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- 2026
- First episode
About Pulse Check - A Horror Movie Podcast
A podcast where horror movies are put to the test to see if they get your pulse racing. From new releases to iconic classics and deep cuts, each film is scored and given a final verdict—does it flatline, or does it make your heart race?
- Publisher
- Aaron Capes
- Category
- tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Jan 2026
- Latest episode
- 18 May 2026
Latest episodes
17 episodes in the feed.
18 May 2026
The Ruins
No mummies this week, but instead we have evil vines! Can these CGI tendrils provide the same thrills? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
11 May 2026
The Mummy (1959)
Hammer Productions tried their hand at a Mummy movie in the late 50's. How does it compare to the other Mummy adaptions? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
4 May 2026
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
Evil Dead Rise director takes a shot at rebooting The Mummy (again) for Blumhouse. But can this mummified franchise be revived? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
27 Apr 2026
Train to Busan
We're heading to the other side of the world to review the Korean zombie film Train to Busan, in which a father and daughter have to survive an outbreak on a bullet train! This film helped to kick of a boom of Asian zombie films, but does it hold up ten years later? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
20 Apr 2026
Pontypool
We're visiting our friends up north with this little independent Canadian zombie movie Pontypool, in which a local radio DJ tries to survive an outbreak. Does it hold up nearly 20 years later? Or is it as relevant as local radio shows? Listen now and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
13 Apr 2026
28 Days Later
In 2002, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland revolutionized the zombie subgenre with 28 Days Later. Now nearing its 25th anniversary, does the film hold up? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
6 Apr 2026
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
In this middle chapter of the planned 28 --- Later revival trilogy, Ralph Fiennes must contend with both zombies and a violent group of satanists led by a deliciously evil Jack O'Connell. Does this franchise have any juice left four entries in? And will we get the concluding chapter after this film flopped at the box office? Check out this episode to hear our thoughts! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
30 Mar 2026
Return to Oz
In the mid 80's, in a desparate move to keep the rights to the franchise, Disney rushed out an unfortunate sequel to the beloved classic The Wizard of Oz. The result was a dark, depressing, often scary "kids" film that flopped at the box office. But what do our hosts think of it watching it for the first time 40 years after its initial release? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
23 Mar 2026
Urban Legend
Scream spawned a whole series of knockoffs, and today we are reviewing the most notorious one in Urban Legend. Can a young Jared Leto carry this movie across the finish line? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
16 Mar 2026
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
If you thought Scream was self-aware, then wait until you see this week's film! Behind the Mask is a mockumentary about the life of a real-life slasher villian. But does it deconstruct the genre as well as Wes Craven's aforementioned movie? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
9 Mar 2026
Scream (1996)
This week we are revisiting Wes Craven's 1996 classic Scream! Does this meta slasher hold up 30 years later? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
2 Mar 2026
Scream 7
Sydney is back from a one movie hiatus to fight a new crop of Ghostfaces in this latest installment! But did this sequel get our pulse racing? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
23 Feb 2026
Frozen (2010)
In this week's episode, we discuss Frozen. No, not the Disney film, but a film about three friends stuck on a ski lift. Would we have been just as scared watching Olaf run around? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
16 Feb 2026
Gerald's Game
We visit the world of Stephen King for the second week in a row as we run Gerald's Game through the Pulse Check horror test! Can the Moonlight Man carry this movie to a high score? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
9 Feb 2026
Misery
This week we are taking our first dive into the world of Stephen King with the film adaption of Misery! Does Annie Wilkes rack up the points on our Pulse Check test? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
2 Feb 2026
Send Help
For our first movie of the podcast, we are checking out Sam Raimi's new film Send Help, in which a disgruntled Rachel McAdams is trapped on an island with her jerk of a boss played by Dylan O'Brien. How does this movie fare on our Pulse Check test? Did Sam Raimi deliver another classic? Listen and find out! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
26 Jan 2026
Introduction
Welcome to our new podcast! This week Andrew and I will be previewing our new show Pulse Check, in which we will be grading horror movies on how scary they are. We are super excited to embark on the new adventure and hope you'll follow along with us! Email: pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com (mailto:pulsecheckhorror@gmail.com) Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror (https://www.instagram.com/pulsecheckhorror) X: https://x.com/pulsepodhorror (https://x.com/pulsepodhorror) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586026679489) Intro & Outro: Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
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