Professional Horror Podcast

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Not Christmas, actually it's the time when your old pal Chris Donovan emerges from his winter horror movie binging cave ready to scream from the mountain tops which ones were his favorites. From prom nights and trips to the pumpkin patch, to love stories that cross gorges and conquer slashers, to robot baddies, he's counting 'em all down! So join me, as I present to you: my top ten horror movies of 2025!

The most fun horror movie trivia game. *BUZZ* What is the Professional Horror Podcast Quiz Show? That's correct! It's that time of year again where your lovely host Chris Donovan has assembled his friends Carrie Drake-Coyle, Nichole Cava, and the reigning champion Sean Hogan to test their wit, knowledge, and trash talking ability to see who will win the 2025 PHP Quiz Show. Chris will see how well his contestants know their stuff on body horror, analog horror, Amityville Horror and so so much more. So pick up your buzzers and join us for another installment of the spookiest quiz show around!

Today we're on a quest for vengeance! Ya boy Chris Donovan is back at it again with his buddy Sean and we've got vengeance on our minds. Specifically the demon of vengeance, the only and only Pumpkinhead, an awesome monster movie directed by special effects wizard Stan Winston. So crank that fog machine and join us on our journey into the woods to discuss protagonist harbingers, jump scare dogs, and gun stabbing as we dig up the corpse of Pumpkinhead.

New year, new list. It's that time of year again where your ole pal Chris Donovan emerges from toiling in the horror movie mines with his top ten favorite movies of the year. From road tripping families and glowing TVs, to multiple immaculate conceptions, to the world tour of Skye Riley, Chris Donovan is gonna run down all of 'em. So join me, as I present my top ten favorite movies of 2024.

The best horror quiz show around. What is the Professional Horror Podcast Quiz Show? That's correct. This episode, your lovely host Chris Donovan has assembled his friends, Sean Hogan, Nichole Cava, reigning champ Megan Pendagast, and fresh blood Julia Pendagast to test their horror braaains. Chris will test their knowledge on horror comics, the works of Clive Barker, not so final girls, and much more! Join us, to see if anyone can dethrone Megan Pendagast as the champ of horror trivia!

It's that time of the year. That time where I'm a few days behind everyone else at making my top ten horror movies of the year list. But hey, I'm getting better at it. The year of 2023 brought a very strange slate of horror movies and your ole pale Chris Donovan is ready, willing, and able to run down the lot of em. From killer sloths and pumpkin monsters, to ghost summoning hands, to just some really creepy parents. Not to mention the slashers. So. Many. Slashers. So join me as I run through all those and more as I count down my top ten horror movies of 2023!!

A quiz show to test your horror knowledge. What is this year's Professional Horror Podcast Quiz Show? That's correct. This episode Chris Donovan has brought his friends Megan Pendagast, Carolyn Drake-Coyle, Nichole Cava, and Sean Hogan back to see if they can handle this year's installment of the PHP Quiz Show. He will test their knowledge of found footage, SyFy originals, all things R.L. Stine, and more! So join us as we find out if anyone can dethrone Sean to become the reigning champion of horror trivia!

Happy Halloween! Sorry for the late episode, we showed up in Haddonfield for another Michael Myers romp and turns out he's all the way out in California! So your host Chris Donovan and his guests Megan and Julia Pendagast must go on a road trip to California, avoiding all rest stop bathrooms, to join our pals Michael and Laurie for another Halloween romp. Join us as we discuss Chekov's dumbwaiter, food foreplay,  LL Cool J's erotic fiction, and why this movie should've been the proper conclusion to the Michael-Laurie saga. Because Halloween may have passed, but we're still entitled to one good scare!

Happy Halloween! It's that time of year we we dress in costumes, pass out candy, and take to the streets to find our local masked serial killer. At least that's how Haddonfield does it. So that's how your host, Chris Donovan and his guests Megan and Julia plan to celebrate as well. On this episode we go back to a simpler time in the Halloween franchise and review 1981's Halloween 2. I can't think of anything more fun than catching up with our pals Michael Myers, Laurie, Dr. Loomis, and of course, Ben Tramer. So crank up that synth music, hop in your therapeutic tub, and join us for an episode more tasty than a razor blade apple.

It's the new year, so you know what that means? It means your ole pal Chris Donovan is a few days late on making his top ten horror movies of the past year. Don't blame me though: blame 2022, because it brought a whole lot of awesome films to the table to dig through. Between studio horror good enough to make you scream and smile, to streaming services hatching up some delicious films to prey on, to our beloved Shudder dead set on streaming up more classics, 2022 had a lot to offer. So join me as I run down my top ten horror movies of 2022!

A super fun horror quiz show. What is this episode of the Professional Horror Podcast? That's correct! This episode, Chris Donovan has invited four of his friends: Megan Pendagast, Carolyn Drake-Coyle, Sean Hogan, and Nichole Cava to test their horror braaaains to see who will win the first ever Professional Horror Podcast Quiz Show! He will test their knowledge on horror musicals, Stephen King, scream queens, and more! So join us for this hilariously fun time as these four battle it out in a game of horror trivia!

Happy Halloween! What? It's almost Thanksgiving? That doesn't matter because despite the title of the movie, Halloween never ends! Join host Chris Donovan and his fellow band geeks Megan and Julia as they head down into the sewers to find out what our friends Michael and Laurie have been up to in the four years between Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends. We'll chat babysitter murders, killer synth scores, and some guy named Corey. Because Evil never dies, it just gets rebooted.

Happy Halloween! Time for candy and trick-or-treating and...masked serial killers? Huh, guess different towns have different Halloween traditions. At least that's what your host Chris Donovan, and his guests Megan & Julia find out when we visit Haddonfield for a review of the 2021 film Halloween Kills. We'll see what our ole pal Michael is up to as well as learning that maybe the real slasher, was the angry mob we made along the way. Join us for the Kills and come back next week for the End. After all, it's Halloween. And everyone is entitled to one good scare.

It's a graveyard smash! Your old pal, Chris Donovan is facing off with his good friend Nichole, one of the hosts of the Kinky Ladies Book Club, in a horror game for the ages: Monster Mash-Up! A game where we each select two poorly received horror movies and combine them into a Frankenstein's Monster of a movie pitch. Who will win? Will Chris' pairing of 80s slashers pass the test? Or will Nichole double dose of Dark Castle do-overs haunt the competition? Either way, it'll be a fun ride!

2021 had it's ups and downs. On the downside, we all got a lot more aquatinted with the Greek alphabet, but on the plus side, we got a lot of good horror movies. And your lovely friend, Chris Donovan, is here to count down his ten favorites. We got fake documentaries, frat houses, femme fatales, and ferocious furry monstrosities. Also, you know I put a SyFy original movie on this list, right? So join me as I present my list of the heckin' best horror movies of 2021.

A little while back when Megan and Julia Pendagast joined me, Chris Donovan, to talk about Ginger Snaps, we also spent a lot of time chatting about anything but. So I've decided to cobble together our sidetracks about all things horror, from Hereditary to Goosebumps, Scream to Deep Blue Sea and edit them into a fun bonus episode. I hope you get half as much enjoyment out of this episode as we did, because sidetracking with these two was a blast!

Trick or Treat! I really hope you didn't let that jack o'lantern light go out just yet. Because tonight is when the veil between fellow podcasts is thin. In the spirit of the season, Nichole and Amanda, two of the hosts of the Kinky Ladies Book Club, have crossed through the ether to join me in a discussion about the 2009 Halloween classic, Trick 'r Treat. We talk about The Tape, creepy breathing soundtracks, and how this anthology filled us with the Halloween spirit. So grab some candy, but check it first, and join us for an episode that is sure to be a treat.

You guys heard of the Beast of Bailey Downs? Well my friends Megan and Julia Pendagast are joining me on a journey to track down and slay the beast. Or rather, they're joining me to talk about Ginger Snaps, the werewolf movie about curses both supernatural and totally natural. Grab your monkshood and join us as we discuss the finer points of sisterhood and puberty, but also field hockey and lycanthropy. So enjoy this picture perfect episode all about the delicious holiday cookie: Ginger Snaps.

The accursed year of 2020 is over! And while the year itself was not...like good by any standard, it did provide us with a ton of amazing horror movies. So obviously, your boy Chris Donovan has to count down his favorites. Just like it's obvious he would release his list weeks after the year ended, what a scrub right? Did I include another SyFy original in my list? Is nearly half my list Shudder originals? Did I spend more time talking about the dog in Love and Monsters than the movie itself? I'll never tell. I mean...I will, but you gotta listen to the episode for the answers, I'm not going to answer them in the description. I'm trying to build suspense so you'll listen. Is it working? Anywho, join me as I count down my top ten movies of 2020.

Merry...Midsommar? It may no longer be summertime, but here in 2020, time is meaningless so Carrie and I decided to take a trip to Sweden to discover what she loves (and I don't love) about this strange cult-y movie. We're going head-to-head in an old-fashioned Ari Aster-off! We debate the finer points of this film's structure, characters, and the message its trying to convey. But also, how weird that hair pie stuff is. Will Carrie sway you into joining the cult of Midsommar fans? Or will I, Chris Donovan, convince you to say 'Nah'. Either way, by the end, I'm sure you'll have the strangest smile on your face.