Hack or Slash
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Each week a panel of horror fans discuss horror movies past and present. We believe horror is for everyone, regardless of how familiar you are with the genre, or which flavor of fear you fancy most. We dissect new releases, compare originals to reboots, and tell you whether or not the movies are a hack (a waste of time) or a slash (totally killer - pun intended).
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Its panel format turns horror verdicts into specific arguments about craft, continuity, kills, and the expectations carried by familiar franchises.
Hack or Slash turns horror reviews into panel arguments, with Chris guiding contrasting reactions toward individual hack-or-slash verdicts. The conversation moves between immediate pleasures and larger questions of craft: suspense, practical effects, endings, character choices,…
A gore score and an animal report: your horror-night group chat could use this agenda.
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A split horror review weighs whether whispers, waiting, and atmosphere can carry the whole movie.
Undertone comes through as a horror review centered on voices, recordings, and the uneasy thought that a podcast host's work can start bleeding into her life.
Round three turns horror's most stubborn survivors into a lively test of lore, voting power, and story logic.
Resilience is the organizing idea in this round of the 2026 Horror Games, with Chris, host and mentor for District 4, and Chell, the monster madness game maker, talking through how sixteen tributes become eight.
A long-promised slasher collision becomes a campy, bloody main event with nostalgic firework-show energy.
Freddy vs. Jason lands as the payoff to a slasher matchup that had been promised for years, and the episode treats it as both franchise celebration and movie review.
A horror tournament recap where origin stories, fan votes, and the Babadook's stubborn survival all matter.
The second round of the 2026 Horror Games treats the bracket less as a tally of kills than as a question of origin: were these figures always doomed to become monsters, or did the world shape them that way?
A theatrical first-round recap where horror upsets, sharp judgment, and tournament ritual share the stage.
Monster Madness opens as a compact horror pageant, sending 64 tributes into the arena and moving 32 forward while Chris, mentoring District 4, and Chell, shaping the game, turn a recap into genre theater.
A franchise-sized letdown that is still watchable and sometimes fun.
Scream 7 comes off as a franchise-sized mess, and the conversation gets right to why: Christopher Landon’s aborted turn in the chair, the fallout around Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, and a film that already feels bruised before the knives even come out.
Webcam dread and online unease, with an ending that pushes too hard.
The Den keeps its premise simple and unsettling: a 2013 horror story built from laptops, webcams, and chat windows, with a graduate student studying webcam culture until watching starts to look like exposure.
A classic paranoia story that shows dread can be louder than gore.
This episode reads Jack Finney's story as a black-and-white paranoia machine, set in Santa Mira and centered on a doctor who starts to realize his neighbors no longer seem like themselves while nothing obvious is wrong.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Deborah Treisman and a guest writer read and dissect one archival short story monthly.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman find queer subtext in everything from Anaconda to The Mummy.
The hosts review the 1987 sequel Slumber Party Massacre 2, discussing its feminist origins, director constraints, and blending of slasher and musical genres.
A panel of horror fans reviews the 1995 direct-to-video sequel Tremors 2: Aftershocks, discussing its merits as a follow-up to the original.
The hosts review the horror film Ready or Not 2, discussing its plot and whether it lives up to the original.
A panel of horror fans discusses a Monster Madness Tournament, analyzing matchups and upsets among horror movie characters.
A panel of horror fans reviews the Rob Zombie film '31', discussing its plot, production, and whether it's a 'hack' or a 'slash'.
A horror movie review podcast panel discusses a tournament-style comparison of horror characters from different eras.
The hosts recap round four of the Horror Games, where tributes competed for most creative kills, revealing the Fearsome Four winners: Frankenstein's monster, Jennifer Check, The Thing, and Art the Clown.
Poor video you can forgive. Poor audio will destroy you. Undertone proves sound design is horror's new frontier.
The 2026 Horror Games tournament: monster matchups, upsets, and the quest for horror supremacy
This movie stopped trying to scare you and became pure cinematic theater instead.
Welcome to Monster Madness: where 64 horror icons battle for supremacy.
Christopher Landon’s Scream 7 story starts like a dream job and ends like a mess.
Hack or Slash builds its take on The Den around a simple, unsettling idea: the internet could be the camera.
Hack or Slash digs into the first film adaptation of Jack Finney’s 1954 science fiction story, set in the fictional California town of Santa Mira.
Chris, Mac, and Sean wrap up The Strangers: Chapter 3 with a spoiler-heavy verdict.
This movie forces you to watch people be harmed, animals killed, and then asks you to reflect on why you're watching.
Chris, Sean, and Binx dig into 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple with the kind of energy you get from a panel that knows this franchise has gotten delightfully weird.
This week, the show turns its attention to *Good Boy* (2025), a supernatural horror film about a dog who senses something is wrong in a rural house before his owner fully does.
I've been stuck on a mountain in Iceland with no GPS, no cell, barely gas—this movie nails that friendship strain.
Hacker Slash closes out 2025 with its Slasher's Choice Awards, a year-end look back at horror with Chris, Sean, Vinx, Chell, and Nathan on the panel.
Chris opens with the familiar Hacker Slash welcome and introduces Sean and Binks.
Chris opens with a welcome, some follow-up, and a quick setup for the week's horror review agenda.
Chris, Mac, Sean, and Vinks take on Bambi: The Reckoning with the usual mix of horror-movie banter and blunt judgment.
The show's patrons picked Cloverfield for the week.
Chris, Mac, Sean, and Binks dig into the latest adaptation of a Mary Shelley novel.
Chris and Sean take on The Phantom of the Opera from 1925.
Chris kicks things off with spooky-season greetings and a simple hack-or-slash promise.
Chris, Sean, and Binks dig into Black Phone 2 with spoilers on and the kill count under a microscope.
The hosts introduce their podcast and newsletter, welcoming new listeners and previewing spooky season content.
The hosts introduce a bonus episode about creating a 31-day horror movie watch list for October.
A horror movie review podcast offers a bonus episode on how to help scaredy cats enjoy horror films through exposure therapy and inclusivity.
The hosts kick off a tournament to crown the greatest horror villain of all time, reflecting on early round upsets.