Streaming Screams

Warnings for spoilers and mature content DO YOU LIKE SCARY MOVIES? We know you do, and so do we! We are Glenn and Jess, besties and drive-in mutants, with a shared passion for the macabre, the grotesque and the ridiculous. When you’re home alone on those dark and stormy nights, we’ll let you know where you can tune in and find a chill to run up your spine. Every month we’ll watch and discuss two horror movies that you can watch at home, alone or with that special someone or someTHING. We connect deeply with horror movies, which is a little disturbing if you think about it. So, we go off on plenty of tangents, side chats and rants along the way, before passing our final judgments and letting you know where you can find these terrifying treasures. What kind of horror movies do we cover? Why, anything you can stream! From the dawn of Hollywood to today. From the grindhouse to the arthouse, from slashers to found footage, from serial killers to haunted houses, and from comedy to the truly deranged, if it’s on the net for you, it’s on the slab for us. We’ll unleash new episodes on the 1st Thursday of every month, so please, enter freely, of your own will, and leave some of the happiness you bring. JOIN US.

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Episodes

Thursday Mar 20, 2025

Clip Show
In space, no one will hear you scream…or roll your eyes and groan. This week, Jess and Glenn sit down for the new Alien greatest hits album:
ALIEN: ROMULUS
We’ll talk about the physiological and social ramifications of hypersleep. We’ll try to track the increasingly complex reproduction cycle of the xenomorphs. We’ll tackle the biggest philosophical question posed by this movie: Is it possible to have too much fan service, too many references, and too many Easter eggs? The answer may just surprise you! Or it may not if you've seen this one.

Thursday Mar 06, 2025

Zany Regional Spinoff Edition
 
Happy Birthday to us! Streaming Screams has been going for an entire year! We can hardly believe it! 
And speaking of belief, we are kicking off our second season with a movie that asks us some big questions about religion, ourselves and our beliefs: Do we believe what we believe because it’s what was taught to us? When we challenge our beliefs, how do they hold up? What is the one true religion? 
Heretic
This week we sit down and examine Hugh Gran in this fascinating foray into religiously philosophical horror as he terrorizes two young Mormon women. As we do so, we’ll ask some tough questions of our own: Would you walk into a house with metal in the walls? Should you trust overly charming people? Does a blueberry pie scented candle REALLY smell like blueberry pie? What’s the point of a cover letter, anyway?

Thursday Feb 06, 2025

Simply Irresistible
Get ready for an absolutely bonkers journey through the glamorous and dangerous worlds of celebrity and modeling with two wild takes on being a beautiful woman in the entertainment industry:
The Substance
The Neon Demon
We are heading into the depths of what women in Hollywood and the Los Angeles modeling industry are willing to do to maintain their youth, their beauty, their fame and their adoration. We’ll talk about the violence one will do to themselves, or their competition, to remain pleasing to others, and the roles that society, men, age and power play in all of this, all explored through the lenses of body horror, understated supernatural dread, and good old fashioned murder.
Along the way, Jess will tell us why she doesn’t need more apps while Glenn continues to struggle with names and gets very invested in color schemes. We’ll talk about big cats, our experience with the Hollywood walk of fame, Glenn meeting Lars Ulrich and Nicolas Winding Refn, plastic surgery disasters, and we’ll make an announcement about the future of the podcast. 
So paint your face with sparkles and grab yourself some moist, floppy shrimp, because we're gonna get weird with it in this bizarre, yet beautiful, episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!

Thursday Jan 02, 2025

Closer to God
Throw on your trench coat, pour yourself another coffee, and get ready for a late night, because it’s time for some good, old fashioned, detective work, 90’s style! As the new year begins, we are going back in time to talk about a police procedural made in the 90s, and one that takes place in the 90s.
Seven
Longlegs
Is Seven horror, strictly speaking? Who cares, that movie rules and is at least horror related. Is Longlegs horror? Yes. It’s also bonkers. We’ll dive into a sin-filled city, rife with corruption, crime and misery before heading out to the Pacific Northwest for a very memorable Nic Cage performance in a very strange movie. 
While we’re at it, we’ll talk about plastic surgery disasters like permanent duck-face and noses that fall off, bemoan the fact that so many fans want so many things to be the same all the time, celebrate living in a new golden age of weird horror, and Glenn will go on for a bit too long about Nine Inch Nails. It’s time to condemn our eternal souls on this creepy noir episode of Streaming Screams!

Thursday Dec 05, 2024

As the year draws to a close and night seems to surround us, it’s often a good time to reflect. To look inside yourself and see how you’re doing. To take a deep dive into your emotions. This month we examine two movies that really sum up how people feel around the holiday season:
Smile
The Sadness
First we take a hit of that jump-scare adrenaline and hallucinatory uncertainty with Smile, before exploring the absolute depths of human depravity with The Sadness.
Along the way we’ll talk about how not to hold an intervention, older folks and creepy dudes bothering you when you’re just trying to read a book, the value of human live vs. the value of animal life in horror, and we’ll laugh at Glenn as his inability to pronounce people’s names hits an all time low. We also take a moment show a little love to the great Tony Todd.
You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll scream! You’ll… stream? It’s all part of the roller-coaster of emotions that is this month’s episode of Streaming Screams!

Thursday Nov 07, 2024

From the Bowels of Hell to the Terrors of the Mind
As we return to our normal monthly schedule we explore the Inferno and ask, is it age and Alzheime’rs, or is it something, somehow more sinister? Join us as we strap on the camera with two found footage flicks:
As Above, So Below
The Taking of Deborah Logan
We’ll explore the allegory of the parisian catacombs, dive into the unexplored family drama of child sacrifices and queer daughters, look for a physical way out of Hell with a wannabe Last Crusade-era Indiana Jones, and deal with way too many snakes. 
Along the way we’ll tackle some of the big, important life topics, like growing up catholic, being a bad student, why you shouldn’t kill rattlesnakes if you see them, motion sickness, Hummel and Precious Moments figures, energy drinks and shady HVAC contractors.
So get on your belly and abandon all hope with this first person episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!

Thursday Oct 24, 2024

The End is the Beginning
Alas, all parties must come to an end and trick or treating can only go on for so long. The neighbors are turning out their lights, so open up your bag for the last fun-sized episode of our Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular with  John Carpenter's most seminal work, the original classic, the immortal, the iconic
Halloween
We travel all the way back to 1978, with a quick detour to 1963, to see the Michael Myers legacy take shape (See what we did there?). One thing that’s going to be interesting about this journey is that we watched two different versions of the movie. Glenn watched the version that we all know and love, while Jess watched the extended version involving scenes added years later. 
Along the way, we’ll touch on some important subjects like why teens bang in their parents bed (and maybe why they shouldn’t), whether artists can be trusted to tell you the meaning of their own art, whether you can be a goody two-shoes and still smoke weed, and what the heck is a slasher anyway?
As we say goodbye to spooky season and return to our monthly schedule, we want to thank you for joining us for our first Halloween event. May your costumes be awesome, your parties raucous, your Samhain fires warm, your tricks scary and your treats delightful! 
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Friday Oct 18, 2024

Trailer for our first ever, Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular! It's a Halloween celebration as we hand out four fun sized episodes featuring the Halloween 2018 trilogy as well as the original Halloween!

Thursday Oct 17, 2024

Not Dead Enough
The Halloween party continues with another fun-sized episode where we get into the most divisive and controversial film of this whole timeline
Halloween Ends
As the sequel trilogy winds down and the focus shifts to a new character, we follow Haddonfield into the depths of societal and generational trauma. Along the way we’ll examine how we, as individuals and society, relate to, and are reflected by, this dark, decaying town, the wisdom of doing 3 Halloween movies in 3 different genres, Romeo and Juliet romances, people’s need for someone to blame and whether this movie is secretly a remake of Christine or not. It’s time to burn it down with the penultimate fun sized episode of our Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular! 

Thursday Oct 10, 2024

It’s a Hunter’s Moon
Open up your bag because here comes the second fun-sized episode of our Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular! 
Do you remember when you were a kid, when you’d get home from trick or treating, and you’d excitedly pull a random candy out from your bag and pop it into your mouth only to realize someone gave you a cough drop? That’s right! It’s time for
Halloween Kills
We continue our journey through Haddonfield as the warmth of the Samhain fire gives way to a raging inferno! This time we get to catch up with Tommy Doyle and literally anyone else they could get from the 78 movie. I bet they’re all doing great!
Along the way, we find out what it truly means to be close to your family, EVIL DIES TONIGHT, question the morality of lies of omission, EVIL DIES TONIGHT, what happens when you give a motive to the motiveless, EVIL DIES TONIGHT, the logic of erasing all previous sequels and then repeating a bunch of the same mistakes they made, and finally, EVIL DIES TONIGHT!

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Jessica and Glenn became roommates in 2011 and rapidly developed a friendship that they would both cherish and everyone else would just have to deal with.  They've shared in each other's greatest joys, and helped each other survive times of tragedy and stress. Loud, boisterous, and easily excitable, they can often be either a great source of entertainment, or just a bit too much for everyone else in their lives when they get together.

They share a deep appreciation of horror movies, 90's industrial music, mosh pits and games.

Jessica is passionate about animals and works in cat rescue. She often has a lot of kittens in her home.

Glenn is passionate about music. He loves most genres he comes across, plays multiple instruments and has a vinyl collection of a size that can be best described as "irresponsible."

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