Messy horror talk with a sharp memory.
Adventures in Movies! follows Nathaniel Muir and Blake through horror, indie, and genre movie territory with restless comic energy. The show tracks new releases, Shudder drops, franchise chatter, trailers, and personal genre memories without sanding off the weird edges.
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Adventures in Movies! is a genre-film hangout with horror at the center and a wide tolerance for the strange stuff around it. The show moves fast. Nathaniel Muir and Blake start from weekly news, trailers, and release calendars, then let the conversation run through franchise history, personal memory, casting nerves, streaming platforms, and whatever odd premise just crossed their radar. Shudder comes up often. So do A24, Scream, Mike Flanagan, The Last Drive-In, Bruce Campbell, haunts, zombies, remakes, and movies that seem built from one outrageous sentence. The show is not polished in the buttoned-up critic sense. That is part of its shape. It works through interruption, agreement, correction, sideways jokes, and sudden seriousness when a topic deserves it. A segment on upcoming releases might pair a sex-bot exploitation premise with a psychological thriller and a dream-clinic horror film, then pivot into whether the trailer actually sells the movie. The hosts are candid about what looks cheap, what looks promising, and what might depend entirely on whether the characters land. They like trailers. They distrust them too. Old favorites matter, but nostalgia does not get a free pass. Jennifer's Body can be reconsidered, Stephen King can be treated as a gateway, and Faces of Death can become both a personal memory and a way to talk about horror mythology. The conversations are loose, but the reference pool is deep. Even when the show jokes through wrestling clips, spring break digressions, or a haunt-manager fantasy, it usually circles back to a real judgment about tone, premise, runtime, or genre expectation. Its sweet spot is the movie that sounds questionable and somehow might be worth seeing anyway. That gives the show a scavenger quality. It is for listeners who want horror coverage that notices the small releases alongside the recognizable names, and who prefer messy enthusiasm sharpened by skepticism over tidy awards-season language.
Made for: For horror and genre-film fans who track Shudder drops, cult releases, sequels, remakes, and trailer chatter with equal curiosity. It suits listeners who like blunt, comic criticism more than formal review-table manners.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its conversational speed: a release-calendar note can become a franchise autopsy, a personal memory, or a joke about genre logic before landing on a clear take. It covers recognizable horror names while still giving space to obscure, low-budget, and hard-to-classify movies.
Every week AIPT Movie Editor Nathaniel Muir and his cinema partner in crime Blake Heath discuss indie and genre movies you have have never heard of, the ones you cannot hear enough about, and the ones you never want to hear about again.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sharp format analysis and candid chemistry turn obscure horror and genre releases into informed, practical viewing prospects.
Nathaniel Muir and Blake approach genre cinema as alert, plainspoken moviegoers rather than distant arbiters. Their conversations move from release news and trailer impressions into spoiler-conscious reviews, with close attention to marketing choices, running times, character…
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Two genre-film fans weigh a *Bloodsport* remake and several releases against trailers and long movie memories.
A planned Bloodsport remake leads Nathaniel Muir and Blake into a lively discussion of genre memory, reinvention, and the odd places familiar ideas turn up again.
A childhood Faces of Death memory anchors a horror conversation about why the movie's reality test hit so hard.
The episode is strongest when it sits with the old question that made Faces of Death feel so dangerous: was any of it real? One host's childhood memory gives that question shape, from the copy his brother brought home around 1992 or 1993 to the warning not to tell their mother.
A loose, funny pairing of *Jennifer's Body* affection and honest uncertainty about Camus on screen.
Sequel talk brings the hosts back to Jennifer's Body, which one of them liked on release and enjoyed just as much on another viewing within the past year, despite its negative reception.
A horror conversation where character stakes matter as much as a creepy trailer.
Adventures in Movies! shapes a loose run of genre-film talk into a lively discussion of why horror keeps earning attention. It moves from Mike Flanagan's connection to Stephen King and Carrie, treated as a classic with more than one remake, into a zombie trailer measured against…
A horror double feature about seasonal misdirection, runtime skepticism, and talking through a verdict.
Adventures in Movies uses two Friday the 13th releases to test how much genre expectation shapes a first reaction. The hosts start with a film from directors who also worked together on Violation, weighing the trailer, the apparent lead, and a runtime that initially looks a…
A lively Bloat review turns messy screens, dust jokes, and multitasking anxiety into a sharp genre debate.
Adventures in Movies makes Bloat feel like a lively argument about what a movie should give away before it begins. The episode tracks reactions to a mother and two sons vacationing in Japan, the younger son's near-drowning in a lake, and the strange behavior that follows, then…
An early-seventies exploitation film gets a lively hearing for its unexpectedly artful streak.
This PlayNext review follows an early-seventies exploitation film about a would-be movie-business striver who drifts into porn work for the memorably named Joe Jobel.
Fast takes for overcommitted fandoms.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Nathaniel Muir and Blake Heath discuss recent entertainment news, including Hulk Hogan's RNC appearance and Rolling Stone's Hawk Tuah article.
Nathaniel Muir and Blake Heath discuss the Oscars, including Demi Moore's loss and Quentin Tarantino's casting.
Nathaniel Muir and Blake discuss the indie genre films 'The Elf' (2017) and 'The Program' (2024), blending holiday horror and UAP themes.
Nathaniel Muir and co-host discuss their favorite movies of 2025 on Adventures in Movies.
Nathaniel and Blake discuss the 2025 films 'Red Sonja' and 'The Toxic Avenger' on their podcast Adventures in Movies.
The hosts celebrate their 300th episode and introduce a discussion of the films 'Dead End' (2004) and 'Replicator' (2024).
Blake and Nathaniel review 1988 horror film Hack-O-Lantern, a Halloween-set slasher centered on Tommy and his grandfather’s satanic cult.
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Nathaniel Murin and co-host discuss the 2026 Indian genre film 'The Serpent's Skin' and reminisce about spring break experiences.
Nathaniel Muir and his co-host discuss the indie and genre films 'Oddity' (2024) and 'Bodycam' (2026), along with news about the end of 'The Last Drive-In' on Shudder and the show's future.
The hosts discuss Bruce Campbell's cancer diagnosis and its impact on his upcoming fan convention appearances.
Nathaniel Muir and his co-host start with Mike Flanagan’s Prime Video Carrie, which they say is a limited series coming in October and may be only three to eight episodes.
Nathaniel Mirren and his co-host spend most of the segment on The Haunted Forest, a 2026 haunt-set horror film that they say feels unmoored from its October setting.