Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast

What if some dude who liked to make people feel bad directed a home invasion film that he felt showcased important elements of what's wrong with society, but confused which thing was more important to him along the way, but still managed to make a near masterpiece in the process? That's not rhetorical, I'm asking you. Please tell me. If you aren't familiar with Funny Games, you might want to read up on it a little before diving in....

Two drippy knuckleheads go on stiltingly at length about a movie about a variety of drippy knuckleheads doing stuff? Nah, just kidding! It's another scholarly deep dive into the overlooked marginalia and mise-en-scène hidden behind every frame of every shot of every horror film pretending not to be an exemplar of high art. That's right, it's Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast, and this time we're covering Macon Blair's 2023 r...

What happens when a spoiled no-talent musician is told by his paid support network that he'd be great at making movies despite not actually being very familiar with cinema? You can a the Durstiest of all episodes of Loathsome Things: A Biscuit-limpening podcast wherein two old fat white dudes pretend to operate a podcast while complaining about things of no interest to listeners and also maybe talking about horror movies or somethi...

Gabe Bartalos gave us the Christmas gift that keeps on giving: a wild ride inside his traumatized dream-art. You got your dreamscape classics, boning a lady covered in bones, being rescued by stop-motion hair-stick-guys, wine-guzzling cigar cops, sexually abusive uncles with mega-demon pants-junk, Andy Jackson and Abe Lincoln teaming up against Benny Franklin to symbolize... maybe people with less money rising up and destroying the...

It's our most Christ-centric episode of Loathsome Things since the great Christmas celebration of Mel Gibson's Passion! This time, we review a little crowd-funded Christian Thriller about a pastor, his church-wife, their small, creepy, non-church-going neighbor, and an actually surprising ending that... no one really knows what it means... and isn't that just the most God-like thing after all? Content Warning: profanity, heresy, b...

Before he was re-imagining Satanic Panic through the lens of a washed-up Cage-y rock star, Osgood Perkins was down for some woke re-telling of a fable so littered with bad horror movies, it's no wonder people didn't pay attention to this one. Here, we get a feminist Hansel and Gretel story with some BRON-tastic visual, a sprinkling of Jodorowsky-sky-sky inspo, and a nod to the "Potato Famine" being a wealth-induced massacre rather ...

A bunch of teenaged girls have a sleepover while other teenaged girls on the same street aren't invited. Who else isn't invited, you ask? Why, a slew of men! You've got creepy neighbors, peeping tom goons dry-humping each other while watching the girls change clothes, an insistent boyfriend with a glandular problem you can see, and, oh yeah, an escaped serial killer with a taste for denim and an enormous magic drill that doesn't co...

Take some inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft's “The Dreams in the Witch House,” add a a pinch of The Raid, a huge bag of pills stolen from mobsters, make it about women, and you've got yourself a soup going! This is a horror movie hidden gem, and if you don't like it, you're a poo-poo-head! It's Loathsome Things: A Podcast that isn't afraid to call people a poo-poo-head for not sharing our opinions of horror movies.

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Two slim, lithe, youthful, excitable, exuberant, perky, naked, lesbian, erotic, sexy, hot, teen, shrill, possessed nuns have to figure out what kind of a movie they're supposed to be in between bouts of directionless shrieking, tit-play, and unleashing the full bush. It's one of the originals of nunsploitation, it's very nearly unbearable to watch, and John and Josh both loved it, as did Guillermo del Toro, so we made fun of him fo...

What does Planet of the Apes and a Van Helsing analog traveling to Transylvania have in common with titanium orgy werewolves and bad mod music? Apparently, it's Sybil Danning getting topless only once, and yet also somehow 18 times. That doesn't make sense, and yet you'll understand exactly what that means when you tune in to this episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast that continues to compare nipples to pizza topping...

The epitome of 21st century takes on 20th century _ from space movies, this James Gunn classic references Henelotter, Tremors, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, The Toxic Avenger, Goosebumps, Alien, Predator, Society, Shivers, and possibly even Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The make-up and practical effects pair perfectly with 2006's digital effects and the over-the-ham acting of Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Ro...

At the intersection of feminism and cryptozoology, you'll find many a shattered and sympathetic character, along with more than your typical number of meta-physical portals to other realities and men trying to keep you from realizing your inner power. There's also an abundance of white, murky slime and confusingly sensual canals. Learn the deepest secrets of womanhood while listening to two overweight bearded men sigh and wheeze on...

For our next creative writing exercise, we're going to explore a social occasion you're familiar with. Think of a time you spent with other people where you made yourself or were made emotionally vulnerable, then launch away from the factuality of that occasion, and instead pilot it towards the style of storytelling you've been most interested in lately and stretch the truth you remember with the truth you're trying to achieve. It'...