Let's Scare My Girlfriend to Death

There she is the almost birthday angel. This week we watched Osgood Perkins 2024 film Longlegs. Join us as we help celebrate Leigh Harker's birthday in style with a super creepy performance from Nic Cage. Did we love it? Does Leigh Harker have a good birthday? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us this week our last before a month long hiatus to find out. 

This week we travel the lonely roads of North Texas in search of a nihilistic but great serial killer/ slasher film with 1986's The Hitcher. However, did we like it? Were we blown away by Rutger Hauer's John Ryder? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us this week to find out. 

As we dive deeper into supernatural serial killer month we arrive here at Wes Craven's Shocker. A movie about a serial killer who develops electricity powers that let him jump from body to body to escape his son who has dream foresight powers and was raised in foster care by the cop who is out to stop him. You know that old chestnut but did we like it? Were we perplexed by some of the plot holes? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

We end our tour of folk horror from around the world in with this South African film set in neighboring Namibia on the eve of it's independence. This movie has it all a supernatural serial killer, magic, beautiful shots of the lonely desert, violent crime scenes, a wonderful score, and great performances. However, did we like it? Did Josh compare this movie to the works of David Lynch? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us this week as we venture out into the open desert to do battle with the Dust Devil. 

Our fifth week of our folk horror from around the world takes us to India with the 2018 film Tumbbad. A surprising film currently streaming on Amazon Prime. Did we like it? Were we amazed at the beautiful locations? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

Well it took some digging but we found a folk horror movie from South America where a child doesn't die violently. So today's movie is Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf a folk horror, werewolf movie from Argentina. Did we love it? Were we overwhelmed at the lack of flat spaces in every shot? Were we surprised at how bloody this film was while still being a dark fairy tale? Most importantly did it kill Cyndi? Join us to find out. 

Join us as we venture down under to Australia and mourn the passing of Richard Chamberlain with this 1977 Peter Weir film about aboriginal people, corporate tax attorneys, tribal magic, and the end of the world. Did we love it? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

This week we dive into folk horror from around the globe as we watch the criminally underseen Clearcut starring Graham Greene. This film is from 1981 and really brings the folk horror energy we need to get April started. Join us as we travel to 1991 Canada for this folk horror film. Did we like it? Was Cyndi grossed out at a human being being skinned? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

As we end our March slate of Irish and Irish adjacent movies we had to watch the recent Oddity. This folk horror delight is easily the scariest movie we watched this month. However did we like it? Was Cyndi freaked out by a man sized wooden doll crafted by a witch? Most importantly did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

Well we finally make it to Ireland for our Irish horror month. However, we have a British crew, American actors and a story that's supposed to be set in England with the Clive Barker scripted Rawhead Rex. Did we like it? Were we underwhelmed by the effects? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

It's St. Patrick's Day so we watched Leprechaun. That's right the 1993 Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston starring, South Dakota set, almost classic. About a leprechaun who just wants his gold back and a group of characters who just want to survive the night. Did we like it? Were we entertained by all the random vehicles utilized by our small antagonist? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

How do you follow up craziness of The Substance? How about virgin births, alien abductions, the voice of god, Richard Lynch in a blonde wig, and an alien vagina on someone's stomach. That's right we watched Larry Cohen's bonkers God Told Me To. Did we like it? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

It's officially Oscar season everyone and we save the best of our female based horror films for last. We watched The Substance which currently is nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress for Demi Moore, Best Director, Best Original Screen Play, and Best Hair and Makeup, but did we like it? Was Cyndi grossed out by all the needles entering skin and the gross body horror stuff? Did Josh gush over how much he loves this movie? Most importantly did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

There's always room for a slasher, especially a short and fun one like The Slumber Party Massacre. Join us for this odd little Corman produced female led gem from 1982. Did we like it? Did we laugh at the dead pizza delivery guy who's eyes have been drilled out? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane? That's right we watched American Psycho, the movie that highlights the fundamental flaws and comedy inherent in the horrors of capitalism and toxic masculinity. Did we like it? Did it make us laugh? Did Patrick Bateman get to return those videotapes? Most importantly did this movie scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

Welcome to February and welcome to Last Night in Soho. Join us as we do a month of horror films celebrating and examining femininity in horror films. This week we have the Edgar Wright homage to the giallo films we watched last month. Did we like it? Did Cyndi love the color palette? Did it scare her to death? Join us to find out. 

Well this is it the end of the month and possibly the greatest giallo film ever made. We watched Dario Argento's pinnacle of the giallo genre with Deep Red. Did we like it? Was it incredibly dense and hard as hell to walk through the plot? Did the giant puppet on the bicycle scare the shit out of Cyndi? Most importantly did this film scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

We finally watched a Fulci film for the podcast. Join us as we watch this bananas giallo about psychically seeing your own murder in the future. Did we love it? Did we enjoy the insane costuming and unnecessary gore? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

We go back to the maybe the first giallo film from the first master of Italian horror with Mario Bava's Evil Eye aka The Girl Who Knew To Much. This movie is a lot of fun and features a super early John Saxon role. However, did we like it? Did it confuse us a little? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

We travel back to 1970 Italy to the birth of the giallo film and the movie that made them a worldwide phenomenon. We watched Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, did we like it? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us as we begin a month of leather clad murders in this month of giallo films. 

Happy Holidays, we watched The Silent Partner a Curtis Hansen written, Elliot Gould starring mall santa, bank robbery, cat and mouse, suspense film. We really loved it and we hope you will as well. 

As we end this month and this season of Let's Scare my Girlfriend to Death let us reflect on maybe the ultimate disappearance horror film the French/Dutch co-production of The Vanishing. A movie that gives us a frighteningly realistic take on what the disappearance of a loved one does to a person and the type of person it takes to just remove someone from society. Did we like it? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

It's Thanksgiving week so at Let's Scare My Girlfriend to Death we are giving thanks to the movie gods for Kurt Russell, disappearance horror, and action/thrillers set in the American Southwest with this weeks movie Breakdown. 

Join us for the original And Soon the Darkness as we follow Pamela Franklin, a nurse on a bicycling vacation with her co-worker/friend who disappears seemingly into thin air. This solid little thriller set the stage for films like Polanski's Frantic and the Kurt Russell film Breakdown. However, did we like it? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

November brings a month of horror movies about missing people and we begin with the modern classic Sinister. Join us as we watch this part crime thriller, part demonic horror film, part domestic drama filled with dread, jump scares, and some of the best found footage horror sequences ever filmed. 

Well we did it, we made it to the end of the month and to Halloween. So as a gift we go to hell, literally, with our final found footage film of the month As Above So Below. Join us as we venture into the catacombs Paris in search of the famed Sorcerer's Stone. Did we like it? Did it make us wish there were more Indiana Jones style horror movies? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

This week we bring you alzheimer's/dementia, found footage, child murder, creepy switchboards, a hidden body, and an elderly woman trying to swallow a child hole to pass the soul of an undead serial killer into her body. That's right we watched The Taking of Deborah Logan. Did we like it? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

Join us for the disappearance and ultimate death of Alice Palmer. Listen as we discuss if this is a movie about a haunting? A faux documentary about a families loss? A found footage Twin Peaks? All will be answered as we watch and discuss Lake Mungo. 

Found Footage? Check. New York? Check. A going away party for Rob who took a Vice President position in Japan? Check. That party being ruined by a giant rampaging baby monster that may have fallen from the sky into the ocean during a taped Coney Island date? Check.    Enjoy this weeks episode as we begin our found footage month and as always mind the doors. 

Once more we venture into the world of remakes this time with the 1976 remake of the classic King Kong. Did we like it? Did we walk away with a Jeff Bridges crush? Did it kill Cyndi? Join us to find out. 

They're coming to get you Barbara again with this 1990 Tom Savini directed remake of the George A Romero classic. All the characters you know and love from the original are back in color with stronger female representation this time. Did we like it? Were the zombie effects up to snuff? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

Join us as we venture to a grungy, dirty, and very Rob Zombie Haddonfield in his 2007 remake of the 1978 Carpenter original. Michael Myer's childhood and motivations take center stage along with a fun and hammy Malcolm McDowell performance. Did we like it? Did we find characters to root for? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

Apologies for the late upload. To begin this month of remakes we are watching last year's Godzilla Minus One. A move that Josh saw multiple times in theaters and declared it as the best movie of 2023. Join us as we go back to a post World War 2 Japan that must deal with a very angry, very scary Godzilla that comes ashore destroy Tokyo. Did Cyndi like it? Did it scare her to death? Join us to find out. 

Welcome to another week and an another attempt to kill Cyndi. This week we ventured to 2006 South Korea for Bong Joon Ho's excellent political monster movie The Host. 

Join us as we once again join Godzilla as he lays waste to Tokyo but this time in color in the 1980s. Godzilla was at the start of the Cold War and he comes back in this first of the Heisei era series to be at the end of it. Two films about the destructive force of nuclear weapons set thirty years apart. We watched The Return of Godzilla known as Godzilla 1985 in the U.S. but did we like it? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

Another week, another 1954 irradiated monster movie. Except this time it's ants, giant ants, terrorizing America's west coast. Did we like it? Was it fun? Was James Arness ridiculous? Join us to find out. 

Up from the depths ready to wreak havoc on Tokyo it's the best of the 1950's atomic horror movies 1954's Godzilla. One part movie, one part allegory made by a nation dealing with the fear, fallout, and very real consequences of nuclear war and fallout. Welcome to a movie that is very close and important to Josh and spawned 38 sequels and spinoffs. 

Join us as we venture back to the Great Depression and Skull Island to do battle with the original kaiju King Kong and a slew of Willis O'Brien dinosaur effects. Join us for the original giant monster spectacle and the film that saved RKO, at least for a few decades, King Kong.

Join us for another giant monster movie. We've done a giant bird, we've done a giant crocodile, now a giant shark. That's right we are back with the ridiculous Jason Statham film The Meg. We venture to the bottom of the ocean to the shores of South East Asia fighting 100 foot long sharks in this meg-a ridiculous but fun film. 

Apologies for the delay, but join us as we venture into not the real Lake Placid shot not in the real Maine, with a snarky overwritten script and fantastic actors and yes a large animatronic crocodile with Lake Placid. 

Join us as we venture back to 1982's New York City with David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, and most importantly Larry Cohen. A winged serpent has made it's nest in the belfry of the Chrysler Building and it's up to a cynical cop and jazz singer/piano player to save the city. 

The Davis baby is back and this time there are three of them. We finish our month of father's day movies with the second film in Larry Cohen's It's Alive trilogy. Join us as we venture once more into the world of mutant babies and Larry's house for It Lives Again. 

Join us as we venture into a wonderfully odd film starring Elijah Wood, Come to Daddy. This odd and delightful film from New Zealand's Ant Timpson. Join us for this weeks episode.

There's something wrong with the Davis baby....It's Alive. Join us as we venture into the banana's Larry Cohen classic It's Alive, mutant baby and all. Did we like it? Did it scare Cyndi to death? Join us to find out. 

Join us as we follow Choi Min-Sik's Oh Dae-Su who seeks answers and revenge for the fifteen years he's been locked up in a private prison. Yes we watched Oldboy, did we love it? Is Park Chan Wook a genius? Did Cyndi make it out alive? Join us to find out. 

One last time this month into the dream world to tangle with Freddy. This time we add two essential yet missing pieces of the Nightmare puzzle, a Dream Master and a kung fu. Did we like it? Did Cyndi make it out alive? Join us to find out. 

We're the dream warriors...don't wanna dream no more...maybe tonight you'll be gone.  That's right we have finally arrived at Dream Warriors a movie that not only gives us the hard and fast Elm Street rules but is so much fun. We watched it but did we love it? Was Cyndi entertained? Do the dream warriors manage to put a stop to Freddy? Join us to find out. 

Join us as we once again venture to Elm Street to deal with Freddy Krueger. While the street and house maybe the same we have a whole new cast of teens and some homo-erotic subtext that is laid so thick it's practically text. Join us won't you. 

One, two, Freddy's coming for you this week as we begin watching the Nightmare on Elm Street films. We begin with the Wes Craven created classic that changed the horror landscape forever. 

Join us as we venture into a Scooby Doo style haunted house with this weeks film House aka Hausu. Watch a group of teen girls go on vacation to an old spooky mansion that may or may not eat people. Which is owned by on of the characters aunts who may or may not be able to walk and has a cat that spits blood.    You may love it or maybe even hate it but you'll never forget Hausu. 

Join us as we travel back to the 1970's by way of Rob Zombie and 2003's House of a 1000 Corpses. Watch as our intrepid group of young adults run head first into the legend of Dr. Satan and the Firefly family.