Spooko

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Horror recaps with panic, jokes, and heart.

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Spooko is a loose, spoiler-heavy horror recap show built around Peach and Shag talking through scary films, one plot at a time. The appeal is the sideways motion: a movie becomes a way into friendship, exhaustion, politics, Reddit, rap, parenting, and why a title can feel cursed before the story even starts.

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About Spooko

Spooko is a horror recap show with the nervous system of a late-night friendship spiral. Peach and Shag use scary movies, bleak thrillers, and feel-bad curiosities as the stated subject, then let the conversation behave like real conversation: circling, interrupting, apologizing, doubling back, and suddenly landing on something sharper than expected. The films matter. Wishmaster, Mother of Flies, The Long Walk, Eddington, Bugonia, and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You all become proper objects of attention, with plots, titles, dread mechanics, adaptations, and horror textures pulled apart in detail. But Spooko’s signature is how often the recap becomes something wider. A stressful movie can lead to talk about parenting, guilt, labor, patriarchy, political unease, or the emotional weather of getting through a difficult week. A Reddit AMA becomes a live study in community awkwardness and affection. An intermission can drift into Jadakiss, The LOX, new music, midlife mood, and the strange gift of finding the exact song at the exact moment. The show’s film criticism is powered by personality rather than polish. It cares about whether a title sounds wrong in the right way, whether a premise feels like work disguised as spectacle, and whether a movie leaves the kind of dark taste that only certain miserable treasures can manage. Peach and Shag can be ridiculous, sincere, politically blunt, and weirdly tender within the same run of speech. That instability is the point. Spooko works best for listeners who want horror handled by people who are both wary of it and fascinated by it, who would rather be carried through a synopsis by momentum, jokes, side roads, and friendship than by a clean critical rubric. It is for people who enjoy scary movies through their fingers, but also for people who like hearing two recurring voices turn fear into language until the whole thing feels survivable.

Made for: Best for horror-curious listeners who like spoilers, riff-heavy friendship chemistry, and conversations that wander far beyond the movie. It also suits people who enjoy film talk with personal stories, cultural tangents, and blunt comic energy.

What sets it apart: Spooko is less a formal review show than a live emotional processing machine for scary and bleak films. Its edge comes from Peach and Shag letting Wikipedia-style plot recaps collide with everyday stress, fandom, politics, parenting, and community in the same breath.

In their own words

Can't handle scary movies? Neither can legal influencer, sometimes rapper and general scaredy-cat Peach. To help him overcome his horror aversion, his best friend Shag is talking him through the plots, the kills, the blood and the thrills of iconic video nasties, one Wikipedia synopsis at a time.This is a recap podcast for anyone interested in scary movies, especially if you can only watch them through your fingers. Join the Feel Bad Club!

As heard by us

Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Spooko makes horror approachable through detailed recaps, comic friction and close attention to the fears a film leaves behind.

Peach and Shag turn horror recaps into loose, funny conversations about why a film frightens, troubles or fascinates them. Plot retelling supplies the spine, with Shag guiding Peach through each movie while both stop to test its logic, argue over genre and follow the…

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A Wikipedia synopsis stands between Peach and a horror film; you get the anxious running commentary.

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the plot of a scary movie without putting your own eyeballs through every jump scare
Peach and Shag's friendship to wander into sports analogies and still find its way back to the film

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307. If I Had Legs I'd Kick YouApr 19, 2026

A loose, anxious reading of a horror film where parenthood and dread keep tightening around each other.

Spooko frames If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as horror built from ordinary pressure: parenting, guilt, and the fear that control is always slipping.

302. Mother of FliesMar 8, 2026

A warm, unruly conversation about why Mother of Flies feels unsettling before it even begins.

Peach and Shag turn a spooky night in the FBI studios into a loose, affectionate discussion of Mother of Flies, starting with the title's pull toward flies, decay, and death before settling into its eerie promise.

301. The Long WalkFeb 22, 2026

A deadly endurance contest sparks a loose, politically alert conversation about labour, power and dystopian logic.

Peach and Shag use The Long Walk to talk through totalitarian spectacle, precarious work and the queasy logic of power. The deadly three-mile-per-hour rule doubles as a bleak employment metaphor: keep meeting the required output forever or be removed.

300. 28 Years Later: The Bone TempleFeb 15, 2026

A milestone horror discussion where fear, belief, politics, and friendship spill past the film.

The 300th episode turns a scary-movie setup into a relaxed, revealing conversation about fear, belief, and horror as a social habit. Peach and Shag start with the premise of Shag helping Peach face scary movies through Wikipedia synopses, then move into Spike, the Fingers, and…

299. KeeperFeb 8, 2026

A haunting opening image leads into a loose, lively conversation about horror, criticism, and separating art from its maker.

Spooko's "Keeper" treats a film discussion as a study of how quickly romance can tilt into the uncanny. Peach and Shag linger on the opening: a wordless, music-led POV sequence that follows women through relationships across different eras, from an eighteenth-century field to an…

304. AMA with Peach & Shag

A Reddit AMA gives Peach and Shag room to talk community, collaboration, and the pull of Australian horror.

Spooko uses a Reddit AMA as a relaxed conversation between Peach and Shag, with written questions coming in while they record from FBI studios.

235. The Nun II

A loose, specific conversation about The Nun 2's franchise knots, glowing medallion, and modest supernatural thrills.

Spooker's conversation about The Nun 2 treats a sequel-season assignment as a useful way into the difference between horror and thriller. Peach and Shag work through the slow-starting trailer, the nun's Marilyn Manson-like look, and the glowing medallion that nudges the story…

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Episodes

283. Infested feat. Dr Kelly Zimmerman

268. Milk & Serial feat. Tessa Prior – Part One

267. Alien: Romulus

[Intermission: Will We Cover The Haunting of Hill House?]

266. Handling the Undead

265. Heretic feat. Lee Tran Lam

264. Red Rooms

263. Exhuma

245. Arcadian

305. Wishmaster

303. Eddington

302. Mother of Flies

[Intermission: the passing of time]

301. The Long Walk

299. Keeper

[Intermission: Who is the annoying one?]

298. Thanksgiving

297. The Purge (Spooko Director's Cut)

296. Hereditary (Spooko Director's Cut)

[Intermission: 2026 Horror INs and OUTs]

295. Top 5 Horror Films of 2025

294. The Conjuring: Last Rites

293. The Devils feat. Francisco Silva

292. Frankenstein (2025)

[Intermission: Spooko Admin]

291. 28 Years Later

290. 28 Weeks Later

[Intermission: Peach's Three Ps]

288. Dangerous Animals

287. Nosferatu (2024) feat. Iolanthe Gabrie

286. The Damned

[Intermission: Tylenol eh?]

285. Weapons feat. Lee Tran Lam

284. The Mangler feat. The Last Video Store

255. Strange Darling

254. Oddity

253. Trap feat. Ruby Miles

[Intermission: A Special Request from Peach & Shag]

252. The Substance feat. Will Reichelt

251. In a Violent Nature

250. Terrifier 3

[Intermission: "Extreme Horror" ≠ Horror]

249. Woman of the Hour

248. The Platform 2

247. Dracula: Last Voyage of the Demeter

[Intermission: Peach's Shining Recap ft. Shag's Director's Commentary]

246. Maxxxine

244. Late Night with the Devil

243. Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood & Honey 2

[Intermission: Night Swim (cont.)]

242. Night Swim

241. The Devil's Bath (Des Teufels Bad)

240. Longlegs

[Intermission: Sequel Season is #cancelled / Coming up on Spooko]

239. Seed of Chucky

238. Bride of Chucky

237. Child's Play 3

236. Child's Play 2

[Intermission: We Could Beat Up Chucky]

234. Jason X

233. The First Omen

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232. Saw X

231. Saw II

230. Hellraiser 3: Hell On Earth

[Intermission: IYKIDK]

304. AMA with Peach & Shag

235. The Nun II

300. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

262. Thesis (Tesis)

289. 28 Days Later