Rotten Horror Picture Show
106 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago -Amanda and Clay dive deep into Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the “200 Best Horror Movies of All Time”. There will be classics, cult classics, hidden gems, some stuff that’s just kinda OK, and a few that are so bad it’s SCARY! Come along for the ride… IF YOU DARE!
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55. Dead and Buried (Wild Card)
March 10, 2022 19:32 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBIf you shoot me, you can’t kill me, you can only make me dead! This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show we take a vacation to the picturesque, New England port town of Potter’s Bluff that’s so cute you could literally just die! It’s […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
54. Frailty (#190)
February 23, 2022 15:44 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBThis week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show, Amanda and Clay travel back in time to a very interesting era of thriller movies, the early 2000’s! We dug this diamond in the rough right out of the roughest place on earth, the cheap DVD table […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
53. A Nightmare on Elm Street (#73)
February 09, 2022 11:01 - 1 hour - 62 MBOne, two, Freddy’s coming for you…so whatever you do, don’t fall asleep! Lucky for you, there’s a new episode of The Rotten Horror Picture Show to keep you awake and attentive all night, and it JUST SO HAPPENS we’re covering one of the heaviest hitters […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
52. Scream 2 (#165)
January 26, 2022 11:01 - 1 hour - 60 MBWhat’s your favorite scary movie…AGAIN? This week on the Rotten Horror Picture Show, we head back to college, and back to the franchise that gave the horror genre a shot (stab?) in the arm in the 90’s, with 1997’s Scream 2! The whole team is […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
51. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Wild Card)
January 12, 2022 16:52 - 1 hour - 55 MBThis week on the Rotten Horror Picture Show we’re stuck firmly in the ebbing glow of our past fame, so we hope you enjoy the creepy, outdated, vaudevillian greasepaint monstrosity we’ve become after 50 episodes as we cover the 1962 creep-out classic, Whatever Happened To […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
50. Better Watch Out (#133)
December 23, 2021 00:48 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBHappy holidays, ho-ho-horror hounds! We’re knee-deep in the yuletide season, so we’re switching things up a bit and covering the next Christmas Creepshow on our list, 2016’s Better Watch Out! Do you ever wonder what it would be like if Home Alone were a horror […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
49. The Witch (#31)
December 09, 2021 02:07 - 1 hour - 53.7 MBLo! Tis a traveller upon this land, land which God hath provided for mine family for to us to have to live and till, that we should be blessed by the bounty of the soil! We welcome thine weary body to take sit by the […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
48. Mandy (#42)
November 25, 2021 03:04 - 1 hour - 54.7 MBHow far would you go to get revenge on the people who killed your loved one, and how cosmically space-age stoned would you get on your way to do it? These are the questions posed by Mandy, a film by Panos Cosmatos that bathes the […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
47. The Innocents (#60)
November 03, 2021 15:02 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBEveryone knows what it’s like, sitting down to write your resume, and making sure to figure out the best way to get across how all you want to do is save the children, not destroy them. A perfectly normal thing for a normal person to […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
46. The Platform (#175)
October 31, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 110 MBIt’s Halloween! Here, on a very special, extra episode of The Rotten Horror Picture Show, we’re giving you our Patreon Special from last year (2020), where we team up with Wes from the Pensky File to cover the claustrophobic, Spanish horror flick The Platform! It’s […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
45. The Howling (WC #9)
October 20, 2021 10:03 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBIt’s 1981-something was in the air that year, and it’s not just the full moon. It’s an aching need for more werewolf movies, and boy did they deliver! This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Amanda and Clay take their second bite at the […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
44. 28 Days Later (#108)
October 06, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBThis week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Amanda and Clay head back to jolly old England, but instead of being quaint and full of outdated clothing and hairdo’s, like in An American Werewolf in London, this time it’s completely deserted and filled with bloodthirsty […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
43. Phantasm (#190)
September 22, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBThis week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Amanda and Clay do a deep dive into the darkest depths of Clay’s psyche as they try to get to the bottom of why Clay has such a distaste for #190 on our list of cinematic scares, […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
42. The Invitation (#117)
September 08, 2021 11:20 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBThis week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Amand and Clay cordially invite you to a very special gathering of friends. Old friends, reuniting after a long two years apart, and new friends, showing up unannounced and bringing a very odd vibe with them. Old […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
41. An American Werewolf in London (#131)
August 25, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBThis week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Amanda and Clay head across the pond to merry old England for a tale of horror and humor, of love and lycanthropy, and friends and fangs, with 1981’s classic cinematic comedy of monstrous macabre, An American Werewolf […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
40. Jennifer’s Body (WC #8)
August 04, 2021 11:25 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBThis week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Amand and Clay head back to high school for their next wild card pick. This time around we’re stopping by Jennifer’s Body, a modern cult classic that’s right in the middle of a modern renaissance and reappraisal […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
39. A Quiet Place II (#60)
July 21, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBThis week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show Amand and Clay head back to the movies–for real! This week’s movie, A Quiet Place Part 2, gave us a great opportunity, not only to get back to the movie theater for the first time in over […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
38. Audition (#165)
July 07, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBThis week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show we’ve finally made the trip over into one of the most popular subgenres of the last 20 years Japanese horror! And what a better place to start than with one of the movies cited as the jumping-off […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
37. The Invisible Man – 2020 (#9)
June 09, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBRemakes! Some people hate them, some people love them, some of them are good, and some of them fail miserably trying to recapture that lightning in a bottle that made the original so beloved in the first place. Luckily for us, Leigh Whannell has avoided […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
36. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (#122)
May 26, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBWe head back to 1971 again this week and welcome horror icon Vincent Price to the list for the very first time with an iconic film that is surely one of the most stylistically-unique horror films of all time, the darkly comic, and visually stunning […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
35. The Devils (Wild Card #7)
May 12, 2021 10:48 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBIt’s very rare to find a movie that is not only still referred to as forbidden, or banned, but is also 40 years old. By this point, most of the “dangerous” movies of the 70’s and 80’s have long been defanged by modern sensibilities and […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
34. Sisters (#144)
April 28, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 43.4 MB“Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters. Never had to have a chaperon, no sir, I’m here to keep my eye on her. Caring, sharing, every little thing that we are wearing, when a certain gentleman arrived from Rome, she wore the dress and […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
33. Hereditary (#18)
April 14, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThis week “The Rotten Horror Picture Show” jumps way up the list to number 18 with a modern classic that is regarded as one of the scariest films of the past decade, Ari Aster’s Hereditary. It’s got everything you could want from a haunted house/possession/cult […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
32. Deep Red (#73)
March 31, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBThis week The Rotten Horror Picture Show takes its first trip abroad to visit the beautiful gore of 70’s Italian horror with a classic from one of the genre’s masters, Dario Argento’s Deep Red. Born from Italy’s tradition of Giallo films and books, Deep Red […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
31. Cabin in the Woods (#30)
March 17, 2021 10:01 - 1 hour - 46 MBJust an archetypical group of friends spending the weekend up at the creepy cabin–what could go wrong? We all know the answer is “everything,” but WHY do we all know that? What is behind the universal horror movie formula? This question of group knowledge of […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
30. A Dark Song (Wild Card #6)
March 03, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBHow far would you be willing to go for a magic spell? We’re talking real magic, real angels, real demons? 2016’s A Dark Song asks those questions in intense, uncomfortable fashion, and this week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show we’re here to drink some […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
29. Scream (#175)
February 17, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 60.4 MB“Do you like scary movies?” One of the most iconic horror movie lines of all time, from the film we’re covering this week, the film that many argue raised the horror genre from the dead, 1996’s Scream. Coming off some questionable horror showings early in […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
28. You’re Next (#168)
February 03, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBDysfunctional family dynamics can be quite a strain, so who’s to blame a dad for wanting his family to have some bonding time in their new fixer-upper mansion? Well, some brutal killers dressed in matching animal masks apparently! This week on the Rotten Horror Picture […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
27. Poltergeist (#137)
January 20, 2021 11:01 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBSpooky ghosts in the heart of 1980’s Americana is the name of the game this week, as we take a stroll through the unassuming sub-divisions with a dark sinister secret with the Tobe Hooper classic Polgergeist! Or is it the Steven Spielberg classic Poltergeist? Either […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
26. Society (Wild Card #5)
January 06, 2021 11:05 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBYou ever feel like maybe you just didn’t belong? Like maybe you were adopted, and that your family was actually incestuous, semi-lovecraftian, goop monsters who secretly run the world when they’re not fusing their bodies together in a gelatinous goop orgry? Well then do we […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
25. Black Christmas (#199)
December 23, 2020 11:05 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBBefore Freddy, before Jason, hell, even before Michael, there was Billy, the crazed, unseen killer of Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, the Canadian prototypical slasher film that dropped on fine fall day in 1974. Arguably well ahead of its time, Black Christmas created the template for […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
24. Oculus (#182)
December 09, 2020 11:04 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBMirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s got the most monstrous childhood of all? Mirrors have been a staple of horror movies for a very long time, but very rarely are the mirrors themselves the monster. Mike Flanagan brings out the demons in Oculus, a paranoia […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
23. IT (#42)
November 25, 2020 11:05 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBClowns. Scary, right? Well this week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show, we’re spending some time floating with the granddaddy of scary clowns, the monstrous Pennywise, as we head into the sewers of 2017’s IT! The second adaptation of Stephen King’s sprawling love letter to […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
22. REC (#144)
November 11, 2020 11:05 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBTime to throw on your night-vision-green party lamps and shake it like a handheld camera, because this week Rotten Horror Picture Show takes its first dive into the found footage genre with the classic Spanish zombie (or zombie-adjacent) film, 2007’s REC! It’s got outbreaks, it’s […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
21. Fright Night (#110)
October 28, 2020 10:05 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBVampires, werewolves, grizzly ghouls from every tomb closing in to seal your doom, fearless vampire killers — it’s the most fun a horror fan could have, and it’s all here for you in this week’s episode of The Rotten Horror Picture Show, as we dive […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
20. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (Wild Card #4)
October 14, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBIt’s never a good sign when you find a dead woman in the dirt floor of a basement, but it’s an even worse sign when she turns out to be a vengeful witch, hell-bent on wreaking vengeance on you from beyond her undead grave! And […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
19. The Thing (#138)
September 30, 2020 09:45 - 1 hour - 68.7 MB1982 was a hell of a year for movies, spear-headed by the blockbuster Steven Spielberg classic ET, but 1982 also might have been the greatest single year for cult classics of all time. Bladerunner, The Dark Crystal, Creepshow – the list goes on – but […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
18. Candyman (#185)
September 16, 2020 09:45 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBCandyman…Candyman…Candyman…Candyman…CANDYMAN!!! Did it work? Are you dead? Are WE dead? Well assuming we’re both alive (unless this is now a podcast from the afterlife), this week on Rotten Horror Picture Show we delve into the depths of haunted Chicago, and the history of racial prejudice […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
17. Halloween 2018 (#91)
September 02, 2020 10:05 - 1 hour - 58.8 MB40 years ago it was “the night HE came home!” Well now he’s back again, free from the shackles of mental institutions and 38 years of convoluted continuity, and The Shape is looking to pick up right where he left off – stabby stab stabbing […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
16. Carrie (#56)
August 17, 2020 23:27 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBYou’ve heard it before: “high school is hell!” Well among the countless teenaged horror stories out there, there’s one that sits high atop the monstrous peak as arguably the most brutal, heart wrenching “high-school-as-horror-story” of all time, and that’s Brian DePalma’s 1976 classic, Carrie. Not […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
15. Return of the Living Dead (Wild Card #3)
August 04, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBThe 1980’s – heyday of neon colors, trickle-down economics, synthesizer music, and the golden age of the horror-comedy. In this episode of The Rotten Horror Picture Show, Clay and Amanda dig up arguably the most underrated horror-comedy of all time, 1985’s Return of the Living […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
14. The Fly (#71)
July 21, 2020 10:05 - 1 hour - 52 MBWhat happens when you take Hollywood’s foremost cinematic comedian, pair him with the 80’s headiest gross-out filmmaker, and put them in a transportation pod along with a campy 50’s horror classic? You get something unique, disgusting, and effective: David Cronenberg’s The Fly. Produced by Mel […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
13. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (#45)
July 07, 2020 11:59 - 1 hour - 30.3 MBWe’re throwing it back and taking it forward this week on the Rotten Horror Picture show. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night shows up on our screens in stark black and white, evoking classic vampire films that started the genre, such as Nosferatu and […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
12. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (#95)
June 23, 2020 10:05 - 1 hour - 34.8 MBDon’t you hate it when you’re trying to go on a fun roadtrip with some friends, but your invalid brother ends up getting in the way and you end up getting kidnapped and prepared as dinner after your friends are brutally murdered by a family […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
11. The House of the Devil (#143)
June 09, 2020 10:05 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBCollege is such a drag. You’ve found your dream apartment off-campus with a great landlady, but you need cash now or else you’re gonna lose it, so you answer an ad for a last-minute babysitter. Easy as pizza pie, right? Well turns out there’s no […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
10. The Innkeepers (Wild Card #2)
May 27, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 27.6 MBQuiet halls, darkened doorways, movement caught out of the corner of your eye, creaking floorboards on a vacant floor – if you’ve ever been home alone, you’ve probably had a chill run up your spine once or twice thanks to your mind playing tricks on […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
9. Ginger Snaps (#131)
May 12, 2020 10:05 - 1 hour - 30 MBIf you remember the days of home video trailers, you probably remember that most trailers were for movies that looked way worse than whatever last-minute rental you grabbed as your mom honked at you from the parking lot to hurry up, but every once in […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
8. Dead Alive (#125)
April 28, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 32.6 MBWhat’s the goriest movie you’ve ever seen? Well take that movie and triple it, and maybe you’ll come close to the glorious gorefest that is Peter Jackson’s 1993 “splatstick” epic, Dead Alive (or Braindead, if you live outside the United States)! A masterpiece of flying […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
7. Let Me In (#90)
April 14, 2020 10:05 - 1 hour - 35.5 MBVampires! Children! Vampire-children! Blood paints the walls of the apartment complex this week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show as we cover the English remake of the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In, 2010’s Let Me In! Starring Chloe Grace Moretz and a […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]
6. American Psycho (#197)
March 30, 2020 10:05 - 1 hour - 37.4 MBIn this episode of The Rotten Horror Picture Show, we’re back on track with another movie from the Rotten Tomatoes 200 Best Horror Movies of All Time list, number 197, 2000’s American Psycho. Directed by Mary Harron and written by Harron and Guinevere Turner, this […] Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : [email protected]