The Exorcist: Believer (2023) revives one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Heads are turned, crucifixes are flung, holy water sizzles and teenage girls speak in the gravelly voice of an unrepentant chain-smoker. But is this movie anywhere nearly as bad as some critics would have you believe? And why is there no green pea soup spew? Jason and Ali consider these and other burning questions.

Do you love or do you despise The Outwaters (2022)? Why are found footage horror films so divisive? In this episode, Jason and Ali follow a group of artsy thirtysomethings who come to a very sticky end in the Mojave Desert.

Can a dress be demonic? Should you be scared of your jeans? Definitely. In this episode, Jason and Ali talk about two excellent examples of sartorial horror, In Fabric (2018) and Slaxx (2020).

Do you have a strange birthmark? Does it look like three sixes? We hope not. In this episode, Jason and Ali will talk about the Antichrist, rottweilers and the classic movie with a creepy child, The Omen (1976).

The 1997 movie Event Horizon perplexed moviegoers upon release but has since become a cult favourite. In this episode, Jason and Ali put on their spacesuits and travel to the uncharted realms where the adventurous crew of a futuristic spaceship come face to face with absolute, unhinged evil.

Are birds terrifying? Will their different species one day unite to exterminate us? Apparently so, according to Alfred Hitchcock's classic creature feature The Birds (1963) and Daphne du Maurier's short story (1952) which inspired the film. In this episode, Jason and Ali talk about the real-life terrors of getting pooped on and swooped by birds, as well as the feathered furies of the horror genre.

In this episode, Ali and Jason discover their capacity to tolerate the glass-shattering screams of a gaslit child. They also do their best to enter the emotional world of a single mother trying her hardest not to succumb to the demons that threaten to tear apart an already fractured and fragile family unit. We find that neither in a word, nor in a book, are we able to escape The Babadook (2014).

How far would you go to seek retribution if you've been horribly wronged? Would you seek out a witch called Haggis, dig up the skeleton of a terrifying demon from a pumpkin-patch graveyard, and watch it turn into one of the most memorable monsters of horror cinema? Well, that's exactly what you'd do if you were the traumatised hero Ed from the brilliant 1988 cult classic, Pumpkinhead.

In this episode, Jason and Ali put on their life jackets and talk about the latest Dracula movie, The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023). Does this film's fusion of vampiric horror and nautical adventure work? Do you get seasick? And why does the Transylvanian monster need to travel to England, anyway?

In this episode Jason and Ali join the partygoers of Night of the Demons (1988), the quintessential teen party horror film. They talk about goths, geeks, frat boys and other 80s youth culture stereotypes, and wonder if young people are inherently terrifying.

In this episode Jason and Ali hide from one of the most terrifying monsters of horror cinema, the rabid St Bernard of Cujo (1983). Based on a Stephen King novel, this movie has it all: adultery, alcoholism, breakfast cereals and loads of terror. It is also one of the greatest creature features of all time.

Jason and Ali mark the 13th episode of the podcast by revisiting the seminal slasher films Friday the 13th (1980) and Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). Would you stay at a summer camp with a very sinister backstory? Were Pamela and Jason Voorhees anywhere near as brutal as the posh film critics who tried to shut down the films?

Can kangaroos be creepy? Would you attend a séance and hold the severed hand of a shady shaman? In this episode, Jason and Ali talk about the terrific new Australian film, Danny and Michael Philippou's Talk to Me (2022) and talk to you about trauma, teenage daredevilry and celebrity YouTubers.

What do you get if you cross a Rubik's Cube with malignant demonic entities such as a follically-challenged dude with nails in his head? You get Clive Barker's classic 1987 film Hellraiser, that's what. In this episode Jason and Ali discuss the hugely influential movie, its first sequel Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), as well as Barker's brilliant novella The Hellbound Heart (1986).

In this episode, Jason and Ali talk about dating, love and, naturally, torture porn. Was Takashi Miike's cult film Audition/『オーディション』 (1999) the first movie to tantalise audiences with meticulously staged scenes of slow burning sadism? Is loneliness the spirit that haunts so much contemporary Japanese horror and our lives everywhere?

Are vegetarians closet cannibals? If you were to copulate with a car, what car would it be? These are among the many pressing questions that Jason and Ali ponder as they discuss the brilliant and brilliantly unnerving movies of Julia Ducournau, Grave/Raw (2012) and Titane/Titanium (2021).

In this episode Jason and Ali enter the castle of Vlad the vampire count via Bram Stocker's novel (1897) and Francis Ford Coppola's stylish adaptation (1992). Why are we attracted to a Romanian emo with boofy hair? Is Tom Waits not the greatest Renfield ever? Was Princess Elisabeta of Transylvania the first known victim of fake news?

Do you believe in haunted houses? What do James Brolin's hair and Ryan Reynold's abs bring to the enduring franchise? In this episode, Jason and Ali get spooked by The Amityville Horror (1979), The Amityville Horror (2005) and the book that started it all, titled, yes, The Amityville Horror (1977).

Did you hear the one about the teenager who said Candyman five times in the mirror? Was this possibly the greatest Horror movie of the 1990s? In this episode, Jason and Ali talk about Candyman (1992), Candyman (2021), and 'The Forbidden', the short story that inspired the movies. They'll discuss urban geography, police brutality, and the evils of participatory art.