Brains & Blood

Brains & Blood, a horror film review podcast.

SPOILER WARNING: We keep the first few minutes spoiler-free, with our one-sentence verdicts and the film facts. When you hear the spoiler bell, we dissect the whole film, ending included. Haven't seen it? Stop at the bell, watch it, then come back.

In this episode, the Coroner and the Scream Queen tune in to Poltergeist, the 1982 haunted house movie that turned a brand-new suburb, a closet and a TV full of static into a nightmare. Forty-plus years and a PG rating later, how scary is it, really? After the spoiler bell we get the ending explained, then run it through the Brains & Blood scoring system: one score for the craft, one for the scream.

The Toe Tag

• Film: Poltergeist (1982)
• Directed by: Tobe Hooper; story by Steven Spielberg, who co-wrote and produced
• Starring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Beatrice Straight and Zelda Rubinstein
• Studios: MGM and SLM Production Group, with Amblin; distributed by MGM/UA
• Released: June 4, 1982
• Budget and box office: $10.7M budget; about $121.7M worldwide
• Cause of death: supernatural horror, a haunted house in a brand-new suburb
• Where to watch: Streaming on HBO Max, plus rent or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home

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Brains & Blood, a horror film review podcast.

SPOILER WARNING: We keep the first few minutes spoiler-free, with our one-sentence verdicts and the film facts. When you hear the spoiler bell, we dissect the whole film, ending included. Haven't seen it? Stop at the bell, watch it, then come back.

In this episode, the Coroner and the Scream Queen sit down with The Sixth Sense, the 1999 ghost story about a boy with a secret and the doctor trying to reach him. Twenty-seven years on, how scary is it when everyone thinks they already know it? After the spoiler bell we get the ending explained, clue by clue, then run it through the Brains & Blood scoring system: one score for the craft, one for the scream.

The Toe Tag

• Film: The Sixth Sense (1999)
• Written and directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
• Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams and Donnie Wahlberg
• Studios: Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment and The Kennedy/Marshall Company; distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
• Released: Premiered in Philadelphia on August 2, 1999; U.S. theaters August 6, 1999
• Budget and box office: About $40M budget; about $672.8M worldwide
• Cause of death: supernatural horror, a ghost story told from the therapist's chair
• Where to watch: Streaming on Netflix, Hulu and Apple TV, plus rent or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home

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Brains & Blood, a horror film review podcast.

SPOILER WARNING: We keep the first few minutes spoiler-free, with our one-sentence verdicts and the film facts. When you hear the spoiler bell, we dissect the whole film, ending included. Haven't seen it? Stop at the bell, watch it, then come back.

In this episode, the Coroner and the Scream Queen lock themselves in Outpost 31 with John Carpenter's The Thing, the 1982 shapeshifter movie critics buried and fans brought back from the ice. Is it still worth watching more than forty years later, or did the critics have a point? After the spoiler bell we get the ending explained, then run it through the Brains & Blood scoring system: one score for the craft, one for the scream.

The Toe Tag

• Film: The Thing (1982)
• Directed by: John Carpenter; screenplay by Bill Lancaster, from John W. Campbell Jr.'s Who Goes There?
• Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Dysart, Richard Masur and Donald Moffat
• Studios: Universal Pictures and The Turman-Foster Company, distributed by Universal
• Released: U.S. theaters June 25, 1982
• Budget and box office: About $15M budget; about $19.6M in its first run
• Cause of death: sci-fi body horror, a shapeshifter at an Antarctic base
• Where to watch: Streaming on Prime Video and AMC+, plus rent or buy on Apple TV and Fandango at Home

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Brains & Blood, a horror film review podcast.

SPOILER WARNING: We keep the first few minutes spoiler-free, with our one-sentence verdicts and the film facts. When you hear the spoiler bell, we dissect the whole film, ending included. Haven't seen it? Stop at the bell, watch it, then come back.

In this episode, the Coroner and the Scream Queen move into the Perron farmhouse for The Conjuring, the James Wan haunting sold as a true story from the case files of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Thirteen years and a whole horror universe later, how scary is it, really? We run it through the Brains & Blood scoring system: one score for the craft, one for the scream.

The Toe Tag

• Film: The Conjuring (2013)
• Directed by: James Wan; written by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes
• Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston and Joey King
• Studios: New Line Cinema, The Safran Company and Evergreen Media Group, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
• Released: Premiered July 15, 2013 at the Cinerama Dome; U.S. theaters July 19, 2013
• Budget and box office: $20M budget; about $319.5M worldwide
• Cause of death: supernatural horror, a haunted farmhouse sold as a true case file
• Where to watch: Streaming on HBO Max, plus rent or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home

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Brains & Blood, a horror film review podcast.

SPOILER WARNING: We keep the first few minutes spoiler-free, with our one-sentence verdicts and the film facts. When you hear the spoiler bell, we dissect the whole film, ending included. Haven't seen it? Stop at the bell, watch it, then come back.

In this episode, the Coroner and the Scream Queen sit down with Clayface, DC's first R-rated body horror movie, where an Oscar-nominated actor trades his ruined face for an experimental cure that won't hold its shape. Is Clayface worth watching, or just a gross-out with a Batman logo on it? After the spoiler bell we get the Clayface ending explained, then run it through the Brains & Blood scoring system: one score for the craft, one for the scream.

The Toe Tag

• Film: Clayface (2026)
• Directed by: James Watkins; screenplay by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini
• Starring: Tom Rhys Harries, Naomi Ackie, Max Minghella, David Dencik and Eddie Marsan
• Studios: DC Studios and 6th & Idaho, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
• Released: Premiered in Los Angeles on October 13, 2026; U.S. theaters October 23, 2026
• Budget and box office: About $40–44 million budget; $46.5 million worldwide so far
• Cause of death: body horror, a Batman villain origin story with no Batman
• Where to watch: In theaters now; streaming date not yet announced

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Brains & Blood, a horror film review podcast.

SPOILER WARNING: We keep the first few minutes spoiler-free, with our one-sentence verdicts and the film facts. When you hear the spoiler bell, we dissect the whole film, ending included. Haven't seen it? Stop at the bell, watch it, then come back.

In this episode, the Coroner and the Scream Queen climb the stairs to Regan's room for The Exorcist, the 1973 possession film with a fifty-year reputation as the scariest movie ever made. So how scary is it today, and how much of the 1949 true story behind it made it to the screen? We run it through the Brains & Blood scoring system: one score for the craft, one for the scream.

The Toe Tag

• Film: The Exorcist (1973)
• Directed by: William Friedkin; written by William Peter Blatty from his novel
• Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow and Lee J. Cobb
• Studios: Hoya Productions, distributed by Warner Bros.
• Released: December 26, 1973; Extended Director's Cut released in 2000
• Budget and box office: About $12M budget; about $429M worldwide with re-releases; 10 Oscar nominations, 2 wins
• Cause of death: supernatural horror, demonic possession
• Where to watch: Streaming on HBO Max (leaving around the end of October 2026, plus rent or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home

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Brains & Blood, a horror film review podcast.

SPOILER WARNING: We keep the first few minutes spoiler-free, with our one-sentence verdicts and the film facts. When you hear the spoiler bell, we dissect the whole film, ending included. Haven't seen it? Stop at the bell, watch it, then come back.

In this episode, the Coroner and the Scream Queen head back to a fundamentalist compound with Diabolic, the Australian religious horror about a woman whose blackouts lead her back to the church that cast her out. Is it a slow-burn keeper or a sermon that runs long? We run it through the Brains & Blood scoring system: one score for the craft, one for the scream.

The Toe Tag

• Film: Diabolic (2025)
• Directed by: Daniel J. Phillips
• Starring: Elizabeth Cullen, John Harlan Kim, Mia Challis, Robin Goldsworthy and Genevieve Mooy
• Studios: Empire Road Pictures and SunJive Studios, distributed by Brainstorm Media in the U.S.
• Released: Australia November 20, 2025; U.S. select theaters February 13, 2026, on demand February 20, 2026
• Budget and box office: Budget unverified; about $987,000 worldwide
• Cause of death: religious possession horror
• Where to watch: Rent or buy on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV and Google Play

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Brains & Blood, a horror film review podcast.

SPOILER WARNING: We keep the first few minutes spoiler-free, with our one-sentence verdicts and the film facts. When you hear the spoiler bell, we dissect the whole film, ending included. Haven't seen it? Stop at the bell, watch it, then come back.

In this episode, the Coroner and the Scream Queen follow seventeen missing third graders into Zach Cregger's Weapons, the mystery told one neighbor at a time that turned a $38 million budget into a $270 million hit. Is Weapons worth watching a year after the hype? After the spoiler bell we get the Weapons ending explained, then run it through the Brains & Blood scoring system: one score for the craft, one for the scream.

The Toe Tag

• Film: Weapons (2025)
• Written and directed by: Zach Cregger
• Starring: Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong and Amy Madigan
• Studios: New Line Cinema, Subconscious, Vertigo Entertainment and BoulderLight Pictures, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
• Released: In U.S. theaters August 8, 2025
• Budget and box office: $38M budget; about $270M worldwide
• Cause of death: supernatural mystery horror
• Where to watch: Streaming on HBO Max, plus rent or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home

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Brains & Blood, a horror film review podcast.

SPOILER WARNING: We keep the first few minutes spoiler-free, with our one-sentence verdicts and the film facts. When you hear the spoiler bell, we dissect the whole film, ending included. Haven't seen it? Stop at the bell, watch it, then come back.

In this episode, the Coroner and the Scream Queen ride along with a medical courier on the worst delivery of his life in Zach Cregger's Resident Evil, the reboot that just became the best-reviewed video game movie ever. Is it a Brains & Blood classic or dead on arrival? We run it through the Brains & Blood scoring system: one score for the craft, one for the scream.

The Toe Tag

• Film: Resident Evil (2026)
• Directed by: Zach Cregger (written by Zach Cregger and Shay Hatten)
• Starring: Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Kali Reis and Zach Cherry
• Studios: Columbia Pictures, Constantin Film and PlayStation Productions, distributed by Sony Pictures
• Released: U.S. theaters September 18, 2026
• Budget and box office: $75M budget; about $196.5M worldwide as of late September
• Cause of death: survival horror, one courier and one package in Raccoon City
• Where to watch: In theaters now; streaming date not yet announced

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Brains & Blood, a horror film review podcast.

SPOILER WARNING: We keep the first few minutes spoiler-free, with our one-sentence verdicts and the film facts. When you hear the spoiler bell, we dissect the whole film, ending included. Haven't seen it? Stop at the bell, watch it, then come back.

In this episode, the Coroner and the Scream Queen open the closet on Other Mommy, Rob Savage's supernatural horror film with Jessica Chastain as a mother and the thing that wears her face. Is it a Brains & Blood classic, or a monster that should have stayed in the closet? We run it through the Brains & Blood scoring system: one score for the craft, one for the scream.

The Toe Tag

• Film: Other Mommy (2026)
• Directed by: Rob Savage; screenplay by Nathan Elston, from Josh Malerman's novel Incidents Around the House
• Starring: Jessica Chastain, Arabella Olivia Clark, Jay Duplass, Dichen Lachman, Arian Moayed and Karen Allen
• Studios: Atomic Monster, Blumhouse and Spin a Black Yarn, produced by James Wan, distributed by Universal Pictures
• Released: In U.S. theaters October 9, 2026
• Cause of death: supernatural horror, the monster in the closet wearing Mom's face
• Where to watch: In theaters now

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