Fried Squirms Horror Movie Podcast

Sometimes, especially when viewing horror films, you'll find a movie that rocks you so hard you just can't finish it. The Terror overtakes you and you just nope on out of there. Sometimes you find that movie when you are 5 years old. Join us this week as we jump into the Horror/Comedy ERNEST SCARED STUPID, the very first time that Tyler has ever managed to finish it...and listen to why the boys now find it disturbing for a slightly other reason. Trolls, Catwoman, and even Killer Klowns also all abound (at least in our discussion) in this fine early 90s horror/comedy based off an advertising character.

Sometimes, living out here in the West, life can be slow and hard. You put in lots of time and effort repeatedly doing all the things necessary to scrape a living off the land. The payoff? Getting to live in such a bounteous and beautiful place. The Fried Squirms this week ventured into the western/horror BONE TOMAHAWK and find it to be much the same. Although at times sloggy with things to make sure it's recognizable as a western, the payoff...a beautiful horror movie well worth the watch. Hear our full thoughts in the episode!

In today's episode we try something new. After doing over a year's worth of recommending movies and talking about what we liked, it was time to find out what our friends can actually handle. To that end we went out, made a friend, and sat him down in front of 2008's MARTYRS and asked him to give a hot take. This is his account after becoming a witness.

A Puritan family is banished to the frontier only to be tested by evil itself. In hindsight it's obvious the Fried Squirms should have been all over this movie, in reality it took a recommendation from a friend and the need to fill a week when we had to bump other plans, and all we can say about it is Thank Satan! This week the Squirms gush about this beautiful film, break down some points of Calvinism, and possibly put a new spin on it all.

In 1981 David Cronenberg made a man's head explode and forever left a blood stain on the fabric of pop culture. In 2018 Tyler's head then explodes upon realizing that was all he had ever seen. Then, in 2018 (20 hours later) Tyler makes Danny's head explode with the reveal that we've been down this same journey 1000 times before, even out in the stars, just this time it's a little darker...

A fiancee brutally murdered. A secret agent's quest for revenge. A relentless killer. And most importantly, Tyler being able to cross this off his 'to watch list'. The Fried Squirms this week look into an intensely violent and dark revenge tale from South Korea. After this bloody showdown the boys can truly say 'I SAW THE DEVIL'.

This week the Squirms sink our teeth deep into another one. 1999's RAVENOUS seemed to slip under the radar at the time, but we've always found it to be something special, a movie on the edge of greatness. So when a cowardly Wendigo runs into another out on the frontier, how will their showdown end? After all... "It's lonely being a cannibal; tough making friends." BONUS! Music by Michael Nyman (THE PIANO) and Damon Albarn (BLUR, GORILLAZ)

This week the Fried Squirms decide to kick it old school and start the new year off on the right flipper with the classic CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. Listen in as the boys finally get to talk classic Universal, marvel at a science-first America, and probably assume a bunch about a different movie that neither of us has seen.

A holiday treat for you all! Family memories, visitors, the birth of a child on Christmas...what could be more perfect? Probably anything else. Fried Squirms returns with an extreme tale of home invasion from France. A newly widowed pregnant woman has a stranger come calling on Christmas Eve and the carnage that follows is sure to wipe to saccharine sweetness of the season from every mouth.

This week the Fried Squirms take a week away from horror to celebrate making it 50 episodes in! Our friend Jesse comes on to help us re-hash the origins of the show, play games, and talk about some of our favorite (and not so favorite) things we've done so far! From the King of Cartoons, to way too many shrooms, this show is truly a look into how it all started. THANK YOU ALL for helping this happen and we can't wait to continue bringing you some of our favorite horror!

Finally! This week the boy's get around to another legend in horror, and one of Danny's faves, with their breakdown of Dario Argento's OPERA. As a killer starts terrorizing the set and star of The Scottish Opera, the Squirms squeal with joy in all the rabbit-holes they get to go down in regards to this movie. From Phantom, to metal, to british comedy, it all relates back somehow in this latest episode of Fried Squirms!

It's another week back at the office for the Fried Squirms. Red pencil, red stapler, red monitor....oh wait, that's just blood. THE BELKO EXPERIMENT highlights how truly cutthroat an office setting can be when the right conditions are put in place. So come on in and get its performance review straight from the Fried Squirms!

This week of Fried Squirms presents to you a very special episode. In order to take on the grandiosity of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING we needed a guide and realized nothing would suffice but the movie itself. So we gathered TWO new in-studio guests (artist/musician/inspiration PK, and Reiley of music podcast Into the Echo), turned the movie on, and then blathered on over the top of it. So sync up your own copy of THE SHINING and listen along as we stumble into beautiful and dark revelations of the film and share great laughs over images of genocide and phalluses.

This week the Fried Squirms bring you a tale of two brothers and their struggling single father. Unfortunately for the boys' psyches what their father is struggling with is his next victim. Father killing demons could confirm the identity of a new killer, but it certainly identifies a movie that causes the boys to go Cruising through a number of topics, all while being blown away by Bill Paxton's directorial debut!

This week on Fried Squirms we answer a challenge. Re-watch Halloween III after verbally lambasting it not too long ago. Now the Squirms break down how exactly they survived that ordeal and try to answer the eternal question of this movie...is it any good?