Charlene Bayer & Kelly Wright
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With Drinking and Screaming, you’ll find yourself pulled into a new horror film to discuss and a new cocktail to try every week. We’re a queer and feminist horror movie review podcast based out of Vancouver, British Columbia. Episodes are laced with celebrity guests, queer and feminist discussion perspectives, production trivia, and clips and soundtracks from the films! Char and Kelly are neither professional movie critics nor professional bartenders, but they are very good at both drinking and screaming.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Char and Kelly turn horror rewatches into lively arguments about screen craft, franchise continuity and the politics beneath the scares.
Char and Kelly pair each horror film with a themed cocktail, then move from immediate reactions into questions of politics, craft and franchise history.
The Omen's supposedly sinister child gets called rambunctious; your horror canon may want a lawyer.
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A lively Color Out of Space hangout with cocktail craft, cosmic horror, and Lovecraft context.
Drinking and Screaming's Color Out of Space episode fits its Halloween movie night setup without feeling forced. Char and Kelly do their best work when they sit with the film's off-kilter logic, especially the way something can feel wrong before anyone has a name for it.
A playful horror discussion that keeps the film's dread in view without flattening the hosts' personalities.
Drinking and Screaming's The Omen episode keeps its queer, feminist point of view up front while still feeling like a loose Halloween hangout.
A scrappy season-ending Halloween conversation, with franchise talk and a quick improvised cocktail.
Drinking and Screaming closes out its sixth season with a Halloween movie-night sendoff that stays true to the show's queer, feminist horror-and-cocktails format.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Char and Kelly review Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers from 1988, a season-finale episode of Drinking and Screaming that also opens with the “shape cider” cocktail made from cider and Fireball.
Drinking And Screaming's S6E16 covers Color Out of Space (2019), the Richard Stanley adaptation of H.P.
Char and Kelly cover Spree from 2020, an Eugene Kotlyarenko film written with Gene McHugh and starring Joe Keery, Sashir Zamata, and David Arquette.
Drinking and Screaming’s S6E14 on The Omen (1976) opens with a cocktail called the “ominous martini,” made with rhubarb liqueur, coconut vodka, and lemon juice, plus a warning about sexism, miscarriages, and child death.
Drinking And Screaming reviews Craig Zobel's 2020 film The Hunt, pairing its class satire with a chili-vodka, orange-juice, and pickle-juice cocktail.
Drinking And Screaming reviews Dario Argento's 1977 Suspiria while mixing a cranberry-grapefruit mocktail called "Mock Blood." Char and Kelly criticize the film's slow mystery, dubbed dialogue, exaggerated acting, and underdeveloped motivations.
Char and Kelly turn Halloween III: Season of the Witch, released in 1982, into a synchronized watch-along with cocktail commentary and trivia.