Latest Cheesy Podcast Episodes
Episode 99: Terror Train
SlashU - February 20, 2023 14:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThis week we tackle a movie that might not be so lost and/or forgotten. It’s probably one that’s on a lot of slasher fans’ playlists. Terror Train from 1980 shows us one of our favorite scream queens (Jamie Lee Curtis) in another early career role. It’s the classic story of revenge after a prank ...
Episode 98: Ice Cream Man
SlashU - February 14, 2023 14:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThis week we go to 1995, a simpler time when the Ice Cream Man drove through your neighborhood bringing joy to all the boys and girls. Except this Ice Cream Man just got out of Wishing Well Sanitarium. And he's obsessed with having happy, happy days. Starring Clint Howard as the Ice Cream Man...
Episode 97: Slumber Party Massacre
SlashU - February 06, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsToday we begin Season 6 of SlashU with a "remake" of the 80s classic Slumber Party Massacre. Turns out it's not an actual remake. This is definitely a stand-alone movie with some subtle references to the old version. The story centers around Dana and her friends out for a girls weekend. They...
Best of SlashU Season 5
SlashU - January 09, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWhile we're taking a break in January, getting ready for Season 6, we thought we'd drop a Best of episode. So here's a compilation of most of the best moments from Season 5 with a few funny montages lumped in. If you've never heard SlashU before, this is a good introduction to your favorite Cam...
Ep22 - Willow (1988)
Just the Cheese Please - December 31, 2022 05:05 - 1 hourA fantasy story where a queen tries to pre-emptively murder a baby, but a pretend wizard and a war criminal team up with some wood sprites and a goat lady to stop her. Ultimately, they get the queen's daughter to betray her mother for a hot guy with a ponytail. Nobody in this world has any blo...
Episode 96: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 3
SlashU - December 26, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsStudents of SlashU, we come to the end of Season 5 of our podcast. Another year has come and gone. And we're finishing up both our season and the holidays with what has become an annual tradition. We're continuing the Silent Night, Deadly Night series with part 3, Better Watch Out. This movi...
Episode 95: Secret Santa
SlashU - December 19, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThe holiday movies keep rolling here at SlashU. Today we go back to 2018 for a festive family brawl called Secret Santa. While, it's not a "traditional slasher," it still has many of the elements we value here at SlashU. Your professors decided this is hands down one of the best violent holid...
Ep21 - Young Einstein
Just the Cheese Please - December 19, 2022 05:05 - 1 hourAlbert Einstein is a young apple farmer from Tasmania who discovers how to split the atom in order to get bubbles into beer. He then travels to... you know what? It doesn't matter. This movie is ridiculous. It gets history so wrong its not even funny. Its insulting actually. At one point s...
Episode 94: Red Christmas
SlashU - December 12, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThis week we continue the festive Yuletide theme by jumping back to 2016 and going over Australian-made Red Christmas. This one is a sleeper hit! For any of you who haven't heard of it, go find it and watch because we highly recommend it. Diane is a mom whose kids are mostly grown up and on t...
Episode 93: Christmas Evil
SlashU - December 05, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIt's the festive holiday season and we here at SlashU want to bring you some movies themed for Christmas. We begin our little Yuletide run of festive flicks with Christmas Evil. It's the story of Harry who was devastated as a child to learn that Santa isn't real (spoiler, sorry kids). But now...
Episode 92: Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
SlashU - November 28, 2022 14:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsHello SlashU Students! This week we have a movie that looks like it should be a sequel but it appears to be totally unrelated to Part 1. In this movie we follow the story of Mary Lou Maloney, who was crowned Prom Queen in 1957, only to be tragically killed in a prank gone wrong (because how el...
Ep20 - Short Circuit
Just the Cheese Please - November 26, 2022 05:05 - 1 hourA deranged cat lady and a living war machine hide out from a robotics lab in a food truck. The robot has an existential crisis about its own mortality and the woman goes from thinking it's an alien, to a jerk, to maybe a romantic interest? In fact, multiple people in this movie reference the ro...
Episode 91: Thankskilling
SlashU - November 21, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsHappy Thanksgiving from SlashU! As a treat for the holiday, as you all stuff your faces and visit with family, give thanks to your professors as we talk about a homicidal turkey killing college students. It's that simple! He's rude, he's crude, and he's out for blood....not cranberry sauce. ...
Episode 90: The Stepfather II
SlashU - November 14, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWe continued our journey into the dysfunctional families of Jerry Blake in The Stepfather II: Make Room for Daddy. This time, ol' Jer - Bear has escaped an insane asylum. That's right, he didn't die at the end of the first movie. Instead, he's on the run again trying to create the perfect fam...
Episode 89: The Stepfather
SlashU - November 07, 2022 14:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWe switched gears just a tiny bit away from the 'traditional' slasher movie this week. We've still got a crazy killer on the loose, but there isn't much mystery around it. There's plenty of creepiness and suspense though. Terry O'Quinn is a force to be reckoned with when he plays The Stepfath...
Episode 88: Jack-O
SlashU - October 31, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsHappy Halloween! We're here on the spookiest of all holidays to bring you a holiday treat! No, I'm kidding, that's a trick. We watched Jack-O from 1995. It has nothing to do with Michael Jackson. It's the story of Mr. Jack the Pumpkin Man who was summoned by an old wizard to terrorize the t...
Mini Episode - Vampyres
SlashU - October 26, 2022 13:34 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWell we lost the original recording for Episode 87: Vampyres. However your fearless hosts connected over the phone to do a fast review of the movie and talk about our Halloween episode coming up next. Trust us, the fact that the full recording of Vampyres was lost is NOT a big deal. It's not ...
Ep19 - Hot to Trot
Just the Cheese Please - October 21, 2022 04:05 - 1 hourBobcat Goldthwait inherits a talking horse and half a brokerage firm. The talking horse convinces Bobcat to participate in insider trading which makes him money, but then loses it when the horse tells him to invest in oats, which he does. Then they get the money back plus girlfriends by winning...
Episode 86: Frankenhooker
SlashU - October 17, 2022 13:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWe're moving right along with Spooky Season here at SlashU. This week's episode takes on the old Frankenstein cliche with a sultry, sexy twist. it's Frankenhooker from 1990. When young Jeffrey's fiancé is killed and chopped apart in a horrible lawn mower accident, he sets out to put her back ...
Episode 85: The Final Terror
SlashU - October 10, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIt's stars galore in this week's episode. We get to see a few of Hollywood's finest very early on in their careers. The story is set in the woods of Northern California. A group of forest rangers are taking a group of female campers out on the river for a few days of rafting. But plans go wr...
Ep18 - Pee-wee's Big Adventure w/ Wayne Noon!
Just the Cheese Please - October 07, 2022 04:05 - 1 hourA coming of age story about a man who embarks on a road trip to get back his one true love from the clutches of Hollywood. Along the way he is beset on all sides by the forces of evil but in the end neither the police, Godzilla, or Santa Claus can stop Pee-wee from getting back his lover and ri...
Episode 84: Effects
SlashU - September 26, 2022 13:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWe jumped back to 1979 this week to watch one that's not actually a slasher. It's ok though, we're all earning this together, and it's why we check these movies out for you here at SlashU. This story centers around a cast and crew shooting a horror movie on location in a remote location. The ...
Episode 83: Jurassic Shark
SlashU - September 19, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIt's our second week of Marine Biology classes here at SlashU and we're covering Jurassic Shark. Long before Jason Statham starred in "The Meg" there was this cinematic gem. When an oil company illegally drills too deeply, they end up releasing a prehistoric predator that wreaks havoc on a gro...
Episode 82: Ouija Shark
SlashU - September 12, 2022 14:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWe're back for Season 5 of SlashU and we missed you all so much! This week we're doing a little Marine Biology course here at SlashU. It's our own take on Shark Week. As it turns out there are TONS of cheesy, campy movies where a Shark is the Slasher. Exhibit A: Ouija Shark. The story cente...
Episode 81: Criminally Insane
SlashU - August 01, 2022 13:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWe have a short and sweet movie to talk about this week. But despite the moving only being an hour long, we still managed to record for 90 minutes! Lots to talk and laugh about here at SlashU. This story is all about Ethel Janowski, who just got released from a mental institution. Her doctor re...
Episode 80: Tourist Trap
SlashU - July 26, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWe jump to 1979 to check out this classic starring Chuck Connors and Tanya Roberts. It’s Tourist Trap, where the killer has telekinesis and a fetish for mannequins. All the makings of a great slasher. Be sure to check us out on instagram @SlashU_Podcast and reach out at [email protected] an...
Episode 79: The Funhouse
SlashU - July 18, 2022 12:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsStudents it's another classic story of teens trying to sneak away and fool around. This week we take a break to go to the carnival in 1981's The Funhouse. When two couples on a double date decide to spend the night in the carnival Funhouse, things end up being not so fun. They witness a murde...
Ep17 - From the Cheese Cave #1 | Howard the Duck
Just the Cheese Please - July 15, 2022 04:05 - 1 hourA horny duck from another planet or maybe another dimension lands in Cleveland and tries to return home with the help of his furry-loving girlfriend and some scientists. Along the way he has to battle rednecks who want to eat him and some kind of demon monster. Perhaps giving George Lucas full...
Episode 78: Stitches
SlashU - July 11, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsAlright students! We jumped to 2012 for this week's episode. It's all about a killer clown named Stitches with a little supernatural stuff sprinkled in. Stitches the clown was a deadbeat clown doing gigs at kids' birthday parties. At one party, where all the kids were spoiled little brats, S...
Episode 77: Hide and Go Shriek
SlashU - July 04, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWell students, we had to do a re-record. The original audio for this episode is lost forever in computer-space land or something. It didn't record properly so we had to do it again. Which is great for you because you got 2 fresh-faced, bushy-tailed professors to talk about this movie. Our sto...