Horror series, taken apart one entry at a time.
Kill Streak works through horror film series film by film, with Eric Gosselin and Mike Price trading production history, effects talk and blunt verdicts. Its episode list includes two Tetsuo films, the 2001 Pulse alongside its 2006 remake, and the 2002 Resident Evil.
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Kill Streak is a horror film podcast built around series rather than single titles, taken one entry at a time. Eric Gosselin introduces each episode, and Mike Price is there beside him, as always. A stretch of the episode list shows how this works. Two Tetsuo films sit side by side, the 2001 Pulse is paired with its 2006 remake, and the 2002 Resident Evil comes next. Much of the substance is production history. The Resident Evil conversation explains how Constantine Film, a German production company, bought the rights to the games, a deal the pair doubt a company of that kind could land today. It also notes that the film once stood as the highest-grossing video game adaptation before being overtaken. The Tetsuo: The Iron Man discussion weighs the romance of a scrappy shoot against working conditions they say would not be acceptable now, with Texas Chainsaw as the comparison. For the 2001 Pulse, the talk traces a filmmaker's path through the Sundance Institute program to Cure, described as a supernatural crime thriller about a murderous impulse that spreads between people like a virus. Effects are a favorite tangent. The Tetsuo II conversation brings in tokusatsu, with its miniatures and suits, and the pair declare that they will take practical over digital any day of the week. Asked for a digital effect that truly earned its place, one of them picks Irreversible, calling it a blend of practical and digital work. Opinions arrive without hedging. The 2006 Pulse is called maybe the worst remake they have done, a film that feels as if a machine had been taught every bad habit of the aughts remake wave and then turned loose on the original. That complaint widens into unease about 'AI slop' reshaping language and, soon, films. There is practical advice as well. One episode closes with a push to get a library card for free streaming, and another considers renting a film so a little money reaches Tsukamoto. Listeners get pulled in directly, too, as when an episode opens by asking for help naming an old song, possibly from 1930s or 1940s cartoons, that neither man could place. Rituals hold the format together, from greetings matched to the film, such as 'zombie dogs' for Resident Evil, to a closing 'and as always' line that changes each time. The chat around the films is loose, covering new jobs, stacked side gigs, late nights and family life. The language is profane and the humor can be crude, but the film talk underneath stays detailed and specific.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants to follow a horror series film by film and enjoys production history, effects talk and blunt verdicts in loose, profane conversation. A good fit for someone as curious about cult titles like Tetsuo as about a big earner like Resident Evil.
What sets it apart: Instead of reviewing films one at a time in isolation, it works through a series entry by entry, sets originals against their remakes, and grounds its verdicts in how each film got made. Small rituals, like greetings matched to the film and a sign-off that changes every episode, give each installment its own flavor.
Kill Streak is a weekly podcast where we pick a horror movie franchise, and then every episode covers an entry in that series. We talk about the making of the movie, behind the scene stories, recap the plot, and then rate it using our patented Kill Streak criteria. Finally, we rank each movie in the series in our canonical order from worst to best. Brought to you by filmmakers, friendz, and horror dudez Eric Gosselin and Mike Price.
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A loose path from a mystery cartoon song to Resident Evil's strange place in early video-game movie history.
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A relaxed, effects-minded Killstreak discussion about tokusatsu, kaiju, and practical movie magic.
Killstreak lands best when the conversation presses on the friction between tokusatsu's miniatures-and-suits tradition and the hosts' clear affection for practical effects.
A compact, irritated teardown of Pulse (2006), from blue filters to bad CGI and remake-era instincts.
Killstreak turns a first-time watch of Pulse (2006) into a brisk autopsy of remake-era bad instincts. The episode fixes on the film's blue filters, overused CGI, computer-built spaces, and editing that strains for Tony Scott's velocity without his control.
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["Kill Streak episode 304 centers on Resident Evil (2002) and the broader question of what counts as the best video game adaptation.", "Eric Gosselin and Mike Price host the discussion, and they say the Resident Evil run exists because their friend Penelope asked for it.", "Their basic thesis is that the Resident Evil movie matters because the games have wild stories, but the film chooses a simpler route.", "They start by listing early adaptations like Super Mario Bros.
Kill Streak's `Tetsuo II: Body Hammer` episode spends as much time on Shudder, Cineverse, and Lucky McKee's `May` as it does on the film itself.
["Killstreak episode 302 turns from the Pulse sequels to Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 Tetsuo: The Iron Man, a 67-minute cult film built around black-and-white body horror.", "Eric Gosselin and Mike Price frame Tsukamoto as a one-person production force, naming him as writer, director, producer, cinematographer, co-star, and editor.", "They spend most of the discussion on Kei Fujiwara's apartment shoot, the 18-month production, the rough $100,000 budget, and the way the film moved through the festival circuit.", "Their reading centers on a salaryman, a metal fetishist, metallic scabs, and a woman with tentacles, making the film feel like a Tokyo urban nightmare rather than a conventional plot."]
Kill Streak frames Pulse (2006) as a Romanian-shot remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's original Japanese Pulse, then spends much of the episode on how Dimension, Wes Craven, Vince Gilligan, and Jim Sonzero reshaped the project.
Kill Streak's `Pulse (2006)` episode treats the film as a failed American remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's `Cairo`, not as a standalone horror title.
Killstreak examines Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 Japanese horror film Pulse, known in Japan as Kairo, against the early-internet culture of its release year.
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Eric Gosselin and Mike Price review Texas Chainsaw 3D after discussing Dark City, Send Help, Underwater, and Rogue.
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