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Back to SearchSinning, Singing Bloodsuckers
Episode 76
Sinners (2025) is a rare thing: a popular blockbuster lauded by film critics. But what do Jason and Ali make of this hybrid of period drama, gothic h…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Evil Pooh and Piglet
Episode 75
Is Winnnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) as bad as all that? Definitely not. Jason and Ali praise an intelligent, iconoclastic instant classic.
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Terry's Baby
Episode 74
Terry's Baby Apartment 7A (2024) is the official prequel to Rosemary's Baby, made more than half a century after the original. Jason and Ali revisit …
10 months ago
Rosemary and Her Baby
Episode 73
Ira Levin's 1967 novel and Roman Polanski's 1968 film brought the horror genre into the cultural mainstream. Jason and Ali reflect on satanic cults, …
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Ghostnapped!
Episode 72
Poltergeist (1982) is a supernatural horror classic featuring many (real!) skeletons. It is also a fun-filled family comedy. Jason and Ali stare at o…
11 months, 1 week ago
Based on True Stories?
Episode 71
Frank de Felitta wrote two of strangest supernatural horror films of the 'boom' period. Jason and Ali get baffled by Audrey Rose (1977) and unsettled…
1 year ago
Monkey Around with Death
Episode 70
Osgood Perkins's The Monkey (2025) is a very loose adaptation of a 1980 Stephen King story. King's story takes death very seriously, but Perkins mock…
1 year ago
Ebola Syndrome
Episode 69
What do you get when you mix a pandemic, murderousness, international travel, pathological horniness, racism and size insecurity? Apparently, a film …
1 year, 1 month ago
House Haunting
Episode 68
Presence (2024) is an inventive, uncanny new take on the familiar terrain of the familial ghost story. An upper-middle class American family is haunt…
1 year, 1 month ago
Eight-Legged Evil
Episode 67
Most spiders are totally harmless, but not in horror. Join Jason and Ali as they spin a web of pleasure and annoyance by talking about Arachnophobia …
1 year, 1 month ago