We are the Mother Aphid! Our experience with drugged out cinema in our theme “Rrrrrreal f*ckin’ High on Drugs” takes us to the itchiest corner of cinema with master filmmaker William Friedkin’s BUG! We have arguably one of our richest film discussions digging into this fever dream of meth-soaked cinema and along the way we talk more about Cody’s Only Child Chair, Super Bowl nonsense, and some classic blindspots!

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00:00 - 15:15ish - Intros - Super Bowl commercials + trailers, Cody’s Only Child Chair

15:15ish - 39:00ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Curtis - Hard Boiled, Hold the Dark, Goat, The Worst Person in the World

Austin - Train Dreams

Lucas - The Northman

Cody - Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Jeopardy, Sisu: Road to Revenge

39:00ish - 1:15:30ish - BUG - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:15:30ish - End - The fourth and final film of “Rrrrreal f*cking High on Drugs” brought to you by Lucas!

Hi Brian, not feeling too well, are we Brian? Well you’re about to chipper on up as we bring to you our discussion of Frank Henenlotter’s 1988 creature classic, BRAIN DAMAGE. It’s Curtis’ pick in Cody’s theme of “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on Drugs” and we also discuss the results of our Patreon poll in which a winner for “Coolest List” in our 2026 Horror Movie Draft was crowned, some Bone Temple action, some Sam Raimi goodness, and a whole other host of horrors both real and cinematic!

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00:00 - 11:00ish - Intros - Harry Styles (why not?), Cody’s gum grafts, our Patrons’ vote on the coolest 2026 horror movie draft list, laserdiscs

11:00ish - 1:12:30ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Curtis - Kindred Spirits, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, A Knight’s Tale, Horror in the High Desert 2-4, This is Spinal Tap, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, A Cursed Man, Ghost Station, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Rip, The Naked Gun (2025), Mother of Flies, Bugonia, Saturday Night Fever, Send Help

Austin - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, About Time, Dead Man’s Wire, The Ugly Stepsister, Together,

Cody - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Eddington, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Is This Thing On?, School of Rock, Harry Potter 7 Pt. 1, A Minecraft Movie, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, The Hobbit 1-3, LOTR 1-3, Deathstalker, Send Help, Pluribus, Ancient Aliens

Lucas - The Rip, Bugonia, Play Date, Land of Bad, Marty Supreme, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, The Running Man, Shelter, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Best in Show

1:12:30ish - 1:38:00ish - BRAIN DAMAGE - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:38:00ish - End - Austin’s pick for our next movie in our theme, “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on Drugs”!

Light some candles, sink into a saline bath, and turn into your primordial self as we get “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on Drugs”, our new theme brought to you by Cody! As his first pick of the theme we take a trip back down Ken Russell Avenue for ALTERED STATES. Along the way we round out our holiday watching with a bevy of flicks new and old!

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00:00 - 9:00ish - Intros: Cody wants to get rid of us, forgotten subscriptions

9:00ish - 59:00ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Cody - How the Grinch Stole Christmas, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Flesh + Blood, Shrek 2, Anaconda, Krampus, A Christmas Story, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Gremlins, Nosferatu, The Housemaid, Harry Potter 4 & 5, Marty Supreme, Before Sunset, Highlander, Stranger Things

Austin - A Christmas Story, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Gremlins, The Long Walk, Wake Up Dead Man, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Eddington, F1

Curtis - Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Nosferatu, Marty Supreme, Stranger Things, Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Shelby Oaks, Dream Eater, Keeper, It Ends, Born to Fight, The Protector, Clue: The Movie, Queens of the Dead, Die My Love, Meek’s Cutoff, The Mastermind, The Lord of the Rings, Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now, Horror in the High Desert,

Lucas - Anaconda, The Muppets Christmas Carol, The Housemaid, Die My Love, Sunshine

59:00ish - 1:27:00ish - ALTERED STATES - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:27:00ish - End - The next movie in “Rrrrrrrrrreal F*cking High on Drugs - Horror Movies about Drugs

New Year, same wonderful weirdos! Tune in as we cover the final film of Lucas’ theme, “RAW and UnSENSEored” Horror Movies About the Senses” – RAW, brought to you by Austin. On the journey we discuss Austin’s birthday, some pre-Christmas viewings, more anime, aliens among us, and so very much more! At the end we give out our awards for this theme and Cody blesses us with his pick for the next theme and the first film in that series!

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00:00 - 7:00ish - Intros: Happy New Year!

7:00ish - 50:30ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Curtis - The Hunger Games 1-4, The Long Walk, Wake Up Dead Man, The Roses, Wrong Turn, Jay Kelly, Inside Llewyn Davis, Perfect Blue, Night of the Hunter

Austin - Elf, Klaus, Die Hard, Arthur Christmas

Cody - Elf, The Sword and the Sorcerer, One Battle After Another, Thanksgiving, Over the Garden Wall, Miracle on 34th Street (1994), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,

Lucas - Wake Up Dead Man, Predator Badlands, Age of Disclosure, Selena, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Muppet Christmas Carol

50:30ish - 1:24:30ish - RAW - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:24:30ish - End - “RAW and UnSENSEored” Horror Movies About the Senses - Awards + Our next theme and movie pick brought to you by Cody!

Another year, another 4 lists, another 2+ hours of argument and joy, another wildly expansive set of music recommendations from Cody. That’s right, it’s our annual YEAR IN RE-SPEW!!! We break down our top 10 horror movies of 2025 and while you might think you know where we’re going (and honestly, we do that too), you could also never, ever know. Thank you all for another horrifically delightful year from all of us at the SHUDcast!

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00:00 - 8:30ish - Intros: Our favorite SHUDcast episodes of the year

8:30ish - 1:32:00ish - Our top 10 horror movies of 2025!

1:32:00ish - End - Cody’s top 10 (plus plus plus) albums of the year!

Shh… said no one ever on this show. We dig into one of horror’s most favorite brains as we discuss Mike Flanagan’s 2016 home invasion classic, HUSH, on week three of “RAW and UnSENSEored” Horror Movies About the Senses as picked by Curtis. We also cover a TON of our late Halloween watches as well as seeing Big Daddy Carpenter in the flesh and a particular baseball team winning something.

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00:00 - 6:00ish - Intros: Prince or Cody?

6:00ish - 56:30ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Curtis - Predator: Badlands, The Old Dark House, Witchfinder General, Night of the Juggler, Wick is Pain, The Running Man, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Frankenstein, Materialists, Abraham’s Boys, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Breathless, Nouvelle Vague, Best In Show, Big Trouble in Little China, Christine, Pieces, Sinners, Miami Connection, Demons, Nosferatu, Nope

Austin - Friendship, It: Chapter 2

Cody - Predator: Badlands, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Home Alone, Excalibur, Kull the Conquerer, The Sword and the Stone, Harry Potter 1-2, Wicked: For Good, Paddington, Warcraft

Lucas - Charlie’s Angels (2000), The Smashing Machine, Ready Player One

56:30ish - 1:29:00ish - HUSH - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:29:00ish - End - Austin’s pick for the final movie of “RAW and UnSENSEored” Horror Movies About the Senses!

We tackle a brand new sense and a different era of Hollywood for our second installment of, “RAW and Un-SENSE-ored: Horror Movies about the Senses” as Cody selects the Audrey Hepburn classic, WAIT UNTIL DARK. Hear about how we spent our Halloweens, how happy most of us are about baseball, and a wealth of other movies including a little teaser of our future discussion of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein!

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00:00 - 17:00ish - Intros: Lucas’ recent eating habits, Dodgers won something, John Carpenter live, Halloween day activities

17:00ish - 1:07:00ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Cody - Good Fortune, Hausu, The Taking of Deborah Logan, Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf, Jason Goes to Hell, Shelby Oaks, Black Phone 2, Good Boy, Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, Carnival of Souls, Blood Rage, Hocus Pocus, Trick ‘r Treat, Evil Dead 2, Bugonia,

Austin - Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf, Jason Goes to Hell, Frankenstein, Trick ‘r Treat, Evil Dead 2, Bugonia, Evil Dead Rise, It, Push, One Battle After Another, Corpse Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas

Lucas - Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf, Jason Goes to Hell, Frankenstein, Nightmare Before Christmas, Cape Fear, The Hurt Locker, House of Dynamite, Hacksaw Ridge,

Curtis - Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf, Frankenstein, Child’s Play, Mr. Scorsese, Inferno, Scream, Rec 4: Apocalypse, Phase IV, Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills, WNUF Halloween Special, Hell House LLC: Lineage

1:07:00ish - 1:35:00ish - WAIT UNTIL DARK - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:35:00ish - End - The next film in “Raw and Un-SENSE-ored!” Horror Movies About the Senses!

We’re tantalizing ALL of your senses with our newest theme – RAW and Un-SENSE-ored: Horror Movies about the Senses – brought to you by Lucas! His first pick… maybe stretches the boundaries of the horror realm but we have a good time anyway tickling our olfactories with a discussion on PERFUME: STORY OF A MURDERER!

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00:00 - 9:40ish - Intros: Lucas went on an odyssey, Tron: Ares, Good Morning America

9:40ish - 1:08:00ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Lucas - Skinamarink, Christmas Bloody Christmas, One Battle After Another, Perfect Neighbor, LOTR: The Two Towers, Uncut Gems

Cody - One Battle After Another, Sleepy Hollow, Primate, Exhuma, Here for Blood, Night of the Reaper, Bone Lake, Dust Bunny, Deathstalker, Death of a Unicorn, Frankenweenie, This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse, The Devil’s Rejects, The Strange World of Coffin Joe, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Freaked!, Scream, Blink, Cape Fear, Ouija: Origin of Evil

Austin - Primate, Dust Bunny, Deathstalker, 28 Years Later, The Boy Behind the Door, Black Phone 2, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Presence, VHS Halloween, The Monkey, Sinners

Curtis - One Battle After Another, Primate, Dust Bunny, Deathstalker, Black Phone 2, Presence, VHS Halloween, No Other Choice, Chungking Express, The Furious, A Bittersweet Life, Pumpkinhead, At the Drive-In, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Ernest Scared Stupid, Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone, Mimic, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Lake Mungo, The Descent, Frailty, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

1:08:00ish - 1:42:00ish - PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:42:00ish - End - Movie #2 of “Raw and Un-SENSE-ored: Horror Movies about the Senses” brought to you by Lucas!