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Al & Siena explore the connections between 'Hostel' and 'Saw' in this episode focused on horror film tropes and history.

Send us Fan Mail Let the games begin! Al & Siena are touring traps and slicing soles for this long-awaited splatterfest on HOSTEL (2005) x SAW (2004)! Spot all three horror director cameos hidden throughout the Eastern European vacation-gone-wrong, learn how an MRI scan launched the world's 5th most successful horror franchise, and uncover the true meaning of the "torture porn" subgenre in this blood-soaked and bicurious edition of Splice & Splatter. You can scream new episodes every ...

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