The Abby Normal Podcast

Season 4 is officially a wrap! And to tie it all off, we will be reviewing a Collin-selected film. One of his favorite holiday family horror movies directed by Joe Dante, Gremlins, released in 1984. This is Collin's last day as a full time co-host of the Abby Normal Podcast, so help me in wishing him luck on his future projects.

The Abby Normal Podcast will pick up again with it's fifth season early February 2024.

Although the SAG-AFTRA strike is finally over, we're closing in on the end of season 4 with another independent movie review. This week we will be reviewing Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey directed by Rhys Frake Waterfield.

Welcome to another movie review episode, we will be diving into the world of witch hysteria in the 2015 film The VVitch directed by Robert Eggars.

This week's trivia game was inspired from the Dead Meat Podcast, only this game is without audio clips of the horror movie kills. We hope our listeners have a wonderful and safe Halloween this year.

This week's episode is a re-vamped review of Alea's least favorite film, Midsommar. Sometimes we may give a movie a second re-watch for a more stronger review and will sometimes find a little more aspects to enjoy from it. That doesn't always change the way we feel about those movies but it's giving chances.

Game night toniiiiight! On this week's episode, Collin is back and he's not so ready for another round of Who Am I? We hope you enjoy this week's game segment.

We are so excited for this review because we are honored to have Robin Graves, the man behind Lucy Baal, joining us this week. Horror TikTok's beloved demonic entity who runs The Last Movie Store on Earth! Robin and Alea will be reviewing Damion Leone's 2016 film Terrifier.

On this week's episode we're taking a trip to South Korean, where a zombie outbreak threatens the lives of people on a train en route for Busan. 2016's Train to Busan is a foreign horror film that has a refreshing take on zombie movies that is packed with action, heart and a great story.

In this week's episode we review one of Collin's favorite films directed by the Ari Aster. The time has finally come for Collin AND Alea to review Hereditary (2018).

On this week's episode we continue our movie reviews with another independent film; widely popular and directed by David Robert Mitchell, It Follows (2014).

This week we will be discussing Green Room, an independent film directed by Jeremy Saulnier, starring Patrick Stewart and the late Anton Yelchin.4

This week we're bringing the truly strange and unusual back to the show by discussing cryptids, Bigfoot to be precise. Bigfoot is one of Collin's favorite cryptids and Alea thought it would be nice to showcase one of his favorite things. We'll be highlighting three different horror movies that feature or center around Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti. As to remain in solidarity with the WGA & SAG-AFTRA strike, we made sure all three movies that are discussed are either independently produced or are produced by non AMPTP affiliates.

Surfs up everybody! This week we're covering the film Psycho Beach Party, based off of a off-Broadway play written by Charles Busch. This film is a fun parody of 60's surfer movies mixed with who-done-it storyline and slasher themes.

It's game night for the Abby Normal Podcast household. We've spent a lot of time reviewing movies, talking with friends and discussing current events that we felt it would be a good time to bust out one of our favorite trivia games. This is the fifth time we have played Horror Trivial Pursuit on the podcast.

How did we get here? And where are we going from here? With the WGA strike unfolding and now the SAG-AFTRA strike beginning, we wanted to take the time to explain how it all started and where we are right now in a way you, the listeners, better understand it. We are by no means professionals in the movie & TV critique field but as consumers of movies & TV as well as content creators, but we felt like this is our way of showing solidarity to the strike to have the conversation. If you enjoy this episode and felt that this...

Originally Posted on 7.16.2023 It's Summer Time! After a two week unannounced hiatus, we are back with a summer themed horror movie that has been considered a classic camping horror movie by many. We will be kicking off a multi-part franchise review of Friday the 13th.

Originally posted on 6.25.2023 As Pride Month comes to an end, we'll be wrapping things up with a classic slasher film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins. This week we'll be reviewing Psycho (1960), a horror movie that has been widely regarded as the film that changed modern horror.

Originally Released on 6.18.2023 We're continuing Pride Month with another horror film with the most iconic of monsters, The Babadook (2014). The Babadook is an entity that torments it's victims in their time of grief and has been considered an LGBTQ character since 2017. Find out on why that is in this week's episode of the Abby Normal Podcast.Warning: This episode contains themes and topics of death & grieving that might be unsettling for some listeners, listener discretion is advised.

Released on 6/11/2023 Happy Pride everyone! As the States celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community, we would like to take this time to highlight horror films that star and/or are created by members of the community. This weeks episode we will being discussing the film Vamp (1986) starring the iconic Grace Jones. This 80's movie perfectly captures the horrific side of vampirism while incorporating the right amount of artistic flair.Be sure to support local businesses that are celebrating Pride Month. This week we're shouting out Fright-Rags for partnering with Fangoria and selling Pride themed Fangoria merch. 100% of the proceeds go to LGBT+...

Released on 6.4.2023 Everybody gets their start somewhere. We sit down with Kelin and John, two high school students from Wisconsin, who are working on getting their first feature length film release this year. The movie is called Night and is excepted to be released by the end of this year.

Released on 5.21.2023 Hello dear listeners! We hope you all had a great Mother's Day weekend last week. We apologize for not having an episode last Sunday as Collin was out of town and we did not properly prepare an episode for you all. Hopefully to make it up to you, we are brining you an oldie segment we haven't done in a while; Remake Debates! This week we discuss the 1962 original film (based on the novel written by Henry Farrell) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane starring iconic Hollywood rivals; Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, followed by the 1991 remake starring...

Released on 5.7.2023 On this episode of the Abby Normal Podcast we review 2022's Kids vs Aliens, directed by Jason Eisener. If nostalgia and camp is your thing then you'll definitely love this film. This film also has great practical effects that enhance the grotesqueness of the aliens and kill scenes. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed this movie.

Released on 4.30.2023 We finally made it! We watched the latest installment of the Saw franchise Spiral: The Book of Saw, and we now get to put a giant pause on the franchise until the release of Saw X said to be released in 2025. So until we know whether or not this crazy and gory journey is ever going to end, we hope you enjoy our review of Spiral.

Released on 4.23.2023 And we are back with a new episode this week after taking a couple of weeks off to focus on settling into our new home. Thank you to everyone who was very understanding during this time. We hope you enjoy this week's episode and look forward to upcoming movie reviews in the weeks to come.

Released on 4.6.2023 Since we are in the process of moving and unpacking into our new home, we are playing a fun game of Who Am I. Collin has picked five horror based characters that Alea has to figure out using yes or no questions.

Released by 3.26.2023 We are back this week with another review for you all, we will be discussing the latest film Cocaine Bear directed by Elizabeth Banks. We are really excited to be going over this film as it one of the few horror-comedies we've covered on the podcast, and we've heard so many good things about it from others!

Released on 3.19.2023 Hello friends! We're back after a week long break to review The Menu which was released in 2022. Collin enjoyed it a lot more than I thought he would. Be sure to follow Alea on Letterboxd for more reviews on other horror films she has watched over the years.

Released on 3.5.2023 We hope you all are fond of our guest specials because we have one more for you. This week we will be discussing Smile (2022) with Josh Bragg of Haunting Season. We really enjoyed talking with Josh about the film along with the ever growing horror community on social media, it is always fun to talk with fellow fans of the genre.

Released on 2.26.2023 We have another movie review this week with some amazing guest hosts. This week we are joined by Steve Goldberg and Sean Parker from Mostly Horror Podcast to go into a deep dive review of M3GAN, one of the highest grossing films of the year (so far). We are so excited to be inviting more guests on the podcast and we hope to have more surprises for you in the coming weeks/months/years!

Released on 2.19.2023 Happy (Belated) Valentines Day to everyone. We sat down with Ben Scrivens, the Owner/President of Fright-Rags and reviewed this 1981 classic holiday horror, My Bloody Valentine. We hope you enjoy this week's episode, Ben shares a lot of fascinating stories with us and was a joy talking to about all things horror.

Released on 2.12.2023 Happy Sunday! This week we may possibly be wrapping up this franchise review as the 2021 film Spiral is still unavailable to stream for the time being, if so then we hope you enjoy this week's episode as we discuss the seventh and eighth film of the Saw series; Saw 3D and Jigsaw.

Released on 2.5.2023 Hello listeners, wanna play a game? We are going to be continuing the Saw franchise review and covering films Saw V and Saw VI. The games get more intense as we go through each film along with real world concepts included in the plots of each movie. Make sure to tune in next week as we go forward in this franchise.

Released on 1.29.2023 Happy Birthday to Collin! If you've been with us since season 2 of the podcast then you know we like to treat ourselves to personal movie selection reviews for our birthday episodes. This week's episode is brought to you by Collin who has chosen Fred Dekker's The Monster Squad (1987).

Released on 1.22.2023 Welcome back to part 2 of the Saw franchise review. If you made it thus far, we applaud you and your strong stomach. In this episode we will be discussing the films Saw III and Saw IV both directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Leigh Whannell.

Released on 1.15.2023 Ever since Alea watched almost all of the Saw movies (with the exception of Spiral) late last year, she has been dying to unpack everything she has taken in. In this episode we will be discussing the first two films of the franchise Saw and Saw II.

Released on 1.8.2023 We're kicking off 2023 with a cryptid episode! There are plenty of horror films that highlight all types of cyrtid creatures and in this weeks episode, we will be covering the Chupacabra. A reptilian/canine type creature known for sucking the blood out of livestock. We will also be highlighting a film starring the mythical being, Chupacabra: Dark Seas aka Chupacabra Terror.

Released on 12.19.2022 Happy Holidays listeners! We're wrapping up the year with a Winter Holiday Horror Movie Review! We've dabbled a bit on the 2015 film Krampus in recent years but this year we're going on a deeper dive on our favorite holiday horror movie. From the director who brought you our favorite Halloween horror flick Trick R' Treat, we hope you enjoy our episode.

Released on 12.12.2022 This is going to be an interesting episode because only Alea has watched Barbarian and Collin has not, so Alea is going to break down the movie in detail to someone who has not seen it yet. Let's see if she can sell the movie to Collin or paint such an off-putting word picture that will scar him for life. Spoiler Warning & Trigger Warning as this movie contains themes of sexual assault/rape/suicide.

Released on 12.4.2022 Hey listeners! We're still sick with the flu but we're pulling through for you! We watched Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities collection of short stories and we're ranking each of them from best to worst between Alea's list and Collin's list. We hope you enjoy this week's episode and look forward to the next few week's as we approach the end of the year and the end of a season for the Abby Normal Podcast.

Released on 11.23.2022 A lot was going on at the Abby Normal homestead that we had to take care of, but it did give us a little extra time to prepare for our general review of a 1987 Thanksgiving horror flick called Blood Rage. If you celebrate Thanksgiving, we hope you all enjoy the holiday and have a safe weekend and we'll be back next week hopefully at our regular scheduled time. Trigger warning: This Episode does contain topics that may be disturbing for some listener's.