Slashers Episodes

If you don't want the movie spoiled, watch THE KILLING HOUR on Tubi before listening! ***** This episode was originally published on Patreon on November 3, 2025. On this fourth Friday the 13th the Series Spectacular episode, we're focusing on ARMAND MASTRIOANNI who directed "Better Off Dead" and "Mesmer's Bauble" as well as eight episodes of the show we've yet to cover. While he's most famous for discovering Tom Hanks in the 1980 wedding night slasher HE KNOWS YOU'RE ALONE, we've chosen a ...

Happy Halloween, my Beautiful Screamerz! To celebrate our favorite holiday, I'm tackling one of the most polarizing, controversial and underestimated films of the year: the Canadian experimental slasher film IN A VIOLENT NATURE. [Currently Streaming on Shudder] Did you love it? Or did you hate it? What happens when you strip a horror movie of all humanity? Is it a fascinating examination of human psychology, horror voyeurism and audience ethics? Or is it a boring slog with a few good kills a...

Last time, you escaped from Camp Whistler. But no one ever leaves Abraham House. Our exploration into the horrific world of conversion therapy and queer conversion camps continues with a discussion of CHILDREN OF SIN written and directed by CHRISTOPHER WESLEY MOORE from HOMOS ON HAUNTED HILL. When Emma's abusive new stepfather finds out she's pregnant and that her brother Jackson is gay, he ships them off to Abraham House where religious zealot Mary Esther promises to bring these sinners home to...

"I'd understand it a lot more if there were a lot more queer bashing and bible-thumping..." On the surface, the movie Blumhouse's THEY/THEM had everything going for it: A slasher film with a novel queer conversion camp setting. Three-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan at the helm. Kevin Bacon's return to his horror roots. Queer characters actually played by queer actors. With a built-in audience, undeniable talent, and seemingly the best intentions, THEY/THEM seem poised to take Q...

Travel back in time with me to 1892 to discuss DEL TENNEY's fiendishly catty proto-slasher CURSE OF THE LIVING CORPSE. Following the death of their abusive sadistic father, a gaggle of his horrid offspring descend upon the creepy old family mansion to collect their inheritance only to be murdered one by one in the most deliciously gruesome ways. Clearly, they never learned ScreamQueenz Rule #513: "When you bury an evil tyrant, MAKE SURE HE'S REALLY DEAD!" In order to plunge the depths of CURS...

Last episode, we took you to the brink of utter insanity with our discussion of SISSY. But now we're back. We're gonna finish what we started. With SPOILERS this time! My extra special guests for the #WomenInHorrorMonth selection are NICOLE DAVIS (Movie-Go-Round) and MAYA MURPHY (Rosewater, "Damn You, Uncle Lewis!"). SISSY is currently available on Shudder or wherever you rent movies. SISSY was directed by HANNAH BARLOW & KANE SENES, written by HANNAH BARLOW and stars AISHA DEE, HANNAH BAR...

On the surface, SISSY is your standard bully/revenge slasher. Underneath, there's soooo much more. In fact, there's so much I have to split this episode on it into two parts! My extra special guests for the #WomenInHorrorMonth selection are NICOLE DAVIS (Movie-Go-Round) and MAYA MURPHY (Rosewater, "Damn You, Uncle Lewis!"). SISSY is currently available on Shudder or wherever you rent movies. SISSY was directed by HANNAH BARLOW & KANE SENES, written by HANNAH BARLOW and stars AISHA DEE, HANN...

In the FRIDAY THE 13TH Spectacular episode, my guests and I told our Friday the 13th stories. At the FRIDAY THE 13TH Afterparty, you get to tell yours! Get ready for an hour of Camp Crystal Lake tales told by fellow Screamerz: tales that are touching, funny, embarrassing and might just bring a tear to your eye. For more information about the FRIDAY THE 13TH Film Location Tours, visit www.CrystalLakeTours.com Visit us at www.ScreamQueenz.com Follow us on FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM & YOUTUBE. Get acces...

Thirteen years ago, I began the tradition of the FRIDAY THE 13th SPECTACULAR where I set out to discuss the FRIDAY THE 13th series in a way I hadn't heard before. Now, I'm thirteen years older. I'm thirteen years wiser. It's time to go back to where it all started. I'm going back to Camp Crystal Lake. But this time...I'm not going alone. I've enlisted the help of two fabulous out, gay horror filmmakers, BART MASTRONARDI ("Vindication", "Tales of Poe") and MICHAEL VARRATI ("Tales of Poe", "...

Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays...unless you live in the house a recently escaped killer used to reside in. Following the tradition of the past few years, I let you, the listeners, decide what holiday horror movie I covered in December. You spoke. I obey. The winner by a landslide was BLACK XMAS (2006). A houseful of sorority sisters are about to wish they went home for Christmas break, because serial killer Billy Lenz just escaped from the mental hospital, and he doesn't ca...

THE DARK SIDE OF THE RAINBOW: Part Two - "Queer Prejudices" On the next leg of our journey to the ugly underbelly of LGBT+ life, we're heading to Providence, Rhode Island for the dragtastic, glitter-sprinkled, and gore-streaked queer slasher, DEATH DROP GORGEOUS (2020). A dejected bartender and an aging drag queen try to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife of a corrupt city, as a masked maniac slaughters young gay men and drains them of blood. Lurking under the glitz, glamour and fabul...

Before SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT, there was another Psycho Santa out to ruin your Christmas. Directed by DAVID HESS, star of LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, TO ALL A GOODNIGHT (1980) is the cautionary tale of a group of finishing school girls who decide to drug their housemother so that they can throw the Christmas party to end all Christmas parties. But before you can say, "What could possibly go wrong?", a killer in a Santa Claus crashes the party and puts an end to their holly jolly hootenanny. Oh,...

"Everything's a movie to me..." Kick off your Pride Month festivities with this deep dive into the movie that was meta before meta was cool, the moviehouse movie-within-a-movie massacre motion picture POPCORN from 1991. Tucked inside all the Grand Guignol fun, we'll be putting a special focus on the closeted life and tragic death of the film's star, TOM VILLARD. Joining me are world-famous actor and host of the HOT DATE podcast DAN DOMINGUES and future PsychoBiddy PETER ADAMSON. A group of fi...

"It can't be happening again..." It's CANADIAN HORROR MONTH at ScreamQueenz, and we're starting the festivities by taking a look at their truly iconic slasher classic MY BLOODY VALENTINE from 1981. Special Guests: BRYAN NORTON: Director - "Jack Attack", Author - "FOR GOD'S SAKE, GET OUT!": The Amityville Horror at the Movies TARA GARNER: Actual Canadian, Resident Historian MY BLOODY VALENTINE directed by GEORGE MILHALKA. Starring PAUL KELMAN, LORI HALLIER, NEIL AFFLECK, KEITH KNIGHT, CYNTHIA ...

If you've ever wondered what would happen when I covered a movie that truly terrified me...you're about to find out. Because LAST GIRL STANDING is a movie that shakes me to my core. Twice before I've tried to talk about this film on the show. Twice before I've had to scrap the entire project because just scratching the surface turns me into a blubbering, frightened mess. Turns out what I needed was the calming soothing presence of my special guests CHRIS MOORE and KEVIN JONES (Hosts of the u...

This episode is dedicated in loving memory to Steven Stein Grainger. The previously announced episode on DEATH DROP GORGEOUS had to be unavoidably delayed in order to properly grieve the loss of a cherished friend. Instead, you're getting a previously recorded episode of THE FINAL REEL, which is one of the two podcasts that I produce exclusively for my Patreon Super Screamerz. In Pre-COVID days, TFR provided listeners with my hot takes on the major horror movie theatrical release; often befor...

(05:00) (07:30) <p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>MADISON PENROSE ALWAYS GETS WHAT SHE WANTS.</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>TONIGHT, SHE'LL GET WHAT SHE DESERVES.</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center">Beat the summer heat with this ScreamQueenz bonus never-before-aired episode recorded back in May, 2020 when <a href="https://www.wickedqueer.org/events/death-drop-gorgeous" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>BRANDON PERRAS-SANCHEZ</strong></a> ...

– My 50th Birthday Celebration continues as THE CRAPSHOOT returns! My never-ending quest to find a diamond in the shit pile of VOD horror movie releases led me to a little film called SHOCK VALUE, a blackly comic yet chilling gem of a tale about dangerous ambition and deadly hubris set against the backdrop of L.A’s indie horror filmmaking scene. After witnessing a brutal double murder, a film director (ZAK HUDSON) develops a dastardly brilliant plan to ensure his next movie is a guaranteed hit...

When two innocent country-folk get mistaken for serial killers by a bunch of vacationing college kids, mayhem and self-mutilation ensue in the charming horror-comedy TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL. Boob-and Ska fanatics ALLISON NOWACKI and BRYAN J. POLK are on hand to kick off my insanely self-indulgent 50th birthday month celebration. TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL was directed by ELI CRAIG and stars ALAN TUDYK ("Firefly", "Dollhouse"), TYLER LABINE ("Reaper", "Escape Room") and KATRINA BOWDEN ("30 Rock") ...

Celebrate Women in Horror Month with a flashback to episode 75 discussing the radical lesbian feminist slasher classic THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE directed by AMY HOLDEN JONES and written by RITA MAE BROWN. My special guests are world famous actress ALENA ACKER and author ROBERT R. BEST. Plus, you get a brand new rant about the disservice you're doing if you only think of the film as "feminist". Mentioned in this episode: Bliss Book Pick up the gnarly new survivor horror novel BLISS by Brandon...

Curtain up! Light the lights! You got nothing to feel but the FRIGHTS!!![ On the surface, THE FAN from 1981 starring LAUREN BACALL and MICHAEL BIEHN was been ill-advised flop. The story of an aging screen legend trying to make a comeback by appearing in her first Broadway musical didn't appeal to horror fans. The attempt to cash in the recent success of films like FRIDAY THE 13th by adding over-the-top violence scared off everyone else. I still can't believe someone made a slasher movie with...

Start your holiday season with the movie that continues to scare me more than any other, BLACK CHRISTMAS: directed by BOB CLARK and starring OLIVIA HUSSEY, MARGOT KIDDER, ANDREA MARTIN and JOHN SAXON. I'm joined by that Delightful Duo CHRYSTEN PEDDIE and DAN COHEN from KILLING YOUR DARLINGS, the podcast that dissects your favorite movies from childhood with just a wee smidgen of snark. EVERY DAY IS H A L L O W E E N: A Fundraiser for New Alternatives For Homeless LGBT Youth Donate directly at ...

This episode is hopefully the last of the test episodes to ensure the fixes we put in place are actually working. Enjoy a trip back to Season One of ScreamQueenz when Joan Crawford got axe-happy and hilarity ensued in William Castle's STRAIT-JACKET. Donate to New Alternatives and help out homeless LGBT teens at bit.ly/sqpodna. Mentioned in this episode: Bliss Book Pick up the gnarly new survivor horror novel BLISS by Brandon Halsey on Amazon! "It's like 28 DAYS LATER meets THE STAND meets TR...

This episode is part of the EVERY DAY IS HALLOWEEN Fundraiser Benefiting New Alternatives for Homeless LGBT Youth. Help save a life this holiday season. Donate to New Alternatives at bit.ly/sqpodna or via Facebook at bit.ly/sqpodfb It's Pod-a-Thon time again, Screamerz, and Day One is going to slay you in aisles! We're going to my favorite (and sometimes, the scariest!) place on Earth....The Theater! Episode Highlights: 10:20 JODI O'DAEL gives us a taste of Toronto's Aberrant Theater Company...