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.

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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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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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May 26, 2025 36 mins

Today on The Horror Sanctum we are talking Clown In A Cornfield, the newest hit slasher film based on the novel by Adam Cesare. This is the story of a new girl in a fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying killer.

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May 19, 2025 30 mins

Today in the horror sanctum we are joined for the first time by our newest surprise co-host, and we are talking Deadstream, the 2022 Shudder original found footage horror comedy that is a loving homage to the Evil Dead franchise, directed by married couple, Joseph and Vanessa Winter. It's a wild and fun ride full of deadites and social media likes, so strap a go pro to your head and join us in the sanctum for this wild romp int...

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May 12, 2025 27 mins

This week in the sanctum we talk all things AI and when relationships get overly complicated in the recent thriller starring Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher, Companion. It's a tight and taught, action-packed flick with nods to genre classics like Terminator 2.


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May 5, 2025 28 mins

After having Psycho Goreman himself, Matthew Ninaber, bring his new movie, A Knight's War, into the Sanctum, we decided to dish out Psycho Goreman from our hallowed bucket of mystery films and dish on it. This was Kelan's first watch ever... Will he love it, hate it, or meh it? Tune in to find out on this fun romp through the galaxy with lot of splatter to go around.


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Joe Castro is a living legend to independent horror filmmaking as a practical special effects make up artist, director, producer, screenwriter...the man has done it all and continues to be prolific in the genre we all know and love. He is our esteemed guest in the sanctum this week where we discuss much of his career and a little about his most recent film he's promoting, Unspeakable, Beyond the Wall of Sleep.


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Today in the sanctum, we are joined by our friend, actress and sfx artist, Kaylie Mahoney Guerrero who brought one of her favorite films of all time for us to talk about, the 1973 William Friedkin directed classic, The Exorcist. It's the film that terrified moviegoers of our parents' generation, but how does it hold up to the scrutiny of the sanctum?


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We are honored to have a true Ice Man on the show with us in the sanctum today, Shawn Ashmore, promoting his most recent horror film, It Feeds (2025), directed and written by Chad Archibald. It is a real creepy one, kinda like It Follows meets Insidious. A real good time. Shawn also talks with us about some of his other career genre including Adam Green's Frozen (2009) and The Ruins (2008).


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April 7, 2025 31 mins

This week on the Sanctum, we take on the latest dark comedy horror sensation, The Monkey, based on a Stephen King short story that definitely has no relation to the 1988 film, Monkey Shines which is based on a Non-Stephen King Novel, even though TJ for reasons unknown to all thought it was somehow. No, this Osgood Perkins film is bonkers in tone and is like a dark comedy version of Final Destination only without any real precogniti...

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March 31, 2025 23 mins

Today on the sanctum, we bring for your viewing consideration the 63 minute long youtube found footage movie produced by a couple of pranksters about a couple of pranksters (Very Meta, huh?) except their pranks go horribly and sometimes comically wrong. How wrong, does it go?...you may ask. Well, check out our hot and variable takes on this 2024 found footage film, and witness a good prank gone bad as well as a few in depth diatrib...

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Today in the sanctum we welcome Director Matthew Ninaber, known to horror fans as the man behind the makeup of Psycho Goreman, and star Kristen Kaster to talk about their latest film available now on Video On Demand TVOD services, A Knight's War. A Knight's War draws on heavy influences from everything from popular video games and The Edge of Tomorrow to Dante's Inferno, The Bible, and The Book of Enoch. It's a love...

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March 17, 2025 40 mins

On this lucky charmed kinda day in the Sanctum we celebrate with all the wee lads and lasses the ol' day of good ol' Saint Patrick in the only way we know how...with goofy gore and mayhem led by Willow, I mean Wicket the Ewok, I mean Larry the Leprechaun...whatever his name is...he does have a name right?...he's not just a leprechaun, that's gotta be some kind of racist I'd assume. Anyhoo, we enjoy breaking down...

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We are happy today to have our guest, Ryan Barton Grimley, creator, actor, writer, and director of Hawk and Rev, Vampire Slayers and the very personal thriller, Listen Carefully. Ryan is a funny guy with good instincts and has made a couple interesting and fun films that we were happy to chat with him about.


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