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It's Decorative Halloween Episode Season, Motherfuckers!

  • Re-Animator (1985) 33
  • Cat People (1942 or 1982) 88
  • The Lost Boys (1987) 111
  • The Stepfather (1987) 6
  • Cujo (1983) 16
  • The Lair of the White Wyrm (1988) 25
  • The Watcher in the Woods (1980) 14
  • The Vanishing (1988) 14
  • Scream (1996) 126
  • It (1990 or 2017/19 version) 86
  • Near Dark (1987) 15
  • Cat's Eye (1985) 5
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 55
  • 2026-10-08
  • 594 votes
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Content

Last year, your hosts recorded a long two-part episode about horror films for spooky season. This year, we're looking to keep the tradition going -- there were a bunch of very worthy candidates we didn't get to last year, and lots of points that came up afterwards, including in the comment section on this very site. So, once again, it is your turn to give us homework!

Some of these are new entrants this year, some of these are also-rans from last year's poll. Feel free to comment with other movies/media you think we should look at! We'll pick something like three or four, probably around a theme, auteur, or time period (last year, it was the 70s) -- but the plan is to announce the specific films on here early, so you can all comment and watch along!

Comments

Lizbeth

Hell no to watching along. I like my sleep free from nightmares 😂

Tobias Heal

I've been waiting for this, I watched Devil's Advocate for the first time a few months back and figured I'd love to hear your takes on it

Cat P

Re Cat People, both versions are great, but it would be remiss to ignore the David Bowie/Grace Jones/Natasia Kinski trifecta because I mean come on.

Kimberly Rbn

Seconding the ‘42 edition!

Lorissa

Lost Boys Lost Boys Lost Boys!!

Joy

I have never heard anyone ever mention Reanimator and always thought I was somehow the only human being who ever sat through that awful movie!! IBWTR making me feel seen once again

In Bed With the Right

OMG I remember seeing that one in the theater and once Pacino launches into his big speech, I turned to my friend and said "should we be huffing glue for this?"

Matthew Tokarsky

The people demand “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge” with special guests Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed

Owen Symes

Night of the Hunter plz plz plz!

Lizbeth

Did you just change your name to Cat P or is that a mighty coincidence? 😂

Sarah Stella

I know it's a long shot but I would never say no to a typically bonkers Ken Russell outing in Lair of the White Worm.

Kriston

I vote a non horror year because I can't do horror! lol :) ya'll have fun! :D

Nina V~

i'm throwing my vote in with cat people, but these are all really solid choices shout out to "scream," the movie that got me into horror movies

In Bed With the Right

One of the hosts happens to be a huge H.P. Lovecraft ... well, not fan exactly, but reader

In Bed With the Right

Well, stay tuned, because we're gonna have a read-along later in the fall! And it won't be horror... it'll be weirder!

Roger Fortune

I don't watch horror movies unless they star Karoline Leavitt.

Kriston

Awwwyeah!

Charlie

For the sax guy alone

Jonah Ford

Not suggesting for the episode, but just a general movie recommendations that I think this crowd would love! - the Ready Or Not franchise (RON 1 & 2) - the Ti West horror franchise: X, Pearl, and Maxxxine

Fable

I think you all would have an amazing time and a metatextual field day watching Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, esp with a trans guest!

Sheridyn Villarreal

Throwing Videodrome and The Thing in the mix for an 80s episode!

Sierra Wilson

CRRRRRRYYYYYY little sister (thou shalt not faaaaalllll)

Dale

A Contemporary film I’d be interested in your thoughts on would be “the substance” though you may already have done this and it’s slipped my mind! I’m usually desperately waiting for the next episode after every one but after being away I got to listen to three in a row on my train from London today which was delightful! Though I am now back to desperately waiting 😅

Sierra Wilson

I want to rewatch it because there’s something homoerotic and so weird going on there that’s also going on lovecraft’s story. It’s revolting yet compelling.

Sierra Wilson

Deep dive!! Went on a lovecraft reading spree last year and it was really something

Maureen McCord

My favorite podcast knows about "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers." This is potentially life-changing. Colin Nissan, your work will live forever.

Colleen

Oh God seconding this. That movie was fabulous and would LOVE to hear Adrian and Moira discuss!

Matthew Tokarsky

Yes! Stephen king for sure and honestly, she’d be good for any of them

charlotte

ginger snaps ginger snaps ginger snaps (chanting)

Charley

The Changeling, 1980, with George C Scott 🙏

Sarah Jubinski

Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, please

Christinia Crippes

Seconding these choices, and would love an 80s theme this year!

Meowca

I went as Herbert West for Halloween a couple years ago early in my transition so it holds a special place in my heart LOL

Fable

I got to see it in a one-screen theatre filled to the brim with other dykes and trans people and it was the best movie experience everrrr ❤️‍🔥

Mayara Pereira

Please, get Sarah on for any of it!!

Louzie

Can you watch+discuss a B-movie, please?? like: - Curse of the Queerwolf (1988) (I know, I suggested this one already last year) - Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1972)

Ben Schwabe

Cat's Eye and Cat People (1982 because I never saw the original). It's a theme! Everyone loves themes.

Lucie Grant

it's gotta be the Lost Boys for the mullets, right?

Samar Al Summary

On a somewhat tangential point, I would love to hear you all discuss Lynch's work. For example, FBI director's oogling of Agent Tammy in The Return feels self aware and self critical but also there is never humanization or three dimensional version given of her, which feels complicated, but also in a way that feels more honest and not pandering to liberal tastes. Her flatness is in keeping with how flat she seems to her male coworkers, who see her great ass and her forever professional demeanor (and god tier pouting). She is plainly objectified and plainly good at her job.

coolguybrad

Torn between Lost Boys and Scream!

Evan Sagerman

Near Dark is a genuinely good movie. A terrifying coda to your road trip movie theme.

Ben Sanders

Would love to hear you cover Night of the Comet (1984).

Karen Cox

I voted for Cat People because we’re feminists and should always ally with cats!

Joy

Love Herbert West, I bet that was a great costume! Reanimator would hold a special place in my heart if it didn’t contain one of the most disturbing rape scenes I’ve ever seen on film! (Would make for great IBWTR content just saying)

Jeanne H-B

I have a soft spot for Jeffrey Combs, (Star Trek nerd, me), but I still have not seen Reanimator!

Jeanne H-B

Cat People 1942, please. I still have apartment envy for Irena's magnificent flat (much of it repurposed sets from The Magnificent Ambersons, IIRC). Single woman artist in Manhattan affords huge, fancy flat? That's the bigger mystery than her fabled feline family.

nonyadamn

Off topic but happy Bostein is out of Bard! Moira must be happy and of course I vote nightmare on elm street-👻

Chase Coney

I'd be so interested to hear the pods take on "It". I read it a long time ago but I've always had a tough relationship with the usual discourse around the ending. I don't want to spoil anything, but I often see the ending get discussed in an inflammatory, one dimensional way. My memory of reading it was that I found it tender, moving, and justified by the plot but I seem to be in the severe minority. I'm totally prepared to be wrong but I'd enjoy some thoughtful commentary on it.

Jeanne H-B

Oh, my, yes! One of the greatest movies ever. My sister's favorite film. A road movie on a river; a charming, terrifying, singing, nomadic, murderous preacher; a fable; a psychological study; a Depression tale; it has tent revivals, a Model T, Lillian Gish, orphans, and the weird, haunting "Pretty Fly" song. It looks like no other 1955 film, either. Truly great movie.

Sarah

Yes, the original Cat People is the only choice!

Jenny Egg

80s cat people incest analysis please I’m begging / do both versions??? Comparative film analysis and adaptation discussions are so fun!

Elizabeth M Sieminski

The original Vanishing (NOT the American remake) is absolutely terrifying, but not in a supernatural way. In a very real way.

Ber Diville

Please 🙏 re-animater 🙏 🙏

Hudson Powers

I would love it if you guys did Obsession! So many interesting themes around gender and sexual politics.

Sophia McAleer-Forte

Cat People!! Would love to hear y’all talk about the 1942 one

J Gracie

Yesss!!!! I proposed this in a different thread ( I am out of touch and don't know where to leave episode suggestions), because I truly believe they'd have a ball with it. And also, what a fun, weird romp of a movie!

MeanMo

Also voted for Cat People because I found it be a creepy, scary film.

Laura R

A vote for Only Lovers Left Alive.

Bea

It's a travesty this is not on the list

Holly

it’s never going to win, but THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS WOULD BE fucking EPIC!!!

RB

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

CaturdayMatinee

Joining the fellow commenters also suggesting you look at Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma 🙂

Kemplify

The Vanishing is scary as shit but in a unique way.

Amanda Lyman

I was suuuper traumatized by A Watcher in the Woods as a kid, but not by Lost Boys funnily enough. I love Alex Steed’s description of the Lost Boys’ looks on You Are Good as 80s vampires as envisioned by Andrew Lloyd Weber😂

Amanda Lyman

I was so scared by that movie as a kid

Beavis

The Vanishing, if we only get one!

jacq

I want to wish moira a happy intl lesbian day from a fellow lesbian & to also add jennifer’s body into the mix of movie choices in light of the holiday

Katie

I would love to hear Moira and Adrian’s takes on Possession (Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani 1981), The Hunger (Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie 1983), and/or Vampire’s Kiss (Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso 1988). Especially if they bring in Andrea Subassati and Andrea West from The Faculty of Horror podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faculty-of-horror/id591499834)

Hannah Kent

Voting for the it movies so you can dive into the coke fueled id of Stephen king!

Laurel Hall

I, too, am a non-horror person! But I still love hearing Moira and Adrian talk about them, somehow!

Coco

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma - it’s new but full of material.

Coco

This had my vote too! So so so good

Dave Taylor

A Shame Ginger Snaps isn't on there. I went for Near Dark, not nearly enough people have seen it.

Dave Taylor

Inseparable performance from Heat: "She's got a GREAT ASS ... and you're all the way up it!"

Dave Taylor

I like the film but Jeffrey Combs audiobook reading of the original story is way creepier.

Ted Delphos

Here are a few other ideas: Two lyrical depictions of motherhood and its interaction with the healthcare system: "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) and "The Omen" (1976) "The Stepford Wives" (1975 or 2004). Apparently there are some people in the world who think the Stepford method is actually a positive vision for women? "The Red Turtle" (2016) but only if you share my view that it's a horror movie

Murphy

omg I could NOT sleep after seeing Cat's eye for a year I was afraid of that little troll-thing.

Murphy

and the how to stop smoking thing, is kinda crazy

Lizbeth

Will deffo listen with joy and ignorance!

Sam Maloney

Lost Boys! We need to up this podcasts gay subtext. Also the Musical just came out like a few months ago so it’s topical.

Sophia

The Vanishing (not the remake)

Sophia

Val Lewton = genius

Meep Matsushima

I misread the title of the post at first and I kind of hoped you were doing an episode about the gendered history of Halloween decorations.

Russell Belding

I’m guessing if last year you did the 70s you included Wicker Man, but if not, I’d definitely enjoy you doing it this year.

Nicole Sonneveld

Bonus point for Videodrome is that it’s under 90 minutes. Long live the new flesh!

pixlaw

Either Lair or the later Cat People, but the latter mostly because I want to hear you guys discuss exactly how hot Nastassja Kinsky is. Is it possible to rate her hotness on the Fahrenheit scale, or do we need to move to Celsius? Also, as a bonus, Ed Begley Jr. getting his arm pulled off. How great is that?

Area Woman

Did you already do "Carrie"? Because I would love your take on thst one.

Area Woman

Also consider "They Live".

Cate Kneale

Where are all my Lair of the White Wyrm enjoyer friends at?

Sam D.

Omg- we NEED a review from you folks about Obsession, released this year... and all the discourse surrounding it!

Astraea

They did! It's one of the movies they covered in last year's horror-movie episodes. Look for "The Powers of Horror (Film)" parts 1 and 2 on the episode list.

J Phoebus

Voted It because I need a Stephen King dissection from you all

Sh@dow

Shivers/The Brood. The Company of Wolves/Valerie and her Week of Wonders.

Nancy Jean Ross

Before, you asked about maligned women I had been thinking about the mother in the documentary Meeting the Friedmans.

GL

Scream is inspired by a series of rape-murders that happened in my old college town in the 90s (before I got there). I don't think the movie has much in common with the actual crimes, but I'd still be very interested in a Scream analysis

SPUM

I know it wouldn't help you focus your episode but where is the option for "I haven't seen and don't want to personally watch any of these because I am very afraid and uncomfortable"

In Bed With the Right

So I (Adrian) watched the 1982 version yesterday, and am planning on re-watching the Val Lewton movie tonight!

Deborah Agre

1% for Stepfather?! It’s a scandal. The Village Voice had a review titled “Ward Wields a Cleaver.”

Holly

same!! NERAK

w

Not on the list but It Follows, Creep 1 or 2, Jennifer's Body, or The House That Jack Built.

Cat P

Haha total coincidence, that’s really my name, but I mean … are there ever really any pure coincidences? 😉

Cat P

Oh and btw, my middle name is Lizbeth … too many coincidences! 😂

Nina V~

OKAY, HEAR ME OUT: i know this is not on the list, but in honor of the restoration of "the devils," plus the catholic church, gender, and horny nuns of it all, i think y'all should cover THAT for movie night

Katelyn Gray

Literally saw that yesterday in the theater and it was a wild experience!

Cate Ufford

Came here to say this!! I'm 3 weeks late tho 🫠

Melissa

Not sure where else to put this but there’s a new film, “Fatherland,” about Thomas Mann in Germany in 1949 coming out today. Was this already on Adrian and Moira’s radar? Interested in hearing their movie review for this as a follow-up episode to their WWII episodes. 🎞️