Cadaver Dogs
What’s so scary about scary movies? Three filmmaker friends dissect horror films to uncover their deeper meanings and cultural influences. We’ll analyze and review your favorite frights: from classic monsters to newer chills; popcorn blockbusters to indie darlings; B-movie slashers to paranormal haunts; and grindhouse gore to psychological thrillers. The Cadaver Dogs will sniff out the real reasons why you love these flicks that gave you nightmares as a kid.
Episodes
Announcing Next Month's Films:
HOUSE (1977 Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Available on HBO Max
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HOUSE (1985 Dir. Steve Miner)
Available on Pluto, Sling, Roku and Youtube Premium
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Don't you wish you could just forget the past? Every generation has its skeletons in the closet, too bad we they sometimes come out. We're covering two films this month with a twist, they have the same title! This is HOUSE 1977, also known as Housu, and HOUS...
Move over Ant-Man: David and Rob are discussing the original shrinking Scott, of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957). In director Jack Arnold and writer Richard Matheson’s scifi classic, a man exposed to stray radiation begins to steadily shrink, as his humanity is stripped away layer by layer. What makes a man, a man? We’re talking emasculation and the artificiality of the American Dream.
Meanwhile, jumping across the Pacific, GOD...
Announcing next month's films:
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957, dir. Jack Arnold) - available to rent on Amazon.
GODZILLA (1954, dir. Ishiro Honda) - available to stream on HBO Max, Pluto TV, or Crackle.
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The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens, ended World War II, and initiated the nuclear arms race that continues to this day. Yet the world carried on. A decade la...
The Mother Shelley of all questions: who is the monster - the creature or the man who made them? Or, in this episode, who is the barbarian and who is the muse??
Looking back at two top films from the past year, the Cadaver Dogs examine how the post #metoo era is presented in horror… through a male perspective. Travis Stevens’ artistic film A WOUNDED FAWN (starring Josh Ruben of Werewolves Within and Scare Me) sends us to a time wh...
Announcing next month's films:
BARBARIAN (2022, dir. Zach Cregger) - available on HBOMax.
A WOUNDED FAWN (2022, dir. Travis Stevens) - available on Shudder.
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#MeToo changed the film industry, society, and of course, horror. Next month, the Dogs are diving yet again into gender politics to analyze men's response to #MeToo through horror films. How did male filmmakers represent gendered terror through their male leads and female ...
Are you really going to re-use those needles? That’s the question we ask in this episode of Cadaver Dogs podcast where we cover not one but two reboots of classic horror franchises. First up, EVIL DEAD (2013), the Fede Alvarez remake of the Sam Raimi Classic. Does the classic cabin turned demon rehab hold up to the original violent entry? Second, we chain ourselves up for HELLRAISER (2022), the 11th entry and newest reboot of the C...
The Dogs are giving their top 3 horror films of the year! Our unique tastes gave quite a spread, but which two films made it on multiple lists? In addition to toasting our favs, we chat about what films we missed in 2022 (and hope to binge in the days before the new year!), as well as what movies we're most looking forward to in 2023.
00:59 - Movies We’ve Seen Recently
05:28 - Number 3s
11:52 - Number 2s
18:40 - Number 1s
22:04 - W...
Announcing Next Month's Films:
HELLRAISER (2022 Dir. David Bruckner)
available on Hulu
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EVIL DEAD (2013 Dir. Fede Alvarex)
available on Hulu
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It's the new year 2023 when this episode drops. Stay sober mutts as we're covering drug addiction in our newest episode Re-Used Needles! Watch these reboots in the meantime to prepare.
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The power of Christ compels you!
To celebrate the holidays, the Cadaver Dogs have a conversation about God… or rather, about a couple of horror films that are quite sold on “God is real.” THE EXORCIST (1973) is one of the most acclaimed movies in the genre, but does the plot basically boil down to an embrace of Catholic ideologies, or is there something deeper? As a film in the 70s, we will also bring in the Satanic Panic, as well ...
Announcing next month's films:
THE EXORCIST (1973, dir. William Friedkin) - available to stream on HBO Max.
THE CONJURING (2013, dir. James Wan) - available to stream on HBO Max and for free on Tubi.
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You ever notice how so many horror films seem to revolve around Judeo-Christian ideologies? We have. And we want to talk about that. If the Devil is real, so is God. And indeed, through the process of exorcism, these films teach u...
Wait you're not Rob! You’re David in Rob’s body!
This week we cover all things body swapping and Racial appropriation as our protagonists guard themselves against the evil of stealing their life and body! Devin and David go it alone this month first venturing to New Orleans with the hoodoo horror THE SKELETON KEY and following it up with the Oscar winning smash hit GET OUT. Hope they don’t stumble through these racially interested ...
Announcing next month's films:
GET OUT (2017, dir. Jordan Peele) - available for rent on all platforms.
THE SKELETON KEY (2005, dir. Iain Softley) - available for free on Peacock and to rent on all platforms.
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Horror has always been a way to talk about our issues with othering - through gender, traits, and race. Next month, the Dogs will talk about the representation of race in these films. We'll cover cultural appropriation, c...
A curse on you and your family! JK JK That’d be pretty terrible wouldn’t it?
This month, the Cadaver Dogs explore two films dealing with ancient curses in which main characters trade their humanity - or lose it - and become a beast of vengeance! Starting way back to the classic Universal horror movie that started Hollywood’s love for werewolves with THE WOLF MAN (1941, dr. George Waggner). David, Devin, and Rob look at how WWII in...
Announcing next month's films:
THE WOLF MAN (1941, dir. George Waggner) - available for rent on all platforms.
PUMPKINHEAD (1988, dir. Stan Winston) - available for free on Tubi and Pluto TV.
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Get into the Halloween spirit as the Cadaver Dogs take a deep dive on curses! From the golden age of Universal monsters to the 80s boom of slasher and B-horror, doom, gloom, and premonition have persevered... but why? Why do these myths o...
Back to where it all began… Camp Crystal Lake, otherwise known as Camp Blood. This is FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980). Slasher films are often discussed as a genre, but in 80s America they were also a movement, a response to the politics of the day. That’s right, we’re talking Ronald Reagan! Sex is sin, and teens who reject abstinence and fail to “say no to drugs” are the perfect victims for the Voorhees family.
Then, we’re jumping ahead to...
Remember the first horror movie that terrified you so bad you had to sleep with your parents? Or the one that made you go "wait a minute... I actually love horror!" The Dogs think back to those early days and recall the films that started it all and just what it is we love about horror... with with special guest Ava Fields of Apt Horror. We also go off topic and rant about the bad rap horror fans get, filmmaking at its finest, and ...
Announcing next month's films:
FRIDAY THE 13th (1980, dir. Sean S. Cunningham) - available for free on Amazon Prime and Pluto TV.
X (2022, dir. Ti West) - available for rent on all platforms.
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It's back to school in your horror homeroom! The Cadaver Dogs look at the original rules of a slasher and how they have advanced with the modern age. Starting with the original slasher era from the 1970s - 1980s to the latest craze with t...
Horror has always been an outlet for political discussions during a time of crisis. This includes the decades-long abortion debate - how has horror covered this controversial topic?
The Cadaver Dogs delve deep inside THE UNBORN CHILD, aka SOP DEK 2002 (2011) where they discuss the true abortion incident that inspired the Thai horror film (and also murdering ghost babies). Fact or propaganda! Only you can tell. Followed by the cla...
Announcing next month's films:
IT'S ALIVE (1974, dir. Larry Cohen) - available to rent on Amazon, Google, Apple and Vudu.
THE UNBORN CHILD / SOP DEK 2002 (2011, dir. Poj Arnon) - available for free on Youtube and on Amazon Prime with a Toku subscription.
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Horror has always been an outlet for political discussions during a time of crisis. This includes the decades-long abortion debate. The Dogs look at how other cultures have di...
Female power? Women having… a voice?? They must be the spawn of the devil! It’s an important time to talk about a woman’s autonomy and her right to choose. But unfortunately, it’s always been a controversial topic.
The Cadaver Dogs analyze two horror films from two different decades and discuss how they portray the monstrous female. We also play our favorite game: Is This Film Feminist? First up is the original CARRIE (directed by...
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