Slaughterhouse Princess

Slaughterhouse Princess is a horror movie podcast with a fixed routine and little interest in staying on script. Chris and Troy take on one film per episode, and the conversation is loose, salty in places and frequently sidetracked. Episodes open with 'This time on Slaughterhouse Princess', the film's name, a tagline-style line and a quick joke. Next comes some version of the question that gets things moving, how does the movie begin, followed by a plot retelling that can run nearly scene by scene. The recent run shows how wide the net is. Mikey, Ravenous, Timberfall Massacre, Freaky, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and Iron Sky: The Coming Race sit side by side. Timberfall Massacre is introduced as a slasher, Ravenous turns out to be about cannibalism, and Freaky gets billed as a basic switch with a killer new look. How the picks arrive is part of the fun. Ravenous was a recommendation from one of the two, made with a promise that the verdict on it would come before the episode ends. Mikey came from a source the pair call only 'the horse', who, they say, watches a few minutes of a film and then suggests it. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein stood in for a requested Wolfman title that, as far as they could tell, does not exist, and they accepted it because it features the Wolfman heavily. Along the way, the commentary gets specific. A killer's thrift-store flannel, the question of how a cannibal might cook and a child actor's oddly spaced eyes each get their moment. Tangents arrive without warning: Star Trek red shirts during Iron Sky, a friend's son named Ben, an open plea for anyone with synesthesia to say what color a voice is. The humor is self-deprecating rather than combative, and one sign-off pauses to point out that the pair are not aggressive people. The show has a long memory, too. Someone named Christian is credited on air as the podcast's lore keeper, and one episode marks the 11th anniversary of a running gag the pair trace back to a 2015 recording. Callbacks point to older episodes, including one they call their black cat episode. The format can bend: one episode swaps the usual introductions for Chris Bot and Troy Bot, with a Matt Bot announcing chapter headings such as First Impressions. Endings follow a pattern: the next film gets named, sometimes after an admission that nobody remembers which one it is, and a Discord or Patreon channel may get a plug. Then comes the farewell, a line about other podcasts thinking about movies while this one drinks about them, reworded as eating about movies ahead of Ravenous and capped with 'This transmission is finished' after Iron Sky.