476 episodes listed below
Spoiler-heavy horror talk with sharp detours.
Chewing the Scenery Horror Movie Podcast follows Richard, Will, and Jolion through relaxed, spoiler-ready conversations about horror films old, strange, and overlong. The talk moves from plot beats to effects, cast trivia, production context, recently watched movies, and whatever joke happens to survive the detour.
PRESS PLAY
Chewing the Scenery Horror Movie Podcast is a horror movie show built around conversation rather than tidy verdicts. Richard, Will, and Jolion talk like genre fans who have seen enough monsters, slashers, anthologies, and odd imports to know when a movie is borrowing, stalling, or doing something genuinely interesting. Spoilers are standard. The episodes often begin with a main title, then drift into recently watched films, side recommendations, actor lookups, production trivia, and affectionate arguments about what worked. The rhythm is loose but informed. A segment on Nyi Blorong can move from supernatural police logic to Mexican wrestling movies, Japanese horror, Indian titles on Netflix, and the problem of a movie running too long. Weapons gets treated as both a strong modern horror film and a springboard for talking about structure, community blame, familiar horror territory, and the cast’s faces from other movies. Monster Island leads to fish creatures, Godzilla comparisons, Indonesian effects work, calling-card filmmaking, and jokes about what Hollywood keeps serving up. The Children brings out low-budget production talk, character actors, black fingernails, Friday the 13th connections, and the pleasures of a lean runtime. Black Sabbath carries the show toward Mario Bava, horror anthologies, and the inevitable band jokes. The Christmas and Halloween episodes add their own clutter: cookies, cocktails, candy, decorations, dogs, and seasonal nonsense around the movie talk. Interviews appear too, including John Dugan on Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a referenced heather langen camp conversation. The show does not posture as academic criticism. It is more like a video-store argument with better recall and a stronger appetite for strange corners of the genre. Listeners get opinions, corrections, jokes, tangents, and a steady sense that even a flawed movie may be worth talking through if it has one good effect, one weird performance, or one production story hiding behind it.
Made for: For horror fans who enjoy effects, obscure titles, creature features, older genre history, and conversational criticism that does not sand off the jokes. It especially suits listeners who like spoilers and long, wandering film talk.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its casual depth: the panel can grumble about a weak bit, then pivot into cast histories, low-budget production logic, international horror patterns, or a better version of the same movie. It feels less like a review desk and more like a smart post-screening argument.
Podcast by Chewing the Scenery
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Richard, Will and Jolion turn horror-film criticism into a funny, specific argument about effects, pacing, atmosphere and the limits of a premise.
Chewing the Scenery Horror Movie Podcast puts Richard, Will and Jolion around the same table for loose, spoiler-heavy conversations about horror films.
This is the show that lets you spoil the monster movie before the cookies and cocktails run out.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Christmas horror chat that enjoys the elf chaos while noticing when the movie runs long.
Chewing the Scenery's Christmas episode settles into an easy holiday hangout, with Richard, Will, and Julian moving between Denver's warm December mood, cookies, cocktails, and a horror comedy built on barn elves and rough-looking effects.
A loose horror conversation that starts with Nyi Blorong and keeps widening into genre talk.
Chewing the Scenery's Nyi Blorong discussion does what the show tends to do best: it starts with the film, then lets the conversation widen into horror-adjacent tangents without losing its grip on the main line.
A lively Weapons discussion strongest on communal blame, cast detours, and a delightful but not terrifying climax.
Weapons gives Chewing the Scenery a strong horror thread to follow: a shaken community absorbs trauma, turns inward, and gradually redirects blame toward an outside force.
A Halloween monster-movie chat finds its spark in Godzilla comparisons, Indonesian effects talk, and the film's roads not taken.
Chewing the Scenery turns this monster-movie episode into a lively argument about what the film could have been. The hosts keep circling missed opportunities, from a washed-up man facing a fish creature and an orangutan without dialogue to the question of whether sharper…
A loose horror chat that makes production trivia part of the appeal.
The episode spends its time with The Children, the 1980 American horror film, and stays close to the movie's machinery: a one-take shot staged through the windows, a 93-minute running time, a $400,000 budget, and cast-and-crew trivia that reaches to The Thing and Friday the…
A spoiler-filled horror chat that gets its best mileage from classic-film echoes and an easygoing, mildly skeptical verdict.
Chewing the Scenery stays in spoiler territory from the start, and it is at its strongest when the hosts lean into the movie's horror references.
A thoughtful horror discussion that prizes mood, style, and knows when one bit pushes too far.
Chewing the Scenery finds its best rhythm in a conversation that lingers on mood, muted humor, and the film's striking visual style. The hosts keep circling back to the subdued approach, and that focus gives the episode a steady shape even when the jokes do not always land…
Reddit nightmares, cleanly narrated and sharply turned.
The hosts of Chewing the Scenery introduce their horror movie podcast, discuss recent losses of Steve Albini and Roger Corman, and prepare to spoil a horror film called The Wolf (Wilczyca).
A discussion about cocktails and the dangers of drinking sterno, unrelated to the episode title.
The hosts of Chewing the Scenery Horror Movie Podcast discuss the 2023 film 'Late Night with the Devil', set on Halloween 1977.
The hosts of Chewing the Scenery Horror Movie Podcast discuss the 2023 French-Canadian film 'Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting'.
The hosts of Chewing the Scenery horror movie podcast gather for a Christmas episode with cookies, cocktails, and dogs, discussing horror movies and spoiling them.
The hosts introduce their horror movie podcast, discuss spoiling movies and recently watched content, and promote their intro music by The Moon Rays.
The hosts of Chewing the Scenery horror movie podcast introduce an episode about the film Weapons, discussing their hot drinks and joking about a lost jacket before diving into the movie.
The hosts of Chewing the Scenery introduce their podcast and set the Halloween mood before discussing the movie Monster Island.
The hosts of Chewing the Scenery introduce an episode where they discuss the 1963 horror anthology film Black Sabbath directed by Mario Bava.
Chewing the Scenery Horror Movie Podcast covers The Children, a 1980 American horror film directed by Max Kalmenkiewicz and tied to Three Mile Island on 28 March 1979.
The hosts of Chewing the Scenery horror movie podcast introduce their episode about the film Late Night With The Devil and thank Heather Langenkamp for a recent interview.
Heather Langenkamp discusses her early acting career, starting with a casting call for extras in Tulsa and her high school theater background.