321 episodes

In each episode, Patrick Hamilton and Gena Radcliffe unpack all the gory details of horror cinema's least discussed topic: the characters. From Friday the 13th to Nightmare on Elm Street and beyond, our mission is to detail each hack, slash, and decapitation in the hopes that a victim's untimely end is just the beginning of the jokes we can make about them.

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

    • TV & Film
    • 4.8 • 219 Ratings

In each episode, Patrick Hamilton and Gena Radcliffe unpack all the gory details of horror cinema's least discussed topic: the characters. From Friday the 13th to Nightmare on Elm Street and beyond, our mission is to detail each hack, slash, and decapitation in the hopes that a victim's untimely end is just the beginning of the jokes we can make about them.

    Kill The Video Star - Krokus' Screaming In The Night

    Kill The Video Star - Krokus' Screaming In The Night

    We’re getting metal AF this week as we discuss the Mad Max and Ren Faire-infused music video for Krokus’ SCREAMING IN THE NIGHT!! Along the way, we explore modern dance funerals, interdimensional trap spaces, spindly crucifixion, delicious scrapple, post-apocalyptic hustle culture, King Pluto, the variable powers of blue lightning, and the unavoidable difficulties of making out through jail bars!! All this, plus an appearance by Barf, a rockin’ version of Choose Your Own Diner Menuventure, and we start building our #GetBunked rule book after seven years of the show!! Here’s a sneak peek: dogs can play basketball. So kick out the jams - and a random guy’s patty melt - with us today!!

    • 29 min
    The Lost Boys (1987)

    The Lost Boys (1987)

    Sleep all day. Podcast all night. It’s fun to listen to Kill By Kill as we get a taste for a true vampire flick classic and talk 1987’s THE LOST BOYS!! Join us as we cruise the “murder capital of the world” for the sexiest Tiger Beat-ready bloodsuckers ever to grace the silver screen!! Along the way, we talk about the film's rocky journey to theaters, Santa Clara’s wild music scene, the town’s laze-faire attitude towards its missing kid problem, the golden age of cool video stores, and one of the best horror movie bedrooms we’ve ever covered!! All this, plus a Choose Your Own Deathventure bound to give plumbers nightmares, and we tackle the conundrum of kid vampires in cinema!! Take flight with 80s horror classic and us today!!

    • 1 hr 31 min
    This Is Spinal Tap (w/ Becky Wilson)

    This Is Spinal Tap (w/ Becky Wilson)

    *You know our philosophy by now: podcast a good time, all the time! That’s why we’re converting this episode of Kill The Rock Star into a celebration of one of our favorite death-filled comedies of all time, 1984’s THIS IS SPINAL TAP!! Here to help us go to 11 is Returning Champion Becky Wilson!! We’re giving the Tap the full Kill By Kill treatment, breaking down every character’s green skeleton, foil-covered cucumber, Saucy Jack dreams, and ability to get 17 people into a single King Leisure bed!! We go deep into how this seminal mockumentary shaped our sense of humor, the difference between stupid and clever, the Fluffkin and Fleckman effect, and briefly recount the time we were taken to dinner by a self-described “serial killer.” All this, plus the most explosive Choose Your Own Deathventure of all time, so make sure to put Kill By Kill first and “Puppet Show” second as soon as this hits your podcast feed people!! 



    *Derek Smalls wrote this.

    • 1 hr 3 min
    KBK After Dark: Embrace of the Vampire (w/ BJ Colangelo)

    KBK After Dark: Embrace of the Vampire (w/ BJ Colangelo)

    An undying love. A forbidden curse. Some weirdo just hanging out in a college clocktower, negging you in class. That’s right - we’re combining our Vampire series with After Dark to bring you a cornerstone of the “I’m a teen star who wants to be taken seriously” genre in 1995’s EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE!! Here to take us to school about this pinnacle of blouse-shedding cinema is writer, co-host of This Ends At Prom, and now Returning Champion BJ Colangelo!! After Patrick apologizes for never being able to pronounce anyone’s last name, we dig into what makes these characters tick: horniness! That’s it. That’s the character trait. Along the way, we talk Red Fang Diaries, awkward neck bites, Draculau Ballet, Jennifer Tilly worship, introduce #GetAnhkd, and dumb nerds who need to make it weird!! All this, plus a net-enhanced version of Choose Your Own Deathventure, and we get another character who is telegraphed as sexy via beret!!

    • 1 hr 28 min
    KBK After Dark: The Hitchhiker "Shattered Vows"

    KBK After Dark: The Hitchhiker "Shattered Vows"

    The thumb might be out, but don’t take that as approval! We watched the pilot episode of HBO’s The Hitchhiker and get taken for a real ride as we talk old-world curses, modern hair helmets, Dune grandmothers, un-sexy step-sister fantasies, and just openly thirst after Bruce Greenwood and his visible dong (look for it)!! All this, plus we bask in the afterglow of post-funeral sex, play a smashingly good game of Choose Your Own Deathventure, and warn against participating in sexy times near talking birds!! Hop in if you dare!!

    • 37 min
    KBK After Dark: Body of Evidence (w/ Tess Rafferty)

    KBK After Dark: Body of Evidence (w/ Tess Rafferty)

    Hear ye, hear ye - sex court is now in session!! The (not quite so) honorable Kill By Kill After Dark presides over a movie that could only legally happen in 1993's BODY OF EVIDENCE!! Here to help us prosecute this case is TV writer and author of the Kat Kelly Mystery series, Tess Rafferty!! As evidence, we present arguments against the idea of berets being sexy, caucasian acupuncturists, nipple clamp confusion, spiking your Afrin, and the best/worst line of the movie, “Have you ever watched animals make love, Frank?” All this, plus BDSM for Beginners, a sensual version of Choose Your Own Deathventure, and the worst court gallery ever gathered on film!! The candlewax is hot and… gosh, we wish the rest of this movie was.

    • 1 hr 26 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
219 Ratings

219 Ratings

FabulousMelB ,

So so so good!!!

I discovered this podcast about a year ago, and have been bingeing episodes from the beginning like crazy. I love it so much! If you aren’t listening, then you’re missing out! 5 stars! As requested, I will say that my favorite Stephen King novels are The Green Mile, and It. Keep up the good work, Kill By Kill!

StruggleScorpio ,

Honestly obsessed…

I wanted to leave a review because these guys are genuinely, both two of the funniest and most entertaining people I’ve listened to. I’m literally watching every movie I haven’t seen after the third one so I can appreciate the episodes better and their excellent takes. I will say though, I do personally enjoy Ethel and Junior as characters in Pt V, I’ve always wanted to see an adaptation of Emmett Otter Jug Band Christmas with a Rob Zombie’s Halloween edge so that was cool! My favorite kill in the franchise is probably from one of the worst movies, the liquid nitrogen frozen face gag! If I had to choose a deathventure, I’m choosing Brenda from Pt 1, she clearly moves after going through the window, which makes her an unknown survivor so Jason didn’t even think to…do a Google Maps search for her? Anyways, Patrick and Gena, thanks for being awesome, and making my work days fly by. I appreciate y’all so much!

Teriac ,

Fantastic

A loving look at the genre, excellent guests who always entertain. I love finally finding a podcast with hosts of my age, I feel like the pop culture references are tailor made for me! ;)

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