Horror taste with a metaphysical pulse.
Shivers is a horror-minded culture show built around movie reviews, scary games, Stephen King, Halloween staples, and paranormal belief. It favors direct reactions over detached criticism, moving from ratings and cast details to personal taste, lore gaps, scares, and metaphysical side roads.
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Shivers is a horror-focused culture show where movies, games, books, paranormal belief, and metaphysical reflection share the same haunted hallway. The center is taste. Episodes often begin with a simple frame, such as a new movie review, a seasonal recap, a Stephen King chronology, or a game-inspired ranking challenge. From there, the speaker talks through the material with direct likes, dislikes, caveats, and comparisons. The reviews are practical. They cover casts, story setup, audience scores, spoiler boundaries, pacing, lore, creature design, adaptation choices, and whether the movie actually earns its premise. A film such as Iron Lung is evaluated through its connection to a video game, its crowdfunding context, and the kind of audience likely to respond to it. The Housemaid is handled as a spoiler-limited mystery review, with attention to its cast and its A Simple Favor-like energy. Trick r Treat receives the warmer treatment of a personal Halloween classic, complete with affection for Sam and the rules of the season. The recap is sharper. It ranks theatrical horror releases from weakest to strongest and is willing to say when a movie has good ideas but flat storytelling. Games matter just as much. Outlast is described through pressure, darkness, batteries, grotesque storytelling, and limit-testing fear, while Madison is treated as a slower, story-led scare. Supermassive Games appears through the lens of choose-your-own-adventure horror and adaptation disappointment. Stephen King episodes bring order to a huge body of work, moving from Carrie, Salem’s Lot, Rage, and The Shining into the wider web of novels, movies, novellas, and reputation. Shivers also has a metaphysical side. Those episodes discuss Catholic upbringing, crystals, psychic fairs, ghosts, Mercury retrograde, the age of Aquarius, astral projection, dreams, energy healing, and personal accountability. The tone can be urgent. It is not academic criticism, and it is not detached paranormal reporting. Shivers works best as a guided tour through one horror fan’s evolving map of fear, story, intuition, and taste. It suits listeners who want clear opinions, genre context, and a little occult weather in the forecast.
Made for: Shivers is for horror fans who enjoy opinionated reviews, seasonal genre traditions, scary games, Stephen King, and paranormal curiosity in the same feed. It also suits listeners who prefer conversational criticism over polished academic analysis.
What sets it apart: Shivers stands apart by treating horror fandom and metaphysical belief as connected parts of the same emotional landscape. Its reviews are grounded in cast, story, ratings, and lore, but they are filtered through personal fear history, intuition, and strong genre allegiance.
Communication beyond the grave, Shivers is where horror, paranormal, and intuition collide. Shivers creates immersive horror-inspired experiences that blend mystery & macabre, inviting guests to explore the strange & unusual and face their own fears. All are welcome, no matter the level of horror fandom or metaphysical curiosity. Check out our weekly podcast with episodes about upcoming horror movies, stories, psychology behind scares, paranormal happenings, and more!
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A personal horror-game canon where childhood fear, zombies, puzzles, and Outlast's limits all meet.
Shivers turns a horror-game rundown into a clear portrait of one host's taste, beginning with childhood fear, an early pull toward ghosts and the paranormal, and a zombie fixation shaped by playing Call of Duty with a brother.
Three friends recap Daredevil, Fallout, and new releases scene by scene, in Spanish.
Slasher talk with sharp teeth.
Shivers reviews The Backrooms, a 2026 horror film set partly in 1990 and built around liminal spaces, memory, reflection, and architectural patterns.
Shivers reviews Curry Barker's horror film Obsession, which the host rates 4.2 out of 5 and praises for its 5 out of 5 originality.
Shivers host interviews David, a chemical engineer from New England, about a dream that followed watching The Black Phone trailer and reading The Empire of the Sun.
Shivers reviews Hocum, Damian McCarthy’s horror film starring Adam Scott as writer Om Bauman, released May 1 and rated 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The host plays a game of Higher or Lower, guessing which horror movies have higher IMDb ratings.
On Shivers, the host closes out a month of inspiration episodes with a rundown of the horror and horror-adjacent video games that shaped her love of the genre, starting with Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies and its Alcatraz DLC map.
A review of the new horror movie Iron Lung, adapted from a video game, discussing its plot, reception, and comparison to other films.
A chronological walkthrough of Stephen King's novels and their film adaptations, with historical context.
The host recaps and ranks all 2025 horror movies reviewed on the show, from lowest to highest rated.
A spoiler-free review of the upcoming horror mystery film 'The Housemaid', discussing its cast, director, and plot.
The host reviews the horror movie Trick 'r Treat, discussing its plot, director, and the character Sam.
A review of the classic stop-motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas, discussing its plot, characters, and themes of stagnation and freedom.
A movie review of the new horror film Hymn, discussing its themes of sacrifice and fame in the context of football and haunted house experiences.
A late-night review of the new Conjuring movie, discussing its plot, true story basis, and connections to the franchise.
A late-night movie review of the horror film 'Weapons', analyzing its structure, characters, and themes without major spoilers.
Heather Leah discusses her upcoming books on North Carolina ghost towns, including underwater ghost towns, and her broader content on historic cemeteries.
This episode reviews the new movie '28 Years Later', discussing its plot, connections to previous films in the series, and the apocalyptic rage virus storyline.
The host breaks down the entire Saw movie franchise, starting with the first film's plot and characters.