Name: 135: Brightburn by Splatter Chatter
Duration: 1 h 40 min 8 s
Description: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a teenage boy with emotional problems! In our 135st episode we need to talk about Clark Kent in this inventive if not perfectly executed horror inversion of the superhero origin story. Thought 2025 was James Gunn's first dive into Superman? Think again

Oh you naughty Chatterers, you better not pout, you better not cry, you BETTER WATCH OUT as we unwrap this twisty home invasion tale that has to be seen to be believed. Join us as we talk tinsel, trauma, and toxic masculinity in this nasty yet clever holiday horror.

128: Better Watch Out

As is tradition, we dive into our personal top 10 lists for all 2024 had to offer in horror and then turn our gaze ahead to some of the exciting things headed our way in 2025.

129: 2024 Recap

Our 15th Boos and Booze celebrates the time-honored American tradition of being a little too obsessed with your 3% Irish heritage by partaking in libations while watching 1993's comedy-horror cult classic Leprechaun  

Boos and Booze 15: Leprechaun

As promised, the companion episode to our most recent Boos and Booze on 1993's Leprechaun, we dive into the interesting history of Leprechaun folklore including the surprising, potential Roman origin for this critters believed to be quintessentially Irish.

130: Leprechaun Folklore

Grab your sacred daggers and prepare to fight off some hell hounds because we are rising from the eternal sea to get biblical on Richard Donner’s THE OMEN, starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick. It’s all for you, Chatterers!

131: The Omen

Keep your seatbelts fastened, your trays in an upright position, and your cargo pants in the overhead bin, because it’s time to take off with James Wong’s supernatural slasher FINAL DESTINATION, starring Devon Sawa and Ali Larter.

132: Final Destination

Disco, divas, and death abound in Paul Lynch’s PROM NIGHT, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen. A typical slasher-by-numbers or one of the most influential films in the subgenre? Join us on the dancefloor and cast your vote in one of horror’s longest ongoing debates. It’ll be a night to dismember!

133: Prom Night

Elm Street is getting hot, heavy, and homoerotic as hell in FREDDY’S REVENGE, starring Mark Patton, Kim Myers, and Robert Englund. We’ve brought back special guest Ms. Megan to discuss this controversial sequel in honor of both Friday the 13th (we’ll explain) and LGBTQIA+ Pride Month.

134: Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a teenage boy with emotional problems! In our 135st episode we need to talk about Clark Kent in this inventive if not perfectly executed horror inversion of the superhero origin story. Thought 2025 was James Gunn's first dive into Superman? Think again

135: Brightburn

We're in the midst of an Alien renaissance so we're joined again by friend of the pod and Splatter Chatter producer Colleen to dive in 2014's terrifying and groundbreaking video game Alien: Isolation. 

136: Alien Isolation

Where October Never Dies. All things horror, from television, to film, to literature, and beyond can be found here. 

Credits include:

Intro music by Mattia Cupelli

Outro music by Ross Bugden 

Artwork by Sam Quattro


135: Brightburn

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