Just Ghoul With It

About Just Ghoul With It

Two friends discuss how society influences our favorite (and sometimes least favorite) horror films. And also create entirely arbitrary rating scales for each.

Publisher

justghoulwithitpodcast

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

24 Mar 2021

Latest episode

4 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

125 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Mar 2026

   The Ruins

   This week Nikki and Kate watched The Ruins and discussed nuclear semiotics, gore levels, and guarding beans. Rated R for strong violence and gruesome images, language, some sexuality and nudity Content warnings: Blood, gore, audio gore, cutting, amputation, body horror, someone struggling to breathe, broken bones, stabbing, death of a child, jump scares, trypophobia, vomit, anxiety attack, claustrophobia, self harm, gun violence If you like what we’re doing, rate and review us on your favorite podcatcher- it really does help! You could also stop by our Patreon and check out ways to support! Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon Sources: 99PI. (2014, May 12). Ten Thousand Years. 99% Invisible. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/ SciShow & Savannah Geary (Host). (2025, August 29). How to Make a Warning Last 10,000 Years. SciShow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1oITXzqyg&t=600s Maya Bridge. (2023). Languages. Maya Bridge Language Services. https://www.mayabridge.org/languages Na'atik Mexico. (2025, April 30). Is Maya a living language? https://naatikmexico.org/blog/is-maya-a-living-language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages https://wipp.energy.gov/pdfs/site_markers.pdf

2. 

   21 Jan 2026

   Infinity Pool

   This week Nikki and Kate watched Infinity Pool and discussed Nepo Babies, emotional substance vs. viscous substances, and twenty twenty splits. Note: This film unlocked a feral energy and as such there is some audio clipping. They’ll monitor their levels more rigorously should a future recording also contain unprecedented primal energy. Rated NC-17 or R Content warnings: Blood, gore, audio gore, bodily fluids (all of them), vomit, gun violence, car crash, a head is squashed, cutting, flashing lights/images, mentions of rape, someone struggling to breathe, torture, broken bone, eye mutilation, trypophobia, jump scares, anxiety attack, shakey cam, antisemitic caricature. If you like what we’re doing, rate and review us on your favorite podcatcher- it really does help! You could also stop by our Patreon and check out ways to support! Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon Show Notes: Konnikova, Maria. (2014, December 10). Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/science-misheard-lyrics-mondegreens Lathan, Nadia. (2023, September 20). 50 years after being outlawed, redlining still drives neighborhood health inequities. UC Berkeley Public Health. https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/spotlight/research/50-years-after-being-outlawed-redlining-still-drives-neighborhood-health-inequities Mimbela, Ricardo & Akselrod, Olga. (2024, May 30). The Long History of Discrimination in Job Hiring Assessments. ACLU. https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/the-long-history-of-discrimination-in-job-hiring-assessments Rank, Mark R. & Eppard, Lawrence M. (2021, March 13). The 'American Dream' of upward mobility is broken. Look at the numbers. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/13/american-dream-broken-upward-mobility-us Wikipedia Editors. Social mobility. Wikipedia. Accessed on Jan 7, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility Wikipedia Editors. Nepo baby. Accessed on Jan 7, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepo_baby Cambridge Dictionary. Accessed on Jan 7, 2026. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/nepotism

3. 

   27 Nov 2025

   Blood Quantum

   This week Nikki and Kate watched Blood Quantum and discussed the complicated history behind the title, wide shots and disorienting camera angles, and how they’d unalive each other in the event of zombification. Content warnings: Blood, gore, audio gore, gun violence, eyeball mutilation, the dog dies (at least twice), a head is smashed, cutting, death by suicide, death of a baby, death of a child, vomiting, racism, slurs If you like what we’re doing, rate and review us on your favorite podcatcher- it really does help! You could also stop by our Patreon and check out ways to support! Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon Sources: Cameron, Michael.  (2021, July 13). On The Marrow Thieves and Blood Quantum: A conversation with Krista Collier-Jarvis. Dalhousie University. https://blogs.dal.ca/openthink/on-the-marrow-thieves-and-blood-quantum-a-conversation-with-krista-collier-jarvis/ TIFF. (2022, November 22). Jeff Barnaby on a Shared Love of Horror in BLOOD QUANTUM | From Studio 9. Original interview 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ohALDgihso Blood Quantum and Sovereignty: A Guide. https://nativegov.org/resources/blood-quantum-and-sovereignty-a-guide/ Rule, Elizabeth. (2018, February 7). It’s Not Just About the Blood. As quoted in NPR’s Code Switch. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/583753149 Maher, Savannah. (2018, February 7). The Difficult Math Of Being Native American. NPR’s Code Switch. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/07/583665568/love-and-blood-quantum-buy-in-or-die-out

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Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

33 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

24 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

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

Quality

45

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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