It's Alive! Podcast

Boo! It’s our first annual Great Halloween Hunt! Our creepy cohosts, Chris and Eric, compete in the ultimate Halloween scavenger hunt to crown the Supreme Leader of Halloween! Listen as they rip open a fresh bag of gruesome goodies covering everything from spooky board games and horrible masks to dead websites and real vampire hunters!…

Just when you thought the terror was over , the power of the Halloween season reanimates our cold lifeless corpses as the It’s Alive! Podcast returns to the airwaves to haunt your ears once again! For tonight’s experiment , we lay the body of Michael Myers on the slab and examine the Halloween franchise. Not…

Between the dark days of our regular episodes come Shock Sessions: Brief horror related topics individually produced and presented by our horrific hosts. Tonight: Eric fires up the Google Machine to find enticing headlines in all things horror! From Sid Haig and haunted wheelchairs to Pennywise cups and Freddy Krueger, Eric digs up a fresh plot of…

After nearly 3 months of enduring endless adult responsibilities, Chris and Eric reopen the crypt and take refuge in their newly reformed state of arrested development. We catch up on a slew of horror news and goodies from tricks and treats to masks, movies, and mayhem. We shill the shit you don’t need with money you don’t have…

Gluttony isn’t a sin, it’s a suggestion! For many the holidays bring ferocious feasts resulting in bulging bellies. Although you may be feeling as plump as the bird you gorged on the It’s Alive! Podcast is here to persuade you for one last bite! We’re serving up a feast involving some of our favorite horror scenes…

Between the dark days of our regular episodes come Shock Sessions: Brief horror related topics individually produced and presented by our horrific hosts. Tonight: Chris and Eric broadcast live from Chicago’s Days of the Dead horror convention and wrap up its weekend offerings of horror culture. From Clive Barker to Coolio (?), we take in the ambiance and intrigue…

Michael Myers hasn’t been home for some time. And for his return to come right in the middle of the season amongst the fall leaves and jack o’lanterns makes this homecoming all the more special. And while every podcast has already reviewed Halloween (2018), the It’s Alive! Podcast stalks, creeps, and waits for the right moment to strike.…

It’s officially our favorite time of year and we here in the crypt plan on offering Halloween specials all October long! Think of it as a mere sacrifice to prove our loyalty to Papa Halloween and his ghoulish minions. Tonight we take off our masks and casually discuss the holiday that helped shape our identity. …

We rise from our graves and come bearing tracks to add to your Halloween playlist! It’s been over a year since we cracked open caskets of mutilated music for your ears to feast on. And we heard you’re hungry for more! Dare you listen do our fiendish finds? The night is young, fiends. Plug in.…

The air smells of pumpkin spice, plastic costume packaging, and rubber skeletons. The signs align as our time approaches: HALLOWEEN. As horror fans we live in a golden age of goodies, decorations, and collectables…but it wasn’t always that way.  Tonight we head back into the crypt to discuss some of the worst horror merchandise, collectables, and…

Between the dark days of our regular episodes come Shock Sessions: Brief horror related topics individually produced and presented by our horrific hosts. Tonight: Released by LJN for the Nintendo Entertainment System in February 1989, Friday the 13th has a notorious reputation for being one of the worst NES games of all time. But have we been…

In this special episode of It’s Alive!, Chris and Eric grab some coffee in the dimension of imagination. We sit down and discuss the impact Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone has had on television and modern culture. We also put on our intellectual caps and examine the themes in 2 of the best written episodes and how…

Its been 14 years since we’ve stepped into the Gothic world of Universal’s Van Helsing but tonight we take a journey back to Transylvania and see if the trip was as fun as we remembered. We also make a quick stop in Haddonfield to see what The Shape has been up to for his long awaited…

Between the dark days of our regular episodes come Shock Sessions: Brief horror related topics individually produced and presented by our horrific hosts. Tonight: The Ouija Board: overpriced superstitious piece of cardboard or multidimensional demonic communication device? Chris examines the history and mystery of this famed piece of supernatural memorabilia.  Despite developing a negative reputation, having a confusing…

On tonight’s show we go to a mysterious cursed region from everywhere yet nowhere in which your wildest desires or deepest fears are offered for a price: eBay. And while we’re there, we find 6 of the most interesting, ridiculous, or downright creepy oddities to be listed in the horror genre. Can you put a…

Happy 2018! On tonights show we leave the crypt, board our biplane, and venture into the dark tombs, temples, and jungles of the Indiana Jones Saga! We search for frightening fortune and gory glory throughout the classic franchise! But we also uncover a dark secret buried deep within the treasure ridden tunnels of film history:…

Between the dark days of our regular episodes come Shock Sessions: Brief horror related topics individually produced and presented by our horrific hosts Chris or Eric. Tonight: We here at the It’s Alive! Podcast discuss a lot of terrorizing topics. Whether it’s movies, monsters, masks, or maniacs we love a good creepy conversation.  But why do we personally love…

We here at The Crypt are powered by candy corn and glow-in-the-dark skeletons, but when the deadly flu seeps into our systems you would think it would have us at death’s door. Unfortunately , this flu decided to pick Halloween to invade and we’re not going down without a fight. So tonight we’re back finding horror…

A chill in the midnight air begins to turn summer leaves into that familiar orange palette. Which could only mean one thing: Halloween approaches! On tonight’s show we learn that Halloween can be found even in the simplest location: Your local grocery store. We discuss candy, masks, monsters, and pumpkins all strung together by classic…

Between the dark days of our regular episodes come Shock Sessions: Brief horror related topics individually produced and presented by our horrific hosts Chris or Eric. Tonight: Two things that often get buried: Facts and Bodies. Halloween is that special time of year where fear is something to behold, but it’s supposed to be through plastic skeletons,…

It’s an unusually stormy September night here at the crypt. And with that, we take advantage of the atmosphere by paying an early visit to a certain killer clown. With an advanced screening of Stephen King’s It fresh in our skulls we discuss if one of the most anticipated horror films of the year sinks…

As the Halloween season begins to rear it’s plump yet putrid pumpkin head, we venture back into the Crypt to discuss one of Chicago’s premiere horror conventions. But has this year’s edition lost it luster? We also play exclusive panel audio featuring the women of A Nightmare on Elm Street, as well as a fantastic…

Between the dark days of our regular episodes come Shock Sessions: Brief horror related topics individually produced and presented by our horrific hosts Chris or Eric.  Tonight:  The vampire. One of horror’s most popular subjects. What draws so many people to its vast mythology? The fantasy? The violence? The romance? Whatever makes the tales of the vampire…

You just never know where you’ll find it. That’s why on tonights episode you’ll enter the dark recess of our minds as we discuss 8 of the horrors found in the places you’d least expect to find them. We also touch on the rebranding Universal’s Classic Monsters and the inevitable return of The Shape: Michael…

We’re back from our mysterious layover on Skull Island and with us we bring a review of the great ape himself with Kong: Skull Island! Meanwhile Toho’s Godzilla Resurgence leaves us baffled in his destruction. And for our main course we dig deep into our nostalgic crypt of horror pop culture and crack open a…

To celebrate the cinematic return of the great ape, we’re broadcasting directly from the mysterious Skull Island! From there we discuss all things King Kong including what we know of his new adventure Kong: Skull Island. But King Kong isn’t the only frightening wonder on our list. We unwrap Universal Studio’s The Mummy,  mourn the death…

We rise from our catatonic crypts to find the season has become much more jolly. But we’re not alone as a certain Mummy makes her universal presence known. We travel to “Days of the Dead” and find ourselves flabbergasted by fandom. Then it’s onto London to revisit an american werewolf, speak of unearthed tales from a…

Halloween has arrived. But at what cost?! Tonight we leave the crypt to take a stroll down Elm Street to pitch a Nightmare of our own. But fear not, we’ve made a few pit stops along the way. We visit Camp Crystal Lake knowing Jason’s return, hit Castle Frankenstein to be triggered by the Bride,…

As the Halloween season buries us, we find ourselves six feet under with October’s ghostly ghastly goodness! We touch upon John Carpenter’s harsh remarks towards a certain zombie as well as the killer clown invasion that’s too close to home. But for our main course, we fire up the lab with 10,000 volts and answer…

Tonight, we crawl back into the writhing weathered womb of the weird to deliver our thoughts on some of the current hottest horror flicks. We take a trip to the “Upside Down” when we discuss Stranger Things. Then we head to the lab and pull up a slab to explain 2015’s misunderstood Victor Frankenstein. Follow us…

Tonight we cook up a batch of nostalgic brew from our cauldron of history. What are some of your favorite personal memories of the Halloween season? We discuss costumes, tricking, treating, Booberry and so much more. We’re powering up the lab and playing Dr. Frankenstein  to discuss what we’d bring back to life this Halloween…

As the Halloween season begins to rear it’s pumpkin head, we venture back into the Crypt to discuss one of Chicago’s premiere horror conventions. We play exclusive panel audio featuring the father of Phantasm: Don Coscarelli, as well as an interview with Malcolm Mcdowell and the cast of Rob Zombie’s 31. We also give our…

Tonight we pop open a cavalcade of caskets bursting with horrid horror goodness! John Carpenter thinks horror needs a reboot, Pennywise and Pinhead pay us a visit, The Universal Mummy and Frankenstein reveal themselves, We spend Christmas with Krampus, Turn the “Lights Out”, and head into the woods in search of The Blair Witch! All…

With Ecto Cooler pulsing through our veins we head into the crypt to discuss the possible future of supernatural films following The Conjuring 2. We also delve into Rob Zombie’s “31” trailer, take a brief visit to Skull Island, get “Unfriended”, as well as touch upon some hot new horror topics. Join us, shall you?…

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