Light the torch, hit the track… Olympics fever has arrived at Kill By Kill!! And what better way to celebrate the gold standard in human achievement happening in Paris than to review one of the dumbest and repetitive slashers we’ve ever encountered from the good old USA - 1984’s FATAL GAMES !! We’re training to reach the top by discussing how this movie fails at almost every turn: bland characters, dingy settings, partially clothed showers, sinks full of dirty dishes, completely unclothed chase ...
Jul 19, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Hollywood in 1985. And making it to the Final Cut can be murder! That’s right - we’re talking Giallo gloves, religious right nuts, and the secret of the silly goose - as we go deep into the final film of the X trilogy, MAXXXINE!! Don't worry - we're starting with a non-spoiler set of reactions before we go all the way! Then we dig into video sleaze, all the Kill By Kill-specific movie references, uncover the Burt Reynold’s wig cameo, examine Mia Goth’s uncanny transformations, witness...
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Sure, the suburbs suck - but they’ve never sucked quite like they do in the 1985 vampire next door classic, FRIGHT NIGHT !! Here to help us peep and tell all about it is the incredibly funny author, Kashana Cauley !! Along the way, we talk about the sustainability of suburban vampire life, engage in local Madison, Wisconsin reference jokes, debate the concept of clouds with teeth, consider exactly what Amy is looking for - and not getting - from Charlie, explore the film’s variations on Renfield...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 1991’s POPCORN burst onto the scene - but didn’t 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 Cali...
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 Raimi’s cult classic, EVIL DEAD II: DEAD BY DAWN!! We’re 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!! We’re talking Bruce Campbell’s jawline, Deadite time management problems, debate whether the Evil Dead is even a franchise despite its near flawless success rate, various wet noises, sophis...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast It’s the movie that made America say, “Delta Rho Chi until the day that we die,” - and then America let it die immediately. That’s right, we’re submitting ourselves to the nearly forgotten charms of 1984’s 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...
Jun 14, 2024•2 hr 35 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast If we learned anything from this week’s film, it’s that the “gig economy” will kill you!! That’s 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 haven’t 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...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Tune In, Turn On, Burn In (ratings) Hell!! That’s right, we’re 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 ...
May 31, 2024•51 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast You can’t believe everything that you see, but believe everything you hear as we close out Brian De Pal-May with an in-depth discussion of 1984’s BODY DOUBLE !! That’s right, we are digging deep into De Palma’s Rear Window meets Vertigo in the Adult Section of the video store riff, and we are making sure you’re 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 ...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Sometimes when we touch, the cataclysmic psychic connection is too much!! That’s right, we’re making this show move with our minds as we discuss 1978’s telekinetic terror THE FURY with Bloody Disgusting’s Meagan Navarro for Brian De Pal-May!! We’re looking to uncover the truth beneath the film’s 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...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast If you’ve got a taste for terror, you have a date for our episode covering the 1976 classic CARRIE!! That’s 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, un...
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!! That’s right, we’re 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 1989’s Battle of the Deep Sea flicks, worship at the alter of Erni...
Apr 26, 2024•2 hr 42 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Finally, an animal attack movie where you’ve never been more on the animal’s side! That’s right, we’re dipping our flippers into frigid waters as we talk about 1977’s 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...
Apr 19, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast It’s a Christmas movie! It’s a shark movie! It’s 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 psy...
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? That’s right, we’re setting sail for dangerous seas for 2024 as Patrick & Gena catch one hell of a cruise and enjoy 1998’s 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 film’s box office fortunes were sunk by...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Kill By Kill’s 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 ...
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 1981’s 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 horror’s 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...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast We’re 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 ...
Mar 15, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sleep all day. Podcast all night. It’s fun to listen to Kill By Kill as we get a taste for a true vampire flick classic and talk 1987’s 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 Clara’s wild music scene, the town’s laze-faire attitude towards its missing kid problem, the golden age of cool video stores, and one of t...
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! That’s why we’re 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!! We’re giving the Tap the full Kill By Kill treatment, breaking down every character’s green skeleton, foil-covered cucumber, Saucy Jack dreams, and ability to get 17 people into a single King...
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. That’s right - we’re combining our Vampire series with After Dark to bring you a cornerstone of the “I’m a teen star who wants to be taken seriously” genre in 1995’s 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 ...
Feb 23, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast The thumb might be out, but don’t take that as approval! We watched the pilot episode of HBO’s 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 talkin...
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 an...
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 HBO’s “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 we’ve seen from a lot of ...
Feb 02, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s 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 ...
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, ligh...
Jan 19, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Start the clock - you’ve got exactly 30 seconds to remember if you’ve ever heard of 1981’s GRADUATION DAY !! Chances are you might not be familiar with this track and field and roller boogie-obsessed slasher, but after this episode, you’ll 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… unt...
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 It’s the MOST haunted time of the YEAR!! That’s 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 fami...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast 
