Darkest Hour Podcast

In Part 2 of this pod, Dario Argento’s Opera (1987) tries to manhandle the Elijah Wood Maniac remake (2012) and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) tests its chops against The Return of Michael Myers (1988) in a battle of two top franchises’ fourth installments. It’s gonna be pretty cray.

It’s time for another matchup with the March Madmen! Part 1 has the granddaddy of ‘em all, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, going up against Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Blood Feast. Which early '60s slasher will prevail? Put this ep in your ear.

Part 2 of this pod pits the O.G. Chucky movie (1988) against a rebooted Leatherface and fam’s film (2003) before those eerie, masked Strangers board the Midnight Meat Train. That last matchup is an especially tough one...

Another six slasher movies step into the arena! Happy Death Day faces off with Fear Street ’78, Child’s Play (1988) takes on Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), and The Strangers matches up with Midnight Meat Train. Who will survive and what will be left of them?

As the tournament to decide the world’s greatest slasher movie rolls on, we’ve got two more matchups to adjudicate! Is The Burning better than Stage Fright? What’s more meta, Behind the Mask or Final Girls? This ep has all the answers, kiddos! Put it in your ear-holes.

Six more movies are battling it out for slasher supremacy! In this two-parter we have Haute Tension vs. Blood Rage, The Burning vs. Stage Fright and Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon vs. Final Girls. Honk if you’re horrified!

In the pinnacle of our Season 1 premiere, the March Madmen decide how My Bloody Valentine (1981) stacks up against Tourist Trap (1979). Two films enter, one film leaves!

The March Madmen are back! Our 64-film tournament sets out to answer the question, "What IS the greatest slasher movie ever made?" In the season's first set of matchups, Texas Chainsaw Massacre goes toe to toe with I Know What You Did Last Summer and Fear Street ‘94 faces off with Hatchet II. It's win or pack it in!

This is your sneak preview of the new season of March Madmen! Same three guys, 64 different movies—slasher movies, to be precise. That’s right, the Madmen are back to tackle another subgenre of horror and determine which film is the greatest of all time! This tournament’s gonna get bloody.

It’s time for a pull-no-punches, spoilerific discussion of Halloween Kills that digs deep into the bloody bone marrow of the hit sequel. Gather ‘round your device, put on your masks and listen.

A typically exacting dissection of David Gordon Green’s "Halloween Kills" begins with spoiler-free analysis of the 2021 sequel (including our take on this incarnation of Michael Myers) and a big announcement about the next season of our show!

And now, the grand finale of the Toby Awards, as the March Madmen pay tribute to top moments from this season’s films and laugh at the lowlights. Most important of all is the inauguration of our tournament’s winner: the greatest haunted house movie ever made! Will it be The Shining, Terrified, Lake Mungo or Oculus? The ballots are in...

We begin our final show of the season, a look back at the highs and lows of the 32 haunted house movies vying for the title of “greatest ever made.” Part Oscars, part Razzies, all stark raving mad, the Toby Awards are our way of appreciating the good, bad and terrifying about this unique subgenre of horror. Woo-hoo!

It’s the final episode of the final autopsy of the first season! Get ready for all the Oculus talk you can handle — we’re through the Lasser Glass here, people! It’s a whole lotta lightbulb crunchin’, pottery-stabbin’, pendulum-swingin’ goodness.

Mike Flanagan’s 2013 fright-fest Oculus was the 6 seed in our haunted-house tourney, but it’s stormed all the way to the Fatal Four. The March Madmen have their instruments sharpened and ready — how will this apparently divisive film fare? Let’s go!

Plumbing the darkest depths of 2008’s Lake Mungo, the Madmen ponder the implications of Alice Palmer’s plight and an ending that is more chilling than it appears on the surface. This movie is making a late run at the title of "greatest haunted house movie ever made…"

Mungoheads, rejoice! It’s time to visit the quaint Australian town of Ararat and meet tragically doomed Alice Palmer and her family. That’s right, we’re beginning our examination of Joel Anderson’s highly underrated 2008 haunted house movie. Gonna get spooky up in here!

And now, the thrilling conclusion of Terrified’s thorough (but loving) autopsy! How did 2017’s Argentinian chiller fare, laid bare on the March Madmen’s slab? Give this track a spin!

Continuing our in-depth study of the Fatal Four, this episode examines Argentina’s 2017 revelation Terrified (Aterrados), written and directed by Demian Rugna. This movie really lives up to its name, folks! What’s its secret? Listen as the Madmen take it apart, piece by bloody piece…

Tonight we conclude our insanely thorough dissection of a Stanley Kubrick classic and assess its case for the title of Greatest Haunted House Movie Ever Made. But this tourney is far from over — there are three more movies to dig into on the Madmen’s slab!