Cutting Deep Into Horror Episodes

The Ritual (2017) is a modern folk-horror favorite that transforms a memorial hike through the Swedish wilderness into a terrifying combination of survival horror, psychological horror, occult worship, mythology, and creature-feature terror. In this spoiler-filled episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, filmmaker Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfirevisit director David Bruckner’s rain-soaked forest nightmare and explain why it belongs in any horror fan’s Halloween-season watchlist and spooky-season...

Tonight She Comes (2016) is a blood-soaked supernatural slasher for horror fans building their Halloween watchlists—a cabin-in-the-woods nightmare that mutates into occult body horror, splatter comedy, and resurrection horror. On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit the outrageous independent horror film that has stayed with them for a decade and explain why its strangest choices are far more deliberate than they first appear. Henrique and R...

Join filmmaker Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi as Cutting Deep into Horror keeps Summerween rolling and gets an early jump on Halloween season with Hell House LLC (2015), Stephen Cognetti’s cult found footage horror movie about a Halloween haunted attraction inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel. This spoiler-filled Hell House LLC review and ending discussion digs into the movie’s mockumentary setup, haunted-house scares, creepy clown mannequins, cult rumors, basement terror, and the opening-nig...

Join filmmaker Henrique Couto as Cutting Deep into Horror explores The Houses October Built (2014)—a found footage nightmare about five friends hunting the most extreme haunted houses across America. Discover how this supernatural folklore film captures real haunted-house horror, extreme-tourism fears, and the dark secrets lurking behind roadside attractions. Perfect for early Halloween spooky season listening. Henrique is joined by Rachael Redolfi for a spoiler-filled review of director Bobby ...

REC (2007) found-footage horror gets the Cutting Deep Into Horror treatment as Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi lock themselves inside one of the most terrifying Spanish horror movies ever made. Directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, REC is a lean, relentless Spanish zombie horror classic that follows a TV reporter and her cameraman into a Barcelona apartment building where a routine emergency call becomes a sealed-off nightmare. In this episode, Henrique and Rachael dig into why REC stil...

Paranormal Activity, found footage horror, demonic hauntings, and the nightmare of being watched while you sleep take center stage in this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, as Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into the low-budget movie that turned a bedroom doorway, a static camera, and a few impossible noises into modern horror history. This week, Henrique and Rachael discuss Paranormal Activity, the 2007 found footage supernatural horror film written and directed by Oren Peli, starrin...

Eerie found footage chaos meets scary viral marketing mystery in Cloverfield (2008). Director Matt Reeves, writer Drew Goddard, and producer J. J. Abrams crafted a mature-themes monster movie that redefined how handheld perspective creates terror. Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi revisit the kaiju-style attack, NYC devastation, and cult-classic status of this explosive creature-feature on Cutting Deep into Horror—one of the 2000s' most unsettling disaster horrors. Cloverfield remains a cult-fav...

What starts as a scrappy Japanese zombie movie quickly becomes one of the most inventive, hilarious, and unexpectedly heartfelt horror-comedies of the last decade. This week on Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi dive into One Cut of the Dead (2017), Shinichiro Ueda’s brilliant cult favorite about zombies, chaos, low-budget filmmaking, and the beautiful disaster of trying to make art when everything is falling apart. At first glance, One Cut of the Dead looks like a stra...

Creep (2014) is one of the most unsettling found footage horror movies of the 2010s, and in this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into why Patrick Brice’s microbudget nightmare still works so well. This episode centers on Creep, the 2014 psychological horror film directed by Patrick Brice and built around the deeply unnerving chemistry between Mark Duplass and Brice himself. The uploaded episode notes describe the discussion as a deep dive into trust, m...

John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! (1978) is one of the most overlooked thrillers in his filmography, and this week on Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into the tense, creepy made-for-TV shocker Carpenter made right before Halloween. The film stars Lauren Hutton, David Birney, and Adrienne Barbeau, and turns anonymous phone calls, apartment paranoia, and stalker dread into a slow-burn nightmare that still lands. The movie was produced by Warner Bros. Televis...

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) is one of the bleakest and most notorious serial killer horror films ever made, and in this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into what makes John McNaughton’s grim 1986 cult classic still feel so raw, disturbing, and hard to shake. Starring Michael Rooker in a chilling breakout role, Henry strips away slick movie thrills and replaces them with grime, dread, and the sickening feeling that you are watching somethi...

A true-crime horror deep dive into a grim, under-seen cult title: Confessions of a Serial Killer (shot in 1985, directed by Mark Blair)—a film rooted in the Henry Lee Lucas mythology, where the horror isn’t a monster… it’s a man calmly telling you what he did. In this episode, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi break down what makes this movie so unsettling: the low-rent, almost-documentary texture; the blunt confessional structure; and the way it drags you through a nightmare that feels ...

Psychological horror breakdown time. Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi dive into Ti West’s Pearl (2022) — the candy-colored prequel to X that turns ambition, isolation, repression, and rage into a full-blown descent. We talk Mia Goth’s star-making...

If you’re hunting for a Christmas horror movie that isn’t cozy or cute, Dead End (2003) is a nasty little gift waiting on a snowy back road. On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi sink into the cult Christmas chiller where the Harrington family’s Christmas Eve shortcut becomes an endless nightmare of cursed highways, ghostly women in white, and a hearse that feels like it’s driving straight out of the afterlife. Recorded as a holiday special (Henriqu...

Looking for a cozy-but-creepy Christmas horror movie to watch while the snow piles up outside? On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi dig into Wind Chill (2007), a snowbound Christmas ghost story directed by Gregory Jacobs and starring Emily Blunt and Ashton Holmes. Set the day before Christmas Eve on an icy Pennsylvania back road, Wind Chill strands two college students in a broken-down car, trapped in a supernatural time loop with vengeful ghosts, a...

This Black Friday, Cutting Deep into Horror takes you back to where modern terror truly began: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi break down Tobe Hooper’s legendary shocker — a film that reshaped horror with its brutal realism, suffocating Texas heat, and one of cinema’s most terrifying families. Perfect for the Thanksgiving weekend, this episode explores how the movie’s themes of family dysfunction, meat, ritual, survival, and rural dread hit especially...

Bitter Feast (2010) receives a spoiler-rich Cutting Deep Into Horror examination of its story, performances, filmmaking choices, themes, and place in horror cinema. This week on Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi dive into Bitter Feast (2010)—a brutally underrated foodie horror thriller perfect for the Thanksgiving season. When a celebrity chef snaps after a vicious review, a simple cooking critique becomes a nightmarish showdown of revenge, obsession, and culinary...

The Blair Witch Project (1999) follows three student filmmakers into the Maryland woods, where invented folklore and deteriorating footage make an unseen threat feel real. We unpack its unsettling folklore, improvisational performances, and the way fear, survival, and group dynamics collapse in the Burkittsville woods. Directed by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez, this cult landmark still crawls under the skin more than two decades later. Inside this episode - Into the Woods — Setting the sta...

Candyman (1992) follows researcher Helen Lyle into Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, where repeating an urban legend makes her part of the story she intended to study. We dissect Tony Todd’s commanding performance as Candyman, Virginia Madsen’s descent into madness, and the real-world setting of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing projects, where folklore and fear intertwine. From the gothic tragedy of Helen Lyle to the legacy of Candyman as a mirror of societal anxieties, Henrique and Rachael unpack why th...

Halloween watchlist essential! We sink our claws into one of the most iconic horror films ever made: Wes Craven’s 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. Hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit Freddy Krueger’s terrifying debut, exploring how this razor-fingered dream stalker redefined the slasher genre and haunted a generation of horror fans. Inside this episode, Henrique and Rachael share their first encounters with the film—late-night VHS terrors and the exhilaration of discovering ...

The Evil Dead (1981) receives a spoiler-rich Cutting Deep Into Horror examination of its story, performances, filmmaking choices, themes, and place in horror cinema. A Cornerstone of Horror Cinema! Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi cut deep into Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981)—the raw, relentless, cabin-in-the-woods classic that jump-started a whole splatter language. We unpack how Raimi’s scrappy camera attacks, Tom Sullivan’s gnarly makeup/stop-motion, and Bruce Campbell’s live-wire performa...

Event Horizon (1997) receives a spoiler-rich Cutting Deep Into Horror examination of its story, performances, filmmaking choices, themes, and place in horror cinema. “Cutting Deep into Horror” dives headfirst into Paul W. S. Anderson’s cult-classic sci-fi horror Event Horizon (1997). Hosts Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi unpack how a “haunted house in space” premise, Catholic-guilt undertones, and that infamous “I don’t need eyes to see” line still rattle nerves. We track the film’s bomb-then-...

Fire in the Sky (1993) explained — the chilling alien-abduction film based on Travis Walton’s true story. On Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi break down why the UFO sequence still shocks, how director Robert Lieberman builds dread, and where movie dramatization diverges from the real Arizona logging-crew case. We compare the film to Walton’s account, spotlight the cast (D. B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, James Garner), and dig into small-town paranoia, survivor trau...

It Comes at Night (2017) receives a spoiler-rich Cutting Deep Into Horror examination of its story, performances, filmmaking choices, themes, and place in horror cinema. Welcome back to another spine-tingling episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, where your hosts, Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi, shine a light on the darkest corners of horror cinema. This week, they're diving into the chilling 2017 film *It Comes at Night*, a psychological horror experience that explores themes of fear, paran...