Kill By Kill: Talking Horror Characters One Death At A Time
447 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 169 ratingsIn each episode, Patrick Hamilton and Gena Radcliffe unpack all the gory details of horror cinema's least discussed topic: the characters. From Friday the 13th to Nightmare on Elm Street and beyond, our mission is to detail each hack, slash, and decapitation in the hopes that a victim's untimely end is just the beginning of the jokes we can make about them.
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Orca (w/ Jordan Morris) Aquatic Attack April vol 16
April 19, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBFinally, an animal attack movie where you’ve never been more on the animal’s side! That’s right, we’re dipping our flippers into frigid waters as we talk about 1977’s Jaws-ripoff meets John Wick revenge thriller, ORCA!! Here to help us navigate these dangerous waters is podcast host (Jordan, Jesse, Go! and Free With Ads), writer (Youth Group and Bubble), and Returning Champion - Jordan Morris!! Along the way, we discuss monumentally stupid plans, how to apologize to whales, how to burn down ...
Jaws The Revenge (w/ Nick Roth) Aquatic Attack April vol 15
April 12, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBIt’s a Christmas movie! It’s a shark movie! It’s a Chistmashark movie?! Folks, the confusion never ends on this Aquatic Attack April episode as things get Personal, and we talk JAWS: THE REVENGE with writer and director Nick Roth!!. His new horror movie, HANKY PANKY, is out starting today!! Along the way, we explore the express elevator to hell journey of this movie from script to screen, compare a barge to a tortilla chip, consider what nonsense sounds like science in this film, explore the...
Deep Rising - Aquatic Attack April vol 14
April 05, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 66 MBAhoy there!! Welcome to Animal Attack April… or should we say Aquatic Attack April? That’s right, we’re setting sail for dangerous seas for 2024 as Patrick & Gena catch one hell of a cruise and enjoy 1998’s DEEP RISING!! Along the way, we talk variable-sized tentacles, debate the Steven Sommers formula, campaign for more goop in movies, enjoy the sloppy skeleton hugs, consider Die Hard wieners, worship at the alter of Famke Janssen, and recount how the film’s box office fortunes were sunk by...
TV Terrors vol 12 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
March 29, 2024 07:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBWelcome to Kill By Kill’s TV Terrors... in SPACE!! Patrick is still overseas, so we're unearthing a beloved Patreon episode covering one of the most ridiculous hours of television ever aired - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century's Space Vampire!! It's a desperate battle between people armed with laser guns and a sentient brussel sprout with Groucho Marx eyebrows!! Along the way, we talk robot romance, lost lingo, excess button work, B-plot boredom, and the most Lyrca ever featured on the show!! ...
Hell Night (w/ Scott Drebit)
March 22, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBAre you ready to pledge? Feel the Rush Week as we stay overnight in the creepy and campy Monster Slash of 1981’s HELL NIGHT!! Here to help us go Greek is writer and author of A Cut Below: A Celebration Of B-Horror Movies, Scott Drebit!! Along the way, we talk double-downers, “gorking” out, a brief history of horror’s Dirty Peanuts, slow walking, and tons of real character development!! All this, plus “take a penny, leave a penny” gun rooms, awkward tiki torch processions, and a round of Choo...
Kill The Video Star - Krokus' Screaming In The Night
March 15, 2024 07:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBWe’re getting metal AF this week as we discuss the Mad Max and Ren Faire-infused music video for Krokus’ SCREAMING IN THE NIGHT!! Along the way, we explore modern dance funerals, interdimensional trap spaces, spindly crucifixion, delicious scrapple, post-apocalyptic hustle culture, King Pluto, the variable powers of blue lightning, and the unavoidable difficulties of making out through jail bars!! All this, plus an appearance by Barf, a rockin’ version of Choose Your Own Diner Menuventure, a...
The Lost Boys (1987)
March 08, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBSleep all day. Podcast all night. It’s fun to listen to Kill By Kill as we get a taste for a true vampire flick classic and talk 1987’s THE LOST BOYS!! Join us as we cruise the “murder capital of the world” for the sexiest Tiger Beat-ready bloodsuckers ever to grace the silver screen!! Along the way, we talk about the film's rocky journey to theaters, Santa Clara’s wild music scene, the town’s laze-faire attitude towards its missing kid problem, the golden age of cool video stores, and one o...
This Is Spinal Tap (w/ Becky Wilson)
March 01, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB*You know our philosophy by now: podcast a good time, all the time! That’s why we’re converting this episode of Kill The Rock Star into a 40th-anniversary celebration of one of our favorite death-filled comedies of all time, THIS IS SPINAL TAP!! Here to help us go to 11 is Returning Champion Becky Wilson!! We’re giving the Tap the full Kill By Kill treatment, breaking down every character’s green skeleton, foil-covered cucumber, Saucy Jack dreams, and ability to get 17 people into a single K...
KBK After Dark: Embrace of the Vampire (w/ BJ Colangelo)
February 23, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBAn undying love. A forbidden curse. Some weirdo just hanging out in a college clocktower, negging you in class. That’s right - we’re combining our Vampire series with After Dark to bring you a cornerstone of the “I’m a teen star who wants to be taken seriously” genre in 1995’s EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE!! Here to take us to school about this pinnacle of blouse-shedding cinema is writer, co-host of This Ends At Prom, and now Returning Champion BJ Colangelo!! After Patrick apologizes for never bei...
KBK After Dark: The Hitchhiker "Shattered Vows"
February 16, 2024 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBThe thumb might be out, but don’t take that as approval! We watched the pilot episode of HBO’s THE HITCHHIKER and get taken for a real ride as we talk old-world curses, modern hair helmets, Dune grandmothers, un-sexy step-sister fantasies, and just openly thirst after Bruce Greenwood and his visible dong (look for it)!! All this, plus we bask in the afterglow of post-funeral sex, play a smashingly good game of Choose Your Own Deathventure, and warn against participating in sexy times near ta...
KBK After Dark: Body of Evidence (w/ Tess Rafferty)
February 09, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBHear ye, hear ye - sex court is now in session!! The (not quite so) honorable Kill By Kill After Dark presides over a movie that could only legally happen in 1993's BODY OF EVIDENCE!! Here to help us prosecute this case is TV writer and author of the Kat Kelly Mystery series, Tess Rafferty!! As evidence, we present arguments against the idea of berets being sexy, caucasian acupuncturists, nipple clamp confusion, spiking your Afrin, and the best/worst line of the movie, “Have you ever watched...
KBK After Dark: The Hitchhiker "Face To Face" (w/ Kay Lynch)
February 02, 2024 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBLove is in the air, and revenge is ready to catch a ride as we talk HBO’s “Twilight Zone with boobs” - THE HITCHHIKER! This particular episode of the series was brought to us by the director of the Salem Horror Fest (and Returning Champion), Kay Lynch because it does the impossible: make anyone care about a character in this paper-thin anthology series!! Along the way, we dig into why this TV episode from 1983 has a more nuanced examination of the trans experience than we’ve seen from a lot ...
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (w/ Dennis Satterfield & Scot Burklin)
January 26, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBIt’s time to crank up the tunes… and FEAR as we bring you the mechanical mayhem that ruined childhoods and explained way too much about one of the biggest bands of the 70s!! You wanted the best, but what you got is KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK!! Here to help make sense of this rock n roll nightmare are two old friends and Returning Champions, Dennis Satterfield and Scot Burklin (the Inside The Idiot Box podcast)!! Along the way, we talk bad evil plans, assemble a human pyramid riot, ri...
Kill The Video Star - Rebbie Jackson's Centipede (w/ Megan Sunday)
January 19, 2024 08:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBKill The Rock Star is back, crawling into your podcast feed like a multi-legged insect through a bathroom window… a real lyrical allusion this song makes in connection to horniness that takes every ounce of our intellectual powers to untangle!! That's right - we're talking Rebbie Jackson's Centipede, and here to help us make sense of it all is Returning Champion Megan Sunday!! Along the way, we talk awkward tour guide spiels, erect cobras, loose tigers, matching cummerbunds, erotic rictus, l...
Graduation Day (w/ Shawn Carter)
January 12, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 92.8 MBStart the clock - you’ve got exactly 30 seconds to remember if you’ve ever heard of 1981’s GRADUATION DAY!! Chances are you might not be familiar with this track and field and roller boogie-obsessed slasher, but after this episode, you’ll be racing to watch it!! Join Patrick and Gena as they welcome comedian Shawn Carter (his album Boston to Bristol is out now!) to help them blow the whistle on the many, many ethics violations the students, teachers, and staff commit as easily as breathing… ...
Alley Cat (1984) - Patreon Bonus Unlocked!
January 05, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBTo celebrate 2024, we're unlocking one of our favorite 2023 bonus episodes from our Patreon feed covering the little-seen, little-understood karate-sploitation flick, ALLEY CAT!! Never heard of it? Well, neither had we until this rock 'em sock 'em lady judo'd her way into our hearts and groins last year, and talking about it was such a good time we want you to join in!! Now *CW the film has many attempts at SA, but absolutely no one gets away with any crime when our girl Billie is taking her...
Amityville For Christmas vol. 2 Amityville: The Evil Escapes
December 22, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBIt’s the MOST haunted time of the YEAR!! That’s right! The reason for the season is back, and it brings us great joy to present Amityville For Xmas vol 2!! In the stocking this year is an illuminating TV Terror turned hand-mauling home video sequel, AMITYVILLE 4: THE EVIL ESCAPES!! See lamps lash out, witness electrical cords go full Popeye, experience reduced fly budgets, go beyond the beige Mr. T, grab a little hot Old Priest/Young Priest action, and shudder at the maximum withholding of f...
Kill The Video Star - Billy Idol's Dancing With Myself (w/Patrick Bromley)
December 15, 2023 08:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBYou don’t have to wait any longer for that love vibration because we’re back talking about a new wave sensation and a Master of Horror apocalyptic freakout! That’s right, we’re talking about Billy Idol’s Dancing With Myself music video directed by Tobi Hooper - and we can’t talk Hoop without Returning Champion - the one and the only Patrick Bromley!! Along the way, we dig into all the details: crying Omega Men, Oscar the Grouch, 3rd-floor serial killers, Shrek inserts, living room dojos, and...
Dracula (1931)
December 08, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBListen to us… the podcast of the night… what beautiful nonsense we make!! That’s right, we’re sinking our teeth into the movie that we can honestly say started it all - the 1931 Universal Studios classic, DRACULA!! Along the way, we stake our claim on uneven Bela Lugosi impersonations, connect the dots with the Brides and an infamous Ghostbusters BJ, unpack Bram Stoker’s repressed personal history for juicy clues, and Patrick offloads every weird piece of history he learned as a Universal St...
Kill The Video Star - Ozzy Osbourne's Bark at the Moon
December 01, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBIt's chemistry, heavy metal, and shaggy werewolves. This week, we experiment on Kill The Rock Star with Ozzy Osbourne and his 1983 solo smash, Bark at the Moon!! Along the way, we talk over-enthusiastic microscopy, explore why this one music video believes women, return to our favorite British sanitarium and open several poltergeist doorways. All this plus goth funerals, melting skeletons, and an extended conversation on how the reboot of the Scream franchise is getting absolutely screwed ov...
Sawsgiving vol. 4 (w/ Bree Rody)
November 24, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 83.5 MB** SPOILER ALERT ** We start spoiling this movie from the jump - so consider yourself warned!! It's that special time of year when we like to play a game!! That’s right, Sawsgiving is the reason for the season, and we set ourselves a little trap by watching SAW X with writer and Tales From the Rec Room host Bree Rody!! Is this the first Saw movie we understood? Maybe even liked? You’ll have to press play on that micro-cassette recorder and find out!! All this, plus Det. Porchetta Fan-...
The Evil Dead vol 2 (w/ Elissa Wagner)
November 17, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 79 MBWe’re not out of the cabin yet! That’s right, it’s time to unearth vol. 2 of our analysis of 1981’s THE EVIL DEAD as we dip into the film’s ferocious second half with the help of Returning Champion, the one - the only - Elissa Wagner!! Along the way, we delve into how Ashley transforms into Ash, how Uncle Stephen King helped propel the film into the order cult cannon, explore the endless charms of stop motion monsters, invoke the Dog Police music video, consider bone flutes, and ask whether ...
Kill The Video Star - Steve Miller Band's Abracadabra
November 10, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBIf you want your MTV - you’re out of luck. That place is essentially dead. That’s why we’re cracking the Necronomicon to resurrect the most horrific music videos we then think of on our latest iteration of Kill The Rock Star!! This week, we explore the mind-numbing horrors of middling-level magic performers as we make The Steve Miller Band’s 1982 hit ABRACADABA reappear before your very ears!! Along the way, we delve into our ambivalence toward Steve Miller and our seething hatred of The Eag...
The Evil Dead vol 1
November 03, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBA cabin in the woods. A group of college friends. And a book in the cellar someone just cannot stop themselves from reading. These are the basic elements that create one of the most lasting horror franchises of all time - and it’s our starting point for Season Five of the Kill By Kill podcast talking about the one, the only, the original - THE EVIL DEAD!! Listen along with us as we crack the flesh-covered spine of the Necronomicon, explore Sudden Oatmeal Syndrome, wonder why a blender someho...
Michael Jackson's Thriller
October 27, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBDoes “the funk of 40,000 years” hold up after four more decades? Let’s find out together as we press play on the grand finale of Season 4 and the mother of all music videos, Michael Jackson’s Thriller!! Along the way, we talk about unconvicted manslaughter enthusiasts, breaking the VHS rental model, why being a werewolf cat requires competent time management, instant skeletons, Vincent Price’s incredible rap feature career, and revel in the implausible, wig-filled ending of Sly Stallone’s Ni...
John Carpenter's Christine (w/ William Bibbiani)
October 20, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBIt’s time to get behind the wheel with two Masters of Horror and one of the biggest baddies ever produced from Detroit, MI! That’s right, we’re talking JOHN CARPENTER’S CHRISTINE with critic and Critically Acclaimed Network podcaster, William Bibbiani!! It’s a pedal to the metal show as we go deep on Christine’s insane opening weekend competition in 1983, Stephen King’s embrace and eventual rejection of nostalgia, and how Christine is a vehicle for so many different interpretations!! We hope...
Oli's First Friday The 13th (1980)
October 13, 2023 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBThank Jason it’s Friday!! That’s right, we’re headed back to Camp Crystal Lake - but with a newbie this time: my own 13-year-old, Oli!! What is it like for someone who knows a little about 1980’s FRIDAY THE 13th from hanging around his old man but doesn’t know any of the big twists? Find out as Patrick and Gena quiz a middle schooler on the finer points of this slasher classic and ask all the important questions: Why is it so cold during New Jersey summers? What does Gene Siskel look like in...
Episode 300 Mortuary (w/ Stephen Sajdak)
October 06, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 88.1 MBIt's October!! It's our 300th episode!! It's Bill Paxton skipping in a cemetery? It's ALL those things and more as we celebrate the horror flicks of 1983 and our tricentennial with one of the gang from We Hate Movies and returning champion Stephen Sajdak!! First, we've unearthed a slasher gem from the grave: MORTUARY!! This film has everything: Shag-adelic Frankensteins, Billy Beer, sunken living rooms, Chekov's Phone Co., the Boogie Van code, improvised grab-ass, multiple tummy stabbings, s...
Final Destination 5 (w/ Josh Korngut)
September 29, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBWe’re not saying goodbye to the Final Destination franchise… it’s a secret hello? That’s right - we’re following Death's design as we talk FINAL DESTINATION 5, complete with aggressive flip-phone calls, questionable Everclear and Nickleback references, and an all-new version of a Dirty Peanut!! Helping us see this vision a little more transparent is Dread Central managing editor and Development Hell podcast host Josh Korngut!! Will we avoid our deadly destiny? Does the incredible Tony Todd s...
TV Terrors vol 11 The Hitchhiker
September 22, 2023 07:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBWelcome… to Kill By Kill’s TV Terrors! Again!! A ghost in the machine has caused some disruptions to our feed in anticipation of spooky season, so we're getting "da crazy" for Dafoe as we discuss one of Willam's first major acting roles in an episode of HBO's "Hitchcock but with boobs" anthology THE HITCHHIKER!! In this episode, "Ghostwriter," Dafoe plays a writer who hatches a needlessly complicated, extremely stupid plan to fake his own death, and he is shockingly terrible at it. Ultimate ...
Hush (w/ Jenn Adams)
September 15, 2023 07:14 - 1 hour - 65 MBBe very, very quiet. We’re hunting an all-new episode of the Kill BY Kill podcast!! That’s right, this week we get loud about one of our favorite streaming titles, 2016’s HUSH with the help of writer and The Losers Club podcast co-host Jenn Adams!! Along the way, we go deep on Mike Flanagan’s filmography and his career-long assault on hands, consider this movie’s place in the genre of Screen Horror, pine for the addition of anvils, lament the difficulty of crossbow loading, and illuminate th...
KBK Bite Size vol 8 Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
September 08, 2023 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBWe're clawing our way back into Kill By Kill: Bite Size!! This week, TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE takes the hit as we talk "The Cat From Hell" segment, the realistic acting choices of David Johansen, trade William Hickey impressions, consider Stephen King's obsession with hit men vs. unlikely opponents, pick apart the story's timeline shifts, and try not to make too many puns about cat's killing people in overtly sexualized ways. All this, plus we "paws" for a cat-tacular edition of Ch...
Alien Resurrection (1997)
September 01, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBXeno Has Risen!! That’s right - we’re wrapping up our coverage of the original Alien Quadrilogy (not a real word) with 1997’s exceedingly French and deeply horny fourquel: ALIEN RESURRECTION!! We dig into everything: the sexy basketball with Ripley 8, the meta-xenomorphs, introducing nips, Brad Dourif’s many “smootchy” faces, a plea for Winona Ryder, genitalia erasure, and that amazing Clone room scene!! All this, plus we hurdle towards Earth during Choose Your Own Deathventure, and we final...
KBK Bite Size vol 7 Body Bags (1993)
August 25, 2023 07:00 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MBSave the toe tag - Kill By Kill Bite Size is not dead yet! That’s right, we’re putting Tobe Hooper’s segment from 1993’s BODY BAGS on the slab and weighing all the contents!! Was Showtime wrong for denying the world a John Carpenter-hosted horror anthology? Just how much of Mark Hamill’s hinder do we get to see in action? And is that tush okaily-dokilly? Exactly what accent is Twiggy using here, and why did no one stop her? How much responsibility for the car crash lies at the feet of the T...
The Funhouse (w/ April Wolfe)
August 18, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBIt’s the movie that taught the world not to trust a big butt, a Frankenstein mask, and a smile that unhinges at the jaw - it’s the monster mash-up slasher, THE FUNHOUSE!! And here to help us survive the night is screenwriter (Black Christmas 2019) and Returning Champion April Wolfe!! Along the way, we talk about messed up Monster Kids, explore serving sizes of bourbon for parents in town, identify all the important Carnival People You Need To Know, debate proper date etiquette at a Girlie Sh...
KBK Bite Size vol 6 Nightmares (1983)
August 11, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBIf you’ve got Pac-Man fever, then you should see a medical professional, as we’re playing through 1983’s NIGHTMARES segment “The Bishop of Battle!” We take no quarters as we talk emotional boob reveals, Emilio Estevez’s package delivery system, Playboy Channel reception techniques, critique the fashion choices of Moon Unit Zappa, explore the viability of Burgertime’s business model, and consider the truly poor gameplay of The Bishop. All this, plus an 8-bit version of Choose Your Own Deathve...
The Final Destination (2009)
August 04, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBAs we speed towards the end of Season 4, there’s one stop we’ve been dreading this whole time: 2009’s THE FINAL DESTINATION. Designated by both critics and fans as the franchise’s absolute nadir, the fourth film in the franchise was filmed in 3D while the characters barely qualify as two-dimensional - and we’re here to break down every splattered torso, pierced organ, and severed, floppy limb on display!! Along the way, we talk about visiting the Pipe Mall of America, debate the wisdom of na...
KBK Bite Size vol 5 Tales From The Crypt (1972)
July 28, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBIt’s Christmas in July, baby!! That’s right, when it comes to individual segments of a horror anthology, 1972’s TALES FROM THE CRYPT is the gift that keeps on giving! It’s the ultimate battle between bad planning and a “deranged manic!” Along the way, we unwrap all our big questions: Who the hell is going HAM on that organ? Who takes a cemetery tour when they’re in a hurry? What’s up with the Rastafarian Egg? Is the home decor of this house meant to drive us insane? Who commits a murder like...
Warlock (w/ Megan Sunday)
July 21, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBWith the unfortunate passing of Julian Sands, we wanted to honor this incredible and magnetic actor by releasing a special Patreon episode where we covered 1989's WARLOCK with the film's #1 fan and Returning Champion Megan Sunday (Let’s Get Weirding podcast)! Along the way, we dig into the film's hostile attitude toward cats, stay on the lookout for a Steve Miner Butt Shot, learn to use a purse like a Dutch Oven, and generally lust after the hotness that is Julian Sands!! All this, plus we e...
KBK Bite Size vol 4 Cat's Eye
July 14, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBThis week on Kill By Kill Bite Size, we hail to the King, baby! Stephen King that is - as we steal away inside 1985’s CAT’S EYE to steal the breath away from the classic cat v. Troll epic, “General.” Along the way, we delve into Candy Clark’s unique mom-core fits, explore standard troll operating procedures, consider which serial killers can climb stairs, track children’s bedrooms with fireplaces, revisit skeleton hugs, and Patrick complains about the Boy Scout Jamboree again. All this, plus...
A Nightmare On Elm Street vol 1 (w/ Halle Kiefer)
July 07, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBWelcome to Primetime... again! Kill By Kill’s journey into the dark heart of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) restarts here with the help of the one and only Halle Kiefer (of Ruined! with Allison & Halle) to help us claw our way through the first 30 minutes! Along the way, we discuss flooded boiler rooms, delve into how much of Freddy is actually made of goo, debate whether or not Freddy wears sweatpants, and ponder why America has a near-endless love for cartoon cats. All this, plus we play...
KBK Bite Size vol 3 Night Train To Terror
June 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBRemember when we went gaga over Mary Lou? Or maybe a little tyke named Mikey? Well, get ready for us to become the internet’s biggest fans of the most incomprehensible horror anthology ever - 1985’s NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR - and “The Case of Claire Hansen!!” Strap in as we try to make sense out of the truly senseless!! Witness breakdancing train angels!! An extended riff on Paula Abdul and MC Skat Kat’s undeniable sexual attraction!!Marvel at Richard Moll’s unearthly hairpiece!! Loose what’s l...
SE7EN (7th Anniversary Special)
June 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBWhat better way to celebrate our seventh year of podcast excellence than to discuss David Fincher’s feel-good hit of 1995, SE7EN!! I can’t think of one, and it’s not for a lack of trying. Along the way, we explore the film’s ties to grime-core classics like SAW, consider stacking hot babies, debate if John Doe will get his security deposit money back, weigh just how bad of a cop Mills is, and wax rhapsodic at just how good David Fincher really is at making movies!! All this, plus we play a f...
TV Terrors vol 10 Starsky & Hutch
June 16, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBWelcome… to Kill By Kill’s TV Terrors! Again!! That's right, our night patrols have caused some disruption on the pod, so we're releasing this Patreon Exclusive to everyone so you don't have to go solo! This episode covers Starsky & Hutch's season 2 episode, The Vampire, with a very special guest star, John Fucking Saxon! Witness John's high-collared dancewear! Shakedown a sleazy G. W. Bailey and a very sleepy Suzanne Summers!! Marvel at detective work so thorough, it can only be accomplishe...
Final Destination 3 (w/ Dennis Satterfield & Scot Burklin)
June 09, 2023 08:02 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBLife is full of ups and downs… and so is Death when we break down FINAL DESTINATION 3 this week with Dennis Satterfield and Scot Burkin of the Inside The Idiot Box podcast!! Along the way, we talk about the enigma that is Franklin C. Cheeks, Esq, we explore the film’s obsession with seeing women’s underwear, mourn the loss of perfectly good textbooks, celebrate Polanski and Clark - the Beat Cop Investigation Unit, consider Joey Ramone’s place as a harbinger of death, and we face what we beli...
KBK Bite Size vol 2 Creepshow 2
June 02, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBThat’s right - we’re back in the Creepshow business! Only this time, we’re talking about the best story of the bunch as we float along with The Raft from CREEPSHOW 2!! Along the way, we try to stay afloat of the film’s many production problems, track the oil blob’s burps and farts, pick apart the differences between Stephen King’s original short story and movie, waterproof joint transportation, blob consent, bad swimmers, human blood balloons, skeleton hugs, and a brief but gooey Choose Your...
Slaughter High (1986)
May 26, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBIt’s April Fool’s Day in June… until 12 pm? Listen, the 1986 Euro-slasher SLAUGHTER HIGH has a lot of rules, and it likes to switch ‘em up as it goes, but Kill By Kill is up to the test. Along the way, we openly regret our Stockard Channing slander, struggle to remember which character is who, enjoy a solid skeleton scream, sleep it off in a brown velvet spaceship bed, celebrate an automotive #GetBunked, and take a real hot high school bath!! All this, plus an AP course-level edition of Choo...
KBK Bite Size vol 1 Trilogy of Terror (1972)
May 19, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBTerrifying things come in small packages! Welcome one and all to our new off-week format, where we make a meal out of one story from a horror anthology - we call it Kill By Kill: Bite Size! This week, we bring home the standout segment from 1972’s TRILOGY OF TERROR entitled Amelia - but you know it better for its antagonist, the Zuni Fetish Doll!! Along the way, we talk about creating distance between yourself and a clingy Mom, Richard Matheson: Man of Many Ideas, explore all the insane wall...
Runaway (w/ Jordan Morris)
May 12, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBAre you ready to fight the horror of robots programmed to kill? Well, how about robots who can shoot guns but don’t possess a trigger finger? 1983's RUNAWAY is an acid-filled mechanical nightmare, and here to help us crack the code is writer (Bubble, Pop's Chock-lit Shoppe of Horrors) and beloved podcast host (Jordan Jessie GO) Jordan Morris!! Along the way, we attempt to decipher the film’s Store Brand location, comb through all the voluminous hair choices, compare toilet shenanigans, wag o...
Galaxy of Terror vol 1 & 2
May 05, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours - 129 MBAnimal Attack April has left us a little on the mauled side, so we're heading back to space for a special, supersized flashback episode discussing the ever-goopy GALAXY OF TERROR!! Now you can relive (or experience for the first time) this deep dive into Alien-sploitation! In the first half, we're joined by Josh Hollis and Brian Skinner as we discuss space-based Happy Hour games, decide if human seat belts really work, and get attacked by E.M., The Extraterrestrial Maggot! Then in the back h...