Not Quite Dead

Who you gonna call? Not Quite Dead! 

This beloved 80s mega-hit gets the NQD treatment to kick off Season 8: Horror Comedy! Join us as we weigh scares against laughs and go over the many underrated merits of Rick Moranis. 

Thank you for joining us for Season 7: Vampires! In this finale, we have some fun segments for you: a vampire trait commonality matrix, a genre trivia quiz with a special guest, and a build a vampire craft!

To close out the season, an honest-to-goodness, true vampire horror movie: 30 Days of Night. Cleverly set far in the Northern Hemisphere where a small town is plunged into continuous darkness, 30 Days is actually frightening! No sparkly vamps here, just monsters ready to devour a weak and scared populace. Listen to the NQD gals relish in some true horror in this episode. 

Episode edited by Megan Prior-Pfeifer. Music by Zach Pfeifer.

Slap on your Hot Topic choker and zip up those combat boots - we're going to the Underworld!

Len Wiseman's 2003 Underworld hit all of the goth fantasy movie notes: vampires vs lycans, pleather aplenty, and a moody, kind of weird romance plot. Everyone is wet, everyone is in a corset, and the NQD gals are just wondering where the heck this movie takes place.

These aren't your average teen rebels! They also eat people! Set in idyllic, fictional Santa Carla, California, The Lost Boys wrap beach town vibes, a boyhood coming-of-age story, and 80s culture with the spooky veil of vampirism.

In this episode, we discuss Joel Schumacher's fun career, the conflicting vampire lore posited, and, of course, the Frog Brothers.

Episode edited by Megan Prior-Pfeifer. Music by Zach Pfeifer.

Leaning into multiple genres - superhero, horror, and action - Blade (1998) was a revolutionary counterpoint to other caped crusader fare of the decade. You won't find blood soaked raves in a Batman movie, at the very least.

Listen in as the NQD gals discuss the intersection of monsters and superheroes and the leather obsession of the late 90s.

One Dracula movie, ah ah ah. Two Dracula movies! Ah ah ah. THREE, three Dracula movies, ah ah ah!

This mega episode covers three adaptations of the Dracula novel: Nosferatu, Count Dracula, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. All with varying degrees of fidelity to the book (and acting quality), the Not Quite Dead gals cover the highs and the lowest of lows in these movies (looking at you, Keanu's British accent).

Tell us what your favorite version of Dracula is on the blog or on socials!

Episode edited by Megan Prior-Pfeifer. Music by Zach Pfeifer.

Do you feel like your Christmas movies aren't bizarre enough? Your live action movie is missing the charm of animated sequences? Do you want to see a crew of gingerbread demons attempt to kill a child? Well, you're in the right place!

Krampus, the remarkably well-rated Christmas horror comedy, stars some of our all-time faves: Toni Collette, Adam Scott, and David Koechner. It features the eponymous Austro-Bavarian folklore monster that punishes naughty children, plus its gang of demented Christmas demons terrorizing a family into loving each other.

Episode edited by Cate Smith. Music by Zach Pfeifer.

A sorority Christmas horror story with multi-dimensional female characters and delightful montages of ultra-violence make the Black Christmas (2019) remake a fun, festive movie. Riley and her closest sorority sisters are staying at Hawthorne College over winter break, but their seasonal cheer is threatened as girls start disappearing.

Listen in to this very special episode and get in the Christmas slasher spirit.