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Chopping It Up

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Chopping It Up is a horror movie podcast dedicated to comparing & contrasting two films by parsing out the shared through lines & themes of each. All horror subgenres are fair game! choppingituphorrorpod.podbean.com

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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New ep up! The crew navigates the perilous Cahulawassee River, as we chop up "Deliverance," based on the James Dickey novel. We pair that with the 1981 backwoods slasher, "The Final Terror," starring Joe Pantaliano and Darryl Hannah. Up now on all major streaming services!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The Initiation" (1984) absolutely rocks. One of those forgotten '80s slashers, replete w/ malls, sororities, & people being hacked up w/ gardening implements. Clu Gulager & Daphen Zuniga? Sign me up. Super fun flick as we enter slasher season (i.e., Fall).
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Set to record a full-length ep focusing on Curry Barker's "Obsession" in a few days. Conducting a ton of research and we intend to chop up so many themes and Easter eggs. Lots of world-building potential for this neat film. Stay tuned!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Anyone ever seen "The Final Terror" (1981)? It's a bizarre mashup of "Deliverance" and every '80s summer camp slasher. Darryl Hannah & Joe Pantaliano in a completely disorienting role. Actually fairly entertaining & feels like it could be one of those Italian/Spanish/American co-production flicks.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Latest ep on the Kevin Bacon classic, "Tremors" (1990) paired with 1980's "Blood Beach." We chop up beaches vs. lake "beaches," Michael Gross & Family Ties, as well as the John Saxon police procedural element to "Blood Beach." Up now on all streaming services!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Incoming PRIME CUTS ep on "Obsession" coming soon! We're in the lab cooking this one up. Lots to discuss, particularly Indie Navarrette's virtuoso performance & Curry Barker's directorial ascendance.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Saw "Killing Ground" (2017) last night. Australian horror-thriller. I'd probably call it more thriller than horror. Unnecessarily cruel, just gut-punch stuff that is shoehorned in for cheap heat. Two plots converge in the cruelest way. I don't recommend, tho it does have some final girl energy.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The CIU gang joins forces w/ @finalgirlspodcast.bsky.social again to slice & dice John Carpenter’s 1980 ghost story, “The Fog.” We chop up dueling final girls Adrienne Barbeau & Jamie Lee Curtis as they battle an evil fog & undead zombie sailors invading a sleepy coastal town. Up now everywhere!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
About to start “Obsession.” Wish me luck.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Recorded a PRIME CUTS ep on “Edge of the Axe” (1988) tonight w/ @slashertrash.bsky.social. We chopped up the evolution of the slasher subgenre & had a good laugh at some classic cheesy 1980s horror fare. Up on all streaming services soon!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@finalgirlspodcast.bsky.social @kelnivale.bsky.social You guys absolutely need to watch “Dead & Buried” (1981). Avant garde weirdo bonkers northern Cali coastal town movie that I am known to recommend. Curious to know what you guys make of it.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Our full-length ep on "Alligator" (1980) and "Lake Placid" (1999) is up! Beat the summer heat by dipping your toes into this one, as the CIU crew chops up a couple of scorching creature features! Up now on all streaming services!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So far down the Carpenter rabbit hole that I'm actually forcing myself to watch "Ghosts of Mars" until I figure out if it's good-bad, bad-good, bad-bad, or good-good.
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 21/07/2026
The original TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is being reimagined with a hand-drawn animated version, brought to life with old school rotoscoping. Every frame will be illustrated by hand, with artists tracing the live-action footage. From Art Director Paul Beck (A Scanner Darkly).
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just saw "The Long Walk" last night. I haven't read King's source material, but the film's new ending is utterly baffling and has either a muddled amoral message, or no message at all. I dig siege horror, but w/ 15 mins left I knew the ending was going to be terrible.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
CIU once again riding the coattails of @finalgirlspodcast.bsky.social, as we guest on their show to chop up John Carpenter's minor masterwork "The Fog" (1980), featuring dueling final girls: Jamie Lee Curtis and Adrienne Barbeau. Carpenter deep in his bag on this one. We'll be in the studio soon!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP Sam Neill. A phenomenal character actor, and a favorite here at CIU headquarters. We chopped up two horror classics featuring Sam: (1) "In the Mouth of Madness" and (2) "Event Horizon." He rocks in both. Go check them out!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
George Kennedy in the 1988 schlock horror movie, "Demonwarp" is something to behold. Pure, unfettered "Is the check in the mail?" acting energy from Kennedy. Still an all-time great unintentional comedy factor in this lesser known horror flick. Highly recommended.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We're late for Pride Month, but our latest PRIME CUTS ep on "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" is up. We discuss in-depth how Marc Patton endured the filming & why screenwriter David Chaskin shoehorned in homoerotic [barely] subtext. Available now on all streaming services!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Our full-length episode on "Hereditary" & "Babadook" is up now on all streaming platforms! Give us a listen. We are also open to any movie pairing suggestions, so send them our way!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Watching Bava's "A Bay of Blood" (1972). The entire giallo subgenre of horror is almost entirely ignored here in the States. Really wish some filmmakers out there would breathe life into this style in America.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We're up! Give Chopping It Up's new PRIME CUTS episode on "Widow's Bay" a listen. Available on all major streaming services.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
CIU's episode on the smash hit horror-comedy series "Widow's Bay" will be up soon! It leans heavily on Carpenter's "The Fog" (1980), and borrows from several horror subgenres. Great comedic timing, witty, the characters, and the cinematography. Even a bit of slasher/Final Girl! Ck us out everywhere!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I love "Widow's Bay" like everyone else, but it essentially is Carpenter's "The Fog" with some tweaks.
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Meagan Navarro @hauntedmeg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"And AI. I mean, he would be writing about AI right now, and thinking, danger! What the fuck are you doing, you people?" - Suzanne Romero reflects on her late husband's legacy in my new feature on Scream Factory's DAY OF THE DEAD 4K restoration. Out tomorrow!
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George A. Romero’s ‘Day of the Dead’ Gets New Life After Search for Long-Lost Film Elements
“I was told that this couldn’t be found by some people that I worked with, and that just set a fire in me,” Scream Factory producer Jeff Roland says of the newly restored Day of the Dead in 4K from th...
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Slasher season returns! The CIU crew chops up the greatest horror franchise of all time: "Friday the 13th: Part III" & "Friday the 13th Pt. VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan." I.e., Jason takes Vancouver. Jason on the subway, in Times Square, on the docks, etc. We're up everywhere. Give us a listen!
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 09/06/2026
A sequel to IT FOLLOWS from returning director David Robert Mitchell, THEY FOLLOW is expected to enter production this summer. Maika Monroe & Naomi Ackie starring. In the sequel, the threat is now EVERYWHERE.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Avant-garde horror needs to be an official horror subgenre. Watching Bava's "Demons" and it reminds me how much I love these kinds of flicks: "Suspiria," "Messiah of Evil," "Tenebrae," "Inferno," etc. Love the vibrant colors and disorientation. Any suggestions for films to add to this category?
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 05/06/2026
Kino Lorber will release the documentary BLACK ZOMBIE this coming Fall. Black Zombie digs beneath the spectacle of modern horror to uncover the zombie’s buried origins. Long before it became associated with flesh-eating ghouls, the zombie was a living metaphor for slavery.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The opening track & title sequence for "Jason Takes Manhattan" is quintessential '80s. The Canadian band Metropolis performing "Darkest Side of Night" is fire. Lead singer Stan Meissner wrote music for Celine Dion, Eddie Money, & The Cars! He def brought the heat for this one.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Welcoming in the summer w/ a full ep on two slasher classics: Friday the 13th part 3 & part 8 (Jason Takes Manhattan)! Can't wait to chop these two up. This feels like the true alpha & omega of the franchise, the hockey mask, machete, etc. Recording soon--keep your eyes peeled!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Let's welcome summer with some sun, sand, & surf. Only the island village of Widow's Bay isn't quite as welcoming. Join the CIU crew as we chop up the new smash hit horror-comedy series, "Widow's Bay." Such a wonderfully crafted show, replete with horror, haunts, & laughs in equal measure. Up soon!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Slasher season is upon us! This time, the CIU crew returns to Camp Crystal Lake to chop up another Friday the 13th pairing: part 3 (in 3-D!) and part 8 (Jason Takes Manhattan)! These both serve as the true alpha & omega of the Ft13th canon in our view. We're in the lab--ep will be up soon!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Our ep on Oliver Stone’s body horror flick from 1981, “The Hand” is up & ready for your ears! Michael Caine road raging & calling someone a “silly cow!” Also, cat defenestration. This is a must listen PRIME CUTS!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Now this looks GREAT.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Just watched the first episode of "Widow's Bay" last night. So well done. Balances horror and comedy perfectly without giving itself away. I'm going to drink this in and watch the series slowly so I can appreciate it. Absolutely going to devote a Chopping It Up episode to this series sometimes soon.
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iamals.bsky.social @iamals.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 15/05/2026
A new film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR is in the works from Haunting in Connecticut writers Adam Simon & Tim Metcalfe. Screen legend Malcolm McDowell will reportedly star.
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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD, the final chapter in George A. Romero's long-running zombie saga, is officially back in production with a notable action star in the lead.
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George A. Romero’s TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD Resurrected With New Star And Director
TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD, the final chapter in George A. Romero's long-running zombie saga, is officially back in production with a notable action star in the lead.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Special PRIME CUTS ep forthcoming. CIU crew is in the lab studying Oliver Stone's 1981 forgotten psychological horror, "The Hand." Starring Michael Caine as a comic book author who loses his hand in an accident. This one is so insane that I almost can't believe it's real. Stay tuned!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
We're up! Ck out our new ep on John Carpenter's middle installment of the Apocalypse Trilogy, 1987's "Prince of Darkness." Special guest Thom Bray (aka, Etchison) joins us to help chop this one up. He hips us to some super fun stories w/ Alice Cooper & Carpenter himself. Up now--give us a listen!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
RIP to Jonathan Tiersten, aka, Ricky from the cult classic slasher, "Sleepaway Camp." He passed away today at 60 yrs old. Cause of death unknown, but will know shortly via medical examiner. Absolutely iconic line, "Eat shit and live, Bill!" Def rewatching this gem tonight in honor of Ricky.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
With summer on the horizon, it's only a matter of time before we cover the 1977 schlock-horror flick, "Tentacles." A giant octopus terrorizes a seaside town. John Huston ambles about, smoking a pipe and doing John Huston stuff. Basically, it's "We have 'Jaws' at home!"
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Pray for death! CIU was honored to have on a special guest as we recorded our ep on John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness." (1987) Actor Thom Bray (Etchison) co-starred in the film and was gracious enough to sit down w/ us at CIU headquarters to chop the film up. Up soon on all streaming services!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
In CIU studios tonight chopping up back-to-back PRIME CUTS eps, as the crew takes on Stuart Gordon's "Dolls" (1987) & the 1971 psychological horror classic, "Let's Scare Jessica to Death." We're firing on all cylinders lately, cranking out content left & right--so come give us a listen!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Rewatching “Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.” Such an unsettling portrait of a woman on the edge of madness. It’s folk horror, psychological horror, & a vampire flick all at once. We’re recording tomorrow to chop it up. @kelnivale.bsky.social you need to ck it out & share your thoughts!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Our collab ep on Stephen King’s folk-horror classic, “Children of the Corn” is up on all major streaming services now! We collaborated w/ Blood in the Cornfields on this one. Come give us a listen!
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Finally got around to watching Skinamarink. Yeesh, what a disturbing film. I know there are competing theories re: what it's about, but I immediately thought of childhood trauma & domestic abuse. The experimental aspect of the cinematography was compelling, but that's a one-and-done watch for me.
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
While we posted an ep for Black History Month ("Sinners"), we also had a backup in the can, which listeners can now hear! We chopped up the 1972 blaxploitation classic, "Blacula," starring William Marshal (an opera singer, Shakespearean actor). We paired that w/ Wes Craven's "Vampire in Brooklyn."
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Chopping It Up @choppingitup.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This year marks the 40th anniversary of "April Fool's Day," a smart faux-slasher w/ a great twist ending. This '80s flick upends genre tropes & subverts audience expectations. Plus, it's super funny, has creative kills, & boasts a loaded cast. Ck out our PRIME CUTS #12, where we chop this gem up.
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