Slice By Slice

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Spoiler-heavy horror talk, one category at a time.

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Slice By Slice treats horror as both comfort food and serious obsession. Jesse and Josh work through slashers, vampires, haunted houses, gateway horror, franchise sequels, and horror-adjacent detours with loose banter and detailed spoilers.

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About Slice By Slice

Slice By Slice is a horror discussion show shaped by categories, franchises, directors, and the habits of people who keep horror in their regular calendar. Jesse and Josh anchor most of the excerpts as speakers. Their conversations are loose, direct, and spoiler-forward, with the kind of pacing that moves from a plot beat to a joke to a serious continuity complaint without stopping to reset the room. The show is especially at home with franchise logic. Scream episodes become arguments about openings, characters, missing references, survival plausibility, and what a new generation of fans loses when earlier characters are brushed aside. That same attention carries into gateway horror, where a family-facing film can still prompt detailed talk about creepy imagery, foreshadowing, story rules, and visual style. Slice By Slice also has room for horror fandom as lived experience. Halloween plans, rainy trick-or-treating, pumpkin beer, home theater double features, and Halloween Horror Nights Orlando sit beside conventional movie review material. The result feels less like a clean critic’s desk and more like a long-running horror friendship with microphones nearby. It can be rough around the edges. Episodes mention recording problems, busy schedules, missed plans, and the effort of keeping the show moving while life gets in the way. That informality is part of the identity. The conversations still carry plenty of specific opinion, from praise for period detail and costume work to impatience with abrupt endings or character choices that do not track. Kevin Smith’s work becomes a chance to talk about youth, comedy, horror adjacency, Red State, Tusk, and the way a filmmaker’s voice can follow fans over time. Evil Dead, Renfield, Bruce Campbell events, haunted houses, slashers, vampires, and horror icons all fit under the same broad umbrella. Slice By Slice suits horror fans who like spoilers, side roads, personal context, and candid reactions more than tidy scorekeeping. It is fan criticism with a backlog, a calendar, and a lot of opinions.

Made for: For horror fans who want detailed, informal conversations about franchises, subgenres, seasonal viewing, and fan expectations. It especially fits listeners who do not mind spoilers and prefer opinionated back-and-forth over polished criticism.

What sets it apart: Slice By Slice mixes category-based horror analysis with the texture of an ongoing friendship: scheduling chaos, Halloween rituals, theme-park trips, theater reactions, and blunt franchise debate. Its strength is the way it treats horror fandom as both analysis and everyday life.

In their own words

Slice By Slice, a podcast where we dissect and discuss horror films by categories and subgenres, such as slashers, vampires, franchises, and directors bodies of work.

Why you'd press play

Jesse and Josh question a slasher's ambulance timeline until you start checking the clock too.

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  • to hear a Scream 7 survival argument with the spoilers fully out in the open
  • to hear two friends disagree about Nosferatu without treating either reaction as the final word
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Gateway HorrorApr 1, 2026

A trapped storyteller, a glowing-eyed captor, and a haunted playground drive a sharp, funny horror breakdown.

Gateway Horror settles around a horror film with Alex trapped into reading stories for Natasha, a glowing-eyed captor who can turn a door into a wall and shake the house when a tale fails her.

Scream 7 Fully Spoiled ReviewMar 4, 2026

A spoiler-heavy Scream 7 bonus discussion driven by continuity complaints, franchise memory, and the Stu Mocker debate.

Slice by Slice treats Scream 7 as a spoiler-heavy bonus round, with Jesse and Josh unpacking the film after seeing it together the day before.

Season 7 PremiereFeb 1, 2025

A relaxed season opener weighs Nosferatu's abrupt ending against the pull of historical horror craft.

Slice by Slice starts its seventh season in a relaxed, reflective mode, with Jesse and Josh looking back at the show's run, its changing episode counts, and the milestone of episode 96.

Halloween 2024Nov 1, 2024

A relaxed Halloween check-in built around holiday plans, family routines, and horror-night habits.

Halloween 2024 catches Jesse and Josh easing back in after a break, checking in on how they are spending the holiday and why the show had gone quiet.

Kevin Smith Part 1Oct 16, 2024

A warm Kevin Smith origin story that turns personal fandom into setup for the horror conversation ahead.

Kevin Smith Part 1 treats a director-centered horror conversation as a story about how fandom takes root. Jesse and Josh place Smith squarely in their younger years, shaped by the timing of his humor and by the way they grew alongside his writing.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Gateway Horror

    Hidden gem

    Jesse and Josh introduce their horror film podcast, apologize for audio issues, and announce new merchandise.

    Apr 1, 2026·24m·1 clip
  2. 2

    Friday the 13th Returns

    Mar 14, 2026·3h 13m
  3. 3

    Scream 7 Fully Spoiled Review

    Hidden gem

    Jesse and Josh spoil and discuss Scream 7 in a bonus episode of their horror podcast Slice by Slice.

    Mar 4, 2026·1h 15m·2 clips
  4. 4

    Season 8 Premiere and the Friday the 13th Franchise

    Feb 28, 2026·3h 24m
  5. 5

    Season 7 Finale and Christmas 2025

    Feb 7, 2026·3h 36m
  6. 6

    HHN Orlando 2025 and Creepshow

    Jan 1, 2026·2h 3m
  7. 7

    The Wraith

    Oct 17, 2025·2h 5m
  8. 8

    Leigh Whannell Part 2

    Aug 11, 2025·2h 44m
  9. 9

    Leigh Whannell Part 1

    Jun 28, 2025·2h 3m
  10. 10

    April Fool's Day

    Apr 1, 2025·2h 4m
  11. 11

    Supernatural Thrillers Part 2

    Mar 18, 2025·2h 30m
  12. 12

    Supernatural Thrillers Part 1

    Feb 28, 2025·3h 8m
  13. 13

    Season 7 Premiere

    Hidden gem

    The hosts of Slice by Slice celebrate the start of their seventh season by reflecting on the podcast's history and discussing their approach to horror film analysis.

    Feb 1, 2025·1h 13m·2 clips
  14. 14

    Christmas 2024

    Dec 31, 2024·2h 53m
  15. 15

    Kevin Smith Part 2

    Nov 1, 2024·2h 36m
  16. 16

    Halloween 2024

    Hidden gem

    Jesse and Josh return for a Halloween 2024 episode of their horror film podcast, acknowledging their hiatus and listener concerns.

    Nov 1, 2024·1h 27m·2 clips
  17. 17

    Kevin Smith Part 1

    The hosts of Slice by Slice discuss their delayed podcast schedule due to personal life challenges and introduce their upcoming episode on Kevin Smith.

    Oct 16, 2024·1h 36m·2 clips
  18. 18

    The Terminator Franchise

    Jul 17, 2024·3h 33m
  19. 19

    M. Night Shyamalan

    May 13, 2024·3h 20m
  20. 20

    Mad Scientists

    Apr 1, 2024·2h 52m
  21. 21

    The Happy Death Day Franchise

    Mar 15, 2024·2h 55m
  22. 22

    Horror Musicals 2

    Feb 10, 2024·2h 48m
  23. 23

    Christmas 2023

    Jan 8, 2024·2h 29m
  24. 24

    Halloween Horror Nights 32 Orlando

    Four days at Disney World left Jesse exhausted for Halloween Horror Nights 32, complicating his comparison with the previous year's visit.

    Dec 17, 2023·1h 44m·2 clips
  25. 25

    David Gordon Green's Halloween Trilogy

    Nov 1, 2023·4h 30m
  26. 26

    The Terrifier Franchise

    Oct 9, 2023·2h 51m
  27. 27

    Hero-Horror

    Sep 6, 2023·3h 48m
  28. 28

    André Øvredal

    Jul 10, 2023·2h 29m
  29. 29

    BRUCE-O-RAMA, Renfield, and Evil Dead Rise

    Josh says the April 7 Bruce Campbell event paired Evil Dead 2 with a cave screening at the Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee.

    May 23, 2023·1h 32m·2 clips
  30. 30

    The Home Alone Franchise

    Apr 2, 2023·3h 4m
  31. 31

    The Babysitter Franchise

    Mar 18, 2023·3h 11m
  32. 32

    Scream 6 Fully Spoiled Discussion

    Jesse and Josh of Slice By Slice break down Scream 6’s killers, callbacks, and character choices.

    Mar 14, 2023·42m·2 clips
  33. 33

    Scream 6 Spoiler Free Discussion

    Jesse and Josh discuss their spoiler-free thoughts on Scream 6, promising a detailed spoiler-filled follow-up episode.

    Mar 14, 2023·12m
  34. 34

    They Came From Outer Space

    Feb 3, 2023·3h 36m
  35. 35

    Season Five Preview and thoughts on recent films and trailers

    Jan 23, 2023·9m
  36. 36

    Alien Franchise

    Dec 31, 2022·2h 49m
  37. 37

    Christmas 2022

    Dec 25, 2022·1h 41m
  38. 38

    Cosmic Horror

    Nov 26, 2022·2h 15m
  39. 39

    Halloween Ends Discussion

    Nov 2, 2022·31m
  40. 40

    Halloween Horror Nights 31

    Nov 1, 2022·1h 55m
  41. 41

    Halloween 2022 Update

    Oct 26, 2022·5m
  42. 42

    Wan and Flanagan Revisited Part 2

    Sep 22, 2022·1h 32m
  43. 43

    Wan and Flanagan Revisited Part 1

    Sep 6, 2022·2h 3m
  44. 44

    Jaws Franchise Part 1

    Jun 13, 2022·2h 2m
  45. 45

    Updates and Friday the 13th

    May 14, 2022·9m
  46. 46

    Alien Abductions

    Mar 15, 2022·1h 49m
  47. 47

    Scream 5 Ultimate Spoiler Edition

    Jesse and Josh return with a bonus episode spoiling Scream 5 after a delayed season start.

    Jan 28, 2022·50m
  48. 48

    Christmas 2021

    Dec 28, 2021·2h 7m
  49. 49

    Rob Zombie's Halloween Franchise

    Oct 31, 2021·3h 6m
  50. 50

    Horror Musicals

    Oct 11, 2021·1h 56m