The Slay Offs

The Slay Offs

”Alien vs Predator”, “Freddy vs Jason”, “Sadako vs Kayako”, horror fandom has always thrived on the clash of horror icons! The Slay Offs Podcast aims to definitively solve the long held argument, “Which year has been the best year for horror movies?” As each episode your host Ben Ellt and various guest pit the top 10 most popular horror movies from two seperate years against each other in the ultimate horror brackets to crown which years are the Golden Age and Silver Age of horror movies!

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June 16, 2025 48 mins

Hello and welcome to a prideful bonus interlude in the Golden Age of Horror tournament bracket where your host Ben Ellt goes over some essential LGBTQIA+ horror movie recommendations to watch this pride month! 

 

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Hello and welcome to a special bonus interlude in the Golden Age of Horror tournament bracket where your host Ben Ellt looks over deaths list to talk about the glorious Rube Goldberg style deaths that make up the Final Destination franchise, going one by one through Final Destination (2000), Final Destination 2 (2003), Final Destination 3 (2006), The Final Destination (2009), Final Destination 5 (2011) and the newly released Final ...

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Welcome to the epic eighth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt and guest host Bran Reid as we continue navigating our terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror with mic problems, double the reviews and triple the runtime, follow us into a grand battle between years 2005 vs 2013!

 

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Hello and welcome to a special bonus interlude in the Golden Age tournament bracket where your host Ben Ellt looks over the horror movies that released in January through April of 2025 and takes a look at how horror has shaped up in 2025 so far.

 

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Welcome to the salacious seventh official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Say our names three times and join Ben Ellt and special guest Rosie as they continue going through this Maniac March Madness tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror with this match up of cute as a button horrors in years 1988 vs 2009!

 

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Welcome to the sickening sixth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Join Ben Ellt as they continue going through this Maniac March Madness tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror with the match of invisible horrors in years 2000 vs 2020!

 

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Welcome to the fabulous fifth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Join Ben Ellt as they continue going through this Maniac March Madness tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror with the our next match up of evil children in years 1976 vs 1993!

 

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Welcome to the ferocious fourth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! We continue our terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror with our toughest battle yet, between 2016 vs 2022!

 

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Welcome to the third official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! We continue our terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror with a battle between 1981 vs 2001!

 

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Welcome to our second official episode of The Slay Offs, where we continue our battle to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror, our second match up is 1991 vs 2024!

 

If you want to email us go to: theslayoffspodcast@gmail.com

 

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Welcome to our first inaugural episode of The Slay Offs, our first match up is 1960 vs 1980!

 

If you want to email us go to: theslayoffspodcast@gmail.com

 

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Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3RAyR 

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March 17, 2025 1 min

Hello and welcome to "The Slay Offs" podcast, a podcast where host and referee Ben Ellt has gathered the 10 most popular horror movies from two different years to act as representatives for a battle for the ages in a tournament bracket to determine which year will reign supreme and ultimately be crowned "The Best Year for Horror Movies" starting with the "Golden Age"(1960-Present).

 

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