As someone who has a December birthday, the end of the year has always enveloped me in a double dose of reflection. Not only for the year that’s come and gone as we anticipate a new calendar to fill with personal ambitions, but also the contem…
Everyone remembers their first. The heady cocktail of excitement and anxiety, the blood, the afterglow of doing something that feels wicked and wrong yet also, somehow feeling inexplicably in love. Yes, everyone remembers their first horror movie e…
It is not an entirely false generalization to say that remakes are a large portion of the media we consume and see advertised (sometimes ad nauseum) every cinematic year. Very few things nowadays sprout from original IP, and the horror genre is far …
The second season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon has come to an end, which also brings our character’s time in France to a close. Before looking ahead to the next season, I wanted to look back on my favorite character in the show.Spoilers ah…
It seems almost too cliché to say that living through one “unprecedented historical event” after another feels like one long horror movie. There are villains who could win, heroes who could fall, seemingly inescapable scenarios, a…
I was raised in Florida for the first 5 years of my life. After that I moved around every 1-2 years until I moved back home in the early 2000’s. I was only home a few years before I left for the Navy, and I grew up — really became an ad…
Long before the days of Stephen King’s Pennywise or Damian Leone’s Art the Clown, the clown has had a…complex relationship with our world. For centuries, even millenia, the clown; the jester; the fool; no matter what name it has …
There is a stark difference in experience between sitting down on your couch or in a movie theater to watch a horror movie and immersing yourselves in those horror stories at a haunted attraction (colloquially called a ‘haunt” for short)…
Do you have a scaredy cat in your life? They are the bewildering breed of humans who shudder at the thought of jump scares and immediately leave the room when you open the Shudder app on the TV. But just because you have those people in your …
Every October, horror movie lovers of all preferences and experiences embark on the deeply personal journey of watching at least one horror movie during every day in October to get into the spooky Halloween spirit! For some it is an opportunity to e…
This month marks the 15th anniversary of Rob Zombie’s Halloween II releasing in theaters. Over the years, I’ve grown quite fond of Scout Taylor-Compton’s portrayal of Laurie Strode. In fact, I’d go as far as to say she’…
The Spooky Season with Hack or Slash is back and better than ever for 2024, and we’re kicking things off with the Spooky Preseason starting August 1st. For those who are new, the Spooky Preseason is a month-long horror extravaganza within our…
We’re thrilled to announce that Hack or Slash is celebrating its 7th anniversary, and what better way to commemorate this milestone than by connecting with the horror community at Spooky Empire: The Dark Side of Comic-Con! Last year, we had a…
(As written in October 2017) The 2017 coming of IT was 135 minutes of sheer modern-horror brilliance, and I don’t say that lightly. I saw the 2017 film within it’s first week in theaters, and in the time that’s passed I’ve …
Each Spooky Season of our show's existence has marked a time of welcoming new listeners who have developed a taste for horror, are looking to get their fix of horror movie conversation, or are just discovering our show. We've celebrated the Spooky …
Brace yourselves, listeners, The Spooky Season with Hack or Slash is getting a glow up for 2023, and this year the Spooky Preseason is officially starting August 1st. If you're new around here, the Spooky Preseason is a month-long horror extravagan…
Transport me back in time to a point in time that I absolutely hated and let me just live in it for a while. Listen to the Episode When a former WWE wrestler's horror movie debut enters the content calendar, three horror movie enthusiast…
When we settled into our seats to watch Renfield, we weren't expecting to be so captivated by the unique perspective of this classic tale - exploring the complex relationship between Dracula and his loyal servant Renfield. But as Nicolas Cage's me…
When Kris, Binx, and Sean settled in to watch the newest installment in the Evil Dead franchise, they expected a wild ride of intense gore and violence - but they could never have guessed the unexpected horror that awaited them as the credits ro…
Kickoff the Season! Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Classics Christmas in Connecticut (1945) Remember the Night (1940) Holiday Inn (1942) Babes in Toyland (1986) It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) White Christmas (1954) Miracle on…
This October we’ll be hosting another double-stuffed lineup to celebrate The Spooky Season with Hack or Slash. The Spooky Season isn’t limited to October, though. In fact, the Spooky Preseason officially starts September 1st. Through t…
No matter what you tell yourself, we all love a good scare. A reminder that safe may not be so safe. That the things which bring us comfort can easily turn against us. That the things we dismiss — movement spotted from the corner of our eye &m…