Cult Macabre
A Phantasmagoric Guide to Pop Culture's Dark Side. Join hosts Li and Richie for topics including Horror/Cult Films, Creepypasta, Cryptids, Hauntings, Urban Legends, and more!
Episodes
On this episode, we talk about the British independent slasher film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, as voted for by our listeners! It follows Pooh and Piglet, who have become feral murderers, as they terrorize a group of young university women and Christopher Robin when he returns to the Hundred Acre Wood five years after leaving for college. Is this a bad movie, or a "so-bad-it's-good" movie? Listen and find out what we thought.
...On this episode, we take a look at a different iterations of the legend of Bloody Mary, including a rather humorus one. Don't say it three times..this ain't no Beetlejuice.
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On today's episode, we talk about the 1997 Horror film 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillipe. Often discussed alongide Scream (1996) and sharing the same screenwriter, Kevin Williamson, this film was a hugely influential part of the Teen Slasher boom of the late 1990's. Although not receiving universal critical acclaim upon release, it is now c...
On this episode, we take a look at El Chupacabra, a legendary creature, or cryptid, in the folklore of parts of the Americas. The name comes from the animal's purported vampirism and its origins date back to 1975.
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On today's episode we talk about 1985's A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, starring Mark Patton. Taking on more of a Possesion/Body Horror theme, this sequel follows a teenage boy haunted by Freddy Krueger, who’s out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
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On today's episode, we begin our internship with the SCP Foundation by discussing SCP-294 (Object Class: Euclid), aka "The Coffee Machine."
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On today's episode, we talk about the Demon Cat of D.C., a ghost cat who is purported to haunt the government buildings of Washington, D.C.
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On this week's episode we talk about Charles Band's Stoner Comedy-Horror film Evil Bong, Starring Tommy Chong (no, we didn't rhyme that on purpose).
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We are back with another Creepypasta reading! Today we read and talk about Dial Tone, written by Redditor iia. It tells the story of an author's reality seemingly being distorted by a land line phone in a cabin.
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We are back with more odd headlines on the April 2025 edition of our World Wide Weird series. Have you heard about any of these stories? Listen and find out!
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! On this episode we are talking about the 1993 Horror Comedy Cult Classic, "Leprechaun," starring Warwick Davis and a pre "Friends" Jennifer Aniston. Does the title character stand firmly alongside Freddy Krueger and Chucky? Listen in as we break the movie down!
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On today's episode, we talk about My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) starring Jensen Ackles. Does this remake of the 1981 Cult Classic still hold up? Did the 3D gimmick hinder it? All this and more are discussed.
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Today we kick off Season 2 with our discussion of The Rougarou, a shape-shifting monster from Cajun folklore that is said to live in the swamps of Louisiana.
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Today we discuss Nosferatu (2024), directed by Robert Eggers. Was this film a top contender for movie of the year? Does it hold up to or surpass the 1922 original? Where does it sit among Robert's prior films? Hear what we have to say about it and more. [Spoilers begin at 08:54]
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Build your best pillow fort and grab a snack as we talk about our first Creepypasta! Today's episode is on The Thing in the Fields, written by Joseph Baker aka Redditor Snake973. This tale recounts a man's childhood encounter with a mysterious being while living on his family's farm in rural Oregon.
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Happy ThanksKilling! Today we talk about Jordan Downey's 2008 Cult Slasher, ThanksKilling, starring TURKIE! With a budget of $3500.00, this spoof of low-budget horror films follows a group of college students who are terrorized by a killer possessed turkey.
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On today's episode, we are discussing the 2015 Horror video game Until Dawn, released originally on the PS4 console. We also talk about the upcoming 2025 film adaptation of the same name.
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On this episode, we discuss the Wendigo, a cannibalistic spirit resembling a zombie which was one of the worst curses to the Algonquian-speaking Native Americans of Canada.
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On the first edition of World Wide Weird, we look at weird news articles around the world published during October 2024.
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On this episode, we discuss the history of Halloween and how it has evolved from its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.
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