Scream Kings

Nathaniel chats with debut horror author and ER doctor N.J. Gallegos about her soon-to-be released book The Broken Heart. Then, after they decide on getting Baphomet sigil best friend mood rings, the pair move on to talk about the chilling school shooter book/movie We Need To Talk About Kevin. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

This episode we're talking the new A24 hit Talk to Me and how it was, frankly, just okay. But it still scared the hell out of Nathaniel because it reminded him of when he almost got possessed. Yeah, shit gets weird this episode. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

After attending StokerCon 2023, Nathaniel shares a little about the horror writing Bram Stoker awards. Then we dig into one of our favorite horror films of 2022, Ti West and Mia Goth's Pearl! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

93 episodes after our first foray into the Evil Dead franchise, we're back in, talking 2023's horror hit Evil Dead Rise. We talk the film's brilliant scares and performances, the ways we wanted it to go ever darker, and our questions about lore and the future of the franchise. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We cover the newest installment in the shockingly consistent Scream film franchise, Scream VI! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Podcast of Nights, a hundred delights! This episode we have special guest Laurell K. Hamilton on to talk about the 29th installment in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series: Smolder. Then we talk about a 1972 Hammer Horror film that had a surprisingly powerful influence on Laurell: Vampire Circus. Listen now for a devilishly good time! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We're joined this episode by podcaster and writer Jordan Morris (Jordan! Jesse! GO! and Bubble among other notable credits) who just wrote an issue for the Archie Horror comics anthology Pop's Choc'Lit Shoppe of Horrors called Soylent Teen. Then we dig into 1997's entertaining but not exactly great horror film The Relic! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

This episode we tackle the 2022 culinary horror delight The Menu, which tops Max's best horror films of the year list. After savoring its intense satirical flavors, we then play Nathaniel's B-Reel Game, the theme: "Eat It." Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We welcome Willow Dawn Becker on the podcast to share about her horror publishing company, Weird Little Worlds, their anthologies Humans Are the Problem and Mother, and her novel Leto's Children. Then, if all that awesomeness wasn't enough, we then dig into the 1970s Disney YA horror venture The Watcher in the Woods. The guest is a delight and the discussion is lively, so listen now! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Max and Nathaniel are back to tackle one of the most buzzed-about horror movies of 2022: Smile. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Debut horror author Brian McAuley joins Nathaniel in a discussion of his hit meta-slasher novel The Curse of the Reaper. Then the pair dig into what is in many ways THE prototype for meta horror in film, Wes Craven's New Nightmare. It's a bloody good time! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We discuss Jordan Peele's Nope, a film about aliens that we felt pretty meh about, but for interesting and discussion-worthy reasons! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Happy Halloween from the Scream Kings! As your spooktacular treat, we invited Ben Rock and Bob DeRosa, whose previous work included the Tarot Award-winning Video Palace, to talk about their just-released Audible audio horror drama, Catchers! Check out this episode and then check out Catchers! Here's a link to Catchers: https://www.audible.com/pd/Catchers-Audiobook/B0BJRVB8MB Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

The Scream Kings are celebrating the 5 year anniversary of the podcast by discussing one of our all-time favorite horror films/novels: Rosemary's Baby*. *The Scream Kings do not support Roman Polanski in any way, he's a terrible human being Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Check out our newest merchandise here: https://scream-kings-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

After a summer from Hell, we're back with a discussion of The Black Phone, both the delightfully creepy new film as well as the original Joe Hill short story! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

This episode is an absolute treat-- we have guests Jamie Flanagan and Rebecca Klingel, who wrote on the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manner, and Midnight Mass and upcoming Mike Flanagan Netflix series The Midnight Club and The Fall of the House of Usher. Additionally, Rebecca wrote the terrifying creepypasta Borrasca. They talk the horror genre, working in writer rooms, and are just delightful and insightful the entire episode! Apologies on the audio-- it gets a little off partway through the episode but it still very listen-able. Nathaniel may eventually get a version that's even more cleaned up. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We're back to talk about two recent horror/horror-adjacent Marvel viewing experiences, Moon Knight, and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness with special guest Mark Pettersson. Appropriate, since he's Max's partner and we recorded this episode on the first day of Pride month! So prepare yourself for lots of comic book nerdiness paired nicely with horror in this extra-long, extra-special episode! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We discuss 2019/2020 A24 horror film Saint Maud and the ways it subverts possession movie tropes. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Max, Nathaniel, and their friend Chiara Amato all read a horror book, the decadent and horrifying cosmic horror novella collection A Lush and Seething Hell by John Hornor Jacobs. Here are their thoughts on this brilliant novella 2-pack. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Max and Nathaniel saw The Batman and had thoughts ab0ut all of the interesting ways the film plays with horror tropes. And, Nathaniel being Nathaniel, he also wanted to share even more of his (honestly absurd) wealth of Batman knowledge to recommend other horror and horror-adjacent Batman stories. And then we talked about a bunch of c0mic book horror characters... Okay, this is a definitely one of our longest episodes. We regret nothing. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We chase down last episode's coverage of Scream and Scream (2022) with a discussion of the other three films in the series, focusing in on each sequel's strengths and weaknesses. Now we just need to get around to talking that MTV series... Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

At long last, years into doing this podcast, we finally cover one of our all-time favorites: Scream! Then we talk about its brand new sequel, Scream! You know, the 2022 one. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

It's our Christmas special episode, talking Gremlins 1 and 2... But because we talked about gremlins, we tempted fate, so this episode is very late. Audio files were lost, computers and refrigerators died... it was a whole thing. But regardless, we persevered and managed to bring this episode to you! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We didn't like Halloween Kills or Malignant, so we thought it only prudent to roast them to get out our negative feelings. Plus, an Amityville-themed B-Reel Game presents a new challenge for Max. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Max is back, this time with his brother Eric as his guest co-host! They talk the under-rated alien abduction horror film Dark Skies, so you kn0w it's a good time. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We're back with a thorough and very sincere discussion of Mike Flanagan's newest miniseries masterpiece, Midnight Mass. It's frankly a beautiful series, and we're obsessed, so get ready for us to foam at the mouth a little while we talk about how much we love it. It's the kind of piece that results in us talking about religion and spirituality and morality, not just spooky stuff, so buckle up. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We talk the Nia DaCosta-directed Candyman that recently hit theaters, then Nathaniel makes Max play one of the most cringe-inducing B-Reel Games yet! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Max and special guest Magda of The Weird Side of TikTok discuss some of her real-life scary stories including tales of the demonic, shadow men (and boys), an ornery old lady ghost, and even the Fae! Check out Magda's delightful TikTok account here: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRfGAjvW/ And, while you're at it, why not add Scream Kings as well? Max is an old man, but he's trying (and succeeding) to bring some interesting horror content to "The TikTok": https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRfGkfKA/ Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Scream Knight guest Andrew Scahill returns to talk to us about the Argentinian horror film that has gained a lot of traction since it was released, Aterrados (translation: Terrified/The Terrified)! We pick apart the way it serves as a meta-critique of American horror cinema while also standing on its own in a truly chilling way. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

This episode Max and Nathaniel dig into the 1982 Hooper/Spielberg collaboration Poltergeist! Then, in Max's Occult Corner, they discuss what exactly a poltergeist is! (Spoiler, not anything in the movie!) Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We are rejoined by listener-favorite guest R.R. Smith (first featured in episode 25), who shares with us more of her chilling experiences with the paranormal, this time in her new apartment in New Orleans! Check out Rachel's TikTok (featuring the videos referenced in our discussion) here: https://www.tiktok.com/@theebolaqueen?lang=en or her other awesomeness online at https://linktr.ee/theebolaqueen Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We received a very positive response to our horror board games episode, so we decided to go along a similar vein and share some of our favorite horror video games-- this episode we get into the Resident Evil and Silent Hill series, as well as Zelda: Majora's Mask, Until Dawn, and Dead by Daylight. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We finally dive back into the billion-dollar horror blockbuster franchise with our look at the newest Conjuringverse film: The Devil Made Me Do It. It has some issues. Let's just say if you aren't in the mood to listen to us tear apart the third Conjuring movie, then we blame Satan. That's right, the devil made us record this episode. Thankfully, at the very least, Max gives us a bunch more info about the actual Warren-related case that the film failed to go into. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Max and guest Josh Bragg discuss the excellent 2020/2021 (depending on where you look) reverse-exorcism film Anything For Jackson. Then Max flaunts his demonology knowledge by sharing some interesting facts about the demon prominently featured in the film. Also featured in this episode: deep moral quandaries about the theology of the demonic. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

This episode Max gets to use his knowledge of science to debunk Bigfoot! We also pick apart the famous Patterson-Gimlin Film, talk about more recent sasquatch evidence, then look at found footage horror film Willow Creek! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We tackle a whole new horror topic this episode-- horror board games! We give you our top 6 and then play another B-Reel Game! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Nathaniel sits down with the team behind the new genre indie press Weird Little Worlds, Willow Dawn Becker and Mike Cluff, and talks with them about their press, their upcoming horror anthology Humans Are The Problem, as well as some of our favorite pieces of horror short fiction and TV horror anthologies. Check out Weird Little Worlds' website, which includes a link to the Humans Are The Problem Kickstarter: https://weirdlittleworlds.com/ Check out the stories Mike referenced as being published through his previous press here: https://www.fictionvortex.com/2013/10/not-forgotten/ and https://www.fictionvortex.com/2013/10/buried-secrets/ Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

This episode we bring on guest expert James Grady to discuss the 2019/2020/2021 (depending on where you look) film The Vigil and talk about Judaism in horror, Jewish demonology, and other equally fascinating topics in that vein. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Nathaniel and Max decide to lighten things up with some laughs, hillbillies, and gratuitous gore by talking the 2010 horror comedy Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. Then Nathaniel subjects Max to his most ridiculous B-Reel game yet. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

V.P. Morris joins us again, this time to talk about her upcoming thriller novel ShadowCast, plus to discuss the Bundy biopic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. ...Pretty sure we got that title right, it's a long one that's easy to mix up. Books referenced in the episode: The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy - Elizabeth Kendall Columbine - Dave Cullen A Mother’s Reckoning - Sue Klebold Pre-order (or, depending when you're listening, just plain order) ShadowCast by V.P. Morris now! https://www.amazon.com/ShadowCast-V-P-Morris/dp/1684336384/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=shadowcast+vp+morris&qid=1613322195&sr=8-1 Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We're finally back, this time covering the Netflix original His House, which is Max's pick for best horror of 2020. Max then fills us in on the folklore of Apeths, and Nathaniel makes Max cringe with a new B-Reel Game about spider movies. Wanna check out the anthology Nathaniel was published in? https://www.amazon.com/Witching-Time-Night-Writers-Anthology-ebook/dp/B08M5MPS8T/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+witching+time+of+night&qid=1605758944&sr=8-1 Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

In true Scream Kings fashion, we're a little late with our Christmas episode covering the OG slasher film, Black Christmas! Then Nathaniel spoils Max's holiday cheer with a special Santa-themed B-Reel Game! Wanna check out the anthology Nathaniel was published in? https://www.amazon.com/Witching-Time-Night-Writers-Anthology-ebook/dp/B08M5MPS8T/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+witching+time+of+night&qid=1605758944&sr=8-1 Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We're finally back, days before Christmas, with our very late Thanksgiving episode! Nathaniel has a baby, okay? We talk Robert Egger's terrifying modern masterpiece The Witch! Max shares some witchy folklore in his Occult Corner, and Nathaniel introduces a new segment, The B-Reel Game! Wanna check out the anthology Nathaniel was published in? https://www.amazon.com/Witching-Time-Night-Writers-Anthology-ebook/dp/B08M5MPS8T/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+witching+time+of+night&qid=1605758944&sr=8-1 Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson B-Reel Game background music: Going Up by OllieTheBassist

Max and Nathaniel discuss three different takes on Henry James' classic horror novella Turn of the Screw-- the novella, the original film version, The Innocents, and finally The Haunting of Bly Manor Netflix series. There are... ups and downs. Wanna check out the anthology Nathaniel was published in? https://www.amazon.com/Witching-Time-Night-Writers-Anthology-ebook/dp/B08M5MPS8T/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+witching+time+of+night&qid=1605758944&sr=8-1 Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Nathaniel interviews horror writer and editor Elizabeth Suggs about her recent anthology, Collective Darkness, then talks other short horror fiction, horror video games, and even an anthology that both of them are being published in that is coming soon. Check out the Collective Darkness anthology now at https://www.collectivedarkness.com/ Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

After a lot of deep thought, Nathaniel came to a conclusion: Jaws is the perfect COVID-19/2020 horror movie. Listen, and find out why. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We welcome horror YouTuber Ivotres Littles to the podcast to talk about John Carpenter's The Thing... and everything else related to it, from other films, the original novella, a video game, comics, and more. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We're back with special guest Phil Faiss, online movie reviewer, Youtuber, and writer/star of a horror-themed memoir one-man-show. We discuss the 2020 Australian horror family drama Relic and how terrifying dementia is! You don't want to miss it! Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

Professor Andrew Scahill joins us once more to discuss one of the most important slasher films in horror history, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Then we talk about the killer who partially inspired the film, Ed Gein, and then talk about a video game that serves as a loving tribute to TCSM, Resident Evil 7. Check out our website for merchandise, social media, and more! www.screamkingspodcast.com Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

We mark our momentous 50th episode with by having special guest Professor Andrew Scahill, who has written a book on children in horror and teaches horror-related film classes at University of Colorado Denver. His scholarly insight blows our minds about Cabin in the Woods, plus a bunch of other horror movies and tropes while he's at it. Check out our merchandise at https://www.teepublic.com/user/screamkingspod Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson

After a brief hiatus we're back with an intense dive into one of our favorite cryptozoological creatures, the Mothman! We discuss the lore around this mysterious cryptid, The Mothman Prophesies film and book, and interview someone who briefly lived in Point Pleasant, WV, and met people who had encountered Mothman themselves! Check out our merchandise at https://www.teepublic.com/user/screamkingspod Intro/Outro music: Apex by Simon Mathewson