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Episode 67 The Omen (1976)
Running Scared - May 01, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOh man, it's time to do the Omen (1976). One of the most influential horror movies of the 70s, Richard Donner's film about US Ambassador, Robert Thorn, and his wife raising the AntiChrist would set off a franchise that was revisited in 2024. Running Scared co-hosts Jamie and Rob have a lot to ...
Episode 66 Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
Running Scared - April 04, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratings"Ya so, it's a security guard job at an abandoned arcade where the ghosts of dead children possess animatronics and murder said security guards. When can you start?" A community... paralyzed by... what, we're not sure. Why haven't they condemned this place? That one patrol cop sure seems to kno...
Episode 65 The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
Running Scared - February 28, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIs a franchise a blessing or a burden? Running Scared co-hosts Robert Lendrum and Jamie Roberts take apart the latest edition in the Exorcist franchise and look at how it echoed and subverted the original classic film from 1973. It gets heated between Rob and Jamie when we ask the big questions....
Episode 64 When Evil Lurks (2023)
Running Scared - January 22, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsTake the apocalyptic tone of a zombie film and swap in the unrelenting dread of demonic possessions and you have a starting point to enter the critically acclaimed When Evil Lurks (2023) by director Demián Rugna. TRIGGER WARNING. This film depicts violence towards children and child death. Our...
Episode 63 The Cool Down: The Belly (Behind the Scenes)
Running Scared - January 09, 2024 05:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsRunning Scared co-hosts Jamie and Rob take you "behind the scenes" on the production of our latest jogcast "The Belly". We talk about how the script came to be, define a jogcast, what we're trying to do with a jogcast, how acting elevates them, the mix and design of the piece as well as some of ...
Episode 62 Die Hard 2 (1990)
Running Scared - December 29, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHappy Holidays Scaredy Cats! For this year's holiday pod, cohosts Robert Lendrum and Jamie Roberts lean into action thriller and Christmas classic Die Hard 2 (1990) starring Bruce Willis as John McClane. We enter the debate surrounding this film's status as a Christmas movie, discuss the everyma...
Episode 61 The Belly: A Horror Jogcast Preview
Running Scared - December 13, 2023 22:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn a near future, inmates and old friends, Booker Reed (Son of Sonnet) and Mac Rossi (Tristan Snyder), work hard labour in an underwater mining prison called the Belly. Mac is in for stealing oxygen credits and Booker for being too loyal to Mac. He could have turned on Mac but instead he shared ...
Episode 60 Talk To Me (2022)
Running Scared - November 23, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsUh oh. Co-hosts, Robert Lendrum and Jamie Roberts disagree on the realism of the teenage horror drama "Talk to Me". Twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou make their directorial debut on this highly praised modern-day take on the ouija board, in which teens use the severed hand of a median to...
Episode 59 The Babadook (2014)
Running Scared - October 31, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHappy Halloween Scaredy Cats! After a little break, The Running Scared boys are back with a film that's all about parenting by the book - it's just the worst book you could possibly parent by: the Babadook (2014)! In this episode we tackle the state of masculinity in Australia, kids with high a...
Episode 58 As Above So Below (2014)
Running Scared - September 29, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsCo-hosts Jamie and Rob but heads over the genre mashup film "As Above So Below". A 2014 John Erick Dowdle film, it combines a little Blair Witch handheld horror, with a sprinkle of Harry Potter magic with a few heaping table spoons of Indiana Jones mystery and adventure to cook up a unique, alt...
Episode 57 Time to Burn (Jogcast Preview Pt. 2)
Running Scared - September 19, 2023 03:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsEvery night Martin Haelstrom has the same nightmare: he runs to save his father trapped in a burning cabin, but never makes it in time. Just like that night all those years ago. Now, Martin is back in Washington State to rebuild the cabin and beat his time in a 5-mile race. The same time he’s be...
Episode 56 Friday the 13th (1980)
Running Scared - August 31, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSean S. Cunningham's 1980 "Friday the 13th" was a slasher in the ilk of Halloween. Could the creators possibly have known that they were embarking on a franchise that would take the iconic killer, Jason Voorhees, to New York City, the midwest, space and even Hell? We go back to the film that sta...
Episode 55 Pandorum (2009)
Running Scared - August 08, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIf humanity has to leave Earth in search of a new home are we still human when we get to our destination? We guess that's the question that the sci-fi horror Pandorum (2009) is asking... or maybe it's what happens if you add the biker guys from Mad Max: Fury Road to Event Horizon? This genre ben...
Episode 54 Cocaine Bear (2023)
Running Scared - July 18, 2023 04:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDirector/Producer Elizabeth Banks takes us back to a simpler time in American history when there were no cell phones, cocaine was delivered by plane and bears ruled with an iron fist. Based on a true story, Cocaine Bear (2023) posits that if there is anything worse than encountering a bear in ...
Episode 53 The Amityville Horror (1979)
Running Scared - June 28, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsLet's face it. You can't say no to those 1979 haunted house prices. 80K for a waterfront 4 bedroom with a guest house? If you ever wonder how characters stick it out so long in films like "The Amityville Horror" (1979), it's because you can't find houses that cheap! We contrast the film with th...
Episode 52 The Conjuring (2013)
Running Scared - June 07, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWhen there's something strange in your shitty, auction bought, ramshackle house, who you gonna call? 2 weirdos who call themselves "Demonologists" and no one thinks that's odd. Blockbuster Director James Wan brings us the haunted house thriller "The Conjuring" (2013) starring Vera Farmiga, Lili ...
Episode 51 Time to Burn (Jogcast Preview)
Running Scared - May 16, 2023 04:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsEvery night, Martin Haelstrom has the same nightmare: he runs to save his father trapped in a burning cabin, but never makes it in time. Just like that night all those years ago. Now, Martin is back in Washington State to rebuild the cabin and beat his time in a 5-mile race. The same time he’s b...
Episode 50 Anaconda (1997) featuring Miles Klee
Running Scared - May 02, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIt's our 50th episode! We celebrate our milestone by returning to the movie that has not only consumed our lives by inspiring this podcast, but also regurgitated our friendship. That's right, we're doing Anaconda (1997) AGAIN. But this time, co-hosts Robert Lendrum and Jamie Roberts have brough...
Episode 49 Aliens (1986)
Running Scared - April 05, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThose loveable chest burstin' Xenomorphs are back and so is the Running Scared Podcast with back-to-back episodes on the Alien franchise. This time around, we dive into the blockbuster masterpiece that is James Cameron's Aliens. A special effects tour de force, Aliens cranks up the bad ass meter...
Episode 48 Alien (1979)
Running Scared - March 17, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOh Captain, my captain! Why do you suck so bad, Captain Dallas? Running Scared hosts Robert Lendrum and Jamie Roberts interrogate the sci-fi horror classic Alien (1979) and have a lot to say about the leadership of this mission. Who would you rather have in the chair for this mission? What seeds...
Episode 47 The Fan (1996) featuring guest host Winston McMartin
Running Scared - February 15, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsEveryone has that one buddy who loves his team a little too much, but that buddy isn't Robert Di Nero. In Tony Scott's 1996 thriller The Fan, Di Nero channels some of his past performances as unstable toxic males and overpowers the film in a rare case of the actor's feet being too big for the r...
Episode 46 Barbarian (2022)
Running Scared - January 24, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsPoor Tess is cold, wet and just wants to put her head down and get some zzzs. But some weird dude is in her AirBnB. So, she does what we would all do, kick him to the couch and sleep in his bed. Nothing could go wrong, right? Written and directed by Zach Cregger, Barbarian (2022) is a scary hit ...
Episode 45 GingerDeadMan (2005)
Running Scared - January 10, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsAs a gift to our Patreon members, we dropped this episode a couple weeks back. Now it's here for all to enjoy, catch it if you can! And if you ever do catch this straight to DVD flick, stomp it into oblivion and sweep the crumbs away because we struggled to find anything redeeming about GingerDe...
Episode 44 Black Christmas (1974)
Running Scared - December 23, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHappy Holidays from the Running Scared team of Robert Lendrum and Jamie Roberts. To get you in the festive spirit, we're reviewing a Canadian cult classic Black Christmas (1974). Although made on a small budget, it features some big Canadian acting talent and several key innovations for the genr...
Bonus Episode - Insulam Creatura pt. 2
Running Scared - December 10, 2022 01:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsAs a big THANK YOU to all of our listeners, we are releasing a second bonus episode from Insulam Creatura. Rejoin Cap and Burr as they negotiate an island filled with unimaginable horrors. The pieces they seek are in the four corners of the island and it's a race against time - and the island it...
Episode 42 Blumhouse's Halloween trilogy (2018-22)
Running Scared - December 02, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThree scoops of murder victims courtesy of Michael Myers, Blumhouse Productions and the boys at Running Scared as we review the entire Halloween trilogy; Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022). Had the Halloween franchise gone off the rails and does Blumhouse get it b...
Episode 41 Candyman (2021)
Running Scared - November 08, 2022 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWhat happens when you say "Candyman" 5 times in the mirror? You might start wondering why the original Candyman haunted young black children in his own neighbourhood. Was that the central problem that writers Jordan Peele, Via DaCosta and Win Rosenfeld were trying to solve when reinventing the 1...
Episode 40 The Exorcist (1973)
Running Scared - October 25, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsAfter a little break, Co-hosts Robert Lendrum and Jamie Roberts are back to review a classic film from the horror pantheon, William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973). Nearly 50 years after its release, does this film hold up? Did Friedkin get a cut of the Ouija Board sales? Why is Detective Kinder...
Episode 39 Friday the 13th pt. 6 Jason Lives
Running Scared - September 15, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsConsidered a turning point in the F13 series, Jason Lives takes Jason from supernatural stalker to re-animated zombie with a penchant for hilarious murder. Running Scared co-hosts revisit the grassy plains of Jane and Wilson where Jamie's Scottish grandparents let him watch horror at a young a...
Episode 38 Mother! (2017)
Running Scared - August 30, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSay what you want about Darren Aronofsky, he sure knows how to turn an anxiety dream into a panic inducing movie. The Running Scared boys try to hang on as the rollercoaster ride that is Mother! (2017) stirs up our paranoia and our patience for unwanted guests. Does the layering of symbolism add...
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