The Horror Sanctum Podcast

The Horror Sanctum Podcast

Hello my brothers and sisters in SINema, and welcome to The Horror Sanctum Podcast, a biweekly simulcast dedicated to all things horror. Join me, Jay and co-hosts John, Kelan and TJ as we dissect horror films, from blockbusters to indie gems and everything in between.

Episodes

October 6, 2025 47 mins

When a school teacher suddenly has all her children but one wake up in the middle of the night and run out the door like airplanes to some unknown destination, a town gets turned upside down, and said teacher's life gets a lot more hectic. Today in the sanctum, we talk all things Weapons, the 2025 Zach Cregger follow up to his 2022 sleeper hit, Barbarian. So grab your clown makeup, your twigs, your hair, and spread your arms ou...

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Today on The Horror Sanctum we welcome actor Kue Lawrence, known for such films as Marshmallow, Sketch, and Unfrosted. A fun chat is had by all as we dig into the world of horror, his impressive resume at such a young age, and video games.




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September 22, 2025 31 mins

Today on The Horror Sanctum we review the latest film from newcomer horror directors Danny and Michael Philippou, Bring Her Back. The plot follows two step-siblings who find themselves orphaned and placed in the middle of an occult ritual by their new foster mother.



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September 15, 2025 36 mins

Today on The Horror Sanctum we talk about the film that started it all for Rob Zombie, the 2003 Halloween classic House of 1000 Corpses. The film is about two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder, but they end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.



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September 8, 2025 32 mins

Today on The Horror Sanctum we review the 2000 sci-fi horror film The Cell. The film follows a team of scientists as they use experimental technology to help a social worker enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to locate where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.


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September 1, 2025 55 mins

Today on The Horror Sanctum we discuss the 2004 film that started an entire subgenre....Saw. The film tells the story revolving around the mystery of the Jigsaw Killer, who tests his victims' will to live by putting them through deadly "games" where they must inflict great physical pain upon themselves to survive. The story follows Jigsaw's latest two victims who awaken in a large, dilapidated bathroom, with one b...

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August 25, 2025 53 mins

Today on The Horror Sanctum we welcome Troma team member and filmmaker Ben Johnson, director of Curse of the Weredeer, and we discuss the cult classic and quintessential Troma film....The Toxic Avenger (1984). The film is about the fictional town of Tromaville where The Toxic Avenger is born after meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose and Tromaville has a hero.


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August 18, 2025 38 mins

Today on The Horror Sanctum, we dig into the cult classic psychological horror film from 2001, Frailty. The film focuses on the strange relationship between two young brothers and their father, who believes that he has been commanded by God to kill demons disguised as people.


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August 11, 2025 41 mins

Today in the Sanctum, we talk The Blumhouse movie that's not a Blumhouse movie, the 2012 supernatural thriller, Sinister, starring national treasure, Ethan Hawke. It's a genuinely spooky film that combines a few genres and has a big bad that looks like a reject from Slipknot. Fun times had by all this week in the sanctum.


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Today on the sanctum, we interview the legendary Sandy Johnson who played Judith Myers in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), also infamously known as Michael Myer's First Kill. We talk all things Halloween and where she's been keeping herself the last 47 years. It's a fan talk with a little extra banter on the after show with the boys. Stay tuned.


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July 28, 2025 76 mins

Today in the Sanctum, we bring a barn-burner of an epic dramatic horror period piece, Ryan Coogler's Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan in two different roles, playing twin brothers as well as anyone ever has. This film has it all: hoodoo, vampires, mobsters, tommy guns, blues music, barns, boose, dancing, time-traveling music. What more do you want in a Saturday night movie that you can probably take a non-horror date to?


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July 21, 2025 37 mins

Today on The Horror Sanctum Podcast we cover the latest installment in the Netflix Fear Street Series, Fear Street: Prom Queen. Set in 1988, the plot focuses on a masked killer who targets the prom queen candidates of Shadyside High on the night of their senior dance.



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July 14, 2025 53 mins

Today on The Horror Sanctum Podcast we cover the divisive John Carpenter film Ghosts of Mars. Set on a colonized Mars in the 22nd century, the film follows a squad of police officers and a convicted criminal who fight against the residents of a mining colony who have been possessed by the ghosts of the planet's original inhabitants.



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July 7, 2025 27 mins

Today on The Horror Sanctum we are discussing the wonderful 2017 time loop slasher film Happy Death Day! The film follows college student Tree Gelbman, who is murdered on the night of her birthday but begins reliving the day repeatedly, at which point she sets out to find the killer and stop her death.



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Today in the sanctum, you know what you did last summer, and so do we. That's right, today we bring the late 90's slasher boom classic, I Know What You Did Last Summer, to the sanctum in all its 90's glory. 4 hot early 20-somethings playing 4 hot late teen somethings at the peak of their 90's powers, Jennifer Love Hewitt in peak Party of Five fandom, Sarah Michelle Gellar in her first year as Buffy the Vampire Slaye...

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June 23, 2025 89 mins

Today in the sanctum we welcome back our friend, Justin Beahm of Reverend Entertainment, who helmed the wonderful special edition release of 2019's Haunt for Ronin Flix where he is now on staff as producer. From the Writer/Directors of A Quiet Place, 65, and Heretic, Haunt is a great little gem of a horror film focused on haunted houses gone wrong, produced by Eli Roth. Justin finally helped to get a great edition of this moder...

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June 16, 2025 41 mins

Today on The Horror Sanctum we are the new horror video game adaptation Until Dawn! The story revolves around a group of friends trapped in a time loop, where mysterious foes chase and kill them in gruesome ways, and they must survive until dawn to escape it.


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June 9, 2025 51 mins

Today in the sanctum, we tackle David Fincher's neo noir masterpiece, Seven (1995) starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, and Gwyneth Paltrow., with our gal pal Julia Blakemore. It's a dark but wild ride covering all the deadly sins. So, strap in and let’s find out what’s in the box together.


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June 2, 2025 33 mins

Today in the horror sanctum we go back to summer camp, Gen Z horror summer camp that is with that tall skinny kid from Stranger Things and his pal who directed and wrote this homage to 80's camp slashers, Hell of a Summer. So, lather up your sunscreen, roll up your cut off jeans, and dive into the lake with us for some fun summer scares.


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Full disclosure. This was a rare live show for us, and we had some technical issues, so enjoy this bonus where Jay and John sound great!


The show was on Fright Night, the 1985 vampire classic starring Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowell. It's primo 80's in all the best ways. It was the first time Kelan had ever seen it, and we get a run-in from a real life vampire on the show. So check it out, and forgive the audio mix. It's still...

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