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In each episode, Patrick Hamilton and Gena Radcliffe unpack all the gory details of horror cinema's least discussed topic: the characters. From Friday the 13th to Nightmare on Elm Street and beyond, our mission is to detail each hack, slash, and decapitation in the hopes that a victim's untimely end is just the beginning of the jokes we can make about them.
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All Systems Argo!

Jamal B. Barringer and Jessica Hassell

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The Oscars set the bar for what makes a good movie, and none more so than 2012 Best Picture Winner Argo. But what makes this film and others like it truly special? Or are they at all? All we need to do to uncover the mystery of Argo is to compare it to the Best Picture winners of the past, present, and future! But to keep it fair, we'll have to rewatch Argo. Each and every time. Forever! Will we find answers or go insane trying? Join us and find out in All Systems Argo!
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That’s right - we’re back in the Creepshow business! Only this time, we’re talking about the best story of the bunch as we float along with The Raft from CREEPSHOW 2!! Along the way, we try to stay afloat of the film’s many production problems, track the oil blob’s burps and farts, pick apart the differences between Stephen King’s original short st…
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It’s April Fool’s Day in June… until 12 pm? Listen, the 1986 Euro-slasher SLAUGHTER HIGH has a lot of rules, and it likes to switch ‘em up as it goes, but Kill By Kill is up to the test. Along the way, we openly regret our Stockard Channing slander, struggle to remember which character is who, enjoy a solid skeleton scream, sleep it off in a brown …
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Terrifying things come in small packages! Welcome one and all to our new off-week format, where we make a meal out of one story from a horror anthology - we call it Kill By Kill: Bite Size! This week, we bring home the standout segment from 1972’s TRILOGY OF TERROR entitled Amelia - but you know it better for its antagonist, the Zuni Fetish Doll!! …
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Are you ready to fight the horror of robots programmed to kill? Well, how about robots who can shoot guns but don’t possess a trigger finger? It’s an acid-filled mechanical nightmare, and here to help us crack the code is writer (Bubble, Pop's Chock-lit Shoppe of Horrors) and beloved podcast host (Jordan Jessie GO) Jordan Morris!! Along the way, we…
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Animal Attack April has left us a little on the mauled side, so we're heading back to space for a special, supersized flashback episode discussing the ever-goopy GALAXY OF TERROR!! Now you can relive (or experience for the first time) this deep dive into Alien-sploitation! In the first half, we're joined by Josh Hollis and Brian Skinner as we discu…
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We’re going out on a high as we meet COCAINE BEAR in the bathroom to close out Animal Attack April 2023!! Don’t worry, we start spoiler-free for those who haven’t seen it before we do some rails with everyone’s favorite coked-up killer ursine before we dig into the point we can’t feel our face! We talk baby ball pits, working mom bears, Patrick’s E…
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Pack your bags and slip on your worst hiking shoes - we’re trekking across the wilderness this week as Animal Attack April continues with the William Girdler semi-classic, DAY OF THE ANIMALS!! Taking this walk with us is podcaster and Returning Champion, Wynter Mitchell, as we delve into holes in our personal ozone layers, decide which woodland cre…
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It’s the most dangerous time of the year!! That’s right, we go from a nibble to a munch as we begin Animal Attack April with 1982’s rat-tacular DEADLY EYES with the help of Returning Champion and our Resident Rat Rampage Expert, Adam Peacock!! Along the way, we explore the best ways to serve steroid corn, marvel at contractually obligated sex scene…
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On the season finale of TV Terrors, we’re re-hassling the Hoff and talking about another sterling episode of BAYWATCH NIGHTS with writer Nathan Rabin (Weird Al: The Book and The Joy of Trash: Flaming Garbage Fire Extended Edition)!! This time, Mitch is up against humanity’s greatest threat: Unfrozen Viking Warriors!! Along the way, we talk absentee…
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We’re not playing around, people! We’re upgrading your usual Friday by talking about the first sensation of the new horror year, M3GAN!! Along the way, we discuss how screenwriter Akela Cooper makes over-the-top so damn satisfying, debate if parents really do want to spend less time with their children, consider M3GAN’s real sunglass needs, and exp…
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Welcome… to Kill By Kill’s TV Terrors where we make several deals with the Devil this week when we discuss an episode of FANTASY ISLAND!! Along the way, we explore the bureaucracy of the island, why smoke keeps erupting from Roddy McDowell’s butt, debate Mr. Roarke’s power levels, wonder what it takes to make Tattoo look like Blackbeard, pine for M…
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Ghostface puts us in a "New York State of Murder" as we unpack all the delightfully improbable fun of SCREAM VI!! To start, we go spoiler-free for everyone who hasn’t made out to the theater yet before digging into our favorite Flop House bits, detail the grizzly deaths of professors, killers, and coeds, debate who can pull off a bucket hat better,…
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Death doesn’t take much of a holiday on TV Terrors as we venture to the islands with Jessica Fletcher on a voodoo-tinged episode of Murder She Wrote! Along the way, identify persistent kookaburra noise syndrome, struggle to accurately quantify the level of racism bubbling beneath the episode’s surface, wonder why every character has a different Jam…
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In This House… we’re talking about the lo-fi creep-fest, SKINAMARINK!! Yeah, the movie experiment where almost nothing happens… we’re breaking it all down! Along the way, we dig into our goofy childhood fears, into Warren Beatty’s maniacal Dicy Tracy rights squatting, launch our campaign for The Knife That Stabs and take an auditory tour of the hom…
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The Kill By Kill podcast… we can rebuild it! Which is good because we are tearing down this 1976 episode of THE BIONIC WOMAN titled The Ghosthunter!! Listen in as we try to piece together exactly how this cyborg lady works, wonder why a tennis pro makes the perfect spy, dismantle the pervasive yet hilarious misogyny built into the series, look out …
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Feeling hungry? Good news - there’s a whole lot to chew on as we bite into BONES AND ALL!! We start spoiler-free before digging into the film’s underwhelming marketing push, discuss performances that “go full M-O-O-N spells moon” and which ones don’t, meet a cannibal sidekick, explore the dirty 1980s of the Boomer generation that haunts every frame…
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It’s the ultimate in alien terror. Well, maybe not THE ultimate. Join Patrick and Gena as they crack the space egg that is Mork & Mindy’s supernatural season two episode, The Morkville Horror!! Along the way, we scramble our memories of both the show and Robin Williams, try to unlock the Happy Days effect on sitcom characters, decipher the mysterio…
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Do you know that moment when everything that could go wrong does go wrong? Well, that encapsulates this episode of Kill By Kill as we talk to Gavin and Louie of The Mixed Reviews podcast about 1992’s ALIEN3. First, Gena’s audio is scuttled by a loose face-hugger, and then the catastrophes extend to the insanely complicated production history of the…
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When a police detective is shot in the face and given a talking car as a partner to fight crime, the first case you think they should tackle is “Rear Window but with a dude in a gorilla suit.” That’s right, we’re talking KNIGHT RIDER on TV Terrors this week, specifically the Halloween Knight episode in which the main goal of the producers appears t…
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Order up! Have we got a tasty new episode for you as we enjoy an exclusive seating of a brand-new movie to Kill By Kill as we dish on 2022’s THE MENU! To add a burst of flavor, we welcome Square Roots host and Returning Champion John Brandon back to the pod! First, we serve up an amuse bouche of our non-spoiler feelings about the film before our ma…
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We were warned. We are doomed. That's right, there's only one Friday the 13th all year, so you know we had to do something to commemorate it! That's why we're jailbreaking a Patreon exclusive commentary of the original FRIDAY THE 13th, so you can watch along with it and celebrate the many, many silly deaths on display! We get right back into the ac…
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Walk the lonely road with us as we tear shirts, bell-bottom pants, and THE INCREDIBLE HULK on this episode of TV Terrors!! Is the tuba the saddest instrument for your personal theme music? Why do you need a stock room filled with pirate’s rum barrels? If you were going to impersonate Bigfoot, would you add clothes to the costume? Is that one lady g…
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To celebrate our Patreon crossing the century mark, we're unlocking one of our favorite episodes from that feed this year, the Listener Request of 1988's BLACK ROSES!! It's Satanic Panic, but Canadian and Satan does not seem to have a very concrete plan as to how to take over the world. This devil-may-care attitude leads to some underwhelming publi…
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For God’s Sake, Get Out of your holiday rut and into Amityville For Christmas!! It’s a brand new tradition here at Kill By Kill where we head home for the holidays; only it’s a home with a demon pit in the basement and flying pigs in the kid’s windows! This year we’re completing the “Orig Trig” by opening our doors to THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979), …
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We’re changing TGIF to Thank God It’s Urkel!! That’s right, we’re returning to the TV Terrors well for a second week and with a major guest: Director of Scare Me and Werewolves Within and the star of A Wounded Fawn, out now on Shudder, the one the only Josh Ruben! And what better use of his time than to watch and talk about an 8th-season episode of…
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