Kill By Kill: Talking Horror Characters One Death At A Time We Write Good

It’s the movie that made America say, “Delta Rho Chi until the day that we die,” - and then America let it die immediately. That’s right, we’re submitting ourselves to the nearly forgotten charms of 1984’s THE INITIATION with the help of writer, comedian, and host of TV Guidance Counselor podcast, Ken Reid!! Along the way, we unpack bird explosion theories, the limits of stop drop & roll, how to take revenge by Hitler mustache, bad small-town gossip, connect this movie to Student Bodies, and place Refugee up against our best and worst slasher movie bands!! All this, plus we consider the pros and many cons of Ralph Boner, and play a confusing game of Choose Your Own Deathventure!! Feel the rush this week on Kill By Kill!! 

If we learned anything from this week’s film, it’s that the “gig economy” will kill you!! That’s right, we hook up with our old friends Radio Silence to discuss the new kiddy vampire flick, ABIGAIL!! Before we get fully rolling, we have a non-spoiler section for those who haven’t caught the film yet. Then we dive into movie theater etiquette, trailer reveals, blood explosions, severed head balancing, too many teeth problems, breaking on SNL, and we worship at the alter of “disturbingly sexy” Dan Stevens!! All this, plus Vampire Breakthrough, call for justice for Melissa Barrera, and bite into a juicy edition of Choose Your Own Deathventure!! And we have a bonus mini-episode at the very end of the show where we discover, in real-time, exactly what the movie TAROT is. We didn’t know, but now we do. That’s what we like to call growth. 

Tune In, Turn On, Burn In (ratings) Hell!! That’s right, we’re flipping the channel and tackling a new (-ish) flick this week as we slot LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL this week on Kill By Kill!! We start with a non-spoiler look at the movie for those who have yet to catch up before digging into all the most devilish of details, such as our aging roster of Weird Little Guys, endless production cards, terrible AI art, fantastic casting and set design, the value of bent spoon collecting, and comparing bad demonic deals - especially when held up to Lance Henriksen’s Atlanta basketball team wager in THE VISITOR!! You know, the Gold Standard of devil contracts!! All this, plus the hell of cleaning black bile, we compare and contrast this film with other direct broadcast horror efforts and the perfect “10 to 1” selection of Choose Your Own Deathventure!! Will Gena’s prediction of “serious pushback” to our options come true? Who gives a hoot? Only time will tell, Night Owls!!

You can’t believe everything that you see, but believe everything you hear as we close out Brian De Pal-May with an in-depth discussion of 1984’s BODY DOUBLE!! That’s right, we are digging deep into De Palma’s Rear Window meets Vertigo in the Adult Section of the video store riff, and we are making sure you’re along for the stalking - er, ride. Along the way, we talk butt recognition, intentional trash, Jamaican Bart Simpson, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, LA location spotting, and we finally talk about a subject we’ve rarely touched on: Craig Wasson!! All this, plus we expose the Happy Fisherman, question dog motivations, and peek in on an all-new edition of Choose Your Own Deathventure!! Live on the seedy side with us, won’t you?

Sometimes when we touch, the cataclysmic psychic connection is too much!! That’s right, we’re making this show move with our minds as we discuss 1978’s telekinetic terror THE FURY with Bloody Disgusting’s Meagan Navarro for Brian De Pal-May!! We’re looking to uncover the truth beneath the film’s horror novel origins, explore how the characters connect to the paranoid thriller’s of the time, evaluate bad mid-level spy agency managers, bad security protocol, Mother Knuckles worship, explode-o-heads, and why one character appears to be addicted to pole vaulting!! All this, plus Charles Durning as Professor XXL, load up some new potshots at Craig Wasson, and a bloody new edition of Choose Your Own Deathventure!!

If you’ve got a taste for terror, you have a date for our episode covering the 1976 classic CARRIE!! That’s right, Brian De Pal-May continues with the high school hell created by the pen of Stephen King - an explosive dance of teenage hormones, religious mania, and plenty of split-diopter lens shots!! Along the way, we dig into the backstory that brought this unlikely blockbuster to the screen and the Oscar stage, explore how adult inaction fosters the bad attitudes in this blackboard jungle, uncover the origins of the primordial King Bully, and expand on the class struggle within this telekinetic teen body horror story!! All this, plus crucifixion organisms, mid poetry, bad miracles, and a devastating edition of Choose Your Own Deathventure!! No stone goes unturned nor unthrown from the sky in this deep dive exploration into every major character in this Kill By Kill favorite!! Check it out!!