200 Episodes Later

CineMortuary is a podcast that reviews sequels, prequels, remakes, and anything canonically related to a horror series other than the original film. If I recall correctly, I took co-host Rob’s pitch for a general bad-movie podcast — which was all the rage in the 2010s — and spun it into this. My theory was that most horror franchises represented Hollywood at its absolute money-spinning, creatively bankrupt worst. I have been proven so wrong over the years, except for the times I was totally right.We released our 200th episode today: a review of George A. Romero's bleak post-post-zombie-apocalyptic yarn, Day of the Dead (1985). Every fortnight since 2017, Dave has cobbled enough coherent audio from three increasingly middle-aged white men spewing in-jokes at each other to create something releasable to the world. It is a fantastic achievement — more so given that the vast majority has been recorded in person, despite one of us always having lived in a different city (ahem). When we…