Handle With Scare: A Horror Podcast

Good evening ghouls and welcome to Handle With Scare. Our show discusses horror movies and the phobias they emphasize. Join Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie every Wednesday as they deep dive into specific fears.

266 - Contracted 10/12/2026

266 - Contracted Throughout October we're highlighting nosophobia and the fear of contracting diseases. This week Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie tackle a rather difficult topic... what assault does to the body and the self. The deterioration has already started in... CONTRACTED (2013)! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/43254343

265 - Dawn of the Dead (1978) 10/05/2026

265 - Dawn of the Dead (1978) We're taking a look back at some classics and asking ourselves "are the greats still great?" This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going to the mall. The muzak is playing, the lights are on, the shelves are fully stocked, and something is shuffling through the corridors reaching for things it cannot use. The honest question the film has been asking for 48 years is whether that something is the zombie or you in... DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978)! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/43170883

264 - Psycho 09/22/2026

264 - Psycho We're taking a look back at some classics and asking ourselves "are the greats still great?" How well do some films hold up? This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are checking in. The vacancy sign is on. Norman has the office light burning, something warm on the stove, and he would genuinely love the company in... PSYCHO! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/43000053

263 - A Nightmare On Elm Street 09/21/2026

263 - A Nightmare On Elm Street We're taking a look back at some classics and asking ourselves "are the greats still great?" How well do some films hold up? This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouze Zombie are losing sleep as they're being hunted in their dreams in... A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! Better lock your doors and grab your crucifix. Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/42971478

262 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 09/16/2026

262 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre We're taking a look back at some classics and asking ourselves "are the greats still great?" How well do some films hold up? Turns out... even after 50 years some hold up pretty damn good. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouze Zombie find themselves at the mercy of the blistering Texas summer heat in one of the most physical horror films ever made. Join us as we gather at the dinner table for an unforgettable run-in with the Sawyer family in... THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/42930202

261 - May 09/15/2026

261 - May Tonight we're wrapping up our deep dive on atychiphobia and the fear of failure. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouze Zombie are spending time with someone who just wants a friend. May wanted a friend so she made one in the only way available to her. That friend opened its eyes. We'll see you on the other side of the glass in... MAY! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/42907387

260 - The Neon Demon 09/03/2026

260 - The Neon Demon Throughout August we'll be highlighting atychiphobia and the fear of failure. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouze Zombie are going to a place where the light is beautiful and the light is the problem. We explore an industry that does not simply use beauty - it consumes it in... THE NEON DEMON (2016)! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/42726955

259 - Pearl 08/31/2026

259 - Pearl Throughout August we'll be highlighting atychiphobia and the fear of failure. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves in a technicolor nightmare bathed in colors of the Hollywood dream and at the center of it all is one of the decade's greatest horror performances in... PEARL (2022)! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/42616490

258 - Starry Eyes 08/24/2026

258 - Starry Eyes Throughout August we'll be highlighting atychiphobia and the fear of failure. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going to Hollywood. Not the Hollywood of the billboard, the premiere, and the carefully managed public image. The one underneath. The one that has always been there in... STARRY EYES. Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/42533870

257 - Black Swan 08/17/2026

257 - Black Swan Throughout August we'll be highlighting atychiphobia and the fear of failure. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are diving into a psychological descent into madness and obsession. Join us as we pirouette through paranoia, identity dissolution, and the price of artistic perfection in... BLACK SWAN! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/42457485

256 - Jaws: The Revenge 07/28/2026

256 - Jaws: The Revenge Throughout July we'll be highlighting galeophobia and the fear of sharks. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie would rather be anywhere else right now. Strap yourselves in because we have the "pleasure" of discussing what is arguably the worst sequel in cinema history... JAWS: THE REVENGE! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/42237635

255 - Bait 07/28/2026

255 - Bait Throughout July we'll be highlighting galeophobia and the fear of sharks. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie head to Queensland for one of the most audaciously specific premises in shark cinema. Bait commits to it with enough formal intelligence to make the case that the supermarket was exactly the right place for this to happen. It's time to see what you do with a shopping cart when the water is rising and something very large is in the next aisle. Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/42237530

254 - The Meg 07/23/2026

254 - The Meg Throughout July we'll be highlighting galeophobia and the fear of sharks. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going past the thermocline, past the point where the light stops, past the layer of cold water that was supposed to be keeping something very large and very prehistoric from becoming our problem. Problem is... it didn't hold. Nothing ever does. Prepare for the full spectacle that is... THE MEG! Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/42190535

253 - Beast of War 07/06/2026

253 - Beast of War Throughout July we'll be highlighting galeophobia and the fear of sharks. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going to war... both of them. Beast of War is part war movie, part shark movie, and features one of the more inventive (but also comical) warning signs of the impending danger of the great white shark that's circling the water. Movie Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/41971785

252 - Piranha 3D 06/29/2026

252 - Piranha 3D Throughout June we'll be highlighting thalassophobia and the fear of deep waters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are getting in the water for one of the most entertaining exploitation films ever made - PIRANHA 3D. This one brings all the B's, features extensive and practical gore, and knows EXACTLY what kind of movie it is trying to be. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/41858000

251 - Crawl (w Evan from The Kilt and The Redneck Reviews) 06/22/2026

251 - Crawl (w Evan from The Kilt and The Redneck Reviews) Throughout June we'll be highlighting thalassophobia and the fear of deep waters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are getting low. We're talking crawlspace low, face down in rising floodwater low, and alligator at eye level low for Alexandre Aja's CRAWL. Joining us is Evan from The Kilt and The Redneck Reviews for a film that takes the most minimal possible premise and builds something close to a perfect creature feature out of it. We have a daughter, a father, a hurricane, a flooding crawlspace, and the alligators that came in with the water. The alligator's absence of malice here is more frightening than any amount of monster motivation would have been. Not every threat needs a reason. Sometimes the water rises and the things that live in the water come with it. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/41720485

250 - DeepStar Six 06/11/2026

250 - DeepStar Six Throughout June we'll be highlighting thalassophobia and the fear of deep waters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going deeper. We're going past the point where light reaches, past the point where institutional authority means anything, and past the point of no return that somebody in a position of power decided to cross anyway because the deadline said so. DeepStar Six knows that the abyss is not empty. It also knows who put the people down there without checking. Come find out what they found. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/41608240

249 - Orca: The Killer Whale 06/11/2026

249 - Orca: The Killer Whale Throughout June we'll be highlighting thalassophobia and the fear of deep waters. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are going underwater, or rather, we're getting pulled into it. We're covering a film that has spent nearly 50 years being dismissed as a Jaws knockoff and deserves considerably better than that. Orca: The Killer Whale is not a film about a shark. It is a film about grief, vendetta, and the specific kind of reckoning that arrives when you destroy something that was capable of loving what you destroyed. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Join our community on Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/41608185

248 - Get Out 06/01/2026

248 - Get Out May's phobia is decidophobia and the fear of making decisions. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are dive into Jordan Peele's GET OUT. The horror at the heart of Get Out isn't simply that Chris makes the wrong choices. It's that the choices available to him were never really choices at all. We get into why Get Out is one of the most precisely constructed horror films of the last 20 years and how Peele uses every convention of the genre not as decoration but as an argument. /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/41489335

247 - Would You Rather 06/01/2026

247 - Would You Rather May's phobia is decidophobia and the fear of making decisions. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie are digging into David Guy Levy's Would You Rather, a film that takes one of childhood's most innocent games and transforms it into one of a pointed exploration of class, desperation, and moral compromise. We talk about why the real horror begins long before anyone sits down at Lambrick's dinner table, what Jeffrey Combs' aristocratic sadist reveals about the aestheticization of wealth and power, and why the film's ending is one of the most genuinely devastating conclusions in recent horror memory. Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord: Watch Totem on Twitch (5x a week - 5PM PT): /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/41489200

246 - Saw 05/18/2026

246 - Saw Throughout May we'll be highlighting decidophobia and the fear of making decisions. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves targeted by the Jigsaw Killer and chained inside a decrepit bathroom where it's escape or face dire consequences in SAW. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord: Totem's vtuber twitch (5x a week - 5PM PT): /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/41334430

245 - Truth or Dare 05/18/2026

245 - Truth or Dare Throughout May we'll be highlighting decidophobia and the fear of making decisions. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves being drawn into a sinister game of truth or dare where being dishonest or refusing to do a task is lethal in BLUMHOUSE'S TRUTH OR DARE. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord: Totem's vtuber twitch (5x a week - 5PM PT): /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/41328430

244 - The Terminator 05/04/2026

244 - The Terminator Throughout April we've been highlighting technophobia and the fear of technology. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie turn to our community's selection - THE TERMINATOR. It's been over forty years since James Cameron sent a killing machine back through time to hunt a waitress in Los Angeles, and The Terminator hasn't aged the way most action horror films of its era have. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord: Totem's vtuber twitch (5x a week - 5PM PT): /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/41138345

243 - Possessor 04/27/2026

243 - Possessor Throughout April we'll been highlighting technophobia and the fear of technology. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves in the prolonged and violent world of POSSESSOR where technology is used to implant one's consciousness into another person's body to commit a murder. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord: Totem's vtuber twitch (5x a week - 5PM PT): /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/41026635

242 - Hardware 04/20/2026

242 - Hardware Throughout April we'll been highlighting technophobia and the fear of technology. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves trapped inside a complex with a military robot that can rebuild itself in HARDWARE. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord: Totem's vtuber twitch (5x a week - 5PM PT): /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/40931900

241 - Cam 04/12/2026

241 - Cam Throughout April we'll been highlighting technophobia and the fear of technology. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie see what happens when you can no longer differentiate between the performer and the performance because of a doppelganger in CAM. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord: Totem's vtuber twitch (5x a week - 5PM PT): /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/40817950

240 - Strangeland 04/09/2026

240 - Strangeland Throughout April we'll been highlighting technophobia and the fear of technology. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves on the early days of the internet when anonymity was a new category of danger in STRANGELAND. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord: Totem's vtuber twitch (5x a week - 5PM PT): /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/40782395

239 - 10 Cloverfield Lane 03/29/2026

239 - 10 Cloverfield Lane Throughout March we've been highlighting cleithrophobia and the fear of being trapped. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves bunkering down into suffocating paranoia in 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE. Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/40660215

238 - Green Room 03/26/2026

238 - Green Room Throughout March we're diving into cleithrophobia and the fear of being trapped. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves trapped inside a secluded venue pitted against red shoelaces in GREEN ROOM (2015)! Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/40627795

237 - The Belko Experiment 03/12/2026

237 - The Belko Experiment Throughout March we're diving into cleithrophobia and the fear of being trapped. This week the fiends Totemlydrunk and Grindhouse Zombie find themselves trapped inside a highrise corporate office amidst a twisted death games social experiment in... THE BELKO EXPERIMENT! Kick Watch Parties (Tues/Thurs 7:30PM PT on discord) Discord: /episode/index/show/handlewithscare/id/40408800

Handle With Scare: A Horror Podcast

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