Ahh! Real Films

Dec 10 2024 171 ep. 76 mins 8

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Welcome, ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Ahh! Real Films is a horror movie podcast hosted by two siblings who love horror films almost as much as they love one-upping each other. Join Taylor & Curtis twice a month for themed episodes covering found footage, black-and-white horror and every sub-genre in between! You can found us on Twitter: @ahhreelfilms and Instagram: @ahhrealfims, or drop us a line at [email protected]. Thank you to Angel Garten for our cover art!

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Episode 153--Ahh! Less Popular Holidays

Dec 10 2024 59 mins

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we keep the holiday spirit flowing from Thanksgiving to Christmas and cover films based on less popular holidays. We discuss the phenomenon of horror films being based around holidays before getting into our two (slasher) films! Why are holiday-based films so popular, and why are those based on Christmas

Episode 152--Ahh! Black Friday (Thanksgiving)

Nov 26 2024 65 mins

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we dive into our (semi) annual Thanksgiving episode but this time with a little twist. We are covering films actually about or reminiscent of Black Friday, the biggest day for shopping in the U.S.! We cover the history of Black Friday (non-American listeners, listen up!!) before covering our films. Where

Episode 151--Ahh!! Based on a True Story

Nov 12 2024 69 mins

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we delve into the realm of the real… real stories that is, or “based on a true story,” as some would say. We discuss our society’s fascination with seeing “real life” stories depicted on screen, the problems associated with “real life stories” being depicted on screen, and the ways in whic

Episode 150--Ahh! Halloween Spooktacular (Give Me 14 of Them Right Now)

Oct 29 2024 45 mins

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we engage in one of our favorite episodes every year, our Halloween coverage episode! That's right germs we know you are on the edge of your seat waiting for this year's Halloween recs well, ask and ye shall receive!! What did we watch this Halloween season? What do we like to do to get into the Halloween

Episode 149--Ahh!! Psychological Horror

Oct 01 2024 80 mins

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we delve, somehow for the first time, in the psychological horror subgenre. Believe it or not, while we’ve covered a ton of individual psychological horror films as part of other episodes, we’ve never dedicated a whole episode to one of our favorite sub-genres of horror… until now! Welp, here you go

Episode 148--Ahh! Body Invasion Horror

Sep 10 2024 61 mins

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we discuss a creepy crawly topic--body invasion horror! But because we love to be different no we are NOT covering any of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers movies (rest in power Donald Sutherland). We discuss the common imagery and themes of these films before discussing two VERY similar films. You COULD

Episode 147--Ahh!! Women in Danger (Siskel and Ebert's Version)

Aug 20 2024 78 mins

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we continue tackle a topic 40+ years in the making – that’s right, we’re covering Siskel and Ebert’s famous “Women in Danger” episode. In that episode, our boys Siskel and Ebert (or “Rog” as we call him) absolutely savage the 80s slasher, decrying them as misogynistic and violent towards w

Episode 146--Ahh! Trilogy Throwdown: The Purge

Aug 06 2024 81 mins

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Taylor & Curtis as we continue our Trilogy Throwdown series with the first three The Purge films. We take a look at one of the more recent franchises, discuss its political themes, and chat all things Blumhouse. What is The Purge, exactly? Why do people gravitate towards murder when told they can commit any crime? What is w

Episode 145--Ahh!! 2024 Horror Movie Mid-Year Check In

Jul 23 2024 73 mins

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Curtis and Taylor as we check in on 2024 and discuss two new releases as well as some of the movies we’ve enjoyed this year. Yep, it’s our now-annual current year check in, and thankfully, unlike a few years past, it’s actually been a great year for horror – wow! Does that include the movies we’re covering especially

Episode 144--Ahh! 50s Sci-Fi/Red Scare Horror

Jul 09 2024 73 mins

Welcome ladies, germs, and people of all genders! Join Curtis and Taylor as we discuss 1950s sci-fi movies, specifically those with a Red Scare subtext (which most of them had!) We discuss that period of American history and say a lot of VERY intelligent things before diving into our two films. How did the Red Scare, fear of nuclear war, and the blacklist show up in 50s films? What