If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality, you'll end up in the backrooms. And you may also download this episode and end up listening to host Chad Quandt and guest Elspeth Eastman (Rift of the NecroDancer, League of Legends) discus infamous new-horror creepypasta that will soon be a major motion picture. Beyond this /x/-fueled creation, …

Something's foul in the air, and we swear it's not us. Your host Chad Quandt is joined by triple-threat actor/writer/wrestler James Willems (Answer For It!, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, Funhaus) to discuss one of Junji Ito's largest works; the stinky book Gyo (known as 'Fish: Ghastly Squirming' in Japan). A 'death stench' has taken over Okinawa,…

Vroom voom, Goosebuddies. You wanna know what gives host Chad Quandt and guests Alexis Bevels & Darby Lynn Cartwright (IMHO the Show/Podcast) goosebumps? Dangerous highway infrastructure! We check out the 1994 action classic Speed, starring Keanu Reeves pre-Matrix and Sandra Bullock pre-Congeniality. This podcast can't go below 60 jokes per hour or…

Hope your thirsty for horror movie discussion, Goosebuddies. Your host Chad Quandt is joined by animation director Brock Gallagher (aka avant-garde V-Tuber NilbogLive). Before the Spy Kids era, Robert Rodruigez was a pretty cool director. Teamed with Scream's writer Kevin Williamson makes for The Faculty; a great 90s take on body snatchers and Anim…

What sort of creepy story are we covering on the first episode of Goosebuds where Chad is solo host? A 2003 Lego fantasy toy ad. Yes, Goosebuddies. It's true. But we'll get to scary stuff again. Chad Quandt is joined by guest Payton Whaley (Flyover Culture, A Moment of Science) to review the first of many Lego movies about the dark fantasy island M…

Hope you're hungry for podcasts, Goosebuddies. Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole celebrate the end of an era for this show by watching the 90s Are You Afraid of the Dark episode 'The Tale of the Dangerous Soup'. Dr. Vink is running a strange bistro with an expensive soup that is bringing old rich people in by the bakers' dozen! B…

Ever since we were young boys, we watched Are You Afraid of the Dark/ From Philly to South Bend, we've seen them all/ But somehow this is the first time we're covering the show on Goosebuds!/ That sure was a mean episode! The Goosebuds Boys Chad Quandt and Kevin Cole check out the 90s Nickelodeon episode Are You Afraid of the Dark called 'The Tale …

Have you ever wondered where toys come from? They're not really from Santa Claus nor your divorced parents trying to win your love. They're from Japan! Chad, Paul, and Kevin check out the lost 1983 Disney home video Where The Toys Come From; a 'Showcase' preceding Toy Story where two small toys Zoom and Peepers learn time travel, fight foreign toys…

It's Schwimmer Time! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole check out the latest season of Goosebumps: The Vanishing, starring David Schwimmer of Run Fatboy Run and Madagascar fame. This modern retelling of the classic 'Stay Out Of The Basement' begins another serialized season of teenagers and adults hopping through other old 'Bump b…

Prepare for something a bit different, Goosebuddies! While Chad flees the LA fires (don't worry; he's safe), Paul and Kevin gather to talk about two pieces of non-R.L. media they enjoy. The anime OVA classics: 1988's 'Dragon's Heaven' by Makoto Kobayashi and 1985's 'Angel's Egg' by Mamoru Oshii. Both about girls wandering desolate apocalypse landsc…

Oh Come, All Ye Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole revisit two 90s cartoon holiday episodes. First we check out ABC's Recess's politically correct 'Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave' guest starring James Earl Jones and Michael McKean in which Chad's cartoon proxy Mikey challenges 3rd Street to prove Santa is real. We then…

Original Release Date: January 4, 2021 (very first patreon episode, only fitting it be the final one too) Original Patreon Description: Hello Patrons! I didn't want y'all to miss out on the excitement of "return from hiatus monday", a holiday that definitely exists and I didn't just make up! To that end, here is the first HIGHLIGHT EPISODE, where w…

The Goosebuddies Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read R.L. Stine's Horrorland 'finale' The Streets of Panic Park. Sixteen (!!) book protagonist kids are globbed together to face the edgelord villain The Menace who hopes to scare the kids so bad they'll jump realities. And in what should be the hypest moment in all of Goosebumps, Slappy le…

Original Release Date: December 30, 2023 Original Patreon Description: Step right up, step right up, and witness the amazing conclusion of Plutember 3: All Georgie Picks with JP Novak joining us for a double dose of PA Georges as we talk George Romero's The Amusement Park! Discussions around aging with dignity, the perils of capitalism, and spooky …

Original Release Date: 10/18/21 Original Patreon Description: Greetings, boils and ghouls - saddle up for a super special spooky season Simpsons spotlight, spearheaded by superfans Skelly McAndee and Joesferatu Crowell! We're discussing our top 5 shorts from the first 10 seasons worth of Treehouse of Horrors - plus much more! Don't miss out! Final …

Original Release Date: November 29, 2023 Original Patreon Description: It's hard to argue with a confident man - so when Kron Howard says Assault on Precinct 13 is "the best almost-horror movie ever made", you better believe him! We're breaking down exactly why that's the case, including the modernization of the Hawksian archetypes, the awesome pra…

Original Release Date: June 26, 2022 Original Patreon Description: Clay Tatum is stuck in a loop wandering the halls of the horror house, because he's back to discuss about the Silent Hills Playable Teaser! We're talking Konami's positively artistically fulfilling mobile first strategy, where this ranks on the "worst bathrooms" list, the gospel of …

We're back to Hark as the Goosebuddies Chad, Paul, and Kevin adventure through the second (and last) of R.L. Stine's sci-fi Choose Your Own Adventure series: The Invaders of Hark. We're thrust into the city of Hark where multiple alien factions fight for control and a beautiful princess. These books are brutal with only one correct path. Will we su…

Original Release Date: March 30, 2023 Original Patreon Description: helllllooooOOOOOOO! It's a very special crossover with 2 Old Queens' Mark Rennie and John Flynn - on their show, they try to find the gayest movie of all time using an esoteric ranking system, so this month's bonus episode sees the 3 of us discussing their pick for the gayest horro…

Original Release Date: July 27, 2023 Original Patreon Description: This week, its the first episode of "Food Talk with Eric and George" - tucked within a great episode about cult favorite Session 9! We're getting into the great tragedy hiding under the ghost story, the way it presaged the modern conversations about masculinity, its deep Kubrick inf…

We gotta escape from Horrorland! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps: Horrorland: Escape From Horrorland. A hell of a title. The last ten books have been building up to this; the YA equivalent of Avengers as all our survivng kids team up with original survivors Lizzy and Luke to run around in circles in…

Original Release Date: October 31, 2021 Original Patreon Description: Hold on to your haunted masks, horror heads - Paul Ritchey (Continue?, Goosebuds) and Kevin Cole (Super Try Studios, Goosebuds) are here to break down this 2015 family-friendly fare. But is it worth your time, or a spooky screw-up? Are teenagers lie elementals? Was Slappy involve…

Original Release Date: October 27, 2022 Original Patreon Description: Nate Kiley is BACK to tackle the next segment of the centipede - because we're talking Full Sequence today, baby! Is Human Centipede 2 a prequel to Fritz Lang's "M"? Is it a contrasting companion piece to Funny Games? Do Nate and I have cool little books? All these questions and …

Original Release Date: November 15, 2021 Original Patreon Description: Do you like dating sims? Do you like existential terror? How about a dating sim that gives way to existential terror? That's right, Gamer, the Joker, and writer (in that order) Ashley Chupp is here to talk about the incredible genre-crossing visual novel, Doki Doki Literature Cl…

Original Release Date: May 29, 2022 Original Patreon Description: This month, Paul Ritchey returns to talk about actually watching movies people recommend to you, because we're getting into Koji Yakusho and Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins! We're getting fishing tips from Shinza, discussing both the ultimate gamble and the ultimate betrayal of the samu…

Original Release Date: November 30, 2022 Patreon Description: What's in the basket.... what's in the basket!? Why, it's Belial, because Taylor Moore and I are trekking to Georgia to talk Basket Case 3! More unique individuals than you could shake a stick at, musical numbers, a pitch for Basket Case 4: Freak City - plus much more! Don't miss out! Su…

original patreon description: This month's bonus episode: embrace the slime, but if something falls from space, don't touch it even with a stick... because we're talking about the Rodney Dangerfield of 80's body horror, The Blob (1988)! Children at risk, auditioning to become the big bad beetle baron, and Jon Voight on a runaway train? What a rush!…

Help! We have a new podcast episode! Your hosts Chad Quandt and Kevin Cole check out R.L. Stine's 2009 Horrorland book Help! We Have Strange Powers. The powers these twin protagonists get are surprisingly easy to categorize: telepathy and telekinesis. Well, technically there's a subset of time power but it's really just a psychic baby ray. Enjoy th…

The Goosebuds Boys check out the 90s sitcom Family Matters' late series episode 'Stevil'. Brought to life by a casual wish and a bolt of lighting, 'Stevil' is here to kill the Winslows and I guess help Urkel's ventriloquism career? They don't really work on their standup set at all. You know, this was once a sitcom about a blue collar family growin…

Do you want lions? Because this is how you get lions. With the paw-sitively deranged "fur-ocious comedy" Roar (1981)! The We Heard About Pluto boys gather for one last celebration of Plutember and look back at BLHHiP, but not before breaking down the germ and Donkey Kong sanctuary used to house a bunch of untrained big cats and shoot a movie around…

S-s-s-so good to be back, Goosebuddies! We were doing a snake thing there-- was that clear? Your hosts Paul Ritchey and Kevin Cole enroll in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book Welcome to Camp Slither. There are rumors of man-eating snakes at camp, but no reports on if they'll eat the other genders. And when we rejoin the Horrorland arc a terri…

It's the final solo guest of the show as Plutember continues and JP Novak is here to talk about Ti West's X! This post-modern jam is fun as hell and slicker than a duck's backside, so don't miss out! One episode remains!By George Heftler

Summer's over, Goosebuddies. How did you spend it? Were you hunting for buried cars at the beach? Attacking the pool lifeguard with psychic damage? Or tracking down a beloved but lonely ice cream man? The Goosebuddies check out The Adventures of Pete & Pete's classic episode "How I Spent My Summer Vacation", arguably one of the best in the series. …

Over the river and through the woods, to the Best Little Horror House in Philly we go... because this week Mike Regan is back to talk about The Visit! That's right, we're kicking off the final Plutember with another dive into an M Night movie, so you know we've got plenty to say! Don't miss out as we discuss the cinematic apparatus, M's relationshi…

Behold the glory of the Helmacrons! Your hosts Chad Quandt and Kevin Cole take a Goosebumps break to read through arguably the weirdest Animorphs book; The Suspicion by K.A. Applegate. The kids' war campaign against the Yeerks is interrupted by the arrival of the Helmacrons, miniature space people with giant egos. Enjoy the episode! Book discussion…

If you're looking for a great conversation about Ghostbusters (1984) between two Philly boys, good news - WE GOT ONE! join myself and South Fellini's own Tony Trov as we break down the ghouls, ghosts, and yes, even the specters that have delightfully haunted us since childhood and the comedians that bust them. Don't miss Dan Akroyd's insane quotes …

The Goosebud Boys Chad, Paul, and Kevin face the Horrorland version of R.L. Stine's infamous haunted camera: Say Cheese -- And Die Screaming! That dash is in a weird place, right? It's the wrong pause? Anyway, somehow the rules of these deadly photo predictions have changed since last book. Are the spirits getting more artistic? Or just lazier? And…

It ain't just the heat that's making us melt this week - it's those Vimuville chemicals! Musician and filmmaker Christina Acevedo is here to talk about the splatter from down under, the goo from the home of the roo, it's Phillip Brophy's Body Melt! We're talking the artist's perspective that informs the movie, spending a significant portion of the …

Tighten your shoes and do some stretching, cuz we got a big track meet today! Your Goosebuds hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole check out the Choose Your Own Adventure book Track Star! by R.A. Montgomery. We're a high school athlete with a lot of pressure to run the fastest and longest to get that college scholarship and make dad proud…

This week - dog will hunt! For the best horror movie ever made, that is. And that dog came back with a copy of the wonderful Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and also it was Dennis' dog so he's here to talk about the movie that the dog brought! A metaphor more tortured than Stretch herself. Very excited to be talking about this one,and no Cannon goons sm…

Holy hells, Goosebuddies. This episode marks our 10th Anniversary of the podcast. We started in 2014 with a mission to cover the works of R. L. Stine and we still have mountains of pulp to go through. But in honor of the celebration we take a look back at the story that started it all: Welcome to Dead House! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, an…

This week I hope you're ready for ghosts, ghouls, and... jars?! Because Joe from Guys Gotta Gotti is here to talk about the Sammo Hung classic, Encounters of the Spooky Kind! You won't want to miss this as we talk about sorcery, kung fu, hopping vampires, influencing Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2 and inventing whole dang genres. So don't! Listen now! PS:…

This week, I'm taking a trip to a very different horror house - the Last House on Dead End Street! Will Sloan (Gold Ninja Video, the Important Cinema Club) joins us to talk about the cult film that had people sure it was snuff if it even existed, and the crazy backstory that lead to what we seen on screen, plus the movie's resurgence! We're also ge…

It's time to morph into a shark! But sadly we're not reading Animophs and fighting an alien resistance, we're a dumb kid trespassing into an ancient temple and cursed by a vague monk! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read through the 80s Choose Your Own Adventure book: You Are A Shark by Edward Packard. Despite the direct title,…

Do you know what it's like to be considered a beast by your classmates? To be so big but also good at computers? A teenage Hank McCoy? At least one of hosts does and this episode hits hard. Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book My Friends Call Me Monster. This is a weird story about monst…

Happy Father's Day to all, but especially to Stephen Jarvis - because Chris from Mount Molehill is here to talk about the mutant brood of Cannibalistic Humanoid Island Dwellers (C.H.I.D.s) in It's Alive III: Island of the Alive! We're getting into Larry Cohen's zero daddy issues why do you ask, the foundation provided by It's Alive and It Lives Aga…

Tonight, we're partying in the horror house... but its possessed, NOT haunted, which can only mean Jonathan La Mantia is here to chat Night of the Demons (1988)! We're getting into the the terror of the video store shelves, showing up to an event wearing the same outfit as Satan, a nebula of drugs in the makeup room and much much more! Don't miss o…

This book tasks questions the reader: who is your mother and what do they do? Are they wrapped up in bandages? And are they being used as a fuel source for eternal life? Your hosts Paul Ritchey and Kevin Cole cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book Who's Your Mummy? Protagonists Abby and Peter stay with their uncle who has a dark secret: a re…

This week in the horror house, the doors and windows have disappeared and I'm being tortured by a demon - but it's not all bad, because artist Harry Nordlinger is here to talk about Skinamarink! We're talking about microbudget excellence and creativity from restriction, the various theories about this viral smash hit, and generally getting 'rinked!…

Get in formation, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole watch another classic The Adventures of Pete & Pete episode, "Day of the Dot". As Big Pete's marching band competes in the Regional Championship, he struggles with affections for Ellen and a tyrannical teacher. Meanwhile Little Pete is trapped on an endless school …