The Week in Horror Podcast

The Week in Horror Podcast is a horror film discussion show with the tempo of a live fan room. It opens fast, greets the crowd, and moves with very little ceremony into the week’s release-history lineup. The central format is simple. Select horror films tied to a calendar week become the excuse for trailer reactions, plot summaries, cast notes, director talk, rankings, and long opinion runs. The tone is conversational and crowded in a good way. JL frequently responds to live-chat comments, reads viewer takes, and lets the show bend around whatever question has caught the room’s attention. One segment might praise Larry Fessenden and The Last Winter. Another might argue that Blade still holds up decades later, late-1990s effects and all. The show is especially comfortable around horror mechanics: lighting, makeup, cinematography, practical effects, monster movement, remake choices, and the line between camp and nostalgia. It also likes thornier fan questions. Episodes weigh extreme films such as Necromantik, disability and impairment in horror through titles like Hush and Monkey Shines, and fear triggers such as heights, unnatural body movement, and home-invasion tension. The chat is not background decoration. It supplies jokes, challenges, recommendations, and detours that shape the pace of the episode. Front Row entries shift into interview mode without losing the same genre-clubhouse feel. Spencer Simmons appears through discussion of the award-winning horror short Monsters and early content creation. Chaney Morrow is welcomed as genre talent with work in front of and behind the camera. Matthew Mark Hunter returns as a writer, director, actor, and producer with a large body of projects and a strong love of the 1980s and practical effects. The show’s rough edges are part of its identity. It leaves in enthusiasm, repetition, sudden course corrections, and the energy of people talking horror in public. Season five material also carries a farewell note, thanking the audience, Angela for post-production and editing, and the wider community around Discord, watch parties, merchandise artwork, and live support. For a polished critical essay, it may feel too rowdy. For horror fans who want history, argument, trivia, and live-room chaos in the same feed, it has a clear lane.