S.H.U.D.cast

Hellbender

As Winter death rattles into Spring and Summer licks its tasty chops eyeballing its oncoming vernal meal, so does the SHUDcast return with another ritualistic review. The boys put on their outdoor pants and go on a foraging mission to gather dried sticks and other detritus in order to properly discuss the SHUDDER Original, HELLBENDER. Along the way we discuss the evolution of COVID seasons, Austin’s trip to Broadway, and teach Cody a bevy of filmmaking techniques so he may ascertain this fine art of Cinema. Grab a dried fruit of your choice and hex the world around you as you dig in to this witchy episode!

 

00:00 - 13:30ish Intros. We discuss which season the show is in and how it probably lines up with COVID seasons, reminiscing on COVID season 1, and how the seafaring folk talked to us at Austin’s bachelor party.

 

13:30ish -  49:00ish  What we watched this week! Halloween Kills (again and again), Stand By Me, The Brood (or at least partially), Blade Runner 2049, Kubo and the Two Strings (with some enhancement), Coraline, Everything Everywhere All At Once (the first of many you’ll hear about from us), Pig, The Gentlemen, Wrath of Man, The Lost City, Hellraiser, Hellraiser 2, Turning Red, Dark Shadows, and Yellowjackets. In other mediums, Cody went to a couple of concerts and saw AFI and Baroness while Austin went to actual Broadway and saw Dear Evan Hansen and Six, and Curtis went to fake Broadway with Joel Schumacher’s Phantom of the Opera.

 

49:00ish -    HELLBENDER SHUDdown and discussion

The Wicker Man (1973)

Gather ‘round the Maypole, ye Summery lads and lasses as the SHUDcast takes a pilgrimage to pagan utopia and we discuss the 1973 classic, THE WICKER MAN. In this giant, wicker effigy-sized episode, which we recorded after a long hiatus (which you didn’t experience in our releasing schedule), we go over lots and lots and lots of fun titles that we caught up on as well as our long-awaited discussion (which was featured in our ShhhUDcast mini-ep recently) on Matt Reeves’ THE BATMAN. In the middle of it all, we finally discover what Cody’s ultimate kink is and, frankly, we were all surprised and not at the same time. So settle in, grab your crisp, hallucinogenic beverage of choice, and go on this journey of discovery with us!

 

00:00 - 13:30ish Intros! What life has been like – we’re fake sponsored by HomeState Texas Kitchen in Los Angeles and Liquid Death water now. Lucas discusses trucker paradise, Bucky’s. It had been a hot minute for us even if there was no pause in your glorious releasing schedule so Cody decided to rank his friends based on how much he missed us.

 

13:30ish - 1:09:00ish What we watched over the last 6 weeks! Moonfall, Pan’s Labyrinth, Halloween Kills (Lucas finally did it!), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (‘22), the rest of the Texas Chainsaws as well (Curtis went whole hog), Turning Red (because we are men of multitudes), The Purge: Anarchy, Schindler’s List (Austin’s wife, Kaylin had COVID and she picked the movies for a minute… they’re WILD), Gladiator, My Cousin Vinny, Philadelphia, Malcolm X, Kingsman 1 & 2, Phantasm 1 & 2, The Cursed, Studio 666, Fresh, X, The Lord of the Rings Extended Editions (Lucas had a week), Hellraiser III, Fantastic Beasts 1 & 2, Yellowjackets, and then…

 

1:09:00ish - 1:35:00ish THE BATMAN. Three of us had seen Matt Reeves’ new Bat-flick three times before this discussion and we go DEEP. It’s horror-adjacent so don’t hate on us too much while we go through our emo leather and body armor phase.

 

1:35:00ish -   THE WICKER MAN.

The Batman: A ShhhUDcast mini-episode

Shhh… keep it secret… this mini-episode is brought to you by all the goodness we stuff into our eyeballs that may or may not come from platforms other than our streaming savior, Shudder. Upon recording an upcoming episode on 1973’s THE WICKER MAN, we went long and hard regarding a recent release that we couldn’t idly let rest inside our larger episode discussion.

 

So with Matt Reeves’ THE BATMAN, so is born the ShhhUDcast mini-episode! In these monstrous morsels you’ll hear about a title that we didn’t all discover on Shudder, but felt it integral for all you dear listeners to hear about anyway! Just, don’t tell Shudder… Or do! They’re not paying us (yet) and we could use them feeling like we’re seeing other streamers and want to enter an exclusive relationship with us.

 

So please enjoy this very animated, kink-enlightening discussion on THE BATMAN

Queen Of The Damned

This week on the SHUDcast we dive into our listener shoutouts for those faithful who have interacted with us on any, and we mean any, and all social platforms, dig up our personas during the MTV millennial era, and wash it all down with the our discussion of the flagbearer for the most specific time period for nu metal goths, QUEEN OF THE DAMNED. Check us out next time as we get into the seminal 1973 classic, THE WICKER MAN.

Prisoners Of The Ghostland

You thought you were free of us! We boys of the SHUD-cast have spent the beginnings of our 2022 racking up a bevy of delicious horror-based cinema discussion for your listening displeasure. Hear us as we reconvene for the first time since November and talk about the myriad of movies Curtis watched at the end of 2021, our personal SCREAM franchise rankings, how Cody is coping with finally quitting smoking, and finally, our thoughts and feelings on one of the newest films from our Patron Saint of Cinema, Nicolas Cage, in PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND (disclaimer at the top about how Sion Sono is a piece of human excrement).

Year In Re-Spew 2021

Folks, friends, brethren and sistren(?) we’ve come to the end of another year of living, loving, and more importantly, SHUDcasting. It’s been quite the haunted journey and you’ve stuck with us through thin and thinner and for that we appreciate each and every one of you. Take a listen to our final episode of the year where we reflect on the people we’ve become, the times we’ve enjoyed (and hated) at the theater again, Cody’s astonishing knowledge of Jonathan Larson, and watch our enjoyment and excitement as we share each of our top 5 horror movies in 2021. Show us your list too! Do you love MALIGNANT? Did Titane make your orifices pucker? Let us know and catch us at the top of 2022!

Spiral (2019)

Like Arnold Schwarzenegger at a Black Friday sale at a toy store, we are back JUST in time for the holidays! Join us in our penultimate episode of the year as we discuss what our Patreon tiers should be, Austin getting married, how discussions with Uber drivers have changed, Cody taking a “break from horror” while we all explain his broodiness to him, Lucas getting in a fight on a “Hype Beast” post (The three of us are as confused as you might be), how Curtis shouldn’t push buttons on the podcast machine, and this week’s Shudder film, SPIRAL. Tune in in two weeks as we close out the year with our top five horrors of 2021 lists. Share yours in the meantime!

Carrie

Cody and Lucas learn what a flea circus is.

 

00:00 - 11:00ish Cody’s flea circus

 

11:00ish - 26:00ish Our excursion to Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood

 

26:00ish -  What we watched this week: ALL: MALIGNANT. Austin: The Hunt, Satanic Panic, Candyman (‘21), Predators, Evil Dead, and Ash vs. Evil Dead. Curtis: Lifeforce, Jungle Cruise, The Raid 2, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (‘03), King Arthur and the Legend of the Sword, and From Dusk til Dawn. Lucas: Midnight Mass, and Squid Game. Cody: An American Werewolf in London, Bride of Chucky, Who Can Kill a Child, Corpse Bride, 6 of the Frankenstein movies, Poltergeist, Blood Red Sky, and May the Devil Take You.

 

1:06:00ish -  Carrie. SHUDdown and discussion.

Frankenhooker

What animal would Cody not want in the room with him.Curtis lists off his top ten MCU movies. Cody and Curtis lose themselves gushing over the Scream movies. Austin makes his feelings known about Dune. We invite over Die Antwoord. Cody delivers his second straight manifesto with Frank Henenlotter’s FRANKENHOOKER. Also fuck the MPA

A Field In England

It’s time to grab a handful of your favorite poisonous fungus and take a trip back to 17th century England as the SHUD-crew attempts to navigate Ben Wheatley’s hallucinogenic tale of friendship and venereal disease, A FIELD IN ENGLAND. We let Cody go full Cody as he attempts to guide us, not unlike a metaphysical shaman, through the quagmire with his manifesto of madness. Austin takes revelry (as do we all) in seeing how many bits Cody can misunderstand. Lucas surprises the group with some nature facts. And Curtis yells about Halloween: H20. So, things are normal...