Joining us in the Basement are our Last Stop: The Series "bosses" Dominic Wieneke and Zeke Richter to chat about the upcoming premiere of the South Dakota based comedy series! Both Sam and Casey work in front of - and behind the camera - on the 7 episode season which features many local talents lending their work to the fictional retail store set comedy. Tickets for an ENCORE PREMIERE available now at siouxfallsstatetheatre.org PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE:...
Jan 10, 2025•49 min
It's that time of the year! Sam and Casey sit down to each rank their personal TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES OF 2024! With titles such as The Substance, Longlegs, and Terrifier 3, what will make our lists? Listen to find out! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA AFFILIATE LINK: shop.fangoria.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENT TERPBOYS AFFILIATE LINK: buyterpboys.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENTPOD SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: Facebook: https...
Jan 03, 2025•1 hr 33 min
On this episode of Screams from the Basement, the basement boys sit down for an interview with…themselves?! That’s right, we got the low down on how Casey and Sam feel about the massive year they just had, what’s in store for the future, and some of their favorite memories from 2024. Thanks to everyone for making this year a great one; we’ll see you all in 2025! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA AFFILIATE LI...
Dec 27, 2024•45 min
It's a 1984 Christmas sci-fi double feature! Screams from the Basement gets out our 10 second watch and pair of Uzi's as we chat about Night of the Comet, starring Kelli Maroney and Catherine Mary Stewart, and Empire Pictures' Trancers, starring Tim Thomerson and Helen Hunt! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA AFFILIATE LINK: shop.fangoria.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENT TERPBOYS AFFILIATE LINK: buyterpboys.com/SCR...
Dec 20, 2024•1 hr 54 min
Melt the rich and melt your mind as we are joined by writer/director Ryan Kruger to chat about his follow-up to Shudder's pandemic hit Fried Barry with Kruger's spiritual sequel to the cult 80's splatter film, Street Trash. Taking place on the streets of South Africa, a mind melting drug is unleashed upon a group of ragtag street dwellers as a devious plan to rid the unhoused population in the goopy, gross-out, splatter film of the year! Street Trash is streaming now on VOD and on Screambox Dece...
Dec 13, 2024•32 min
What do werewolves, westerns, college undergrads, and a jar of Satan juice have in common? Alice Cooper, of course! Hosts Sam and Casey are joined by author and podcaster Bryan Clark of Attack of the Killer Podcast to discuss this wild double feature of Monster Dog and Prince of Darkness! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA AFFILIATE LINK: shop.fangoria.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENT TERPBOYS AFFILIATE LINK: buyte...
Dec 06, 2024•2 hr
Hidey-ho! Have we got a special interview for you! Sam and Casey sit down with director Thommy Hutson and executive producer Michael Perez to discuss their brand new documentary, DOC OF CHUCKY! We discuss everything, from their personal favorites of the Child’s Play franchise, to getting incredible anecdotes out of the films’ cast and crew, to editing hundreds of hours of footage into a cohesive, five-hour documentary. Fans of Chucky will not want to miss this nearly hour long Screams from the B...
Nov 29, 2024•55 min
We're SCREAMING off the page on to the silver screen with this episode's double feature of two 1980's forgotten cult classics, Cellar Dweller and I, Madman! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA AFFILIATE LINK: https://www.shop.fangoria.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENT TERPBOYS AFFILIATE LINK: https://www.buyterpboys.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENTPOD SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scre...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 43 min
Does Hollywood have any original ideas anymore, ANOTHER cabin in the woods movie? Wait, this one is a satire of the entire genre, poking fun at tropes, stereotypes, and the basic conventions...count us in! We are excited to welcome back to the basement, writer, director and producer Joe Bandelli to chat about his latest horror-comedy Another Cabin in the Woods Movie! We also chat with Joe about the FINAL Hell House LLC film Lineage coming fall 2025. Another Cabin in the Woods Movie is streaming ...
Nov 15, 2024•39 min
Grab your laptop, log into Skype, and watch out for glitchy people from the dark web as we chat about UNFRIENDED (2015) and UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (2018). We break down the screen life horrors including the world's worst game of "Never Have I Ever," virtual Cards Against Humanity (however that works), and the importance of never putting a blender next to your computer. Don't unfriend us because this episode is a SCREAM! PATREON: patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasement MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/sc...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 57 min
Joining hosts of Screams from the Basement Sam Lenz and Casey Kelderman is filmmaker Virat Pal, writer and director of the ''Dream Girl'' segment in V/H/S/Beyond! Virat joins us in the basement to chat about the 7th installment in the acclaimed found footage series, being the first director to shoot a V/H/S segment in India, and just how quick the film went from concept, to production, to final product! V/H/S/Beyond is streaming NOW exclusively on Shudder. MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/screams...
Nov 01, 2024•38 min
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Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 53 min
We know the title says not to, but we can't help but F with ghosts as we are joined in the basement by the filmmaking duo behind Don't F**k with Ghosts, Stu Stone and Adam Rodness! Stu and Adam join us to chat about their latest blend of reality and fiction, now with a supernatural twist as the duo set out to prove to the world the existence of the paranormal. Don't F**k with Ghosts begins streaming on VOD October 31st. For more information, please visit fivesevenfilms.com MERCH STORE: teepublic...
Oct 18, 2024•33 min
Screams from the Basement celebrates two Halloween CLASSICS on this episode as we discuss the 1986 supernatural rock and roll horror Trick or Treat starring Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne. We also look at the ultimate Halloween movie with the 2007 anthology flick Trick 'r Treat starring everyone's favorite little pumpkin demon Sam! MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA AFFILIATE LINK: shop.fangoria.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENT TERPBOYS AFFILIATE LINK: buyterpboys.com/S...
Oct 11, 2024•2 hr 5 min
October is here, and that means Halloween festivities all month long! One of our favorite festivities is the annual Halloweenapalooza Convention in Ottumwa, Iowa, put on by our Prescribed Films "fathers" Jason Bolinger and ''Insane'' Mike Saunders! The duo began the festival over 10 years ago, with this year's event set to be the biggest to date with over a half dozen cast members from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise attending! You can get your tickets for Halloweenapalooza now at www.ha...
Oct 04, 2024•34 min
Recorded LIVE at Little Con of Horrors in Council Bluffs, IA, Screams from the Basement ranks the TOP 10 horror movies from one of horror's greatest Scream Queens, Brinke Stevens. With over 200 acting credits to her name, we narrow the best down to the Top 10! Where will Slumber Party Massacre land? Will Nightmare Sisters make the list? How about any of the films Brinke directed? Listen to find out! MERCH STORE: teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA AFFILIATE LINK: shop.fangoria....
Sep 27, 2024•35 min
Exorcisms are on the rise in the United States in the past 15 years. The church receives hundreds of new cases each week, most of which are only a hoax. In the case of Anna Scott, her reality has becoming a living hell. NAME THE DEMON is an 2024 found footage exorcism movie from filmmaking brothers Carmelo and Nicholas Chimera, starring Danny Bohnen, Jessie Nerud, and Joe Castro. We are joined on this conversation with Carmelo and Danny to chat about straight up one of our favorite movies of the...
Sep 20, 2024•40 min
Submitted for approval of the Midnight Society this is "The Tale of Screams from the Basement". On this episode hosts Casey and Sam chat two of our favorite Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes The Tale of Laughing in the Dark and The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner. These two episodes in particular caused many of nightmares for millennials who grew up on the Nickelodeon kindertrauma show. We also preview all our upcoming events this and where you can find us at in-person the rest of September! MERC...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 27 min
It was fun...until it wasn't. A group of lifelong friends take a weekend trip to a secluded house as a break from life, and to partake in a hallucinogen binge. As the group swap stories, they soon learn that the house they inhabit may have a dark past. We are joined in the basement with Director, Writer, Producer, and Star of the 2024 film The Trip, Dean Jacobs as we chat about the Kickstarter produced film that stars genre staples Doug Bradley (Hellraiser), Hannah Fierman (V/H/S), and Lori Card...
Sep 06, 2024•33 min
We’re taking it back to childhood frights this week on Screams from the Basement, talking about the master of kids’ horror, R.L. Stine! Sam and Casey are joined by Katie Hettenbach, host of the Katie Afraidy podcast, to talk The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It (2007) and Mostly Ghostly (2008) both based on the early aughts R.L. Stine novels. Katie also helps us scratch more of that childhood horror itch with some Scooby-Doo talk in the back-half of the episode! Subscribe to Katie Afraidy on ...
Aug 30, 2024•2 hr 12 min
Full Moon Features is celebrating the 400th film from producer Charles Band AND the first film in the Pulp Noir series, QUADRANT. Screams from the Basement is joined by QUADRANT screenwriter, and Full Moon staple C. Courtney Joyner, best known for his work on the Trancers series, Doctor Mordrid and Puppet Master 3. Courtney joins us in the basement to talk about the initial concept for Pulp Noir, his journey with Charles Band, and how the industry has changed in his over 30 years in the business...
Aug 23, 2024•44 min
Slap some sunscreen on your nose and some steroid cream on your "Little Elvis", because Screams from the Basement is discussing a Bruce Campbell double feature! First up, we’re talking Don Coscarelli’s cult classic BUBBA HO-TEP, a horror bro-mantic comedy in which Elvis and JFK team up to save their nursing home from a cowboy mummy. Then we dive into SUNDOWN: THE VAMPIRE IN RETREAT, comedic vampire western that features the scream king putting a slapstick spin on the classic Van Helsing characte...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 38 min
Joining us in the basement is author, screenwriter, and director the ''TEENAGE MONSTER HUNTER'' himself, SAM IRVIN! Sam joins us to chat about the 30th Anniversary of the sci-fi cult classic from Full Moon Features, OBLIVION, starring the cosmic cast of George Takei, Julie Newmar, Meg Foster, and Isaac Hayes! We also discuss Sam's teenage years surrounded by the likes of Vincent Price and Christopher Lee, and how a Hollywood party lead to him directing the iconic Elvira! Purchase I WAS A TEENAGE...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 12 min
The horror hostess with the most-est Elvira FINALLY finds her way to the basement as hosts Sam and Casey dive into the double feature Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and Elvira's Haunted Hills! They breakdown Elvira's first big screen outing hot of the heels of her TV show Movie Macabre, and her venture the world of iconic Vincent Price and Roger Corman with Elvira's Haunted Hills. We're BUSTING with excitement for this double feature, because we all know TWO is better than one. You can email us wi...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 37 min
Writer Richard T. Wilson joins Screams from the Basement to discuss his latest graphic novel, the horror anthology HEMLOCK AVE! Hemlock Ave is an anthology centered around the mysterious Alma, who helps(?) lost travelers reckoning with their respective pasts, presents, and futures. Wilson breaks down the process of writing the comic, a very personal endeavor born out of the pandemic, and how it differs from his other popular comic series, Halloween Girl. Horror comic nerds won’t want to sleep on...
Jul 26, 2024•27 min
Alien invasions! Swinging parents! Women in tiny jars! No we're not talking about our typical Friday night, but the ultimate sci-fi comedy double feature TerrorVision and Bad Channels! From Director Ted Nicolaou comes the zany MTV and drug fueled 80's romp TerrorVision, about an extraterrestrial who invades the home of a yuppie, swinging family AND from the straight-to-video 90's comes the music video packed, radio station invader film Bad Channels! Joining us on this intergalactic mission into ...
Jul 19, 2024•2 hr 3 min
Barbie and Kendra crash…Screams from the Basement?! Actors Cody Renee Cameron and Robin Sydney join us for an unhinged conversation about their new flick “Barbie and Kendra Crash Joe Bob’s Drive-In Jamboree.” The actresses discuss filming at Joe Bob’s Jamboree, Cody giving Robin her very first motorcycle ride, and how the filming of this movie lead to a marriage officiated by Joe Bob himself! This interview is chaotic in the best way, and a real treat for any Full Moon fans out there! Barbie and...
Jul 12, 2024•26 min
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the basement...SCREAMS FROM THE BASEMENT is back with a brand new episode chatting the all time classic, the original blockbuster, in Steven Spielberg's Jaws, and the once titled Jaws 5, now better known as Cruel Jaws! We go into the depths of the ocean to discuss both of these shark filled frenzies, include our history with Jaws, and the bonkers concoction that is Cruel Jaws. Special thanks to this episode's sponsor Terror Cards. Find the digital ...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 47 min
Killer VHS? More like Killer VH-YES! Casey and Sam are joined by author Joshua Millican, talking about his new book TELEPORTASM! It’s a quick read full of vhs tapes with teleportation abilities, gruesome body horror, and cosmic dread. We discuss developing the story as part of an anthology series, creating the goopy-gory sequences, lovable characters suffering gruesome fates, and the surprising benefits of buying this book straight from the publisher. This is a must listen for bookworms and body...
Jun 28, 2024•35 min
We are SCREAMING with excitement as the head of the Full Moon family, the one and only Charles Band visits the basement to chat about his latest flick, “Barbie & Kendra Crash Joe Bob’s Drive-In Jamboree!” We discuss the making of the comedy, which was filmed over a few days at late night host Joe Bob Briggs's Drive-In Jamboree, and is the fourth entry in a series that repurposes and humorously dubs old fright flicks. Charles also discusses the ins and outs of running Full Moon Features, a ti...
Jun 26, 2024•36 min
