Dead Meat Updates March 2026

Hi everyone! I'd like to continue what I started last month with an update for all patrons, paid AND free, letting you know what we've got going on over here at Dead Meat. Think of these posts like a much more extensive version of the Dead Meat Updates section of the Monday Morning livestreams. Reminder that you can also stay up-to-date by signing up for the Dead Meat Newsletter that Ben puts out every week.

I was cruising on the productivity highway in January but unfortunately a little bit into February I was struck with a real nasty cold. It took me out of commission for a week, and right as I recovered Chelsea got sick. Hers ended up being a sinus infection that prevented her from accompanying me to Tampa for Scaradise last weekend (which, by the way, THANK YOU to everyone who came out to see me - it was an amazing convention!!). At this point we're both pretty much okay, except we both have lingering coughs. It gets a little better each day, though, so I'm hoping we'll be 100% by time we leave for Austin for SXSW next week. Apologies for the Patreon deadlines we've missed due to illness; we plan on making everything up ASAP.

For KILL COUNTS we've already had the Bride of Frankenstein episode come out this past Friday March 6th. As expected, it's doing real poorly numbers-wise because casual audiences just don't tune in as much when it's an older movie. That's such a shame - I always find the KCs on older movies the funniest episodes. There's more silly things to point out and make jokes about. So check it out if you haven't yet!

March is the last month we're doing the "Kill Count every other week" schedule, so the next episode will be Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2026) on Friday March 20th. That's gonna be a real long episode (45 mins maybe?) due to the movie's length and the copious amount of behind-the-scenes info available. Del Toro went hard on the production and it shows - there is a lot of cool movie-making going on.

I think I've only mentioned this to fans at Scaradise last weekend, but in April we're going to begin our coverage of The Psycho Franchise on the Kill Count. The first episode will come out on Friday April 3rd, and after that we'll be covering the three main sequels and the remake (!) - but not the Bates Motel TV movie or the Bates Motel TV series. HOWEVER, the Psycho episodes will come out every other week - kinda like how we covered V/H/S in 2024. In between will be other Kill Counts for people who aren't interested in the franchise (although you should be - the sequels are lowkey solid movies).

What will those in-between episodes be? Well the only thing I'll say is that they're probably going to be newer or more popular movies, to offset the expected low views that the Psycho series will get. But if you're a fan of older movies, don't worry - I still plan to do the "one for me, one for them" type schedule this year, and I've already written scripts for a lot of older or off-beat movies. As a reminder, I've written scripts for: Puppet Master III, Puppet Master IV, Creep 2, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, From Beyond, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I hope to write a script for Teeth soon, too. So you can expect all those episodes some time this year, even if they probably won't do great views-wise. I just want to cover what I want to cover.

Now onto some big news.... the next episode of the DEAD MEAT PODCAST will, in fact, be Scream 7. We saw it. We have thoughts. We had to get those thoughts out somehow. We've already recorded it - we discussed it for an hour and forty-five minutes - and it should come out on a special early release date, this upcoming Wednesday March 11th. The Podcast will then be off on the 18th, then have a March Madness episode on the 25th, before resuming what would have been its normal schedule with an episode on Wednesday April 1st and every other week after that.

As for us covering Scream 7, I just ask you to trust us. We acknowledge everything surrounding the film, and then try to discuss and appraise the movie on its own merits. We are also donating to a charity, and it looks like the episode won't be sponsored either, which was a request we made to our podcast network.

For other public videos, we're recording an interview with Samara Weaving on Tuesday! Not sure when it will come out though. It was going to be in-person, but we live a little bit aways from her and she's 8 months pregnant, so it's going to be virtual instead. We'll be discussing her entire career in horror as well as her upcoming films Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, Over Your Dead Body, and Carolina Caroline. If you have any questions you'd like us to ask her please post them in a reply here!

We've also made a lot of progress with the HORROR ROYAL RUMBLE - while I was at Scaradise Chelsea finished making the 30 wrestlers who will be competing. There's still a lot of work ahead so don't expect it for another month or two. But the next big stage is choosing entrances and that's always SO MUCH FUN for us. We want to try to figure out a way to stream it for patrons so you can join in on the hilarity. As for the DEAD MEAT HORROR AWARDS, we're still behind on that, and it looks like we won't be able to film it until June since producer MK is taking a hiatus to make a movie. Expect a July, possibly even August release. I hate it being that late but it is what it is.

For PATREON REWARDS, we just released the February Patreon Podcast episode (which we might call "Filet of Fun" - thoughts?). In it, Chelsea, Graessle and I tear apart MERCY, the horrible Chris Pratt movie. Hope you enjoy it. We still need to do The Taking of Deborah Logan for the February commentary track; I'll post a poll soon for patrons to choose the movie for March's movie.

And for March's Filet of Fun episode, we'll do our annual Oscars breakdown after the show airs on the 15th. Graessle will join us to discuss the nominees and winners. I'm looking forward to it, lot of good movies this year that I can't wait to talk about. I'll likely schedule my hangout livestream for the 21st or 22nd, and I'll leave it to Ben to schedule the team stream. I've also got some Cameo videos that I'm hoping to get to this weekend, but as a reminder, if you're at the top tier, please don't forget you're entitled to a Cameo-style video from me. If you haven't requested or received that yet, please DM me here on Patreon.

Oh and I created some chat groups here on Patreon. I think you have to be a paid member to join but it's been fun chatting with people, I try to pop in when I can (it's usually late at night while I'm working on stuff). We have separate channels for movie discussion, game discussion, Dead Meat discussion, and pet pics, and I'm happy to add more channels as requested or needed. Just nice to connect to people directly that way.

As usual, there's a lot of other stuff going on in the background but I'm always hesitant to say too much in case things end up falling through. Just know there's a LOT cooking in the oven. One tiny teaser I'll give you is that I've been wanting to put on a Dead Meat convention for years and this past weekend I got some news that inched us closer to making it a reality. It's too late to expect that to happen in 2026 but fingers crossed we can get it going next year.

Thank you all so much for your support. Our patrons are the best. Let us know if you need anything or if there's anything else we can do to make your membership worth it.