Hi Scaredy Cats! Join us as we talk home invasion horror and tackle The Strangers and The Strangers: Prey at Night. We chat about true crime, what protagonist truly bothers us, and delve into why home invasion movies just hit a little different

The Descent Revisited

May 9th, 2024 1h 11m

We're going all the way back to the third episode of Scaredy Cats to see if The Descent is still an all-time favourite for both of us. Spoiler alert, it is. Join us as we chat about fan theories, female rage and the little details we picked u

Immersive Scares: Horror Video Games

Apr 25th, 2024 1h 29m

Hey Scaredy Cats! Join us as we chat about some of our favourite horror video games. We go way back to discuss classic gems like Silent Hill 2 and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem before covering more recent scarefests like Forewarned and Pha

Scaredy Cats II - The Return

Apr 11th, 2024 1h 7m

We're baaaack!! (Insert creepy music here) Join us, Ryan and Sherri, as we talk about the future of the podcast and, because it's been a hot minute, chat about some of the movies, shows, games, and books we've enjoyed over the last year(ish)

The Haunted Library Presents: An Interview with Nat Segaloff

Jul 24th, 2023 26m 51s

Join us in the Haunted Library as we chat with author Nat Segaloff about his latest book, The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear. Segaloff's history with the film go way to the film's release when he worked publicity for the Boston theatre that

Lake Mungo

Feb 14th, 2023 1h 55m

Hey Scaredy Cats. For the longest time, I had one movie on my to watch list that was my white whale. I had seen it lauded as one of the scariest movies ever and the best horror movie you’ve never seen. I was on the hunt. It wasn’t streaming any

The Final Girls

Jan 26th, 2023 1h 54m

Hey Scaredy Cats. Welcome back to the month of camp carnage. I know, I know, no one goes to camp in January, but when you’re stuck in the frozen tundra that is Ontario in the winter, you gotta do what you gotta do. As a kid growing up in the ei

Friday the 13th

Jan 14th, 2023 1h 25m

In 1978, one of the greatest horror movie franchises was born. Only two years later, another one would enter the world of horror, but weirdly enough, the villain that we associate with that franchise was really just another victim in the first

Gremlins

Dec 29th, 2022 1h 51m

Hey Scaredy Cats. It’s Christmas time and we’re about to head to Kingston Falls to spend time with family, friends and furry little creatures. So, stock up on some Bathroom Buddies – they’re fantastic stocking stuffers! We’re going to make some

Christmas Evil

Dec 28th, 2022 1h 20m

Hey Scaredy Cats. I still remember when I found out that Santa wasn’t real. I’m going to peel back the curtain a little bit here and admit one of my embarrassing secrets. I was in grade seven, standing in line for French class. A bunch of my cl

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 7

Dec 24th, 2022 15m 6s

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our spooky countdown to Christmas. In the introduction to “Told After Supper” Jerome K Jerome writes “Christmas Eve is the ghosts' great gala night. On Christmas Eve they hold their ann

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 6

Dec 23rd, 2022 11m 52s

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our countdown to Christmas. It’s a cold and blustery winter day here and I’m ready to hunker down with some warm blankets and my cats curled up at my feet. So, get cozy and join us as we

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 5

Dec 22nd, 2022 45m 35s

Hey Scaredy Cats. Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our seven day countdown to Christmas. Each day we’ll be featuring a spooky ghost story that is perfect to listen to as the nights grow cold and dark. In fact, today marks the Winter Sols

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 4

Dec 20th, 2022 22m 43s

Hey Scaredy Cats. Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our seven day countdown to Christmas. Each day, we’ll be reading a spooky Christmas ghost story in the tradition of the Victorians. In his 1891 anthology of Christmas ghost stories, tit

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 3

Dec 19th, 2022 23m 40s

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome back to the Haunted Library for day 3 of our countdown to Christmas with spooky ghost stories. It's time to light your fireplace, grab a hot toddy, turn off the lights and curl up under your coziest blanket. Today's st

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 2

Dec 18th, 2022 53m 17s

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome back to the Haunted Library. For the seven days leading up to Christmas, we will be releasing an episode daily. These episode will each feature a reading of a scary ghost story, a tradition of which I’m particularly fo

The Haunted Library Presents: Christmas Ghost Stories Part 1

Dec 17th, 2022 18m 52s

Hey Scaredy Cats. There’s a line in the song It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year that goes “there’ll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long long ago” It may seem odd to us now, but telling spooky stories at Chr

Fright Night

Oct 27th, 2022 1h 8m

Hey Scaredy Cats. In the mid eighties, monster movies just weren’t the trend in horror. The genre was dominated by slashers like Friday the 13th. In 1984, we had movies like Silent Night, Deadly Night, Friday the 13th: the Final Chapter (spoile

The Haunted Library Presents: The Haunting of Hill House

Oct 21st, 2022 57m 37s

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome to the Haunted Library. I’m Sherri… (Ryan introduces himself). We’ve talked about it on so many occasions, but we are both huge fans of haunted house stories. Since it’s October and Halloween is just around the corner,

Satan's Slaves

Oct 1st, 2022 1h 10m

Hey Scaredy Cats. Imagine you’re a young child, maybe six or seven years old. You head to your local theatre to catch a matinee all by yourself. You’re a hardened horror fan despite your young age, but what you see scares you so much that you l

The Haunted Library Presents: Books for Those Spooky Fall Vibes

Sep 16th, 2022 54m 55s

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome to the Haunted Library! We’re your hosts, Sherri and Ryan.It’s September, so you know what that means. Fall is officially here – ignore the haters who say that fall doesn’t officially start until September 22. Wrap yo

Death Proof

Sep 1st, 2022 1h 53m

Hey Scaredy Cats. In 2003, Quentin Tarantino started showing double features at his house. Being the die hard film fanatic that he is, he would also play movie trailers before each film. At one such screening, his friend Robert Rodriguez sugges

The Haunted Library Presents: Gloria

Jul 25th, 2022 49m 53s

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome to the Haunted Library with Sherri and Ryan. This month’s installment is all about Gloria by Bentley Little: "Considering she had just attended her mother’s funeral, Gloria Jaymes never expected to see the woman again,

Creepshow

Jul 25th, 2022 1h 35m

Picture this. Two horror legends meet and become friends. They put their collective heads together to create a horror anthology that pays homage to old comic books. Comic books that told grisly tales of murder and astonishing creatures. Bring i

Peeping Tom

Jun 6th, 2022 1h 32m

Hey Scaredy Cats. It’s rare for a movie to pretty much bomb upon release, practically ruining the career of its director only to be critically lauded within a couple of decades. I’m not talking about a movie becoming a cult classic after having