My Bloody Podcast

On Episode #178 of My Bloody Podcast, three horror aficionados do what any sensible millennials facing sky-high real estate prices would never dare. They metaphorically buy a house, albeit a haunted one. Their choice? The colonial fixer-upper from The Conjuring (2013), a property that’s been terrifying audiences for twelve years and is now worth, one assumes, at least three exorcisms over asking. With The Conjuring: Last Rites currently summoning millions at the box office, Bryan, Preston, and Chelsea decided to revisit the film that started it all, to see if its scares still rattle bones in 2025 the way they did back in 2013.

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Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta of Dallas, Texas, two men who can quote John Carpenter faster than they can recite their social security numbers, sat down with Canadian filmmaker Sean Cisterna, whose polite menace belies his latest creation: Silver Screamers. The documentary, which will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, follows Sean as he wrangles a group of senior citizens into making a short horror film. Yes, you read that right. Seniors. Horror. Blood, guts, monsters, and Werther’s Originals, hand in hand.

During the conversation, Bryan and Preston pull up the metaphorical rug and shake out all the delightful dust bunnies. How Sean convinced retirees to swap knitting needles for fake blood, which movies he made them watch for “research” (spoiler: there were screams), and the unexpectedly tender moments that come from watching a group of octogenarians learn how to chop up a prop body on cue. It’s equal parts funny, sweet, and unexpectedly moving.

It's a little like if The Golden Girls had been directed by George Romero. Trust us, you’re going to want to find Silver Screamers as soon as you can. After all, it’s not every day you see grandma wielding a chainsaw and living her best life.

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Episode #177 of My Bloody Podcast begins like a bad idea. The kind that usually ends with a bottle of whiskey, an Amazon rental receipt, and an apology text the next morning. Instead, it ends with four grown adults: Bryan, Preston, Chelsea, and our honorary demon-fighting deputy of the law Dan, watching an animated, family-friendly Netflix film about a K-pop girl group battling literal demons from hell.

This is, to be clear, not our usual habitat. Our show’s natural ecosystem involves blood-spattered cult classics, midnight screenings of obscure Italian slashers, and debates over whether John Carpenter deserves sainthood (spoiler: he does). But when Dan, our resident lawman of Texas and self-appointed Cultural Scout of the Youths insisted that K-Pop Demon Hunters was “taking the world by storm,” we decided to investigate. After all, we like to pretend we’re not old, especially Chelsea.

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On episode #176 of My Bloody Podcast, Bryan and Preston do what any respectable horror nerds would do with a free evening: they crack open the vault of 1988 and rewatch The Blob. Yes, that Blob, the pink gelatinous asshole that slithered into small-town America, dissolved kitchen line cooks, and still somehow lost to Kevin Dillon in a leather jacket. (The mullet, it turns out, is a formidable weapon.)

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By now, one would assume Death has better things to do. But no, on the 175th episode of My Bloody Podcast, Bryan, Preston, and Chelsea throw themselves once again into the open arms of the Final Destination franchise, which, against all odds and cinematic laws of nature, has reached its seventh entry, subtitled Bloodlines. Seven! At this point, the Grim Reaper ought to be eligible for a SAG card.

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On the 174th episode of My Bloody Podcast, Bryan, Preston, Chelsea, and Dan set out to solve the great cinematic mystery of the week: the missing kids in Weapons, the new box office monarch from director Zach Cregger. This is no ordinary missing-persons case. It’s equal parts belly laugh and bloodbath, the kind of tonal tightrope act that makes you chuckle at a perfectly timed joke, only to have that laughter die in your throat when something unspeakable happens to the person telling it.

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After a month-long sabbatical devoted to fireworks, hot dogs, and the peculiar patriotism of horror fandom (because nothing says “Independence” like a masked killer with a machete), the goblin hosts of My Bloody Podcast have returned, caffeinated, feral, and slightly sunburned, to once again invade your eardrums with Episode #173. The break was, in their words, “a celebration of everything America and horror,” which really just meant consuming unhealthy amounts of barbecue while rewatching Jaws and The Purge in equal measure. But now they’re back weekly, relentless, and ready to shove their ghoulish thoughts directly into your brain.

This week, Bryan, Preston, and Chelsea hurl themselves headfirst, greased, and somehow down a pink jelly slide into The Matrix (1999). Sure, it’s not technically horror, but what is horror if not the creeping dread of realizing that reality is a computer simulation, that you’ve been living in a pod your entire life, and that Hugo Weaving, looking like a cursed Rivendell tax auditor, might chase you through a marble lobby while robotic calamari prepare to enter your navel? Also, gruel. Endless, joyless gruel. If Hell has a menu, it’s probably just that bowl of gray paste.

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On Episode #172 of My Bloody Podcast, the trio of hosts; a dino hunter with a flair for the dramatic, a bespectacled paleontology nerd with a heart of amber, and a full-blown dinosaur (emotionally and perhaps literally); strap on their metaphorical fanny packs and head back to Isla Nublar-adjacent to dissect Jurassic World Rebirth, the latest cinematic attempt to resuscitate a franchise that, like its scaly stars, should perhaps have stayed fossilized. The premise of this podcast episode? A battle royale for the soul of Jurassic World, with Chelsea and Preston in one corner, gleefully defending the film’s shiny veneer and genetic tinkering plotlines, and Bryan; a mad genius, cinematic curmudgeon, and part-time chaos theorist in the other, wielding his disdain like a flare in a T. rex paddock.

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There’s a peculiar joy in watching grown adults; who you’d trust to explain the. many facets of Goddard and Spielberg; gleefully debate the difference between rage-infected zombies and the kind that just want to nibble your spleen. Such is the infectious spirit of My Bloody Podcast, which in its 171st episode brings together its trifecta of horror scholars and a special guest, Dan Moran of Fear and Loathing in Cinema; a man who knows his Kevin Costner from his western outfits.

The episode is a love letter; drenched in blood and sentimentality; to 28 Years Later, the long-awaited sequel to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, returning like prodigal horror kings, have finally gifted fans the third act in a saga that forever altered the zombie genre (and likely ruined jogging for everyone back in 2002).

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And what are the horror hounds howling about this week on Episode #170 of My Bloody Podcast? Just the small matter of rage-infected monkeys and the zombie apocalypse as foreseen in 28 Days Later and its arguably traumatized younger cousin, 28 Weeks Later. Yes, it’s all in preparation for 28 Years Later, the long-gestating third installment in a franchise that; like any good zombie; refuses to die.

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