Chillennial Horrors

Remember 1999? Y2K terrors, the dawn of a new millennium... and, for some reason, a load of horror movie remakes. In this first proper episode, Jonathan Hatfull and Sarah Dobbs revisit The Haunting and House On Haunted Hill, marvel at the audacity of setting up a production company just to remake William Castle movies, and try to find something good about The Fog.

And while we're on the topic of supernatural 2000s remakes, we also chat about Thirteen Ghosts, Ghost Ship, and The Amityville Horror. Buckle up, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

Music: Doors Of Skin by Complexi-Tales

We're baaaaaaaack! Yes, we know, and we're sorry, it's been ages, we've got loads of excuses. But let's just get straight to the movies. In our second episode focused on vampires and werewolves, we cover the meaner and less sexy side of the genre. We're talking Ginger Snaps: Unleashed (2004), 30 Days Of Night (2007), Let The Right One In (2008) and Daybreakers (2009). And there's not a single leather catsuit in sight!

Music: Doors Of Skin by Complexi-Tales

We've been avoiding it for about a year, but it's finally time for us to face our fears and revisit the zombie boom of the early 2000s! Join us as we relive our memories of 28 Days Later (2002), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Shaun of the Dead (2004), and Land of the Dead (2005). As always, spoilers for all of our main features abound, plus some chat about Anna and the Apocalypse (2017).

Have we come to terms with running zombies yet? What are our zombie survival plans? And what do zombies have to do with avocado toast? Have a listen, and then give us a tweet to @ChillennialHPod.

Music: Doors of Skin by Complexi-Tales

It's Friday the 13th and it's October, you know we had to get extra spooky!

This episode, Jonathan and Sarah investigate a string of movies that all reckon there's nothing scarier than the wardrobe in a child's bedroom after dark: we're talking Boogeyman (2005), Dead Silence (2007), and Insidious (2010), with bonus They (2002) and Darkness Falls (2003).

Mainly, we learned never to heckle ventriloquists...

Let us know what you thought of this episode on X (we're @ChillennialHPod) or via email ([email protected]).

It's a Chillennial Horrors double feature! We close out our Splat Pack series with the 00s horrors of Alexandre Aja and Greg McLean. Sarah and Jonathan brace themselves for the blood, the screaming, the mutant cannibals, the backpack killers and the killer croc of High Tension/Switchblade Romance (2003), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Mirrors (2008), Wolf Creek (2005) and Rogue (2007).

Does High Tension's twist still work, if it ever did? Are we here for the gruelling nastiness of breakdown horrors? What is going on with Kiefer Sutherland's performance in Mirrors? Why does Wolf Creek feel like such a different beast to Hostel? And why is it so satisfying when people get chomped by apex predators in movies?

Join us for this splattery movie marathon as we ponder whether Alexandre Aja gets better with age, discuss if Greg McLean is stuck in Wolf Creek forever, look back at what we've learned revisiting the Splat Pack movies, and talk about whether our views on the "torture porn" label have changed at all.

Music: Doors Of Skin by Complexi-Tales