The Friday Nightmares Podcast

Hello everyone and welcome to our

2024 award show for the Friday Nightmares

podcast. I am one half of your

hosting team this evening, coming to you from the town of Swartz

Creek in the county of Tennessee in the state of Michigan,

in the United States of America, in North American continent,

in the Western hemisphere, on the planet Earth, in the Milky Way

galaxy. I'm fully vaccine boosted and waxed and ready to climax.

And if you can, please get me wet and feed me after midnight.

I'm the man with the glorious beard, aka Mother of Cats,

aka the man with the humongous ego,

aka Scott Housing, aka Scotty Too

hottie, aka Spanky, aka Hey Scott,

and also aka Mr. Smoke Show Crawford himself.

And with me, as always, is and. Also one of the most premium

horror podcasters in the horror community.

Real role model, actually to podcasters out there like

Tim Davis and Rob Humphries that are just starting out in Matt Wood as well,

you know, I don't know. I don't know what they would do without your influence,

Scott. Basically, you're a hero. I am a golden God.

And with him, as always, is the second premium podcaster that

also acts as a role model to all these up and

comers. Heather Powell coming to you today from Waterdown,

Ontario, Canada. Hopefully Scott releases his episodes

before 2026, but if not, this is going to be a nice retro go

back to 2024. You know, y'all keep

saying this and one of these days I'm just gonna be like, all right,

fine, it. I ain't releasing it until 2027.

Right? She'll forget if I'll forget too. We'll totally

forget that it existed. I have purposely

avoided nt end of year list to not be swayed.

So after this we record, I'm gonna start listening to horror dummies

of horror and hear what they had to say.

There's was a really good episode. Was it okay? I wanted to wait

because I didn't want them to say something and it swayed my opinion because

I just loved him and Daniel like a stalker. So I just,

whatever they say, I just agree with. Right? I'm actually drinking my

green tea from a Halloween mug and I thought of Tim. It's too bad we're

not talking about the best Halloween film, Scott. Halloween ends.

Oh, man, Halloween ends the best of the entire franchise.

Like, I think it's better than the OG Actually. I don't even.

I mean, Tim Davis would totally agree. Like the whole idea

of Michael Myers training an apprentice, I just. It's like

us training Tim you know, basically we're living in the sewer.

That's actually how we actually ended up being podcasters. We all met in the sewer.

And Matt, what was there too. And we all just decided from there on

a podcast. But I always do look

forward to our end of the year awards. Scott and

I try to bring a variety of films to the table.

Perhaps if you missed something last year because it is slow

as molasses this year. So far, 2025, we are a couple

weeks in and I have watched one movie

and that was the Low Hanging Fruit on Shudder. I cannot find.

There's nothing on our friends Plex. There's.

I can't figure out fucking to be. To be. Can you please put years

so I can fucking figure something out?

Yeah, and I haven't seen Wolfman yet, so that doesn't help.

Yeah, I think there's been a total of like, at least that I've heard three

releases to being theatrical. The Damned and

Wolfman and Getaway on Shudder.

Like, I'm sure there is more like lower budget ones that have come

out, but we'll just have to wait a while. But yeah, I haven't watched a

single thing from 2025 yet because I wanted to just

continue focusing on 2024 and watch a few more. I did

miss some of the big hitters that people were talking about because I did go

and listen to Dummies of Horror and fresh cuts. Top 10 so far.

Nice. Yeah, I got to listen to theirs too. Yep, theirs was really good.

Yeah, they're just. I was trying to catch. See if I could have time to

catch some movies that I didn't see. Unfortunately, I really

didn't get a chance to get much done because I was hoping to watch a

few at work and work got a little too busy work.

So I unfortunately missed three big ones. One of them

still being in theaters and that was Nosferatu Oddity

and then Xisuma. Those ones I were on my list to like,

definitely watch. But I did not get a chance to see those three,

unfortunately. But yeah, do you want to just kind

of give your thoughts on how you felt about this year,

like, going forward like this year compared to the other years?

Sure. First of all, I watched no. 4A2 because I'm a real horror podcaster.

I went Boxing Day while Scott took care of his fucking

family. I was out watching horror movies.

You know, it's funny, I went with George and he was lukewarm on it,

right. And I said to him before we went in, I said, look, man,

this is Eggers. He's like, who? I'm like, oh yeah, you're. No, you're not a

nerd. Robert Aeggers is a director and he has a

certain style. And you may like this, you may not, and we'll

see. But I will say that it kept very authentic

to the original story. But it's theirs.

And we were in the bar afterwards because what else do I do?

Fair, right? And there was this couple there and

like I was talking to George. I said, yeah, you know, I really look forward

to talking with Scott about this and my friend Mark from England,

because Mark's a big fan of the original. And I'm like. And Scott will really

like really like Vegas. And he loved the Lighthouse and you

know, and this guy overheard me and he's like, excuse me, did you see no

Ferratu? And I said, yeah, I did. He. He's like, oh, was it

good? I'm like, are you an Eggers fan? He's like, I love the Lighthouse.

I'm like, you'll be fine. No, you'll be fine. I'm like, I'm like your,

your partner, your friend, how does she feel? He's like, well, she's never seen any

Robert of Agar's films. I'm like, oh, that's risky, dude.

That's risky. I will say this is my preferred

Eggers film, even over the Witch personally.

And I definitely recommend Scotty when you get a chance to

watch it. So Noferatu aside, I watched 170 movies

this year, which is down from other years, but still like that's still

amazing. Like I hope it's better than Matt Wood, but every year Matt

tries to beat me and I hope he did like Matt.

If you managed to beat me, I'm proud of you and I want you to

know that it means a lot to me that you care. That you're so obsessed

with me hair flip that you want to beat me.

I thought it was decent. I don't know. I'm not one of these people that

shit on horror years, you know. We dig a lot,

you and I, so we watch a lot of stuff that other people wouldn't.

I will say it was slow for international horror this year,

but what did come out was great, I will say that.

But I will say that it was slower for international horror.

I found some decent slashers came out this year and

I had a lot more fun with low budget movies this year and

to be than I have other years. So overall I enjoyed

this year. But I did Find some of our awards challenging.

Yes. But I will say that I enjoyed,

like, when I made my top 10. It may not be everybody's top 10,

because I'm gonna have stuff in here that I know not

a lot of people have watched, but I was happy

with it. And I. And I. The honorable mentions I gave, I. I praised

them when they came out when we did our episode. And I'm glad that I'm

able to go back and talk about them because all my honorable mentions, except for

one, were not major releases. So I'm hoping

that I can encourage people to watch that. So what

do you think? What are your thoughts? How many did. First of all, how many

did you watch this year? I ended up with 113.

Not bad. Not bad. Yeah. Definitely my lowest number since we started recording

the podcast. Yeah. But just, you know, life got busy. I became everything.

But I do plan on. I heard rumors that Nosferatu comes

digitally Tuesday. Nice. So that means I will hopefully be watching

it real soon just to kind of. Because I have to see it. Oh,

yeah. But yeah, for me, this year,

like you said, it started off really slow and I

was burnt out. Like, I was just not happy with this year

at all. All the way up until I'd say the fall.

And then the fall kicked in and I got to see

a bunch of the movies that started getting released and I started being able

to form a top 10 that I was happy with. But like, at first I

was like, oh, this top 10 is not gonna be good. Like, I'm not wanting

any of these in my top 10 type deal. And eventually

like a lot of heavy hitters came out towards like August, September,

October into December. And now I'm very happy with my

top 10. And I'll say this year ended starting off slow, but I think still

was a pretty solid year. I think I like it better than last

year. Awesome. Not that much. Well, and that's. And that's fair.

Right? Hopefully we'll see what 2025 brings.

We got some interesting shit coming out 28 years

later is coming out this year and I'm really interested to see what

they do with that. Yes. And I know they're

finishing off the or there are, I think the Two Strangers trilogy, like part

of that trilogy is coming out this year. I think

that was supposed to come out in October, but I think after the mild success

that it had, like the pitiful success I had, yeah, I think got pushed back.

Right. And yeah, I'm here for any of the low

hanging fruit, like the The Bambi movie,

the horror Peter Pan. I'm fucking here for it.

Released the trailer for the Peter Pan one. Oh, I gotta watch that shit.

I. I love this. I love them and I want to make babies with

them. I love them so much because they're just so fucking entertaining and

they know what they are like. One thing I will say about this year is

there's some low budget films out there that fucking knew what they were. Oh,

yeah. 100% not looking at you. Blumhouse not looking

at you. But every other like kind of.

And I'll talk about it. It will come up. It's a guilty pleasure I had.

But there was some fun films that knew they were

silly and rolled with it. And I respect that.

I respect the game. Yeah, I was gonna say because yeah, there's going to be

some more this year that will definitely be that. Know what they're rolling with

because to kind of go with that whole Winnie the Pooh

timeline. Also there's that Steamboat Willie coming out with David

Gordon playing Steamboat Willie. Fuck yeah, it is. I'm here

for this. And the Popeye for Popeye the Slasher Man. Oh,

yeah. Yeah. Give it to me,

baby. Yeah. I can't wait for that.

Yeah. All right, let's, let's. You've listened to all the lists

now you're gonna listen to the best. You're gonna listen to no low

hanging fruit here. 170 films and 113,

baby. We. We watch stuff. So be prepared to

be underwhelmed. Accurate.

Very accurate. All right, Scotty, why don't you start off

with our first category? All right, so our first category, we're going to

kind of go through all the streaming services. I did not

add screen box to this because there's. I just don't have.

I don't want to get another freaking streaming service. But I know they had

some originals on there too. But we're starting off

with the best shutter film. And for me,

my got a runner up. And of course the winner, my runner

up was Infested, the French spider film.

Because that movie, I just watched that fairly

recently. That movie was intense. It gave

me, what do you call it, Wreck meets arachnophobia

vibes. It was just creeped me out.

So I. Yeah, that one is my runner up. But the award will

go to Late Night with the Devil that, you know, it was

just fantastic and so well done.

You know, Infested was Creature feature done

right. French doing it right. Like, yeah,

France keep making up films. Yeah, I love how dark they

Are I love you. Don't hold back. How you're like, everyone dies. How do you

like that, huh? You think you're gonna live. No. You're gonna die.

Right. And you're gonna die painfully too while we're at it.

Like this character. Yeah, she's dead. Yep. Right.

And a great use of low income apartment buildings to like

just very, very well done shutter really brought it this year.

And just Scotty and I actually have no idea what's on each other's list.

Usually. I can guess. I have no fudgeing idea. Like, I didn't know he was

going to say Late Night with his. With the Devil was one of his favorite.

Was the favorite shutter of this year. I'm shocked. Actually. I didn't see that coming.

Really? Yeah, no, I just, I. I knew you liked it,

but I didn't. I remember how much I fucking like basically blew it

constantly. I didn't remember you. So anyway,

my runner up is Oddity. I thought Oddity was a really solid

Irish film that came out this year. We've said before the Irish board,

film board, they don't put out a lot, but when they put out something,

it tends to be at least at the minimal, entertaining and well made.

And my second, my first is. And this is going to be a shock,

I think to a lot of people, but I thought In a Violent nature was

fucking brilliant. Wow.

Yeah. I did not choose Late Night with the Devil though.

We will bring it up later. But I thought In a Violent

Nature was clever. I thought it did what I think Skinamarink

tried to do last year in doing something different successfully. Now there's

a fans of Skinamarink and I respect that. That was your thing.

That's cool. But I thought that to show a slasher

movie from a killer perspective was a big risk because

there's a lot of downtime, as we all found out when you're getting

to and from Kills. But I thought that it was

interesting and I thought it was probably one of the better unique movies that Shudder

picked up this year. The Walking Simulator,

Nature asmr, which you're not wrong.

You're not wrong. You're not wrong. Right. But yeah,

that one might get brought up in a certain category. We'll see. For me,

that is fair. All right, what's our next category, friend?

All right, so the next category is Best

Netflix film. And boy, let me tell you, I only

watched one Netflix film this year. So there is

no runner up. That's fair.

That's fair. I tried watching that it's what's inside.

But I couldn't stand the characters and

them talking over top of each other that I gave up half an hour in.

So the only one that I'm going to give props to to

is Under Paris because that was a fun ass shark

movie. Yes, it was gory. It was. It gave

me happiness to see those psycho eco terrorist type people

just get their comeuppance and. Yeah, just lots of good bloody

shark action. Just what I wanted from that movie. Yeah. And I'm not

sure if you know this, but I went to Paris this year. Oh, no.

Did you really? You never said anything about that.

You know, that's for Rob, because I never talk about my trips to Europe and

how well traveled I am. Never.

I agree with you. That was a really fun film and it actually did a

really good job as. And I'm not saying this to be nerdy, but being in

that location earlier that year and then seeing it in film,

I will say they captured it really well because I was there when they were

setting up for the Olympics. So there was kind of some of the same stands

and stuff like that and. Oh, yeah, yeah, right. So I,

I agree, though, that is not what I selected.

So I was able to get through. It's what's Inside

and that was my runner up. Oh, wow. Yes,

I. I did enjoy the context of the film.

There's a lot of debates of whether this is considered horror or not. And I'm

really Scott and I don't get into that. I thought it was horror enough.

I consider it a horror film. I think if you can get past the,

I don't know, the pretentiousness of some of the characters, it might be

a good one for you. If not, I would see. There's Erica with her bag.

Hi, Erica. Heather says hi. Erica's making her

special guest appearance today in the episode it's what's

Inside. And that's why Erica fell in love with Scott. It's because of what's

inside of Scott. Yeah. All those guts and hearts and.

Yeah. She says hello to you, Heather. If you didn't hear, I know I heard

her. I heard her. Don't worry. I always hear my girl. Don't worry.

I know her voice. And then I thought, the best Netflix

film. So this film came out and there wasn't a lot of talk about it.

It's an international film. It's outside, and it's

a different take on zombie outbreak and I

really recommend it to people. I think if you're zombied out.

This is a refresh. It tells it from a different perspective

of the survivors. And I really do think

if you skipped over this one this year, it is definitely

worth going back and watching. And again,

Netflix brings the international horror so outside.

Check it out. Nice. Yeah, this is one that I wanted to check out

just once again. Never got around to it. But yeah,

the next category, this one's kind of tough, but it's a Best on

Demand film. So I kind of had just like look to see what was available

to rent because that's how I look at On Demand. Yeah, same thing you got

to pay for to rent and everything. But I don't want to go through the

entire freaking list of movies that I've watched to

see what was to rent what was not. So I went through basically

my top, like 50 of them and just kind of was picking from them.

My runner up would be the found footage film,

Frogman. Yeah, good movie movie.

That one was awesome. Body horror. It actually had

a, you know, really good found footage aspect. The mythological creature,

the story behind the folklore. For that was awesome.

Really fun found footage film. But my number one or

my top award for this one goes to the so

special indie Michigan based Deer

Camp 86. Loved this movie

so damn much. All the characters were enjoyable.

They threw away your typical stereotypes of,

oh, the big, big chunk, big fat guy is gonna be the

funny comedian throughout the whole thing. Like it actually made him like serious roles

and the whole story about basically,

you know, Native Americans getting treated like shit and stuff like that and

them getting their revenge. Awesome, fun movie, you know, with more

but more money behind it. It would have probably like had a much cooler

effects. But what they did I thought was wonderful. It was such a

great movie altogether. I. I agree. I.

We will bring that up later. I thought the year Camp 86

was fucking excellent and an example of like medium

to low budget done right. I for Best on Demand,

same thing. There's a lot of stuff that laps over with other streaming

services, but I felt that a good runner up for me because

we don't put this category on here and

that's Paramount because Paramount doesn't always drop a lot of stuff,

but you can rent it. And that was apartment 7A. I thought that

was a really solid On Demand film that came out this year.

I'm a lukewarm on Rosemary's Baby,

so the fact that I enjoyed apartment 7A as much as I did was

a shock to me, to be honest. But I really,

really liked that one. And one of the Ones that

I thought was really a good On Demand didn't make a theater release,

but I hope more people watch. It is humane by Clayton. Caitlin Cronenberg.

I thought that was a really interesting topic.

I like her style. Very different from her dad and brother,

but similar in ways. And I thought that was

a really solid film that came out this year. Yeah, both those are very

excellent choices because I enjoyed both those films. Like excellent.

I wouldn't have. I didn't even think about humane. But yeah, that would have possibly

have been a runner up for me as well. Well, I'm loving that our lists

are so different so far because I think that's nice. Instead of us just saying

the same film over and over again, so. Right. And I'm sure I'll

be repeating a lot of films later on as the list goes on just because

like you said earlier, these awards this year were a bit tougher than normal.

Yeah, they were a little bit tougher. But I guess we can jump

on to the next one. The best Amazon

prime film. And the way I did this one for me was I looked

when we were doing the awards, see what is available on Amazon

prime right now. Could be the actual. Could be an Amazon.

Could be an Amazon original or whatever.

I don't think I've seen any Amazon originals this year. I don't

think they came out with any. If I can remember correctly. I don't remember any.

I don't know if the one I picked was an Amazon original.

I know, it's just. It was for free on it on Prime. Yeah. And that's

kind of how I went with this one. Yeah. So my runner up was the

one that I talked about very early on this year that

gave me Psycho Gorman vibes and that is the wrestler

turned babysitter movie Here for Blood.

This movie was so charming and fun and gory

and silly. I just had a blast with it. And it is free

on prime right now. So if you have not seen it, check it out.

It's definitely low budget done, right. Totally. But the

one that I ended up choosing for my award was Abigail.

Yeah, it was a theatrical watch, but at the same time,

like, it's on prime right now. So I picked that one because Abigail was

just a really fun, fun horror film. I won't say what kind of

horror film just in case people haven't watched it yet. Yeah. But all around,

I thought that one was a blast. Lots of. Once again, lots of gore.

Had some good comedic moments and had some good tense moments.

Agreed to very solid picks.

So prime is always different up in Canada. What we get access to. Yep.

And the prime film that really stood out to me this year was Blink Twice.

Oh, yeah. I thought that was really, really solid.

I. I thought that it was heavy.

I do, as always give a little bit of a warning for that one just

because of the nature of the sexual violence that they talk

about in it. But it is a very, very solid film. All three

films on prime. Solid, solid watches for this year actually.

Did you not have a runner up or was I. No, that was it.

Blink Twice was for what we had on Canadian Prime. That's fair.

Yeah. All right. So I guess I'll move on to the next one then.

But yeah, that. That is one movie I once again did not get a chance

to watch. It was on the list. I wanted to see it. But it will

be something I will watch eventually for sure. Yeah, totally. This one.

This one was not many choices but best Hulu film.

So I put a runner up just because I only watched two.

So the runner up is carved. Yeah. Fun.

It was fun. It was fun. I'd say the first half

hour. So first half movie was awesome. But I think they blew their load a

little too early because it started dragging out after that. But killer,

killer pumpkin. It was silly. It was lighthearted. It was a Halloween themed

movie. So it just fit and it was fun. But my award

went to Mr. Crockett. I thought the way that was also released around the

same time on Halloween. I think it was there. Ulu wean or whatever you call

it. But Mr. Crockett is also just fun.

Basically about a 70s style TV host.

Like Mr. Rogers neighborhood and all that stuff. Except he's kidnapping

your children. The children that are being that have been having bad

lives like their parents and everything like that and just taking them away. But another

kind of fun creepy movie.

Yeah. Obviously there's two choices here. So. Mr.

Crockett. But I actually really honestly. Even if Hulu had come out with other

stuff, I don't know if something would beat out Mr. Crockett for me. I thought

the one liners were so like Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and

I'm now raining, raining reading Rainbow Motherfucker

is still. Yes. One of my favorite lines of the year.

I thought it was. It's a simple paint by numbers foam.

You're not looking at anything super special here. But it

was so palatable and easy to watch.

It was a good cleanser for if you've watched some

heavier stuff that came out this year and then you wanted to, like, watch something

just stupid and, like, somewhat predictable. Right.

But yeah, I dug. I dug Mr. Crockett a lot. So.

Brobo, Hulu, you brought two. At least the carve

was okay. But you know what? You definitely did a good orgasm

with Mr. Crockett. You did a good job, Lou. You did a good job.

Yep. I'll say I was happy with both of them, but this

one. This one, I had a lot of choices to choose from because horror

was very prevalent in the theater this year.

Absolutely. So this one is our best theatrical release.

And yeah, there were a lot of heavy hitters to choose from.

So my runner up was actually really freaking tough because there were so many choices.

I ended up going with Alien Romulus. Good film.

Because good film. I just thought this was an excellent

sequel. Like, sequel, prequel, wherever you want to call it.

In between. And they got the look and everything down perfectly

for that 80s vibe. The. I can look past the

awful CGI use of a certain character.

I kind of look at it as. Yep, he was a droid anyways, so it

kind of just fits. The only issue I have is just the one liner

at the end to get away from her, you bitch. It just. I didn't like

the way that was used in this movie. And they could have just done something

different with it. But still, all around an Alien movie

that actually made face huggers more terrifying than the fucking Xenomorphs.

Mm. I agree. I agree. That was my runner up,

but my number one film. I had so much fun in the

theater with this one. I've watched it four times already

since. Since it came out, and I just grin ear to

ear every single time. And that is Terrifier three. I knew it.

This was exactly what I wanted from the next

movie in the Arc the Clown saga. And yep,

Damian Lyod and David Howard Thornton just brought it again with

some amazing gore. And for what Heather doesn't like,

but the more comedic side of art, but also the sadistic

side of him, at the same time, I. I love it.

And yeah, it just makes me grin ear to ear. And yeah, I've already watched

this four times this year, and each time I just smile ear to ear.

That's why you're only at 113 films. You just keep watching Terrifier 3.

That's why. Exactly. That's funny. Well,

I'm glad that we have different movies. I had a feeling

my runner up is Nosferatu. I think that never

ever would. I would have said never ever a Robert Akers film. I would Give

an award to, but you know,

you can't. This movie is very good, even if it's

not your preference. The cinematic development of it, the acting,

the costume design, it's just. It's.

It's a really solid film. And I always. I hope I say this

right. You corrected me on it before. Heretic,

I felt, was the. The best theatrical release to

come out this year. And there were good ones. Like,

I agree with both of your selections. I think those are actually very solid movies.

And there were some other ones, too, that were quite good that came out this

year. Not looking at you, Blumhouse.

Not looking at you, but disgust

at you, Blumhouse. Yeah. Fucking Blunt and Lionsgate. Fuck off.

Lionsgate and Blumhouse. Anyway, both.

Both solid, actually. All four movies. We just said solid theatrical releases

this year. Glad to see that they've done well. Nosferatu did very

well. So did Herrick, Heredit, and I don't know

how Alien Rami Ness did. I hope it did okay. Oh, it did.

Amazing. Okay. An amazing theater. And then obviously Terrifier

three was like, once again, yeah, the talk. Because it just, like,

quadrupled. Like, actually, no, I think it, like, times eight.

Its budget back. Like, it was just a huge success.

Huge. Just amazes me that something like that violent and gory is

getting such huge success in the big screen. I'm like, it makes me so happy.

Fuck yeah, baby. That's all I can say. Fuck yeah. Yeah. So this year

in theaters, theater watches was awesome. And actually, it's kind of funny

because both of those movies on my list were ones that Erica

and I both were actually able to get out of the theater or get out

of the house to go see in theaters. That's true. And the ones you mentioned

were both ones that. Well, ones that I will be having. To watch at home,

which hopefully you like. I think you'll enjoy both of them. They're both solid.

So I did see Heretic. I really liked Heretic. Oh, yeah, that's right.

Yeah. But, yeah, Nosferatu. I already know I'm good. I already

have a feeling. Oh, I know you're going to like it. Oh, I know.

Oh, yes. Oh, now it comes to the final

streaming service, and that is the best to

be originals. Now, these are always fun because

2B is kind of like the Lifetime or Hallmark movie of horror

films. Very easy to watch.

Very. Just kind of charming in their own right. A lot of

not very good ones, basic ones. This year

brought some interesting ones. And I will

say I have a feeling That I might be hearing about this one later from

Heather. But runner up is Slay,

drag queen from Dusk Tilt Dawn.

I freaking had a blast with this one. The queens in

this were hilarious characters. Were all just a lot of fun.

Definitely worth your time to watch. But for me,

my award goes to Lowlifes. Because that

one was freaking awesome and kind of

horrific and caught me by surprise with a lot of the things that happened to

it. Like very good horror film. You know what this is?

Our list is the same because,

well, I realized I put Deer Camp on here, but I don't think it was

an original. Yeah, it was not a to be original. So shouts out

to Deer Camp. 1986 Gear Tamp 86 still freight. Great film.

But Lowlifes definitely is my number one.

And Slay, I thought, I thought they were great. I thought they were both really

fun. And good job, Tubi. Good job. That was

so much fun. Both of them were. Yes. 100%.

100%. Ooh. And now we get to some of the fun awards.

Yes. Once you're done. All right, so next

we will be moving on to best Bloodbath. I almost

put Terrifier three in here, but then I realized when I think of Bloodbath,

I think of like slaughtering a bunch of people. Blah, blah,

blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Art the Clown didn't really do like a mass slaughter.

Besides like in the mall with the bomb. Yeah,

yeah. So I took that one off the list and I sat here. This one

was one of those where I had to sit and think about it for a

minute. I stewed on and stewed on it.

So my runner up ended up being under Paris when the

shark just slaughters the entire eco save

the world people that were in the sewer just one by one by one.

And it was just a nasty ass bloodbath. That one popped into

my head. So I was like, yep, gotta add that to my runner up.

But my number one was Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey two

at the river Rave scene. Like they just went on

that killing spree. You know what?

Same sees though, I could say Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey. The entire

film. Yeah. Because the rape

scene. Absolutely. But I just find that movie so

over the top, gory, bloodbathy movie.

It's just so fun. I don't have

a runner up. Winnie the two Blood and Honey for Life, baby.

Awesome, awesome, awesome movie. Hell. Wow. We actually a couple awards

that are similar. I'm surprised. Yeah, yeah. But it's Bloodbath,

right? Like you kind of gotta it's harder. Right. I did find that there

were some blood. Like there were some good kills this year. But when

I thought about Blood Bath. Yeah. It was the only movie

that came to mind. Yep. Same like it's right. Like I said, I was thinking

Terrifier, but I'm going, wait, no, no, that was just individual kills.

Yeah, that were great. Yeah. Speaking of kills.

Individual kills. Yes. This next one is best kill of

the year for me. My runner up will be a mentioned

shout out to good old terrifier 3 with the liquid nitrogen

kill on Santa Claus. Yeah, it was great.

Everyone mentions Jason X. Oh, that liquid nitrogen

kill by Jason X. That is baby's game

compared to this. This was brutal. The way he just did

individual pieces of this guy's body with the liquid nitrogen

and then just smashed it with a hammer or just. And then

rip the guy's beard off to wear as his own Santa outfit later.

It's like, oh, my God, this. I just remember when

watching this in theaters, I was laughing and Erica's just turning away.

She's like, nope, I can't do this one. Oh, my gosh, it was

so good. It. The kills in Terrifier three were fucking epic.

Yeah. But my best kill.

I bash this movie. I make fun of this movie, but I gotta give credit

where credit is due. And that is the yoga hill kill

scene in a violet nature.

While the liquid nitrogen kill was awesome, it wasn't

completely original. Where the yoga scene.

I don't think I ever seen someone's head get kind

of pulled backwards and shoved back through their stomach and back up again.

That was a unique kill. It was wild.

That was a wild fucking kill. My runner

up, it's the Mousetrap, the final kill.

Yes. Because I thought that final kill came out of fucking

nowhere. It's like it was so funny.

And yeah. Shouts out to the mousetrap.

And my best kill was Terrifier three, the shower

seam. I thought that was very, very creative and

always great practical effects. And we'll.

And that kind of puts a kibosh on

the people that. And say that Terrifier is

a women bashing movie. Yeah. Misogynistic movie. I think

that was Damien Leone's response to that. And I do

love how he listens and he's like, oh, yeah, I love it.

Yeah, I really respect the game there. But yeah,

those are my two. That is my favorite kills of this year.

And yeah, that I'll say. I can't argue with either of them either.

Those are both great. The next Category, someone you can get behind.

And we can have two choices here. So, of course, I gave

this to this character two years ago and I'm gonna give it to

her again. And that is sienna from Terrifier 3 because she

is just a badass final girl.

And also Frodo the cat from Quiet

Place, day one.

Fair enough. That was probably the best part about that movie. I was rooting for

that cat the entire time. I love it.

My runner ups are Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton from

Heretic. I have never felt such anxiety

for two young women and appreciated

the setup with wanting to convert someone to their faith and then trying

to outsmart and play a game with somebody who is so manipulative

and cruel. And they're so. I don't want to say pure,

but not that kind of person. Very,

very of their faith. Yes. Theory of their faith.

I thought they were fabulous. And someone who I

really did get behind. And even though not a lot of people

always love his movies, I thought this character

was pretty good. And that was Lady Raven from Trap. I thought she,

you know, in. In a. Obviously you can poke holes in the

situation she got into, but in the scene where she manages to

get the cell phone from the killer, I thought was pretty clever

and what she does with it. So I

enjoyed her quite a bit. And those were my two that I

really felt for this year. Yeah, I would not have expected Lady Raven for that

one. That's a good choice. Yeah. Yeah. We're bringing in the variety

now. It's good. M. Night. M. Night Shyamalan definitely does not know how concerts

work because what concert gets over with and it's still daylight out for one.

I know, right? But like, that's okay. We're all gonna just.

And a lot of stuff in that movie that happens wouldn't happen.

But. But still a fun movie.

Still a fun movie. And I thought that she portrayed a protagonist

in that ending scenes. Well, yeah.

So very good choices. This one's

going to be fun. Someone you. Who you can hate or fear.

Two can be named here. I named two movies,

not two characters. Okay. So he

sees you when you're sleeping. The entire

family. I hated these people and I wanted everything

bad to happen to them. They were just despicable characters.

And the movie in general just kind of sucked.

Fair enough. Fair enough. But then the

other one, once again, everybody in imaginary. Everybody in

general. Actually Blumhouse is the real villain of the year because.

Jesus Christ, that movie angered me beyond belief.

And everyone was acting so fucking dumb and stupid or

psychotic. They're vibe to pick one dumb character out

of them all and that I couldn't. They were all fucking dumb. They're all

annoying. They were all stupid. And I wanted everything bad to happen to every one

of them. That is fair. I love the anger.

I had a hard time with this one because I thought there was some really

good antagonists this year. I have two honorable mentions and because it's our show and

we can do what we want, I'm going to do it anyway. Cooper from

Trap, played by Josh Hartnett. Slow cap Josh Hartnett.

Like performance of the year. Like one

of them anyway. Hugh Grant from Heretic.

Another like someone that was incredibly like two

people that I was like, ah, yeah, whatever. And then being like, oh,

right, wow, right. But my

official runner up is sue from the Substance,

Demi Moore's younger version of herself. I found that

chicken annoying. I hated her and that was the emotion

I was supposed to feel. I was supposed to hate her. And I felt so

bad for Demi Moore and. And why she had made these choices

to, you know, create this younger version and.

But I think the biggest asshole of the year or

someone you can be afraid of is Slater King from Blink Twice

because that's probably not far off. P. Diddy of

power doing things to people.

And there's. There's a part in it that is so intense

where Slater Kling says some stuff that is so scary

of what we've heard in mainstream media. Apologies that

it's fucked. It's fucked. This was a good year for

villains like villain Character development this year I thought was

really strong. Yeah, I can definitely agree with that one. That for

Blumhouse. Yes, yes. I feel like

everything. I'll be like, everything was good. Except for Blumhouse. Except for Blumhouse.

Just get out of the goddamn pool. Oh my God.

With the AI movie, we're not going to go into it. Fucking horrible.

Anyway, so this next award was the one

that I saved for very last figure out because I

was struggling to think of something for this and that is

best tearjerker moment in horror.

I was going through my list over and over and over and

over. Nothing was connecting or jumping out. And then

I talked to Erica about it and I was like, I just can't think of

anything. And she's like. I'm like, I might have to leave this one blank.

And she's like, you could. Well then she brought this up and I was like,

oh, yes. Yeah, absolutely. So once again, I am bringing up

Frodo the cat. But when. Oh, the Peter Nyong'o gives

Frodo the cat to the other guy and he obviously

jumps off the dock into the water with the cat, which is totally unbelievable.

The cat would just chill. But when he escapes with the

cat and she stays behind, like that did kind of tear me up because I

was like, I could just picture, you know, letting go of my cat and something

like that. So yeah, that one, that one did, I remember, did bring a tear

to my eye when I seen that scene. So I was like, I'm glad she

brought that one up because at the the time I just was not thinking of

it. You're like, I didn't fucking cry this year. I'm not a fucking pussy.

Oh no. I'm happy to admit that I cry when I need to. Just.

There was nothing this year that just really hit me besides that.

I cried that I wasted my time with some movies this year.

Fair, I cried about that.

A tearjerker moment that happened early on in 2024,

which probably affected me more than it affected

other people, but it touched me. In my place was Clear Mind.

The child drowning and the mother's grief really hit home for

me this year and where it leads

her to and the confrontations she has felt really raw.

So that was my runner up. And a

kill scene that occurs in the basement of Heretic where you

think somebody is going to be successful and they are not.

That that made me sad. So unlike

Scott who had no feelings this year except for the cat,

I had two sets of feelings this year. Yeah,

because like honestly, like Clear Mind may have actually been a might runner

up because. But when I had Clear Mind on a couple different

lists because I create my own lists on Facebook or on Letterbox,

but they're all private so no one can see them. It's just for me to

remember. Oh yeah, these things gave have can fit these awards.

Clear Mind was in a lot of them, but I'm. I was struggling to remember

anything from the movie so I completely forgot that happened. That's fair.

That's fair. Right? But yeah, like so yeah, that one would probably been on my

runner up if I remembered. But yeah, that one just completely like I

was like, that was this year. I know because it was so early on in

the year. Right? Yeah, yeah. But the next one, Best Feel

good horror film of the year. Even though I didn't

really like this movie, my runner up was Lisa Frankenstein

because it just gave that Tim Burton esque

vibe of bright colors and feel good and

blah, blah, blah. I couldn't stand the Main character thought she was kind of a

bitch and like the movie itself was.

But that one kind of fat still felt

like a feel good movie to me. I agree. But the one that I added

to for the award was Slayer.

I. I just felt like that one just gave me

a feel good vibe. Especially towards the end when the bartender just

comes out in full drag and is accepted and just finally,

yeah, realizing who he is and stuff like that. And I'm like, yeah, bravo movie.

Bravo. Awesome. I'm, I'm so glad Members

Club was my runner up. I thought first of all,

these guys in their 50s being strippers were fucking hilarious.

Matt Wood suggested to this to me because of my love of

a good mind on a man and a good personality.

He was right. There was lots of big personalities in this movie.

I thought it was hilarious. I had a really good chuckle with this.

And of course, my number one is Slay. I thought Slay was very

funny and feel good and fluffy and,

and just easy to digest. And again, a nice little

palate cleanser. Same with Members Club. Neither one of these movies are like,

oh man, they're the best that come out this year. They're silly, but they know

they're silly and they're not trying to be something. That they're not exactly. No,

but I like, I like that. I wish I would have seen Members Club because

I remember you told me to watch that just once again. Never got around to

it, unfortunately. Well, if you're ever having like a fluffy day where you just want

to watch something silly, it's a good, silly little thing to put on. Which I

will definitely probably have to do at some point. Yeah. Because.

Yeah, after this, this category is when you need to watch something

fluffy. Yeah. Because it is the punch

in the gut category where basically just this movie

just hits you so hard in the feels and. Yeah. And it's

uncomfortable or whatever. I couldn't think of a

runner up for this one, but I knew right away what movie got

my award and that was Coffee Table.

The entire movie was a fucking punch in

the gut from beginning to end. Just the what

happens and then just the dialogue and awkwardness

going on throughout the rest of the movie to what happens at the very

end. Oh, this, that, that one just. Yeah, it punched me

in the gut, kicked me in the balls and kicked

me in the head. I would agree with you. That was a. It was a.

It was heavy for me. It was the ending in Nosferatu.

Obviously I won't expand on that because it's still in theaters and people haven't always

watched it yet. And lowlifes. The ending of lowlifes.

I remember being like, what the fuck? Like, I remember being angry at

the outcome. And it's funny because that was early on

in the year. Noferatu was literally at the end of the year. So I.

I bookended and started the year with getting punched in the gut.

That's basically what we learned from this list today.

And we. And we apparently are masochists because we like getting beat up.

We certainly do, apparently. Right.

So the next one to kind of go back could be a good thing

or a bad thing. Depends on how you look at it. All the feelings,

really. Best relationships and horror films.

I put this one as a runner up. This one. Because this was another

one where I was struggling to think of a good movie to fit at first.

But the runner up was the vampire next door.

The relationship between the female vampire

that this kid meets that he lives next door to. Like,

they ended up building this, like, really strong bond. And I. Really good.

That was a good movie. Yeah. And I really like their relationship between the two

of them. But my award has to go to.

Because we discussed this one when we first watched it early on and about

how this would probably fit this award. So I'm kind of curious to see if

it's sitting in yours. But here for Blood, the wrestler and the

girl that he babysat because they were such an amazing little

relationship together. Like, because when we say relationship, it doesn't

mean romantic. It means brother, sister, friends,

whatever relationship you can think of. And the dynamic between these

two, because in most babysitter type movies,

the babysitter is dealing with a little kid.

That's an. And no. These two got along wonderfully.

And they, like, were. The babysitter was there to protect the little

girl, and the little girl was helping him. And they, like, they had this amazing

interaction together. So that one relationship of the year for me.

That's awesome. I love it. My runner up was Alberta

and Ebony from Jackson, from Deliverance.

Which are. Yeah, Deliverance on Netflix. Oh, okay.

I did that. The mom and Glenn Close and her daughter. I thought that that

was a really good reflection of how they had each other's

back. Not the best movie, but I do think that their

relationship really stood out to me. And then the other relationship

that really stood out to me was Sister Paxton and Sister Barnes from

Heretic. I felt like that was, you know, another example

of two people that had each other's back right to the end. Yep.

I completely agree, like, the the never. I never did see Deliverance.

And when you meant when you said Deliverance, completely forgot even came out this year.

I was thinking the

old Deliverance, the. One that was on Netflix this

year, which is, you know, hit or miss for a lot of people. But I

will say the relationship between mother and mother or grandmother,

fucking solid. Like it was. It was a solid, solid relationship.

Nice. Yeah, those are definitely like, I'm liking how. Yeah,

we have a lot different common. Yeah, it's all good. That's good.

I'll be curious about this one because I don't remember there being a lot of.

Neither did I. I really had to pull for this one.

So this is. Didn't see that coming. Best twist in

a movie, Twist, ending twist wherever is how I look at it. My runner

up was he found a footage film I was not really

a fan of, like by the end. But the twist I

had to give props to. And that is hashtag missing couple.

Because you are following this guy who is like looking

for his friends that were a couple that went missing.

But then you find out that they went.

They disappeared off. Like they went off the grid because

he's not really one of their friends. He was a stalker fan

that was stalking them everywhere. And when you find that out,

it's like, oh, oh. Like it completely

caught me by surprise. And like. And that's not even like, you know,

the bad thing that happens to the couple. It's something completely different than that.

That's just like a reveal that goes on. Like towards the third act, I'm going,

oh, shit. I did not see that. So bravo on that runner

up. But mine, twist, best twist ending was

there was a couple of them in this movie and it wasn't even ending.

Just right in the beginning and I think right in the middle. But that's lowlife.

Yeah, man. Excellent. Yeah, that was a really.

Those. I was going to say that one but because I'd already brought it up,

I was trying to bring different things to the table. So the one I brought

was the last straw. And the reason why is because even though there is

a twist you can predict, there's a little razzle dazzle in the

twist that I'll be honest, I was like, oh, shit, I didn't think that

part right. Like, I didn't think that this character did that.

And I thought that was kind of clever for a movie that I thought was

going to be 100% predictable. It did kind

of sway it a little bit for me, which I did appreciate.

So. Yeah. But I Would agree with you. Not, not a lot of twisty,

twisty this year. But that's okay. That's okay.

Because I figured when we seen the trailer that trap was going to be some

type of big crazy twist. And it really wasn't. No, it really wasn't.

It was kind of like. Yeah, yeah. So this is the shit, right? Yeah,

this is what happened. Yeah. Right. All right, so this

one will be interesting. Surprisingly surprising

low budget film. I will definitely give Runner up to

Deer Camp 86. Fuck yeah. Great film. Great fucking

film this year. Great film. I think it was made for

a couple thousand dollars. I don't think it was made for more than that actually.

Like, I think it was only like 5,000 to $10,000. And bravo.

It was very well done. They. They were smart the way

they filmed it and everything. Then the award though, while I have

kind of bashed it at the same time, I got to give it

to him. And that is the out of Nowhere

made for $800 YouTube movie

that popped up as a found footage called Milk and Cereal.

I was not really a fan of this movie, but I

gotta give it props. $800. And to make what

he did, and apparently from what I was reading is he

had. It has an hour and a half long full length

feature film version of this where this one was only I think like 55 minutes

long. But he had a full length feature film version

of this but he could not get find a distributor that

would back him. So he said it, cut it down to less than an hour

and released it on his YouTube channel. Good for him. Yeah. And it

blew up. So like the. As many people as I seen talk

about this film, I got to give him props. Like 800 and you got people

talking about your film. That's amazing. Agreed. Agreed.

I think when you are able to do that on a true low budget,

like a true low budget, I think that's very, very impressive.

Two movies that came out this year that I really stood out to me as

really good low budget films was the group that came out earlier

this year that is based upon a recovery addict group and

There is a Secret and a Gunman shows up and

it's just suspense between these characters sitting in a room over

who did what is a British film. And that one,

yeah, it came out earlier in February or March of

last year. So I thought that was a very, very solid,

well made film. And then my favorite little budget of the year was

last night at Terrence Lane's. I thought that was a really good,

fun little Budget movie as

well as the ones you meant. I hadn't seen Milk and Cereal, but I do

agree about Deer Camp 86.

But yeah, those were. Those were the two that I thought were worth the

low budget this year and. Or not worth the low budget. Were surprisingly low budget

and good, I thought, for what they are. I thought they were excellent. Yeah,

exactly. Like, gotta give props to the filmmakers for these. Exactly right.

And so we'll go up to the other version of this. The other end.

Yes. Worth the high budget. So my

runner up, I think this was made for 50 or 60

million. And that is the first Omen. I was

completely blown away by this. I did not think I was going to like

it because I'm like a prequel to the Omen.

And then this came out and I'm going, holy shit. Did they just show that

on the theatrical screen? Did they just show a demonic

hand coming out of a woman's vagina up close? What the

hell did I just watch? Totally the acting and the

storyline and everything. Like, thought it was excellent. Like it was a really

good prequel. Yeah. And definitely worth the high budget.

I. Yeah. Do you. Oh, is that your first? Sorry, you have two. That was.

Yep. That was my runner up. Okay. But then my award

got to go to Alien Romulus. Oh, yeah. I agree. Recreating everything

like they did, the effects, the acting,

the. Just everything about the sound design, the look of it,

just everything worked perfectly. I agree.

I. That's my runner up. I thought that that was a really high quality film.

And I thought Under Paris actually was worth the high budget.

I thought it was fluffy, it was fun, that could have been

cheap to made to make. And I thought it was a really,

really solid, entertaining movie for the budget that was

put into it. I completely agree. Right. That's a good choice. Thank you.

These ones were a little more tough at first.

Yeah. But I kind of came up with some other ones that I

feel fit. So most politically relevant,

this one. I know if I had seen Blink Twice, it would definitely be in

this category, I'm sure. But the runner up I gave to

David Cronenberg's daughter. I forget what her name was. Katherine Cronenberg,

I think. Caitlin. Caitlin Cronenberg. Yeah. But humane. Just the way the

story plays out. Very politically relevant.

But in my award,

though, goes to what's his name?

He did the movies Annihilation Men and

all these other ones. I can't think of his name off top of my head,

but his movie Civil War. Like,

I could see this happening in America very Very soon,

the way everything's gone, that's going to.

Yeah, it's kind of scary, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.

I. I never saw Civil War, but my most

political relevant movie was Blink Twice. I had a Feeling.

Also known as the P. Diddy Story. Yeah. But not.

But very, very good film. Very, very relevant.

And I felt that it just hit the nose on the. On the.

I'm sorry, the ham. The hammer on the nail this year. Nice. You didn't

have a runner up? No, I. To keep me

from repeating certain movies over and over again, I tried to space

it out a little bit. All right, that makes sense. So, yeah, we'll go to

the next one, which kind of coincides with politically relevant,

but it's most reflective of the year 2024.

So I try to find movies that kind of hit a social commentary

on things that are kind of what happened in this year for the

most part. And my runner up, I ended up

choosing Heretic because the main villain, what is he doing?

He is trying to make these people question their fate.

And there is a lot of people that are falling

out of a religion nowadays and people questioning

their faith and people changing their faith to fit what suits

them. So I felt that was very relevant of kind of like

the last year. But the main one goes to the

substance. This one goes on all the time. But it's just

an older woman who has lost her young

vigor, beauty, or whatever you want to call in Hollywood,

holding them to a higher standard, causing what she does to herself.

And it's just the sad truth of things.

Agreed. I think that that is a really great example.

Both of those are very much relevant of 2024.

With the ending of Tick Tock Today in America.

Yeah, there's going to be a whole lot less of this, but I felt like

it was very relevant to what this movie was trying to say.

Much like her father, she likes to integrate political

messages into her film. Clearly. And that is Watchers.

I felt this movie really played on the

reality tv, social media. Not directly,

but it was. It was about being watched and the observation

of it and just watching. And there was a lot of

connections in that. I don't love what they did with the fairy

folklore, the Irish folklore, and I'm sorry if that's a spoiler, but this movie came

out like a long time ago, so hopefully no one's mad at me for saying

that, but I thought that it was very relevant

to the theme of watching and how people engage in that.

So. And that was my only one that's. A very good choice too. I didn't

even think about variety. We did a variety. Spice of Life. Spice of life.

Yes. Look at us. We're getting better. Because some years we would have the exact

same thing over and over again. And that's. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah I was gonna

say. And I figured I'd be doing a lot of repeating but I don't think

I did as much repeating this year. No, I really tried to

be more like, okay, if I'm giving this something, why am I going to get

it a billion times unless it really deserves it? Right?

Yeah. And there's coming up I'll have a lot of repeats. But that's

just because they deserve it for what I was in my head. Absolutely right.

So the next one though Most overhyped

film in our personal opinions. I didn't have a runner up

for this one but for me in a violent nature was so over

hyped. I was

bored to death watching this and it

was like I said, a walking simulator as nature

asmr I the crunching of

the leaves and the chirping of the birds. As much as

I love nature, it ended up being grading on my ears.

This was a gimmick for gimmick's sake and

it would not have done so well if it was not for that gimmick.

You're probably not wrong. Like let's be real here. You're probably not wrong.

Right. I have two because I was really

mad at both of these movies. You're wasting my time. One was Night

Swim. I just don't to Scotty's

point. Why wouldn't you just drain the pool? Yeah, don't go

fucking women. Right? And then I think

what I was so like, you know was really presented

that it was going to be really good and then just seemed like a pointless

remake. Was the Strangers Chapter one. I don't even

understand. I really hope hope the next two movies make this

remake make sense because it was just dumb,

dumb, dumb dumb characters. Dum dum writing dum

dum jump scares. Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum

dum dum. Like it was just dumb, dumb dumb dumb. I remember I'll

never forget when we were talking about it, I was like, I said it and

then you sighed and I went anyway on to the next one and we weren't

in. We laughed because we're like what are we going to talk about? Like go

back and watch the original. Don't watch this. Like it's just.

I don't know, we'll see what happens with the next two. Maybe they build

on something here and all you will be proven wrong. I hope so.

I hope so. But I highly doubt it. But I just thought it was so

over hyped this year and just not a good film. So.

Yeah, I completely agree.

Yeah, I know, right?

Oh, now this one is the next category. Much more fun.

What we think was under hyped or just not talked about enough.

Runner up for me was I feel this franchise

does not get talked out, talked about enough because I watched the

entire franchise this year for the first time and was just like,

why does no one talk about this? This is fucking really good. Solid franchise

all the way through. And that is the sequel, the Blackwell

Ghost 8. Oh yeah. You know that is underhyped.

Definitely. I never hear anyone talk about it.

Yeah, I watched all eight of these films and they're all anywhere between

seven or eight out of ten. None of them were bad. They were all

just really well done movies. Yeah. So that is my runner up.

But of course, once again I got to give love to this Michigan film.

And that is the award goes to Deer Camp 86.

Yeah, except for us. Yeah, well, that's what happens when you're premium podcasters.

I found out my co worker Heather, or as we like to call her H

dizzle at work, she mentioned, hey, have you seen

deer camp 86? I'm going, fuck yes I

have. And she was like, we were at Walmart and my boy seen

the COVID of this and said, because I guess the DVD or Blu Ray was

there. And he goes, oh, can we buy this? I want to watch it.

And she's like, we bought it just on a whim. We came home and watched

it. Holy shit, that movie was awesome. I'm like,

right? It's not getting talked about. So yeah. Dear Camp 86,

watch it people. I agree, I agree. So my two

and sorry, Matt Wood, I know you weren't a fan of this film,

but I was so. So go have a pint. Kill your

lover I thought was a great body horror film.

I know Dave Bailey, Sander Kane also appreciated

this one. You saw it too, right? No, this is what

I completely forgot about. And I was wanting to watch it.

Yeah, that's okay. Hey, you always got time. And then I felt double double

blind. I know not everyone felt as strongly as I did about this film,

but I thought it was really good. I thought that it was something. Again,

the Irish film board putting out something that I was

like, that Would happen.

So I felt both of those kill your level and lover and double blind.

If you haven't checked them out, they may or may not be for you,

but I think they were under hyped movies this year. Oh, absolutely. And double blind.

Fucking love that movie. That was great, right? Yeah. So under talked

about. And like you said, kill your lover. You talked about this one and I

was so excited to watch it. And then. Yep. Just. It happens,

right? Oh, but I'll have to get to that one because I am very curious.

So the next one. This is always a fun category because we always

say, you know, if there is an element to this that makes it horror to

you, then it's a horror film. So this category is. It's not horror. Yes,

it is. So for the first one, I would say

for the runner up, I should say, I think most people would put this in

kind of like a sci fi category, but I. Double blind.

Double blind is a straight up horror film for me. Straight up. I agree.

But then the award, once again, I think this would go to more of a

drama action category for most people, but it's civil War once

again. Because the shit that happens in this movie is fucking

scary because it could fucking happen. And it's horror in a way. Like it's

horror. Yeah. Terrifying this could possibly happen.

Yeah. I think you're. You're hitting the nail on again,

the hammer on the nail there, Scotty. I have one here and

you. Golden Globes. It's not a musical or comedy. It's a horror

movie and it's called the substance. You. Yep. It's not a. How is it a

musical or a comedy or. How is it a comedy? Because there's

some funny parts in it, you cowards. Call it what it is.

It's a horror film. Exactly. That is

how I feel about the substance. Yeah. And if you haven't watched

the substance, please watch it. It's excellent. The movie is freaking amazing.

Right. I mean, it's amazing that it makes me happy that Demi Moore got

an award for it and everything like that. But yeah,

recognize it as a horror film. God damn it. Musical comedy.

Shove that up straight up your ass. Yeah, there's no musical and there's barely any

comedy. Right? Yeah, they're like, it's a musical

because there's aerobics. Right.

Anyway. But yeah, the next one, is it sci

fi? Is it horror? Who cares? It's good.

This one, I had a harder time because I don't think I really watched

too many that were like in that Category of could it

be just sci fi? Could it be horror? So my runner up went to Sting,

the other spider movie, because it's sci fi and it's

horror, it's comedy, it's all of it. It was fun.

I liked it. But I like infested more, I think spider

movie of the year. But my award goes to double blind.

Yeah, I said Alien Ramunus, because there's still people out there

that are like. Yeah,

I had that as a runner up at first, but I'm going,

yeah, I can't even argue with those people to say it's science fiction because

it's just like, it's obviously horror. Shut the up. And that's how they sound.

That's how you sound every time you say that Alien. An alien

film is in horror. I just want that tell you that's how we all hear

you. Okay. It's a horror film and it's science fiction.

It's fine. It can be both. It can live in two worlds. Exactly.

I thought Erica was calling down to me, but I think she's talking to the

puppers. Yeah. Oh, you get confused. She talks to you and the dog the same

way. Come here, Scotty. Sit.

Scotty, sit. Do you want a belly rub? Do you want

a belly rub? You're like, lower.

She's like, this is so weird. I really hate this role play.

Can we try something else? Speaking of that, I guess that scenario

was all a little too real. Good segue.

Yeah. It's our next category. Premium podcasters

right over here. I love it.

So our next category is a little too real.

This is where it just kind of. Something may hit a little too close to

home for us or to, like, just like real life in general.

Once again, a runner up. I'm gonna bring this movie up again. And that is

Civil War. A little too real for me right now.

But the main award goes to the coffee table.

Yeah. Like, while the scenario is a bit unbelievable,

but just everything that happens is a little too real. The conversations

and who. Who. Yeah,

I would agree. I would think that Blink Twice is

a little too real. Especially with everything that's

happened this year. I don't know. And not happened this year. Pardon me.

The truths that have come out this year and the

victims that are being heard, it's. It's fucked.

And we all know shit like this happens, you know,

with rich celebrities, but it. It. This movie

really, like, made it uncomfortable. So.

Shouts out to Blink twice. Yeah. And this is a little too real because it's

kind of happening. To an indie filmmaker that I

used to be friends with that's getting called

out, that I immediately removed when I heard what he did.

And because I only met him in passing. But yeah, I'm just

going to shout him out. Brian Papandria. Don't deal with that person.

Anybody. Women, stay clear. There is a lot of shit coming out about

him. He is a very low budget in the filmmaker, but I think his

days are numbered. Well, and that's what happens when you're an abuser.

So that's what happened. Brian. Maybe you should have been a dick.

Exactly. So unless you're a dick with money, as we've learned, you can get

away with it for a lot longer. But. Sorry, Brian, indie filmmaker,

you are getting. What'S coming to you. So. Yeah,

but. But let's just move on to something that's a little less real.

And. Well, I mean, I guess it's still. Real, but our

next category is the most real category.

Yeah. I was like, it gets. This one does. It's. It's definitely in the lane,

but it's happier. It can be.

Anyways. That is best horror documentary.

I ended up only watching one this year.

The Chucky one was on my list, but I just did not have the like.

Well, I guess I shouldn't say I didn't have the time because I. The one

I watched also was about as long. Yeah, I was gonna be like, I know

what you're gonna pick and you can't see it at the time.

Yeah, but. But yeah, Chucky one. I am. That is on my

list of ones to watch because I am such a huge Chucky nerd.

But the one that I did see, and I don't even know if it's officially

out for the masses yet, this one I think is only available like,

because we're lucky friends. We have. We are lucky to have friends that we do.

But I think it's only out to the people that kind of supported

it through Indiegogo or whatever. But that is the

documentary In Search of Darkness,

1990-1994.

This. This one hit all the nostalgia for me.

A lot of the movies they brought up, like, I thought the 80s one would

have been the one that hit the nostalgia for me. But no. The 90s is

when I grew up. I was a 90s child. You are a 90s child.

Same with me. Yeah, like, I grew up in 80s, but like 90s is

my formative years. And Search for Darkness,

you brought up a lot of movies that I had forgotten about. And.

Well, because of that my fiance and I have been on a

freaking Stephen king made for TV movie marathon

lately. We have watched almost all the 90s TV movies

from Stephen King thanks to this documentary. Kind of going, oh shit,

yeah, we should watch these. And now we have not been able to stop.

I love it. That's amazing. I. I'm the same as my

first pick, but I did watch Doc of Chucky because I'm a premium podcaster here

at the Friday night podcast. And both are. Both are

excellent, honestly, like, I think like In Search of Darkness. I'm sorry, you can't touch

those docs. The moment they come out, they're going to win doc of the year.

Like, they're just so good. But I would say Doc of Chucky

was very, very good too. If you are a Child's Play fan.

If you are a Chucky fan. It was inclusive, it was detailed,

it was interesting. It had all the heavy hitters in

it. I definitely recommend it. Strong, strong recommend.

Yeah, that one's probably going to be one. I'll be whittling down here in a

little bit because, yeah, Chucky is up there with one of my favorite franchises.

So the next award is best international film.

This one I actually had quite a few runners up. Coffee table.

Wasn't there enough? Yeah, things like that. But I decided

I mentioned the coffee table a couple times already, so I figured I've only brought

this one up once and that runner up is invested. Oh yeah.

French horror, horrifying film. But another.

Another one that I didn't even think about at the time, but is

also a French. Directed by a French director. French film.

That is the substance that was done by the director that

did revenge years ago that I could not stand. Wow.

Yeah. That's a plot twist, right?

Yeah. This be a French film as well. I love it.

My best international film was Shake, Rattle and Roll

Extreme on Netflix. As always,

Netflix continues, in my opinion, to be one of the go to's for

international horror. And I encourage

anyone that has. If you like Thai horror films, you'll like this.

It's. It's a great. It's a three short story. Like they're more

than. It's not really anthologies. They don't tie into each other. They're more like short

movies kind of connected together and they're

fucking great. So Shake, Rattle and Roll Extreme

on Netflix, if you haven't had a chance. To check it out, great choice.

Thank you. That. That was the old one. You didn't have a runner up for

that one? Nah, I. Cause you know why? I knew you were gonna say Infested.

And I couldn't agree more. I think that movie was fucking phenomenal.

And that, to me, like, yeah, I didn't want to get too repetitive. Right.

So I would say, understandable. That one is, for me, the best.

Nice. I was like, yeah, you watched that one way early on in the year.

Yeah, yeah, I really liked it. It was really, really good. Once again, one I

was thinking was 2023. Hey, that's okay.

But the next one, he. He. That's funny. Best horror comedy,

this one. I've mentioned both these films already, but the runner

up is Deer Camp 86. This one just

had that charming, funny to it. And the one line that just made

me laugh out loud was the guy. The one black

character in this was like, man, screw this. I'm out of here. They're like,

why? It's good. What. What are you doing? It's dangerous. He's like, man, he's like,

I don't give a. He's like, I'm going back to Detroit where it's safe.

That line is funny. I loved that.

And then for me, this one's made way more on

the sadistic side. But Terrifier three,

I. I laughed a lot with art. Like, even though

you're supposed to be more horrified by art. Like, his mannerisms

just make me giggle so much. The way he got excited

when he seen Santa Claus for the first time. And he's like,

shoves the girls out of the way as he's running down the stairs because he

sees Santa Claus. I don't know. It is funny.

That is funny. It is funny. But, yeah, that just makes like that

movie. There's like, yeah, there's a lot of uncomfortable scenes, but there's also

just a lot of, like, just made me smile and laugh scenes.

I agree. For me, it. The. The runner

up was Mr. Crockett. I really thought that he was hilarious.

The one liners did it for me. And even though Scotty

did not like this film, which I respect, we are zombies.

Had me pee peeing my pants. Oh, yeah. It's a Heather

film and it is what it is. And these are our awards,

so we can choose what we want. Exactly. I found that one

very, very funny. Nice. Because, yeah, like, I. I can't.

You know, I will never disagree with any of your choices. I may just be

like, eh, wasn't for me. But it doesn't always hit

right. Like sometimes, like Terrifier 3, as you know, you and I

are opposites on Our view of it, but it's. There is funny scenes, like when

he's shoving the people out the way to get to Santa. It is funny,

right? Like there's certain things that he does are funny. It's just.

It all comes down to your preference and your taste too. Right. Like comedy.

Comedy and horror separately are both very

subjective. Agree and put them together, it's even more subjective.

100, 100. Now this is another one where we're

gonna be different. I struggled on this one because once again,

there were just not that many good ones that I had seen.

That is. The category is. Can you tell me a story?

Best anthology film of the year.

No runner up. Because what I had all sucked besides

one and the only one. So this one is getting my award and

that is VHS Beyond. I enjoyed it.

I didn't love it, but I still enjoyed it. And I had

some issues with it, but it was still definitely the best anthology I've seen this

year. VHS beyond is my number one and

I love it. It's so good. Best. One of the best VHS

ones to come out, in my opinion. This was more middle of the

road for me. Yeah. But like, I still. I still enjoyed it. It's just not

as deep. Show didn't fall into your category of

apology of the year. Absolutely not.

The movie like Matt Wood and Kate and I. Matt's the guy that dies at

the end. Kate and I are stripping at the strip club,

some shady place in Soho. Oh,

man. Shouts out to midnight peeve show.

Anyway. Yes. VHS Beyond. You know, it was a.

It was a slow year for anthologies this year, so it really was.

It didn't have much comp, so. Nope. Not really.

Kind of one participation trophy. To be honest, I loved it, but it

definitely wanted a participation trophy. So.

Yeah. Oh, and the next one

is. This one I had a lot of options from, but this one

is We're Stranded, the best survival horror film.

So I had a lot of options to choose from on this one because there

were a lot of survival horror films this year like, that I could at least

picture as survival horror. But I ended up going with

Double Blind Again as my runner up because they were stranded and

trying to survive off of, like, just the horrible situation

they were in. But my award goes

to Infested. Yeah. That you're

surviving and you're quarantined inside a building and you are trying

to survive together and bad things are happening

all around while spiders are just swarming. The place, fucking your shit

up. Yeah. Right. So mine is.

And I have One and one alone. And it is Don't Move.

I did not see this one. And this one was on Netflix. It was about

a woman who is given a paralyzer drug and she

has to survive and try to get away from this guy that wants to kill

her. And it was a really interesting take on being

hunted in the woods. And I thought it was different and I thought it was

unique. Did I think it was the best movie of the year? Absolutely not.

But I think it did something different for the survival genre. So if you haven't

seen it yet, I recommend Don't Move and it is on the Netflix.

Nice. Okay, if this is one, I think it was also on the list that

I needed to check out. Just never got around to.

I know. It's okay. Premium podcaster, my ass.

I ain't. I know. I'm actually gonna do tryouts

for a. New person and I don't blame you.

All right, this one was a tougher category for me this year, and that

is hauntings done right. Best ghost film. That's because you

didn't watch a lot of movies. Yeah, like Elite or. I just

avoided a lot of bad ones because I don't know if there was that many

good ones like that. I. Oh, there was an excellent one,

but you didn't watch it, obviously. I'm curious.

Do you want to hear? Oh, let's see. I will give you yours first.

Yeah. The ones I ended up choosing were both found footage films.

And that was hashtag missing couple for the runner up. Thought it was

really solid creepy until the absolute

reveal towards the end kind of ruined it for me, but fair enough.

But the one that I will give a shout out or the award to is

Mind, Body, Spirit. Yeah, that was a good one, actually. That was actually

a decent little haunting story for a low budget. Yeah, like, I didn't

think the found footage worked that well. And like,

obviously the social media characters I wasn't a big fan of,

but at the same time, it did have a good haunting story to

it. Oddity. Ah, yes. Yep. God damn.

Oddity. Oddity. Oddity. I felt like this is haunting done

right again. An Irish film from the Irish Film

Board that came out this year by far. My,

my, the top ghost film as far as I'm concerned of this year. God damn

it. That's okay. You'll get to it. Yeah, I just regret not getting to it

earlier. It's okay. We all can't be perfect, Scott. I know

the next one. Let's exercise the demon,

the power of Christ Compels you best

possession film. I gotta give a shout out to this one.

It was a sequel to one of my favorite movies of 2021,

if I remember correctly. But this one didn't hit as hard.

But I still gotta say, the haunting aspect of it or the not hunting

but demon possessing aspect of it is

smile too. Yeah, that's a. That's a good pick. Yeah. Like,

I was. I was not as big on this one as I was the first

one. But the demon in this, possessing the character and doing what it

does to them is fucked up. But number

one, the award, Late Night with the Devil. Fuck. Yeah. Yeah. Literally bought

a exorcism going on. Going on live TV and

just going horribly wrong. I am with you.

I had one. It was Late Night with the Devil. Absolutely exorcism

done right. Absolutely exorcism. Awesome. Yeah, that one,

like I get watch it. If you haven't watched.

Shudder. Really did bring out some great movies last year, and that was one

of them. For anyone out there hasn't seen it, please go back and watch it.

It's very, very good. Yeah, one of my favorites of the year.

But this one is definitely the Heather category with the name and I

love it. Stabby, Stabby, Pokey, Pokey Best. That's what I love. I love being pokey

Pokey. And this year, I gotta

say, there were quite a few slashers. There was. I was like.

I was once again, actually had a nice variety to choose from,

but I have to go with my heart and go with the ones that I

loved. And the runner up is Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey too.

Just so much fucking fun. And by

award, once again, Terrifier three. It. It is. It was a slasher and it's

best slasher of the year. If I've watched it four fucking times.

I would agree that Terrifier 3 is a fucking excellent slasher.

I don't think that. And Winnie the Pooh, Blood and

Honey, but that is not my pick. I decided to be a little different.

And I decided to look at some other films that I saw this year and

take this category and think about, you know, not in a violent nature,

not Terrifier three, not Winnie the Flu, but in Honey, not even Mary Had

a Little Lamb. And I decided to go with Trim

Season. Right. I thought the concept

of this film was clever. The idea that they're all going up to pick weed.

That was great. Harvest weed. And I thought it was an

interesting slasher. It had all the tropes, it had all the

characters. It had all of that, and I thought that it was

new and different, and that's why I wanted to bring it up. So if you

are a slasher fan and you have seen a lot of different slashers

over the years, and I'm talking like you were from someone from the 80s that

watched all the different types of slashers, like Fatal Games and all that

other shit, this may be something for you not to say it's like,

bad or whatever, but it's not something that you're gonna walk away from

and be like, oh, my God, like, it's changed my life. But it's something different.

And it does follow through with the slasher characters and

tropes and all that stuff. And I think it's worth a watch. Yeah, that was

a very good slasher. Like, it's not like top tier, but like you

said, it's like Fatal Games. Yeah, stuff like that, where it's just like a very

fun, easy to watch slasher. And I wanted to bring something

else to the awards, Right. I wanted to talk about something else that came out

this year and take a little bit of a. A different approach

to it and bring this other film that maybe people might want to see.

Yeah. Because I thought I'd be amiss to like, deny Terrifier 3 with as much

as I've given it already. Like, so I can't. And I say this is

where I kind of start repeating myself a lot with some of these categories because

now it's fitting into the genres.

I have some surprises coming, though. Oh, I think I have a few as

well. Oh, nice. I'm excited. So we'll see

when we get there. The next one is. Hey, look at this mysterious

tape. I found. Best found footage film of the year.

Found footage. Boy, this year was a bit rough.

It was even. I'll see if you pick it.

I'm interested if you pick it. We'll see what you say. I don't think

we're going to have the same ones for this one.

So my runner up, The Blackwell Ghost 8, once again,

very awesome sequel. Highly recommend people watching the franchise

because it was really fucking good from beginning to end.

And it is one long. It's a continuation of the story

from the very beginning. It's just building and building and building and building.

Like, it's just. And it's amazing, like, what this guy has

been doing with this series. But my award goes

to Frogman. I think that was the absolute best

found footage film that I've seen this year. I agree with you.

Holy. That's awesome.

Because Horror in the High Dessert came out,

as I like to call it. I know it's Horror in the High Desert.

I prefer to say dessert. And I was quite disappointed with

that this year. I really thought that was going to be my pick, and I

didn't really dig it.

So, yeah, I. I would agree. Frogman.

Definitely the best found footage movie of the year. Definitely. Yeah. That's one I

would like to have in my physical collection. Agreed. Agreed. I guess

that was that. That. That damn good. And then the next one, that kind

of can fall in the category of found footage, but also can

be just a regular, normal type of film, but that is smash

that, like, button and ring that bell. Best Social Media

Horror film. This one had a decent amount to choose from as

well, but I went with, I guess, two. Well, now I'm

gonna cross that one off because I just thought of this one. But my runner

up, Clickbait Social

Media Influencers. Just getting picked off one by one. It was fairly

entertaining. But then once again, I got to give the award.

As much as I was, like, I said, much as I had problems

with this film for 800 budget milk and cereal. Okay.

The YouTube social media prankster uploaded these

videos, and I think it fit that category very well.

Hey, you know, I. I would agree,

and I think it was. Well, I would agree with I didn't

see Michael Cereal, but I would agree with Unfollowed Clickbait. That was

my number one. I thought the protagonist in this was

quite good. I felt there was, like, a speech

he gives that I felt was very emotional and raw

and I was rooting for him and I thought the ending was kind of funny.

So I. I enjoyed that movie a lot. So I'm

glad we both had it on there. That's awesome. Yeah. Because I did have Missing

Couple, but I'm going. I just. That clickbait just popped back in my head.

I'm like, oh, yes. No, I crossed off Missing Couple

because that's also another social media one that fits that category as well.

Yeah. And then the next one,

Good Boy Swimming with the Fishes. See,

Best Shark Films.

I gave a runner up, but it's nowhere near

award worthy. And that is no way up. Such a ridiculous

plot and just so dumb. But it

was still at least fairly entertaining. But the award itself

goes to Under Paris. Okay. So my award went to no Way Up.

I liked it more than I liked Under Paris. Are you serious?

I am. I am serious. Serious.

I thought I went into that movie being like, this is Gonna be so stupid.

And I got behind all the characters.

I. I didn't give a fuck about all the ridiculousness that would never

happen. I didn't care that it was so silly.

See? Care. Eric is coming over because Scott has one pussy on his shoulder.

Hey. And she's not putting up with that. That's right. You stake your

territory, Erica, you don't let that cat show you who's boss.

Heather's talking, saying, erica, you show that who's

boss. Those are gonna. You can only be the true pussy. Yeah,

Erica, I know who the real one is. She knows. Yeah, but she even

said she's like, yeah, but Biff's the shoulder pussy. She's looking really pretty

today, huh? Oh, she always is, man. How did you get such a pretty

fiance? I lucked out. And that's because you're super smoke show.

A smoke show only deserves a smoke show, huh? That's right.

That's right. That's right. You. Between you and Tim Davis and.

And his wife and you and Erica, you're all, like, the hottest couples of

horror. You are. You are.

I'm. I'm hoping Matt Wood becomes my boyfriend so we could become.

That's like. Oh, either. I'd rather do many other things than that.

Anyway, what are we talking about? Oh, yeah. No way up.

So, yeah, anyway. No way up. All right.

Oh, yeah. I did not expect that. I know. I like to

keep it spicy here on Friday. Nightmares. I'm glad to hear it because,

I mean, you always keep it spicy. You kind of bring in the ones from

the left field most of the time, so I appreciate it. Yeah. I don't know.

I thought it was funny. I thought it was a good movie and it was

silly, but who gives a. It was great. I. I know

Paris was fine, but I knew you were gonna say that, and I didn't think

you were gonna bring on no way up. But I'm glad that we got to

talk about it twice. Oh, yeah. That is kind of funny.

So, yeah, I guess we can jump on to the next category. Yeah,

this seems familiar. Best remake, sequel, or prequel.

So my runner up is First Omen. I thought that was

just an excellent prequel leading into the franchise and

completely caught me off guard because I did not think it was going to be

any good, so got to give it love. But of course, once again,

Terrifier 3, it a sequel, and it's amazing. Like I said, there's gonna be a

lot of love for terrifier 3. I know you are. It's touching. You in

all the right places. It is the movie that I was shocked

that I thought was a prequel that we needed apartment 7AMm.

Thank you for doing a fucking sequel that added to

the story. Not take away from it, not make it seem

redundant. Thank you for not doing a remake of a very good film

and making it Americanized. And besides the over

the top protein antagonist in the movie,

it's a poor comparison to the original. On Speak no

Evil. I. I am very glad that

apartment 7A brought it this year.

Great film. Bravo, Paramount. Bravo.

I once again, another movie that I just didn't expect to be any

good because I. I really enjoyed Rosemary's Baby.

But I just like this doesn't need a prequel. I didn't think it was going

to be any good. I thought it was going to just be really dumb and

shock the out of me. Right. Shocked you.

And the way they did at the end, too. Cool.

Yeah, they did tie it in really good at the end. Well, we're getting down

to like the. The nitty gritty. Yes, we are.

Oh, boy, oh, boy. This. And this is a fun category. It is.

Don't you judge me. Best guilty pleasure film or so bad it's good

film crap. I had two in my head. Like, I forgot

to write one in my runner up there.

When I just thought of that, I was like, oh, yeah, because I can't type

because my keyboard is unplugged. Do you want me to go and see if it's

one of mine? Yeah, okay. My runner up is Tarot.

Oh, gee, I thought it was so

funny. I just love how it's like, oh,

no, the tarot cards are good. All your future. But I

love it. But I love it, though. It's like Stay alive,

the video game one, you know, from the 2006.

Yeah. Watch, because I've never seen that. Oh, you got to watch it because Tarot

is basically the knockoff version of like how that came out in 2006.

It was like a knockoff of that time. Tarot is a knockoff of this time.

And it's kind of a knockoff of. Final Destination as well. Oh, yeah. Oh,

yeah. It's great. It's. It's a guilty pleasure. But nothing,

nothing will take away from what happens when you watch Steamboat Willie

in an arcade and then you throw a party with your

friends that has free alcohol, but then you

decide y'all want to go to a bar. But then you talk about how like

you're. And then people are banging in fucking fun houses and you

try to figure. Out how any of these people are actually friends.

And everyone stops short of saying Mickey Mouse.

And. But they know that the movie's silly and makes no sense. And that movie,

my friends, is the Mousetrap. And it is a fucking.

It is gold. It is. It is. It is the gold standard

of how to make a bad movie and know you're making a bad

movie and just fucking go with it. And I want to

have my birthday locked in an arcade.

The end of story. Was it one of those? It was

neither of those. But I did pop back in my head. So, like, okay,

glad you gave me that time. Good. But I've been waiting for

Mousetrap to get mentioned somewhere in this list, so I'm glad it finally

got brought up. So thank you for giving me

that time because now I remember what my runner up was. My runner

up was what I picture happens in Australia all the time.

That is rippy. About the killer zombie kangaroo.

Oh, man, that movie was mint, too. What a great movie.

That was. That was so dumb, but so fun. And then

another one, and this is one. I'm wondering if you just forgot about it or

you thought about it but changed your mind, because I remember you and I both

really enjoyed it. The one that gets the award is

a most atrocious thing. The one about the

rancid deer meat that turns people into zombies and the killer

deer and everything. Yeah, yeah, that was fun,

too, but it was fun, you know, I even liked Mary Had a

Little Lamb. Like, I even liked that one this year. I thought that was fun,

too. Yeah, man, I don't know. There's some, like. I don't

know. Sometimes people take shit too seriously. You know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah.

Like, and then you just gotta, like, turn your brain off and be like,

oh, don't understand. It's great. Exactly. And for

me, like, you know, these movies weren't great. They got, like, mediocre scores.

But they were still just entertaining and I enjoyed my time with them.

Truth be told, I watched Tarot and Mousetrap recently because

they got picked for worst of the year. I'm not. I'm not rewatching the

best because I already know all of them, except for Late Night with the Devil.

I need to refresh myself a little bit. But, yeah,

I rewatched the Mousetrap and Tarot. Oh, I'm sure you did. Yeah,

I did. I was like, these movies are great. I don't know.

I'm like, I didn't know we were doing all good of the year I told

everyone that those movies were in my top 10. So I love, like, I love

gaslighting the people in that other podcast and telling them crazy shit that's

not real. And for people that are wondering, she's talking Slumber Party Massacre. Yeah,

Slumber Party Massacre. Yeah. Yeah. If you listen to me on there,

I do a lot of gaslighting. It's great. Oh, it's amazing.

Oh, yeah. I guess we jump on to the next category and then

it's all slimy. Best. Best body horror of

the year for me, the runner up. While the movie just was

dumb and made no sense and I. And it's a remake,

I tried. I really tried to like it. But that is.

I can't argue the fact that the practical effects were

amazing. That is street trash.

Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. The body

melting effects in this were fantastic. It was

colorful. It was gross. Don't know what the was

going on. It made no damn sense. But also there's that weird

goofy blue creature that the one guy keeps

hallucinating that he's seen. That like looked silly but also

kind of cracked me up. So that was my runner up.

But the best body horror of the year definitely once

again has to go to the substance. Agreed,

agreed. I'll say just the subtle body horror

effects that happen through the first two, two thirds of this film.

But then that final act happens and you get monster Eliza

suit and the fact that she just. A boob

just grows out of her. One of the mouths on the

side of her and just plops to the ground and you got faces

screaming and just. It's a horrifying monster in blood and gore.

Holy. The effects in that were gross and amazing

at the same time. Yeah. Mint. As Heather likes to say. Mint. It was

a mint. That's for all my British folks.

It was mint. I agree. It's my. It's my one and only pick.

Yeah, I couldn't agree more. You know, for this next category,

I didn't have anything. Really. Yeah. I'm going to have to rely on you.

I couldn't think of anything. Okay. Well, one of them, you. You may

mention. Okay. Because the other one, you. I don't know.

I don't think you've watched yet, but yeah. The next category is

who goes their best Home invasion. My runner up was Here

for Blood. Oh, yes. Okay. Yes. Because you know, they are.

He's babysitting at someone else's house and then just a bunch of

co cultists show up and really invade the home.

So, yep, got it. Gave a runner up for that. And then the Blackwell Ghost

8 actually gets the award because it's

not about a ghost at this point. It's about a home invasion and someone

stuck in the sky and it gets really creepy. Okay, well, I'm going to go

with Here for Blood because I agree that's the last one

that I. I could not think of the other one. So. Yes.

All right. Glad I can help with that. Thank you. Thank you.

This one. Home for the Holidays. Best holiday themed horror

films. This is any. I was gonna say this is any holiday

you can think of. You already know what my award's

gonna go to, I'm sure, but I run her up.

Easter. Bloody Easter. Yeah. About killer bunny

rabbits, glowing red eyes and they're basically

puppets. It was super stupid but entertaining and had

the theme of Easter. But of course,

Terrifier three, it is a full blown Christmas movie from beginning to end.

I mean I can't argue that one. I made it my

one and only pick. Yeah. It is absolutely on point for its Christmas theme.

Yeah. I was like. Because everything else there was a lot of like theme like

holiday themed movies, but none of them really hit the holidays that

well. I agree with you. I agree 100%. Yeah.

So yeah, shocker. Terrifier three from I

know. Well. And me too. Both of us. Both of us. Right.

But the next one is low budget. Done right. Best indie

film of the year. I brought these two up already as

well. But the runner up I'll give to milk and cereal.

And the best one though for me is Deer Camp 86.

Once again, I just fucking loved this. This was the indie film for me.

Mine was Here for Both. Here for Blood. I thought that that was very,

very well done. Really entertaining,

really fun and. Yeah, well, all the things that

are low budget. I hope that they continue to build from there as

a director and actors and all that other stuff. Right, Absolutely. I would love

to see what they do next. So this next one,

do you have yay movies? I do. Do you

want to hold off and put that one to last? Because like since this one

doesn't have. Isn't related to horror and we can just. That is have that be.

That's fine. Yeah. Because that just makes sense to me. So cool.

So we'll skip that one for now and we'll come back to it at the

end here some. But we'll go to someone to keep an eye on.

Best first time feature length directorial debut.

This one. I do some digging. Did a lot of digging.

A lot of digging. And once again, these two films have already been

mentioned before. But the runner up goes to Anthony Cousins,

who directed Frogman. I am very curious to see what he

does next. Agreed. And then the award itself goes

once again to L. Van Dyke Siboutson

for deer camp 86. Excellent. Mine one and

only Kaitlin Cronenberg, Humane. I.

I am definitely a Cronenberg fan. I would say I like

his kids more than I like him him in terms of as

a director, I think he makes some great films. Don't get me wrong. But I

tend to like and I like her her. And I feel like she's my sister.

That humane movie is a movie I would have made. I thought it was

so well done and I look forward to seeing more from her.

I do too. And I was gonna say, like, because there is something in the

blood of the Cronenberg family that just knows

how to cover social commentaries 100%. Right. They just. They know

their social commentary. I look forward to seeing what comes

out from her as time goes on. Yep. I would say I want to see

what comes out from her, from Brandon and I want to see what their father

comes up with next. And I want to hear Tim hate all of them.

Yep, exactly. And not understand them. And it makes

me stronger with his hate. So I'm really

excited. I agree.

So the next one after this will be. Well, that looks real. Best practical

effects. And this one there was a lot of good

practical effects this year. Was. This year there was once

again runner up is Street Trash because the practical effects that were

awesome. But yeah, this one I originally

had Terrifier 3, but I'm going. I gave Terrifier 3 way too much love.

But I mean the practical effects are amazing. So they are another shout out.

But the substance. Oh yeah. Fuck yeah.

Mine was terrifier 3 as a runner up. I don't know how you cannot.

And I said in a violent nature. I felt like a lot of stuff in

there was practical. Right. So I felt

those two this year were. Were very good. But honestly there

were a lot of good ones. There was a lot of really good practical effects

this year. Even from some low budget stuff was

actually pretty good this year too. So I.

This was a year practical. We're bringing practical back. Except for Under

Paris. We're not. We're not looking at you in Paris. And God

let it be true. God, let it be good. But Gremlins

3 has been officially announced by Chris Columbus.

So please God, let them use practical effects and

not cgi, please. God. See,

right, that could go either way. Yeah,

right. We will see. We will see

on this one. This one was a little tougher this year, but I thought of

two and I was like, that's fitting. But the award or the. Yeah, the war

category is. Ooh, pretty. Most stylish film.

My runner up was Maxine. I thought it was very stylish

and very reminiscent of an 80s Giallo

and also just had the look and feel of 80s.

From the outfits to the crimped

hair to the soundtrack. Yeah, the soundtrack, the makeup,

everything looked 80s. Like a. It was an aesthetic

at that movie. Agreed. But my main one once again

goes to the substance. That one had some very

Kubrick style shots and images

because like there's a lot of like the very colorful

hallways, a lot of the almost the shining esque

carpeting in the Overlook Hotel. I had that in some spots and

it just very stylish from its design and the way it

was shot and everything else. Agreed, agreed. I think that

those both deserve that award. The one that I felt stood out to me

that made it look the most like a talk show behind the scenes when they

were filming was Late Night with the Devil.

I think that movie was made perfectly when it came to

stylish. So 100% that was on the list as

well. Nice. Very nice. And I guess should we do our last one then?

Yay movies. Best non horror film. It actually was.

I've. I've never seen this before. Best first time watch horror

film from previous years. Oh, oh, not have that one.

No, I didn't. But I can look it up quickly. Okay. Because I

could have had seven on this list, but I just chose it as an

entire franchise and that is the Blackwell Ghost franchise.

Never heard anyone talk about it. I had always seen like the

COVID and I'm sitting here thinking how is there seven of these what I'm

assuming is Paranormal Activity reject films?

Because I just assumed like if no one's talking about them, they must be one

of those low budget, crappy rip offs of like Paranormal Activity

or whatever. But no. Boy was I shocked and surprised

to find out this franchise has a heart to it.

It starts off as a Paranormal Activity kind

of movie, but goes a little deeper into it

and then gets a little more human as the franchise

goes on and gets a little more personal and then kind

of turns into a murder mystery

documentary style. It becomes a very like it just.

How do you call it? It just evolves into something that just like so

unique and so its own And I cannot wait for

part nine. Like it's already being made, it's already been talked

about. I cannot wait to see where the story continues to go.

Wow, that's awesome. I. You know, I looked into my list.

I didn't watch as many last year as I usually would. But a movie that

really stood out to me from last year that I watched was actually 12ft deep

down in 17. And I thought it was really good pool horror.

Like, especially because we had just seen. Was it.

The swimming pool was the shittiest. Night Swim. Night Swim. But this

was like swimming pool horror done right and was actually very entertaining.

So 12ft deep. 2017.

Nice. And how many older watches did you watch this year?

Just 12. Really? Yeah, I actually got

you beat on this one. 26 for me. Oh, sorry.

23. 23. My bad. 23. Okay. So not too far out, but Yeah, I got

26 altogether. Well, there you go. Yeah, So I was too busy

watching 2024s. Yeah. And I was gonna say, like, I get

that. I was too busy doing a lot of re watches of franchise and stuff

with Erica. Yeah. But yeah, now we can do the

final award that is Yay movies. Best non horror

film of the year. My runner up was Deadpool

and Wolverine. Nice. I just had so much fun with

this. It was silly, it was charming,

it was nostalgic just for the fact that, you know, Hugh Jackman

came back as Wolverine and gave me the whole early 2000s X Men

vibe. And then just kind of the cameos from certain people

and things like that were just really nice to see. And of course, it was

just funny and definitely made fun of the

whole Marvel universe and where it's at right now and

made fun of Disney and everything else, even though Deadpool is part of Disney

now. So now I got to give props. It was a lot of fun,

but nice. The award goes to because this one,

I almost put it in the Is it horror? Who cares? It's good

category. But I can't even say this one is

sitting in that realm, but that is Godzilla X Kong,

the New Empire. This one was big dumb

monster movie action. And I. It was

so dumb. It was so dumb. But I had so much fun with it.

You were so here for it. Yes, it was so much

fun. I love it. I. I didn't see either one,

so I can't comment because I don't watch a lot of non horror. I watch

a lot of Doxo and I. One of the best documentaries

that I think came out last year was Quiet on the set. The dark side

of Kids tv. Oh, yeah. About Nickelodeon.

It could be categorized as horror. It could be. And it

was definitely, though, respectful to the victims and

allowed them an opportunity to tell their story. And I felt

that, you know, really showed why there needs to be

actors, unions and rights for actors,

particularly child actors.

And I thought that it was a really good exploration of

how that may have been lacking in the 90s. So that

is totally understandable. This is one that I purposely avoided because the

subject of it just kind of made me. It's heavy. Even think, yeah, it's heavy,

Right. So, you know, watch at your own risk. But it

was a very, very good documentary that came out this year.

So now we're in our top 10 categories. So how

would you like to do this? Do you want to do honor roll mentions first?

Like, one of us just lists through honorable mentions, the other one does, and then

we go back and forth. Yeah, I say that's the best way to do it.

Okay, I can go first for my honorable mentions. All right.

So my honorable mentions, in no particular order, are laced.

This movie was released early 2024.

It's based about a couple that is in a remote

cabin, and the woman plans to kill her husband,

but things do not go as planned.

Yeah, it came out early. I talked about it early in January last year.

Double Blind, which we mentioned several times.

The group, which I mentioned earlier,

Soulmates. So this is about a woman and a man

that wake up, saw kind of like theme. They're in this.

They're attached to each other with handcuffs, and they have to complete a series of

puzzles and challenges, and things are not as they seem.

And the watchers are the watchers really where my.

Yeah. Was in my honorable mentions. So I'll let you give your honorable mentions.

All right, So I have five honorable mentions, and they've

all but one of them have already been talked about. So my honorable mentions are

The Blackwell Ghost 8. Abigail, the first

Omen. Slay. Slay. Thank you.

And then this is the one that has not been mentioned in any of our

awards. And I'm kind of surprised neither of us have thought of it, actually,

but. Immaculate. I'm. I was not expecting this

movie to be that good. I thought I was going to be overhyped,

but I was very involved in the story about this

young woman that is Goes to this nunnery and

basically kind of has the same situation as the First

Omen being gifted. The son of the Antichrist,

shall we say. Very similar film. Yeah,

and very similar. But A very just. Oh,

I can't believe they did that ending. But yeah, very good,

Very good movie, but just did not make my top 10. Fair enough.

So my 10th was something that we did

that we did bring up already and that was kill your lover. I.

I thought that this was body horror done right. Fuck off, Matt.

And I thought that it was Just kidding that. Just kidding.

Don't get upset, Matt. Don't we need to be the hot power couple

since we have some real competition.

So I thought that this was just very simple

concept. I liked the romantic elements of

this one could say, as well as the body horror that was involved in it.

Great little film. My number 10 this year. That. Hell yeah.

That's awesome. I need to really watch this one. Damn it.

Yeah, you would like it. My number 10 was mentioned multiple times

also. I brought it up very early on in the year and I said I

will be surprised if this is not in my top 10 by the end of

the year. My number 10 here for blood. Fuck yeah.

Good movie. Fucking love that movie so much.

Yeah. My number nine, we brought it up

already once. It was only mentioned briefly was Trapped.

I thought I really enjoyed the movie. I tend

to like M. Night Shyamalan films more usually more than not.

And I really felt that Josh, Joshua Hartnett's performance

nailed this for me. I think if it had been anybody else, maybe it

would have been in my top 10. But because he was so viable as

a villain and he played it so well, it. It really stood

out for me this year. I can totally see that. I didn't know it'd be

in your top 10, but that's awesome. Yeah, I know. Kept it. Surprise. You did

find number nine also one we've brought up a couple times. But Winnie

the Pooh, blood and Honey too. It was just more of

Winnie the Pooh blood and honey, but just ramped up. And Tigger

dropping off or dropping Freddy Krueger one liners throughout the

entire movie and adding the addition of. Yeah, Tigger and

Owl. Oh boy. It just was so much fun and

then just kind of building much a much larger backstory for what's

going on. Agreed. And Winnie the Pooh, but in Honey. Winnie the

Pooh, blood and Honey too. That was my number eight, baby. For the exact same

reasons. And I am here for it. You keep brilliant in

that Pooh universe. I am down for it. Fuck.

Christopher Robbins, you left.

That is the issue. Right. So yeah.

Then my number 8 also been brought up before. But the best found footage film

of the year and that is Frogman. Well deserved, I'll say.

I've already mentioned everything I liked about it, so. Yep. That just. My top 10

we're gonna go through pretty quickly just because I've brought up a lot. Yeah,

we've. A lot of these we've talked about. This is the first time,

you know, unless I had been doing top tens back when the

second one in this franchise came out,

would it have ever been made it to my top 10? And I'm sure there's

lots of people that are not gonna like that, but my seventh favorite

movie of this year was VHS Beyond Baby. Oh,

nice. It. I thought it was fab.

I watched it with my friend Mark in England back in.

I don't know when was it dropped? Was it October? That was dropped? I think

so, Yeah. I think it was October. Yeah. I think I watched it with him

in October and it was. It's mint.

I love all the stories. I think they're hilarious. I think they're great.

Vhs, you made it to my top ten. Congratulations. Yeah,

that's. That's a high award for VHS there, especially for me.

I'm not a. I'm hard to impress with a VHS film, so. Yeah,

exactly. Yeah. So, yeah, that. That is your number seven,

you said, right? Yep, number seven. My number seven is another

one we talked about. Heretic. Very nice. I just love.

God, what is his name? Villain. The actor.

Yeah, yeah. Love the role that Hugh plays

in this because I could have never pictured him as a villain. And he did

such an amazing job. And just the conversations

he's having and just making like the comparisons

to religion, to Monopoly and all this. And I'm going,

fuck. He does make a good point.

He does does it in a sadistic way, but he's making good fucking

points here, 100%. That was a movie that I didn't expect to be as good

as it was. It was excellent. That was my number six

is Oddity. We brought that up already.

I recommend people go watch it on the shutty if they haven't had a chance

too. Hell yes. That's one I still need to watch. And I will. I gotta

watch that one soon. My number six is

infested. Good old, very good survival film.

And the crazy to think we got two spider horror films

this year. And yes, both of them being pretty good and,

well, both being good, I should say. Yeah, I agree.

My number five was. I brought this up a couple of times.

I am a big fan of the director or what she's done so far.

He mean, hell, Yes. I was waiting to see if you'd have that because

I. I know, like with the Cronenbergs. Yeah. David's not

your best. Brandon's like, kind of hit or miss with you.

Yeah, yeah. And then. But the way she wrote and did this story,

I was like, this is a Heather story. When I first. Oh, it really was.

I loved it. It's true, you know. Oh, yeah. I knew. I know what

Heather lacks. It's true. All right, so, yeah, then top five.

So my number five is deer camp 86.

Oh, yeah, baby. Gander Love. Good film. Good film. My number

four was Heretic, which we already talked about.

Hell yes. Very good surprise of this year.

My number four was the substance. Yeah, we've said

talk about this one a million times, but, yeah, freaking excellent film.

Agreed. Agreed. My number three will be probably what Scott

regrets not watching for this list is no ferratu.

And never in a million years have I thought a Robert Eggers fan, a Robert

A movie would be in my top 10. But here we are. Our top three.

Yeah. I say the fact that it's a top three, that's wow.

Yeah, that says something. Yeah. My number three

is late night with the devil. Yep. Excellent throwback

to 70s talk show and horror. It's great.

And for me, my number two. You already

said it. Is the substance. I had a feeling that was gonna be up,

way up there for you, but, yeah, that's awesome.

My number two is Alien Romulus. I just had so

much fun with this in the theater. So good. Like I said, never expected

an alien movie to make facehuggers scarier than xenomorphs, but here

we are. And my number one,

Late Night with the Devil. I was wondering if that was gonna

be your number one. Yeah. That's awesome. I bet you can't guess

what mine. Oh, I know. I'm really. I'm really wondering what it's

going to be. You know, it has to. It's the strangers. Right.

Chapter one. You ruined the surprise.

It was gonna be Night Swim. Actually an

imaginary. But no,

of course it's Terrifier three. If I've. I mentioned earlier on

that I've watched this four times this year. I have not. I don't

usually re. Watch a lot of movies the same year they come out,

but did I just have so much fun with this? And I

am all here for the Art the Clown love.

Bring on part four. Bring on part five. Take them

to space. Bring it on. I am here for it. I agree.

I hope they keep making Them. I will keep watching them. Whether they're in my

top 10 or not. It doesn't matter. They are quality films. Yes. And they are

great. So that is our 2024 year wrap.

It's been a year and. And yeah,

I'm looking forward to see what comes out in 2025 and see

how we do. Yeah, I'll say. Because our next episode is

supposed to be what we were going to do on episode 100, which is our

top 30 of 2020-2024. So. Well,

let's see if you do it. Whenever you're ready. Really. We're waiting on

Scott, everyone, for him to make a list. It takes fucking weeks.

So when Scott tells me he's ready is when we're gonna

do it. Because it won't take me that long.

I'm very to him. Yes, he is. And hopefully

by the time we get to Talking about our 2025 releases,

there'll be more movies and we can talk about them. Because as of right now,

I watched Getaway. I'm not going to talk about this in a couple of months

when we do this. It was fine. Yeah, I'll say it

was fine. And I haven't watched a single thing yet because I wanted to

get through 2024 first do the award show.

And now that that's done, I can start focusing on the little

bit that we are getting from 2025. So you can skip Getaway.

It's not going to be a Shutter award. You know Nick Frost,

though. It's first time that Nick Frost has written and

directed a full film, I believe. Kind of why I want to watch it just

for that. It's very much his humor. Okay. So I will

probably enjoy it more. It is funny, but it is very predictable.

Oh, yeah. And he is very like. It's very.

As I was saying to Mark, my friend from England, it's very like British

people, look at what asshole British peoples are on vacation.

Look how they treat other folks. They're just assholes.

I mean, so basically. So basically the

British version of American tourists. It is exactly that.

It is. It is exactly that. That is. That is exactly

what I was hoping you were going to say. And that is 100% correct.

So, yeah. Yeah. So I will definitely watch it just because I love everything Nick

Frost has done. I love his sense of

humor. So maybe it'll work for me a little more. But we shall see.

Like. And plus, there isn't anything else to watch 2025

wise right now. There is not. There is

not. It is A very, very slow time.

So I look forward to doing our top 30. I think it'll be a lot

of fun and yeah, and I think this. Is a good time to do it

because it gives us time to find 2025s to watch and talk about.

Yes. Yes. So thank you everyone to your support

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much appreciate you and I. Now I look forward to listening to your list.

So mine is pure and undisturbed by your demon

thoughts. And do you have anything to say to the

good folks, Scotty, that are listening? Just thank you as always

to everybody and much love to like you said to all of our podcasting

brethren and sisters out there, here's to 2025 and

hopefully we get some good horror movies right off the bat. So it's not kind

of a slog for us as we go throughout the year.

And to all the listeners, once again, thank you for supporting us.

By the time this is out, I think it's going to be around our five

year anniversary of releasing the first episode, which is insane to

think that we've been doing it this long. So yeah,

I look forward to seeing what we continue to do. I mean, yes, the episodes

are a lot more sporadic now, but that's just life. We've both gotten busier,

I've gotten lazier. It's just a lot of mixed things.

But we are recording this

on January 19th, so I am hoping to have this

done this in the next couple of days. I do have a

funeral I have to go to, so that's going to kind of slow put the

kibosh on getting it done right away. But hopefully by the middle

of the week or by Friday, you all will be hearing this. So until

next time. Unpleasant dreams, kitties.

Blumhouse do better this year and see you do

better. Blumhouse do better.

For fuck's sakes, just drain the goddamn pool.

See ya. Bye.

Sa.