Shudder Buddies

In celebration of THE ORIGIN OF EVIL (Katie's birthday), we're talking about one of Katie's favorite movies: From Dusk Till Dawn! We talk about the big twist, the joys of practical effects, and the fact that Sex Machine is CLEARLY a trans man. Cyrus will accept no alternatives. 

Brutality: 3

Aesthetic: 4

Scariness: 1

Horniness: 4

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It's always a bummer when a movie that bills itself as a queer and transgender film is not nearly as good as the reviews might lead you to believe—especially when it was also directed by an 18-year-old. Luckily Cyrus is trans and Katie hates teens, so they're both here to set the record, erm, straight. Cyrus talks at length about their complicated feelings on how queer representation is handled in movies, and Katie says "GENDAFLUID!" in the Chucky voice. 

Brutality: 2

Aesthetic: 0

Scariness: 0

Hornyness: 0

Total rating: 10%

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For your listening pleasure today we have The Babadook (2014), a highly regarded Australian horror film that asks the hard questions like: Is unexamined grief likely to turn us into a monster even those closest to us don't recognize? Or are children just The Worst? And am I rocking this top hat???

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Starting of the B's strong with french body horror film Baby Blood (1990), a gory pregnancy horror film that has titties covered in blood AND strong feminist themes! It kind of whips. This movie has everything: a squid driving a bus, an exploding leopard, carjacking the bloodmobile, and a guy named Roger Placenta. 

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We did it! We finished the A's! This week, Cyrus and Katie sit down to wrap up the first letter of Shudder's alphabet - we BASH the entire category, remark upon our highs and lows (here's lookin' at you, 825 Forest Road), and look forward to a future full of Blood. 

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This week, Cyrus and Katie cover Azrael (2024), a movie we've seen before and didn't really care for, but we won't let that stop us from shitting all over it for twenty minutes of our precious lives for your listening enjoyment. Azrael is a movie with a gimmick it doesn't deserve, a lead actress who is Better Than This, and a goat baby. We've also reached the end of the A's, which is huge!!! 

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This week, Cyrus and Katie take a brief diversion from Shudder movies to go see Obsession (2026), which is just so so so so good. Please go see it.  A really well done and remarkably written/acted take on the "careful what you wish for trope", with one of the best performances of the year so far. Also mentioned are Katie being called out for misremembering a book, Cyrus being called out for getting crunk in the movie theater, and both of us being called out for loving feel-bad movies. 

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In this episode, we watch The Autopsy of Jane Doe, where the main antagonist is a motionless corpse and in which Bryan Cranston DOES NOT STAR, but there is an avant-garde version of this movie where Walter White suddenly starts having a very bad time. 

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This week, Cyrus and Katie tackle Attachment (2022), a Danish/Jewish/queer horror/romance (that's a lot of slashes) that begs the question: can a mother be too overprotective if her child is possessed by an evil spirit? Our sources say yes, but only if it interferes with her U-Haul Lesbian Dreams.

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Heeeeeeeello buddies and welcome to SHARK WEEK - no, wait, shark DAY, the day we watch a really bad shark movie and complain about it. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged asks the question "what if a bunch of scantily clad teenagers were in a submerged Mayan city and also a shark was there and the shark was blind" which is kind of a hat on a hat, or maybe a hat on a shark. 

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