A delicious episode where we discuss 2022's The Menu, directed by Mark Mylod. Topics covered include: Inspirations from real life horror show haute cuisine restaurants with enfant terrible chefs Eat the rich How Elon Musk is like Tyler How money corrupts creative professions Why this movie makes us think of Shakespeare and the opera Margot as Scheherazade Heads up: there is one swear word in this... but Tyler deserves it. Get your FREE Teen Horror Cast Stickers (while they last): http://stickers.teenhorrorcast.com ..read more

Finally we have enough of the classic films under our belt to turn in a solid review of SCREAM! How does a 2022 teen feel about the 1996 high schoolers from Woodsboro? Find out this and more including: Why we loved Matthew Lillard’s performance! Dewey Dewey Dewey! The secret origin of the Teen Horror Podcast! We also get serious with a discussion of how we feel about horror movies after some real life horror experiences (a school shooting). We provide skip ahead time codes if you’d rather skip this section ..read more

Teen Horror Cast, where we watch and discuss horror movies from a teen’s perspective. This week we watched The Grudge, a classic of the J-Horror sub genre. 2004’s The Grudge is a remake of a Japanese film from 2002. Both films were directed by Takashi Shimizu. If you listened to our episode number 3 on another J-Horror film, The Ring, we will be handling this situation of an American remake of a Japanese original in a similar manner. We’ll be focusing the summary on the American film so that we can use English language audio but we will have some discussion about both versions later on in the ..read more

This week we watched a movie that changed horror, and taking showers, forever: Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece "PSYCHO." Our discussion touched on subjects including both fictional and real serial killers and murder. We will be spoiling this film, so if you haven't seen it, please watch it first and come back for the discussion. Regarding language: While we realize that, shockingly, teens are usually very familiar with the rich tapestry of english language swear words, unless otherwise noted at the beginning of our episodes we will be keeping things family friendly and avoiding cussing in ..read more

In this episode we talk about Umma, a 2022 film directed by first time full length film director Iris K. Shim, Umma stars veteran actor Sandra Oh as Amanda and Fivel Stewart as her daughter Chris with appearances from MeeWha Alana Lee as Amanda’s mother or Umma. Content warning: we discuss difficult subjects including child abuse ..read more

Jennifer’s Body is a 2009 Horror film directed by Karyn Kusama and starring Megan Fox as the titular Jennifer Check, Amanda SIGHFRED Seyfried as her best friend and the film’s protagonist Anita “Needy” Lesnicki, Johnny Simmons as Needy’s boyfriend Chip, Adam Brody as singer Nikolai, and Kyle Gallner as teen goth Colin Gray. This movie features subjects like gore, death, sex, assault, high school evil, real evil, and demonic possession. It’s a handful. Also, we strive to keep things clean and fairly family friendly but we will be tagging podcasts explicit if they have any swear words in them a ..read more

Teen Horror Cast Episode 4: The Blair Witch Project This movie and our discussion of it feature a bit of body horror and gore. As always, if that feels like it might be too much for you, you should head for the escape hatch and skip this episode. Additionally we will be hard core spoiling this movie! This film in particular is one that you should watch before we discuss it. Released in 1999 and produced for around sixty thousand dollars, The Blair Witch project grossed over two hundred and fifty million dollars and was one of the first so-called found-footage horror films. Directed by Daniel ..read more

Content in this show includes descriptions of body horror and gore! In this episode we review John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi horror classic "The Thing," including: Overall impressions Is it right for teens Was it "turn the lights on scary?" Favorite scenes How do we feel about it being all men? Which of the characters would you choose to be stuck with in Antarctica? What do we think happens at the end? What would we change? As a bonus, we've watched the original 1951 "The Thing from Another World" and the 2011 movie "The Thing," which could be called a "premake" of Carpenter's film as it is b ..read more

In this episode we introduce ourselves and the podcast, as well as discuss one of our favorite horror movies/books, The Shining! Find us on Instagram and Twitter at @teenhorrorcast! Show Notes: The Shining: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/ Making ‘The Shining’ - A film by Vivian Kubrick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbNqMsK9xZs “Three American Mothers, on The Brink” By Jessica Bennett Photographs by Brenda Ann Kenneally https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/04/parenting/covid-pandemic-mothers-primal-scream.html (if you are a parent at home during covid, particularly a dad, this ..read more

This week we tackle a classic theme in the horror genre: WEREWOLVES. However rather than start with what might be thought of as the typical classic werewolf movies we decided to watch Gingersnaps, a canadian release from 2000 which explores the werewolf narrative through the eyes of teen girls. A heads up that this film and our discussion of it touches on subjects like animal death, gore, discussion of sex, drugs, and suicide. Additionally we will be fully spoiling the movie and we feel your experience will be a lot better if you watch this movie in particular before listening to the podcast ..read more