Untold Horrors Morbidly Beautiful

It’s a very special bonus episode of the Untold Horrors
podcast. Instead of mining the depths of Tubi for buried genre gifts, we’re wrapping the year with a rundown of our favorite holiday horror films — from essential classics to hidden gems to modern must-see movies.

In part two of our deep dive into Tubi's backwoods horror offering, we go searching for treasure only to find the lackluster 2018 American slasher/home invasions/survival horror He's Out There, directed by Dennis Iliadis using the Alan Smithee-like alias Quinn Lasher).



There may be a good reason Iliadis opted to remove his name from this film about a mother and her two young daughters getting terrorized by a masked maniac while vacationing at their remote lake house.



Having just celebrated Thanksgiving in America, we can tell you that it's not a complete turkey. But it's also kind of bland and unsatisfying in so many ways. It left us craving more. Listen as we slice and dice this strange bird.



Plus, stick around for our two bonus picks to see if 2016's campy queer slasher Pitchfork and 2007's teen haunted house slasher House of Fears end up being hot picks or if they leave us cold.

In part one of our deep dive into Tubi's backwoods horror offering, we take a chance on Butchers, a 2020 Canadian slasher film directed by Adrian Langley. It's about two sadistic brothers living in the backcountry who consider anyone who crosses their path to be dead meat.



While we were fully ready to roast this one, expecting it to be another horror hatchet job, we found ourselves delighted by its sadistic charms and warmed by its weirdness. This is one we were happy to carve up and serve to our fellow fans of backwoods/redneck horror. It's proof that Tubi does indeed have treasures worth mining.



Don't miss this episode; it sizzles!

We're mixing things up on the show! We've got a brand new format that we think is a lot more fun, and it allows you to play along with us. In this episode, listen along as we pick our Tubi films in real time. Find out what two main films will be unearthed for discussion and what two bonus films we chose for individual exploration. If you want to watch these films to avoid spoilers in our two-part deep dive, you can do so — or wait for us to tell you if each film is worth your time.



Be sure to stay to the end for a few backwoods horror recommendations, where we present some of our favorite underrated or underseen horror gems that are well worth checking out.



We hope you love the new format. Don't forget to tune into Part One and Part Two of this month's series, where we tell you if our Tubi picks turned out to be buried treasure or toxic waste.

Jamie and Steph go mining for Tubi treasures, exploring the world of school horror. 

We discuss the 2014 direct-to-DVD, ultra-low-budget slasher written and directed by the infamous Mark Polonia, CAMP BLOOD: FIRST SLAUGHTER, and the 2019 manga-adapted Japanese horror film SIGNAL 100 about a classroom of high school students hypnotized by their teacher and programmed to kill themselves when exposed to one of 100 sensory triggers. 

Do these blind picks pass the test, or are they complete failures?

Class is in session! Take your seats, and listen attentively as we get educated on more hidden Tubi horrors. 

Jamie and Steph go mining for Tubi treasures, exploring the world of infected horror — that’s horror films where someone (or many someones) gets infected by some kind of disease or plague, and nastiness ensues. 



Things get weird and icky as we determine if the 2015 Danish Horror film WHAT WE BECOME and the 2006 grindhouse oddity MAD COWGIRL are infectious delights or a plague upon viewers. 



Both films made us think and gave us plenty to dissect. One film is a beautifully made arthouse gem with heartbreaking gravitas. The other is an ode sleazeploitation and Asian trash cinema while still being surprisingly smart and subversive. 



Saddle up and prepare for a wild ride!