Scare U
74 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsScare U is a podcast that dissects horror, one terrifying film at a time. Head back to school with “Professor” Bradford Louryk to learn about the history, performance, and legacy of classic horror films and underappreciated gems. He’s joined by co-host Eric Winick, who's just seen each film for the first time, and an array of very special guests. The result: the ultimate 360 degree appraisal, featuring a spoiler-free section at the top, honor roll and detention segments, and superlatives celebrating the best and worst of each film. Visit us at scareupod.com.
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The Conjuring (2013) with Christian Parker
June 10, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBThe house in Harrisville, Rhode Island is not clean. In fact it's filthy, lousy with supernatural yuck. That's bad news for whoever inhabits it, and no one's going to have it worse than the Perrons—father Roger (Ron Livingston), mother Carolyn (Lili Taylor), and their five daughters. When the otherworldly rumblings get out of hand, who they gonna call? In this case, it's the OG Ghostbusters, Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga). To say what happens next would be a spoiler...
Shaun of the Dead (2004) with Clark Collis
June 03, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBSimon Pegg and Edgar Wright were on to something. Taking a well-worn subgenre and fusing it with the distinct style they'd perfected on Channel 4's "Spaced," the two concocted a script like no other and produced a cult classic. Twenty years since its premiere, we look at the production and legacy of Wright's breakthrough film with Clark Collis, former Entertainment Weekly reporter and author of You've Got Red On You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life. So pack up your Breville and jam...
The Amityville Horror (2005) with Gretchen McNeil
May 28, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBSo... you think you can remake a classic horror movie. That's what Michael Bay thought, anyway, when his production shingle Platinum Dunes embarked on a new adaptation of Jay Anson's tale of mayhem on Long Island. Citizen Kane the 1979 Amityville Horror may not be, but it holds a special place in the hearts of horror fans worldwide. So who's to blame for the mess that is the 2005 version? First (and last) time director Andrew Douglas? Frequently shirtless Ryan Reynolds, miscast as axe-wieldi...
The Amityville Horror (1979) with Gretchen McNeil
May 20, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBWhat's that, by the side of the road? Is that a... vomiting nun, played by star of stage and screen Irene Dailey? And what's that, up in the sewing room? Is that a... priest covered in flies, played by Oscar-winner Rod Steiger? However you feel about it, there's no question that Stuart Rosenberg's O.G. THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979) is an iconic launch of a never-ending franchise, one that's produced more clunkers than most—but which seems to have legs like no other. With '70s icons Margot Kid...
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) with Louisa Krause
May 13, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBTake a seat at the dining room table and gaze through that planchette. We're attempting to connect with the spirit world in Mike Flanagan's 2016 prequel-to-beat-all-prequels OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, featuring Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Annalise Basso, and Henry Thomas. Joining us to battle Demons from the Great Beyond is the amazing Louisa Krause, she of Starz's "The Girlfriend Experience" Season 2 and the films The Dive, Maggie Moore(s), Ava's Possessions, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and ma...
Insidious (2010) with Allison Broder
May 06, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBStrap on your gas mask, crack open that sketch pad, and astrally project yourself into The Further as we continue our James Wan mini-series with an assessment of Wan's 2010 Insidious. With a script by key collaborator Leigh Whannell and a cast featuring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, and the ethereal Lin Shaye, this is the Insidious that started them all. Joining us at the séance table is Allison Broder, host of the Who's There? podcast. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love...
House of 1000 Corpses (2003) with Ariel Powers-Schaub
April 29, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBHooray for Captain Spaulding! And some Fireflies. Writer and early-00s horror authority Ariel Powers-Schaub joins us to vivisect Rob Zombie's 2003 roadside attraction of sin and debauchery, House of 1000 Corpses, starring Sid Haig, Karen Black, Rainn Wilson, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, and a young, nubile, young Walton Goggins as "Deputy Steve Naish." So strap in, (fish)boys and girls. It's gonna be a bumpy night. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-28:27 Hono...
House (1977) with Dawn Luebbe
April 22, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBWatch out for that piano! And the well! And the light fixture! And the... clock? This week, we're joined by the one and only Dawn Luebbe (co-director, Greener Grass, Wayfair's "Welcome to the Wayborhood") to discuss Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's mindbending horror cult comedy House. Will we make it out alive? Only Auntie's cat Blanche knows for sure. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:40 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:41-58:48 Superlatives (spoiler-heavie...
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) with Bruce Graver & Dorian Greenbaum
April 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBWe're back from Spring Break, discussing James Whale's 1935 classic featuring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, and Ernest Thesiger. Our guests are the authors of the new book Peggy Webling and the Story Behind Frankenstein: The Making of a Hollywood Monster, about the woman who wrote the stage play from which Universal's Frankenstein (1931) was adapted. Also: a new superlative honoring one of our favorite actors, the inimitable Béatrice Dalle. Intro, Debate Socie...
The Mephisto Waltz (1971) with David Cote
February 05, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBWhen music journalist Myles Clarkson visits ailing piano virtuoso Duncan Ely at his palatial California home, ostensibly to interview the man, Duncan notices something distinct about Myles: his hands – they’re beautiful, the bone structure perfect for a concert pianist. Myles, it turns out, is a Juilliard-trained musician whose career tanked after receiving some bad reviews. Taking an interest in Myles, Duncan introduces him to his artist daughter Roxanne. Soon Myles has entered the piani...
Theatre of Blood (1973) with Ben Viccellio
January 29, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBBehold – the late, great Edward Lionheart, a Shakespearean actor whose performances in Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Cymbeline, and others left him the laughingstock of London theatre critics, is dead. And yet somehow, someone is knocking off said critics one at a time in truly Shakespearean fashion… albeit with slight alterations to the text. Shylock may have wanted his pound his flesh – this killer takes the heart. Joan of Arc might have burned at the stake – this killer...
Frankenstein's Army (2013) with Bobby Frederick Tilley
January 22, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBWorld War II. Somewhere in Germany. Accompanied by a cameraman shooting propaganda for Mother Russia, a ragtag platoon fighting the Nazis receives a distress signal from fellow soldiers and heads off to investigate. They approach a church where no Russians can be found, but the church is inhabited by creatures who appear to be constructed from weapons, parts of machines and vehicles, but still have blood flowing through their veins. The creatures seem like part of the Nazi war machine, b...
She Will (2021) with Jerry J Sampson
January 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBFollowing a double mastectomy, and hoping to recover in peace, actress Veronica Ghent travels to what she believes will be a solitary retreat in the Scottish Highlands. She’s accompanied by a young nurse, Desi, who through sheer will and a good heart is able to put up with Veronica’s brusque, standoffish nature. There are other forces at work: the land on which their cabin sits was the burial ground of thousands of alleged witches, whose ashes have fertilized the soil and created ground r...
Eyes Without a Face (1960) with Liz DeGregorio
January 08, 2024 14:56 - 1 hour - 88.5 MBSomewhere on the outskirts of Paris, a woman, Louise, is driving alone at night. There’s a body in the back seat of her car. Its face is obscured, and it’s slumped over, lifeless. Because said body is a corpse, and Louise is soon dragging it into the Seine. Meanwhile, after giving a speech about the perils and pleasures of skin grafts, a doctor, Genessier, is called to the morgue to identify a body. It is that of his missing daughter? So he claims. On his way out, Gennessier is accoste...
Jennifer's Body (2009) with Kate Thompson
January 02, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBJennifer Check and Anita “Needy” Lesnicky are best friends living in the town of Devil’s Kettle, best known for its waterfall and high school football team. When Jennifer suggests she and Needy step out to see a band, Low Shoulder, at the local roadhouse, Melody Lane, Needy’s reluctant. She’s rather spend the night with Chip, her boyfriend. But Jennifer's nothing if not persuasive. Upon arriving at Melody Lane, it’s clear the band is a bunch of locals posing as hipsters from the city. Bu...
Extra Ordinary (2019) with Wendy MacLeod
December 26, 2023 13:33 - 1 hour - 72 MBDriving instructor Rose Dooley lives alone in rural Ireland, but she’s hardly ever alone. The local residents call Rose any time they have a, shall we say, ghost problem. Which happens more often than you’d think. You see, Rose’s father, the late ghost hunter Vincent Dooley, has imbued Rose with certain ‘talents’ to divine and chat up ghosts that are giving people a hard time. That’s when she’s approached by one Martin Martin, a woodworker whose late wife has been making his life hell for t...
The Legend of Hell House (1973) with Christopher Shinn
December 18, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 75.9 MBEccentric billionaire Rudolph Deutsch wants someone to figure out what (or who's) been haunting the old Belasco mansion, the “Mt Everest of haunted houses.” Apparently the house has something to do with the secret to life after death, so Deutsch enlists a team of potential rivals to get to the bottom of it: physicist and sometime paranormal investigator Barrett and his wife Ann; mental medium Florence Tanner; and physical medium Ben Fischer, the sole survivor of the last attempt to exorcise...
Thirt13en Ghosts (2001) with Jason Ragosta
December 11, 2023 13:13 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBIt’s a cage match in a used car graveyard, with soul hunter Cyrus Kriticos taking on soul preserver Kalina Oretzia. Lost amidst the metal is The Breaker, a murderous ghost Cyrus wishes to add to his collection. Assisting Cyrus is Dennis, a medium whose ability to sense ghosts sends him into spasms of pain. Kalina’s only wish is to set souls free and let them roam the earth. Cyrus succeeds in capturing Breaker, but loses his life in the process. We cut to the home of Cyrus’s nephew, math...
Candyman (1992) with Godfrey L. Simmons Jr.
December 04, 2023 12:52 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBGrad student Helen Lyle is determined to find out why the residents of the Cabrini-Green housing development in Chicago are petrified by the Candyman, a ghost who allegedly appears if you say his name in the mirror five times. After jokingly summoning him with Trevor, her philandering professor husband, Helen heads to Cabrini-Green with her pal Bernadette to interview residents and track down the truth. Instead she discovers what might just be the Candyman’s lair, an abandoned apartment lai...
Candyman (1992) with Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.
December 04, 2023 12:52 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBGrad student Helen Lyle is determined to find out why the residents of the Cabrini-Green housing development in Chicago are petrified by the Candyman, a ghost who allegedly appears if you say his name in the mirror five times. After jokingly summoning him with Trevor, her philandering professor husband, Helen heads to Cabrini-Green with her pal Bernadette to interview residents and track down the truth. Instead she discovers what might just be the Candyman’s lair, an abandoned apartment lai...
The Dunwich Horror (1970) with John DeVore
November 27, 2023 12:52 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBWilbur Whateley wants the Necronomicon, and although the library’s closing, local coed Nancy is so entranced by Whateley that she’s inclined to let him read it. Her professor, Dr. Armitage, isn’t thrilled with the idea of someone borrowing the book – even for five minutes – until he realizes who the reader is. Eager to find out more about Wilbur, and his family history of seeking out transdimensional creatures, he invites Wilbur and Nancy to dinner. But Wilbur’s not interested in becoming...
Sinister (2012) with Hannah Cabell & Ryan King
November 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBIt’s been a while since true crime writer Ellison Oswalt had a bestseller, and the strain is starting to show on Ellison, his wife Tracy, and their kids Trevor and Ashley. Local law enforcement isn’t keen on him, either, as his last few books didn’t cast them in too fond a light. So Ellison and his family take up residence in a modest Pennsylvania ranch house with something of a history – something we learn when we watch as a family is lynched in the house’s back yard. Unfortunately, this ...
Dead Silence (2007) with Luisa Colón
November 13, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBFollowing the unexpected arrival of a ventriloquist dummy on his doorstep, and the sudden, violent death of his wife – two events that might be related – Jamie Ashen is arrested by Detective Lipton, a cop with a thing for electric razors. Lipton’s also a by the books kind of guy who’s convinced Jamie is responsible for his wife’s death. But Jamie doesn’t have time for games — he’s determined to find out who or what killed his wife and tore her tongue out in the process. His search takes him ...
Sleepaway Camp (1983) with Jack Sholder
November 06, 2023 12:46 - 1 hour - 76.5 MBRicky and his shy, reserved cousin Angela are spending the summer at Camp Arawak, a bargain basement overnight camp in upstate New York run by Mel, cigar-chomping shyster, and staffed by a bunch of adult and teenage degenerates. Angela is initially withdrawn, occasionally catatonic – but is soon brought out of her shell by Ricky’s friend Paul, who takes a liking to Angela in the hopes he might be able to make it with her before summer’s end. But there are forces are at work – forces determ...
Livid (2011) with Alix Austin & Keir Siewert
October 31, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBWe meet Lucie on Halloween morning, at a bus stop by a pier that is festooned with flyers with the names and faces of missing children. She’s soon picked us by Catherine Wilson, a wisecracking nurse who makes house calls to elderly residents. Lucie, who is interning for Ms. Wilson, is none too happy about the work, and at the end of her first day, relates her experiences to her friends Will and Ben over beers at the local pub. Will is a fisherman who works for his father, and Ben works fo...
BONUS EPISODE: Talk to Me (2023) with Gretchen McNeil
August 14, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBWho doesn’t love a party? And what’s better at a party than a good party game, especially one that involves grasping an embalmed hand and speaking the words, “Talk to me.” For the full effect, you then say, “I let you in” and allow yourself to be fully possessed by whatever lies beyond the spirit realm. It’s terrifying, but also a total rush, provided you keep your trip under 90 seconds. For Mia, it's a welcome distraction from a rough year. She recently lost her mother for reasons unexp...
Haunted Honeymoon (1986) with Michael Pressman
July 24, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBWhat’s wrong with Larry Abbot? The radio star is having bouts of fear, perhaps a remnant of childhood trauma. Otherwise, everything’s swell: he’s engaged to be married to his scene partner, Vickie Pearle. But the radio show, hosted by the Manhattan Mystery Theater and lead sponsor Ralston-Purina, are concerned about Larry’s mental health, so they’ve hired Larry’s Uncle Paul, a psychiatrist. to employ a radical cure that will rid Larry of his fears in 36 hours. Larry and Vickie travel to...
Haunted Honeymoon (1986) with Michael Pressman (BONUS EPISODE)
July 24, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBWhat’s wrong with Larry Abbot? The radio star is having bouts of fear, perhaps a remnant of childhood trauma. Otherwise, everything seems to be swell: he’s engaged to be married to his scene partner, the delightful Vickie Pearle. But the radio show, hosted by the Manhattan Mystery Theater and lead sponsor Ralston-Purina are concerned about Larry’s mental health, so they’ve hired Larry’s Uncle Paul, a psychiatrist. to employ a radical cure that will rid Larry of his fears in no more than ...
BONUS EPISODE: Haunted Honeymoon (1986) with Michael Pressman
July 24, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBWhat’s wrong with Larry Abbot? The radio star is having bouts of fear, perhaps a remnant of childhood trauma. Otherwise, everything’s swell: he’s engaged to be married to his scene partner, Vickie Pearle. But the radio show, hosted by the Manhattan Mystery Theater and lead sponsor Ralston-Purina, are concerned about Larry’s mental health, so they’ve hired Larry’s Uncle Paul, a psychiatrist. to employ a radical cure that will rid Larry of his fears in 36 hours. Larry and Vickie travel to...
The Void (2016) with John DeVore
July 10, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBIt’s late one night in America, and two men are chasing tweakers from a local meth den. One escapee, James, gets away. The other, a girl, is set on fire by the men before they drive off. Meanwhile, local police chief Daniel Carter is asleep on the job, again, when he spots James crawling out of the woods, and transports him to the nearest medical facility, Marsh General, where he estranged wife Allison works as a nurse. The hospital is on the verge of closing after a fire took out most o...
Let the Right One In (2008) with Joshua Conkel
June 19, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBWhen we meet Oskar, it’s 1982 and he’s a meek 12-year-old with a shameful blonde pageboy haircut. His parents are divorced, making for a lonely existence on a nondescript housing estate in a suburb of Stockholm. On top of this, local bully Conny’s been taunting him at school, his jabs becoming increasingly violent. Meanwhile, people are dying in Oskar’s neighborhood, especially around his apartment complex. Could it have something to do with the middle-age man and 12 year old girl that j...
Evil Dead 2 (1987) with Doug French
June 12, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBA couple, Ash and Linda, are driving to what they believe will be a romantic getaway at a cabin in the woods that Ash claims is deserted. The cabin, we discover, once belonged to an archaeologist, Dr. Raymond Knowby and his wife Henrietta, who, while on an archaeological… mission of some kind, discovered the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the Book of the Dead. Upon arrival, Ash finds a reel to reel recording of Dr. Knowby discussing his mission and reciting lines from the Necronomicon. Harmless ...
Daughters of Darkness (1971) with Carolyn Raship
June 05, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 76.5 MBNewlywed couple Stefan and Valerie are traveling across Europe by train, bound for Belgium, then England, where they are to meet Stefan’s mother. But when the train makes an unexpected stop, the couple decide to hang out for a while in a seaside hotel in the town of Ostend. Fortunately, It’s winter, so they have their pick of suites. But why is Stefan so hesitant to call his Mother to tell her he and Valerie are married? And who is this new visitor, one Countess Elizabeth Bathory and her ...
Ready or Not (2019) with Kim Burns & Ketryn Porter
May 29, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 65 MBMarrying into the wealthy Le Domas family, one-time foster child Grace thinks she’s going to have it all: a handsome, loving husband in Alex, all the amenities she desires, and of course, a loving extended family. But, as one character says, the rich really are different. The family invites Grace to partake in a ritual designed for all new members of the family. It’s a formality, part of a bargain struck many years ago with a certain Mr. Le Bail. If the Le Domas family doesn’t hold up th...
Peeping Tom (1960) with Mickey Boardman
May 22, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBA film studio focus puller moonlighting as a DIY pornographer, Mark Lewis has a problem. And he’s not sure he wants to get rid of it. You see, Mark has a certain kink, a turn-on: he loves, gets off even, on the sight of women in fear. Fear of death, fear of Mark, fear of the unknown. His weapon is a film camera, and after he stalks and kills a prostitute, he films the police’s response to it, all in the name of creating what Mark calls a “documentary.” At home, in the house his family ...
In the Mouth of Madness (1995) with Mary Wild
May 15, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBWe begin in an asylum for the criminally insane. A man in a straitjacket is hauled into the facility and thrown into a padded cell. Visited by a psychiatrist, the man begins telling his story, while acknowledging that something awful is happening in the outside world. We flash back: renowned horror writer Sutter Cane has disappeared. Seeking to locate Cane, and collect his new novel, In the Mouth of Madness, the head of Arcane publishing, Jackson Harglow, hires crack Insurance investigat...
The Black Cat (1934) with Hope Cartelli & Jeff Lewonczyk
May 08, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBAn American couple, Peter and Joan Allison, are traveling by train through Hungary when they’re told their cabin has been double booked. Dr. Vitus Werdegast, a psychiatrist just released from eighteen years in a prison camp, soon joins them for the short ride to their destination – the same place Werdegast is going, he claims, to visit an old friend, along with his manservant, Thamal. On their way into town, the bus that the four are in runs off the road, killing the driver and injuring Jo...
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) with Clay McLeod Chapman
May 01, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBIt’s Halloween 1968 in Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, a town best known for its Mill and its Valley. Friends Stella, Auggie, and Chuck decide to take revenge on some local bullies, led by Tommy, who’s dating Chuck’s sister Ruth. After removing his feces from the toilet to hand to Tommy, and throwing the requisite eggs at his car, the bullies track the friends to a drive-in movie theater showing Night of the Living Dead. That’s when Stella, Auggie, and Chuck hop in the car of Ramon, a myste...
The Thing (1982) with Suzanne Keilly
February 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBAn American research crew at a base in Antarctica finds they are not alone in the desolate, freezing landscape when a nearby Norwegian team accidentally awakens an alien presence that’s been frozen in the ice for a hundred thousand years. As the American crew determines just what the alien’s M.O. is, they are overcome by a creeping distrust, and the paranoid group slowly unravels as an unseen, deadly force runs rampant on the base. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-3...
The Mist (2007) with Gretchen McNeil
February 13, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 88 MBAfter surviving a torrential Nor’easter that rips parts of his home and adjoining properties to shreds, Bridgton, Maine resident and graphic artist David Drayton, his son Billy and wife Steff notice a strange fog rolling in on the lake behind their house. After confirming that his boathouse was crushed by neighbor Brent Norton’s old tree, a source of old resentments, David gathers Billy and Brent into his jeep and heads into town for supplies. Upon arrival at the local supermarket, The Foo...
Drag Me to Hell (2009) with Hale Appleman
February 06, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBWhen Christine Brown, a young bank loan officer, must decide whether to grant a third extension on the loan of one Sylvia Ganush, who’s already defaulted on two – she’s in a real quandary. She really wants that Assistant Manager position, and Stu Rubin seems to have the inside track with her boss, Mr. Jacks. But Christine’s determined, and so, with all the heartlessness she can muster, she denies Mrs. Ganush the extension. It’s a decision that will come to haunt her – for Mrs. Ganush curs...
I, Madman (1989) with Erik Piepenburg
January 30, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBVirginia, an actress, bookstore employee, and voracious reader of trash fiction, becomes convinced that the author of the books she’s reading – who died some 30 years ago – is out there, on the streets of Los Angeles, committing grisly murders similar to the ones in his books. Her detective boyfriend, Richard, along with the rest of the LAPD, is skeptical. Is Virginia crazy? Seeing things? Drinking too much tea? Or is she on to something, and everyone else has failed to see the ugly tru...
The Bad Seed (1956) with Michael Musto
January 23, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 72.6 MBEight year-old Rhoda Penmark is angry. Not because her father, a colonel, is heading off to Washington for four weeks. Not because her apartment building’s janitor, LeRoy Jessup, is hovering a little too close for comfort. No, Rhoda’s pissed because her classmate Claude Daigle has won the school’s penmanship medal, and in Rhoda’s mind, that just isn’t fair. Meanwhile, Rhoda’s doting mother, Christine, has begun to wonder whether Rhoda might be a little too interested in the medal, and whe...
The Old Dark House (1932) with Jason Kravits
January 16, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBIt’s a stormy night somewhere in Wales, and three travelers are having a rough go of it: married couple Phillip and Margaret Waverton, and their passenger in the back seat, the dapper Penderel. That’s when they come upon a house, which is, shockingly, old… and dark. They manage to gain entrance after convincing the mute, lumbering butler, Morgan, that they are indeed in distress, and are soon greeted by the house’s main occupants, the elderly Femms, Horace and his hard of hearing sister Re...
Witching and Bitching (2013) with Cintra Wilson
January 09, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBDetermined to make better lives for themselves, Madrid town square "mascots" Tony and Jose, in their guises as a silver-hued Jesus and a green-skinned toy soldier, rob a shop specializing in the exchange and purchase of gold. Joined by Jose’s son Sergio, who has forsaken his homework for a day with dad, the men make off with countless rings and other gold trinkets, commandeering a taxi driven by Manuel, and containing a passenger who just wants to get to Badajoz. Their goal: make it to Fra...
A Field in England (2013) with Bobby Frederick Tilley
January 02, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBThe 17th century. The English Civil War. Whitehead, a man of letters, maker of lace, and self-described coward, is tasked with finding and arresting the colleague and rival alchemist who stole his master’s papers. He enlists the aid of Cutler, a soldier who claims he can take them to a nearby alehouse, and two deserters, the wily Jacob and dull-minded Friend. Upon arriving at Cutler’s destination – not the alehouse, but a wide open field strewn with hallucinogenic mushrooms, the group loc...
The Loved Ones (2009) with Gina Gionfriddo
December 26, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBLola Stone wants to go to prom with Brent, the school hottie, but he’s already going with his girlfriend Holly. So Lola does what any jilted high schooler would do: she and her father kidnap Brent, tie him to a chair, and proceed to torture him in excruciating ways -- all while hiding a long-buried secret concerning the disappearance of several of their towns' residents. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-21:20 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 21:21-1:03:20 ...
Black Christmas (1974) with Zac Locke
December 19, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 92 MBIt’s Christmas at a college somewhere in North America, and the girls of a campus sorority house are welcoming the season with boys and libations. For Clare, Jess, Phyl, Barb and their house mother, Mrs. Mac, it’s an especially sweet time, as the house welcomes kids from the neighborhood for a party and the spirit of giving is in the air. But soon, giving turns to screaming as one of them finds herself confronted by a mysterious stranger who has seemingly entered the house via an upstairs wi...
Inside (2007) with Kimberley Elizabeth
December 12, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBFour months after surviving a car crash that killed her husband, pregnant Sarah is alone and depressed on Christmas Eve, and due to have her baby the next day. Violent protests are happening in the streets, but she doesn’t want to be with anyone, despite her mother and boss Jean-Pierre offering her opportunities to come to parties, or keep her company. So Sarah settles in for a night of knitting, when suddenly… a knock on the door. Who is it? The woman behind the door just wants to use a pho...
The House of the Devil (2009) with Adrienne Celt
December 05, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBSeeking some extra cash to pay for her new off-campus apartment, college sophomore Samantha answers an ad for a babysitting job. Her friend Megan suspects something weird is going on and insists on joining Samantha for the evening. On the night of a total lunar eclipse, the two drive to a grand Victorian on the outskirts of town and meet the Ulmans, an older couple going out for the evening – but there’s a catch. There’s no child. Instead, Mrs. Ulman’s mother is upstairs, and Samantha is ask...