Iconic Scream Queen Brinke Stevens joins Sam and Casey to discuss her latest project, Ed Kemper (2025), a true crime horror film about the infamous “Co-Ed Killer.” Stevens portrays Sally Hallett, Kemper’s final victim before his incarceration. We dive into the period setting—which lead to Brinke driving her dream car, the instant camaraderie with her castmates, and why this film is a bit of an outlier in her vast filmography.

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Things are getting monstrous in the basement this week as Sam and Casey discuss a rip roaring double feature! First, they dive into RAWHEAD REX (1986), the deliriously entertaining B-movie based on a Clive Barker story—and their screening of it at the Sioux Falls State Theatre. Then, they laugh through a conversation on PSYCHO GOREMAN (2020), a modern splatter comedy masterpiece. Monster fans, this one’s for you!Screams by Night | Halfway to Halloween Con: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screams-by-night-halfway-to-halloween-con-tickets-1113175009419PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasementMERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA AFFILIATE LINK: https://www.shop.fangoria.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENTTERPBOYS AFFILIATE LINK: https://www.buyterpboys.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENTPODSOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/screamsfromthebasementpodInstagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/screamsfromthebasementpod/Threads: https://www.threads.net/@screamsfromthebasementpodBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sftbpod.bsky.socialTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@screamsfromthebasement

The Fetus stars Terrifier's Lauren LaVera as Alessa in a story about a failing relationship only getting worse when Alessa begins to experience all 9 months of pregnancy is the span of 24 hours. We are joined by the film's writer and director to chat about creating the concept of The Fetus, working with LaVera and horror icon Bill Moseley, and developing the insane special FX makeup featured in the film. The Fetus is now in theaters, get your tickets at https://thefetusfilm.com/

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Who doesn't love a good urban legend? One of our favorite settings for a horror story is a lighthouse, so why not chat about two horror films set at lighthouses! On this episode we chat about John Carpenter's seminal classic The Fog starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau, and Janet Leight AND the much maligned killer tooth fairy film Darkness Falls! Screams by Night | Halfway to Halloween Con: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screams-by-night-halfway-to-halloween-con-tickets-1113175009419PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ScreamsfromtheBasementMERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/screams-from-the-basement FANGORIA AFFILIATE LINK: https://www.shop.fangoria.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENTTERPBOYS AFFILIATE LINK: https://www.buyterpboys.com/SCREAMSFROMTHEBASEMENTPODSOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/screamsfromthebasementpodInstagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/screamsfromthebasementpod/Threads: https://www.threads.net/@screamsfromthebasementpodBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sftbpod.bsky.socialTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@screamsfromthebasement

Screams from the Basement is joined on this episode by writer/director Jamie Langlands and actress Meghan Adara to chat about Jamie's feature directorial debut, The Cellar. The Cellar follows Abigail (Adara) who has been kidnapped an placed inside a mysterious cellar by a number of masked individuals, now Abigail must find out how she got their and who's behind all of this in this supernatural, psychological thriller.

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Monkey see, monkey do. We saw The Monkey, how about you? On this episode of the Screams from the Basement Podcast, hosts Sam and Casey monkey around as they chat Oz Perkin's gore-gag a minute 2025 new release The Monkey, and George A. Romero's underrated Monkey Shines! Grab a banana and bang a drum for this MONKEY themed DOUBLE FEATURE!

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For 50 years Lloyd Kaufman's Troma Entertainment has been creating disruptive entertainment, including cult classics The Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet, and Poultrygeist. Now the famed independent studio is putting it's hands all across America with the "Hands Across Tromerica" Tour featuring today's guest, Brandon Bassham and his anthology Bring on the Damned! Bring on the Damned! features 5 tales of perversion, debauchery, murder, and mystery through 5 different film genre's!

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Love (and murder) is in the dank basement air! Sam and Casey are celebrating Valentine’s Day with a horror-romance double feature! First up is Guillermo del Toro’s gothic period piece, Crimson Peak (2015), followed by Anna Biller’s Hammer horror throwback, The Love Witch (2016). This double feature is sure to appeal to the horrific romantic in everyone!

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Joining us in the Basement, no not a creepy one with a female mannequin like this movie, are director Jason Zink and writer Nolan Mihail to chat about their feature film Looky-loo. Looky-loo is a found footage film told the POV of a burgeoning serial killer.

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Hosts Sam and Casey take a dive into previously unexplored territory, filling in a major blind spot for both of them—the films of David Lynch. First, they discuss Lynch’s feature debut, 1977’s Eraserhead in all of its paternal anxiety. Then, they move onto Blue Velvet, Lynch’s suburban noir about the seedy underside of small town America.

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