Horror talk with sharp teeth.
The Corpse Cast Horror Podcast pairs horror movie talk with messy friend chemistry, from body horror and Dracula variants to folk-horror vampires and Lovecraft material. It is less polished lecture than rowdy after-movie argument, with jokes, detours, and sudden bursts of close scene memory.
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The Corpse Cast Horror Podcast is built for horror movies that invite argument. Recent conversations circle body horror, Dracula adaptations, Eastern European folk horror, Christmas horror, teen paranoia films, Lovecraft material, and revenge-horror pairings. The frame is simple: Mike and Matt talk through movies, drift into jokes, double back into details, and keep the show moving through the rhythm of two people who clearly have a long-running bit-based rapport. It is rough-edged by design. The intros lean theatrical, the banter can turn abrasive, and the discussion often treats a movie’s strangest choices as the best place to start thinking. The show is especially alive around horror textures: old VHS memory, cheap or aging effects, practical gore, strange soundtrack choices, folk logic, sleazy screen presence, and the way a horror film can be both ridiculous and effective. One minute the conversation is about The Stuff or The Substance. The next it is about Dracula, Nosferatu, Leptirica, Viy, Dead End, Inside, The Faculty, Disturbing Behavior, Dagon, The Lighthouse, The Virgin Spring, or The Last House on the Left. The titles give the show its range. The talk gives it its personality. Mike and Matt do not present horror as museum material. They handle it like something watched, rewound, argued over, laughed at, and half-defended even when it falls apart. That gives the show a fan-shop quality without turning it into trivia recitation. It can notice production history, performers, adaptations, and genre context, but it is just as comfortable stopping on a weird line reading, a questionable effect, or a scene that made no clean sense. The humor is blunt. The affection is real. For listeners who prefer tidy criticism, the looseness may feel chaotic. For listeners who want horror conversation with dirt under its nails, that looseness is the point. The Corpse Cast makes genre enthusiasm feel social: opinionated, profane in spirit, tangent-heavy, and willing to roast the movies it still wants to keep talking about.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes horror criticism with friend banter, horror-film memory, and room for messy tangents. Best for someone comfortable with blunt humor and adult genre material.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its collision of deep horror-film recall and deliberately unruly comic rapport. It treats obscure, old, sleazy, and uneven horror as conversation fuel rather than polished canon.
Join Mike Cadaver, and the Magnificent Meat-Castle: Matt Wall, as they discuss Horror in all its incarnations. Episodes may include lists, reviews, etc… fun for the whole family!* *Not recommended for the whole family.
A vampire in and out of her coffin gets the 'wait, how?' treatment you secretly wanted.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A toxic-product horror recap where grim turns keep getting interrupted by Mike and Matt's unruly banter.
Episode 389 treats the film's toxic product as a loose, joke-heavy recap, from the warning not to eat the Stuff to the broadcast-room push to tell everyone it is dangerous, the claim that only a thousand people died, and the return to the Stuff's headquarters.
Two Draculas lead to movie memories, loose jokes, and a lively voyage with Demeter.
The Corpse Cast pairs two Dracula films and lets Mike and Matt work through them with the easy rhythm of friends trying to make each other laugh.
A rowdy, curious dive into Leptirica's vampire mysteries and the folklore that may be tangled inside its contradictions.
Corpse Cast turns Leptirica into a lively, loose-limbed argument about the film's strange vampire logic. Mike and Mattson trace Radolchka from the wound in her gut to the supposed grave of Sava, then worry over the impossible details: how she rises from a coffin, appears beyond…
A loose Christmas-horror chat gets loud, messy, and funny, with Inside coming out ahead.
The CorpseCast treats Christmas horror less like a formal review slot than a rowdy hangout, with Mike and Wattwall pushing the movie talk through disbelief, jokes, and detours.
A warm, crude, nostalgia-heavy return to The Faculty, carried by remembered details and loose cohost chemistry.
The Corpse Cast Episode 384 revisits The Faculty as a fond reunion with teenage horror energy. Mike and Matthew move easily from Katie Holmes and thick eyeliner to the fun of recognizing Shooter McGavin in the cast, letting remembered details carry the conversation.
Reddit nightmares, cleanly narrated and sharply turned.
The hosts discuss three obscure horror films featuring Clint Howard, including Bloodrayne: The Third Reich, Ice Cream Man, and Evilspeak.
The hosts of The CorpseCast discuss Christmas horror movies and share personal ghost stories in their 2024 Christmas special.
The Corpse Cast Horror Podcast episode 389 centers on body-horror satire, with Mike and Matt explicitly comparing The Stuff (1985) and The Substance (2024).
The Corpse Cast Episode 388 covers shot-on-video horror, pairing Donald Farmer's Cannibal Hookers (1987) with Camp Blood (2000).
The Corpse Cast compares Universal’s 1931 Dracula with its Spanish-language version, both made on the same sets with different casts and directors.
The Corpse Cast Episode 386 covers two Eastern European folk-horror films, Viy and Leptirica, with the hosts framing both around rural villages, Christianity, and local superstition.
The Corpse Cast Episode 385 reviews Dead End (2003) and Inside (2007), two Christmas Eve horror films that Mike and Wattwall call a "no vibes Christmas special." The hosts examine Dead End's car-bound family horror, Ray Wise's performance, its 6.4 IMDb rating from 35,000 ratings, and its reported 77-million-dollar DVD revenue.
The Corpse Cast hosts Mike and Matthew examine the “floating head” artwork associated with 1990s VHS and DVD horror covers through The Faculty and Disturbing Behavior, both identified as 1998 films.
The Corpse Cast Episode 382 compares Stuart Gordon’s 2001 film Dagon with the 2019 film The Lighthouse as Lovecraft-related horror.
Mike and Matthew compare Ingmar Bergman’s 1960 The Virgin Spring with Wes Craven’s 1972 The Last House on the Left, films separated by twelve years but linked by a similar revenge structure.
Mike and Matt Wall examine Stewart Gordon's 2001 film Dagon and Robert Eggers's 2019 film The Lighthouse during the Corpse Cast's spooky-season Lovecraft episode.
The Corpse Cast Episode 381 reunites host Mike with Matt Wall to examine Jess Franco’s Vampyros Lesbos and Female Vampire through Franco’s recurring use of erotic imagery, surreal plots, and visual symbolism.
Mike and Steve of The Corpse Cast review three school-centered horror films: Return to Horror High (1987), Battle Royale (2000), and Prom Night (1980).
Mike and Steve examine psychological horror through Altered States (1980), Jacob’s Ladder (1990), and Heretic (2024), noting that the lowest IMDb rating among the three is 6.9.
Mike and Steve of The Corpse Cast Horror Podcast announce a three-film giant-bug program covering The Deadly Mantis (1957), Tarantula (1955), and them!
Mike and Steve review three Lamberto Bava films: A Blade in the Dark (1983), Devilfish or Monster Shark (1984), and Delirium: Photo of Gioia (1980).
Mike and Steve’s Corpse Cast Episode 376 reviews The Beach House (2019), The Mutilator (1984), and Blood Beach (1980) as summer-solstice beach horror.
The Corpse Cast Episode 375 examines Clown (2014), Stitches (2012), and Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) through a loose conversation between Mike and Steve.
Mike and Steve introduce Episode 374 around Squirm (1976), Slugs (1988), and The Nest (1987), framing the films as ecological horror descended from the cultural impact of Jaws.
Mike and Steve review Dario Argento’s Three Mothers Trilogy: Suspiria (1977), Inferno (1980), and The Mother of Tears (2007).
Mike and Steve rank 1980s toxic-waste horror, linking the subgenre to environmental anxiety and practical-effects artists such as Rob Bottin, Tom Savini, and Stan Winston.
The Corpse Cast Episode 371 examines The Fanatic (2019), Strangeland (1998), and Death Rider in the House of Vampires (2021) as horror films connected to rock musicians.
Mike and Steve review three recent Indonesian horror films: The Queen of Black Magic (2019), Sumala (2024), and Grave Torture (2024).
Mike reviews Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 film Vampyr, which he bought during a Criterion sale and had never previously seen.
A horror podcast analyzing three mockumentary-style Halloween broadcasts: WNUF Halloween Special, Ghostwatch, and Late Night with the Devil.
The hosts of the Corpse Cast reflect on their year and discuss their plans for New Year's Eve.
The hosts introduce a comparison between indie horror studios Troma and Full Moon Features, discussing the films Rabid Grannies (1988) and Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018).