What's Your Favorite Scary Movie | The Cozy Horror Podcast

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👑 UPDATE (Oct 22): Prime Video renewed Carrie for Season 2, and it's going beyond the book. Enjoy our review of Eps 1-2 in the meantime 🎃

Horror TV is winning 😱 Let’s check in on the first halves of the two hottest scary shows this year: a Friday the 13th prequel and a brand-new Carrie.

Crystal Lake (Peacock): the Friday the 13th prequel following Pamela Voorhees, with Linda Cardellini giving a performance that had Parker gripping his shirt. He ranked this show near the bottom of his Halloween hype list. That’s all changing.

Carrie (Prime Video): Mike Flanagan rebuilds Stephen King's prom night nightmare as a YA series for actual high schoolers. Parker is a Carrie purist (the 1976 film sits in his Letterboxd top four), but Caroline and Ian are sold.

Next Thursday: our Halloween special on Breeder 🎃

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Other Mommy (2026) review: Jessica Chastain stars in Rob Savage's adaptation of Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House, produced by James Wan (Blumhouse–Atomic Monster). Parker, Ian, and Caroline are unanimous on their Smash or Slash verdict: the trailer was scarier than the movie. 🔪

This week: a ball pit cocktail, Parker's take on the book, Julieann's history of monstrous mothers in horror, and a full spoiler deep-dive.

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In episode 3 of our Resurrected miniseries, Parker, Caroline, and Ian catch up on the streaming horror that took over while we were gone—Severance, IT: Welcome to Derry, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, Widow's Bay and more. Four years of horror TV, eerie docuseries and prestige suspense, ranked by three people with basic taste. We know. Help us fix that 👇

Inside this episode:
🌊 Widow's Bay: Caroline's new obsession. Apple TV+'s spooky island horror-comedy from Parks and Recreation writer Katie Dippold, starring Matthew Rhys (smash or pass verdict inside)
📺 Parker formally retracts "horror TV is flopping": Midnight Mass, IT: Welcome to Derry, Interview with the Vampire, The 'Burbs, Hysteria!, Teacup and Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen say otherwise
🏠 Ian's real-life horror: a squatter docuseries that terrorized a new homeowner, HBO's The Neighbors, and Parker's own backyard tree incident
🐐 Severance and The White Lotus: Caroline makes the case that your favorite prestige dramas are secretly horror (unexplained goats included)
🎤 Horror took over pop: Lady Gaga's Mayhem, Sabrina Carpenter's slasher era, and Parker's full-blown Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) obsession
🧌 Closing picks: Ian finally caves on The Handmaid's Tale, plus del Toro's Frankenstein and Mia Goth's costumes

What did we miss? Seriously…DM us @scarymoviepod or email [email protected] with the streaming horror we need to catch up on. Your picks might make the show 👀

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We’re taking you with us to our very first horror convention: HorrorHound Weekend! 

⚠️This one’s a little different from our usual format. We recommend watching the video edition on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube, but those looking to vibe to Parker spending all of his money are welcome to do so 💀

Ian, Caroline and Parker got off the couch to creep on the horror-ific festivities at Sharonville Convention Center just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. Come with us to meet new horror-loving friends, shop from spooky vendors and drool over some fabulous cosplay.

DM us on Instagram to let us know if you like this type of content, and what your favorite con is!

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Your killer hosts are back with a sickening double feature: Onslaught and Fall 2: Deadpoint. We put them head-to-head after they were contentious picks in our 🎃 Halloween Hype Ranking (watch that ep next if you haven’t!)

Each section starts spoiler-free before going all in. Check the chapter markers to jump around 👀

First up: Adam Wingard's Onslaught 🔫, starring Dan Stevens as a deranged Nazi scientist unleashing super soldiers on a New Mexico trailer park. We break down the politics, the power dynamics, that foot-licking scene. Our horror historian Julieann drops in with a deep-dive on Wingard's filmography (The Guest, You’re Next), Operation Paperclip, and the real Hans Kammler.

Then: Fall 2: Deadpoint 🧗‍♀️, the sequel that we try our hardest to come up with something nice to say about, complete with questionable camera choices, social media montages that couldn’t exist, and hiking boots that should never have left the store. 

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🖤 Episode edited by Zrinka Ivanko. Cover art by Dakota Trasser. Theme music by Joaquin Herreros, based on our original theme by Alex Shawver 🖤

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It's officially spooky season 🎃 We watched 14 horror trailers and ranked how hyped we are for the movies (shows, video game, etc) hitting screens this September and October. In episode two of our Resurrected miniseries, Parker, Caroline, and Ian go head-to-head with their personal hype rankings, from Onslaught and Resident Evil to Carrie, Victorian Psycho, Crystal Lake, and more.

Inside this episode:
☣️ Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) returns with Resident Evil, filmed for IMAX (trend alert?)
🩸 Mike Flanagan's Carrie series adaptation and the Friday the 13th prequel Crystal Lake are our streaming picks
🪓 Victorian Psycho has Parker fully in his Jane Eyre-but-scary era
👶 Other Mommy earns the episode's biggest gasp
🎮 A Hellraiser video game somehow makes the list (Caroline is not a fan)

Which Halloween releases are you most hyped for? Send us your picks!

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We're back 😱 and we've got 4 years of horror movies to catch up on. In the first episode of our Resurrected miniseries, Parker, Caroline, and Ian break down their favorite major theatrical horror releases from the years we were off the air: The Monkey, 28 Years Later, Bugonia, Barbarian, Weapons, and Obsession.

Inside this episode:
🐒 Why The Monkey earns "the Gremlins treatment" (and Theo James is sexy in two roles)
🧟 How 28 Years Later proves horror is an emotional storytelling medium

🐝 Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons go feral in Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia
🏚️ Zach Cregger's Barbarian and Weapons double feature, and our Aunt Gladys obsession
📉 What low-budget breakouts like Obsession mean for the future of horror filmmaking

Missed a movie you think we need to watch? Send us your picks! 

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Your killer hosts are back! Welcome to What's Your Favorite Scary Movie, a cozy horror podcast where Parker, Ian, and Caroline invite you to their movie nights among besties, covering new theatrical releases, streaming gems, and the occasional classic. Horror historian Julieann Stipidis beams in with expert deep-dives, because sometimes the gab session needs professional help.

This episode: get to know your hosts and their favorite scary movies so far (Ian: Let the Right One In. Caroline: Midsommar. Parker: Scream, obviously).

New episodes drop starting September 3rd. Follow on your favorite podcast platform or YouTube to watch in high dreadfinition.

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From the vault: We're curating our greatest hits ahead of our September 3rd relaunch 😱 Throwback to one of our most chaotic, but perhaps iconic, episodes: ranking every Scream movie—Scream (1996), Scream 2, Scream 3, and Scream 4 🔪

This episode originally aired Jan. 12, 2022, before the premiere of Scream 5, and we have some hot take predictions that are now … three sequels too late 😂 We break down each film, hand out smash/slash ratings, and argue about whether Dewey or Gale will die in Scream 5.

We're back with new episodes (in full video!) starting September 3rd. Follow What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie on Instagram @scarymoviepod so you don’t miss our new announcements and updates.

Rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and follow @scarymoviepod for all things What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie! More at scarymoviepod.com.

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Audio clips from Halloween and the Scream franchise

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From the vault: We're curating our greatest hits ahead of our September 3rd relaunch 😱 This one's extra special—it's our 100th episode 🎉 We reviewed The Cabin in the Woods (dir. Drew Goddard, co-written by Joss Whedon, starring Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, and Fran Kranz) from our own forest cabin (literally) 🌲🔪

This episode originally aired May 31st, 2021, and is really a before-and-after when you compare it to last week’s From the Vault episode (I Know What You Did Last Summer). We break down the film's slasher archetypes, its meta-commentary on horror movie tropes, the behind-the-scenes drama with MGM and Lionsgate, and debate whether this cult classic horror-comedy is actually scary—plus our most memorable kills and a monster catalog rundown.

We're back with new episodes (in full video!) starting September 3rd. And you get to help decide what's on our return slate! Head to scarymoviepod.com to vote: Victorian Psycho versus the new Resident Evil. Voting closes September 10th.

Rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and follow @scarymoviepod for all things What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie! More at scarymoviepod.com.

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Other music zapsplat.com and "Bush Week" by nihilore.com

Audio clips from The Cabin in the Woods

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