SlashU Podcast

We continued our "Slash-Yule" themed episodes for the most wonderful time of the year. This week we covered "Holiday Hell" from 2019. A shopkeeper tries to help a woman pick out a gift for her sister. As he takes her around his shop, he tells a different story about each of the eerie items up for sale. It's an anthology style frame story movie and it's very cool. Perfect for the Yuletide festivities. Enjoy!

For our next Slash-Yule episode of the season we're talking about "Christmassacre" from 2015 which shows up on some streaming platforms as "Secret Santa." Make sure you watch the right one or you won't understand our episode at all! This is the one from 2015 directed by Mike McMurran. The story follows a group of college students who just finished up some Final Exams. They are gathered together for a house party and a Secret Santa gift exchange. But someone has other plans. The students are gradually picked off and murdered right within the house! Who's doing it and why?

Well they can't all be winners. This week we're kicking off our annual holiday Slash Yule series of slasher movies. We started with one from 2020 that kind of falls flat, in our opinions. It's hard to image the director wasn't just trolling everyone with this movie. It's "The Fright Before Christmas" from 2020. When a magical, maniacal Santa Claus mysteriously appears at a holiday party, the guests all end up terrified and tortured. But the physical torture is only the beginning. This Santa also insists on telling them scary stories, which aren't scary at all and seem kind of pointless. So it's psychological torture too I guess. Anyway, we thought it had potential but missed the mark. We still had a lot of fun talking about it. Listen and enjoy!

We're joined by two very special guests this week for our Thanksgiving episode. We welcomed James Knight and Mike McCarty from The Head, the Tail, the Whole Damn Thing podcast. Here are several ways to look at their stuff:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-head-the-tail-the-whole-damn-thing/id1770582816https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX9jZDSn46cTUyY2AbSWQCz8dtQA0tu06Link iconListen NOW via Link treelinktr.ee/Thewholedamnthing13?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=8d525918-3d87-4931-b1e7-8387c105d228Link iconJoin and Listen via Patreon!www.patreon.com/TheWholeDamnThingLink iconListen on Spotifyopen.spotify.com/show/04sN411sK7OXsonaHoNfWn?si=L_HPs4QbQ6upxTILSl1COAhttps://www.instagram.com/thewholedamnthing13/The guys joined us to talk about their experience in the movie industry and generally nerd out about horror movies. Plus we talked about "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead" from 2006. Wow! What an all-over-the-place movie! The story centers around Arbie and his love interest Wendy. They get wrapped up in the drama around a new fast-food chicken restaurant that's opening its doors to some heavy protests. The restaurant is built on an old Native American burial ground. And everyone knows that's a recipe for some haunted chicken. We had a blast picking it apart and hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving listening to us!

Welcome back to another fun episode of SlashU. This week we jumped back to cover a sequel to a movie we discussed a long time ago on the podcast; "Slumber Party Massacre." It felt wrong that we had not covered part two when we try to knock out sequels whenever we can here on the show. So this week we bring you the delayed but not forgotten "Slumber Party Massacre II" from 1987. With some references to the first one, this one cranks up the gore but also left us wondering, "was it all a dream?" Take a listen and let us know what you think.

This week we covered our first slasher movie made in New Zealand. It's straight out of 2021 and it's called "Buzz Cut." When a group of friends who call themselves a Running Club (but they use it as an excuse to get drunk) find themselves in 'the bush' up against a killer in a beekeeper uniform, it's a race against time to see who can make it out alive. Anytime a killer uses a beekeeper outfit and a chainsaw, you can sign us up to watch!

On this week's episode we jumped back to 1981 and covered an Australian movie called "Lady, Stay Dead." The story centers around handyman and serial killer Gordon Mason. He's obsessed with the actress/music superstar Marie Coleby. He takes care of the grounds around her remote Australian estate. Things go off the rails when Marie rejects Gordon's advances. Next thing you know, her sister Jenny comes to visit and has to contend with Gordon's psychosis. It's an interesting movie and we've watched and recorded our thoughts her for you! Enjoy!

On this week's podcast we covered "The Barn" from 2016. It's made in 2016 but set in 1989. We follow the story of Sam and Josh and their friends as they travel to a Halloween night rock concert. They get detoured to the town of Wheary Falls and stop near a barn at the local pumpkin patch. But the group accidentally unleashes a terrifying triple threat of demons in the form of The Miner, The Pumpkin Man, and The Scarecrow. Our gang of teens need to find a way to escape the horror, save the town, but they might miss their rock concert. Let us know what you think!