It was the kernel of a great idea take a meta approach to the slasher genre and the theatrical experience. Five years before SCREAM savaged the slasher, 1991s POPCORN burst onto the scene - but didnt quite make the same impact. On this episode, we go deep into this 90s horror artifact along with Bloody Disgusting Podcast co-host and Returning Champion, the lovely Zena!! Along the way, we fill up tanks full of faces, wonder which audience the film was aimed at, enroll in the University of Califor...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Kiss your nerves goodbye and a new group of Deadeyes hello as we re-enter our favorite cabin in the woods for Sam Raimis cult classic, EVIL DEAD II: DEAD BY DAWN!! Were unpacking every wild camera rig and engorged basement lady in the house as we try to come to grips with this funny and frightful favorite!! Were talking Bruce Campbells jawline, Deadite time management problems, debate whether the Evil Dead is even a franchise despite its near flawless success rate, various wet noises, sophistica...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Its the movie that made America say, Delta Rho Chi until the day that we die, - and then America let it die immediately. Thats right, were submitting ourselves to the nearly forgotten charms of 1984s THE INITIATION with the help of writer, comedian, and host of TV Guidance Counselor podcast, Ken Reid!! Along the way, we unpack bird explosion theories, the limits of stop drop & roll, how to take revenge by Hitler mustache, bad small-town gossip, connect this movie to Student Bodies, and place...
Jun 14, 2024•2 hr 35 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast If we learned anything from this weeks film, its that the gig economy will kill you!! Thats right, we hook up with our old friends Radio Silence to discuss the new kiddy vampire flick, ABIGAIL!! Before we get fully rolling, we have a non-spoiler section for those who havent caught the film yet. Then we dive into movie theater etiquette, trailer reveals, blood explosions, severed head balancing, too many teeth problems, breaking on SNL, and we worship at the alter of disturbingly sexy Dan Stevens...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Tune In, Turn On, Burn In (ratings) Hell!! Thats right, were flipping the channel and tackling a new (-ish) flick this week as we slot LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL this week on Kill By Kill!! We start with a non-spoiler look at the movie for those who have yet to catch up before digging into all the most devilish of details, such as our aging roster of Weird Little Guys, endless production cards, terrible AI art, fantastic casting and set design, the value of bent spoon collecting, and comparing ba...
May 31, 2024•51 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast You cant believe everything that you see, but believe everything you hear as we close out Brian De Pal-May with an in-depth discussion of 1984s BODY DOUBLE !! Thats right, we are digging deep into De Palmas Rear Window meets Vertigo in the Adult Section of the video store riff, and we are making sure youre along for the stalking - er, ride. Along the way, we talk butt recognition, intentional trash, Jamaican Bart Simpson, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, LA location spotting, and we finally talk about...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Sometimes when we touch, the cataclysmic psychic connection is too much!! Thats right, were making this show move with our minds as we discuss 1978s telekinetic terror THE FURY with Bloody Disgustings Meagan Navarro for Brian De Pal-May!! Were looking to uncover the truth beneath the films horror novel origins, explore how the characters connect to the paranoid thrillers of the time, evaluate bad mid-level spy agency managers, bad security protocol, Mother Knuckles worship, explode-o-heads, and ...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast If youve got a taste for terror, you have a date for our episode covering the 1976 classic CARRIE!! Thats right, Brian De Pal-May continues with the high school hell created by the pen of Stephen King - an explosive dance of teenage hormones, religious mania, and plenty of split-diopter lens shots!! Along the way, we dig into the backstory that brought this unlikely blockbuster to the screen and the Oscar stage, explore how adult inaction fosters the bad attitudes in this blackboard jungle, unco...
May 10, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast It's gonna be De Pal-MAY!! That's right, we're spending May discussing one of the greatest directors of his generation, Brian De Palma, this month, and we're starting things off by unlocking our Patreon episode discussing his 1973 Rock n' Roll musical, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE !! Along the way, we talk about the journey of the Juicy Fruits, debate what makes Paul Williams so compelling onscreen, shuffle along to Phoenix's unique dance style, and worship at the altar of Beef!! All this, plus a dee...
May 03, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Before Aquatic Attack April sinks to the bottom of the sea, we have one more gilled beastie to battle!! Thats right, were gulping down the oceanic variation of ALIEN and THE THING, the Italian-spiced creature feature, LEVIATHAN !! Here to help us dig for precious metals out of the raw schlock ore are two Returning Champions to the show, the Horror Queers themselves, Joe Lipsett & Trace Thurman!! Along the way, we talk about 1989s Battle of the Deep Sea flicks, worship at the alter of Ernie H...
Apr 26, 2024•2 hr 42 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Finally, an animal attack movie where youve never been more on the animals side! Thats right, were dipping our flippers into frigid waters as we talk about 1977s Jaws-ripoff meets John Wick revenge thriller, ORCA !! Here to help us navigate these dangerous waters is podcast host ( Jordan, Jesse, Go! and Free With Ads ), writer ( Youth Group and Bubble ), and Returning Champion - Jordan Morris!! Along the way, we discuss monumentally stupid plans, how to apologize to whales, how to burn down a vi...
Apr 19, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Its a Christmas movie! Its a shark movie! Its a Chistmashark movie?! Folks, the confusion never ends on this Aquatic Attack April episode as things get Personal, and we talk JAWS: THE REVENGE with writer and director Nick Roth!!. His new horror movie, HANKY PANKY, is out starting today!! Along the way, we explore the express elevator to hell journey of this movie from script to screen, compare a barge to a tortilla chip, consider what nonsense sounds like science in this film, explore the psychi...
Apr 12, 2024•2 hr 30 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Ahoy there!! Welcome to Animal Attack April or should we say Aquatic Attack April? Thats right, were setting sail for dangerous seas for 2024 as Patrick & Gena catch one hell of a cruise and enjoy 1998s DEEP RISING!! Along the way, we talk variable-sized tentacles, debate the Steven Sommers formula, campaign for more goop in movies, enjoy the sloppy skeleton hugs, consider Die Hard wieners, worship at the alter of Famke Janssen, and recount how the films box office fortunes were sunk by Jame...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Kill By Kills TV Terrors... in SPACE!! Patrick is still overseas, so we're unearthing a beloved Patreon episode covering one of the most ridiculous hours of television ever aired - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century's Space Vampire!! It's a desperate battle between people armed with laser guns and a sentient brussel sprout with Groucho Marx eyebrows!! Along the way, we talk robot romance, lost lingo, excess button work, B-plot boredom, and the most Lyrca ever featured on the show!! Set a...
Mar 29, 2024•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you ready to pledge? Feel the Rush Week as we stay overnight in the creepy and campy Monster Slash of 1981s HELL NIGHT !! Here to help us go Greek is writer and author of A Cut Below: A Celebration Of B-Horror Movies , Scott Drebit!! Along the way, we talk double-downers, gorking out, a brief history of horrors Dirty Peanuts, slow walking, and tons of real character development!! All this, plus take a penny, leave a penny gun rooms, awkward tiki torch processions, and a round of Choose Your ...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Were getting metal AF this week as we discuss the Mad Max and Ren Faire-infused music video for Krokus SCREAMING IN THE NIGHT !! Along the way, we explore modern dance funerals, interdimensional trap spaces, spindly crucifixion, delicious scrapple, post-apocalyptic hustle culture, King Pluto, the variable powers of blue lightning, and the unavoidable difficulties of making out through jail bars!! All this, plus an appearance by Barf, a rockin version of Choose Your Own Diner Menuventure, and we ...
Mar 15, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sleep all day. Podcast all night. Its fun to listen to Kill By Kill as we get a taste for a true vampire flick classic and talk 1987s THE LOST BOYS !! Join us as we cruise the murder capital of the world for the sexiest Tiger Beat-ready bloodsuckers ever to grace the silver screen!! Along the way, we talk about the film's rocky journey to theaters, Santa Claras wild music scene, the towns laze-faire attitude towards its missing kid problem, the golden age of cool video stores, and one of the bes...
Mar 08, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast *You know our philosophy by now: podcast a good time, all the time! Thats why were converting this episode of Kill The Rock Star into a 40th-anniversary celebration of one of our favorite death-filled comedies of all time, THIS IS SPINAL TAP !! Here to help us go to 11 is Returning Champion Becky Wilson!! Were giving the Tap the full Kill By Kill treatment, breaking down every characters green skeleton, foil-covered cucumber, Saucy Jack dreams, and ability to get 17 people into a single King Lei...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast An undying love. A forbidden curse. Some weirdo just hanging out in a college clocktower, negging you in class. Thats right - were combining our Vampire series with After Dark to bring you a cornerstone of the Im a teen star who wants to be taken seriously genre in 1995s EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE !! Here to take us to school about this pinnacle of blouse-shedding cinema is writer, co-host of This Ends At Prom, and now Returning Champion BJ Colangelo!! After Patrick apologizes for never being able t...
Feb 23, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast The thumb might be out, but dont take that as approval! We watched the pilot episode of HBOs THE HITCHHIKER and get taken for a real ride as we talk old-world curses, modern hair helmets, Dune grandmothers, un-sexy step-sister fantasies, and just openly thirst after Bruce Greenwood and his visible dong (look for it)!! All this, plus we bask in the afterglow of post-funeral sex, play a smashingly good game of Choose Your Own Deathventure, and warn against participating in sexy times near talking ...
Feb 16, 2024•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hear ye, hear ye - sex court is now in session!! The (not quite so) honorable Kill By Kill After Dark presides over a movie that could only legally happen in 1993's BODY OF EVIDENCE !! Here to help us prosecute this case is TV writer and author of the Kat Kelly Mystery series, Tess Rafferty!! As evidence, we present arguments against the idea of berets being sexy, caucasian acupuncturists, nipple clamp confusion, spiking your Afrin, and the best/worst line of the movie, Have you ever watched ani...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Love is in the air, and revenge is ready to catch a ride as we talk HBOs Twilight Zone with boobs - THE HITCHHIKER ! This particular episode of the series was brought to us by the director of the Salem Horror Fest (and Returning Champion), Kay Lynch because it does the impossible: make anyone care about a character in this paper-thin anthology series!! Along the way, we dig into why this TV episode from 1983 has a more nuanced examination of the trans experience than weve seen from a lot of medi...
Feb 02, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Its time to crank up the tunes and FEAR as we bring you the mechanical mayhem that ruined childhoods and explained way too much about one of the biggest bands of the 70s!! You wanted the best, but what you got is KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK !! Here to help make sense of this rock n roll nightmare are two old friends and Returning Champions, Dennis Satterfield and Scot Burklin (the Inside The Idiot Box podcast)!! Along the way, we talk bad evil plans, assemble a human pyramid riot, ride th...
Jan 26, 2024•2 hr 52 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Kill The Rock Star is back, crawling into your podcast feed like a multi-legged insect through a bathroom window a real lyrical allusion this song makes in connection to horniness that takes every ounce of our intellectual powers to untangle!! That's right - we're talking Rebbie Jackson's Centipede , and here to help us make sense of it all is Returning Champion Megan Sunday!! Along the way, we talk awkward tour guide spiels, erect cobras, loose tigers, matching cummerbunds, erotic rictus, light...
Jan 19, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Start the clock - youve got exactly 30 seconds to remember if youve ever heard of 1981s GRADUATION DAY !! Chances are you might not be familiar with this track and field and roller boogie-obsessed slasher, but after this episode, youll be racing to watch it!! Join Patrick and Gena as they welcome comedian Shawn Carter (his album Boston to Bristol is out now!) to help them blow the whistle on the many, many ethics violations the students, teachers, and staff commit as easily as breathing until th...
Jan 12, 2024•2 hr 41 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast To celebrate 2024, we're unlocking one of our favorite 2023 bonus episodes from our Patreon feed covering the little-seen, little-understood karate-sploitation flick, ALLEY CAT !! Never heard of it? Well, neither had we until this rock 'em sock 'em lady judo'd her way into our hearts and groins last year, and talking about it was such a good time we want you to join in!! Now *CW the film has many attempts at SA, but absolutely no one gets away with any crime when our girl Billie is taking her ow...
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Its the MOST haunted time of the YEAR!! Thats right! The reason for the season is back, and it brings us great joy to present Amityville For Xmas vol 2!! In the stocking this year is an illuminating TV Terror turned hand-mauling home video sequel, AMITYVILLE 4: THE EVIL ESCAPES !! See lamps lash out, witness electrical cords go full Popeye, experience reduced fly budgets, go beyond the beige Mr. T, grab a little hot Old Priest/Young Priest action, and shudder at the maximum withholding of famili...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast You dont have to wait any longer for that love vibration because were back talking about a new wave sensation and a Master of Horror apocalyptic freakout! Thats right, were talking about Billy Idols Dancing With Myself music video directed by Tobi Hooper - and we cant talk Hoop without Returning Champion - the one and the only Patrick Bromley!! Along the way, we dig into all the details: crying Omega Men, Oscar the Grouch, 3rd-floor serial killers, Shrek inserts, living room dojos, and a few Don...
Dec 15, 2023•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listen to us the podcast of the night what beautiful nonsense we make!! Thats right, were sinking our teeth into the movie that we can honestly say started it all - the 1 931 Universal Studios classic, DRACULA !! Along the way, we stake our claim on uneven Bela Lugosi impersonations, connect the dots with the Brides and an infamous Ghostbusters BJ, unpack Bram Stokers repressed personal history for juicy clues, and Patrick offloads every weird piece of history he learned as a Universal Studios B...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast It's chemistry, heavy metal, and shaggy werewolves. This week, we experiment on Kill The Rock Star with Ozzy Osbourne and his 1983 solo smash, Bark at the Moon !! Along the way, we talk over-enthusiastic microscopy, explore why this one music video believes women, return to our favorite British sanitarium and open several poltergeist doorways. All this plus goth funerals, melting skeletons, and an extended conversation on how the reboot of the Scream franchise is getting absolutely screwed over ...
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