Horror Movie Faves & Should Taylor Swift Retire?

The Sam Sanders Show

KCRW & Sam Sanders

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.9 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Hallelujah! It's finally spooky season! Time to break down the very best of Hollywood horror. Joining the show are culture journalists Brittany Luse (host of NPR’s It’s Been a Minute) and Tre’vell Anderson (host of the film podcast SEATED).

They rank their favorite scary movies of all time and build the definitive Horror Movie Mount Rushmore. Can anything top Jordan Peele's Get Out? They also dive into the drama of celebrating Halloween while growing up Christian. Plus, pop culture hot takes! Swifties, you’ve been warned.

The Sam Sanders Show is a production of KCRW and Sam Sanders Productions.

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0:00.0	Hey, listeners, it is the season of giving.
0:03.0	Get that warm, fuzzy feeling.
0:05.1	Make a donation, pick out some cozy KCRW merch, or send meals to local food banks.
0:11.1	Donate now at kCRW.com slash give.
0:14.8	Y'all have to cast Taylor Swift in a reboot of one of our four films
0:22.0	on our horror film
0:23.1	Mount Rushmore.
0:24.5	Which films do you cast her in?
0:25.9	Oh.
0:26.6	Get out.
0:27.6	Yeah.
0:32.5	Hey, y'all.
0:33.4	It's the Sam Sanders show
0:34.4	from KCRW,
0:35.7	a show all about the things
0:37.4	that entertain us.
0:39.0	Thank you so much for listening.
0:41.6	Happy Spooky Season.
0:43.5	In honor of Spooky Season, we're talking horror movies this episode, a genre I truly love.
0:49.9	We're going to build a horror film Mount Rushmore this episode and choose, in our opinion, the four greatest horror movies of all time.
0:58.7	I'm joined by two incredible panelists for this challenge.
1:02.2	My name is Brittany Luce, and I host a show called It's Been a Minute on NPR.
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