🌈🔪 Episode 164: PRIDE SHOULDN'T BE TERRIFYING 🔪🌈

It's Pride Month, and Matty & Andrew are asking the question nobody wants to answer: why does celebrating still feel like a risk?

This week's Horror in Real Life: Pride events turning into full security operations, parades getting canceled outright (Tampa, Arlington, Long Beach), corporate sponsors quietly bailing, and the online harassment machine that never clocks out. Cute rainbow crosswalk, increasingly not-cute reality.

Then, two films about queerness treated as the crime:

🎬 THEY/THEM — Kevin Bacon's second "killer stalking a camp" movie (yes, after Friday the 13th), this time set at a conversion therapy camp. Corny in places, but it lands a real gut-punch about where queer rage goes.

🎬 WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR — Jane Schoenbrun's deeply online, deeply trans identity horror.

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The lease says one year. The nightmare is forever.

This week Matty & Andrew dive into one of the most universally relatable horrors imaginable — your landlord. From Matty's own front-row seat to the Dublin housing crisis to the very real terror of LGBTQ+ people losing their homes during the AIDS epidemic, we cover the full spectrum of landlord horror: the passive-aggressive newsletter, the unannounced inspection, the company town where your boss owned literally everything... and the eviction notice that changes your life with a single sheet of paper.

And then we watched some movies. 🍿

🎬 THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS — A thirteen-year-old nicknamed Fool breaks into his slumlord's house to save his family from eviction. What he finds inside is a locked labyrinth, a captive girl, and a man living in the walls. Wes Craven doing Wes Craven things. Matty: 5 ⭐ / Andrew: 4 ⭐

🎬 DARK WATER — Jennifer Connelly. Tim Roth. Pete Postlethwaite. Roosevelt Island. A ceiling that drips black water. A ghost who just wants a mother. An ending that will wreck you. Matty: 4 ⭐ / Andrew: 5 ⭐

Plus: Horror in Real Life, Whatcha Been Watchin' Bitch, and a closing game of LEASE OR DECEASED — landlord saying, or horror villain quote? You decide.

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Nature doesn't care about you. It never did.

This week Matty & Andrew are boarding up the windows and sitting with the most primal fear of all — the sky itself turning against you. We get into the long, ugly history of storms being used to blame queer people, the real science behind why severe weather feels genuinely supernatural, and why Tornado Alley is no longer where anyone thinks it is.

Also: twenty years after Katrina, New Orleans is still haunted — and not in the way you'd expect.

And then we watched some movies. 🍿🌩️

🎬 BURNING BRIGHT — A Bengal tiger named Lucifer. A boarded-up house. A hurricane bearing down on Florida. A stepfather with a life insurance policy and zero conscience. This 2010 straight-to-DVD gem is genuinely underseen and we need you to watch it immediately.

🎬 CRAWL — Category 5 Hurricane Wendy has hit Florida. Haley Keller has gone back for her dad. He's in the crawl space. The crawl space is flooded. The crawl space has alligators in it. Alexandre Aja and Sam Raimi said hold our beers.

Same premise. Different predator. Different decade. Both absolutely unhinged.

Plus: Horror in Real Life, Whatcha Been Watchin' Bitch, and a closing game of STORM WARNING!

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🧚‍♀️🩸 Episode 161: FAIRY TALES ARE TERRIFYING 🩸🧚‍♀️

Once upon a time, two brave, beautiful, and moderately unhinged men set out on a quest…

This week Matty & Andrew go down the breadcrumb trail of fairy tale horror — the actual famine that birthed Hansel & Gretel, why Little Red Riding Hood was never really about a wolf, the patriarchy hiding inside every "happily ever after," and how the Brothers Grimm themselves softened their own stories until biological mothers became stepmothers (because heaven forbid a real mother abandon her kids).

Also: Jacob Grimm wanted to be remembered for his German dictionary. Nobody remembers the dictionary. 💀

And then we watched some movies. 🍿

🎬 GRETEL & HANSEL — Oz Perkins (yes, Anthony Perkins' son) gives us a witchy coming-of-age fairy tale shot at the literal Hell Fire Club in the Dublin Mountains. Sophia Lillis. Alice Krige. Vibes for days.

🎬 THE UGLY STEPSISTER — Cinderella from the villain's POV. Norwegian feminist body horror. Tapeworms. Surgeries. A 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Sundance 2025's buzziest midnight title and we are OBSESSED.

Plus: Horror in Real Life, Whatcha Been Watchin' Bitch, and a closing game of DID DISNEY LIE?

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Do NOT touch the planchette.

This week, Matty & Andrew are rolling the dice on board game horror — from the real-life Ouija board possession case that inspired The Exorcist, to the brief and genuinely unsettling history of board games that have ended in actual murder (Yahtzee, we're looking at you), to a close reading of games so offensive they were banned outright.

And then we watched some movies. 🍿🎲

🎬 OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL — Mike Flanagan does the impossible and makes a Hasbro prequel genuinely terrifying. 1967 Los Angeles. One very bad Ouija session. A nine-year-old girl who will haunt your dreams.

🎬 BEYOND THE GATES — Two brothers clean out their missing dad's video store and find a VCR board game that may hold the key to his disappearance. The concept? *Chef's kiss.* The execution? We have notes.

Plus: Horror in Real Life, Whatcha Been Watchin' Bitch, and a closing game of making classic board games gay and horror-themed (you're going to want to play along).

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Step right up… to your worst nightmare.

This episode, Matty & Andrew are diving honk-first into all things clown horror — from the origins of the clown (cute!) to the very real terror of the 2016 creepy clown panic (not cute!) to John Wayne Gacy, who used his alter ego Pogo the Clown to hide crimes too monstrous to comprehend.

And then we watched some movies. 🍿🎈

🎬 KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE — alien clowns, cotton candy cocoons, and a banger title track from The Dickies. Matty was underwhelmed. Andrew was not.

🎬 STITCHES — an Irish slasher where every kill mirrors a circus trick. Matty loved it. Andrew slightly less so. The Irish Film Industrial Complex remains undefeated.

Plus: Horror in Real Life, Whatcha Been Watchin' Bitch, and a closing game of CIRCUS ACT OR CULT ACTIVITY (because honestly… same energy).

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It's a FRIGAY REWIND! Andrew is DRAGGING up one of our fave episodes— all about drag! Enjoy, FriGays, and we'll be back with a new episode soon.

Candles are lit. Boundaries are ignored. Consent is… actively debated with the afterlife.

This week, a séance goes horribly, flirtatiously wrong as we explore horror in real life:
👻 The history of séance grifters
🎩 Harry Houdini’s war on Spiritualism
🏛️ Mary Todd Lincoln’s White House séances and grief as survival
🦶 The Fox Sisters and the birth of modern spiritual scams

...and horror in the Movies:
🎥 THIRTEEN GHOSTS (1960) – gimmicks, goggles, and goofy chills
🎥 THE QUIET ONES (2014) – messy experiments and unrealized potential

And of course, we ask the only question that matters: Who’s Coming to the Séance?

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