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This time, Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta welcome the ever-game Mena Suvari, who arrives bearing fangs and stories from her new film, Vampires of the Velvet Lounge. Suvari, who first scorched herself into the pop-culture psyche in American Pie and later drifted, ghostlike and unforgettable, through American Beauty, has since built the sort of career that zigzags cheerfully between cult oddities and studio landmarks, stops along the way including Sugar & Spice, Loser, and Spun. The post Bonus Episode with Mena Suvari on Vampires of The Velvet Lounge (2026) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

In Episode #189, Bryan and Preston welcome filmmaker Paul Boyd for a lively autopsy of his career, from directing music videos for Shania Twain to his latest horror film, Scared to Death. The conversation inevitably wanders into the haunted corridors of The Shining, a film the podcast has tackled before but now revisits with the benefit of 2026 hindsight. Does it still scare? Does the drama hold up? Are we still unnerved by that carpet pattern, or have we simply grown accustomed to it? The post Episode #189 with Paul Boyd on Scared To Death (2026) and The Shining (1980) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

On this episode, we sit down with the indestructible Lin Shaye,  a woman who has stared into more cinematic abysses than most of us have stared into our refrigerators as we discuss her latest plunge into the macabre, Scared to Death. Shaye, who long ago achieved the status of horror’s benevolent high priestess, approaches terror not as a gimmick but as a craft that is calibrated, precise, and just mischievous enough to enjoy the absurdity of explaining an ancient curse with the calm authority of someone giving directions to the nearest Starbucks. The post Bonus Episode with Lin Shaye on Scared To Death (2026) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

In Episode No. 188, Bryan and Preston decamp to a luxurious house in the middle of nowhere, because nothing bad ever happens there to sip wine, fork into chocolate cake, and discuss Keeper, the 2025 film from Osgood Perkins. Yes, that Osgood Perkins who is the man behind The Monkey, The Blackcoat's Daughter, and Longlegs, which is a filmography that, for Bryan, has inspired less devotion than a kind of fascinated despair. Perkins is, in Bryan’s telling, the director he loves to hate, a craftsman of atmosphere who, in Bryan’s view, has yet to craft something he actually enjoys. The post Episode #188 – Keeper (2025) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

On Episode #187, Bryan and Preston retreat to the great outdoors, which is never a wise decision in horror, to revisit Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever (2002), which is the film that announced Roth as a new maestro of cinematic misery. The post Episode #187 – Cabin Fever (2002) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

As with all episodes of My Bloody Podcast, order eventually collapses. Chelsea yells, then cries, sometimes simultaneously. Preston patiently excavates the humanity buried inside the horror. Bryan, true to form, steers the conversation toward naked t**s, because someone has to keep things honest. It’s a triple-threat episode. It's funny, thoughtful, and just unhinged enough to feel alive. Listen everywhere, preferably with the lights low and your heart slightly open. The post Episode #186 – 28 Years Later: Bone Temple (2026) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

My Bloody Podcast returns in 2026 the way any sensible, well-adjusted cultural institution should. It's by diving headfirst into a movie about a man whose job description includes repeatedly murdering the dead. Episode #185 marks our first outing of the year, and rather than easing back in with something polite or familiar, we chose Cemetery Man (1994), a film so obscure, deranged, and strangely romantic that watching it feels like discovering a forbidden VHS behind a false wall in an Italian video store. The post Episode #185 – Cemetery Man (1994) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

This week, My Bloody Podcast hangs a stocking over the fireplace and then promptly sets it on fire. In a very special, tinsel-drenched episode, we lean all the way into the holiday spirit with Silent Night, Deadly Night, a brand new remake of the 1984 Christmas-horror chestnut now resurrected, sharpened, and sent back down the chimney by a returning champion of the show, Mike P. Nelson. The post Bonus Episode With David Tomlinson and Mike P. Nelson on Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

Today, we’re rolling out the proverbial red carpet for someone making his debut appearance on My Bloody Podcast, director Stephen Shimek. If the name rings a bell, don’t worry, you’re not suffering from cinematic déjà vu. You’ve probably stumbled across Invitation to a Murder, The Maze, Joey and Ella, or the delightfully enigmatic The Magician’s Raincoat. Yes, Stephen made those. And if that’s not enough, he’s also married to Kristy Shimek. The editor, a frequent guest, and the unofficial patron saint of making directors look good in post. The post Bonus Episode With Stephen Shimek on Murder At The Embassy (2025) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

Joining us for this canine-and-carbine opera are two men who know their way around both a frame and a fight. Aaron Eckhart, the square-jawed statesman of The Dark Knight, Erin Brockovich, and Thank You for Smoking, and the film’s director John Stahlberg Jr., who has quietly been constructing a small universe of his own with the Muzzle franchise. The post Bonus Episode with Aaron Eckhart and John Stalberg Jr first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

In Episode #184 of My Bloody Podcast, we plunge scalpels-first into John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), a film that has aged better than most of its human characters. We roam through the eerie lineage of the story, revisiting the 1950s original, back when aliens were tall, wooden, and shaped vaguely like your uncle’s coat rack, and marvel at the alternate-universe casting choices that nearly befell Carpenter’s classic. Yes, somewhere in a parallel dimension, Jay Leno is squinting suspiciously across a snowbank, and we should all be grateful we don’t live there. The post Episode #184 – The Thing (1982) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

There are few things more sacred in the horror podcasting world than two friends on a long phone call dissecting a film where a creepy man also loves to make phone calls. On Episode #183 of My Bloody Podcast, Chelsea and I pick up our proverbial Black Phones and dial directly into the cultural juggernaut currently haunting theaters. The Black Phone 2. The post Episode #183 – Black Phone 2 (2025) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

On Episode #182 of My Bloody Podcast, two death-defying dolls, Bryan Kluger and Chelsea, pick up their metaphorical scalpels to stitch together their thoughts on May, the 2002 horror film that nobody remembers except, of course, Bryan Kluger. (This is a man who spent twenty years watching nothing but horror movies and occasionally, when the moon was right, eating chicken wings.) The post Episode #182 – May (2002) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

On Episode #181 of My Bloody Podcast, the trio of cinematic slashers, Bryan, Preston, and Chelsea, sneak up on 2016’s Hush, Mike Flanagan’s lean, mean, and surprisingly quiet home-invasion thriller. You might remember Hush as the film that came after Oculus (the haunted mirror one) and before Flanagan ascended to Netflix sainthood with The Haunting of Hill House. It’s the movie that whispered, literally, “Oh, this guy’s good.” The post Episode #181 – HUSH (2016) first appeared on Boomstick Comics.

Episode #180 of My Bloody Podcast is, to put it lightly, a pumpkin-spiced fever dream. It’s that time of year again, spooky season, when the air smells faintly of nutmeg, Spirit Halloween stores rise from the dead in defunct Pier 1 Imports, and every barista becomes a horror enthusiast with an oat milk frother. Naturally, we leaned into the madness and tackled one of the more bewildering entries in the Halloween cinematic multiverse. It was Halloween 6. Or Halloween 666.Or Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, depending on which president was in office when you were born. The post Episode #180 – Halloween 6 (1995) With Mike P. Nelson first appeared on Boomstick Comics.