faux mythology, while largely devoid of dialogue, packs away some interesting social/sexual dynamics. Fans of Troma and Full Moon be forewarned, this film is NOT for you. While it is a monster movie that's loosely based not the eastern European "Rusalka" water harpy myth, this is not the Toxic Avenger, nor is it the Evil Bong.
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Eric’s Chattanooga Film Festival Review: The Yellow Night (2019)

★★ out of ★★★★★ The Yellow Night indicated it might be a psychedelic cosmic horror show. Nope! It is a teen-angst movie full of banal and unconvincing dialogue among a group of Brazilian high school grads. And, there might be a cosmic gate in the creepy shed at the beach house they are staying in, but the characters pay it no mind, and neither does the plot.
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Eric’s Chattanooga Film Festival Review: The Wave (2020)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ The Wave is a dark sci-fi comedy that explores the collision of hallucinogens, a mid-life crisis, time travel, legal ethics, the afterlife, and lots of really bad decisions. Justin Long stars in this tale of a man who loses everything but finds his own personal truth in the end. Ooooo! Trippy!
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Eric’s Chattanooga Film Festival Review: Scare Package (2019)

★★★ out of ★★★★★ Scare Package is a horror-comedy anthology that gets points for knowing all the tropes by heart and trying really hard. It's more lightly amusing than raucously funny, and it doesn't always land the comedic beats, but it will certainly please fans of gory silliness. Bonus points for one BIG horror icon cameo appearance.
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Mike’s Review: Demon Seed (1977)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ The Demon Seed is one mighty mashup of technological/sociological concepts. Freedom of choice, meets man’s desire to concur his natural surroundings, meets the infallibility of the god complex, meets sexual politics, meets the ecology movement, meets the military industrial complex, meets a horrifying faux 2001 psychedelic freakout. Yes, it’s all here on display in a 1970s groove.
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The Beach House (2019) Review (Chatanooga Film Festival)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

Intensity:🩸🩸 for some harrowing chase scenes and violence

The Beach House is a compact and well-paced Cosmic Horror tale. A young couple trying to sort out their relationship go to a New England beach house to address their issues, only to find something very sinister is brewing on the beach.

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