Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast

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Sunday Oct 15, 2023

An Etsy girl makes a go of living her best life in her childhood home in a town full of people who hate for something that she did in her childhood. Also, there’s aliens and almost zero dialogue. Will it be good? Pack yourself up a pic-a-nic basket and head on out to a loved-one’s grave and plot your sorry ass in that ancestral grass to listen to this fortnight’s episode of Loathsome Things: a podcast about scary movies where we tell you which movies are scary, which movies are not scary, and break them down so you don’t have to watch them, but then we tell you to watch them… because that’s what our audience wants?Also, this episode features a bonus review of the Star Wars television thing: Ahsoka. If you listen closely, you can even hear the very moment that Josh finally realizes which character is played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead!
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The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)(2) Andrzej Żuławski's Possession (1981)(3) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)(4) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)(5) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(6) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(7) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)(8) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(9) Ti West’s X (2022)(10) Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski's The Void (2016)
 
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – American teens take an evil train ride across bad-times Yugoslavia!The Pit (1981) – A coming-of-age story about seeing boobs, evil teddy bears and feeding beasts!The Suckling (1990) – An abortion monster kills a house full of sex workers on his way home!

Sunday Aug 06, 2023

We reviewed a classic and scared John as a child and confused Josh as an adult. Imagine The Goonies, but with big naked California tits, fountains of blood, and the childhood drama of having everyone you love die. There, that’s Phantasm. Is it as simple as that? No! It’s much more confusing! Phantasm features multiple allusions to Dune, some strange overlap with Star Wars, and manages to be a strikingly singular piece of storytelling. Do we have any idea what the story it’s telling is? Can we explain it in the slightest? Did Josh tell a story about going to a place while unaware that he was getting sick and did the onset of those symptoms cause him to really screw up the end of this recording? There’s only one way to find out, by listening to the entirety of this ultra-high quality and exquisitely professional episode of Loathsome Things: the best podcast for fans of Phantasm and the only podcast you should listen to if you’re trying to figure out how to do a good job at making a podcast and writing podcast notes for your podcast podcast. Podcast!
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The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Andrzej Żuławski's Possession (1981) (2) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)(3) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)(4) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(5) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(6) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)(7) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(8) Ti West’s X (2022)(9) Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski's The Void (2016)(10) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)
 
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – American teens take an evil train ride across bad-times Yugoslavia!The Pit (1981) – A coming-of-age story about seeing boobs, evil teddy bears and feeding beasts!The Suckling (1990) – An abortion monster kills a house full of sex workers on his way home!

Sunday May 14, 2023

In the 1970s, someone thought it’d be a cool idea to mix the ideas of Tod Browning’s Freaks with a Frankenstein story genetically modified with DNA. This horror movie trades in the objectification of people that are different, women tits getting a breath of fresh air, and really cool fast-motion plant footage. We tried to be careful with our language and ableism discourse. Maybe we didn’t nail it, but we tried our darndest and are always striving to get better. Speaking of getting better… uh… keep listening to Loathsome Things: the best place to get horror movie summaries without having the watch the horror movies yourself because you’re too scared and we aren’t, so there!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tell us which pod people movie we should have watched instead, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching out to us onTwitter: @LoathsomePodInstagram: @LoathsomePodFacebook: @LoathsomePodcastEmail: LoathsomeThings@gmail.com
The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Andrzej Żuławski's Possession (1981) (2) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)(3) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)(4) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(5) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(6) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)(7) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(8) Ti West’s X (2022)(9) Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski's The Void (2016)(10) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)
 
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – Not a great horror movie, but so much fun to watch!The Pit (1981) – Watch this coming-of-age story about seeing boobs and feeding beasts!

Sunday Apr 30, 2023

At long last, we arrive at our destination of having gotten through all that snatch with this 90s-tastic piece of something from the something-addled something of someone’s something. What am I talking about? Have I been taken over by some sort of horrific racial superiority mindset noodling its way through the ranks of the military? That’s right, the year is 1993, the director is Abel Ferrara, the female nudity is portrayed as either being of minors or done to minors, because … well… I really don’t know. We enjoyed but can’t really recommend that you watch this remakester of a movie that would fit nicely in the Twin Peaks or maybe even Swamp Thing universe. The acting is well-done, the practical effects are pretty damn good, the underagedness is creepy, the deus ex machina is cranked all the way up to the main character’s age, and the big conclusion is simultaneous glorious and, possibly, the single shittiest thing we’ve seen in any of the three films. Join us as we bog down our eyebrows in this no-nonsense episode of Loathsome Things: a good horror movie podcast recommendation!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tell us which pod people movie we should have watched instead, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching out to us onTwitter: @LoathsomePodInstagram: @LoathsomePodFacebook: @LoathsomePodcastEmail: LoathsomeThings@gmail.com
The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Andrzej Żuławski's Possession (1981) (2) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)(3) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)(4) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(5) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(6) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)(7) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(8) Ti West’s X (2022)(9) Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski's The Void (2016)(10) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)
 
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – Not a great horror movie, but so much fun to watch!The Pit (1981) – Watch this coming-of-age story about seeing boobs and feeding beasts!

Sunday Apr 16, 2023

Join us as we embark on an ultra-cosmic journey from some unknown corner of the universe all the way to a post-psychedelic and mega-starchy San Francisco with this tremendous effort in scifi/horror movie remakesmanship! Leonard Nimoy makes one of his greatest non-Star Trek appearances, a studly young Jeff Goldblum does his best Alan Alda impression, Veronica Cartwright shows off some sick hand and vocal skills, Donald “Donny South” Sutherland brings the action and Brooke Adams gets topless instead of the credit she deserves in this sometimes brilliant, sometimes confusing film, which is a strong contender for greatest remake of all time, especially within the horror genre. So, put your favorite face skin on some dog you love and plug your ears into the wild ride that is Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast for people that don’t like horror movie podcasts, thus our broad appeal!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tell us some cool trivia, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching out to us onTwitter: @LoathsomePodInstagram: @LoathsomePodFacebook: @LoathsomePodcastEmail: LoathsomeThings@gmail.com
The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Andrzej Żuławski's Possession (1981) (2) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)(3) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)(4) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(5) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(6) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)(7) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(8) Ti West’s X (2022)(9) Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski's The Void (2016)(10) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)
 
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – Not a great horror movie, but so much fun to watch!The Pit (1981) – Watch this coming-of-age story about seeing boobs and feeding beasts!
 

Sunday Apr 02, 2023

Cease your philandering ways and listen up, kiddo, for this April we’re putting together a 1-2-3-punch comparison of bodily snatchery starting with the original maybe-Red Scare classic about creepy white people being replaced with even creepier white people in well-to-do 1950s America. Sure, that was one sentence! From the director that brought you Flaming Star and Two Mules for Sister Sara comes this dazzling classic starring the guy Piranha and none other than Dagmar Wynter and her flagrantly stuffed brazier. Hey, wait a minute, you’re not our listeners! Oh well, it would seem you’ve been replaced a la Crapgras Delusion, so you’ve no reason not to tune in to this episode of Loathsome Things: the most patriotic podcast in these United States!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tell us how Becky Driscoll got body sntached, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching out to us onTwitter: @LoathsomePodInstagram: @LoathsomePodFacebook: @LoathsomePodcastEmail: LoathsomeThings@gmail.com
The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Andrzej Żuławski's Possession (1981) (2) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)(3) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)(4) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(5) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(6) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)(7) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(8) Ti West’s X (2022)(9) Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski's The Void (2016)(10) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)
 
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – Not a great horror movie, but so much fun to watch!The Pit (1981) – Watch this coming-of-age story about seeing boobs and feeding beasts!

Sunday Mar 19, 2023

Bow down and rejoice for the bountiful practical effects goodness this movie granteth! Through the files of movie production hell, The Void emerged renewed and pure for our plentiful enjoyment…eth… It’s good enough to get Josh to rethink how he grades movies for this podcast. Repent of your flesh and step through the mysterious triangle of the play button as you listen to this cosmic episode of Loathsome Things: the best horror movie podcast of fans of H.P. Lovecraft-inspired film, but not the dude, himself!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tells us about a movie that reminds you of John Carpenter’s The Thing or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching out to us onTwitter: @LoathsomePodInstagram: @LoathsomePodFacebook: @LoathsomePodcastEmail: LoathsomeThings@gmail.com
The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Andrzej Żuławski's Possession (1981) (2) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)(3) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)(4) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(5) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(6) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)(7) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(8) Ti West’s X (2022)(9) Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski's The Void (2016)(10) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)
 
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – Not a great horror movie, but so much fun to watch!The Pit (1981) – Watch this coming-of-age story about seeing boobs and feeding beasts!

Sunday Dec 25, 2022

Content Warning: The film we are about to review contains torture, suicide, deicide, public execution, themes of antisemitism, transphobia and ableism. By continuing to listen to this podcast, you expressly agree to hear blasphemous and sacrilegious statements.
We’re keeping the Christ in Christmassacre by beating the Christ out of Christmas as we review Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ on this most holly, jolly episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast!
If you would like to recommend a movie, blaspheme with us, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching out to us onTwitter: @LoathsomePodInstagram: @LoathsomePodFacebook: @LoathsomePodcastEmail: LoathsomeThings@gmail.com
The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)(2) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)(3) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(4) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(5) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)(6) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(7) Ti West’s X (2022)(8) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)(9) David Prior’s The Empty Man (2020)(10) Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case (1982)
 
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – Not a great horror movie, but so much fun to watch!The Pit (1981) – Watch this coming-of-age story about seeing boobs and feeding beasts!

Sunday Oct 16, 2022

35 years after the original, we finally get our first Hellraiser reboot! And it’s… well, you’ll have to listen to find out what we think about it. Set in beautiful Belgrade, Massachusetts, this visually striking reimagining of the Clive Barker original focuses on addiction, betrayal, and strips of delicious human bacon. The Pascal Laugier movie we tried to remember was Incident in a Ghostland (2018), the movie that caused permanent scarring to a young actor’s face because of some combination of greed and incompetence, so fuck that movie! The other things we couldn't remember the names of? Who knows! If you think “Enough is a myth” when it comes to Loathsome Things episodes, then this one’s for you!
If you would like to recommend a movie, pitch us your Brucknerian Hellraiser sequel idea, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching out to us onTwitter: @LoathsomePodInstagram: @LoathsomePodEmail: LoathsomeThings@gmail.com
The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)(2) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)(3) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(4) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(5) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)(6) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(7) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)(8) David Prior’s The Empty Man (2020)(9) Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case (1982)(10) José Mojica Marins’ At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964)
 
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – Not a great horror movie, but so much fun to watch!The Pit (1981) – Watch this coming-of-age story about seeing boobs and feeding beasts!
 

Sunday Oct 02, 2022

“Angela Bettis! Angela Bettis! Angela Bettis!” said David Carson into the camera, and poof! She was there to provide one of the few redeeming qualities in this made-for-TV wad. Directed by the guy that directed Captain Kirk’s death and co-starring Dualla from Battlestar Galactica, this movie features Windows 98 screensaver-grade CGI a flat, lifeless retelling of the story from the same era at the mini-series version of The Shining. Join us for part 2 out our 3-part series of Carrie: Who Wore It Best on this most October 2022est episode of Loathsome Things: A Podcast in which two jerks talk about the horror movies they watched and assumed you would like to listen to that!
If you would like to recommend a movie, tell us howe we can get Angela Bettis to be on our show, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching out to us onTwitter: @LoathsomePodInstagram: @LoathsomePodFacebook: @LoathsomePodcastEmail: LoathsomeThings@gmail.com
The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)(2) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)(3) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(4) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(5) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)(6) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(7) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)(8) David Prior’s The Empty Man (2020)(9) Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case (1982)(10) José Mojica Marins’ At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964)
 
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – Not a great horror movie, but so much fun to watch!The Pit (1981) – Watch this coming-of-age story about seeing boobs and feeding beasts!

Sunday Aug 21, 2022

Thomas Jane, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Jason Lee, Tom Sizemore and Morgan Freeman star in this sci-fi-fantasy-horror movie about evil alien penis monsters that shoot out of your butt and the man-children gifted with the exact combination of bench-warmer X Men powers needed to stop them… or something. You know, it gets a little confusing in there. It’s a Stephen King something, and we both remembered it more fondly than we watched it! So, join us for this experimentally 1-hour episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast where we didn’t talk about Rob Zombie.
If you would like to recommend a movie, argue with us about Stephen King, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching out to us onTwitter: @LoathsomePodInstagram: @LoathsomePodFacebook: @LoathsomePodcastEmail: LoathsomeThings@gmail.com
The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)(2) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(3) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(4) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)(5) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(6) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)(7) David Prior’s The Empty Man (2020)(8) Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case (1982)(9) Nicolas Roeg’s Don't Look Now (1973)(10) José Mojica Marins’ At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964)
 
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – Not a great horror movie, but so much fun to watch!The Pit (1981) – Watch this coming-of-age story about seeing boobs and feeding beasts!

Sunday Mar 20, 2022

We got giggly and dark while reviewing this MK Ultra meets Numbers Stations spooky mash-up starring Ted Levine. We mentioned the secret ending of this movie before the spoilers… and then forgot to talk about it at the end… because we’re good at this. Join us on a fun romp through scariest movie about being friend-zoned in this, the latest episode from America’s best horror movie podcast!
If you would like to recommend a movie, pose a horror movie trivia question, or ask us horror movie-related questions, you can do so by reaching out to us onTwitter: @LoathsomePodInstagram: @LoathsomePodFacebook: @LoathsomeThingsEmail: LoathsomeThings@gmail.com
Please rate and review if you think other people would enjoy our show, or if you feel they should be warned!
 
The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List (of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)
(1) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)(2) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)(3) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)(4) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)(5) David Prior’s The Empty Man (2020)(6) Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case (1982)(7) Nicolas Roeg’s Don't Look Now (1973)(8) Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth (2021)(9) David Bruckner’s The Ritual (2017)(10) Nick Szostakiwskyj’s Black Mountain Side (2014)
Honorable Mentions: Beyond the Door III (1989) – Not a great horror movie, but so much fun to watch!

Sunday Jul 25, 2021

Welcome to the show notes for the seventh episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast!
Three grad students at Miskatonic University’s Temporal Studies department have uncovered the secret of time travel! Sounds like an awesome premise for a movie, right? Oh, dear Cthulhu, why? If you thought the deer deity in Black Mountain Side was unimpressive to look at, just wait until you catch a glimpse of Nate. Cozy up with the one you love and plunge your sensory organs deep into the unpleasant depths of Gus Holwerda’s disasterpiece: Intersect!
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Sunday Jun 27, 2021

Welcome to the show notes for the fifth episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast!
In this episode we discourse the original Thing that would later be adapted by John Carpenter to create one of the greatest, if not the greatest, horror movies of all time. The Thing from Another World is a black-and-white classic about soldiers fighting the twin evils of an invasive alien plant-monster and the scientists that wish to study them. If that doesn’t sound like your thing, you might enjoy all the self-congratulatory white people business or the amazing scene were EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE! Watch this movie before you listen to the podcast.
 
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Sunday Jun 13, 2021

Welcome to the show notes for the Fourth episode of the Loathsome Things Podcast!
We watched the under-the-radar sensation that some people are calling “The Empty Man.” Going by the trailer, this movie is a dumb pile of ass. But, after actually watching the movie, this movie kind of kicks asses into a pile. It starts off in the mountains of Bhutan and ends up in … sleepy, small-town Missouri. Along the way, there’s plenty of wet-teeth noises, solidly unsettling business, something about a teddy bear, adults lurking outside of high schools to lure young girls (or women) into their cars with the promise of cigarettes, references to at least two philosophers, a surprise Stephen Rooting, and a fantastic sense of looming doom! Watch it before you listen!
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