Episodes
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Letterboxd Reviews, Part One
This week is Ally's birthday, so the Brides are switching it up and goofing around by presenting a collection of Letterboxd reviews from each movie covered on the pod! There's really no structure to this one, gang - it's just Lindsay and Ally making each other laugh for half an hour, and really,...
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Pearl: A Star is Born (?)
Feel Bad Fall has arrived! Fire up the buggy and roast your finest pig, this week the Brides are recapping the 2022 instant classic, Pearl. Ti West's prequel, famously shot concurrently (and in secret!) to X, is a brilliant examination of slowly creeping psychosis as well as a loving tribute to…
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Catching Up: It's Been a Long, Long Time
AND WE'RE BACK! This week, the Brides return to your ears and go over everything that's happened since the last episode dropped in December 2021 (what is time, anyway?). Alysa spills the tea about her recent wedding, Lindsay gabs about her awesome new promotion at work, and they give a few subtle...
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The Shining: Crazy from Jump
This week the Brides take a trip to the quiet, snow-covered, definitely not creepy at all Overlook Hotel for a spirited discussion on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining! A faithful adaptation of Stephen King's novel, this is not. And Kubrick's treatment of Shelley Duval on set was borderline abusive...
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Poltergeist: All Hail Queen Zelda
HALLOWEEEEEEEN!!! Today is the best day of the year, so the Brides are dropping one heck of a fun episode. Today we're going into the light and chatting all things Poltergeist! This is one of the rare horror movies that's both incredibly creepy and very, very funny, with a lot of surprisingly...
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Nosferatu: Nobody Looks Like a Person
It's finally here - the most wonderful time of the year - SPOOKY SEASON HAS RETURNED! The Brides kick off their Halloween celebrations with yet another vampire movie, the brilliantly creepy Nosferatu! Released in 1922, F.W. Murnau's deep dive into German Expressionist horror is the first onscreen...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula: Baby Pizza Party
It's Birthday Mandate time, and by Alysa's command, the Brides are dodging extreme acting and buckets of blood for a chat all about Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 epic, Bram Stoker's Dracula! Alysa shares how watching this movie's trailer at a very young age during a screening of A League of Their…
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The Sixth Sense: Red Power Suit at a Funeral
Today the Brides hang with some very needy ghosts who don't know they're dead - it's 1999's The Sixth Sense! M. Night Shyamalan has spent the last 21 years trying to live up to this film's extremely lofty expectations - sometimes it works out (The Visit), sometimes it doesn't (The Last Airbender,...
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The Purge: If Tumblr Wrote a Horror Movie
This week, the Brides get smacked around with a social commentary 2x4 as we try to find anything good to say about 2013's The Purge. You know a movie is awful when even the great Lena Headey and usually reliable Ethan Hawke can't save it. This movie is atrociously written, poorly paced, and its...
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Friday the 13th: Exposition Dog
It's summertime, and that means a trip to Camp Crystal Lake! This week the Brides break down the unintentionally hilarious, still pretty effective Friday the 13th. It's got everything Halloween's got...because it deliberately ripped off Halloween. Let's face it, this movie is real silly and is...
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003: Sponsored by Hollister
"The trailer is what I wanted this movie to be." This week, the Brides head back to Texas for a recap of the most aggressively "meh" film in our podcast's short history: the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This is one of the most toothless, gutless, boring entries in the early 2000s...
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Jaws: Sharks Gonna Shark
It's a beautiful day, the beaches are open, and everyone is having a wonderful time! This 4th of July weekend the Brides are headed to Amity for the third season premiere, talking about all things Jaws! This movie is the big bad granddaddy of summer blockbusters, in which every single thing that...
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Midsommar: Gaslight Around The Maypole
LET THE FESTIVITIES BEGIN! This week on our season 2 finale, the Brides head to Sweden, trip out on some shrooms, and try to ignore the very large bear in our gleeful recap of the haunting, thrilling, and extremely satisfying 2019 'folk horror' film, Midsommar. This might be the most fun movie…
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Insidious: Make it Make Sense
Today, the Brides are one hundred percent going to make sense of James Wan's 2010 film, Insidious. We swear. By the end of the episode, we will understand why this haunted house story turns in the last 40 minutes into a story about astral projection??? With a ton of ghost mythos that never fully...
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Cabin Fever: Baby's First Script Energy
Oh boy. On this episode, the Brides are taking a trip into the woods and dodging a flesh-eating virus and lots of early 2000s humor as we try to make heads or tails of Eli Roth's 2002 gorefest Cabin Fever. This movie doesn't quite know what it's trying to be - a parody of horror movies, a…
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[•REC]: Crackle Movie of the Week
We promised we'd be back in the realm of completely messed up and traumatizing films and we ALWAYS deliver! This week the Brides head to Barcelona and get stuck in the worst penthouse ever as we cover the 2007 found-footage masterpiece [•REC]! Found footage movies became almost a punch line in…
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Aliens: Humans are the Real Monsters
For the first time in Brides of Frankenstein history, the Brides are in disagreement about a film! Today we are taking a drop-ship to LV-426 (aka Acheron) to discuss James Cameron's 1986 beefed-up sequel to Alien, creatively titled Aliens. Let's be real: this is not a horror movie, and if you're...
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Psycho: The Original Incel
Finally, a movie that makes sense! This week, the Brides pull up to the Bates Motel for a spirited discussion on Alfred Hitchcock's seminal thriller, Psycho. We rave about the spotless editing, Anthony Perkins' legendary performance, the straight up hot opening scene, and obviously beautiful and...
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IT Chapter Two: It's a Lot
This week, the Brides are back in Derry and recapping the crushing disappointment that is It: Chapter Two! Man. This is one of the most woefully messy films we'll ever cover on the show, specifically because everything that does work gets swallowed up by over-zealous directing, a script stuffed...
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IT Chapter One: Emotional Terrorism
Welcome to the Losers Club! This week, the Brides head to Derry, Maine, to talk all about 2017's It Chapter One. Topics covered in this episode include: why this Stephen King adaptation works as opposed to Children of the Corn, the pitch perfect casting for the Losers, the tendency of director…
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Children of the Corn: Made of Corn
The Brides are back for season 2! This week, we get lost in Gatlin, Nebraska, and try to make even a little bit of sense out of the 1984 adaptation of Stephen King's Children of the Corn. Over the course of a purely chaotic hour we wonder who put Linda Hamilton in those unforgivable khakis, pick…
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Scream: Don't Fear The Creeper
On this, our Season 1 finale, the Brides of Frankenstein celebrate Lindsay's birthday mandate with one of her favorite films, Wes Craven's Scream! We rave about the brilliance of the opening scene, the genius, bordering-on-unhinged performance of Matthew Lillard, the way the characters talk and…
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Hellraiser: WAS HE WORTH IT, LINDA?
This week, the Brides open Lemarchand's puzzle box and experience the limits of pleasure and pain as we explore Clive Barker's landmark 1987 bondage-fueled horrorscape Hellraiser. Along the way, we ask the truly important questions: Is this the horniest movie we'll ever cover? Did the term...
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The Conjuring: The Patrick Wilson Appreciation Special
This week, the Brides celebrate the restoration of democracy to America by gleefully dissecting James Wan's 2013 demon-possessed masterpiece, The Conjuring. How is this movie still so terrifying, even after multiple rewatches? We also ponder why the actual Annabelle doll is in fact scarier than…
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Brides of Frankenstein Halloween Special: Trick R Treat
On this special 'live commentary' episode, the Brides watch the 2007 classic anthology Trick r Treat! Join us as we talk over this wonderful film that encapsulates some of the best things about this holiday. How terrifyingly adorable is Sam? How come nobody knows the rules of Halloween? Is the...
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Halloween 2018: Podcasters Ruin Everything
The ooky-spooky season continues! This week the Brides head on back to Haddonfield to discuss the better-than-it-has-any-right-to-be 2018 sequel to Halloween, also titled Halloween! We explain how the script retcons everything past the original film AND nails Laurie Strode's trauma, and generally...
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Halloween: The Autumnal Streets of Pasadena
It's the most wonderful time of the year! To celebrate the ooky-spooky season, the Brides are coming at you with THREE episodes this month! And we we had to start with a trip to Haddonfield. That's right, today we're celebrating the Daddy of slasher pics, John Carpenter's Halloween! We discuss…
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The Covenant: Brought To You By D.A.R.E.
"It's just a sea of butts." This week is Alysa's birthday, so she picks the movie - no vetoes allowed. The Brides head to Ipswich, MA, and attempt to make sense of the 2006 Renny Harlin bro-d out witchcraft movie, The Covenant. Did anybody know how homoerotic this was going to turn out? Why does...
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5. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: #FREELEATHERFACE
"I did not enjoy watching this." This week, the Brides gnaw on some homemade headcheese and get delirious with heat stroke as we discuss one of cinema's sweatiest films: Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Along the way, we touch on the truly horrific conditions of the shoot, how one of…
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Alien: LEAVE THE F*****G CAT
It's an extraterrestrial body horror extravaganza! This week, the Brides board the Nostromo and recap/discuss Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi classic, Alien. Why do people ignore quarantine protocol? Is Ash's secret a worthwhile addition to the film? Could all of this have been avoided if everyone...
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The Thing: Body Snatchers on Ice
This week, the Brides lean all the way into isolation and head to Antarctica to recap John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi thriller classic, The Thing. This movie has everything - tone, tension, brilliantly placed humor, exploding eyeballs, a head that turns into a spider, even computerized chess. It's…
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The Evil Dead: Three Stooges But Make it Satan
This week, the Brides pop in Sclera lenses, load up on Karo syrup, and open the Necronomicon in our gleeful recap of Sam Raimi's beloved demonic gorefest The Evil Dead. We discuss the brilliance of Bruce Campbell, the sheer nightmare that was this film's production, and how Raimi's background as…
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Suspiria: Put Tilda Swinton in Everything
This week on our first official episode, we tackle the 1977 Dario Argento classic, Suspiria, as well as the fantastic 2018 Luca Guadagnino remake of the same name. What makes a remake good? Why are the magical rules at the end of the movie? Why does Mother Markos look like Pizza the Hutt? And…
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Episode 0 - What Is This?
In which the Brides introduce themselves, their love of horror, and their long friendship that hearkens back to the glory days of Livejournal. Plus, Lindsay and Alysa admit their love of Basic White Men.
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