Super Fun Scary Cast

byAli, Jason

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Join your hosts Ali and Jason as they talk everything horror. From the latest movie to the most disgusting Halloween candy, your adventurous hosts delve into what makes horror scary AND fun. Zombies, vampires, killer clowns, hostile houses are all welcome. - Original music by Andrew McLeod

Episodes(40 episodes)

Other (2025) by David Moreau stars Olga Kurylenko as a woman surrounded by faceless others, and a monster who likes to destroy faces. Jason and Ali talk about ethics, otherness and videotapes.

Published: Nov 27, 2025Duration: 1h 25m 57s

Carnival of Souls

The weird low-budget 1962 film by an obscure director went on to become an influential cult classic. But why? Jason and Ali discuss death, dreams and ghouls.

Published: Nov 20, 2025Duration: 1h 12m 9s

Your Wish Is My Command

Wishmaster (1997) revives the myth of the sinister djinn to bust the image of a congenial genie. Jason and Ali dare to make a wish.

Published: Nov 7, 2025Duration: 1h 34m 20s

The Last House on the Left

Wes Craven's debut (1972) is one of the most controversial horror films of all time. But can it still shock? And why are there so many scenes missing? Jason and Ali consider depraved outlaws, nubile victims, and the culture of censorship.

Published: Oct 30, 2025Duration: 1h 40m 13s

Anthology Horror

V/H/S/85 (2023) is the 6th instalment in the famed found footage series. It features short films about a shapeshifting blob, the Aztec God of Death, and undead teens. Jason and Ali are delighted.

Published: Oct 16, 2025Duration: 1h 37m 55s

Lorraine and Ed are back for another rumble with the demonic in The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025). But have we not had enough of them? Jason and Ali talk about haunted objects and tired franchises.

Published: Oct 1, 2025Duration: 1h 33m 7s

Stephen King's 1977 short story 'Children of the Corn' was significantly changed in its first cinematic version in 1984. Jason and Ali talk about murderous children, cults and Linda Hamilton.

Published: Sep 16, 2025Duration: 1h 22m 16s

New York Gothic

Can a film starring Eddie Murphy be scary? Why has Wes Craven's 1995 film Vampire in Brooklyn become a cult classic? Jason and Ali sink their teeth into one funny, spooky film.

Published: Sep 9, 2025Duration: 1h 22m 31s

Tickets Please!

Horror Express is a strange 1972 film in which Christopher Lee and co try to stop a powerful alien force from possessing the passengers on the Trans-Siberian Express. Jason and Ali get on board.

Published: Sep 2, 2025Duration: 1h 26m 47s

Halle Berry stars in Gothika, a 2003 fusion of murder mystery and supernatural horror. But does it work? Jason and Ali talk about possession, prisons, and the pitfalls of Hollywood star power.

Published: Aug 26, 2025Duration: 1h 35m 12s

The Philippou brothers are back with one of the year's most unsettling films. In a leafy Australian suburb, a youth social worker dabbles in necromancy. Jason and Ali get worried for the children.

Published: Aug 20, 2025Duration: 1h 9m 9s

Peace, Love and ... a Vampire!

Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) is a cult classic from the early horror boom. It's the story of would-be hippies who find themselves at the mercy of one groovy bloodsucker. Jason and Ali, though, aren't scared to death.

Published: Jul 15, 2025Duration: 1h 12m 21s

Leaky ceilings, mould and dysfunctional lifts. Can the mundane facts of renting a rundown apartment be the stuff of supernatural horror? Indeed. Join Jason and Ali for a chat about Dark Water (2005) and its star, the great Jennifer Connelly.

Published: Jul 8, 2025Duration: 1h 32m 23s

Sinning, Singing Bloodsuckers

Sinners (2025) is a rare thing: a popular blockbuster lauded by film critics. But what do Jason and Ali make of this hybrid of period drama, gothic horror and Mississippi Delta blues? Listen to find out!

Published: Jul 1, 2025Duration: 1h 26m 27s

The Evil Pooh and Piglet

Is Winnnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) as bad as all that? Definitely not. Jason and Ali praise an intelligent, iconoclastic instant classic.

Published: Jun 24, 2025Duration: 1h 6m 45s

Terry's Baby Apartment 7A (2024) is the official prequel to Rosemary's Baby, made more than half a century after the original. Jason and Ali revisit the spooky Bramford building, its witchy residents, and the unsuspecting heroine who is to give birth to Satan's offspring.

Published: Jun 19, 2025Duration: 1h 37m 43s

Rosemary and Her Baby

Ira Levin's 1967 novel and Roman Polanski's 1968 film brought the horror genre into the cultural mainstream. Jason and Ali reflect on satanic cults, satanic sex and the resulting satanic baby.

Published: May 22, 2025Duration: 1h 52m 14s

Poltergeist (1982) is a supernatural horror classic featuring many (real!) skeletons. It is also a fun-filled family comedy. Jason and Ali stare at old analogue TV screens to discuss the famous film and its 2015 remake.

Published: May 9, 2025Duration: 1h 33m 3s

Based on True Stories?

Frank de Felitta wrote two of strangest supernatural horror films of the 'boom' period. Jason and Ali get baffled by Audrey Rose (1977) and unsettled by The Entity (1982).

Published: Apr 14, 2025Duration: 1h 37m 24s

Monkey Around with Death

Osgood Perkins's The Monkey (2025) is a very loose adaptation of a 1980 Stephen King story. King's story takes death very seriously, but Perkins mocks the Grim Reaper. Jason and Ali talk about a very morbid comedy.

Published: Apr 7, 2025Duration: 1h 23m 6s