Chopping It Up

About Chopping It Up

A podcast discussing horror movies both new and old. Together, we will compare and contrast two horror movies, connecting them via various through lines including themes, tropes, motifs, actors, and sub genres, among other similarities. The goal is to explore the evolution of the horror genre, and to compare and contrast how these films interact with each other, and where they sit in the cinematic landscape. Each episode we’ll cover everything including remakes, sequels, reimaginings, and reboots of classic films, from slasher flicks to vampire movies to zombie movies to Lovecraftian films to monster movies to psychological horror to just about anything else you can think of.

Publisher

choppingituphorrorpod

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

6 Mar 2024

Latest episode

27 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

68 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Is Deliverance Even a Horror Movie?: Deliverance and The Final Terror

   Jesse, Sledd, and Joel head into the backwoods for John Boorman’s 1972 gut-punch Deliverance, paired with Sledd’s long-championed pick, 1981 slasher The Final Terror — a film so obscure Joel couldn’t find a single dollar figure for its budget or box office anywhere online. The crew spends a good chunk of the episode arguing over whether Deliverance even qualifies as horror or if it’s social commentary wearing a thriller’s clothes, breaks down Final Terror’s surprisingly stacked cast (Daryl Hannah, a young Akosua Busia, and Joe Pantoliano in a performance Joel says carries the movie), and hands out a Franklin Award to the guy who packed a guitar wrapped in plastic for a river trip and still didn’t bring a fishing pole. Two very different backwoods nightmares, one very real debate about where the line for ”horror” actually is.

2. 

   9 Sept 2026

   680-to-1: Obsession

   Chopping It Up chops up Curry Barker’s Obsession — the $750K nothing-budget horror flick that somehow turned into a $510M monster (680-to-1 return, because apparently demons are great for ROI). Jesse goes scorched-earth on Nikki and Sled isn’t having it — full-blown argument, receipts and all. We also get into the lawsuit drama nobody expected, the Andy Richter cold-call story that’s funnier than it has any right to be, and a Franklin Award debate that might be the most annoying cast we’ve ever covered. Also: Sledd finally gets his Deliverance wish next episode. God help us all.

3. 

   24 Aug 2026

   First-Ever Negative Rating: Blood Beach and Tremors

   Grab your suntan lotion and a high-powered rifle — Chopping It Up is going underground this week with a double dose of ”something’s eating people from below the ground.” First: 1980’s forgotten cult oddity Blood Beach, where John Saxon and Bert Young investigate Santa Monica beachgoers getting sucked into the sand — a movie so thin it needed Ray Liotta AND Matthew Modine to almost play the lead before they settled on someone else entirely. Then: Tremors, the movie that made Kevin Bacon a Saturday-afternoon-cable legend, still just as fun 35 years later as Bacon and Fred Ward battle giant graboids in Perfection, Nevada. One of these earns a glowing rewatch. The other just made TV history — Sledd hands out the first-ever NEGATIVE meat-cleaver rating in show history. Guess which is which.

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

1,399

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

36

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

71

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