The Bear Cave of Terror

About The Bear Cave of Terror

Spinning off from the Comic Book Bears Podcast: your hairy, heavy, homo host, Steve Mowry, welcomes a different horror fanatic as guest host each week as they both dig their claws into a much-loved scary movie pulled from a variety of sub-genres and franchises - from classic to trashy, spooky to gory, commercial to obscure, and more. Together, they slash into each frightful film to expose its beating heart and delicious marrow, often from a queer perspective, to entice the listener to make it their newest horror obsession, and maybe learn a fun (or terrifying) fact or two along the way!

Publisher

Steve Mowry

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

27 Jul 2025

Latest episode

18 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

61 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Oct 2026

   CBB Presents the Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 61 - Buddy (2026)

   Children's shows have always been a bit strange and hyper-real, full of colorful sets, overly enthusiastic kids, puppets and mascots, and of course, a cuddly and bubbly host to bring it all together for 30 minutes of playing games, learning lessons, and punctuating every 5 minutes with perky and repetitive songs, week after week, resetting each episode with a final sing-a-long. This week in the Bear Cave, we welcome Gracie - a board member for the annual queer film festival in Winston-Salem, Out at the Movies, and a founder of the Post-Mortem players, a horror theater company in NC bringing horror and grand guignol to the stage. We're talking 2026's Buddy, directed by Casper Kelly, a twisted take on a children's show anchored by a fuzzy orange unicorn with a dark side, the kids who are starting to suspect something is rotten at the core of the magical land they live in (are trapped in), and a mother from the "real world" who is searching for her missing child. We look at the ways Kelly pulls off the transition from a fully-realized, 90s-style kid TV show to the real world through changing aspect ratios, color, and sound design. Gracie and Steve also look at lessons taken from real life horror - from stories about child actors' devastating realities, to the fuzzy and familiar image of safety that hides danger, or a protector that's actually a predator. Is Buddy cosmic horror, or an allegory for exploitation and loss of innocence? How about both - with poor anthropomorphic mailboxes, bunnies, backpacks, and several kids paying the ultimate price at the end of a goofy unicorn's rage! You can find more information about Post Mortem Players at postmortemplayers.com (http://postmortemplayers.com) or on IG @postmortemplayers and support local live horror on stage More information about the annual LGBTQ+ film fest and other events by the organizaation available on @outatthemovies or outatthemovies.org (http://outatthemovies.org) Winston-Salem NC also hosts an annual queer-centered horror film festival! For more information check out @queerfearfilmfestival on IG Additional Resources for this episode: "Sundance Film Festival 2026 Line Up..." by Meagan Navarro, 12/10/25, Bloody-Disgusting.com (http://Bloody-Disgusting.com) "Casper Kelly Interview: Buddy's 90s TV Look and Hidden Easter Eggs" by Adam Manery, 8/21/26, pointsofviews.com (http://pointsofviews.com)

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   CBB Presents the Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 60 - Scream (2022)

   Frequent guest host and Scream superfan Ben Raifsnider of the Little Dead Aliens podcast is back in the Bear Cave to talk about the next installment of his favorite horror franchise! Scream, aka "Scream 5" from 2022, was released 11 years after the 4th movie in the series, and during the later stage of the COVID pandemic, and still managed to be a certified hit. We talk about the reception and how excited fans were for a new Scream film, the "requel"/"anti-elevated horror" angle of this chapter, the devastating loss of a popular, long-running character, and more. With a ton of ADR and on-screen cameos from cast and crew from the previous 25 years of the franchise, a touching tribute to Wes Craven, and a fun twist on the "hot blonde-in-the-shower" trope, plus the usual ranking of the opening attack compared to the previous films, there's plenty to enjoy about Scream (2022)! Even if the Babadook is your favorite scary movie, this slasher is still a bunch of fun for horror fans.

3. 

   28 Sept 2026

   CBB Presents the Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 59 - Friday the 13th Part 6 - Jason Lives

   We've covered installments from two of the other big 80s horror franchises, Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween, and now for our first foray into the Jason Vorhees Saga, we're jumping right to 1986's Part 6 - Jason Lives, directed by Tom McLaughlin! Joining Steve in the Bear Cave for the first time is podcaster and horror superfan Jeff Hoffman of the Pumpkin and Peach Podcast, and he dives right in to his favorite sequel in the long-running series. There is a lot to love about Jason Lives, from the Frankenstein-like resurrection, some wacky and unforgettable kills, and for the first time, a camp full of campers! The newly-revived Jason hacks and slashes his way through corporate paintballers, a bevy of camp counselors, 4th-wall-breaking cemetery caretakers, and more! We discuss the studio's desire for more bodies, at the same time that they sought to limit the gore (really at cross-streams, there, Paramount), the direction they almost took for future sequels, the multiple takes and bloody effects that got left on the cutting room floor, and the tropes that all come into play in this mid-80s fright flick. And what's this about Jason's dad? With two different actors playing the iconic killer, an acting style that incorporated the director's background in mime, and even Alice Cooper's rocking track inspired by the film, there's plenty to chat about with this slasher classic! Additional Resources for this episode: "Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI" by Variety Staff, 12/31/85 Variety "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives Novelization lacks the movie's fun" by Brian W. Collins, 8/21/26 Fangoria.com "The Six Faces of Jason, Part 1 & 2" by Marc Shapiro, Fangoria no. 68, Oct 1987, pp. 20-23, 68; no. 69, Dec 1987, pp. 32-35 "Friday the 13th Part 6 FX - The Censors Live!" by Marc Shapiro, Fangoria no. 62, March 1987, pp.17-20, 67 "Jason Lives!" by Marc Shapiro, Fangoria no. 57, Sept 1986, pp. 36-39, 64

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