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Horror films retold scene by scene, then a mock curse.
I Hope You Suffer has Nathan, Kit and Katey retelling horror films such as Stage Fright (1987) and Alien Apocalypse (2005) plot point by plot point, stopping to mock a character's choices or pitch a better twist. Profane crosstalk, wandering tangents and a mock curse at sign-off fill out the episodes.
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I Hope You Suffer is a horror movie podcast where the plot recap does most of the work. Nathan, Kit and Katey take a single film per episode and walk through it scene by scene, paraphrasing the dialogue and stopping whenever a character does something that strikes them as absurd. Recent episode titles include Stage Fright (1987), Maniac Cop (1988), Killer Nerd (1991), Assault On Dome 4 (1996), Running Time (1997) and Alien Apocalypse (2005). Most of those date from the late eighties and nineties. Stage Fright shows the method clearly. Its recap relays Peter's speech about rushing the show out to capitalize on a death right before opening, then lands on Alice declining to take part. Maniac Cop gets the same close reading, down to a husband's curt reply to his worried wife, which is judged 'a little aggressive'. Killer Nerd yields a church-picnic brush-off retold beat by beat, and a line about a stiff upper lip that one of them rates as maybe the best in any movie. Verdicts arrive alongside the retelling. Running Time is pretty good, not great, with credit for its one-take conceit and a counter-proposal that the safe should have held nothing but dirty laundry. Assault On Dome 4 is written off as boring before the welcome has finished. Then come the tangents. One turns into advice for Elon Musk involving a werewolf, a metal skin suit and a rocket launcher, with detours into Diablo 4 and Elden Ring builds. Another floats swapping taglines for metalcore band names, with Nathan credited as able to supply them for years. Alien Apocalypse begins with a mix-up: one of them thought it was called Alien Invasion, a title shared by several films. The Assault On Dome 4 episode opens with a birthday greeting for Kit. The bookends hold steady across these episodes. Cold opens recite a film's tagline, or grumble that it lacks one, before the welcome. Sign-offs are mock curses pulled from the movie, like 'I hope you get thrown out a window by Maniac Cop', each met with a deadpan 'but why?' The crosstalk overlaps, the profanity never lets up and the humor runs crude. What a listener gets is a film's whole plot, told by three people ready to laugh at it.
Made for: Suits a listener who enjoys hearing a horror film's whole plot told by people ready to laugh at it, and who is comfortable with nonstop profanity and crude jokes.
What sets it apart: The heart of each episode is a full scene-by-scene retelling of the film, broken up by riffs and quick verdicts. In the recent episodes the bookends stay the same: a cold open built on the film's tagline and a closing mock curse pulled from the movie, answered with 'but why?'
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A backstage horror review finds grim comedy in a production willing to turn death into momentum.
Episode 391 reads Stage Fright as backstage horror built around a production that keeps grinding forward after Betty dies in the parking lot. Peter sees the crisis less as a tragedy than as a way to keep money and attention moving, pressing Ferrari for more cash, clearing out…
A vent-crawling space revolt gets the Bad Die Hard treatment, right down to a mouth-bomb goodbye.
A Sci-Fi Channel movie turns into a stress test for how far Bad Die Hard in space can go before the plot starts losing pressure. The hosts track the Peacekeeper in the vents, the freed prisoners, the Earth commander's phony food-drop play, Bruce using the captured commander as…
A loose, funny debrief finds craft in Running Time's one-take heist and comedy in its shaky criminals.
Running Time (1997) plays as a compact heist movie built around one big formal gamble: making the action feel like it unfolds in a single take.
A loose, dirty Maniac Cop discussion built around a killer tagline, domestic dread, and a deeply suspicious motel visit.
Episode 388 follows Maniac Cop into its grubby, uneasy setup, where a husband's night work, nightmares, and bursts of aggression leave his wife with reason to be scared.
A Bruce Campbell title hunt opens into a loose, actor-led tour of horror familiarity.
The episode uses a title hunt as its comic starting point, with the host reaching for Alien Invasion, remembering an earlier Alien-related mix-up, and working through Alien Apocalypse listings until Bruce Campbell becomes the clue that settles it.
Classic TV memory, fast and friendly.
Queer sitcom history, lovingly side-eyed.
Lost broadcasts, rebuilt from the evidence.
I Hope You Suffer Episode 391 covers Stage Fright (1987), and the hosts keep rotating through its alternate titles, including Bloody Bird, Deliria, Aquarius, and Theater of Delirium.
I Hope You Suffer episode 390 covers Assault On Dome 4 (1996), a Sci-Fi Channel prison-colony movie set on Mars.
Episode 389 of I Hope You Suffer covers Running Time (1997), a black-and-white Bruce Campbell crime film that the hosts keep comparing to a single-take experiment.
Episode 388 of I Hope You Suffer covers Maniac Cop (1988) and opens with the title line 'you have the right to remain silent forever.' Kit and Katie tie the film to Larry Cohen, William Lustig, Bruce Campbell, and the Nicholas Winding Refn remake conversation.
I Hope You Suffer episode 387 covers Alien Apocalypse (2005), the Bruce Campbell sci-fi movie the hosts had to sort out from other similarly named Tubi titles.
I Hope You Suffer episode 386 covers Bruce Campbell's 2007 horror comedy My Name Is Bruce, in which a fan kidnaps a washed-up Campbell to fight a Chinese bean-curd god in a small town.
I Hope You Suffer: A Horror Movie Podcast spends its Killer Nerd (1991) episode on Toby Radloff's deadpan Harold, including the line 'Roses are red, violets are placid' before the acid attack payoff.
["Episode 384 of I Hope You Suffer covers Graveyard Shark (2024), a Tubi monster movie built around one ripped cemetery shark.", "Katie and Kit spend most of the discussion on Abby, Greg, and Captain Seaburn, whose free-donut shouting, mermaid confession, and shark-baby backstory drive the funniest stretches.", "The middle leans on survivor stories from Chip, a model with a fans-site shoot, and Doug and Pookie's ice-cream-and-weed detours.", "The last stretch turns toward the sheriff's cemetery secret, while the hosts keep returning to the practical suit, the grotesque effects, and the movie's filthy dialogue."]
The hosts review 1985's Dr.
Deathstalker (2025) is the center of I Hope You Suffer: A Horror Movie Podcast episode 381, and Nathan and Katie spend most of the discussion on practical effects, creature suits, and dense background design.
A podcast host and guest discuss the 2014 Lifetime unauthorized movie about Saved by the Bell.
A podcast episode reviewing Rob Zombie's 2009 film Halloween II, discussing its flaws and the host's shifting opinion on Zombie's work.
The hosts humorously discuss the homoerotic undertones of the obscure horror film Bigfoot vs.
A discussion about Rob Zombie's 2007 Halloween remake, comparing it to the original and analyzing the performances.
A podcast episode reviewing the 2005 horror film The Devil's Rejects, discussing its taglines and the host's project to rewatch all Rob Zombie movies with guests.