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Scaredy Cats

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Join me as I discuss horror with different horror fans every episode. Be prepared for tangents and spoilers as we take deep dives into our favourite movies. 

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The Haunted Library Presents: An Interview with Nat Segaloff

July 24, 2023 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MB

Join us in the Haunted Library as we chat with author Nat Segaloff about his latest book, The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear. Segaloff's history with the film go way to the film's release when he worked publicity for the Boston theatre that screened it.  As The Exorcist turns 50, Segaloff tackles the origin behind William Peter Blatty's book, the film and all that follows. The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear comes out on July 25th and you can find Nat Segaloff at http://www.natsegaloff...

Lake Mungo

February 14, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 79 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. For the longest time, I had one movie on my to watch list that was my white whale. I had seen it lauded as one of the scariest movies ever and the best horror movie you’ve never seen. I was on the hunt. It wasn’t streaming anywhere in Canada and I had resigned myself to never seeing it. But then I saw an announcement on Twitter that it was being released on blu ray by Second Sight Films. So, of course, I preordered it and paid an obscene amount of money for a movie I had ne...

The Final Girls

January 26, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. Welcome back to the month of camp carnage. I know, I know, no one goes to camp in January, but when you’re stuck in the frozen tundra that is Ontario in the winter, you gotta do what you gotta do. As a kid growing up in the eighties, slashers were all the rage. Some of the first horror movies I saw were eighties slashers. So, I definitely have a soft spot for them and the more ridiculous the better. When I heard that there was a love letter to the subgenre with a soft marsh...

Friday the 13th

January 14, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB

In 1978, one of the greatest horror movie franchises was born. Only two years later, another one would enter the world of horror, but weirdly enough, the villain that we associate with that franchise was really just another victim in the first installment. This swerve is so famous that it even became part of another horror movie franchise, when Ghostface first asked Casey Becker, who was the killer in the first Friday the 13th movie. So, how did the franchise that would see 10 sequels, video...

Gremlins

December 29, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 76.8 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. It’s Christmas time and we’re about to head to Kingston Falls to spend time with family, friends and furry little creatures. So, stock up on some Bathroom Buddies – they’re fantastic stocking stuffers! We’re going to make some gingerbread people, get a Christmas tree from a very young Corey Feldman and watch a late night screening of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Just a word of warning, Kingston Falls may not be as idyllic as it first appears. It’s time to get festive, ...

Christmas Evil

December 28, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. I still remember when I found out that Santa wasn’t real. I’m going to peel back the curtain a little bit here and admit one of my embarrassing secrets. I was in grade seven, standing in line for French class. A bunch of my classmates were making fun of me for believing in Santa because generally by the age of eleven you know the truth. But not me. Whether I was just incredibly naïve or my parents were just really good liars, or a bit of both, I still believed. To this day,...

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 7

December 24, 2022 05:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats!  Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our spooky countdown to Christmas. In the introduction to “Told After Supper” Jerome K Jerome writes “Christmas Eve is the ghosts' great gala night. On Christmas Eve they hold their annual fete. On Christmas Eve everybody in Ghostland who IS anybody—or rather, speaking of ghosts, one should say, I suppose, every nobody who IS any nobody—comes out to show himself or herself, to see and to be seen, to promenade about and display their ...

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 6

December 23, 2022 23:00 - 11 minutes - 8.19 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our countdown to Christmas. It’s a cold and blustery winter day here and I’m ready to hunker down with some warm blankets and my cats curled up at my feet. So, get cozy and join us as we read another spooky ghost story. THE WEIRD VIOLIN by Anonymous Contact/Follow Us Email: [email protected] Twitter: @CatsScaredy Instagram: @scaredycatsthepodcast Hive: @scaredycatsthepodcast Twitch YouTube Support the show

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 5

December 22, 2022 03:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our seven day countdown to Christmas. Each day we’ll be featuring a spooky ghost story that is perfect to listen to as the nights grow cold and dark. In fact, today marks the Winter Solstice, the day of the year with the fewest hours of daylight. That makes it the perfect reason to read scary stories (if you need a reason, that is!).  In an article in the Globe and Mail, Jessica Duffin Wolfe writes “perhaps nothing is more Christmasy ...

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 4

December 20, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our seven day countdown to Christmas. Each day, we’ll be reading a spooky Christmas ghost story in the tradition of the Victorians.  In his 1891 anthology of Christmas ghost stories, titled Told After Supper, British writer Jerome K. Jerome wrote “Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about specters.” Agreed, Mr. Jerome. So, let’s not delay any longer as we read... THE SHADOW by E. Nes...

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 3

December 19, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome back to the Haunted Library for day 3 of our countdown to Christmas with spooky ghost stories. It's time to light your fireplace, grab a hot toddy, turn off the lights and curl up under your coziest blanket. Today's story is THE KIT-BAG by Algernon Blackwood.  Contact/Follow Us Email: [email protected] Twitter: @CatsScaredy Instagram: @scaredycatsthepodcast Hive: @scaredycatsthepodcast Twitch YouTube Support the show

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 2

December 18, 2022 22:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome back to the Haunted Library. For the seven days leading up to Christmas, we will be releasing an episode daily. These episode will each feature a reading of a scary ghost story, a tradition of which I’m particularly fond. For this episode, we have Jamie Alvey reading one of my personal favourites, HOW FEAR DEPARTED FROM THE LONG GALLERY by E.F. Benson. First, we chat about some spooky Christmas traditions before talking about Gothic fiction.  If you want to dive r...

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 1

December 17, 2022 05:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. There’s a line in the song It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year that goes “there’ll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long long ago” It may seem odd to us now, but telling spooky stories at Christmas was a tradition that saw its peak during the Victorian era in Great Britain. The most famous example is probably A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, but many writers in the late 19th and early 20th century published ghost stories that would be...

Fright Night

October 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 46.9 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. In the mid eighties, monster movies just weren’t the trend in horror. The genre was dominated by slashers like Friday the 13th. In 1984, we had movies like Silent Night, Deadly Night, Friday the 13th: the Final Chapter (spoiler alert, it wasn’t) and probably most importantly of all, A Nightmare on Elm Street. But the horror writers and directors of the eighties would have grown up with the Hammer horror movies, so it was inevitable that someone would have come along to revi...

The Haunted Library Presents: The Haunting of Hill House

October 21, 2022 01:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome to the Haunted Library. I’m Sherri… (Ryan introduces himself). We’ve talked about it on so many occasions, but we are both huge fans of haunted house stories. Since it’s October and Halloween is just around the corner, we wanted to talk about one of our favourite haunted house novels. In fact, it’s a book so scary that Stephen King has described it as one of the most important horror novels of the twentieth century. It’s an absolute classic and has inspired a play, ...

The Haunted Library Presents: The Haunting of Hill House

October 21, 2022 01:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome to the Haunted Library. I’m Sherri… (Ryan introduces himself). We’ve talked about it on so many occasions, but we are both huge fans of haunted house stories. Since it’s October and Halloween is just around the corner, we wanted to talk about one of our favourite haunted house novels. In fact, it’s a book so scary that Stephen King has described it as one of the most important horror novels of the twentieth century. It’s an absolute classic and has inspired a play, ...

Satan's Slaves

October 01, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 48.3 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. Imagine you’re a young child, maybe six or seven years old. You head to your local theatre to catch a matinee all by yourself. You’re a hardened horror fan despite your young age, but what you see scares you so much that you literally pray for the sunshine to last. This movie sticks with you for decades and when you become a filmmaker, you remake it as a way of purging it from your system. That’s exactly what happened to Indonesian filmmaker, Joko Anwar. The movie? Satan’s ...

The Haunted Library Presents: Books for Those Spooky Fall Vibes

September 16, 2022 22:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MB

 Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome to the Haunted Library! We’re your hosts, Sherri and Ryan. It’s September, so you know what that means. Fall is officially here – ignore the haters who say that fall doesn’t officially start until September 22. Wrap yourself up in your coziest sweater, grab a pumpkin spice latte, and get comfy because we’re about to share with you some of our favourite spooky fall reads. Contact/Follow Us Email: [email protected] Twitter: @CatsScaredy Instagram: @scar...

Death Proof

September 01, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 78.3 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. In 2003, Quentin Tarantino started showing double features at his house. Being the die hard film fanatic that he is, he would also play movie trailers before each film. At one such screening, his friend Robert Rodriguez suggested that they do a double feature together. Tarantino loved the idea and came up with the name Grindhouse. For the price of one movie ticket, you got to see two cool movies made as tribute to the grindhouse movies of the seventies, complete with fake t...

The Haunted Library Presents: Gloria

July 25, 2022 13:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome to the Haunted Library with Sherri and Ryan. This month’s installment is all about Gloria by Bentley Little:  "Considering she had just attended her mother’s funeral, Gloria Jaymes never expected to see the woman again, but then her dead mom shows up at her house. Gloria’s mom is… different. She’s younger than when she died, dressed in clothes from the 1980s. And nobody else in Gloria’s family seems to recognize her. As Gloria tries to figure out the reason for her...

Creepshow

July 25, 2022 02:00 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB

Picture this. Two horror legends meet and become friends. They put their collective heads together to create a horror anthology that pays homage to old comic books. Comic books that told grisly tales of murder and astonishing creatures. Bring in a special effects and make up wizard. Add a handful of familiar faces. What do you get? The absolute delight that is 1982’s Creepshow. Joining us to talk about this anthology classic are Crystal, Jon and Steve.  This is just your friendly reminder t...

Peeping Tom

June 06, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.6 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. It’s rare for a movie to pretty much bomb upon release, practically ruining the career of its director only to be critically lauded within a couple of decades. I’m not talking about a movie becoming a cult classic after having been discovered and celebrated by fans. I’m talking about a movie that received reviews stating that the only way to deal with a movie like this was to flush it down the toilet. Twenty years later, a critic would write “if I were forced at the point o...

The Haunted Library Presents: Needful Things

April 29, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 49.7 MB

Welcome to the Haunted Library. This month’s installment is all about the so called “last Castle Rock Story,” Needful Things. We're your hosts, Ryan and Sherri,  the founding members of the Castle Rock Book Club. I think this was the Castle Rock story that we were most looking forward to reading.  "Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amule...

I Know What You Did Last Summer

April 14, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB

In October of 1973, author Lois Duncan released a young adult thriller. She was inspired to write it when she was making dinner, and overheard her daughter and a friend having a conversation about a boy. One of the girls had a crush on a boy, the other was talking about what to wear on a date she was looking forward to. The twist? Both girls were talking about the same boy. Duncan began to wonder – what would happen if the boy had deliberately implanted himself in the lives of two girls he k...

Deep Blue Sea

March 13, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB

Sharks are pretty much the perfect horror movie villains. They’re lean, mean killing machines. And they look so cool. Shark movies have a long and perhaps not so illustrious history. The first shark movie ever filmed was 1936’s White Death which featured author Zane Grey as he hunts for a killer shark off the coast of Queensland, Australia. It was followed by movies like The Sharkfighters and Shark!, but it wasn’t until 1975 that shark movies really hit their stride. But no, sorry, we’re not...

The Haunted Library Presents: A Conversation with Tyler Jones

February 26, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MB

Welcome to the first official episode of the haunted library! I’m pretty sure that I came to horror first through books and stories before I got brave enough to watch horror movies. It just makes sense to me to expand the podcast to a whole new avenue. And let’s be honest, there was a little bit of peer pressure from my friend Ryan who I nerd out with books on a pretty regular basis. So, each month, Ryan and I will be talking about a different book or writer in the horror world.   For our f...

The Faculty

February 25, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MB

It’s a universally known truth that high school can be hell. That’s a given even if you don’t have masked killers picking off your friends one by one. Let’s break it down. There are the unbreakable social castes. There’s those gut wrenching unrequited crushes that you just can’t seem to talk to. There are teachers and parents who just don’t understand you. Sometimes, you don’t even understand yourself. And maybe, just maybe, there are aliens taking over your school, hoping for world dominati...

The VVitch

February 13, 2022 06:00 - 2 hours - 84.6 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. Travel with us back through history as we land in 17th century New England. It wasn’t an easy life for the Puritans who immigrated from England in pursuit of so called religious freedom. First you had to deal with the harsh elements and then you had to deal with the witch in the wood. Puritans believed in the active existence of the devil and unexplained phenomena was often blamed on witches, most often women who broke the mold of religious piety and subservience. With this...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

January 28, 2022 17:00 - 2 hours - 95.1 MB

We’re about to embark on a road trip along the back roads of rural Texas. A little piece of advice though… don’t go wandering off on your own. You might just run into the Sawyer family and trust me when I say that you DO NOT want to run into them. If you do, you may end up hanging from a meat hook before being served up for tonight’s dinner.  It’s time to talk about the 1974 horror classic, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.   Joining us as we try to escape from cannibalistic Texans are Derek, R...

2021 Highlight Reel

January 13, 2022 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! 2021 was such a great year for horror. We had long awaited returns for some big franchises. We saw some absolutely bonkers films and some genuinely terrifying ones. We got another Mike Flanagan MASTERPIECE. On top of all that, a lot of great horror books came out in 2021. And while I would love to discuss them all, I’ve narrowed it down to ten of my favourites. So, sit back, pour yourself a hot beverage because it’s time for the Scaredy Cats 2021 highlight reel. We also see...

2021 Highlight Reel

January 13, 2022 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! 2021 was such a great year for horror. We had long awaited returns for some big franchises. We saw some absolutely bonkers films and some genuinely terrifying ones. We got another Mike Flanagan MASTERPIECE. On top of all that, a lot of great horror books came out in 2021. And while I would love to discuss them all, I’ve narrowed it down to ten of my favourites. So, sit back, pour yourself a hot beverage because it’s time for the Scaredy Cats 2021 highlight reel. We also see...

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

December 24, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. When I was a kid, it became a tradition for my younger brothers and I to have a bit of a slumber party on Christmas Eve. We would all sleep in the same room. One of us would have the bed and the other two would sleep on the floor. We’d stay up late and inevitably, one of our parents would have to come in and tell us to go to sleep. Sounds cute, right? Well, there was a bit more of a sinister slant to it. My one brother was TERRIFIED of Christmas Eve and jolly old Saint Nick...

The Castle Rock Book Club

December 09, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MB

When it comes to horror fiction, there is one writer that has reigned supreme for nearly fifty years. That writer is Stephen King. He’s probably the reason that so many people, me included, are horror fiends. Ask any fan and they can tell you what King story was their initiation into his world. King has created whole worlds and mythologies that have become such a part of our culture that even people who don’t identify as horror fans recognize some of his creations. Think of the red balloon. ...

Hell House LLC

October 31, 2021 06:00 - 2 hours - 92.1 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. It’s Halloween season, so you know what that means. Haunted houses, haunted corn mazes, everything is haunted at this time of year and some people thoroughly enjoy scaring themselves to the max by going to these haunts. Me? I love them. I prefer to be in the middle of the pack. This way, my back isn’t exposed, but I’m also not the leader. It’s the safest place to be. I do sometimes wonder though… is that clown really part of the show? What happens when the haunt is truly ha...

A Conversation With Heather Wixson

October 14, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 67.5 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! For this extra special bonus episode, we have Heather Wixson, writer and Managing Editor for the Daily Dead, joining us to talk about her upcoming book, Monsters, Make Up & Effects: Volume One. Heather has contributed to a who’s who of horror websites and magazines.  Heather also shares five of her essential Halloween movies which may force Scaredy Sherri to rethink her opinion of Rob Zombie movies.  Contact/Follow Us  Email: [email protected] Twitter: @CatsSca...

A Conversation With Heather Wixson

October 14, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 67.5 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! For this extra special bonus episode, we have Heather Wixson, writer and Managing Editor for the Daily Dead, joining us to talk about her upcoming book, Monsters, Make Up & Effects: Volume One. Heather has contributed to a who’s who of horror websites and magazines.  Heather also shares five of her essential Halloween movies which may force Scaredy Sherri to rethink her opinion of Rob Zombie movies.  Contact/Follow Us  Email: [email protected] Twitter: @CatsSca...

Dracula

October 08, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 79.4 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! Let’s travel back in time to get a glimpse into my teenage mind. If I had to choose a favourite movie monster at that time, it would have been vampires. I loved them all. The Lost Boys? Well, you may have already heard all about that. Anne Rice novels? I devoured them. Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder. Um, yes please. But one vampire reigned supreme. He was royalty after all. Yes, I’m talking about Dracula, Bela Lugosi’s Dracula to be precise. The man is a horror icon and he se...

The Lost Boys

September 24, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 77.2 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! I hope you’ve got the Frog Brothers number handy because for this episode, we’re traveling the vampire infested streets of Santa Clara. Yep, we’re talking about The Lost Boys, my friends, the movie that birthed the 7 movie, lifelong friendship of the Two Coreys.  So, grab your holy water, your vampire survival guide and hop into Grandpa’s 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner Retractable Hardtop, we’re going after those mulleted bloodsuckers.  Joining us to marvel over oily, mus...

Suspiria

September 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 74 MB

We’re back, Scaredy Cats! It’s time to take on one of the most influential, but also weirdest horror movies of all time, Dario Argento’s 1977 classic, Suspiria.  It was followed by Inferno in 1980 and The Mother of Tears in 2007. The three movies make up the “The Three Mothers” trilogy which tells the tale of the Mothers of Sorrow, three witches who wreak evil havoc on the world. The narrative of Suspiria is incidental; it’s the visuals and the score that make Suspiria the legend that it is....

Jurassic Park

July 31, 2021 06:00 - 2 hours - 91.5 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! Picture it… summer 1993.  A teenage girl takes her two younger brothers to see the movie that everyone is talking about.  As the movie ends and the credits roll, that girl’s joy and awe at what she has just seen fades when she turns to see her youngest brother, then only eight, curled up in his seat, making himself as small as he can be, hands over his ears.  The thought that passes through her head?  “My parents are going to kill me.” That dissipates when the brother slowl...

Hereditary

July 03, 2021 00:00 - 2 hours - 92 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. There are a handful of movies that I love that I have only watched once.  Every single one of these movies had a dramatic effect on me.  The Blair Witch Project, for instance, terrified me so much that until we covered it on the podcast, I had only seen it once before.  The movie we’re about to discuss TRAUMATIZED me.  That being said, I remember being so affected by it that I told one of my few horror loving friends that she needed to watch it.  She then proceeded to tell ...

1BR

June 18, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 69.5 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats. Lately, I’ve been feeling like a move to warmer climes.  Like so many folks, the draw of Los Angeles is STRONG.  There’s an open house at this super cute apartment complex, so I think I’ll take my daddy issues and loneliness and check it out.  I mean, I’ve heard that Los Angeles is home to a lot of nice inclusive communities that some may call cults.  Hide your cats, get into a stress position and move into the apartment of your dreams, ahem, nightmares as we talk about 1BR...

An American Werewolf In London

June 03, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 68.1 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats.  In our last episode, we started our werewolf tour on the gritty streets of Los Angeles and the remote, rustic getaway known as the Colony.  The tour continues as we travel to England, starting out on the mysterious moors before ending up in hustle and bustle of London.  We may have talked about it just a bit in our episode on the Howling, but put on a pot of tea, grab your backpack and join us as we take on An American Werewolf In London.   The Howling pack is reunited as...

The Howling

May 22, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 76.5 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats.  The eighties were all about the werewolf movie.   You had Teen Wolf, Full Moon High, Teen Wolf Too, The Company of Wolves, and Silver Bullet.  There was one year that beat them all.  With not one, but three werewolf movies coming out, 1981 was a banner year if you liked to howl at the moon.  There was Howlen, An American Werewolf In London and the movie we’re going to talk about today, The Howling.   Joining the pack to discuss the Howling are return guests, Jessica and B...

The Exorcist

May 07, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 76.4 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats.  Once I got into horror, there was one movie that I purposely avoided watching because the sheer idea of it scared me.  Once I finally got up the nerve to watch it, I was terrified.  That movie?  The Exorcist.  The first horror film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, it was nominated for nine other Academy Awards, eventually winning Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound.  It’s one of those movies that are rumoured to be cursed and when it was released ...

Slumber Party Massacre

April 22, 2021 22:00 - 2 hours - 96.1 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats.  I hope you brought your sleeping bags and maybe some Doritos.  Don’t worry about the latest news story about an escaped mass murderer on the loose.  Wait…  Did you hear that noise coming from the garage?  It sounded like… a drill??  Ah, never mind.  Grab a slice of pizza, maybe indulge in a little Maui Wowie and join the Slumber Party Massacre. Our slumber party guests, Jessica and Nick, really drill down into this subversive slasher classic! Contact/Follow Us  Email: sca...

The Slumber Party Massacre

April 22, 2021 22:00 - 2 hours - 96.1 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats.  I hope you brought your sleeping bags and maybe some Doritos.  Don’t worry about the latest news story about an escaped mass murderer on the loose.  Wait…  Did you hear that noise coming from the garage?  It sounded like… a drill??  Ah, never mind.  Grab a slice of pizza, maybe indulge in a little Maui Wowie and join the Slumber Party Massacre. Our slumber party guests, Jessica and Nick, really drill down into this subversive slasher classic! Contact/Follow Us  Email: sca...

April Fool's Day

March 26, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 72.4 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats! In France, the movie we’re about to talk about was called Weekend of Terror.  In Germany, it was titled The Horror Party.  It has a cult following and has been compared to the storyline of the Agatha Christie novel, And Then There Were None.  It’s a slasher unlike any other – with a distinct lack of on screen violence.  I distinctly remember going into my neighbourhood video store and being drawn in by the awesome VHS cover… a woman has her back to the camera, her ponytail ...

Poltergeist

March 11, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 71.6 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats.  The movie we’re about to cover was definitely one my sleep-deprived parents would never have let me watch.  It’s spawned a few sequels, a remake and a tv series.  The Chicago Film Critics Association ranked it as the 20th scariest film ever made.  It also has a lot of tragedy surrounding it, leading some people to think it’s cursed.  Add to that controversy over who ACTUALLY directed it and you’ve got yourself a legendary horror movie.  It’s time to meet some noisy ghosts ...

Host

February 25, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MB

Hey Scaredy Cats!  It’s now been over a year since COVID-19 changed the world we live in.  People have been physically isolated and had to find new ways to communicate and stay connected to family and friends.  Zoom became a HUGE deal.   One of the best things about movies, horror in particular, is the way that they can take current events and make them into a something remarkable.  In this episode we’re going to talk about a movie that was shot entirely in quarantine.  It’s a movie about so...