Welcome to the first episode of THE POD AND THE PENDULUM podcast. Hosted by to dedicated, lifelong horror movie fanatics, we are taking on the heroic task of covering every horror movie franchise under the sun, one gory installment at a time. From the heavy hitters and beloved...
I’m not the biggest fan of “worst-of” lists. Even if something strikes me the wrong way, I try my damndest to be respectful of the Herculean effort it takes to create almost any art, let alone something as collaborative and time consuming as a movie. Yet sometimes films...
Despite a certain article asking why the present year felt like such a come down from 2017, 2018 turned out to be another banner year for horror. From a box office perspective, audiences remained ravenous for genre fare, with eight films drawing over fifty million bucks in the...
Jesus take the wheel I’m behind on this series. Well, rather than mince words, let’s all acknowledge that we all have Netflix, there’s a butt ton of horror titles on there, and it can be a pain in the ass to separate the good from the bad. If...
Every parent reaches a point where they realize they can no longer completely protect their child. It’s a realization that sits like a ball of lead in the stomach. The world can be a terrifying place where some new and unimaginable danger lurks behind every corner. Sometimes there’s...
October is for horror movies. We all know that. It’s the one month of the year that your non-horror loving buddies will pick your brain over what to watch. The drop in temperature makes it okay to veg out on the sofa and binge scary movies until your...
For the past six years, I’ve had the pleasure of serving as a guest host for The Telluride Horror Show. With nine years now in the books, we can safely say we’re growing bigger every year. We’re also getting better, more enthusiastic crowds, and expanding the size and...
If there’s one thing we can all agree with, it’s that October means breaking out your copy of John Carpenter’s Halloween and reveling in a true masterwork of cinema. Forty years removed from its 1978 release, the film still feels fresh and continues to scare the hell out...
For the past six years I’ve had the privilege of co-hosting the Telluride Horror Show along with serving as a festival programmer. Every year the fest grows larger, the attendees come from further out, the lineup and guests get better and the theaters get more and more jam-packed. There’s...
I love movies about haunted houses. To be more specific, I love movies about creating haunted house attractions. Millions of people scream their way through haunts every October. Fictional works of horror like 2014’s The Houses October Built and 2015’s Hell House LLC somehow manage to bring me...
We've got big mouths and bigger keyboards and we're using them to talk about the movies we love across all genres: horror, science fiction, action, martial arts, camp, cult films and more.
