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The Witch: The Subversion / The Witch 2: The Other One

We’ve come down from the Arthouse mountains and are sloshing our way back into our trashy trenches with today’s double feature! But before we make our trek back into beautiful South Korea for The Witch: The Subversion and The Witch Part 2: The Other One (not not the reason Lucas picked this duology), we get into some spoiler-free discussion of Scream VI, video games, global politics, and the Oscars! 

 

Speaking of, RRR is an Oscar winning film! Go to 1:28:00ish to hear us talk about it! Naaaatttuuuu!!!!

00:00 - 12:00ish -  Friendship segment! We chat the goings-on of global politics and our new friends in Dallas.

 

12:00ish - 51:30ish - What we watched this time!

 

Austin - A book! Between Two Fires. And rehearsing for a horror musical!

 

Curtis - The Last of Us, God of War Ragnarok and video game talk, Peaky Blinders, Creed III, Scream VI, and 65

 

Lucas - Scream VI and 65

 

Cody - Toy Story 3, the whole Scream franchise, House of 1,000 Corpses, Grave Robbers, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 & 2, and John Wick.

 

51:30ish - 1:44:00ish - The Witch: The Subversion and The Witch 2: The Other One SHUDdown and discussion

 

1:44:00ish - End - Our next movie!

Trouble Every Day

Look, we’re all human. Even if we prefer to think of ourselves as dark-dwelling, bloodthirsty creatures, there is always something that will remind us that we’re just big sacks of goo that can easily be dismantled – or forget to hit record on our podcast. We dive deeper than we maybe have before this week and face new elements of existential crisis tackling our first foray (at least on the show) into New French Extremity (a term you will hear us say ad nauseam, so apologies in advance). We are also somewhat proud to say that after 60+ episodes of recording we have yet to do something truly silly like forget to press that pesky record button – until today. So, like the French filmmakers of the ‘00s, we’re bringin’ heat right out of the gate. Please enjoy our discussion on Claire Denis’ TROUBLE EVERY DAY and let us know, do we need to make Cody watch MARTYRS again? Follow us all on Letterboxd and the usual spots to tell us these things!

00:00 - 37:00ish - Friendship stuff and what we watched this week: Take 2!

Austin: M3GAN

 

Cody: Cocaine Bear, Toy Story 2, The Creature From the Black Lagoon in 3D

 

Lucas: The Creature From the Black Lagoon in 3D

 

Curtis: The Creature From the Black Lagoon in 3D, High Life, Roh, Magic Mike’s Last Dance, Creed, and Sheitan

37:00ish - 1:27:45ish - TROUBLE EVERY DAY - SHUDdown and discussion

 

1:27:45ish - End - Our next movie!

American Mary

Welcome back to you all and to Lucas who rejoins us after a one-episode break! It’s a cause for celebration indeed because apparently we’re much more palatable when we’re together and there’s four of us (but let us know what you think! Is there a weak link you’d like to see gone or worse??). We discuss recent watches including INFINITY POOL and KNOCK AT THE CABIN and once again trick the hell out of Cody as we get into our main topic, AMERICAN MARY! Enjoy!

 

00:00 - 13:00ish Intros: We break down just how our Lucas-less 2023 horror predictions episode went and how we’re going to run our horror video game studio.

13:00ish - 49:00ish What other stuff did we watch? 

Curtis: Twin Peaks and Outlander, Bones and All, Knock at the Cabin, All That Jazz, Happy Death Day, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (he just really needed to feel), Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and Infinity Pool.

 

Lucas: Hereditary (Lucas also needed to feel apparently), Tesla, Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania, Infinity Pool, and Pig.

 

Cody: Troll, Knock at the Cabin, The Meg, Toy Story, Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania, Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey, and Infinity Pool.

49:00ish - 1:30:00ish AMERICAN MARY lead-in, SHUDdown, and discussion

1:30:00ish - End - Curtis picks our next movie!

Horror Predictions for 2023

Well, since Lucas was so vocal in his disdain for POSSESSION in our last episode, he’s banned… Just kidding. He was unable to join us for this episode so Austin, Cody, and Curtis went ahead with a zoom version of your favorite podcast and introduced a new format for a yearly episode: Horror movie predictions! The three of us (and including Lucas, throwing us wild cards via some write-in predictions) give a bevy of predictions for how 2023 will turn out and what we might be looking at in the world of horror far beyond. Let us know how much you disagree with our Nostradomus-like foresight and send us your own predictions for the year! Then, come back for our next episode on AMERICAN MARY!

 

00:00 - 5:10ish Intros: Why we banished Lucas (jk)

 

5:10ish - End: Our predictions for the year our Devil, 2023.

Possession (1981)

Welcome back to a premiere+ episode of the SHUDcast! We know all of our episodes are premiere+ in our hearts, but it isn’t every week we come across a film that divides a room as interestingly as this one. That’s right, we’re talking one of the holy grails of ‘80s video nasties – POSSESSION. Which side do the guys fall on? Which of us thinks it’s a masterpiece? Which of us thinks it’s like a newly divorced friends’ amateur black box theater bit? Will Lucas be ok? Listen and find out!

 

00:00 - 08:00ish Intros - SHUDcast sick remedies (we’re not doctors and we hardly pretend to be them, so please don’t take anything we say seriously) and under which circumstances we’ll do witch drugs.

 

8:00ish - 49:00ish - What we watched this time!

 

–Curtis: The Taylor Sheridan-verse - Tulsa King, Yellowstone - The Last of Us, Violent Night, and They/Them. 

 

–Austin: Sick, Troll, Moana, The Murmuring and Pickman’s Model (from Cabinet of Curiosities), and Jurassic World: Dominion

 

Cody: Videodrome (4k director’s cut – w/ Lucas), Rambo, and That ‘70s Show.

 

Lucas: Videodrome, Super Mario Bros., You People, The Hunter, and Physical 100.

 

49:00ish - 1:55:00ish - POSSESSION (1981) SHUDdown and discussion.

 

1:55:00ish - End - Our next movie (and a note about what our next episode will actually be)

Puppet Master

Happy first episode recorded in 2023! We’d love to tell you we’re coming in all “new year, new us”, but f*ck that… that’s not why you’re here. You’re not here to listen to us grow and change and all that nonsense. No way. How about “New year, worse us” (thanks, Lucas). Look, all I’m trying to say is that we hadn’t recorded in a while and we had a lot of movies to catch up on and also tonight’s movie, um… didn’t bear us the longest fruit. So tune in for some wild and erratic opinions on things that mostly have to do with horror and stick around for a little puppet-y after party! Bonus points for clocking just how long Cody goes without realizing him we’re trying to get him to transition into tonight’s film. We’re back, nerds!

00:00 - 5:16ish Intros: How we think copyright works, and some out there therapeutic methodology.

 

5:16-sih - 1:11:00ish -  What we watched! Lucas - Vesper, Bullet Train (and the story of how this thing is available is f*cked), Drive My Car, The Northman (again), The Black Phone, Resurrection, Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker, The Baby, White Noise (2022), The Menu, and Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio. Cody - Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, Slumberland, The Raid, The Viewing, The Runner,  Austin - Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, Blood Machines, Don’t Worry Darling, Resurrection, Dashcam, The Church, The History of the Occult, Night of the Zombies, and The Whale, and M3gan. Austin - Barbarian (again), Krampus, the first three Harry Potters, Beast, and Avatar: The Way of Water (all of us together!). Curtis - Hook, The Fabelmans, Twin Peaks, Jurassic World: Dominion, The Mothman Prophecies, The Fourth Kind, Evil Dead (2013), Crimes of the Future (I hoodwinked Jess), Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, Babylon (FUCK YES), Sick, and M3gan. Oh, also The Last of Us. 

 

1:11:00ish - 1:43:00ish Puppet Master SHUDdown and discussion (check out the early business where we fool Cody for a record amount of time during our transition)

 

1:43:00ish - End - Our next movie!

Satan’s Slaves 2

Happy 2023 SHUD-dy Buddies! We’re sailing over the roiling seas once again to Indonesia where we revisit one of our most favorite filmmakers, Joko Anwar, and his new flick, SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION. We haven’t been more excited for a release since, well, Joko’s last movie so color us stoked! We also get into some of our final watches of 2022 which leads up to our Year in Re-Spew, which is already out! Check that bad boy out if you haven’t already.

00:00 - 16:10ish - Intros: Cody declares that he will be the first Academy Award-winning Best Boy, Cody’s insane use of Letterboxd, Curtis hates January (except for the body horror one we did a couple years ago), and Oscar bait movies that lose relevance.

 

16:10ish - 60:00ish What we watched this time! Lucas - Pepsi Where’s My Jet?, and Scrooged. Austin - Arrival, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Curtis - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze, Barbarian (again, I know), Smile, and Nightbreed (The Director’s Cut). Curtis & Cody: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Eaten Alive (on film at the New Beverly Cinema!!). Cody - The Menu, A Christmas Story Christmas, Spirited (sorta), and The Grinch (2018).

 

60:00ish - 1:42:00ish SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION - SHUDdown and discussion.

 

1:42:00ish - End - Our next movie!

Year in Re-Spew ’22

Shuddy Shudd-idays!! It’s a horror-days special as we take a break from our regularly scheduled Shudder discoveries to recap our 2022 horror experiences! What a f*cking year it was too… We each present our top ten horror movies released in 2022. What is Austin’s number one? How many times will Curtis try to cheat? Did Lucas change his list after we recorded this? And just how high will Cody be ranking Terrifier 2? 

 

Thank you all so much for continuing to listen or hopping on Santa’s Slay for this episode! We truly enjoy bringing these shows to you and we can’t wait to do it even more in the coming year!

 

00:00 - 13:00ish Intros: Holiday Season and the Eve of Austannukah (aka Austin’s bday), and how these lists are going to work.

 

13:00ish - 2:00:00ish - Our top 10 horror movies of 2022!

 

2:00:00ish - End - Our overall top fives of the year and horror runners-up!

 

Demons / Demons 2

We all may be in the thick of our holiday merriment, but we’ve got some Halloween closure to tend to (as if it ever really closes). There is an extensive list of titles that we all watched before this episode which we think makes for a pretty killer group of recommendations! And then after all of that, we head back to a country and filmmaking family near and dear to our demonic hearts – Italy. Or Germany? But maybe American? Who knows… That’s correct, we’re back with the Bavas and Argentos for a devilish double feature of DEMONS & DEMONS 2!

00:00 - 19:30ish Intros - We discuss our mixology talents (or lack thereof), we show you how to blind click into our podcast on your phone, how Elon Musk is an actual fool (are there Elon stans out there? Are you surprised we think he’s dumb?), stuff we did in spooky season, and Be-WAUGH-nd Fest (Curtis’ birthday film festival extravaganza! He even put together a trailer for it which is so painfully Curtis it hurts and you can check it out HERE).

 

19:30ish - 1:13:30ish - What we watched this time (be warned, it was spooky season, but there’s a hell of a list here if you need recs!): Cody - Thor Love and Thunder, Black Panther Wakanda Forever (Also Lucas – and Cody and Mattie finished their Marvel rewatch, what can we say?), Spider-Man & Spider-Man 2, Halloween Ends (we all saw it!), Hocus Pocus 2 (all of us!), Dracula (‘31), King Kong (‘33), Phantom of the Opera (‘43), Orphan, Orphan First Kill, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Little Shop of Horrors (‘86), The Wolf Man (‘41), Smile (and Lucas), Terrifier, Terrifier 2 (and Curtis and Austin!), Spookies, Street Trash, Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Deadstream (and Lucas and Curtis!), Night of the Demon (‘57), Tarantula (‘55), The Omen (‘76), The Orphanage, Gozu, Let the Right One In, A Tale of Two Sisters, The Haunting (‘63), Re-Animator, The Devil’s Backbone, November, Nazareno Cruz y El Lobo, This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Laughs, Dracula (Spanish), Hubie Halloween (and Curtis!), Rosemary’s Baby, Cabin in the Woods, House of 1,000 Corpses, The VVitch, Mr. Vampire, Werewolf by Night (and Curtis!), Fearless Vampire Killers, and the BeWAUGHnd Fest screenings of The Guest, Scream 2, Road House, and Near Dark (w/ Curtis and Lucas), Bones and All (and Curtis!). Lucas - Barbarian. Curtis - Halloween 4, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula, Dracula A.D. 1972, Halloween III, Hell House LLC, Blair Witch, Black Adam, Hellraiser (‘87), Death Becomes Her, Poltergeist (‘82), Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, Resurrection, Banshees of Inisherin, and Everything Everywhere All At Once. Austin - The Descent, Army of Darkness, Jennifer’s Body, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Exorcist, Nope, Drag Me To Hell, John Carpenter’s Vampire, and Bodies Bodies Bodies.

 

1:13:30ish - 2:04:10ish DEMONS & DEMONS 2 - SHUDdown and discussion.

 

2:04:10ish - End - Our next movie!

Phantasm

We're back from Halloween in our physical bodies but not in our eternal spirits! If you're still feeling the haunted hangover of the most glorious of holidays, get a nice little chaser of chills and hear about our October delights as we went through them. Spoilers, there was a lot of Beyond Fest. Or if you're already yearning for the Yule, skip right ahead to our discussion on the classic indie, PHANTASM!

 

 

00:00 - 7:00ish Intros - We did Beyond Fest! Curtis and Cody saw each other A LOT.

 

7:00ish - 40:40ish What we saw at Beyond Fest! RRR, Trick ‘r Treat, Family Dinner, Blood Relatives, Hellraiser (‘22), Christmas Bloody Christmas, Werewolf By Night, Sick, The Beyond - Composer’s Cut, Kids Vs. Aliens, A Wounded Fawn, and Something in the Dirt. Hi John and Max! Do you guys listen? Cool!

 

40:40ish - 1:30:20ish What else we watched this time! Austin - Monster’s Ball (*shrugs*), Rosemary’s Baby, Ghoulies, and Barbarian. Lucas - Monster: Dahmer, 31, and The Devil’s Rejects. Curtis - Bros, The Munsters, The Devils (Uncut - with Cody and it was glorious), and Blow Out. Cody - Orphan, Orphan: First Kill, Dracula’s Daughter, The Pit and the Pendulum (‘91), Hocus Pocus 2, The Raven (‘35), The Mummy (‘32), The Invisible Man (‘33), and Terrifer 2 (we’ll all get to it at a certain point).

 

1:30:20ish - 2:19:25ish PHANTASM - SHUDdown and discussion.

 

2:19:25ish - End - Our next movie!