The Slay Offs
”Alien vs Predator”, “Freddy vs Jason”, “Sadako vs Kayako”, horror fandom has always thrived on the clash of horror icons! The Slay Offs Podcast aims to definitively solve the long held argument, “Which year has been the best year for horror movies?” As each episode your host Ben Ellt and various guest pit the top 10 most popular horror movies from two seperate years against each other in the ultimate horror brackets to crown which years are the Golden Age and Silver Age of horror movies!
Episodes
Welcome to the Three-way Triathalon Thirty-Second official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! Due to some miscalculated bad maths, we are having a battle between three years instead of two, so exit the stasus pods, catch up on the last 15 years and stare down the face of oceans...
Welcome to the Thriving Thirty-First official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! Don a samurai's demon mask and dance into craziness to fight for the God of gold in the battle between years 1964 vs 2018!
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Hello and welcome to a special holiday bonus interlude in the Golden Age tournament bracket where your host Ben Ellt looks over some good, some bad but all jolly, Christmas horror movies to stuff in your stocking this Christmas day!
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Welcome to the Thirsty Thirtieth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! From young dreams of chainsaws past, prepare to break the rules in the battle between years 1974 vs 1984!
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Welcome to the tumbleweeded Twenty-Ninth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt and returning guest host Rosie as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! It's time to wrestle massive snakes, fight the killer snow and prepare for to be the breakout pop idol for the battle between years 1997 vs 2015!
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Welcome to the thingamabobing Twenty-Eigth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt and returning guest host Rosie as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! It's time to venture down to Antartica, relive the 60's and prepare for a ghostly paranormal battle between years 1982 vs 2021!
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Welcome to the invasive Twenty-Seventh official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! From home invasions to one eyed cursed birds, prepare to confront the past in the battle between years 1967 vs 2019!
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Welcome to the killer musical Twenty-Sixth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! From real life serial killers to singing plants looking for a shave, prepare to merge with a fly in the battle between years 1986 vs 2007!
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Welcome to the takeover Twenty-Fifth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! From second chances to one good scare, prepare for a pod person carrying on screaming in the battle between years 1966 vs 1978!
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Welcome to the Timeless Twenty-Fourth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt with a special spook interval by guest host Bran Reid as we continue navigating our terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! From the found footage fables, harrowing trials and foreign frights, come join the battle between years 1999 vs 2008!
Welcome to the Transformative Twenty-Third official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt and guest host Bran Reid as we continue navigating our terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! From the new body of horror, meta commentary and the joyfull noises of me cat sitting, come join the battle between years 1996 vs 2011!
Welcome to the tap dancing Twenty-Second official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! From body horror ballet to detectives who are not who they seem, prepare for a sick and twisted battle between years 1977 vs 2010!
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...Welcome to the trialing Twenty-First official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! From the horrors of demonic pregnancy to the horrors of the capitalistic faith, prepare to follow us into a witch trial between years 1968 vs 1970!
Welcome to the Twisted Twentieth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt and returning guest host Rosie as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! Beware of new zoo exhibits, chaotic bisexuals and push in the videotape of the battle between years 1983 vs 1992!
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Welcome to the nihilistic nineteenth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt and returning guest host Rosie as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! Fasten your necktie for the sinful battle between years 1972 vs 1995!
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Welcome to the eternally evergreen eighteenth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! It's time to witness a battle of re-animeted malformed men vying for eternal freedom by fire in the years 1969 vs 1985!
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Hello and welcome to a special bonus interlude in the Golden Age tournament bracket where your host Ben Ellt looks over the horror movies that released in May through August of 2025 and takes a look at how horror has shaped up in the middle of 2025 so far.
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Welcome to the self absorbed seventeenth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! It's time to uncage your feelings about that toxic ex and fly away to this battle between years 1963 vs 1994!
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Hello and welcome to a very quoting episode of The Slay Offs! Come play a game with your host Ben Ellt as they put returning guest host Rosie to the test in a game of quotes and attitude! In this game Ben has selected 30 horror movies and collected 3 quotes from each, Rosie will score 3 points on the first quote, 2 points on the second quote and then finally 1 point if the third quote is required, scoring 0 points if the correct mo...
Welcome to the jungle of our scandalishish sixteenth official match off for Round 1 of The Slay Offs! Come Join your host Ben Ellt as they continue navigating the terrifying tournament to find the best year for horror movies in the Golden Age of horror! It's time to pull out your camera because you'll want to document this holy battle of blood and iron between years 1989 vs 2014!
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