1986 // Directed by Fred Dekker // Starring Jason Lively & Tom Atkins

Bryan and Dave take a good long look at Fred Dekker's, Night of the Creeps and come away with a vastly different view of it than when they watched it as kids. It's a pastiche of 50's and 60's drive in tropes filtered through a 1980's horror movie lens but unfortunately hasn't aged well at all. Thankfully, Tom Atkins is here to save everything. Thrill me!

1978 // Directed by George Romero // Starring Ken Foree & Gaylen Ross

Bryan and Dave celebrate one year of podcasting with a real deep dive into George Romero's paradigm shifting zombie epic, Dawn of the Dead. In the history of horror movies, there are only a few movies that changed the way movies are made and viewed and this is one of them.

1981 // Directed by George Mihalka // Starring Paul Kelman & Neil Affleck

Dave and Bryan love you and have sent you this Valentine's Day love letter to 1981's Canadian slasher movie classic, My Bloody Valentine. Sure, it's another slice and dice picture from the golden age of slashers but not too many of them paid this much attention to the craft of telling a story.

1973 // Directed by Bill Gunn // Starring Duane Jones & Marlene Clark

Dave and Bryan celebrate Black History Month with a look at Bill Gunn's delirious 1973 vampire movie, Ganja & Hess, which stars Gunn, Marlene Clark, and Duane Jones from Night of the Living Dead. Often lumped in with blaxploitation movies like Blacula and Shaft, it is anything but.

1982 // Directed by Boaz Davidson // Starring Barbi Benton

Bryan and Dave are joined by Jonny and Aileen from the Uy Que Horror podcast for a maddening breakdown of the Cannon Films deep cut, X-Ray (aka Hospital Massacre), starring Barbi Benton as a woman who just needs to pick up her check-up results and spends the rest of the day running from a slasher.

1985 // Directed by Tom Holland // Starring William Ragsdale & Chris Sarandon

Bryan and Dave are joined this week by drag performer extraordinaire, Peaches Christ, to talk about the arch-80's vampire classic from 1985, Fright Night, starring William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, and Chris Sarandon (making his second appearance on the pod). It's an awesome movie that could have been even better for reasons we get deep in the weeds over.

1980 // Directed by Emmet Alston // Starring Roz Kelly & Kip Niven

Bryan and Dave kick off the new year and hit peak holiday horror movie burnout when they go deep with the 1980 slasher movie, New Year's Evil. More like a giallo than anything else, it seems to possess a profound misunderstanding of what audiences were expecting from a slasher movie and delivers some seriously silly murder setpieces.

1974 // Directed by Bob Clark // Starring Margot Kidder & Olivia Hussey

Bryan and Dave close out their holiday season series with a real deep dive into Bob Clark's masterpiece, Black Christmas. It's the prototype for the slasher movies that followed. It's a movie stuffed with a diabolical eye for detail and unbearable tension.

This week Bryan and Dave take a look back at Bring Me The Axe! year one and all the horror movies released in 2023. They run down the losers, the winners, and the just okay. Find out where all your favorite horror movies of this year landed and prepare to be outraged by hot takes and surprising reviews. Where did Scream 6 land? How do we feel about Skinamarink?

1984 // Directed by Charles Sellier // Starring Robert Brian Wilson & Lilyan Chauvin

This week, Bryan and Dave are joined by author, Joe Vallese, and hope that Santa will judge them to be good because they definitely don't want to get on his bad side as they dive head first into 1984's Santa slasher movie, Silent Night, Deadly Night.

1987 // Directed by Clive Barker // Starring Doug Bradley & Ashley Laurence

Bryan and Dave have such sights to show you! This week they are joined by the co-host of the Morbid podcast, Alaina Urquhart, a demon to some, angel to others, to dive deep into one of her favorite movies and a real top-shelf of the horror canon, Clive Barker's Hellraiser.

1987 // Directed by John Girssmer // Starring Louise Lasser & Mark Soper

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Bryan and Dave dive head-first into the wildly inconsistent shit show that is Blood Rage. Marvel at the utterly deranged performance from Louise Lasser. That's not cranberry sauce.

1989 // Directed by Jeff Mandel // Starring Dan Haggerty & Julie Austin

As we near the holiday season, Bryan and Dave darken your doorstep with the low-budget howling madness of 1989's Elves, a movie that under-delivers on elves and over-delivers on incest. If you've ever wondered what Jim Wynorski's version of Gremlins would be this one lands pretty close to the mark.

1980 // Directed by John Hough // Starring Lynn-Holly Johnson & Bette Davis

Bryan and Dave are joined by Teri Gamble of the Horror Movie Survival Guide podcast to talk about Disney's bizarro 80's period where they experimented with more mature films resulting in one of their most easily-forgotten titles, The Watcher in the Woods.

1978 // Directed by John Carpenter // Starring Jamie Lee Curtis & Donald Pleasance

Bring Me The Axe! concludes its exploration of the Halloween legacy just in time for Halloween with an epic-length love letter to John Carpenter, Debra Hill, and their landmark creation. Halloween represents a major paradigm shift in horror movie and sets the pace for every horror movie that came in its wake.

2007 // Directed by Rob Zombie // Starring Sheri Moon Zombie & Tyler Mane

This week, Bryan and Dave are joined by The Horror Chick, Heather Wixson to get grimy and talk about Rob Zombie's arch-2000's horror movie remake, Halloween.

1980 // Directed by Sean Cunningham // Starring Adrienne King & Betsy Palmer

Bryan and Dave square off against one of the all-time horror movie greats on the most appropriate calendar date of the year. It's 1980's Friday the 13th, a movie made by pornography producers looking to take away a little of that sweet Halloween money for themselves and accidentally set the pace for slasher movies in the 80's.

2018 // Directed by David Gordon Green // Starring Jamie Lee Curtis & Judy Greer

Bring Me The Axe! kicks off their month-long examination of the Halloween with David Gordon Green's 2018 series revision. It's a deeply flawed movie that's way better than you expect a Halloween sequel or remake to be and it reduces the series to its roots while whiffing on move than a few points.

1987 // Directed by Ruben Galindo, Jr. // Starring Jon Michael Bischof & Gabriela Hassel

Bryan and Dave take a trip to Mexico City to celebrate their favorite Ruben Galindo Jr. movie, Don't Panic. It's a blatant a cash-in on the success of Evil Dead and A Nightmare on Elm Street that has so many bizarre qualities to it that you can't help but love it.

1985 // Directed by Michael Rubbo // Starring Michael Hogan & Mathew Mackay

Bryan and Dave close out their What The Fuck?? series with a children's movie that terrorized an entire generation in Canada, The Peanut Butter Solution. It's a tale of loss and woe when a child loses his hair due to a terrible fright and deals with it poorly.

1976 // Directed by Dan Curtis // Starring Oliver Reed and Karen Black

Bryan and Dave are joined by actor, comedian, and made-for-tv movie expert, Sam Pancake to talk about Dan Curtis (of Dark Shadows fame) and his 1976 gothic horror melodrama, Burnt Offerings.

1973 // Directed by Ted Post // Starring Ruth Roman and Anjanette Comer

Bryan and Dave kick off their What The Fuck??? series with Ted Posts deeply troubling, alienating, and off-putting thriller, The Baby, from 1973.

1985 // Directed by Daniel Attias // Starring Corey Haim and Everett McGill

Bryan and Dave are joined by Julia Marchese to talk about the kids vs. werewolf picture that ended the Dino De Laurentis/Stephen King dynasty in the 1980's, Silver Bullet.

1986 // Directed by Stephen King // Starring Emilio Estevez and Laura Harrington

This week kicks Bring Me The Axe! takes on Stephen King's undisputed document of cocaine confidence, Maximum Overdrive from 1986. It's an ill-advised adaptation of his own short story, Trucks, that features a lot explosions, big trucks, and Yeardley Smith screaming.

1983 // Directed by Robert Hiltzik // Starring Felissa Rosa and Karen Fields

This week, Bring Me The Axe! heads to Camp Arawak to explore one of slasher history's most unhinged entries, Sleepaway Camp. Be advised, we spoil the twist ending that we spoil right from the get-go.

1981 // Directed by Joe Giannone // Starring Gaylen Ross and Tony Nunziata

This week Bring Me The Axe takes a look at 1981's Madman, a truly weird entry into the early 80's slasher canon. A cast of pleasant camp counselors at Thanksgiving Gifted Camp face off against an axe murderer.

1975 // Directed by Steven Spielberg // Starring Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfus

It's a holiday bonus episode for July 4th! Celebrating Steven Spielberg's landmark accomplishment and one of the all-time greatest movies, Jaws!

1932 // Directed by James Whale // Starring Boris Karloff and Ernest Thesiger

Bring Me The Axe closes out their Pride 2023 series with an enthusiastic love letter to James Whale's 1932 pre-code classic for Universal, The Old Dark House.

1986 // Directed by Richard Wenk // Starring Chris Makepeace and Grace Jones

Bring Me The Axe kicks off its Pride 2023 series with a mostly unremarkable movie that remains in the horror movie memory thanks entirely to contributions from gay artists, the 1986 horror comedy Vamp.

1982 // Directed by Mark Rosman // Starring Mark Rosman and Eileen Davidson

Bryan and Dave close out their School's Out series, taking a look at the 1982 slasher picture, The House on Sorority Row, from director Mark Rosman, a hidden gem of the genre that remarkably passes the Bechdel Test.

1981 // Directed by Jimmy Huston // Starring Cecile Bagdadi and Joel S. Rice

Bryan and Dave take a look at the 1981 slasher also-ran, Final Exam, a movie that should be stuffed down the horror movie memory hole were it not for its one secret weapon, a weirdo nerd character named Radish and his ongoing series of bizarre bon mots.

1981 // Directed by Joe Dante // Starring Dee Wallace and Patrick MacNee

Bryan and Dave break down one of the four werewolf movies released in 1981, Joe Dante's iconic The Howling. It's a wild ride made notable by its awesome special effects and dark comedic tone.

1977 // Directed by Michael Winner // Starring Cristina Raines and Chris Sarandon

Bryan and Dave take a look at 1977's The Sentinel. Ostensibly the most Catholic horror movie ever made, it's also about as paranoid as a horror movie can be. One damned soul, alone must stand watch over the gateway to Hell and Alison Parker is next in line.

1980 // Directed by William Lustig // Starring Joe Spinell and Caroline Munro

This week Bryan and Dave take a look at William Lustig's 1980 roughie, Maniac, starring Joe Spinell and Caroline Munro. Bryan also goes off on a long tangent about the time he met Tom Savini and how it haunted Savini for years.

1982 // Directed by Juan Piquer Simon // Starring Christopher George and Linda Day George

This week, Bryan and Dave take a look at the utterly deranged 1982 slasher picture, Pieces. This one has it all: Chainsaws, gratuitous nudity, buckets of blood, hysterical screaming, and THRILLING TENNIS ACTION! "It's exactly what you think it is."

1982 // Directed by William Asher // Starring Susan Tyrell and Jimmy McNichol

Campy doesn't even begin to cover this one. In what is becoming a disturbing trend at Bring Me The Axe, it's another story about inappropriate family love and the extent that a parent will go to keep their son close to them.

1982 // Directed by Damiano Damiani // Starring Jack Magner and Diane Franklin

In this inaugural episode, Bring Me The Axe dives headfirst into the sequel to the original Amityville Horror phenomenon, 1982's Amityville 2: The Possession. Perhaps the most Italian horror movie made in America at the time, it's a movie about a brother and sister and the really weird, totally inappropriate sexual chemistry between them. And then the haunted stuff happens.