🧚‍♀️🩸 Episode 161: FAIRY TALES ARE TERRIFYING 🩸🧚‍♀️

Once upon a time, two brave, beautiful, and moderately unhinged men set out on a quest…

This week Matty & Andrew go down the breadcrumb trail of fairy tale horror — the actual famine that birthed Hansel & Gretel, why Little Red Riding Hood was never really about a wolf, the patriarchy hiding inside every "happily ever after," and how the Brothers Grimm themselves softened their own stories until biological mothers became stepmothers (because heaven forbid a real mother abandon her kids).

Also: Jacob Grimm wanted to be remembered for his German dictionary. Nobody remembers the dictionary. 💀

And then we watched some movies. 🍿

🎬 GRETEL & HANSEL — Oz Perkins (yes, Anthony Perkins' son) gives us a witchy coming-of-age fairy tale shot at the literal Hell Fire Club in the Dublin Mountains. Sophia Lillis. Alice Krige. Vibes for days.

🎬 THE UGLY STEPSISTER — Cinderella from the villain's POV. Norwegian feminist body horror. Tapeworms. Surgeries. A 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Sundance 2025's buzziest midnight title and we are OBSESSED.

Plus: Horror in Real Life, Whatcha Been Watchin' Bitch, and a closing game of DID DISNEY LIE?

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🧚‍♀️🩸 Episode 161: FAIRY TALES ARE TERRIFYING 🩸🧚‍♀️

Do NOT touch the planchette.

This week, Matty & Andrew are rolling the dice on board game horror — from the real-life Ouija board possession case that inspired The Exorcist, to the brief and genuinely unsettling history of board games that have ended in actual murder (Yahtzee, we're looking at you), to a close reading of games so offensive they were banned outright.

And then we watched some movies. 🍿🎲

🎬 OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL — Mike Flanagan does the impossible and makes a Hasbro prequel genuinely terrifying. 1967 Los Angeles. One very bad Ouija session. A nine-year-old girl who will haunt your dreams.

🎬 BEYOND THE GATES — Two brothers clean out their missing dad's video store and find a VCR board game that may hold the key to his disappearance. The concept? *Chef's kiss.* The execution? We have notes.

Plus: Horror in Real Life, Whatcha Been Watchin' Bitch, and a closing game of making classic board games gay and horror-themed (you're going to want to play along).

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🎲 Episode 160: BOARD GAMES ARE TERRIFYING 🎲

Step right up… to your worst nightmare.

This episode, Matty & Andrew are diving honk-first into all things clown horror — from the origins of the clown (cute!) to the very real terror of the 2016 creepy clown panic (not cute!) to John Wayne Gacy, who used his alter ego Pogo the Clown to hide crimes too monstrous to comprehend.

And then we watched some movies. 🍿🎈

🎬 KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE — alien clowns, cotton candy cocoons, and a banger title track from The Dickies. Matty was underwhelmed. Andrew was not.

🎬 STITCHES — an Irish slasher where every kill mirrors a circus trick. Matty loved it. Andrew slightly less so. The Irish Film Industrial Complex remains undefeated.

Plus: Horror in Real Life, Whatcha Been Watchin' Bitch, and a closing game of CIRCUS ACT OR CULT ACTIVITY (because honestly… same energy).

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🤡 EPISODE 159: CLOWNS ARE TERRIFYING 🤡

It's a FRIGAY REWIND! Andrew is DRAGGING up one of our fave episodes— all about drag! Enjoy, FriGays, and we'll be back with a new episode soon.

>>FRIGAY REWIND<< | Episode 110 - Drag is Terrifying

Candles are lit. Boundaries are ignored. Consent is… actively debated with the afterlife.

This week, a séance goes horribly, flirtatiously wrong as we explore horror in real life:
👻 The history of séance grifters
🎩 Harry Houdini’s war on Spiritualism
🏛️ Mary Todd Lincoln’s White House séances and grief as survival
🦶 The Fox Sisters and the birth of modern spiritual scams

...and horror in the Movies:
🎥 THIRTEEN GHOSTS (1960) – gimmicks, goggles, and goofy chills
🎥 THE QUIET ONES (2014) – messy experiments and unrealized potential

And of course, we ask the only question that matters: Who’s Coming to the Séance?

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🔮 EPISODE 158: SEANCES ARE TERRIFYING 🔮

What’s scarier than ghosts, cults, or cosmic madness?

👉 Insurance.

This episode, we tackle the true horror of prior authorizations, denied claims, medical debt, and a healthcare system that somehow finds a way to say “have you tried waiting until Monday?” 😱

👁️ Horror in Real Life:
• The UnitedHealthcare / Luigi Mangione case
• Why claims are often denied by default
• How AI is increasingly making life-or-death decisions
• Why medical debt remains the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the U.S.
• And why being “in-network” is basically a haunted house with contracts

🎬 This week’s films:
🪦 Macabre (1958) — complete with William Castle literally insuring the audience in case they died of fright
📚 In the Mouth of Madness — Lovecraftian apocalypse, metafiction, and Sam Neill losing his mind (again)

🧠 Plus:
• Whatcha Been Watchin’, Bitch?!
• A new game: Policy Plot Twist
• And the reminder that horror doesn’t always wear a mask—it sometimes wears a badge

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🚑📄 EPISODE 157: INSURANCE IS TERRIFYING 📄🚑

What’s scarier than ghosts? MATH! This week we’re diving into the horror of math, algorithms, and the unsettling idea that randomness might not be random at all. From the Princeton PEAR Experiment (where intention may have bent probability) to dating apps, advertising algorithms, and the numbers quietly running our lives.

🎥 Films this episode:
🔲 CUBE (1997) – puzzle-box terror with murder math
🔢 PI (1998) – obsession, chaos, and numbers that know too much

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🔢 EPISODE 156: MATHEMATICS IS TERRIFYING🔢

Cheers to making it through the year.
Barely.

This episode of FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast, we look back at the horrors of 2025—from AI anxiety and cursed group chats to box office beasts, Billboard bangers, and some genuinely great horror.

👻 Was 2025 terrifying… or just 2025?
💀 Final Destination: Bloodlines earns its stripes
🪝 I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) proves some franchises refuse to die
🕯️ In Memoriam
🎮 A brand-new game: Terrifying or Just 2025?

Plus: Tony Todd forever, FPJ nostalgia points, and horror movies being less scary than our screen time reports.

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🎆 EPISODE 155: 2025 WAS TERRIFYING 🎆

💃🔥 EPISODE 154: DANCE IS TERRIFYING 🔥💃
Out now wherever you get your podcasts.

This week, we’re sweating, spiraling, and counting our way through the horror of dance—from cursed movement to psychological breakdowns and historical mass hysteria.

✨ This episode includes:
🧠 The 1518 Dancing Plague — when hundreds danced until collapse (and possibly death)
🎭 The dark, exclusionary history of The Rockettes
⚠️ The brutal pressure of ballet & body image
🔴 SUSPIRIA (1977) — witches, technicolor nightmares, Goblin’s score
🪞 BLACK SWAN — perfectionism, psychosis, and becoming “perfect”

Plus:
👀 Whatcha Been Watchin’, Bitch
🎲 A dance-themed game
🥂 Brunch negotiations (non-negotiable)

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💃 EPISODE 154: DANCE IS TERRIFYING 💃

Is cooking art? Is it trauma? Is it a gateway to poisoning your enemies? On this week’s FriGay the 13th, we’re stirring the pot — literally and historically — and diving into why the kitchen might be the scariest room in the house. We kick things off with an opening skit featuring Matty eating pasta like a raccoon behind a 7-Eleven (Andrew’s words, not ours). From there, things only escalate.  

🔪 HORROR IN REAL LIFE — Foodies and the insufferable beauty of “The Menu” — SNAP, growing up cooking, and why everyone on the internet wants you to “scroll to recipe” — Poisonings throughout history: Aqua Tofana, inheritance powder, arsenic queens, mushroom murders, bleach coffee, and more — Listeria outbreaks + the worst food poisonings on record TL;DR: Trust nobody’s cooking. Especially your spouse’s.  

🎥 WHATCHA BEEN WATCHIN’ 

+Andrew: The Naked Gun, Guts & Glory, Nobody Wants This S2, The Capulets 

+Matty: FRANKENSTEIN, IN WAVES AND WAR, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, STRANGER THINGS S4  

🍷 FILM 1: THE MENU (2022) Ratings: Matty 4.5 / Andrew 5  

🔥 FILM 2: HOUSE OF SPOILS (2024) Ratings: Matty 5 / Andrew 4  

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🍝 The raccoon has won.
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🍽️ EPISODE 153: COOKING IS TERRIFYING

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