Season 4 is officially a wrap! And to tie it all off, we will be reviewing a Collin-selected film. One of his favorite holiday family horror movies directed by Joe Dante, Gremlins, released in 1984. This is Collin's last day as a full time co-host of the Abby Normal Podcast, so help me in wishing him luck on his future projects. The Abby Normal Podcast will pick up again with it's fifth season early February 2024.
Although the actors strike is over, we will still be continuing our review on independent horror films as we close in on the end of season four. This week we will covering Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, directed by Rhys Frake Waterfield.
Welcome to another movie review episode, we will be diving into the world of witch hysteria in the 2015 film The VVitch directed by Robert Eggars.
This week's trivia game was inspired from the Dead Meat Podcast, only this game is without audio clips of the horror movie kills. We hope our listeners have a wonderful and safe Halloween this year.
This week's episode is a re-vamped review of Alea's least favorite film, Midsommar. Sometimes we may give a movie a second re-watch for a more stronger review and will sometimes find a little more aspects to enjoy from it. That doesn't always change the way we feel about those movies but it's giving chances.
Game night toniiiiight! On this week's episode, Collin is back and he's not so ready for another round of Who Am I? We hope you enjoy this week's game segment.
We are so excited for this review because we are honored to have Robin Graves, the man behind Lucy Baal, joining us this week. Horror TikTok's beloved demonic entity who runs The Last Movie Store on Earth! Robin and Alea will be reviewing Damion Leone's 2016 film Terrifier.
On this week's episode we're taking a trip to South Korean, where a zombie outbreak threatens the lives of people on a train en route for Busan. 2016's Train to Busan is a foreign horror film that has a refreshing take on zombie movies that is packed with action, heart and a great story.
In this week's episode we review one of Collin's favorite films directed by the Ari Aster. The time has finally come for Collin AND Alea to review Hereditary (2018).
On this week's episode we continue our movie reviews with another independent film; widely popular and directed by David Robert Mitchell, It Follows (2014).
This week we will be discussing Green Room, an independent film directed by Jeremy Saulnier, starring Patrick Stewart and the late Anton Yelchin.
This week we're bringing the truly strange and unusual back to the show by discussing cryptids, Bigfoot to be precise. Bigfoot is one of Collin's favorite cryptids and Alea thought it would be nice to showcase one of his favorite things. We'll be highlighting three different horror movies that feature or center around Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti. As to remain in solidarity with the WGA & SAG-AFTRA strike, we made sure all three movies that are discussed are either independently produced or are pr...
Surfs up everybody! This week we're covering the film Psycho Beach Party, based off of a off-Broadway play written by Charles Busch. This film is a fun parody of 60's surfer movies mixed with who-done-it storyline and slasher themes.
It's game night for the Abby Normal Podcast household. We've spent a lot of time reviewing movies, talking with friends and discussing current events that we felt it would be a good time to bust out one of our favorite trivia games. This is the fifth time we have played Horror Trivial Pursuit on the podcast.
How did we get here? And where are we going from here? With the WGA strike unfolding and now the SAG-AFTRA strike beginning, we wanted to take the time to explain how it all started and where we are right now in a way you, the listeners, better understand it. We are by no means professionals in the movie & TV critique field but as consumers of movies & TV as well as content creators, but we felt like this is our way of showing solidarity to the strike to have the conversation. If you enj...
It's Summer Time! After a two week unannounced hiatus, we are back with a summer themed horror movie that has been considered a classic camping horror movie by many. We will be kicking off a multi-part franchise review of Friday the 13th.
As Pride Month comes to an end, we'll be wrapping things up with a classic slasher film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins. This week we'll be reviewing Psycho (1960), a horror movie that has been widely regarded as the film that changed modern horror.
We're continuing Pride Month with another horror film with the most iconic of monsters, The Babadook (2014). The Babadook is an entity that torments it's victims in their time of grief and has been considered an LGBTQ character since 2017. Find out on why that is in this week's episode of the Abby Normal Podcast. Warning: This episode contains themes and topics of death & grieving that might be unsettling for some listeners, listener discretion is advised.
Happy Pride everyone! As the States celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community, we would like to take this time to highlight horror films that star and/or are created by members of the community. This weeks episode we will being discussing the film Vamp (1986) starring the iconic Grace Jones. This 80's movie perfectly captures the horrific side of vampirism while incorporating the right amount of artistic flair. Be sure to support local businesses that are celebrating Pride Month. This week we're shoutin...
Everybody gets their start somewhere. We sit down with Kelin and John, two high school students from Wisconsin, who are working on getting their first feature length film release this year. The movie is called Night and is excepted to be released by the end of this year.
Hello dear listeners! We hope you all had a great Mother's Day weekend last week. We apologize for not having an episode last Sunday as Collin was out of town and we did not properly prepare an episode for you all. Hopefully to make it up to you, we are brining you an oldie segment we haven't done in a while; Remake Debates! This week we discuss the 1962 original film (based on the novel written by Henry Farrell) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane starring iconic Hollywood rivals; Joan Crawford and...
On this episode of the Abby Normal Podcast we review 2022's Kids vs Aliens, directed by Jason Eisener. If nostalgia and camp is your thing then you'll definitely love this film. This film also has great practical effects that enhance the grotesqueness of the aliens and kill scenes. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed this movie.
We finally made it! We watched the latest installment of the Saw franchise Spiral: The Book of Saw, and we now get to put a giant pause on the franchise until the release of Saw X said to be released in 2025. So until we know whether or not this crazy and gory journey is ever going to end, we hope you enjoy our review of Spiral.
And we are back with a new episode this week after taking a couple of weeks off to focus on settling into our new home. Thank you to everyone who was very understanding during this time. We hope you enjoy this week's episode and look forward to upcoming movie reviews in the weeks to come.
Since we are in the process of moving and unpacking into our new home, we are playing a fun game of Who Am I. Collin has picked five horror based characters that Alea has to figure out using yes or no questions.
We are back this week with another review for you all, we will be discussing the latest film Cocaine Bear directed by Elizabeth Banks. We are really excited to be going over this film as it one of the few horror-comedies we've covered on the podcast, and we've heard so many good things about it from others!
Hello friends! We're back after a week long break to review The Menu which was released in 2022. Collin enjoyed it a lot more than I thought he would. Be sure to follow Alea on Letterboxd for more reviews on other horror films she has watched over the years.
We hope you all are fond of our guest specials because we have one more for you. This week we will be discussing Smile (2022) with Josh Bragg of Haunting Season. We really enjoyed talking with Josh about the film along with the ever growing horror community on social media, it is always fun to talk with fellow fans of the genre.
We have another movie review this week with some amazing guest hosts. This week we are joined by Steve Goldberg and Sean Parker from Mostly Horror Podcast to go into a deep dive review of M3GAN, one of the highest grossing films of the year (so far). We are so excited to be inviting more guests on the podcast and we hope to have more surprises for you in the coming weeks/months/years!
Happy (Belated) Valentines Day to everyone. We sat down with Ben Scrivens, the Owner/President of Fright-Rags and reviewed this 1981 classic holiday horror, My Bloody Valentine. We hope you enjoy this week's episode, Ben shares a lot of fascinating stories with us and was a joy talking to about all things horror.
