Oscars fans, movie fans and especially horror movie fans — you are in for a treat.  Just in time for Halloween, we’ve got a special bonus episode exploring the complicated history of horror movies and the Oscars!  

Well, for some people it’s not complicated — the Oscars seem to HATE horror films. But is that true? And what even IS a horror film? We’ll answer those questions and more by looking at objective horror films that were nominated, or won (it’s not a long list); look at some horror movies that should/could have been nominated — and explore some movies that were nominated that may have been secret horror films.

 Plus we’ve got some hidden gems for you to watch this spooky season!  As always, thanks for listening!   

Horror Films Mentioned

(* Recommended)

*Crash (1996)

*Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th Pt.V

*Halloween

*Don’t Go in the House

Don’t Go in the Woods

*Don’t Look in the Basement

*Don’t Go Near the Park 

*Don’t Torture a Duckling

*Frankenstein (2025)

Manos:  The Hands of Fate

Snuff

Boogeyman 2

*The Blair Witch Project

*Psycho

*Night of the Living Dead

*The Birds

*Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer

*Dracula

*Wolfman

*Frankenstein

*The Mummy

*Creature From the Black Lagoon

Eraserhead

*The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

*Child’s Play  

*Candyman

Barbarian

*Midsommar

*The Lighthouse

*Frozen (2010)

*Fight Club

*No Country For Old Men

*Nightcrawler

*A Clockwork Orange

*Requiem for a Dream

*Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

The Hound of the Baskervilles

*Thirteen (2003)

*The Exorcist

*Jaws

*The Silence of the Lambs

*The Sixth Sense

*The Green Mile

*The Shawshank Redemption

*The Black Swan

*Room

*Get Out

The Shape of Water

The Substance

*M (1931 & 1951)

*Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931)

*Freaks (1932)

*King Kong (1933)

*Cat People (1942 & 1982)

*Isle of the Dead

*Suspicion

*Strangers on a Train

*Shadow of a Doubt

*Rear Window

*The Birds

*Rosemary’s Baby

Apartment 7A

*Dawn of the Dead

*Land of the Dead

*The Omen (1976)

*Alien

*Aliens

*Alien 3

Prometheus

Sasquatch

Halloween 3

*The Shining

*American Werewolf in London

*The Thing

*Poltergeist

*Misery

*Stand By Me

*Scream

*The Others

*Zodiac

*Se7en

*Ex-Machina

*Hereditary

*Rebecca

*Gaslight

*The Towering Inferno

*Deliverance

*Wrong Turn

*The Hills Have Eyes

*Carrie

*No Country For Old Men

*The Hitcher

*Parasite

*Don’t Breathe

*It Follows

*2001 A Space Odyssey

*The Body Snatcher

*Invasion of the Body Snatchers

*The Seventh Victim

*The Old Dark House

*I Walked With a Zombie

*Ghost Ship (2002)

*Bride of Frankenstein

*Obsession

*Dressed To Kill

*Body Double

*Blow Out

Sisters

Raising Cane

*Funny Games 

*Benny’s Video

*The Piano Teacher

*Knife in the Water

*Repulsion

*The Tenant

*The Fearless Vampire Killers

*Nope

*What Lies Beneath

Innocent Blood

Hour of the Wolf

*The Virgin Spring

*Last House on the Last

*The Bay

*Antichrist

*mother!

*Panic Room

*Near Dark

*Dracula (Francis Ford Copolla)

*Dementia 13

*Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

*Nosferatu:  A Symphony of Horror (1922)

*Frailty

*Skeleton Key

*Triangle

*Sightseers

*The Invitation

*Saint Maud

*Oculus

*Hush

*Wait Until Dark

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