Streaming Screams

The "I Want to Play a Game" Show - Ep 40

This week we step away from our usual review and discussion to instead have some fun and games. 
Katie joins us and hits us with a some trivia, demands some "hot takes" and even asks some questions to help everyone get to know us a little better! 
Who knows more about horror, or at least paid more attention in our own podcast? Find out on this weeks gamified version of The STREAMING SCREAMS Podcast! 

Bring Her Back - Ep 39: Grapefruit

Grapefruit
Streaming Screams is turning 2, baby! And what better way than to celebrate than with a messed up, disturbing movie done by the same guys that did the first movie from our first episode?
BRING HER BACK
Angels and demons and child abuse and possession and the foster system and being forever haunted by something you did when you were a child all come out in our discussion! Also, Nine inch Nails, Cannibal Corpse, violence in video games and movies, the mental health system and foster systems. It's a wild ride on this week's episode of Streaming Screams!

The 'Burbs / The 'Burbs SE01 - Ep 38 There Go the Goddamn Brownies

Time to take a strip to a magical land, a land where the grass grows green and is cut perfectly even, where people keep an eye out for each other and another eye on each other, where dark secrets are burred and dog poop is weaponized....THE 'BURBS
and also
THE BURBS Season 1Fun fact: We wanted to do an episode on The 'Burbs last year, before the show was announced, but couldn't find it streaming anywhere. So, join us on this weeks special double feature where we not only look at this classic black comedy, but we check out the new show to see if it stacks up!

Heart Eyes - Ep 37: Romance is Dead

Romance is Dead
Valentine's day is almost here and love is in the air! Or is that blood? Either way, hearts are involved and they’re gonna break when we sit down to chat about
HEART EYES
We set out to deconstruct this deconstruction of romantic comedies and horror movies alike as we ask, “how does Heart Eyes stack up as a slasher? How does it work as a comedy?” We compare it to other horror comedies and discuss what makes for a good horror comedy and good satire. We discuss acting approaches and whether the movie contributes to the stigmatization of kink in pop culture.  We talk about the use of meta-contextualization in modern horror and satire and how it applies to Heart Eyes. 
Along the way we talk about new Rob Zombie music, YouTube comments, Jason Statham, The Fast and the Furious, Dropout, the connections between Heart Eyes and Evil Dead Rise, Vampires Kiss, Nicolas Cage and Scream.
So, pour some champagne, light some candles, cuddle up with someone you love, and find out whether or not you should swipe right on Heart Eyes in this romantic episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!

The Blackcoat's Daughter - Streaming Screams Episode 36: Forever Alone

Forever Alone
Osgood Perkins has been killing it lately, so we thought we'd go back and revisit his first film:
THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER
A stark, bleak, and sometimes challenging movie that Jess had been harassing Glenn to watch for years, so you KNOW we had stuff to say about it. Also, we take a slightly different approach to our podcast format. 
And we get pretty wild along the way. Jess informs us what percentage of sheep are gay. We live up to the stereotype of Americans and geographical knowledge. Glenn gets unreasonably angry at the Stranger Things finale. We actually get into politics and the current situation in the US, and we compare and contrast Osgood Perkins with David Lynch. All of this with a new format focusing much more on how we feel about a film and dialing back what happens in the film. All on this wild episode of STREAMING SCREAMS! 

BONUS: Discussion on new music

Here's a bonus clip of Glenn and Jess discussing music, particularly new music. This was cut from our discussion of The Signal. 
We thought it was a fun clip, but ran longer than our usual diversions and didn't fit the rest of the episode, but it's still a fun chat and we thought you should have the option to hear it! 

The Signal- Streaming Screams Episode 35: Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
We're back, baby! And to ring in the new year, we've pulled out an old gem from 2007:
THE SIGNAL
Featuring a story that changes perspectives and tones as well as writer/directors with each act, this one is both weird and divisive. So how do WE feel about this mid-00s oddity? Pop open the bubbly and come find out as we dive into mid-00s madness! 

Thanksgiving - Streaming Screams Episode 34: Where Turkeys Dare

Where Turkeys Dare
In 2007, one of the greatest fake movie trailers ever hit the big screen as part of the Grindhouse double feature. In 2023, Eli Roth finally made good on his promise to make the movie to go along with the trailer, and so with fall in full swing, we sit down for:
THANKSGIVING
On this day we give thanks for horror and tackle the tough questions: Does the film live up to the promise of the original trailer? What happens when a local store owner’s greed gets people killed? Do you prefer light meat or dark meat?
Along the way we’ll discuss righteous anger, ghosting your friends, the differences between the original grindhouse trailer and we’ll even start the programming off doing what everyone hates doing at Thanksgiving, but ends up doing anyway, talking politics.
Please note, we’ll be taking December off for the Holidays, so this will be our final episode of the year. We’ll be back in January with fresh horrors! We hope you have some bloody good holidays!

Milk & Serial / Laura Hasn't Slept / Portrait of God / Make Me a Sandwich / Heck / The Chair - Streaming Screams Episode 33: Bite Sized Fright Night

After the marathon that was 2025's Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular, it is time to relax with a night of binging horror on Youtube. Today we've got a six pack of independent short films: 
 
Milk & Serial
Laura Hasn't Slept
Portrait of God
Make Me a Sandwich
Heck
The Chair
 
Here is a link to our YouTube playlist for these 6 films:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbzGQ1lszv4&list=PLELEKGS6GtgmvHU_v41v_jRxU4yUUtXbc

Double Feature: Trick 'r Treat / Trick or Treat - Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular Finale: Tricks and Treats

Tricks and Treats
HAPPY HALLOWEEN CREEPS! 
The season comes to a close on this, the greatest day of the year. And we, here at streaming screams are dishing out tricks and treats as we close out the season!
First we start with the cult classic about the most Halloween town ever to Halloween on Halloween, with serial killers, werewolves, revenge-driven zombies, and the spirit of Samhain himself, Sam! This is a personal favorite of Glenn’s and the very definition of a cult classic:
Trick ‘r Treat
Then, we join an angsty teen metal-head as his quest for revenge against his bullies leads him to become the pawn of his devil-worshiping heavy metal rock idol hellbent on revenge against their mutual high school. Featuring a wonderful satirical performance by the pioneer of heavy metal, the Prince of Darkness himself, the immortal Ozzy Osbourne! We’ll raise the horns for:
Trick or Treat
Along the way we’ll talk about theater mishaps, being a better person, John Carpenter, how serial killers survive, awesome Halloween festival towns, teen angst, the singer from Flogging Molly, and the Satanic Panic.
So light up your jack-o-lantern, grab some candy, crank up the Black Sabbath and throw up those horns because we're going trick or treating on on this celebratory episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!