There are few things more sacred in the horror podcasting world than two friends on a long phone call dissecting a film where a creepy man also loves to make phone calls. On Episode #183 of My Bloody Podcast, Chelsea and I pick up our proverbial Black Phones and dial directly into the cultural juggernaut currently haunting theaters. The Black Phone 2.

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On Episode #182 of My Bloody Podcast, two death-defying dolls, Bryan Kluger and Chelsea, pick up their metaphorical scalpels to stitch together their thoughts on May, the 2002 horror film that nobody remembers except, of course, Bryan Kluger. (This is a man who spent twenty years watching nothing but horror movies and occasionally, when the moon was right, eating chicken wings.)

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On Episode #181 of My Bloody Podcast, the trio of cinematic slashers, Bryan, Preston, and Chelsea, sneak up on 2016’s Hush, Mike Flanagan’s lean, mean, and surprisingly quiet home-invasion thriller. You might remember Hush as the film that came after Oculus (the haunted mirror one) and before Flanagan ascended to Netflix sainthood with The Haunting of Hill House. It’s the movie that whispered, literally, “Oh, this guy’s good.”

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Episode #180 of My Bloody Podcast is, to put it lightly, a pumpkin-spiced fever dream. It’s that time of year again, spooky season, when the air smells faintly of nutmeg, Spirit Halloween stores rise from the dead in defunct Pier 1 Imports, and every barista becomes a horror enthusiast with an oat milk frother. Naturally, we leaned into the madness and tackled one of the more bewildering entries in the Halloween cinematic multiverse. It was Halloween 6. Or Halloween 666.Or Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, depending on which president was in office when you were born.

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Episode #179 of My Bloody Podcast doesn’t so much begin as it laces up its sneakers. Bryan, Preston, and Chelsea, our well-worn trio of cinematic mall walkers summon a special guest, Susan Kamyab Stephens of ThisChixFlix, to join them on their longest journey yet, a brisk conversational trek through The Long Walk, Stephen King’s first stab at a novel, dashed off while he was still in college, presumably between ramen breaks and existential demonic clowns.

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On Episode #178 of My Bloody Podcast, three horror aficionados do what any sensible millennials facing sky-high real estate prices would never dare. They metaphorically buy a house, albeit a haunted one. Their choice? The colonial fixer-upper from The Conjuring (2013), a property that’s been terrifying audiences for twelve years and is now worth, one assumes, at least three exorcisms over asking. With The Conjuring: Last Rites currently summoning millions at the box office, Bryan, Preston, and Chelsea decided to revisit the film that started it all, to see if its scares still rattle bones in 2025 the way they did back in 2013.

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Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta of Dallas, Texas, two men who can quote John Carpenter faster than they can recite their social security numbers, sat down with Canadian filmmaker Sean Cisterna, whose polite menace belies his latest creation: Silver Screamers. The documentary, which will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, follows Sean as he wrangles a group of senior citizens into making a short horror film. Yes, you read that right. Seniors. Horror. Blood, guts, monsters, and Werther’s Originals, hand in hand.

During the conversation, Bryan and Preston pull up the metaphorical rug and shake out all the delightful dust bunnies. How Sean convinced retirees to swap knitting needles for fake blood, which movies he made them watch for “research” (spoiler: there were screams), and the unexpectedly tender moments that come from watching a group of octogenarians learn how to chop up a prop body on cue. It’s equal parts funny, sweet, and unexpectedly moving.

It's a little like if The Golden Girls had been directed by George Romero. Trust us, you’re going to want to find Silver Screamers as soon as you can. After all, it’s not every day you see grandma wielding a chainsaw and living her best life.

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Episode #177 of My Bloody Podcast begins like a bad idea. The kind that usually ends with a bottle of whiskey, an Amazon rental receipt, and an apology text the next morning. Instead, it ends with four grown adults: Bryan, Preston, Chelsea, and our honorary demon-fighting deputy of the law Dan, watching an animated, family-friendly Netflix film about a K-pop girl group battling literal demons from hell.

This is, to be clear, not our usual habitat. Our show’s natural ecosystem involves blood-spattered cult classics, midnight screenings of obscure Italian slashers, and debates over whether John Carpenter deserves sainthood (spoiler: he does). But when Dan, our resident lawman of Texas and self-appointed Cultural Scout of the Youths insisted that K-Pop Demon Hunters was “taking the world by storm,” we decided to investigate. After all, we like to pretend we’re not old, especially Chelsea.

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