S.H.U.D.cast

Another year, another 4 lists, another 2+ hours of argument and joy, another wildly expansive set of music recommendations from Cody. That’s right, it’s our annual YEAR IN RE-SPEW!!! We break down our top 10 horror movies of 2025 and while you might think you know where we’re going (and honestly, we do that too), you could also never, ever know. Thank you all for another horrifically delightful year from all of us at the SHUDcast!

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00:00 - 8:30ish - Intros: Our favorite SHUDcast episodes of the year

8:30ish - 1:32:00ish - Our top 10 horror movies of 2025!

1:32:00ish - End - Cody’s top 10 (plus plus plus) albums of the year!

Shh… said no one ever on this show. We dig into one of horror’s most favorite brains as we discuss Mike Flanagan’s 2016 home invasion classic, HUSH, on week three of “RAW and UnSENSEored” Horror Movies About the Senses as picked by Curtis. We also cover a TON of our late Halloween watches as well as seeing Big Daddy Carpenter in the flesh and a particular baseball team winning something.

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00:00 - 6:00ish - Intros: Prince or Cody?

6:00ish - 56:30ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Curtis - Predator: Badlands, The Old Dark House, Witchfinder General, Night of the Juggler, Wick is Pain, The Running Man, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Frankenstein, Materialists, Abraham’s Boys, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Breathless, Nouvelle Vague, Best In Show, Big Trouble in Little China, Christine, Pieces, Sinners, Miami Connection, Demons, Nosferatu, Nope

Austin - Friendship, It: Chapter 2

Cody - Predator: Badlands, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Home Alone, Excalibur, Kull the Conquerer, The Sword and the Stone, Harry Potter 1-2, Wicked: For Good, Paddington, Warcraft

Lucas - Charlie’s Angels (2000), The Smashing Machine, Ready Player One

56:30ish - 1:29:00ish - HUSH - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:29:00ish - End - Austin’s pick for the final movie of “RAW and UnSENSEored” Horror Movies About the Senses!

We tackle a brand new sense and a different era of Hollywood for our second installment of, “RAW and Un-SENSE-ored: Horror Movies about the Senses” as Cody selects the Audrey Hepburn classic, WAIT UNTIL DARK. Hear about how we spent our Halloweens, how happy most of us are about baseball, and a wealth of other movies including a little teaser of our future discussion of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein!

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00:00 - 17:00ish - Intros: Lucas’ recent eating habits, Dodgers won something, John Carpenter live, Halloween day activities

17:00ish - 1:07:00ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Cody - Good Fortune, Hausu, The Taking of Deborah Logan, Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf, Jason Goes to Hell, Shelby Oaks, Black Phone 2, Good Boy, Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, Carnival of Souls, Blood Rage, Hocus Pocus, Trick ‘r Treat, Evil Dead 2, Bugonia, 

Austin - Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf, Jason Goes to Hell, Frankenstein, Trick ‘r Treat, Evil Dead 2, Bugonia, Evil Dead Rise, It, Push, One Battle After Another, Corpse Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas

Lucas - Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf, Jason Goes to Hell, Frankenstein, Nightmare Before Christmas, Cape Fear, The Hurt Locker, House of Dynamite, Hacksaw Ridge, 

Curtis - Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf, Frankenstein, Child’s Play, Mr. Scorsese, Inferno, Scream, Rec 4: Apocalypse, Phase IV, Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills, WNUF Halloween Special, Hell House LLC: Lineage

1:07:00ish - 1:35:00ish - WAIT UNTIL DARK - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:35:00ish - End - The next film in “Raw and Un-SENSE-ored!” Horror Movies About the Senses!

We’re tantalizing ALL of your senses with our newest theme – RAW and Un-SENSE-ored: Horror Movies about the Senses – brought to you by Lucas! His first pick… maybe stretches the boundaries of the horror realm but we have a good time anyway tickling our olfactories with a discussion on PERFUME: STORY OF A MURDERER!

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00:00 - 9:40ish -  Intros: Lucas went on an odyssey, Tron: Ares, Good Morning America

9:40ish - 1:08:00ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Lucas - Skinamarink, Christmas Bloody Christmas, One Battle After Another, Perfect Neighbor, LOTR: The Two Towers, Uncut Gems

Cody - One Battle After Another, Sleepy Hollow, Primate, Exhuma, Here for Blood, Night of the Reaper, Bone Lake, Dust Bunny, Deathstalker, Death of a Unicorn, Frankenweenie, This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse, The Devil’s Rejects, The Strange World of Coffin Joe, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Freaked!, Scream, Blink, Cape Fear, Ouija: Origin of Evil

Austin - Primate, Dust Bunny, Deathstalker, 28 Years Later, The Boy Behind the Door, Black Phone 2, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Presence, VHS Halloween, The Monkey, Sinners

Curtis - One Battle After Another, Primate, Dust Bunny, Deathstalker, Black Phone 2, Presence, VHS Halloween, No Other Choice, Chungking Express, The Furious, A Bittersweet Life, Pumpkinhead, At the Drive-In, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Ernest Scared Stupid, Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone, Mimic, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Lake Mungo, The Descent, Frailty, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

1:08:00ish - 1:42:00ish - PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:42:00ish - End - Movie #2 of “Raw and Un-SENSE-ored: Horror Movies about the Senses” brought to you by Lucas!

The food’s a little funny at the SHUDcafe! For a special Halloween release, we’ve decided to watch and discuss TERRIFIER 2! After now years of back and forth and sideways discussion we delve deeply into the bowels of Art the Clown and fully reckon with our thoughts on Damien Leone’s slasher exploitation magnum opus! Have any of us changed our minds on this movie? Or have we dug in even deeper? Will Austin quit? Find out that and more in the episode!

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00:00 - 13:30ish- Intros: Happy Halloween! Haunted houses, Nine Inch Nails

13:30ish - 48:00ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Austin - Nothing (except for The Who at the Hollywood Bowl)

Cody - Barbarian, The Kindred, As Above So Below, The Conjuring: Last Rites

Curtis - The Running Man (1987), Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital, Grave Encounters, A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey

Lucas - The Lesbian Homie, Sleepy Hollow

48:00ish - 1:39:00ish - TERRIFIER 2 - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:39:00ish - End - Prepare for our new theme and first entry brought to you by Lucas!

It’s week four of “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror (selected by Austin) and we’re going four….-ty Seven Meters Down courtesy of Curtis! But this is no normal 47 Meters Down… this time we’ll be… UNCAGED! Look, it’s worth it, just like reading this section of show notes is worth it. Trust us (or, specifically, Curtis). Friend and patron Ryan also joins us off-mic in the basement as we get a little more squirrelly than normal and stick around for our Underwater Horror Awards PLUS a sneak at our Halloween Special PLUS Lucas details his pick for next theme and movie!

00:00 - 8:30ish - Intros: Our friend and show patron, Ryan, joins us off screen/mic, Warhammer, the price of a PCCB, 

8:30ish - 44:00ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Curtis - Evil Dead II, In the Lost Lands, A Better Tomorrow, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Conjuring: Last Rites, Friendship, The Pit, Highlander, Ms. 45, O Brother Where Art Thou? The Pack (Community)

Austin - The Roses, Guardians of the Galaxy, 47 Meters Down, I Saw the Devil

Cody - The Pack (Community), The Roses, The Toxic Avenger, The Ugly Stepsister, Predator: Killer of Killers, Lilo & Stitch (2025), 5 Nights at Freddy’s, Darkman, Until Dawn, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, Dangerous Animals

Lucas - 47 Meters Down, The Green Knight, Caught Stealing, Inglourious Basterds, Coco, The Life of Chuck, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Dollman

44:00ish - 1:17:00ish - 47 METERS DOWN UNCAGED - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:17:00ish - End - “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror awards and our next theme!

Deepest, Bluest, this podcast is like a shark’s fin. What’s that mean? Heck if we know but we’re going searching for it anyway as we get into week 3 of “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror - and cover 1999’s modern shark masterpiece DEEP BLUE SEA! On the way we talk about Austin’s KILLER new short film, Cody’s dad’s reaction to Sinners, and much much more!

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00:00 - 9:00ish - Intros - Retroactive litigation, the world premiere of Austin’s short film, KILLER TALENT

9:00ish - 33:30ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Austin - Caught Stealing

Curtis - Blood Simple, Peacemaker

Lucas - Eddington

Cody - Rebel Ridge, Sinners, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

33:30ish - 1:09-25ish - DEEP BLUE SEA - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:09:25ish - End - The final film of “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror, brought to you by Curtis!

We descend to depths fully unimaginable as we watch (yet another?) horror-adjacent title and find what’s at the deep, dark center of James Cameron’s marital life in cinema… I mean… we watch The Abyss! It’s movie number two in “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror and as we discuss this potentially still under-celebrated masterpiece, we cover topics such as: Aussie spiders, roller coaster misadventures, some Conjuring catch-up and so so much more!

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00:00 - 21:20ish - Intros: Some Fabio discussion, how much to take some bolts to the face on a roller coaster, some Halloween haunt talk, Aussie spider talk

21:20ish - 37:12ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Austin - The Guest

Cody - Sinners

Lucas - Honey Don’t, Happy Gilmore 2, Freelance

Curtis - The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Clown in a Cornfield

37:12ish -  THE ABYSS - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:18:18ish - End - Movie #3 of “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror - brought to you by Cody!

We dive deep, deeper than ever before in this episode – mostly because Austin forced us to – as we discuss the first film in our new theme, “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror with the aptly titled, UNDERWATER. On our way down we discuss tree crypto, Spike Lee, TONS of Weapons talk (spoilers marked below!), and a bunch of other films!

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00:00 - 9:00ish - Intros: We try out some new looks (head over to Patreon for the video!), Curtis has been making trees while Lucas has been stockpiling stumps.

9:00ish - 13:00ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Curtis - Highest 2 Lowest

13:00ish - 27:00ish - WEAPONS discussion PLUS SPOILERS!

27:00ish -  Back to the other stuff we watched this time!

Austin - Weapons, The Djinn, Superman, Working Man, Novocaine

Cody - Weapons, Working Man, Nobody 2, Locked, The Amateur

Lucas - Weapons

46:30ish - 1:18:40ish UNDERWATER - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:18:40ish - The next film in our series, “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror, brought to you by Lucas!

We say g’day and g’night to our time in the Outback as we close out our series on Australian Horror – “I Left My Heart in the Yabba!” – with the much heralded NEXT OF KIN! Does it hold up to us? Find out and then stick around to hear who gets our SHUDcast awards for the series as well as find out where we’ll be traveling next courtesy of Austin!

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00:00 - 17:15ish - Intros: Lucas’ new thing, Austin’s show closing, Cody’s bidet journey, Curtis’ visit to see Ghost, plus more!

17:15ish - 30:40ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Curtis - Red Eye, Freaky Tales, Weapons, Night of Fear

Cody - Freakier Friday, Happy Gilmore 2, Night of Fear, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Alien Romulus

Lucas - Night of Fear

Austin - Night of Fear

30:40ish - NEXT OF KIN - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:01:00ish - End - “I Left My Heart in the Yabba” awards + our next theme and film courtesy of Austin!