My Bloody Podcast

This week, for Episode #193, Bryan Kluger, Preston Barta, and Chelsea Nicole point their flashlights skyward toward Steven Spielberg’s 2005 alien panic attack, War of the Worlds. With Spielberg’s latest blockbuster, Disclosure Day, currently vacuuming up box-office dollars, the trio revisits what may be the director’s meanest film in a post-9/11 nightmare disguised as a summer popcorn movie.

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For Episode #192, however, something unusual happens. They hated the movie.

Not in the performative internet sense, where outrage is monetized, and every disappointment is treated like a constitutional crisis. No, this was genuine horror-fan heartbreak. The film in question is Scream 7, the latest entry in a franchise that has spent nearly three decades cleverly mocking nostalgia before eventually becoming trapped inside it.

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For Episode #191, Bryan and Preston sink their teeth into the glorious 2002 relic Queen of the Damned, the film that gave us Aaliyah as the impossibly cool vampire queen Akasha and Stuart Townsend as Lestat, replacing Tom Cruise's version of the character with considerably more eyeliner and approximately three hundred percent more Hot Topic energy. Revisiting the film today feels a bit like opening a time capsule filled with black nail polish, chain wallets, and a burned CD labeled "Korn Mix."

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In Episode #190, the pair descend into the deeply perspiring nightmare of Magic from 1978, a film in which Anthony Hopkins gives one of the most alarming performances of the 1970s, armed with nothing more than a ventriloquist dummy, emotional repression, and the posture of a man who has not slept since Watergate.

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This time, Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta welcome the ever-game Mena Suvari, who arrives bearing fangs and stories from her new film, Vampires of the Velvet Lounge. Suvari, who first scorched herself into the pop-culture psyche in American Pie and later drifted, ghostlike and unforgettable, through American Beauty, has since built the sort of career that zigzags cheerfully between cult oddities and studio landmarks, stops along the way including Sugar & Spice, Loser, and Spun.

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In Episode #189, Bryan and Preston welcome filmmaker Paul Boyd for a lively autopsy of his career, from directing music videos for Shania Twain to his latest horror film, Scared to Death. The conversation inevitably wanders into the haunted corridors of The Shining, a film the podcast has tackled before but now revisits with the benefit of 2026 hindsight. Does it still scare? Does the drama hold up? Are we still unnerved by that carpet pattern, or have we simply grown accustomed to it?

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On this episode, we sit down with the indestructible Lin Shaye,  a woman who has stared into more cinematic abysses than most of us have stared into our refrigerators as we discuss her latest plunge into the macabre, Scared to Death. Shaye, who long ago achieved the status of horror’s benevolent high priestess, approaches terror not as a gimmick but as a craft that is calibrated, precise, and just mischievous enough to enjoy the absurdity of explaining an ancient curse with the calm authority of someone giving directions to the nearest Starbucks.

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In Episode No. 188, Bryan and Preston decamp to a luxurious house in the middle of nowhere, because nothing bad ever happens there to sip wine, fork into chocolate cake, and discuss Keeper, the 2025 film from Osgood Perkins. Yes, that Osgood Perkins who is the man behind The Monkey, The Blackcoat's Daughter, and Longlegs, which is a filmography that, for Bryan, has inspired less devotion than a kind of fascinated despair. Perkins is, in Bryan’s telling, the director he loves to hate, a craftsman of atmosphere who, in Bryan’s view, has yet to craft something he actually enjoys.

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On Episode #187, Bryan and Preston retreat to the great outdoors, which is never a wise decision in horror, to revisit Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever (2002), which is the film that announced Roth as a new maestro of cinematic misery.

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As with all episodes of My Bloody Podcast, order eventually collapses. Chelsea yells, then cries, sometimes simultaneously. Preston patiently excavates the humanity buried inside the horror. Bryan, true to form, steers the conversation toward naked tits, because someone has to keep things honest. It’s a triple-threat episode. It's funny, thoughtful, and just unhinged enough to feel alive. Listen everywhere, preferably with the lights low and your heart slightly open.

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