Join John and Josh as they delve into the horror films they love, mysterious new releases, and horror’s unstoppable, ever-growing backlog of yesterfilms.
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For our next creative writing exercise, we're going to explore a social occasion you're familiar with. Think of a time you spent with other people where you made yourself or were made emotionally vulnerable, then launch away from the factuality of that occasion, and instead pilot it towards the style of storytelling you've been most interested in l…
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108. Julian Roffman's The Mask (1961)
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1:22:56This time-a-rooski, we reviewed the first film to be shot in Raymond Spottiswoode's "Depth Dimension" 3-D. It's a nutty little Canadian flick about that new-fangled "psychiatry" my loved ones won't stop going on about, and boy does this movie display a firm grasp over what that is! What we have here is a visual effects buffet sandwiched between lon…
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107. Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker (1990)
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1:23:54We kept up our annual tradition of visiting a Frankenlotter... Frank Hookenl... Frank Henenlotter folm, film. A Frank Henenlotter film. This time, it's Frankenhanker... Frankenhooker. Dear God, what's wreng woth me on the newest episode of Loathsome Things: A Great Horror Movie Podcast to Listen To While You Sleep…
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How much cinematic care and attention can be placed on boobs? Find our as we explore the deep, eldritch mysteries of two different sets of natal taters from a variety of angles, temperatures, environs, and degrees of gravitational drag in this fishy and godless episode of Loathsome Things: a Cthulhu Ftagn Movie Podcast!…
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105. Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence (2021)
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1:03:35Greatest secret super-villain origin story film of all time? Yeah, I think so. Join us for a movie you think is going to be pompous, but then is low-key shlocky mad scientist music saw. So... you're welcome for another instant-classic episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast for sad white men to find companionship and enlargening gummies…
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Seth Green and Alfonso Ribeiro co-star in this plasma-inhaling infestation of a boy scout summer flashback for Josh! That's right, it's Ticks and it's Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast edited by an guy who can't setup his microphone with even a modicum of competency! Also, John is here and he sounds great the whole time. Kisses.…
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103 J. Michael Muro's Street Trash (1987)
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1:11:00It's a new episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast not fit for human consumption, bringing you a filthy, degenerate pile of frothy, unhygienic movie slime that makes us giggle while we squirm. Splatter all ye who enter Flatbush to watch Street Trash!By loathsomethings
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102. Peter Sykes’ To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
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1:15:18A rare entry to our dislustrious "DO NOT WATCH" list, this penultimate Hammer film has a cool demon puppet, great Christopher Lee face stuff, a top-notch crucifix, and some stuff I won't type because that's not the type of searches we want to be a result for. It's bad. Do yourself a favor by just listening to us and not watching the movie!…
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101. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)
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1:23:17You can't get much more Loathsome than The Thing, itself. You've got action, comedy, explosions, the greatest practical monster effects showcase, and the very most good boy in movie history. Go watch the movie again, it's totally worth it!By loathsomethings
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100. Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973)
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1:14:12Join us for our grand 100th episode, wherein we cover the folk horror of all folk horrors, The Wicker Man!!By loathsomethings
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099. Andrew van den Houton's Offspring (2009)
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1:05:28Sorry about the previous audio version. How's this?By loathsomethings
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98. David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone (1983)
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1:14:51A Stephen King novel adapted for the screen, directed by David Cronenberg, and with Christopher Walken playing the main character. Surely this is a recipe for an out-of-this-world amazing horror cinema experience... right? Johnny Walken Black wakes up with low-grade molestation powers and angles his career toward spending alone time with children w…
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97. Kuei Chih Hung's Corpse Mania (1981)
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1:12:39A Shaw Brothers kung-fu giallo from the unsung king of Hong Kong cult films. Let the bodies coat with worms! It's Loathsome Things: A podcast about the horror movies your mom wouldn't be happy to find you watching!By loathsomethings
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96. Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981)
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1:14:04Charmingly outdated-by-1981-standards practical effects, wild borrowings from the best of recent and distant masterpieces of influence, and maybe a pinch of the ol' booger sugar informed this revered Italian director's take on the supernatural something set in 1980 New Orleans for reasons not fathomable, but from a fathomableness of The Beyond! Tha…
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Welcome to the Neo-French Extremity? New French Post-Extremity? Who can say? It's a really rad zombie movie about youthful, drug-fueled sex and paranoia, poor parenting, and a very strange relationship with authority... or is it? Enter one of the top 5 greatest zombie movies of all time. Possibly THE greatest? I don't know. It's Loathsome Things: a…
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94. Brian De Palma's Sisters (1972)
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1:19:52Not actually about Brian De Palma's female siblings, this film is instead about Brian De Palma weird, hazy, perhaps deeply subconscious feelings about white women, their role in society, their capabilities as functional humans, and the role that black men play in his feelings. Also, it's a Hitchcockian something-or-other in a decidedly pre-masterpi…
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93. Benjamin Barfoot's Daddy's Head (2024)
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1:11:26Is it folk horror? Is it Babadookie? Is it sci-fi? We're not really sure from whence this sub-step monster was spawned, but we know we mostly liked it with a few quabbles. How long can we spend discussing the quabbles you ask? Well, you're in luck, because you're about to find out while listening to this thoughtful and un-biased think piece about t…
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92. Pascal Laugier's Martyrs (2008)
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1:14:50New? Not so much. French? Absolue! Extremity? Not for long. Join us as we explore the surprising twists and turns of this horror masterpiece directed by a real piece of work. That's right, it's Pascal Laugier's 2008 masterpiece: Martyrs. Are we all victims, monsters, or dancers? You be the judge, then witness your own guilt... or something. Bourgeo…
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91. Osgood Perkins' Longlegs (2024)
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1:01:53Do we mention Nicolas Cage? Did we find out that the Devil makes a variety of cameos in this movie before we recorded this episode? Are we more giddy with movie-watching glee than we are actually making a podcast? Find out the answers in this Satanic episode of Loathsome Things: the Horror Movie Podcast your mom wouldn't let you listen to, but then…
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90. Sean King O'Grady's We Need to Do Something (2021)
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1:09:07We watched a cool little indie flick about a family stuck in their bathroom during an apocalypse, and somewhere along the way we lost the full entirety of our cool. Was it before we even started recording? You tell us after listening to this high-quality film review featuring bleeding-edge audio editing and extremely professional vocal skills. It's…
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89. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980)
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1:18:24Listen as two people with strong feelings about a movie struggle to discuss said movie. It's Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie for morons and the people willing to forgive them enough to listen to them.By loathsomethings
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A dude is chained up in a house with some dude's bonkers niece while spooky things happen. The real question is: why? Join us as we proceed to not tackle that question in this lively and frolicking episode of Loathsome Things: A Good Podcast to Listen To At Work!By loathsomethings
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87. Rodrigo Aragão's Dark Sea (2013)
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1:05:14This film is a strong recommend from us. Enjoy a uniquely splatterific experience! Rodrigo Aragão is from Espirito Santo, Brazil. His father was a magician and cinema owner. Rodrigo was influenced by The Empire Strikes Back and Evil Dead. He worked as a make-up effects artist in the 90s until he started with his own horror play, Mausoleum, and then…
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86. Daniel Haller's The Dunwich Horror (1970)
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1:11:57Welcome to the Loathsome Vault, where you get to hear an old, previously unreleased episode of Loathsome Things from the days of yore: 2001! This time, we reviewed the official film of "What H.P. Lovecraft, but with dirty sexy hippies?" We'll be back to our regularly scheduled podcasting next hence!By loathsomethings
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Likely the greatest horror movie in Houston, Texas, horror movie production history. This little gem manages to be campy and horrifically transgressive in a way that won't make anyone feel good! It's The Lamp, AKA The Outing, on this fortnight's episode of Loathsome Things: A good podcast to listen to when you're depressed and the Lexapro isn't wor…
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84. Jean Rollin's The Grapes of Death (1978)
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1:06:37It's 1978 France and the wine has taken on a toxic zombessential quality. Great legs, though!By loathsomethings
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83. John D. Hancock's Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
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1:10:42Join us for a fun little slice of pre-slasher arthouse something, Jessica! We're not gaslighting you, you're gaslighting us!By loathsomethings
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82. Frank Henenlotter's Brain Damage (1988)
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1:17:59Our first non-Basket Case flick by Frank Henenlotter, and our last(?) movie to use the Loathsome Things scoring system you've come to be entirely unaware of!By loathsomethings
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This Attack of the Mushroom people by the guy who made Godzilla sure doesn't have a lot of Mushroom People action in it. Is it still good? Read John's review of Amando de Ossorio’s The Ghost Galleon to find out!By loathsomethings
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It's time for everyone's favorite manic pixie dream frankenstein to ditch the snooze and get all rizz'd up, 2002 style! That's right, we're reviewing May, a complicated, weird, silly, serious, strange conflagration of emotions and inputs, straight from yore and into your brain. It's Loathsome Things: the best podcast to find horror movies you might…
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John and Josh review an anthology film for the very first time. Will they mess up, do a good job, or just incoherently repeat themselves? Find out on today's episode of Loathsome Things: A Podcast About Horror Movies You Don't Care About!By loathsomethings
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78. Dennis Iliadis's The Last House on the Left (2009)
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1:01:17Content Warning: all the bad things.By loathsomethings
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77. Wes Craven's The Last House of the Left (1972)
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1:02:13Eh, what's the point.By loathsomethings
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76. Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1960)
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1:11:54We’re doing it, folks. It’s a 3-episode month and we’ve almost certainly made a mistake by going with The Virgin Spring, Last House on the Left, and Last House on the Left. O cruel world with such people in it! Here, we review the classic Swedish masterpiece about a Swedish lord, his Swedish daughter, their Swedish family, some Swedish pagans, and …
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Get your dollar-store, off-brand tissues ready, because this one’s a tear-jerker! Rial and Bol are refugees of the Sudanese Civil War, trying to create a new life for themselves in the land of opportunity: slummy ol’ England! To start over, they’ll have to endure fairly mild (by American standards) interpersonal racism, run-down living conditions, …
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Add this one to your watchlist of remakes that may be better than the sequel, and definitely among to top of any list of high-quality reboots. Clive Barker’s non-Hellraiser franchise is brought back around to no longer focus on the plight of white women in this stunning, complex, and challenging reframing of the classic. And here are some links to …
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Be the food you want to eat! The Memento guy, the Trainspotting guy, the principle from Ferris Bueller, and a celebrity’s husband star in this off-kilter delight that dares to ask the question: what if Dances with Wolves was a wendigo movie lightly sprinkled with a Mel Brooksian soundtrack? Turns out, you might get something like this. Show up for …
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72. David R. Ellis’ Final Destination 2 (2003)
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1:16:26Something about death’s design, a list, this time it happens backwards… who knows. Welcome to 2024, Loathsome Things style! It’s all epic action-disaster stunt sequences between bouts of really depressingly bad line delivery. Start the year off with the best horror movie podcast for people that are tired of all the other horror movie podcasts as we…
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71. Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (2010)
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1:04:52Somewhere in the Finnish reindeer wilderness, there is a mountain that is secretly the gigantic sacred grave of MFing Santa Claus. In this episode of Loathsome Things, you’ll hear us review the actions taken by a squad of rugged snow-daddies who, perhaps, receive a bit too much focus on whether or not they have sufficiently spanked their sons. What…
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70. Perry Blackshear’s They Look Like People (2015)
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59:21Content Warning: suicide and self harm You are a mountain and this is the first part of Perry Blackshear’s Monster Trilogy sees childhood chums Wyatt and Christian reunited as alcoholic adults who’ve suffered failed relationships and mental and emotional disturbances. Christian’s self-help iPod has seen him get a great job at Behemoth, where he’s r…
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From the director who brought us some actually good episodes of Star Trek later in his career, this movie… it’s terrible. Bad jokes, unexciting nudity from Rebecca Balding, and one of the worst movie monsters you’ll ever see. You know that uncle or cousin of yours, the one that puts off an icky vibe? This is probably one of their favorite movies. S…
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68. Demián Rugna’s When Evil Lurks (2023)
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1:16:24Content Warning: violence against children and by children is depicted in this film, as is violence against and by animals. This includes a scene in which an animal commits violence against a child. God is dead, welcome to beautiful Argentina! This time we reviewed a demonic possession apocalypse movie that absolutely slams. Put away your flashligh…
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67. Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me (2022)
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1:02:13Content Warning: self harm Australian youths supplement their substance abuse with a fun demonic possession game. It the story secretly about substance abuse? Mental illness? Grief? Loss? White people? You tell us after listening to this podcast about horror movies. A podcast where we summarize the plot of a horror movie at you so you can decide wh…
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66. Brian Duffield’s No One Will Save You (2023)
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1:08:57An Etsy girl makes a go of living her best life in her childhood home in a town full of people who hate for something that she did in her childhood. Also, there’s aliens and almost zero dialogue. Will it be good? Pack yourself up a pic-a-nic basket and head on out to a loved-one’s grave and plot your sorry ass in that ancestral grass to listen to t…
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65. Elliot Goldner’s Final Prayer (2013)
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1:23:11Content Warning: A smidge of animal cruelty is depicted in this movie, which we describe and may/may not do vocal sound effects for… John and Josh strapped microphones to the inside of their mouths for an entire day to bring you their first full-fledged found footage film review! This little gem blends found footage with possession/exorcism, folk h…
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64. Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
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1:10:36The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. What else is there to say? Content Warning: this film contains nearly as much deeply disturbing gruesome topic matter as it does wildly offensive ableism. And since it’s in the movie, it is also in the words we speak. Join us as we revel in the just amazingness that is, as one man was mis-quoted as putting it, “the mos…
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63. Ulli Lommel’s The Devonsville Terror (1983)
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1:12:40Do you ever think about the town you live in? Did your ancestors live there? What did they do when they lived there? Were they bad to other people, maybe women or indigenous populations? Do you ever wonder if you are them? Has a doctor ever made you feel like you’re a buckle-hatted pilgrim wielding a knife of revelation while inducing seizures in y…
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62. Jay Woelfel’s Beyond Dream’s Door (1989)
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1:11:39Did you know that when you forget your dreams, they get mad at you? It doesn’t matter if those are dreams of attractive young women in thin gauze, skinless bears coming for you in the closet, fake little brothers with bulgy eyes, or janitors with prosthetic limbs that fall right off. You see, when you go beyond dream’s door, the hatred doesn’t disc…
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61. Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm (1979)
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1:22:11We reviewed a classic and scared John as a child and confused Josh as an adult. Imagine The Goonies, but with big naked California tits, fountains of blood, and the childhood drama of having everyone you love die. There, that’s Phantasm. Is it as simple as that? No! It’s much more confusing! Phantasm features multiple allusions to Dune, some strang…
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60. Francis Teri’s The Suckling (1990)
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1:14:33In 1990, first-time director Francis Teri pulled together a tiny budget, a team of mostly non-actors, and some really cool practical effects to make an amazingly tasteless, uncomfortably semi-humorous, and entirely baffling horror movie about a young woman receiving an abortion against her will and her aborted fetus becoming one of the most mind-bo…
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