The Final Podcast

A political leader and his wife start to believe something is wrong with their son and that he may be the son of the devil.

We're starting off The Kids Aren't Alright month with The Omen. This is a movie where there's definitely a kid and he's nowhere near alright. Gregory Peck stars in this film and he's one of a few strong performances in a movie that has bizarre characters, crazy events, and creepy deaths...

A couple head to a cabin vacation home following a wedding and while experiencing relationship issues, they're surprised by masked intruders who make their night full of panic.

The Strangers is the movie of discussion for the finale of Home Invasion month. When this movie came out, there was a lot of hype surrounding how real it felt as a home invasion movie, primarily due to the lack of motive from the intruders. We're un...

A family who has profited off of selling security systems becomes the target of a violent, masked group during a 12-hour period called "The Purge" where all crime is legal.

Home Invasion month kicks into high gear this week as we discuss The Purge. Ethan Hawke and Lena Heady star in this crazy film that introduces a dystopian society that has implemented an annual 12-hour period where all crime is legal. The thought proces...

A loving husband and father stays behind while his family goes on vacation and he's visited by two young women at night, who are stranded in the rain. After showing them kindness and letting them in, the night turns deadly.

Knock Knock is next for Home Invasion month and while we don't think this movie is very good, we fully acknowledge how fun it is. Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo, and Ana de Armas star in this cat and mouse ...

Three young burglars break into the home of a blind war vet in an attempt to steal money, but soon realize he's more than capable of defending himself.

Don't Breathe is kicking off Home Invasion month and it's a movie that we saw in theaters upon release and are super happy to be revisiting it. After rewatching the movie, we still love how tense the movie becomes and how it makes you question who's worse as thing...

A secretary, on the lam for taking money from her employer, holes up at a California motel owned by a man and his overprotective mother.

Psycho is often referred to as a horror movie masterpiece. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this psychological horror stars Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, who owns a motel along with his mother. Without too much screen time and based on dialogue and reactions from Norman, mother is a controlling inf...

Teenagers experience unsetting tactics from the counselors at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp as murderer hunts the grounds.

They/Them is a very different type of horror movie as it blends elements of a teenage drama along with being a slasher. Kevin Bacon stars in this film as the head of a conversion camp, who has a welcoming smile, but a sinister way of handling the camp practices. The movie features some fun moments, but doesn't ...

A plastic surgeon applies his theory of synthetic skin that can withstand any damage on a mysterious woman, who unveils a more sinister plot.

Antonio Banderas stars in an absolutely crazy movie in every single way as we discuss The Skin I Live In. The story starts in a wild fashion as a well-known plastic surgeon is keeping a mysterious woman at his house, who he's experimenting on, but it actually gets even more insa...

Oskar, a young, bullied boy, forms a friendship with his new neighbor Eli, a young girl, who holds the secret of needing to consume blood.

Let the Right One In is a Swedish vampire, coming-of-age film based off the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist of the same name. This movie explores the challenges of navigating bullying, growing up, and finding friendship among the oddest of circumstances. While the movie deeply explores d...

A single mother adjusts to living in rural Ireland with her son, who starts to exhibit strange behavior that she believes is connected to a large hole in the middle of the forest behind their house.

The Hole in the Ground is the last movie in Staring into Holes month and was the movie that inspired the theme. While the story simply revolves around a mother's discovery of a mysterious hole in the ground and its potential effects...

A young girl finds herself trapped in her family's lake house while they're renovating and is haunted by a mysterious invader. 

In the fourth week of Staring into Holes month, we discuss Silent House, a psychological horror movie featuring Elizabeth Olsen in her first starring role. While this movie takes on the style of a continuous shot, it relies on acting and character developing to guide the narrative. Even though Ols...

A brother and sister travelling home for spring break are hunted by a creature who eats human flesh and is in the midst of its feeding season.

It's another month of Staring into Holes and it's time to discuss the long-awaited, Jeepers Creepers. One of Justin Long's earliest starring roles, Jeepers Creepers is a nostalgia trip for us. It introduces the Creeper, a creature that has a hunger for human flesh, sp...

When a young girl is chosen to be a sacrifice by a worshipped pit in her backwoods community, she fights to survive even at the expense of those around her.

Staring into Holes month continues with indie heater, Jug Face. This movie tells the unique story of a backwoods community that worships a pit in a forest. Sometimes when wrongdoing is amidst, the pit will call for a sacrifice, which is the case for the protagonist, Ad...

After a breakup and drowning out his sorrows outside of a rest stop, Wes finds himself locked inside a bathroom stall and in an otherworldly encounter with a mysterious entity in the neighboring stall. 

Staring into Holes month kicks off with Glorious, a cosmic, mystery horror film that takes place in a rest stop bathroom. This movie stars Ryan Kwanten who plays, Wes, who's feeling down after a breakup and finds himself locked ...

A video uncovers the torture of a woman over 10 horrific stages by two men.

In the last week of Fucked Up February 2026, we discuss Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment, a found footage style movie and a film that is not for the faint of heart. This movie has had a lot of hype due to the graphic nature of a woman being tortured over 10 different stages throughout the duration that escalate in their gruesomeness.  While not a good mov...

A killer gathers more sick and twisted degenerates to continue the violent rampage and capture everything on camera.

Another week of Fucked Up February and we discuss another extremely fucked up movie. This week, it's August Underground's Mordum, which is the follow-up to the 2001 found footage horror movie, August Underground. In this one, they crank up the grotesque nature of the violence, bringing back a surviving kille...

A cleaner takes a corpse home to spark his romantic life and find fulfillment.

In Fucked Up February, anything can happen including the combination of necrophilia and romance. Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantik is a shock value horror movie that is a response to movie censorship at the time and explores desensitization to violent and disgusting cinema. The film blends comedy and horror in a unique way that will shock audiences, whil...

The events of a tragic night in Paris are unveiled in reverse.

Irreversible is the first move of Fucked Up February for 2026 and it's a strong start to an always disturbing month. Gaspar Noe's camerawork, lighting, and creative storytelling are on full display in this movie as he reveals the horror of one night's events in reverse, creating more shock as the movie continues. Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel star and...

Teens headed to a football game find themselves holed up in an almost abandoned town with an odd wax museum.

It's the 300th episode and to cap off Mike G's Wet Dream Month, we are discussing House of Wax. This movie is a loose remake of House of Wax from 1953 and that movie is a remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum from 1933. As a movie that often gets some hate, we've always said it's one of the more underrated h...