Ahh! Real Films

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we cove maybe the best horror anthology series of all time, V/H/S! We discuss the franchise, its history, and its future (HUH) before discussing our respective top 5 segments. How has V/H/S re-invigorated the horror anthology and found footage space? Who are some of the series' strongest directors? Which V/H/S film is the strongest overall? What do L...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we grab something FROM THE SHELF, namely our shelves of DVDs and Blu Rays! After a few heavy hitter episodes, we thought we’d take a week to kick back and watch some of the titles in our collections that we’ve neglected (a nice way of saying that we bought something and then subsequently didn’t watch it – oops!) and, as it turns out, perhaps we shouldn’t ...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we cover THREE films based on Bram Stoker's iconic novel, "Dracula." Our films cover over 60 years of film-making and are only explore different interpretations of the Dracula story, but are done in wildly different styles. Fun! What makes the Dracula story so timeless and desirable for screen adaptation? Which depictions of Dracula are mos...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we delve into the strange and truly wonderful world of David Lynch. We discuss his career, his influences, his style, and, of course, some of his greatest films! Rest in Power, Dave. Why does the baby in Eraserhead remind both of us of our cats? Is Naomi Watts “stunningly beautiful”? Does calling a woman beautiful make you gay? And why are so many women “...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Curtis and Taylor as we bring your our – and your – favorite episode of the year, our Top 10 of 2024. Horror is SO BACK in 2024 and we discuss what a knockout year it was, the breadth and depth of films that came out, and take a trip down memory lane before recounting our top 10 horror FILMS of the year. What was your favorite horror film of 2024? Does Curtis announce a grandio...

HO! HO! HO! and Merry Christmas! to all ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we delve back into our favorite holiday – for the seventh (!) year in a row – Christmas! And boy are we totally not scraping the bottom of the barrel here as we discuss an entry from our FAVORITE (and I do mean favorite) Christmas series and an underseen early 2000s gem set on Christmas Eve. We also discuss our perfect Chri...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we keep the holiday spirit flowing from Thanksgiving to Christmas and cover films based on less popular holidays. We discuss the phenomenon of horror films being based around holidays before getting into our two (slasher) films! Why are holiday-based films so popular, and why are those based on Christmas and Thanksgiving more common? How do slasher films ...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we dive into our (semi) annual Thanksgiving episode but this time with a little twist. We are covering films actually about or reminiscent of Black Friday, the biggest day for shopping in the U.S.! We cover the history of Black Friday (non-American listeners, listen up!!) before covering our films. Where did the term "Black Friday" come from? Ho...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we delve into the realm of the real… real stories that is, or “based on a true story,” as some would say. We discuss our society’s fascination with seeing “real life” stories depicted on screen, the problems associated with “real life stories” being depicted on screen, and the ways in which these types of stories have warped our sense of history and reali...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we engage in one of our favorite episodes every year, our Halloween coverage episode! That's right germs we know you are on the edge of your seat waiting for this year's Halloween recs well, ask and ye shall receive!! What did we watch this Halloween season? What do we like to do to get into the Halloween spirit? Was our Halloween spirit interru...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we delve, somehow for the first time, in the psychological horror subgenre. Believe it or not, while we’ve covered a ton of individual psychological horror films as part of other episodes, we’ve never dedicated a whole episode to one of our favorite sub-genres of horror… until now! Welp, here you go listeners, enjoy our various musings, contemplations, an...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we discuss a creepy crawly topic--body invasion horror! But because we love to be different no we are NOT covering any of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers movies (rest in power Donald Sutherland). We discuss the common imagery and themes of these films before discussing two VERY similar films. You COULD say one inspired the other, but that's not te...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we continue tackle a topic 40+ years in the making – that’s right, we’re covering Siskel and Ebert’s famous “Women in Danger” episode. In that episode, our boys Siskel and Ebert (or “Rog” as we call him) absolutely savage the 80s slasher, decrying them as misogynistic and violent towards women, even suggesting the fans of these movies are “vicarious sex c...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we continue our Trilogy Throwdown series with the first three The Purge films. We take a look at one of the more recent franchises, discuss its political themes, and chat all things Blumhouse. What is The Purge, exactly? Why do people gravitate towards murder when told they can commit any crime? What is wrong with the libs? How do you pronounce Juárez? Li...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Curtis and Taylor as we check in on 2024 and discuss two new releases as well as some of the movies we’ve enjoyed this year. Yep, it’s our now-annual current year check in, and thankfully, unlike a few years past, it’s actually been a great year for horror – wow! Does that include the movies we’re covering especially for this episode? How long can a crocodile live? Does thinkin...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Curtis and Taylor as we discuss 1950s sci-fi movies, specifically those with a Red Scare subtext (which most of them had!) We discuss that period of American history and say a lot of VERY intelligent things before diving into our two films. How did the Red Scare, fear of nuclear war, and the blacklist show up in 50s films? What are some common subtexts during other periods of h...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Curtis and Taylor today as we venture into the great unknown, where horrors lurk around every corner – outer space! Specifically, we discuss two movies on the extreme opposites in how they approach the concept of horror in space – one philosophical, one… um, not. Surprisingly, we’ve covered very few horror movies set in space in our time, so we had fun diving into a setting tha...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we bring back our much beloved Director Feature series with the one, the only, Rob Zombie! (Or as we like to call him, Booby Z). We enter into previously un-discussed waters as, and this is true, we have never covered a Rob Zombie film before. Listen to two industrial metal heads talk about Rob Zombie's transition to MORE HUMAN THAN A HUMAN to, filmm...

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Curtis and Taylor as we finish up our Scary Month of May (SMOM, as we’ve coined it) on the final day of the month – a little late for our normal schedule, but extra dramatic for our gimmick (which is, of course, what matters). We’ve discussed scary movie moments… we’ve discussed what other people have said is the scariest movie of all time… now it’s our turn, our time to discus...