Macabre: The Horror Movie Podcast

This week on Macabre: The Horror Movie Podcast, the boys review Tremors (1990). It takes place in Perfection, NV, where a pack of "Graboids" - large, man-eating, subterranean worms - are looking for their next meal. 

This week, Macabre takes on Friday the 13th (2009). The movie follows Clay, a young man looking for his sister, Whitney, who was abducted by the masked killer, Jason Vorhees. 

This week on Macabre: The Horror Movie Podcast, the gang takes a look at Insidious (2010). The film follows the Lambert family, who have just moved into a new home when their oldest son, Dalton, inexplicably falls into a coma. To make matters worse, evil spirits from a nether region called “The Further” use Dalton’s comatose body as a vessel to enter the physical world and wreak havoc.  

This week, the film is Let the Right One In, from 2008. It follows Oskar, a 12-year-old boy who falls in love with Eli, a new neighbor who just moved into an apartment next to the one Oskar shares with his mom. Eli appears to be a young girl, but it’s revealed that she’s actually an androgynous vampire who’s been alive for hundreds of years.

This week, the film is Dario Argento’s “Inferno” (1980). In it, an American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both places. Unbeknownst to them, their respective addresses are the domains of two covens of witches. 

This week, the film is Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs, from 2008. It follows the friendship of Lucie and Anna, two women who met when they were in an orphanage as children. Lucie suffered severe trauma in her past: Before she was placed in the orphanage, she spent  more than a year being tortured by a pair of adults that kidnapped her. Now, 15 years later, Lucie believes she’s tracked down those kidnappers.

This week, the boys anatomize a remake of a horror classic: Poltergeist from 2015. The film follows the Bowen family, who move into a new home in the suburbs. After moving in, they discover their home was built on an old cemetery. They’re told the cemetery was relocated, but it’s later revealed that the property developer only moved the headstones and left the bodies in their graves. Angry that a home was built on their resting spots, a group of ghosts retaliate by haunting the Bowens and luring the youngest daughter, Maddie, into the spirit world.

This week, Canyon, Logan, and Alec dissect Alexandre Aja’s The Hills Have Eyes (2006). A remake of a 1977 film of the same name, this movie follows the Carter family, who, on their way to California, get stranded in the New Mexico desert. Unbeknownst to them, a family of mutant cannibals lives in the nearby hills, and what is already a bad situation is about to get much worse. 

This week on Macabre: The Horror Movie Podcast: Goodnight Mommy (2014). This indie horror flick focuses on Austrian twins Elias and Lukas. Their mother has just had major cosmetic work done to her face, and returns home from the doctor with her head wrapped in bandages. But the twins notice her personality is radically different. Is the woman who came home their mother? Or is she an imposter?

This week on Macabre: The Horror Movie Podcast, the gang tackles one of horror’s most divisive titles: Suspiria (1977). The film follows American ballet student Suzie Bannion, who transfers to a prestigious dance academy in Germany only to realize, after a series of brutal murders, that the academy is run by a coven of witches.

On this week's episode of Macabre: The Horror Movie Podcast, the group takes on a horror classic: The Omen (1976). It follows American diplomat Robert Thorn, whose child is switched at birth with the son of Satan.

This week on Macabre: The Horror Movie Podcast, the team discusses Neil Marshall’s 2005 film: The Descent. It follows a group of six spelunkers who become trapped in an unmapped cave system deep beneath the ground. Their troubles are severely compounded when they stumble across a colony of hostile, goblin-like creatures that inhabit the caves.

Graduate student Kate Lloyd — Mary Elizabeth Winstead — is recruited by scientists to study an alien lifeform found frozen in the ice near a Norwegian research base in Antarctica. Removed from the ice, the alien begins killing off the base’s inhabitants. Kate, joined by an American helicopter pilot  — played by Joel Edgerton — attempt to find and kill the polymorphic creature.

On the premiere episode of Macabre: The Horror Movie Podcast, cinephiles Canyon Silliman, Logan Helgeland, and Alec Regimbal discuss “The Lighthouse,” a 2019 film by director Robbert Eggers. The movie tells the story of two lighthouse keepers — played by Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson — who start to lose their sanity when a storm strands them on the remote island on which they’re stationed.

The trailer for "Macabre: The Horror Movie Podcast." We discuss, we review, we talk about the deaths, and finally, we pick a new movie. Join them once a week for a discussion on what works and what doesn’t with some of horror’s better-known titles.