Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast

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Join John and Josh as they delve into the horror films they love, mysterious new releases, and horror’s unstoppable, ever-growing backlog of yesterfilms.

  1. 2D AGO

    127. Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997)

    What if some dude who liked to make people feel bad directed a home invasion film that he felt showcased important elements of what's wrong with society, but confused which thing was more important to him along the way, but still managed to make a near masterpiece in the process? That's not rhetorical, I'm asking you. Please tell me. If you aren't familiar with Funny Games, you might want to read up on it a little before diving in. The artistry is in the execution, not in the surprises. And, God damn, if it isn't artistic. You might be surprised by our ratings on this most Austrian episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast for people who want to get art but don't quite get art, so their sentences about how they feel about art just kind of trail off at the end. Description OVER!

    1h 29m

  2. FEB 1

    126. Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger (2023)

    Two drippy knuckleheads go on stiltingly at length about a movie about a variety of drippy knuckleheads doing stuff? Nah, just kidding! It's another scholarly deep dive into the overlooked marginalia and mise-en-scène hidden behind every frame of every shot of every horror film pretending not to be an exemplar of high art. That's right, it's Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast, and this time we're covering Macon Blair's 2023 remake of The Toxic Avenger, starring Naomi Watts!

    1h 12m

  3. JAN 18

    125. Fred Durst's The Fanatic (2019)

    What happens when a spoiled no-talent musician is told by his paid support network that he'd be great at making movies despite not actually being very familiar with cinema? You can a the Durstiest of all episodes of Loathsome Things: A Biscuit-limpening podcast wherein two old fat white dudes pretend to operate a podcast while complaining about things of no interest to listeners and also maybe talking about horror movies or something and somehow managing to be very insulting to everyone along the way while also forgetting to make a joke about how much better this movie would have been if Jonathan Davis directed it. That's right, take your green pill, mutha funkees, it's time to go American all over nobody's butt cheeks! Oh, and also read this award-winning poem by ICE-murdered poet and former human being Renee Good: On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

    1h 17m

  4. JAN 4

    124. Mario Bava’s Planet of the Vampires (1965)

    This one is basically a long episode of Star Trek with rad costumes, wild set design,  huge donut-with-a-bite-taken-out spaceships, and some gigantic alien cadavers of a long-lost species. Oh yeah, and a tuning fork. It's Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast IN SPACE!

    1h 3m

  5. 12/21/2025

    123. Gabe Bartalos’ Saint Bernard (2013)

    Gabe Bartalos gave us the Christmas gift that keeps on giving: a wild ride inside his traumatized dream-art. You got your dreamscape classics, boning a lady covered in bones, being rescued by stop-motion hair-stick-guys, wine-guzzling cigar cops, sexually abusive uncles with mega-demon pants-junk, Andy Jackson and Abe Lincoln teaming up against Benny Franklin to symbolize... maybe people with less money rising up and destroying the rich? Why did the man with no legs pour salt in the open wounds of the woman whose legs he just destroyed with his salt-delivery van? Join us for a freakishly muscular, if short, episode of Loathsome Things: A Podcast Trying to Understand Art Films, But Not Arthouse Films!... or something...

    1 hr

  6. 12/07/2025

    122. George A. Johnson’s Thy Neighbor (2018)

    It's our most Christ-centric episode of Loathsome Things since the great Christmas celebration of Mel Gibson's Passion! This time, we review a little crowd-funded Christian Thriller about a pastor, his church-wife, their small, creepy, non-church-going neighbor, and an actually surprising ending that... no one really knows what it means... and isn't that just the most God-like thing after all? Content Warning: profanity, heresy, blasphemy, rudeness, bad jokes, sin, and many more!

    1h 4m

  7. 11/23/2025

    121. Osgood Perkins’ Gretel and Hansel (2020)

    Before he was re-imagining Satanic Panic through the lens of a washed-up Cage-y rock star, Osgood Perkins was down for some woke re-telling of a fable so littered with bad horror movies, it's no wonder people didn't pay attention to this one. Here, we get a feminist Hansel and Gretel story with some BRON-tastic visual, a sprinkling of Jodorowsky-sky-sky inspo, and a nod to the "Potato Famine" being a wealth-induced massacre rather than the natural disaster people like to play it off as. It's the visually stunning, surprisingly short Gretel & Hansel on this fortnight's episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast for people on the spectrum!

    1h 4m

  8. 11/09/2025

    120. Amy Holden Jones’ The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

    A bunch of teenaged girls have a sleepover while other teenaged girls on the same street aren't invited. Who else isn't invited, you ask? Why, a slew of men! You've got creepy neighbors, peeping tom goons dry-humping each other while watching the girls change clothes, an insistent boyfriend with a glandular problem you can see, and, oh yeah, an escaped serial killer with a taste for denim and an enormous magic drill that doesn't compensate for anything, if you catch my drift. It's a less formulaic and maybe much worse episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast no one listens to, now featuring the meow meow styling of Rita Mae Brown's thirst for cat boobies.

    54 min
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