Horror Movie Weekly Ep. 179: The Substance (2024)

This might be the one you’ve been waiting for… or maybe the one you’ve been dreading. Perhaps our longest episode of Horror Movie Weekly, here in epic Episode 179, Jay of the Dead and Mister Watson bring you an in-depth, spoiler review of the Academy Award-winning Horror film, The Substance (2024), with the Herculean help of special guest Kagan “The Fruit Brute” Breitenbach! During this episode, you will hear Kagan refer to this Body Horror movie as “The Cultural Horror Film of the Year,” while The Fruit Brute also refers to Jay of the Dead as “The Harvey Weinstein of Horror Podcasting”… As you might have guessed, this is indeed a “Mister Watson pick,” naturally. And we also bring you four our famous Micro Horror Movie Reviews! Join us — and if not you, then perhaps the younger version of yourself that emerges from the fluid of your spinal column.

Notes: Remember, this is a full-blown spoiler review of “The Substance.” Also, while this podcast is typically “clean” or “non-explicit,” this particular episode does have a bit of “salty language.” And finally, this episode was recorded on February 6, 2025, and released on August 12, 2025. All Kagan’s fault, of course.

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This weekly Horror movie podcast brings you one recent Horror movie review every Sunday. (As noted previously, we’re defining “recent” as any Horror movie released within the last five years or the current year; so now that it’s 2024, we’ll be covering Horror films from 2019 to the present.) And we always reveal next week’s pick at the end of every show, so you can watch along with us and be prepared for the following episode. Thanks for listening!