Exploding Heads Horror Movie Podcast
78 episodes listed below
Slasher talk with sharp teeth.
Exploding Heads Horror Movie Podcast runs on messy friendship, hard horror opinions, and a deep appetite for slashers old and new. Reviews sit beside release chatter, Fangoria memories, franchise speculation, physical-media brain, and sudden detours into whatever derailed the day.
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Exploding Heads Horror Movie Podcast is built for horror fans who already know the difference between a casual watch and a title that sticks in the collection. The show moves fast, but not cleanly. That is part of its appeal. A discussion of The Strangers Chapter 1 can slide into release-calendar talk about Terrifier 3, Saw 11, Longlegs, and Alien, then circle back to ratings and franchise fatigue. A Frogman episode can detour through Fangoria letters, Herschell Lewis, Star Wars, The Black Hole, and found-footage rankings before landing on a final judgment. The hosts sound most at home when the subject is slashers. They count them, rank them, chase the ones they missed, and worry aloud about whether they have watched enough before a milestone episode. New horror gets attention too. Founder's Day, Departing Seniors, Humongous, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Frogman, The Strangers Chapter 1, and You'll Never Find Me all appear as part of a larger, ongoing watch log. The show is loose enough to include sickness, scheduling problems, nicknames, missed celebration graphics, work stories, and family-day frustration. It is also knowledgeable enough that those tangents rarely feel empty. The older solo-cast material shows another gear: prepared horror-history storytelling, Canadian horror context, body-horror appreciation, and a personal top-ten sensibility. Even there, the voice stays fannish and direct. Exploding Heads does not sand down its opinions into neutral criticism. It likes dumb charm when dumb charm works. It can be impatient with hype. It can defend a rough movie, dismiss a dull one, or admit when nostalgia is carrying extra weight. The comedy can be crude, the rhythm chaotic, and the talk frequently adult. For the right listener, that is the draw: horror criticism that sounds less like a panel and more like being trapped in the best possible after-midnight movie argument.
Made for: For horror fans who want opinionated movie talk, especially around slashers, franchises, found footage, rankings, and overlooked genre titles. Best for listeners comfortable with chaotic banter and adult-edged humor.
What sets it apart: The show pairs real horror mileage with an unusually unfiltered hangout feel. It can move from Fangoria minutiae to franchise release speculation to a hard movie verdict without losing its sense of lived-in fandom.
Since 2015, Exploding Heads Horror Movie Podcast has been cracking wise, and giving informative reviews of horror movies old and new.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dave Z and Christian connect current horror releases to genre history through candid reviews, comparisons and spirited disagreement.
Dave Z and Christian turn horror criticism into an unruly conversation between viewers who remember the genre's history and keep track of its present.
Frogman reviews share oxygen with Fangoria letters and daily-life detours; you'll feel like horror night ran late.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose horror-podcast hangout built on nickname banter and easy chemistry.
Exploding Heads Horror Movie Podcast episode 245 is the kind of loose hangout that lives or dies on the people in the room, and here it works because Dave Z and Chainsaw Christian keep needling each other with real ease.
A loose, conversational horror hangout with The Strangers Chapter 1 at the center.
Episode 241 keeps its focus on The Strangers Chapter 1 after a run of slashers, movie chatter, and release talk. The strength is the back-and-forth: two hosts thinking out loud, trading blunt reactions, side jokes, and steady judgment without sanding off the edges.
Sick-day banter and old-school horror talk lead to a blunt Frogman verdict.
Episode 234 starts in sick-day mode, with Dave Z sounding rough while Christian keeps the pace steady. The talk wanders through older magazine-era horror memories before settling on Frogman, and the loose banter still lands because it never loses track of the point.
A scrappy horror hangout that moves from Steamboat Willie talk to real-life chaos.
Exploding Heads Horror Movie Podcast episode 228 plays like a loose horror hangout, moving from Steamboat Willie and Mickey Mouse horror chatter to Skinnamarink, schedule chaos, and the usual everyday griping.
A shaggy Canadian-horror tour that lands hardest when Cronenberg enters the chat.
Christian Luciani takes a solo pass through horror Canadiana with a quick mix of history, a director-led detour, and a top-ten list of Canadian horror favorites.
Three friends recap Daredevil, Fallout, and new releases scene by scene, in Spanish.
The hosts celebrate their 250th episode by discussing a trilogy of shows covering 100 movies each, with humorous banter.
Dave Z and Christian open with their usual nickname bit and immediately start needling each other.
Episode 241 comes in hot.
Two hosts discuss their progress watching slasher movies for the year and prepare for their 250th episode.
Dave Z sounds rough from the start.
Episode 228 opens with live-and-direct banter, Steamboat Willie and Mickey Mouse horror chatter, and the idea that a Suicide Mouse movie could be genuinely frightening.
Christian Luciani takes the third and final solo cast and dives straight into Canadian horror.