Based out of Jacksonville, FL, the Straight Chilling crew are a group of old friends who gather weekly to casually review horror films, make recommendations, talk trivia, news and more. Straight Chilling has you covered on all things horror!
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While scavenging the ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss androids, xenomorphs, and several other recognizable things in Fede Alvarez’, Alien: Romulus (2024). Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:05) Back o…
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Two centuries after her death, a power alien/human hybrid clone of Ripley aids a crew of space pirates in stopping the aliens from reaching Earth. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss bold sequels, the xenomorph reproductive system and the fourth installment in the Alien franchise, Alien Resurrection (1997). Show Notes: Housekeeping …
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Fantasia International Film Festival Recap (2024)
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The Fantasia International Film Festival is back again with an extremely impressive lineup of features and shorts programmed. On this episode... Join us as we discuss several feature films from all over the world as the Fantasia Film Festival concludes it's 28th year! Connect with us: Support us on Patreon Website Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube…
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Three friends in search of the Loveland Frogman find out he’s much more than just a local legend. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss our favorite cryptids, the effectiveness of found footage, and Anthony Cousin’s feature film debut, Frogman (2024). Show Notes: Housekeeping (5:00) Back of the Box/Recommendations (10:30) Spoiler Warn…
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Poor Gregory. After being released from the Wishing Well Sanitarium, all he wants to do is make the children happy. So he reopens the old ice cream factory and incorporates some unconventional ingredients into his sweet, murderous treats. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss our favorite ice cream flavors, porn parodies, and Clint Ho…
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Bucheon International Film Festival '24 Recap
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The Bucheon International Film Festival is back again with an extremely impressive lineup of features and shorts programmed. On this episode... Join us as we discuss 15 feature films from all over the world and listen as Justin regales us with stories from the streets of Bucheon. Connect with us: Support us on Patreon Website Facebook Instagram Twi…
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While in Thailand trying to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight by a Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Hong Kong cinema, Buddhist imagery, and the insane cult classic, The Boxer’s Omen (1983). Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:45) Back of the Box/Rec…
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In Damian Mc Carthy's new film, Oddity a twin sister uncovers the truth behind her sisters mysterious death with the help of a wooden mannequin. On this special episode... Justin catches up with Damian at the Bucheon International Film Festival for a spoiler free discussion about his latest film. Be sure to catch Oddity in theaters July 19th. Conne…
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In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, and Oz Perkins’ highly anticipated film Longlegs (2024). Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:10) Back of the Box/Recommendations (12:25) Spoiler War…
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In 1980’s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx, finally gets her break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the stars of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past… On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss horror trilogies, the Mia Goth factor, and Ti West’s ever evolving style in MaXXXine (202…
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A man’s obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss surrealist filmmaking, timeless fashion, and the bizarrely thought provoking film, Deerskin (2019). Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:15) Back of the Box/Recommendations (7:38) Spoiler Warning/Full…
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A young boy stumbles into a witch convention and must stop them, even after he is turned into a mouse. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss children’s horror, fairytale witches, and Nicolas Roeg’s, The Witches (1990). Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:19) Back of the Box/Recommendations (10:06) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (15:43) Rotten To…
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#481 – The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
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A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss cryptids, collapsing bridges, and a movie that makes you want to talk on the phone even less than you already do, The Mothman Prophecies (2…
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#480 – Invasion of the Body Snatcher (1978)
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When strange seeds drift to Earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the cities residents one body at a time. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss pod people, Donald Sutherland, and Philip Kaufman’s science fiction classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). Show Notes: Housekeeping (2…
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Sheriff Dan Gillis investigates a string of murders in a sleepy, coastal town. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Robert Englund, sex on the beach, and the spooky seaside sleeper, Dead & Buried (1981). Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:30) Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:56) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (18:40) Rotten Tomatoes (67:35)…
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#478 – The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
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After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple is forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are attacked by three masked strangers with no mercy and seemingly no motive. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss unnecessary remakes, elusive inhalers, and the first part of a new Strangers trilogy…
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Two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show, but it is mysteriously canceled. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss mid 90’s teen TV programming, not fitting in, and standing idly by as your life passes you by in Jane Schoenbrun’s feel sad movie of the summer, I Saw the TV Glow (2024). Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:36) …
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In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being raped and murdered by an unknown assailant. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss true crime, Korean killers and Bong Joon Ho’s second feature film, Memories of Murder (2003). Show Notes: Housekeeping (6:35) Back of the Box/Recommen…
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A woman travels home with her two kids for her sister’s wedding and finds herself defending her family against blood seeking old people. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss German farmhouses, understaffed nursing homes, and the Netflix original, Old People (2022). Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:48) Back of the Box/Recommendations (12:2…
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After a group of criminals kidnap the ballerina daughter of a powerful criminal figure, they retreat to a secluded mansion and try to survive the next 24 hours. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss ensemble casts, inescapable mansions, and Radio Silence’s bloodiest film to date, Abigail (2024). Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:40) Back of…
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#473 – Celebrating Walpurgisnacht with The Autopsy of Jane Doe
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Happy Walpurgisnacht to all! Crack open a maibock, decorate your May bush, and stoke those bonfires as high as you can. But beware, witchcraft is afoot! On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we celebrate Halfway to Halloween by reviewing The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)! Then follow us down a deep, dark path into the woods as we discuss the ancien…
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A loan officer who evicts an elderly woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to save her soul while evil forces push her to her breaking point. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss demon winds, haunted hankies, and the soulless nature of American financial institutions i…
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The Overlook Film Festival Recap (2024)
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Randy and Bob once again made the trek over to New Orleans for The Overlook Film Festival and lived to tell the tale! It was another year filled with patires, Q&A's, anniversary screenings, loads of genre movies and much more. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Abigail, Cuckoo, Red Rooms, I Saw the TV Glow, Oddity, Azrael and many …
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A journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss the fruitless nature of war, the necessity of a neutral press, and Alex Garland’s harrowing new film, Civil War (…
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A group of people fight for survival at a truck stop when machines become homicidal. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Emilio Estevez, cocaine, and Stephen King’s only directing credit to date, Maximum Overdrive (1986). Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:28) Back of the Box/Recommendations (8:07) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (14:44) Rotte…
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In a small town, brutal killings start to plague the community. Marty Coslaw, a paraplegic boy, is convinced the murders are the doings of a werewolf. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Stephen King, Corey Haim, and Gary Busey in the classic werewolf movie, Siilver Bullet (1985). Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:34) Back of the Box/Reco…
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#468 – Late Night with the Devil (2024)
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A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss late night talk shows, the satanic panic, and Faustian tales in, Late Night with the Devil (2024). Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:16) Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:02) Spoiler Warning/Full Re…
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A brilliant scientist’s discovery renders him invisible, but transformers him into an omnipotent, dangerous megalomaniac. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss government-funded experiments, Kevin Bacon’s bacon, and Paul Verhoeven’s take on the Invisible Man, Hollow Man (2000). Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:50) Back of the Box/Recommend…
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A group of troubled teenagers are led by social workers on a California wilderness retreat, not knowing the woods they are camping in have been infested by bloodsucking, mutated ticks! On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Seth Green, illegal grow operations, and unfortunate stereotypes in the made for TV creature feature, Ticks (1993…
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When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within the city of the dead. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss treasure hunting, the Parisian catacombs and the hellish found footage film, As Above, So Below (2014). Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:07) Back of the…
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In the dying days of the old west, a sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town’s doctor from a group of cannibalistic cave dwellers. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson and S. Craig Zahler’s horror-western, Bone Tomahawk (2015). Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:45) Back of the Box/Recommendations (10…
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#463 – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
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Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers finds out she is her generation’s vampire slayer. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, and 90’s nostalgia in Fran Rubel Kuzui’s, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:53) Back of the Box/Recommendations (10:15) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (18…
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The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright’s incredibly effective Zom-Rom-Com, Shaun of the Dead (2004). Show Notes: Housekeeping (5:15) Back of the Box/Recommendations (11…
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A group of scientists have developed the resonator, a machine which allows whoever is in range to see beyond normal perceptive reality. But when the experiment succeeds they are immediately attacked by strange life forms. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss H.P. Lovecraft, Barbara Crampton in tight leather, and Stuart Gordon’s other…
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A man finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a woman living off grid who is captive to a pack of mysterious figures above. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss the dangers of the desert, evil kids, and Barnaby Clay’s hot horror film, The Seeding (2024). Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:10) Back of the Box/Recommendations (12:09) Sp…
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In Barnaby Clay's new film, The Seeding, a man finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a strange woman living off grid who is being held captive by sadisitc figures. On this special episode... The crew sits down with writer, director, editor Barnaby Clay for a spoiler free discussion about the inspirations for his new film, what draws him to …
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#459 – Night of the Living Dead (1990)
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When the unburied dead return to life and seek human victims, seven refugees shelter in a house in the Pennsylvanian countryside. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss remaking a classic, Tony Todd’s first horror movie, and Tom Savini’s only directorial credit to date, Night of the Living Dead (1990). Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:40) B…
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The incredible tale of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist, Dr. Godwin Baxter. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Yorgos Lanthimos’ sexually charged Frankenstein story, Poor Things (2023). Show Notes: Housekeeping (5:1…
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A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss the Shaw Brothers, martial arts, and the Hong Kong horror movie, Human Lanterns (1982). Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:25) Back of the Box/Recommendations (8:55) Spoiler …
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In a remote village two brothers find a possessed man who is about to give birth to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the body only to accidentally further spread chaos. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss non Catholic exorcists, animals run amok, and Demian Rugna’s possession film, When Evil Lurks (2023). Show Notes: Housekeep…
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Join the crew as we discuss our top 10 horror movies of 2023, air our grievances with a bottom 3 of 2023, and reflect upon some filmmaking trends we noticed in horror this year. Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:02) Top 10 of 2023 (7:10) Worst of 2023 (77:00) Honorable Mentions (100:42) Horror Trends of 2023 (122:45) 2023 Recap (149:00) 2024 Horror Relea…
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What starts as a simple yule log feed devolves into a surrealist nightmare. A couples’ romantic, cabin getaway is double booked and interrupted by a group of podcasters investigating the strange goings on in the area. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss generational trauma, pimento cheese, and the genre defying film, Adult Swim Yule…
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Two detectives track a serial killer that uses the 7 deadly sins as inspiration for his murders. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and the unyielding obsession with the serial killer’s mind in, Se7en (1995). Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:31) Back of the Box/Recommendations (12:48) Spoiler Warning/Full Revie…
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Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss the legacy of Godzilla, the lasting effects of war and the latest from Toho, Godzilla Minus One (2023). Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:20) Back of the Box/…
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A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town where a group of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Stephen King, Tom Jane and Frank Darabont’s ever so uplifting film, The Mist (2007). Show Notes: Housekeeping (4:45) Back of the Box/Recommendat…
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After a black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving inspired killer starts terrorizing Plymouth, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the holiday. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss grindhouse slashers, Patrick Dempsey, and Eli Roth’s latest holiday horror film, Thanksgiving (2023). Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:58) Back…
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#449 – The People Under the Stairs (1991)
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Two adults and a juvenile break into a house attempting to rob their landlords. They soon realize the real trick will be breaking back out. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss slumlords, leather daddies, and Wes Craven’s extremely entertaining, The People Under the Stairs (1991). Show Notes: Housekeeping (2:55) Back of the Box/Recom…
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#448 – Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
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A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated tomatoes. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss endless governmental red tape, murderous fruits, and the sci-fi spoof, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978). Show Notes: Housekeeping (3:45) Back of the Box/Recommendations (9:06) Spoiler Warning/Full Review (14:36) Rotte…
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When Nicole met David, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. His adoration turns to obsession, their dreams turn into nightmares, and her love turns into fear. On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss Mark Wahlberg’s whisper, daddy kinks, and 90’s white boy rage in James Foley’s, Fear (1996…
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#446 – Triple Feature: Sleepy Hollow (1999), Frankenweenie (2012), Edward Scissorhands (1990)
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We’re celebrating Halloween with another triple feature! This year we take a look at three Tim Burton films all centered around creatures that shouldn’t be alive… On this week’s episode… Join the crew as we discuss the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow, re-animated dogs in Frankenweenie and Johnny Depp ‘s goth phase in Edward Scissorhands! Show No…
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