Welcome back to another Horror 101 Podcast. For the 88th show we're featuring Tom Holland's original killer doll film, Child's Play (1988). Starring Chris Sarandon, Catherine Hicks, Brad Dourif and Alex Vincent. Along with giving Child's Play the usual Horror 101 treatment we're adding a small, spoiler-light review of the new remake film which was released June 21st. We'll mention the pros and cons of both films and how they compare. No need for batteries with this show. Join us!

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
04:40 Nood booking our remake tickets...
07:40 The Death of Charles Lee Ray...
10:15 A New Toy...
12:45 Maggie's Perfect Landing...
15:15 "Talk to me, Dammit!!
19:00 Car Attack...
21:21 Voodoo Doll...
24:33 Batter up!
26:45 Chucky's Demise
28:33 Scoring the 1988 film, franchise breakdown...
35:45 2019 spoiler soft review...
48:20 Conclusion and thanks for listening!

Welcome back to the Horror 101 podcast. On this show we're returning to the vampire train. We could have covered Lost Boys but we decided to go the not-so-fluffy route and focused on a more sinister tale of the undead. Three key actors from Aliens (1986) went from outer space to the deep west and helped provide a very unique look at night time predators. Plagued with a failing production company and being released a month within the much more popular Lost Boys, this film was released with very little fanfare and was basically cast by the wayside. In the last few decades it has gained quite the cult following and has become the favourite vampire film of many fans. With memorable performances by Lance Henriksen and the late, great Bill Paxton we offer you the Horror 101 treatment of Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark. Join us!


Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
04:00 Choosing the film for episode 87...
11:20 Jenny Wright (where did you go?)...
15:50 Kidnapped in Broad Daylight...
21:03 The Bar Massacre...
25:40 Godspeed Motel...
28:40 Family Reunion...
30:35 Severen Vs. Truck...
33:27 Burning in Light...
35:35 Cured...
40:35 Scoring the Film...
43:40 Conclusion and Thanks for Listening!

Welcome back to the Horror 101 Podcast. For our 86th show we're spotlighting one of the greatest road thrillers ever made. At the 11th hour we switched our plans of covering Vamp, which would have continued our vampire campaign. We decided to go a different route to focus on a hidden gem. A little Canon/HBO film that wasn't a huge commercial success and flew under the radar when it was released. Undoubtedly, one of the best cast films. Brilliant performances and a smart script makes this film a must see. Some may argue this isn't a horror film but with the amount of dread it dishes out, I say differently. Plus, Rutger Hauer plays one of the best villains ever. It is our pleasure to give the Horror 101 treatment to Robert Harmon's The Hitcher (1986). Join us!

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
04:00 Switching from Vamp to Hitcher...
09:00 "My Mother told me never to do this..."
12:00 Becoming 'The One"
13:10 Family Massacre...
18:00 Framed...
22:10 How do you like Shitsville?
25:15 You Spit on my Wrist...
28:35 I just wanted to help him...
29:40 Truck Conundrum...
32:25 Siskel and Ebert got it wrong...
33:15 "There's something I gotta do..."
34:35 Scoring the Film...
38:45 Conclusion! Thanks for Listening!

Since 1985 was a fantastic year for horror we decided to capitalize off the coincidence that this was our 85th episode and focus on another film from that year. it wasn't easy to pick which movie we wanted to cover. In the end we decided to continue on the Tobe Hooper Vampire Train. We're jumping from 1979's Salem Lot to another film about life suckers and giving the Horror 101 treatment to Hooper's Lifeforce. We'll talk about the recent loss of Joe Pilato and Larry Cohen and introduce you to an ambitious Metal/Horror project thats in the making. Join us!

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
04:00 RIP Joe Pilato...
06:00 RIP Larry Cohen...
07:50 Mike Schiff's Metal/Horror project...
09:30 Introducing Lifeforce...
13:35 Finding life in Halley's Comet...
15:15 Mathilda May as Space Girl...
17:00 They have to feed...
21:10 Vampires of legend...
24:30 Chaos in London...
27:43 The death of Dr. Death...
29:50 The Web of Destiny and finale...
34:25 Scoring the film...
38:50 Conclusion and thanks for listening!

Welcome back to the Horror 101 show! If you had the privilege of growing up in the 70s you might remember a two-part Saturday night special broadcast to your TV in November of 1979. It was a screen adaptation of Stephen King's second novel involving the vampire infestation of a small town, directed by the man that gave us The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Having to adhere to television's strict guidelines of zero gore and profanity, this special was well crafted with an excellent cast and genuine spooks. It was a favourite of ours who grew up watching reruns in the 80s and since it turns 40 this year we're giving the Horror 101 treatment to the original television production of Salem's Lot. Join us!

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
05:00 Introducing Salem's Lot...
11:15 Ben Mears and the house...
13:35 James Mason as Straker...
15:38 Bonnie Bedelia...
17:05 Delivering Barlow...
19:25 Ralphie Glick...
22:12 Exhuming the child...
24:30 Look at me!!
25:40 Mark resists...
28:35 Mrs. Glick's Demise...
30:37 Face the Master!!
35:40 Straker kills and dies...
37:00 Killing Barlow...
40:10 Discussing 2014 version and sequel...
41:15 Scoring the film...
46:55 Conclusion! Thanks for Listening!

Get out your chocolates, flowers, condoms and pickaxes. Its time to celebrate Valentine's Day the only way we know how, through murder and mayhem. This time the Horror 101 crew go back to 1981 to showcase this Canadian slasher film about a killer in full mining gear cleaving his way through the town of Valentine's Bluff. We dissect the Director's Cut of this gory whodunnit in glorious HD. Join us as we give the Horror 101 treatment to George Mihalka's My Bloody Valentine.

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
04:20 Introducing My Bloody Valentine...
06:20 Mihalka's Huge Budget...
08:45 The Director's Cut...
12:00 Wants his Cake and Eat it Too...
14:40 The Telling of the Tale...
16:30 Laundromat Death...
20:50 What Did I miss?
23:00 Shower Massacre...
24:00 Entering the Mine...
26:40 Bargain Basement Lobotomy...
29:05 Decapitation on the Ladder...
31:00 No Spoilers!
33:45 Scoring the Film...
37:30 Siskel and Ebert...
38:55 Conclusion and Thanks for Listening!

Merry Christmas, Folks! We hope you've had your fill of this wonderful holiday time of good tidings and joy cause Horror 101 is about to yank the carpet out from under that shit! Imagine waking up Christmas morning and finding your kids aren't interested in opening their presents. They just want to put you 6 feet under. How would you deal with this situation? For our 82nd podcast we're going to give the Horror 101 treatment to Tom Shankland's 2008 film from BBC studios called The Children, which deals with this scenario. What better way to spend the holidays then to have to defend yourself from your own little whipper snappers! Join us for this special Horror 101 Christmas podcast!

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
04:40 Nood has laryngitis...
07:00 You brought them into this world...
08:30 Infection?
11:00 Child Endangerment? Try Child Threat!
13:30 Sled Mishap...
15:45 Compound Fractures...
16:50 Greenhouse Game Changer...
19:00 At What Point do you Believe?
21:20 Suspense at the Top of the Stairs...
23:30 Car Check...
27:15 Apocalyptic?
30:00 Cash brains his mother...
32:00 Scoring the Film...
36:05 Conclusion! Merry Xmas!!

Welcome back to the Horror 101 Podcast. For this 81st show we're shedding light on one of the scariest films to come out of 1989. In 1983 Stephen King wrote a novel which incorporated a bunch of his personal experiences and wrapped them in a supernatural blanket of evil, violence and despair. By the end of the book he had completely freaked himself out with what he had written and shelved the story but it became a huge best seller anyway. Several years later, Mary Lambert would go on to direct her vision of that story. With a new remake on the horizon and a fantastic 'making of' documentary made last year we've decided to give the Horror 101 treatment to Pet Sematary.

Show highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
05:45 What would scare Stephen King?
07:15 Mark Lambert...
10:30 Jud Crandall...
12:45 The Death of Pascow...
15:30 The Deadfall and Beyond...
19:45 Gage meets Truck...
23:55 Zelda...
28:14 Gage Vs. Jud...
30:20 "Now I want to play with you!"
32:50 Scoring the film...remake coming.
35:35 Conclusion and thanks for listening!

Welcome to our 80th podcast! Just in time for Halloween! We decided to put our money where our mouth is. After giving strong opinions about the relevance and necessity of Halloween 2018 we went to see it and begin this show with some of our thoughts on the new movie. There will be SPOILERS! And since Luca Guadagnino's remake of Suspiria will be hitting theatres in a few days there will never be a better time to cover Argento's fan-favourite original from 1977. This movie has been applauded for decades. It is highly stylized and beautiful to look at but it is not without its flaws. The Nefarious Paul B. joins us once again. Come with us this Halloween as we give a critical treatment to one of the most universally loved genre films in the last 40 years.

Show highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
03:50 Halloween 2018 thoughts (SPOILERS!)
13:55 Intro for Suspiria...
19:17 Stabbed and hanged...
23:55 Hyper realism...
26:30 Do you know anything about....witches?
31:15 Death by Watchdog...
33:35 The Lair of the Black Queen...
35:50 Scoring Suspiria...
39:20 Critical responses...
41:40 The remake of Suspiria and Conclusion!

Greetings listeners! Welcome back to the Horror 101 show. After taking a month off we return to weigh in on the upcoming Halloween 2018 film and what its going to mean after its release. Is it enough that Jamie Lee Curtis is coming back to play Laurie Strode and John Carpenter will be making the music? Does it make sense that this new film will be replacing everything thats come after the original 1978 film? Few sequels are as perfect as Halloween II (1981). It begins the moment the original film left off and it is an exceptional film which concluded an excellent story. And with this new film threatening to remove it from the Myers canon its clear our only act of defiance is to give the Horror 101 treatment to Rick Rosenthal's Part II. We'll be speaking to long time listener Eugene and getting his thoughts. We'll spend some time on what we're expecting from the new movie and retrospecting on Part II. Join us as we defend one of the greatest horror sequels ever made.

Show highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
05:00 Returning for one more show (in this dungeon)
08:20 Few sequels are as perfect...
11:00 Opening Halloween 2 titles...
12:50 Dean Cundey returns...
14:30 The Sheriff's daughter...
16:30 The nurse and Loomis...
19:05 Great suspense...
21:00 Why won't he die?
23:00 Eugene weighs in...
28:30 The #Metoo Halloween
31:25 Scoring Part II
34:45 Conclusion...thanks for listening!