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Hello my brothers and sisters in SINema, and welcome to The Horror Sanctum Podcast, a biweekly simulcast dedicated to all things horror. Join me, Jay and co-hosts John, Kelan and TJ as we dissect horror films, from blockbusters to indie gems and everything in between.
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Today on The Horror Sanctum we discuss the 2017 horror zombie musical Anna and the Apocalypse. The film is about a zombie apocalypse that threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Thankskilling (2008)

Thankskilling (2008)

2025-11-2427:27

Happy Thanksgiving! Today on The Horror Sanctum we cover the "cult classic" killer turkey horror film Thankskilling. The film is about a homicidal turkey that axes off college kids during Thanksgiving break.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Today on The Horror Sanctum we cover the remake of the most famous Troma film of them all, The Toxic Avenger. The film is about a horrible toxic accident that transforms downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze into a new evolution of hero: the Toxic Avenger.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
The boys are back, and the ball is back in this episode, or rather here for the first time...because we are joined by special guest, Jackson Stewart, director of 2016's Beyond The Gates, who brought into the sanctum one of his horror favorite's, the Don Coscarelli-directed 1979 classic, Phantasm. It's the film that brings us hooded dwarf monsters, alternate dimensions, dream logic, killer silver balls with knives and drills, Tall men who turn into murderous ladies with a penchant for wearing purple. It's a wild ride and a fun night in the sanctum.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Today on The Horror Sanctum we cover the latest film in the The Twisted Childhood Universe, Bambi: The Reckoning. The film follows a mother and son after they get in a car wreck and soon become hunted by Bambi, a mutated grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Halloween 4 (1988)

Halloween 4 (1988)

2025-10-2701:04:57

Happy Halloween! Today on The Horror Sanctum we welcome back Sanctum regular and collaborator Vito Trigo for our yearly Halloween film series discussion to talk Halloween 4. The story is set ten years after Michael Myers' original massacre as he awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Trick 'R Treat (2007)

Trick 'R Treat (2007)

2025-10-2040:10

Today in the sanctum, we dare to bring to Kelan another horror anthology, Michael Dougherty's 2007 film, Trick 'R Treat, produced by Bryan Singer. This has become an annual tradition for many horror fans and a modern day cult classic with talks of a sequel for over a decade that has yet to come to fruition. Starring Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, and Dylan Baker, this is one of the most beloved Halloween themed films and horror anthologies in history.....but what will Kelan think?Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Hocus Pocus (1993)

Hocus Pocus (1993)

2025-10-1345:31

Today on The Horror Sanctum we welcome Sanctum regular and collaborator Lana Del Fear as we review and dig into the 1993 Halloween family classic Hocus Pocus. The story follows a villainous comedic trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Weapons (2025)

Weapons (2025)

2025-10-0647:20

When a school teacher suddenly has all her children but one wake up in the middle of the night and run out the door like airplanes to some unknown destination, a town gets turned upside down, and said teacher's life gets a lot more hectic. Today in the sanctum, we talk all things Weapons, the 2025 Zach Cregger follow up to his 2022 sleeper hit, Barbarian. So grab your clown makeup, your twigs, your hair, and spread your arms out like a 747 as you join us for take off.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Today on The Horror Sanctum we welcome actor Kue Lawrence, known for such films as Marshmallow, Sketch, and Unfrosted. A fun chat is had by all as we dig into the world of horror, his impressive resume at such a young age, and video games.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Bring Her Back (2025)

Bring Her Back (2025)

2025-09-2231:24

Today on The Horror Sanctum we review the latest film from newcomer horror directors Danny and Michael Philippou, Bring Her Back. The plot follows two step-siblings who find themselves orphaned and placed in the middle of an occult ritual by their new foster mother.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Today on The Horror Sanctum we talk about the film that started it all for Rob Zombie, the 2003 Halloween classic House of 1000 Corpses. The film is about two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder, but they end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
The Cell (2000)

The Cell (2000)

2025-09-0832:13

Today on The Horror Sanctum we review the 2000 sci-fi horror film The Cell. The film follows a team of scientists as they use experimental technology to help a social worker enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to locate where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim. Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Saw (2004)

Saw (2004)

2025-09-0155:42

Today on The Horror Sanctum we discuss the 2004 film that started an entire subgenre....Saw. The film tells the story revolving around the mystery of the Jigsaw Killer, who tests his victims' will to live by putting them through deadly "games" where they must inflict great physical pain upon themselves to survive. The story follows Jigsaw's latest two victims who awaken in a large, dilapidated bathroom, with one being ordered to kill the other to save his own family.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Today on The Horror Sanctum we welcome Troma team member and filmmaker Ben Johnson, director of Curse of the Weredeer, and we discuss the cult classic and quintessential Troma film....The Toxic Avenger (1984). The film is about the fictional town of Tromaville where The Toxic Avenger is born after meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose and Tromaville has a hero.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Frailty (2001)

Frailty (2001)

2025-08-1838:13

Today on The Horror Sanctum, we dig into the cult classic psychological horror film from 2001, Frailty. The film focuses on the strange relationship between two young brothers and their father, who believes that he has been commanded by God to kill demons disguised as people.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Sinister (2012)

Sinister (2012)

2025-08-1141:39

Today in the Sanctum, we talk The Blumhouse movie that's not a Blumhouse movie, the 2012 supernatural thriller, Sinister, starring national treasure, Ethan Hawke. It's a genuinely spooky film that combines a few genres and has a big bad that looks like a reject from Slipknot. Fun times had by all this week in the sanctum.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Today on the sanctum, we interview the legendary Sandy Johnson who played Judith Myers in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), also infamously known as Michael Myer's First Kill. We talk all things Halloween and where she's been keeping herself the last 47 years. It's a fan talk with a little extra banter on the after show with the boys. Stay tuned.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Sinners (2025)

Sinners (2025)

2025-07-2801:16:46

Today in the Sanctum, we bring a barn-burner of an epic dramatic horror period piece, Ryan Coogler's Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan in two different roles, playing twin brothers as well as anyone ever has. This film has it all: hoodoo, vampires, mobsters, tommy guns, blues music, barns, boose, dancing, time-traveling music. What more do you want in a Saturday night movie that you can probably take a non-horror date to?Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
Today on The Horror Sanctum Podcast we cover the latest installment in the Netflix Fear Street Series, Fear Street: Prom Queen. Set in 1988, the plot focuses on a masked killer who targets the prom queen candidates of Shadyside High on the night of their senior dance.Follow us on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube to our channel, both @thehorrorsanctum podcast. Join our exclusive Facebook Group @thehorrorsanctum. Follow us on TikTok @the.horror.sanctum. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you find us. Write a review. It really helps the algorithm push our show out to more people like yourself. Most importantly, keep it spooky!
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