Oh, the Horror! with Sam and Sarah

Sam Pancake, Sarah Burns, & Meika Grimm
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Oh, the Horror! with Sam and Sarah is your weekly podcast haunt for HORROR. Hosted by Sarah Burns and Sam Pancake (actors, comedians, fiends and friends) Oh, the Horror! is equal parts film review, personal story and wildly dramatic reenactments splattered with the signature brand of ghoulish comedy that only Sam and Sarah can conjure! After a quick turn as co-stars on one horror of a film shoot, Sam and Sarah discovered that they loved horror films as much as the sound of their own voices. Soon afterwards… Oh, the Horror was born - a baby as charming as Rosemary's and as delightful as Damien Thorne! From folk-horror to slasher, Giallo to Jigaideki or gothic-thriller to cult, you are cordially invited to join Sam and Sarah as they take a weekly deep dive into the horror films that you know and love or have yet to be terrorized by! Come for the scares, stay for the laughs. Oh, the Horror! It's Scary-Funny!

  1. 19h ago

    The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)

    What do you get when you combine two legendary witches, the Brady Bunch mom, KISS, and America's sassiest Hollywood Squares center square? Apparently, the most gloriously unhinged Halloween special ever broadcast on television. Surprise! It's a special Halloween bonus episode of Oh, the Horror!, and Sam Pancake and Sarah Burns are celebrating with a watch-along of the wonderfully bizarre The Paul Lynde Halloween Special! Originally broadcast on October 29, 1976, this spectacularly campy television event stars Paul Lynde alongside Margaret Hamilton, reprising her role as the Wicked Witch of the West, Billie Hayes as Witchiepoo, Florence Henderson, Betty White, Tim Conway, and since apparently it wasn't strange enough: KISS! Expect questionable musical numbers, outrageous costumes, terrible jokes, and enough 1970s television chaos to make you wonder how this ever made it onto network TV. So grab your favorite Halloween treats, cue up the special, and join Sam and Sarah for a delightfully ridiculous trip back to 1976. It's a Halloween treat that's equal parts spooky, silly, and completely fabulous! Happy Halloween from Oh, the Horror! 🎃 SHOW LINKS Oh, the Horror! Instagram Oh, the Horror! Patreon SAM PANCAKE X / Twitter Instagram Cameo SARAH BURNS Instagram Linktree Cameo This episode was engineered & produced by: MEIKA GRIMM Website Instagram

    The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)

  2. Oct 23

    Evil Dead (1981)

    Five friends, one cabin, a creepy old book, and absolutely nobody making a good decision. What could possibly go wrong? On this episode of OH, THE HORROR!, Sam Pancake and Sarah Burns head into the woods for Sam Raimi's 1981 cult classic, THE EVIL DEAD, joined by special guest Meika Grimm! THE EVIL DEAD (1981) Original Premiere: October 15, 1981 U.S. Theatrical Release: April 15, 1983 Budget: Approximately $375,000 Bruce Campbell stars as Ash Williams, who heads to a remote cabin in the Tennessee woods with his girlfriend Linda (Betsy Baker), his sister Cheryl (Ellen Sandweiss), and their friends Scotty (Richard DeManincor) and Shelly (Theresa Tilly). What starts as a relaxing getaway quickly turns into a nightmare when the group discovers an ancient book and a tape recording that unleashes demonic forces. As the evil spreads and the group begins turning on one another, Ash finds himself fighting for survival against possessed friends, angry trees, and an alarming amount of bodily fluids. Written and directed by Sam Raimi and produced by Robert Tapert, The Evil Dead became a cult horror phenomenon thanks to its outrageous practical effects, inventive camerawork, and a whole lot of fake blood. Joining Sam and Sarah is special guest Meika Grimm, a Los Angeles-based audio engineer, video producer, and technology specialist who works across film, live entertainment, and experimental music. When she's not behind a mixing console or running video for a live production, she's probably watching horror movies, collecting something obscure, or finding another piece of equipment she absolutely doesn't need. So grab your boomstick (wrong movie, we know), stay out of the cellar, and join Sam, Sarah, and Meika for a trip to one of the most infamous cabins in horror history. SHOW LINKS OH, THE HORROR! Instagram Patreon SAM PANCAKE X / Twitter Instagram Cameo SARAH BURNS Instagram Linktree Cameo This episode was guest starred, engineered & produced by: MEIKA GRIMM Website Instagram

    Evil Dead (1981)

  3. Oct 16

    Poltergeist (1982)

    A beautiful home, a loving family, and a backyard full of corpses. Just another day in Reagan's America. They're heeeere! This week on OH, THE HORROR!, Sam Pancake and Sarah Burns are taking a trip to the suburbs for the 1982 supernatural horror classic POLTERGEIST! POLTERGEIST (1982) Theatrical Release: June 4, 1982 Budget: $10.7 million Directed by: Tobe Hooper Written by: Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais & Mark Victor Produced by: Steven Spielberg & Frank Marshall Starring Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Beatrice Straight, and Zelda Rubinstein. The Freeling family seems to have it all: a beautiful suburban home, three kids, and a television that apparently gets excellent reception from the other side. When strange occurrences begin disrupting their peaceful home, things quickly turn from amusing to terrifying after their youngest daughter, Carol Anne, disappears into a supernatural dimension. With the help of paranormal investigators and a pint-sized medium named Tangina, the family must confront the terrifying forces lurking inside their home. Unfortunately, their property developer may have left out one very important detail about what was underneath it. Join Sam and Sarah as they revisit creepy clown dolls, murderous trees, questionable burial practices, and one of the most iconic haunted houses in horror history.  SHOW LINKS Oh, the Horror! Instagram: Follow the Show Patreon: Bonus Episodes & Exclusive Content Sam Pancake Instagram: @thesampancake X/Twitter: @jsampancake Cameo: Get a Personalized Video from Sam Sarah Burns Instagram: @sarahburnsme Linktree: Sarah's Links Cameo: Get a Personalized Video from Sarah This episode was engineered & produced by: MEIKA GRIMM Website: MeikaGrimm.com Instagram: @meikagrimm

    Poltergeist (1982)

  4. Oct 9

    The Exorcist (1973)

    In 1973, audiences discovered that the only thing scarier than the devil was a little girl with absolutely no filter. This week on OH, THE HORROR!, Sam Pancake and Sarah Burns take on William Friedkin's 1973 horror classic, THE EXORCIST. Grab your holy water, keep a bucket nearby, and prepare for a little quality time with the devil. THE EXORCIST (1973) Theatrical Release: December 26, 1973 Budget: Approximately $12 million Director: William Friedkin Written by: William Peter Blatty Actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) is living in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., with her 12-year-old daughter Regan (Linda Blair) when some very strange things start happening around the house. Regan begins behaving erratically, using very foul language, and displaying some rather alarming physical symptoms. After a parade of doctors, medical tests, and psychiatrists fails to explain what's happening, Chris begins to suspect that her daughter might have a problem that modern medicine can't fix. Enter Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller), a Jesuit priest struggling with his own faith, and Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow), an experienced exorcist who has encountered this particular evil before. Together, they attempt to save Regan from a demonic presence that has absolutely no intention of leaving quietly. Based on William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel, THE EXORCIST also stars Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, and Jack MacGowran. The film became a cultural phenomenon, earned ten Academy Award nominations, and won two Oscars. Its disturbing imagery, groundbreaking makeup effects, and notorious production stories helped cement its reputation as one of the most terrifying movies ever made. And yes, the bedroom was actually refrigerated to make the actors' breath visible, Linda Blair's demonic voice was provided by Mercedes McCambridge, and that infamous head-spinning scene is still one of horror cinema's most recognizable moments. So put away the Ouija board, stay out of Georgetown, and join Sam and Sarah for a movie that made an entire generation reconsider their relationship with organized religion, antique furniture, and split pea soup. SHOW LINKS OH, THE HORROR! Instagram Patreon SAM PANCAKE X / Twitter Instagram Cameo SARAH BURNS Instagram Linktree Cameo This episode was engineered & produced by: MEIKA GRIMM Website Instagram

    The Exorcist (1973)

  5. Oct 3

    Rosemary's Baby (1968)

    Marriage, motherhood, Manhattan real estate, and Satan. Rosemary really does have it all. Proof that an affordable New York apartment has always required some kind of deal with the devil. On this episode of OH, THE HORROR!, Sam Pancake and Sarah Burns move into the Bramford for Roman Polanski's 1968 classic, ROSEMARY'S BABY. ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) Theatrical Release: June 12, 1968 Budget: Approximately $3.2 million Mia Farrow stars as Rosemary Woodhouse, a young woman who moves into a beautiful old New York apartment with her struggling actor husband Guy (John Cassavetes). Their new neighbors, Roman and Minnie Castevet, are a little pushy, a little strange, and very interested in Rosemary's plans to start a family. After Guy's career suddenly takes off and Rosemary becomes pregnant following one deeply disturbing night, things around the Bramford get weirder. Rosemary grows increasingly suspicious of her neighbors, her doctor, and eventually her own husband as everyone around her insists that everything is perfectly normal. Based on Ira Levin's 1967 novel, Rosemary's Baby also stars Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Patsy Kelly, and Charles Grodin. Gordon won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the aggressively helpful Minnie Castevet. So grab a glass of tannis-root-flavored whatever-the-hell-that-is, avoid accepting desserts from the neighbors, and join Sam and Sarah as they revisit one of the most influential horror films of the 1960s. SHOW LINKS OH, THE HORROR! Instagram Patreon SAM PANCAKE X / Twitter Instagram Cameo SARAH BURNS Instagram Linktree Cameo This episode was engineered & produced by Meika Grimm. MeikaGrimm.com

    Rosemary's Baby (1968)

  6. Sep 19

    Don't Look Now (1973)

    It's episode lucky number 13 and we are packing our bags for Venice, where the canals are beautiful, the grief is crushing, and following a mysterious little figure in a red coat is an absolutely terrible vacation activity. This week, Sam and Sarah take on Nicolas Roeg's deeply unsettling Don't Look Now. DON'T LOOK NOW Theatrical Release Date: December 9, 1973 (U.S.) Budget: Approx. $1.5 million Directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted from the short story by Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now stars Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as John and Laura Baxter, a married couple attempting to rebuild their lives after the accidental death of their young daughter. The two travel to a cold, off-season Venice, where John is working on the restoration of an old church. But their attempt at moving forward takes a decidedly supernatural turn when Laura encounters two elderly sisters, one of whom is a blind clairvoyant who claims she can see the spirit of their dead daughter. John is skeptical — naturally, because nothing bad has ever happened to the skeptical husband in a horror movie — but soon he begins experiencing strange visions of his own, including repeated glimpses of a small figure in a familiar red coat disappearing through Venice's twisting streets and canals. What follows is less a traditional ghost story than a haunting meditation on grief, memory, fate, and the terrifying possibility that the universe may actually be trying to warn you — and you're just really, really bad at taking the hint. Roeg turns Venice itself into something sinister and dreamlike, using fractured editing, recurring images, flashes of red, and a deliberately slippery sense of time to make the audience question what has already happened, what's happening now, and what may still be waiting around the corner. So grab your raincoat, avoid any blind psychics bearing ominous messages, and whatever you do... if you see a tiny red coat darting down a dark Venetian alley, maybe just let that one go. Show Links: Oh, the Horror! Instagram Oh, the Horror! Patreon Sam Pancake on X Sam Pancake on Instagram Sam Pancake on Cameo Sarah Burns on Instagram Sarah Burns' Linktree Sarah Burns on Cameo Music & editing by Meika Grimm. Follow her on Instagram, or hire her for your audio/video/web needs. 😊

    Don't Look Now (1973)

  7. Sep 5

    The Howling (1981)

    The moon is full, the neighbors are horny, and the therapy is clearly not working. This week, Sam and Sarah sink their teeth into The Howling—Joe Dante's 1981 cocktail of trauma, serial killers, and sexual tension. THE HOWLING Theatrical Release Date: April 10, 1981 (U.S.) Budget: Approx. $1 million USD Directed by Joe Dante, The Howling stars Dee Wallace as Karen White, a television news reporter who helps police track down serial killer Eddie Quist, played by Robert Picardo. The encounter leaves Karen traumatized and unable to remember exactly what happened, so her therapist, Dr. George Waggner (Patrick Macnee), sends her and her husband Bill (Christopher Stone) to his secluded retreat known as "The Colony." Unfortunately, the locals are a little less group therapy and a little more full moon. Based on the 1977 novel by Gary Brandner, The Howling was written for the screen by John Sayles and Terence H. Winkless. Michael Finnell and Jack Conrad produced, with Pino Donaggio composing the eerie score. Dante and Sayles had previously worked together on Piranha, and the movie is packed with the kind of dark humor, genre references, and familiar character actors that would become trademarks of Dante's work. Much of The Howling was filmed in Northern California around Mendocino, with the Mendocino Woodlands standing in for the Colony and Russian Gulch State Park. Additional filming took place around Los Angeles and Lake Sherwood. And those creature effects are a huge part of why The Howling became a horror classic. Rick Baker was originally attached to create the werewolves but left the production to work on another little 1981 werewolf movie called An American Werewolf in London. The job went to his young protégé Rob Bottin, who created the film's elaborate practical transformations using prosthetics, mechanical effects, and puppetry. The Howling and An American Werewolf in London arrived just months apart in 1981, each offering its own versions of what a werewolf movie should be. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, and also check out our Patreon for a bonus 20 minutes of Sam and Sarah discussing this wild movie. Links below. Sources: IMDb, AFI Catalog, The Numbers Show links: Oh, the Horror! Official Instagram Oh, the Horror! Official Patreon Sam Pancake's X (formerly Twitter) Sam Pancake's Instagram Get a custom Cameo video from Sam! Sarah Burns' Instagram Sarah Burns' Linktree Get a custom Cameo video from Sarah! Music & editing by Meika Grimm. Follow her on Instagram, or hire her for your audio/video/web needs. 😊

    The Howling (1981)

  8. Aug 22

    Thirst (2009)

    Confession is open, and things are about to get bloody. This week, Sam and Sarah take on Thirst—a tale of faith, lust, murder, and one extremely thirsty priest. THIRST Theatrical Release Date: April 30, 2009 (South Korea) / July 31, 2009 (U.S.) Budget: Approx. $5 million USD Directed by Park Chan-wook, Thirst stars Song Kang-ho as Sang-hyun, a Catholic priest who volunteers for a medical experiment that goes very wrong. He dies, comes back to life, and discovers he's now a vampire. While struggling with his faith and his new thirst for blood, he falls for Tae-ju, played by Kim Ok-vin, the miserable wife of his childhood friend Shin Ha-kyun. Their affair quickly turns into a messy mix of lust, murder, jealousy, and some very bad decisions. The film was written by Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyung, loosely inspired by Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin. Park Chan-wook and Ahn Soo-hyun produced, with longtime Park collaborator Cho Young-wuk composing the score. The cast also includes Kim Hae-sook, Oh Dal-su, Song Young-chang, and Park In-hwan. Thirst was shot primarily in South Korea, including production in Incheon and Busan, with many interiors built as sets. Park deliberately made spaces like the hospital and Tae-ju's home feel cramped and claustrophobic, adding to the movie's increasingly unhinged mood. Park had been kicking around the idea for Thirst for nearly a decade and approached Song Kang-ho about playing the vampire priest years before the script was finished. Rather than using the usual vampire rules—garlic, stakes, crosses—Park focused more on bloodlust as a stand-in for desire, guilt, and obsession. The film premiered at Cannes in 2009, where it won the Jury Prize. Sources: IMDb, Wikipedia Show links: Oh, the Horror! Official Instagram Oh, the Horror! Official Patreon Sam Pancake's X (formerly Twitter) Sam Pancake's Instagram Get a custom Cameo video from Sam! Sarah Burns' Instagram Sarah Burns' Linktree Get a custom Cameo video from Sarah! Music & editing by Meika Grimm. Follow her on Instagram, or hire her for your audio/video/web needs. 😊

    Thirst (2009)
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Oh, the Horror! with Sam and Sarah is your weekly podcast haunt for HORROR. Hosted by Sarah Burns and Sam Pancake (actors, comedians, fiends and friends) Oh, the Horror! is equal parts film review, personal story and wildly dramatic reenactments splattered with the signature brand of ghoulish comedy that only Sam and Sarah can conjure! After a quick turn as co-stars on one horror of a film shoot, Sam and Sarah discovered that they loved horror films as much as the sound of their own voices. Soon afterwards… Oh, the Horror was born - a baby as charming as Rosemary's and as delightful as Damien Thorne! From folk-horror to slasher, Giallo to Jigaideki or gothic-thriller to cult, you are cordially invited to join Sam and Sarah as they take a weekly deep dive into the horror films that you know and love or have yet to be terrorized by! Come for the scares, stay for the laughs. Oh, the Horror! It's Scary-Funny!

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