For our second round-up reviews of horror films that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, special guest Joe Lipsett and I cover four more horror films. We start with two ghost stories: the frosty New Zealand drama Went Up the Hill, directed by Samuel Van Grinsven and starring Dacre Montgomery and Vicky Krieps; and the rambunctious …

Jenn, Gena and Joe continue our Sharp Objects journey with episodes 2 & 3. C/W: self-harm (cutting) Up for discussion: baby Sydney Sweeney, Camille's functional alcoholism, and our continued obsession with Adora. Plus: Gena's tease of a true crime backstory, and a lesson in Southern expressions courtesy of Jenn. Wanna connect with the show? > Gena:…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 10 of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, "God of Forgiveness, God of Vengeance." Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/murdermadefiction and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Murder on the Artlist Express Learn more about your ad choices. …

Here's a sneak peek at our all new full-length Patreon episode on Blumhouse American remake of Speak No Evil (2024). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 9 of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, "The Bogeyman." Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/murdermadefiction and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Murder on the Artlist Express Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi…

It's a 'Joe pick' for the second week of our Gay Icons & Anniversaries theme as the boys discuss Jonathan Glazer's modern classic Birth (2004). Starring Nicole Kidman as a woman grieving her dead husband, Birth was a lightning rod for controversy, but it's so much more than its bathtub scene and reincarnation plot. Plus: why Bright's casting prompt…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new full-length Patreon episode on Tim Burton's 36-years-later sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic…

After a month of discussing Jeffrey Dahmer, Jenn and Joe debrief what we learned about his crimes and his victims. We also compare the various fictionalized depictions of him from film and TV. Plus: where we're going in our second month! Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on social media @murdermfiction (Twitter & Instagram) or send us an email…

Saurian cinema connoisseur Serge Bodnarchuk of Cold Crash Pictures joins Dan as guest co-host for a dinosaur sci-fi horror adventure from 1993. No, not that one. This is Movie Oubliette! It's the low-budget Roger Corman production Carnosaur, starring Laura Dern's mom, Diane Ladd, and Bryce Dallas Howard's uncle, Clint Howard! This adaptation of Joh…

After more than a year, Joe and Sharai return to talk about a new season of FROM. Up for discussion: Tabitha's journey, our hopes for Jade and Jim this season, who's missing in this opener, and that devastating ending (fuck you, series creator John Griffin for doing that to us!) Connect with your co-hosts: @YouShould_Watch > Sharai: @Misssharai > J…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 8 of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, "Lionel." Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/murdermadefiction and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Murder on the Artlist Express Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Today, the guest is me and I answer the Questions sent in by the listeners over Instagram, on my new Patreon and on my email list. These include my thoughts on finally giving into the running trend, if Trump will win the election, the record sales we hit in August and September, how Ibiza and Dubai fit into a self development focused lifestyle, and…

With the recent cancellation of PLL, we're releasing our Patreon exclusive on season 2 of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin......Pretty Little Liars: Summer School (spoiler alert: summer school isn't really important this season). Join us as we go through the many, many characters the show has, discussing what worked and what didn't about the many,…

Conrad is joined by Joe Lipsett live and in-person at the Toronto International Film Festival to give early reviews of the horror, sci-fi and fantasy films that premiered at TIFF this year. In this first bonus episode, we're looking at the body horror films on the programme: including Coralie Fargeat's The Substance (winner of the People's Choice A…

Jenn, Gena and Joe continue their annual tradition of unpacking a TV show episode by episode. This time they're headed south to Gillian Flynn territory (yes, Joe mispronounces the "G") with a look at Marti Noxon's HBO adaptation of Sharp Objects. Up for discussion: Jean-Marc Vallée's dreamy direction, Amy Adams being messy, Patricia Clarkson's ward…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 7 of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, "Cassandra." Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/murdermadefiction and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Murder on the Artlist Express Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Jenn and Rachel head out to the country for an old fashioned episode on parental manipulation, deadly breakups, suped-up sheep, and problematic product placement in the fifth episode of The Boys Season 4. Wanna keep up with the show? @girlsontheboys > Jenn: @jennferatu - @LosersClubPod, @theladykpod, @SfAntagonist, @MurderMFiction > Rachel: @VinylG…

Jenn and Rachel fly away from Vought Tower and through the trees to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the spicy girls of 'Jennifer’s Body' (2009) with an extra salty episode on female friendships, sexy powers, and unfortunate boys. Wanna keep up with the show? @girlsontheboys > Jenn: @jennferatu - @LosersClubPod, @theladykpod, @SfAntagonist, @Murde…

Put away that Thai food and get ready to be lime green Jell-O because we're celebrating our 300th episode with a month-long theme of gay icons and anniversaries! And what better way to kick things off than by revisiting a film we covered in one of our earliest episodes? That's right, it's time to revisit Jennifer's Body (2009)! Tagging in for the c…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 6 of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, "Silenced." Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/murdermadefiction and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Murder on the Artlist Express Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Jenn and Joe continue our coverage of Dahmer inspired films with David Jacobson’s contemplative and surprisingly bloodless film Dahmer (2002). Anchored at the height of Dahmer’s killing spree, Jacobson lays the story out with a series of flashbacks while taking narrative liberties with the Wisconsin man’s first and final murders. Plus: early aughts…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new full-length Patreon episode on Zoë Kravitz's feature directorial debut Blink Twice (2024). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 5 of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, "Blood On Their Hands." Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/murdermadefiction and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Murder on the Artlist Express Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f…

Today’s conversation is with Matt Smith. Matt is a serial tech entrepreneur and the founder of Upitch. This episode is an entrepreneurial story of love, greed, ambition, glory, Cancer, bankruptcy and pain. Expect to learn what business life was like at the start of the .com and internet era, the dos and don’ts of scaling and selling a business, wha…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 5 of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, "The Good Boy Box." Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/murdermadefiction and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Murder on the Artlist Express Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad…

Joe and Bryan return to unpack Clive Barker's first full-length novel, 1985's The Damnation Game. It's a big, ambitious project, filled with trademark Barker-isms, as well as many typical first novel issues. C/W: *everything* Plus: multiple endings, shallow female characters, animal violence, and a challenging redemption arc for a cannibal pedophil…

Hide your cat and don't say zombie because we're talking Colm McCarthy's 2016 adaptation of M.R.Carey's YA novel, The Girl With All The Gifts. Along for the ride is returning guest Carolyn Mauricette! Anchored by great performances from Glenn Close and newcomer Sennia Nanua, this dystopian "hungries" film is surprisingly complex, especially its dar…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 3 of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, "Doin’ a Dahmer." Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/murdermadefiction and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Murder on the Artlist Express Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new full-length Patreon audio commentary on Beck & Woods' directorial debut, Haunt (2019). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Jenn and Joe tackle our first text, Marc Meyers' adaptation of Derf Backderf's comic memoir, My Friend Dahmer (2017). Starring a post-Disney Ross Lynch and covering Dahmer's high school years, the film is a contained, quiet tragedy. Still, there's a few unusual creative decisions made for the film worth discussing. Plus: comparing this to Monster: …

Vincenzo Natali (director of Cube, Splice, Haunter) introduces us to the little known sword and sorcery film, Conquest, directed by splatter gore master, Lucio Fulci. We deliberate over Mace's nunchucks, magical laser bows, bargain bin wolfmen and Ocron's wardrobe choices to decide whether Conquest is an ethereal journey into a ritualistic ruthless…

Is there something in the water? We're back with another queer horror indie tackling conversion/aversion therapy. This time it's writer/director Quinn Armstrong's trilogy opener, The Exorcism of Saint Patrick (2024). C/W: suicide This one is doing its own thing, from great gore effects to beautiful exterior shots and even a fat gay teen main charac…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 2 of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, "Please Don't Go." Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/murdermadefiction and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Murder on the Artlist Express Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc…

Today’s conversation is with Ruari Fairbairns. Ruari is the co-founder of One Year No Beer, podcast host and Ted-X Speaker. Having built a successful career as an oil broker, Ruari went on a journey to redefine his relationship with alcohol and has gone onto build and inspire a movement that empowers others and challenge society's perceptions about…

Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 1 of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, "Bad Meat.” Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/murdermadefiction and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Murder on the Artlist Express Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…