Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast

Friend of the show Adam Roberts RETURNS to tell us all about Panic Fest 2026, and everything he and team are cooking up for the 14th edition of the festival. Panic Fest is one of our absolute favourite film festivals and this year's line-up includes a 15th anniversary screening of You're Next (on 35mm!), special presentations of Curry Baker's Obsession & Damian McCarthy's Hokum, as well as Spider One's Big Baby, the new horror-comedy anthology Grind from Brea Grant & Chelsea Stardust, and Scout Taylor-Compton & Danielle Harris' Last Chance Motel which stars A Nightmare on Elm Street's Heather Langenkamp in a bitchin...

Join your horror hosts Kimmi and Jon as they traverse back into the monsterverse (and covid times, ew) to re-visit Leigh Whannell's translucently transcendent horror film The Invisible Man (2020). Say goodbye to the bandages and maniacal laughter of yester-year, and say hello to modern brutalist decor (cement, so much cement), ghosting bad boyfriends who then ghost you back, and celebrating Christmastime but only just barely.We also chat about monsters, because you know, this is a horror movie. Joinn ussss!Love horror? Prove it. Hit subscribe and drop us a 5-star review s...

This week on the Nightmare on Film Street horror movie podcast, your hosts Kimmi and Jon are talking brand new found footage fright BODYCAM with writer/director (and friend of the pod!) BRANDON CHRISTENSEN!Bodycam is shot entirely from the perspective of two police officers' bodycams during a not-so-normal night shift that takes them to a domestic violence call from hell. We put on our Certified Found Footage Fan™ badges and sat down with Brandon to discuss the unique storytelling of the sub-genre and the even more unique perspective of shooting from the literal chests of your ac...

IT'S ALIVE! ...AGAIN! Join your horror hosts KImmi & Jon as they kick off a brand-new season of Nightmare on Film Street with the mid 2000s creepy doll classic The Boy (2016). This genre bending psychological "ghost" story has everything you're looking for in gothic haunting BUT ALSO a wall-crawlin', porcelain mask-wearing, sweat-stained cardigan-sporting sonuvabitch named Brahms. Join ussss as we laugh our way through this surprising clever horror flick and kick off a new collection of movies for Season XII of the show. And, of course, a new season means a new secret theme so get...

Nightmare on Film Street returns March 5th!And in the meantime, we're sharing with you the first episode of our new Fiend Club mini-series "Too Long; Didn't Watch" where we only watch the 1st act of a movie we previously skipped (because it looked too predictable) and do our best to guess how the movie ends.We've all complained that modern horror movies are too formulaic and that Hollywood is out of original ideas, endlessly reusing overworked plots or spoon-feeding us copy+paste stories. So, rather than spend what precious little time we have left...

Nightmare on Film Street returns March 5th! And in the meantime, we're bringing you a fun preview of all the gory horror awaiting you at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival. Joining us on the show today is senior programmer Peter Hall, who watched 600+ movies in the lead-up to this year's festival. He shares his thoughts and first impressions of the entire Midnighter slate of films, and his favorite major studio Horror world premiering at the fest next month.On the docket: Ready or Not 2, They Will Kill You, Hokum, Buddy, Over Your Dead Body, Impostors, Never...

The podcast one year in the making is finally here! Join your Horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as they sit down to share their Top 10 Horror Movies of 2025, from blood-thirsty blockbusters that took the world by storm to lesser-known hidden gems that might have passed you by. Horror is the greatest genre on the planet, and every year with new Horror is a good year to be a Horror fan. Tune in now to find out if your personal favourites from the last year made the list and maybe find a few new flicks to obsess over in...

The time has come, the podcasters said, to talk of many things. Of shoes, and ships, and big plague rats- of Counts and their bare dinks. On this week's episode of Nightmare on Film Street your horror hosts set their sights on Robert Eggers Nosferatu (2024) and (finally!) reveal this season's secret theme.We had to save this modern monster movie for our finale episode because if we opened with it like we originally planned, you would have guessed the secret theme before we made it to episode 2. Join ussss with us as we dissect Robert Eggers re-imagining...

Did you know that David Cronenberg directed a Christmas movie? It's kinda bleak and insanely brutal, but Eastern Promises (2007) is totally a holiday movie, as long as you're okay with your holiday movies having a naked knife fight, multiple slit throats, and a gang of ruthless Russian mobsters.On this week's episode of Nightmare on Film Street your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon dissect what some might consider the best (and least f*cked-up!) movie of David Cronenberg's career. Eastern Promises is not for the faint of heart but also, if you ask Kim, features a romance for...

As we all prepare to spend more time with our families over the holiday season, it's important to remember that the person sitting across from you at the dinner table might just be a cold-blooded serial murderer!Join your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as they revisit The Stepfather (1987) a MomCore cult classic and one of the most fascinating serial killer character studies of the 1980s. Featuring an Oscar worthy performance from Terry O'Quinn (assuming the Academy actually watched horror movies), The Stepfather is terrifying look into the world a cold, calculated monster obsessed with dad sweaters and...

Spoiler Alert! The Terminator (1984) is a slasher film. You can disagree all you want but on this week's episode of Nightmare on Film Street, your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon (well, mostly just Jon. Kimmi might still be unconvinced) lay out their case and as to why James Cameron's monumental sci-fi/action stunner is totally a horror movie.Here's a brief outline of the argument: The Terminator is a slasher villain because he is an unstoppable, expressionless killing machine, just like Michael Myers. He only walks but always catches up with his victims, just like Jason Voorhees (not...

Happy Halloween, Horror Fans! We're closing out the spooky season this year with Ryan Spindell's The Mortuary Collection (2020), one of our favourite modern horror anthologies and the movie that introduced the world to Jacob Elordi half a decade before he was tapped to play Frankenstein's Monster by Guillermo Del Toro.The Mortuary Collection (2020) is pure Halloween fun from start to finish, featuring tentacle monsters, dead kids, dead wives, an exploding d****, a banging soundtrack, and one hell of performance from Clancy Brown as a morose mortician/macabre storyteller. It's a wild ride of wickedly weird stories and...

On this week's episode of Nightmare on Film Street we're pulling a cult classic from the crates and carving out some time to discuss a lesser-known movie we believe deserves more attention- Just kidding, we're talking about Ari Aster's Midsommar (2019) y'all!Join your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as they say goodbye to the grey, drab city and welcome the bright and inviting (but surprisingly deadly) world of the Hårga. Midsommar hit the horror world like ton of 72-year-old bricks that have fulfilled their purpose, and modern cinema was changed forever. Whether you're still head over heels f...

You find the craziest people on Craigslist; Tweekers, perverts.... and shockingly prolific serial killers that tape all their murders like they're an unrecognized filmmaking genius. Join your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as explore stranger dangers of Creep 2 (2017), one of their found footage faves. There's a lot of serial killer talk in this one but, also, Kimmi's deep-seated fears that Jon is definitely going to get them both murdered by someone like "Aaron" because if his terrible survival instincts. Join ussssssLove horror? Prove it. Hit subscribe and drop us a 5-star review so the algorithm knows you're on...

This week on the podcast we're joined by writers/directors Micheline Pitt-Norman & R.H. Norman to discuss their segment "Home Haunt" in the new horror anthology V/H/S/Halloween. Micheline & R.H. are just as obsessed with Halloween as you are, and it really comes through in their fun 'n' freaky segment. Hear all about how this crazy story came together, how pretty much all decor in the film came from their own spooky home, and what 2 movies they would play if they could take over a drive-in theatre on Halloween night!  Join ussssssLove horror? Pr...

We're ringing in the Halloween season with a modern horror re-imagining of the classic monster movie template on this week's episode of Nightmare on Film Street. Join your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as they discuss Frank Henenlotter's b-movie debut Basket Case!Jon insists this is an undeniable grindhouse masterpiece, and an unrecognized Universal Monster movie, but Kim is pretty sure it's just a sleazy creature-feature about how teenage boys are gross, and their wieners turn them into monsters. Tune in now to hear both sides of this ludicrous argument and discover what's in the basket... Join ussssss<...

You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre, and you don't have to go to Chris Angel for a mind freak! Join your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as they ramble like lunatics trying to decipher Brandon Cronenberg's cerebral brain scrambler Possessor(2020). One of our Top 10 Horror Movies of 2020 (with Top 10 Of All Time potential), Possessor is hyper violent, hella trippy, and one of the most intense swan dives into the darkest corners of the human psyche. Join ussssssLove horror? Prove it. Hit subscribe and drop us a 5-star review so t...

Who says you have to wait until October for a Halloween horror movies? We're joined on this week's episode of Nightmare on Film Street by writer/director Brandon Christensen to discuss his new 1980s Halloween set babysitter slasher Night of The Reaper streaming on Shudder Sept 19, and his 2026 found footage horror Bodycam which recently celebrated its world premiere.If you're an aspiring filmmaker intimidated by tricky VFX shots, or just a curious horror fan that's always wanted to know how much it costs to license Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper, this is the interview for...

You Don't Have To Go To Texas For A Chainsaw Massacre! Join your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as they revisit a fan favourite from our Patreon watch parties. This week on Nightmare on Film Street we're discussing Pieces (1982), the utterly nonsensical, absolutely brutal, possibly Frankenstein adjacent (?) B-Movie Masterpiece that has officially earned a place in Kimmi's Top 10 Horror Movies of All Time! Join ussssssLove horror? Prove it. Hit subscribe and drop us a 5-star review so the algorithm knows you're one of the cool creeps.🕵️‍♀️ Solve The Mystery - Submit your...

Nightmare on Film Street returns! Join your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon as they kick off a brand-new season of the show with the criminally underseen (some say criminally underrated) Slaughter High (1986). It's a cult classic slasher trashterpiece loaded with dumb gags, silly deaths, and a cruel prank-gone-wrong that just begs for sweet revenge. And despite being the perfect B-Movie to kick off the back-to-school season, with a VHS cover that belongs in the pantheon of A+ physical media, Slaughter High (1986) has not been given the respect it deserves....including here on this very podcast 😅Join ussss as we...