Horror reviews with rowdy genre affection.
Allentown Presents gives Spooky Movie Squad room to treat horror as both fandom and comedy fuel. Recent episodes move from kid-horror picks like "Casper" and "Ernest Scared Stupid" to Stephen King movies, Halloween Screamathon entries, and newer horror.
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Allentown Presents is a broad, informal horror review feed, and the excerpts here center on Spooky Movie Squad. The show’s core promise is simple. A movie gets picked, Otis introduces it, and the group works through it with jokes, callbacks, reactions, and side roads. Recent choices include "Casper," "Ernest Scared Stupid," and "Don't Look Under The Bed," which points to a real interest in kid-facing horror and older supernatural weirdness. The same window also includes "Children of the Corn" and "Silver Bullet," tying the feed to Stephen King screen adaptations. Then the Halloween Screamathon widens the frame with "The Blackening" and "Final Destination: Bloodlines." The show is comfortable with horror that is silly, nasty, nostalgic, or horror-shaped. It does not flatten those movies into tidy verdicts. Instead, it lingers on odd character choices, strange mythology, memorable deaths, bad plans, and the little details that make a horror movie fun to retell. Otis brings a host’s momentum and a taste for bits. Katie and Emma add recurring conversational friction, quick reactions, and their own comic turns. Denny and Micah appear in the Halloween Screamathon excerpts, giving those episodes more of a group-table feel. The show’s rhythm is loose. A plot recap can turn into a joke about a tree house, a werewolf origin, a machine, or a boogie-world rule that makes no sense. That looseness is the point. Allentown Presents treats horror as a shared language, not a museum shelf. It suits listeners who want genre affection with rough edges and fast comic pivots. It is at its best when a movie is strange enough to give the squad something to bounce off for a long time.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants horror movie talk that favors jokes, reactions, and fan memory over formal criticism. It especially fits someone drawn to kid horror, Stephen King movies, Halloween marathons, and oddball horror sequels.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its group-table looseness: recap, riff, tangent, and genuine horror affection all happen in the same breath. Its recent run spans nostalgic kid scares, King movies, Black horror comedy, and supernatural horror without sanding down the chaos.
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A loose, funny revisit to Ernest's cursed tree, wooden dolls, and overbuilt tree house.
Otis, Katie, and Emma revisit Ernest Scared Stupid for Spooky Movie Squad's kid-horror month, settling into a relaxed conversation about its slapstick, cursed-tree setup, and troll chaos.
A wind-up car sends this horror recap into the boogie world, where jumper cables make a strange kind of sense.
Spooky Movie Squad follows Don't Look Under the Bed into its boogie world, sending Francis and Larry beneath the bed on a wind-up car in search of Darwin.
A funny Casper recap where kid-horror nostalgia meets ghostly karaoke and a questionable resurrection plan.
Spooky Movie Squad starts its kid-horror month with a brisk trip back to Casper, following Casper McFadden, Kat, Dr. Harvey, the ghostly trio, and the manor treasure through crushes, fading memories, the Lazarus machine, and one very questionable stolen-vial scheme involving…
A boozy Silver Bullet watch built around werewolf panic, reckless wheelchair engineering, and Stephen King adaptation talk.
Silver Bullet plays as a loose, lively tour through a small town's werewolf panic, with E.O. Stotis and Katie tracking the full-moon murders, the drunken posse, and Uncle Red's motorized wheelchair, which is treated like a motorcycle for Marty.
Three friends recap Daredevil, Fallout, and new releases scene by scene, in Spanish.
Slasher talk with sharp teeth.
Otis and Katie review the 2023 horror film 'All Fun And Games' as part of their 7th annual Halloween Screamathon series.
The hosts kick off the seventh annual Halloween Screamathon with a review of the 2025 horror film Final Destination: Bloodlines.
The hosts review the 2022 American Black horror comedy 'The Blackening' as part of their 7th annual Halloween Screamathon series.
Spooky Movie Squad episode 494 tackles Ernest Scared Stupid, a 1991 comedy-horror film that runs 89 minutes and lands in the show’s kid-horror month.
Spooky Movie Squad reviews the 1999 Disney Channel original Don't Look Under the Bed, with Otis framing it as episode 493 and part of a kid-horror run.
Spooky Movie Squad episode 492 uses Casper to open a month of kid horror, framing the 1995 film as a childhood staple.
Spooky Movie Squad episode 491 reviews Children of the Corn, the 1984 Stephen King adaptation of the 1977 short story that later appeared in Night Shift.
Spooky Movie Squad episode 490 covers Silver Bullet, the 1985 Stephen King adaptation of Cycle of the Werewolf set in Tarker's Mill, Maine.
Otis and Katie review the 2025 film The Long Walk, adapted from Stephen King’s Richard Bachman novel.
Otis and Katie review Stephen King's 1992 film Sleepwalkers on Spooky Movie Squad episode 488.
Allentown Presents’ Spooky Movie Squad reviews Ziam, a 2025 Thai action horror film about Muay Thai fighter Sing rescuing his fiancée Ren from a hospital outbreak.
Hosts Otis, Katie, and Denny review the 2022 horror comedy 'The Blackening' as part of their annual Halloween Screamathon series.