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We're back and kicking off the new year with 1974/5/6 Canadian home invasion flick THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE!!! Brenda Vaccaro plays a car-savvy model who is whisked away to this dopey dentist's mansion in the Ontario country side where they're terrorized by a gang of rowdy assholes! This was a first viewing for both of us and we have no idea how we ha…

Mitch is unexpectedly away, but Christopher saw M3GAN, loved it and proceeded to talk about it for 5 minutes!De către Definitely First Blood

Yet another New Year is upon us. They just keep making these things, huh? Sticking with tradition we’ve got another New Years bracket: Last One Standing Standings: Slasher One-And-Dones (The Ones We’ve Done)!!! Mashing some previous bracket ideas together we pit final folks from slasher films without sequels that we’ve talked about on the pod again…

Cryptmas is upon us once again and we’re talking both the 1972 and 1989 Tales From The Crypt: And All Through The House! Both versions are about a woman who has just murdered her husband while a maniac in a Santa suit is murdering women in her area and sets his sights on her! We’ve got genre icons like Freddie Francis directing the ’72 version with…

Where have all the lynx gone? This week we’re talking 2011 Yeti film SNOW BEAST!!! A research team and a delinquent teen head into the “Canadian” wilderness for their annual lynx-tracking but end up being tracked by the Yeti instead! Much like the footprints of the Snow Beast, Mormonism has its footprint solidly smushed into the snow that is this m…

What happens when dynamite fishing awakens a primordial fish-monster? Lots of research. Lots and lots of research. This week we’re talking about 1979 creature feature BOG starring Gloria DeHaven, Marshall Thompson and Aldo Ray as a trio of small-town authority figure types who have to unravel the mysterious blood-draining happening in their sleepy …

We’re back and hitting the slopes this week with 1977 Bigfoot-in-the-snow TV movie SNOWBEAST!! This movie dares to ask the question, what if Jaws was cold? We’ve got a stuck-in-his-glory-days former Olympian, his television journalist wife and the manager of a ski lodge in a decades-long, amicable love triangle that could easily be solved with a po…

Another year, another Halloween! We celebrate the holiday with the fifth instalment in the franchise HALLOWEEN 5: THE REVENGE OF MICHAEL MYERS! We talk about how awful Slayers (2022) was, try to guess what Christopher’s costume is and Christopher defends and dies on the hill that is Tina Williams! We’ve got the return of Donald Pleasance, Danielle …

We’re headed to the museum of mid-00’s fashion this week where shirts are long and hair is straight with HOUSE OF FEARS!!! Pretty standard steup here: group of teens goes to House of Fears after-hours and start getting picked off one-by-one. For a PG-13 it’s not half bad though. The idea is interesting, the acting is good, it doesn’t look awful… it…

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! We saw Halloween Ends and we have some thoughts! Did We like it? Did we hate it? Neither!De către Definitely First Blood

What happens when your alcoholic father nearly drowns you while bobbing for apples on Halloween? You kinda become a serial killer I guess? This week we’re talking about 1988 slasher HOLLOW GATE!!! 10 Years after the aforementioned apple-bobbing Mark blows up two “teens” in their car, then two years after that he assaults and murders a girl in a con…

The Halloween season is upon us and we’re kicking things off this year with 2002 slasher-lite Jon Keeyes’ AMERICAN NIGHTMARE!! Genre icon Debbie Rochon stars as Jane, a mysterious serial killer who starts targeting a group of friends on Halloween Night after they call into a radio show. Debbie Rochon is fantastic in it, and Brandy Little as the fin…

Stop whatever you’re doing and go watch the clip of the sleeping bag kill from this movie! This week we’re talking eco-horror from the director of The Manchurian Candidate and the writer of The Omen, PROPHECY!!! When a bunch of dudes get mysteriously unalived amidst tensions concerning a land dispute between the Indigenous people and a paper mill, …

We’re all ready to catalogue a gaudy estate this week with GIRLS SCHOOL SCREAMERS! Is it a slasher? Is it a ghost story? Unclear! Seven students (college or high school?) are tasked with taking stock of the estate of the recently deceased Tyler Welles where 40+ years earlier his niece died from a tragic fall - OR WAS SHE PUSHED!? She was. Anyway, t…

Crop tops! Werewolf! A biker gang! Crop tops! Kato Kaelin’s mullet! Crop tops! This week we’re talking about Randolph Cohlan’s NIGHT SHADOW!!! This werewolf outing stars Brenda Vance as a young, successful anchor woman who returns to her small hometown in hopes of getting some R&R and hanging out with her crop-top-loving, himbo brother played by St…

Audio improves at 06:20 when we realize the A/C was on! We’ve slithered our way back this week as we talk about 1976 snake movie RATTLERS!!! A herpetologist and a former war photographer are tasked with figuring out why these snakes keep killing people and I guess they kind of do? There’s like 3 movies here that they’re trying to make and none of t…

WARNING: SPOILERS!!! We saw Jordan Peele’s NOPE, we loved NOPE and if you can believe it, now we’re talking about NOPE(on the podcast)! Suuuuuunglllllllaaaaassssesssssssssss aaaaat night!De către Definitely First Blood

From the mean streets of Halifax to the wilds of New Jersey, this week we’re talking about SOV gore-fest CANNIBAL CAMPOUT!!! Two couples head into the woods for some camping and cross paths with a trio of cannibalistic brothers, it does not end well for them! There’s lots of fun effects, synth music and one heck of an audacious ending. We were spli…

We’re back, but Christopher’s voice isn’t! This week we’re talking/croaking about SIEGE aka SELF DEFENSE!!! When a gang of fascist cops attack a gay bar in Halifax and execute the patrons, the sole survivor escapes to a nearby apartment building where the residents hunker down and kill some fascists! There’s violence, characters you root for and it…

From the Bayou to the Mountains this week talking 1985 snowy slasher BLOOD TRACKS!!! A hair band, some models, a famous actress and some crew heads into the mountains to shoot a music video where they happen upon a family that’s been hiding out in this factory for 40 years(maybe)! There’s a million characters and they’re all incredibly dumb, like… …

We’re headed into the Bay-AWOOO (because, werewolves.) this week and talking about the 1972 werewolf made-for-TV movie, MOON OF THE WOLF!!! When a young woman is found dead with bite marks, it’s up to the Sheriff to determine which of these small-town folks is responsible. Is it the Doctor? The Socialite? Overall, this is a fun little movie with so…

Our Aquanet is locked and loaded this week as we dip into MAY-de For TV movies with I SAW WHAT YOU DID! From Fred Walton, the director of When a Stranger Calls, and starring genre icon Shawnee Smith alongside Tammy Lauren and Robert Carradine; I Saw What You Did is a timeless tale of two new friends who prank call a man who happens to have just mur…

We’re rising from the depths this week to talk about seminal 1976 slasher REDEEMER: SON OF SATAN!!! Six high school friends head to their 10-year reunion, only to be murdered one-by-one for their sinful lifestyles. What kind of sinful lifestyles? There’s a Lesbian, a gay-coded vain actor, a woman who wears makeup(and should’ve lived), a skeezy atto…

Do you hear that buzzing in the air? It could only be PROJECT: NIGHTMARE!!! This is a weird one, one of our weirdest. Two men find themselves lost and pursued by an unseen force and soon things start disappearing, they have cabbage for dinner, a sentient computer that’s trapping people in a program designed to make their thoughts corporeal and a gi…

Prepare to head to the 1970’s this week for the first time in a while as we talk about Frederick R. Friedel’s AXE aka LISA, LISA aka CALIFORNIA AXE MASSACRE!!! Axe stars Leslie Lee as Lisa, a girl who lives in a farmhouse alone with her catatonic grandfather, but when three on-the-run murderers take them captive Lisa kills the heck out of them! It’…

We’re back in the Emerald Isles this week for our fifth annual Leprechaun instalment LEPRECHAUN 5: IN THE HOOD!!! Written by Doug Hall and directed by Rob Spera this time around, Warwick Davis once again carries a movie on his back alongside Anthony Montgomery, Rashaan Nall and Red Grant as a trio of friends with dreams of making it big and decide …

WARNING: WE DISCUSS SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THIS EPISODE!! We wrap up Findlaybruary this week with the brutal, X-Rated TENEMENT!!! After the residents of a Bronx tenement building have the gang that’s squatting in the basement arrested, the gang returns to seek revenge - but these tenants fight back, hard! There’s an abundance of violence, imperfect hero…

Asshole fiancees, little ghost girls and pizza gunge! This week we’re talking Roberta Findlay’s LURKERS!!! Once again starring Christine Moore, Lurkers follows a similar trajectory with evil villains who face absolutely no push-back in achieving their goals. When Cathy was a child she saw visions of ‘Lurkers’ coming out of the walls and haunting he…

Findlaybruary continues this week with PRIME EVIL!!! Starring Christine Moore, Amy Brentano (Who is absolutely a gem in this), Ruth Collins and Mavis Harris, Prime Evil is all about Alexandra as the mysterious Father Thomas grooms her to be her grandfather’s human sacrifice for the Winter Solstice, this movie is very, very disjointed with huge amou…

We’re back with another sorority slasher this week as we kick off Findlaybruary with BLOOD SISTERS! Written and Directed by Roberta Findlay, Blood Sisters is about a sorority initiation that goes awry when a night at an old brothel leads to spectral encounters and MUUUURDER!? It has some interesting elements that it seems to abandon for a more run-…

We’re back and we’re more silent and mad than ever! This week we’re talking 1984 3-D slasher SILENT MADNESS!!! This slasher stars Belinda Montgomery as Dr. Joan Gilmore, a committed and idealistic psychologist from Brooklyn who discovers that her hospital has accidentally released a notorious mass murderer (or have they?) and travels to a small wom…

It’s that time of year again, in that it’s time for a New Year and SLASHER ONE-AND-DONES(THE ONES WE’VE DONE)!!! Continuing our tradition of brackets on brackets, this year we’ve pitted slasher movies without sequels(that we’ve covered on the podcast) against each other to determine which one is our favourite from Blood Lake to Bay of Blood and Blo…

Christmas and also Prom is in the air today as we celebrate the holidays with a movie that features snow, catholicism and has at least one scene with Christmas lights, PROM NIGHT IV: DELIVER US FROM EVIL!!! This fourth instalment is really its own thing; this time around it’s Directed by Clay Borris and stars Nicole deBoer, Joy Tanner, J.H. Whyman …

We’re off to the Rocky Mountains this week as we talk Jim Makichuk’s atmospheric Canadian snowmobile horror GHOSTKEEPER!!! Featuring one of the most insidious asshole boyfriends we’ve ever seen, Ghostkeeper is about three pals who end up at a defunct lodge in a blizzard where the mysterious caretaker is also the guardian of an ancient creature! Des…

The aliens have landed this week as we talk about Larry Thomas’ MUTILATIONS!!! A group of students, their professor and his compadre venture out to search for a crashed meteor but find themselves targeted by cow-mutilating, human-eating ALIENS! This is an interesting one, its reminiscent of 50’s B-movies and has good cinematography and death effect…

We’ve wrapped ourselves in plastic and hidden our cat this week as we talk about Nathan J. White’s THE CARRIER!!! In a sleepy little town, the downtrodden Jake is attacked by a mysterious black thing that imbues him with a strange ability; if he touches an object, it becomes cursed and dissolves whoever touches it. It’s a fantastic movie with lots …

Happy Halloween! We finish off our run of themed features with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers! Resurrecting our masked embodiment of evil this time around are writer Alan B. McElroy and director Dwight H. Little with Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris and Ellie Cornell. This is an enjoyable but relatively middle-of-the-road entry to the fr…

WARNING: SPOILERS!!! We give our stream-of-consciousness thoughts on HALLOWEEN KILLS! The Strodes are back this time around and they’ve got all of Haddonfield hunting Michael down with them. There’s returning survivors from the original, lots of tie-ins and lots of kills(as one would expect)! This movie has obviously been really divisive among horr…

In this DFBShorts we’re talking about Andrew Murga’s 2005 Zombie/Ghost film THE DEAD HATE THEIR LATE FEES!!! When employees are locked in their video store on Halloween night in order to solve a string of employee deaths and become manager, they have to contend with the undead!De către Definitely First Blood

Witches, vampires, ghouls and goblins! This week we’re talking 1985 made-for-TV movie THE MIDNIGHT HOUR!!! Starring Jonelle Allen, Lee Montgomery, Shari Belafonte, LeVar Burton and Peter DeLuise, the midnight Hour is about five friends who accidentally unleash a Witch’s curse on their small town and summon all the undead and a bunch of demons. It’s…

Christopher is back from his journey and this week we’re dipping into The Asylum with extremely 2006 slasher HALLOWEEN NIGHT! Ten years after being admitted to an asylum following his Mother’s murder Chris Vale escapes and heads home where a group of college pals are having their annual Halloween party! Written by Michael Gingold and Directed by Ma…

We’ve lost our heads this week as we kick off our Halloween episodes with Anthony C. Ferrante’s 2007 slasher HEADLESS HORSEMAN!!! Seven friends make a wrong turn and end up in Wormwood, just in time for their Headless Horseman ritual where they give him heads… and he needs exactly 7 of them to regain his own! It’s definitely silly and the character…

Gay jokes and slurs galore! Hilary Duff would not stand for this. This week we’re talking about Stephen Tyler’s THE LAST SLUMBER PARTY! This slasher stars Jan Jensen, Nancy Meyer and Joann Whitley as a trio of friends who kick off their summer vacay with a slumber party that gets crashed by some boys and also a scalpel-wielding maniac who escaped f…

This week we’re talking about a movie that dares to ask “How many times can we reuse the same shots?”, James Shyman’s HOLLYWOOD’S NEW BLOOD! This slasher stars Bobby Johnston, Francine Lapensee, Martie Allyne and Joe Balogh as an acting class staying at a cabin in the woods where 16 years earlier a film crew accidentally killed an entire family whe…

WARNING: SPOILERS!!! This week we’ve got a stream-of-consciousness episode with our thoughts on Nia DaCosta’s CANDYMAN starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo and Vanessa Williams! It’s a beautifully shot with some cool kills and visuals! We really enjoyed it!De către Definitely First Blood

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR THE FOLLOWING MOVIES: Blood Red Sky (2021), Crystal Eyes (2017), Here Comes Hell (2019)!!! In this episode we’re just blabbing and gabbing about the movies we’ve watched recently!De către Definitely First Blood

This week we’re talking to very funny 1987 horror-comedy DOOM ASYLUM! Although criminally short, this movie is fantastic! When Kiki and friends venture out for a picnic at the asylum near the site her mother was killed in a car crash, they come face-to-face with her disfigured lawyer boyfriend Mitch! Directed by Richard Friedman, it stars Patty Mul…

What do you do when your friend was murdered by an infamous serial killer in the basement of your rental house where you’ve just discovered the mummified remains of his family? Just kinda hangout upstairs! This week we’re talking about 1989 South African slasher RETURN OF THE FAMILY MAN! In “America”, a trio of friends (one of whom is in hiding aft…

WARNING: We discuss sexual assault in this episode! This week all the bases are loaded and misogyny is up to bat in Tanya Rosenberg’s BLOOD GAMES!!! Starring Laura Albert, Lee Benton, Paula Manga, Sabrina Hills, Gregory Scott Cummins and George “Buck” Flowers, Blood Games is about a touring women’s baseball team who absolutely destroy a team of red…

This week we talk about the absolute most bizarre movie either of us has ever seen, Herb Robins’ THE BRAINSUCKER! This is an experience. Is it an art film? Is it the best film ever made? Is it intentional? Am I now insane? One thing is for sure, we are not the same people we were before watching this. The Brainsucker stars Marjorie Morris, Jonathan…