S.H.U.D.cast
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SHUDcast: A horror movie podcast devoted to watching and discussing films that freak you out and real life friendships that are often even scarier...
Episodes
- The Mothman Prophecies
If you think we’ve stretched the credulity of our themes before, just you wait as Austin blesses us with, “Now, if you’re playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film, you’ll think you’ll have ex…
- The Terminator
Listen to us if you want to live. Or just have a nice little time as we discuss one of the behemoths (in more ways than one) of the entire history of cinema! That’s right, we are covering James Cameron’s 1984 dystopian, technoir masterpiec…
- Wolf Guy
Is he a cop? Is he a journalist? Is he an STI Tiger? Is he an enraged lycanthrope? Who knows?! In our third week of “Kicking and SCREAMING!!!: Action Horror” Lucas brings us a mystifying relic of Hong Kong nonsense in WOLF GUY! But before…
- Resident Evil
We’re back for more kickassery and shenanigans with week two of “Kicking… AND SCREAMING!!!” - Action Horror - and we’ve gotta be honest… this one is a lot of shenanigans. Not that there isn’t ass-kicking to be had as we talk about a whole…
- Blade / Blade II
Some SHUDcasters are always trying to iceskate uphill… It’s a new theme on the SHUDcast courtesy of Curtis as we delve into the roundhouse world of action horror with “Kicking… AND SCREAMING!”. We open this theme with not one but TWO punch…
- Climax
The SHUD boys are ready to dance the night away – who’s bringing the punch?? We round out our theme “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on Drugs” with a pick we all knew was coming – Gaspar Noe’s CLIMAX, brought to you by Lucas. During the trip we tal…
- Bug (2007)
We are the Mother Aphid! Our experience with drugged out cinema in our theme “Rrrrrreal f*ckin’ High on Drugs” takes us to the itchiest corner of cinema with master filmmaker William Friedkin’s BUG! We have arguably one of our richest film…
- Brain Damage
Hi Brian, not feeling too well, are we Brian? Well you’re about to chipper on up as we bring to you our discussion of Frank Henenlotter’s 1988 creature classic, BRAIN DAMAGE. It’s Curtis’ pick in Cody’s theme of “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on…
- Altered States
Light some candles, sink into a saline bath, and turn into your primordial self as we get “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on Drugs”, our new theme brought to you by Cody! As his first pick of the theme we take a trip back down Ken Russell Avenue f…
- Raw (2016)
New Year, same wonderful weirdos! Tune in as we cover the final film of Lucas’ theme, “RAW and UnSENSEored” Horror Movies About the Senses” – RAW, brought to you by Austin. On the journey we discuss Austin’s birthday, some pre-Christmas vi…
- Year in Re-Spew 2025
Another year, another 4 lists, another 2+ hours of argument and joy, another wildly expansive set of music recommendations from Cody. That’s right, it’s our annual YEAR IN RE-SPEW!!! We break down our top 10 horror movies of 2025 and while…
- Hush (2016)
Shh… said no one ever on this show. We dig into one of horror’s most favorite brains as we discuss Mike Flanagan’s 2016 home invasion classic, HUSH, on week three of “RAW and UnSENSEored” Horror Movies About the Senses as picked by Curtis.…
- Wait Until Dark
We tackle a brand new sense and a different era of Hollywood for our second installment of, “RAW and Un-SENSE-ored: Horror Movies about the Senses” as Cody selects the Audrey Hepburn classic, WAIT UNTIL DARK. Hear about how we spent our Ha…
- Perfume: Story of a Murderer
We’re tantalizing ALL of your senses with our newest theme – RAW and Un-SENSE-ored: Horror Movies about the Senses – brought to you by Lucas! His first pick… maybe stretches the boundaries of the horror realm but we have a good time anyway…
- Terrifier 2
The food’s a little funny at the SHUDcafe! For a special Halloween release, we’ve decided to watch and discuss TERRIFIER 2! After now years of back and forth and sideways discussion we delve deeply into the bowels of Art the Clown and full…
- 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
It’s week four of “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror (selected by Austin) and we’re going four….-ty Seven Meters Down courtesy of Curtis! But this is no normal 47 Meters Down… this time we’ll be… UNCAGED! Look, it’s worth it, just…
- Deep Blue Sea
Deepest, Bluest, this podcast is like a shark’s fin. What’s that mean? Heck if we know but we’re going searching for it anyway as we get into week 3 of “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror - and cover 1999’s modern shark masterpiece…
- The Abyss
We descend to depths fully unimaginable as we watch (yet another?) horror-adjacent title and find what’s at the deep, dark center of James Cameron’s marital life in cinema… I mean… we watch The Abyss! It’s movie number two in “Blbwblbwblbw…
- Underwater
We dive deep, deeper than ever before in this episode – mostly because Austin forced us to – as we discuss the first film in our new theme, “Blbwblbwblbwblbwblbw” - Underwater Horror with the aptly titled, UNDERWATER. On our way down we di…
- Next of Kin
We say g’day and g’night to our time in the Outback as we close out our series on Australian Horror – “I Left My Heart in the Yabba!” – with the much heralded NEXT OF KIN! Does it hold up to us? Find out and then stick around to hear who g…
- The Plumber
We return to the sun bleached vistas of Australia for the third film in our Aussie Horror series in discussing Peter Weir’s horror of manners weirdo classic, THE PLUMBER (brought to you by Lucas)! While we’re in the Outback we discuss Only…
- Razorback
It would have been foolish, and honestly criminal, of us to visit the great Down Under and not do at least one Big Big Monster Movie, so here we are at Big Pig Week as we cover the strangely gorgeous, often hilarious, always insane piece o…
- Alison's Birthday
Oy oy! In the spirit of Summer, we’re heading to the land (where it’s actually Winter) of sunbleached sand and murderous flora-fauna as we dig into our new theme “I Left My Heart in the Yabba” – Australian Horror! The Aussies have left a b…
- Cannibal! The Musical
In the final week of “No, no, no for the last f*cking time we can’t sing Prince on the show!”: A Horror Musical Revue, we take it all the way back to the beginning of the careers of some film and TV titans – only problem is… is it a horror…
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
At long last, we’re doing the Time Warp again in week three of “No, no, no you can’t sing Prince on the show” where we go to Transexual Transylvania and discuss the mother of all horror musicals THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. In other SHUD…
- The Lure
In Week 2 of “No. No. No. For the last time, you can’t sing Prince on the show!” Curtis delves into the deep end of childhood fantasy stories, bringing THE LURE up through the brine for discussion! Along the way, Cody tries his best not to…
- Phantom of the Paradise
Welcome to week 1* of our new theme “No. No. No. For the last time, you can’t sing Prince on the show!” - Horror musicals! Courtesy of Cody we’ll be doing our darnedest to not burst out into any legally actionable songs during the recordin…
- mother!
We say goodbye to the land of cults with maybe the most dangerous cult of all – biblical allegory! That’s right, we’re tackling Darren Aronofsky’s divisive and provoking mother! . Does the film stand on its own or is it simply an exercise?…
- Sinners
If you keep dancing with the devil… you jump your release order and record an emergency episode about one of the most exciting movies we at the SHUDcast have ever seen. We’re talking about Ryan Coogler’s Southern Blues Vampire Masterpiece,…
- The Empty Man
In week three of “Purple Flavored Kool-Aid”, Curtis takes us down a path of internet-inspired horrors and pastas that are creepy with 2020’s THE EMPTY MAN. How do we feel about this divisive film? Find that out, plus our thoughts on Christ…
- Baskin
Welcome to week two of “Purple Flavored Kool-Aid” and we take a trip into the depths of hell as we dive into Turkish horror BASKIN. As we traverse the nine circles we talk about our favorite Adam Sandler movies, MORE Wong Kar Wai (thanks,…
- The Sacrament
Spring has sprung and so has a new SHUDcast theme! Courtesy of Lucas we take a sample of his “Purple Flavored Kool-Aid” as we dive into Cult Movies aka movies about cults with his selection of THE SACRAMENT. Along the way we talk Magic, ou…
- The Last Winter
It’s out with the cold and in with the new at the SHUDcast as we bid adieu to a very… odd… category of films and selections in our series, “Ohhhhhh The Weather Outside is Frightful!” with Curtis’s selection: THE LAST WINTER. Also in the mi…
- Curtains
In week 3 of “Ohhhhhh The Weather Outside is Frightful!” we make some questionable decisions regarding the criteria of our theme (don’t worry, it counts… we think) and head to Canada for some giallo-inspired slashings with CURTAINS! Along…
- Frozen (NOT THAT ONE)
Welcome to week two of “Ohhhhhh the weather outside is frightful!” where we discuss how we’d deal with cold weather, a new Curtis Masterpiece, some Wolf Men, some Showgirls, and finally how best to not survive a horrific situation with the…
- 30 Days of Night
New year, same existential dread! We kick off our new series of Austin’s choosing “Ohhhh the weather outside is frightful” with a 00s staple, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, and discuss the disasters going on in our hometown, and the absolute PLETHORA o…
- The Wolf Man (1941) / The Wolfman (2010)
We’re howling into the new year and closing out the old as we discuss not one but TWO Furry Larrys with 1941’s seminal classic THE WOLF MAN and 2010’s controversial remake THE WOLFMAN. Have we come around to Universal’s troubled production…
- Year in Re-Spew 2024
It’s the most horrendously delightful time of year! Get your lists and your fighting words ready as we rundown each of our 10 favorite horror movies of the year 2024. How high up does Terrifier 3 get? How many times does Curtis try to chea…
- Ginger Snaps
We’re mixing our goths with our wolves on this week’s show as we tackle entry three of “It’s NOT… A PHASE!” - Werewolf movies - with 2000’s cult gem, GINGER SNAPS. Along the way we talk about Mike Flanagan’s top 100 movies of all time, Gla…
- Black Christmas (2006) with Glen Morgan & Kristen Cloke
Put those skin cookies in the oven and wrap those string lights around your body tight as we have a VERY SPECIAL Yuletide gift on the SHUDcast discussing their 2006 cult classic, BLACK CHRISTMAS – writer/director Glen Morgan and actor Kris…
- Dog Soldiers
AWWWOOOO-RAH! It’s week two of “It’s NOT… A PHASE!!!” - Werewolf movies at the SHUDcast as we shield ourselves from the general nightmare that is America and talk Halloween wrap-ups, the Dodgers, Sh*tty Movie Friday, and tons of other horr…
- The Cursed (2021)
It doesn’t matter that Halloween is over because at the SHUDcast spooky season never ends! Follow us into the moonlight as we transition from to our new, beastly theme: “It’s NOT… a PHASE!” - werewolf movies. Along the way we’ll discuss ju…
- Haunt
The witching hour is nigh and so is the end to our “Hallo-Weenie!” miniseries! Join in as we further discuss our spooky season offerings, Austin’s continued trip into dictatorial madness, the end of Beyond Fest, and finally our time in the…
- Cobweb (2023)
Welcome to “HALLO-WEENIE” week 3 as we get really deep into our pumpkin guts discussing our annual times with Beyond Fest, Austin’s burgeoning political career, and so many banger new and re-watches it’s honestly disgusting, all leading up…
- Hubie Halloween
Grab your multi-purpose thermoses, your “I shaved my balls for this” t-shirts, and prepare to obey Halloween safety as we dive so deep into week two of “HALLO-WEENIE!”. We welcome the spooky season as we talk about our early haunt activiti…
- Idle Hands
Pumpkins and leaves and demonic-possessed hands are in the air as we enter the unholiest time of year – SPOOKY SEASON. We are celebrating that at the SHUDcast with a whole series devoted to films that take place on Halloween with Cody’s th…
- Crimson Peak
Celebrate with us the haunted halls, broken castles, and yearning spirits as we close out our series “Oh My Gotttttthhhh!!!” with Guillermo del Toro’s gothic romance, CRIMSON PEAK! Stick around for some new Alien talk, some “Oh My Gottttth…
- The Innocents (1961)
It’s week three of “Oh My Gotttttthhhhhh” where we explore the nooks and crannies of gothic horror. We leave behind the bloodsuckers and their castles for ghosts and their need to make children… kissy(?)... as we explore Jack Clayton’s sem…
- Alien (ALL OF THEM)
Some call it a Perfect Organism. To others, it’s just the SHUDcast! We ring in our 100th main feed episode with an extraterrestrial extravaganza ranking, SHUD-ding down, and discussing all 8 films in the Alien movie franchise. We want to t…
- Daughters of Darkness
Leave it to Cody to test the limits of our parameters, or maybe show us how wrong we are, in week two of “Oh My Gottttthhhh!!!” as we get a little steamy, a little freaky, and maybe even a little campy discussing the 1971 Belgian/French/Ge…