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!
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Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Welcome to the jungle of our feriocious fifthteenth 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 play a game, cry with your little sister and meet up for a pint to celebrate the battle between years 1987 vs 2004!
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Music made by Bran Reid
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Artwork made by pixiecorpses
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Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Welcome to the faithful fourteenth 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 enter the apartment, exorcise those demons and be lead into the battle of years 1965 and 1973!
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Check out our list on Letterboxd to stay up to date with the movies representing each year: https://letterboxd.com/benworldpro/list/the-slay-offs/
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Music made by Bran Reid
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Artwork made by pixiecorpses
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Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
Welcome to the transformative thirteenth 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! Let's enter the mind, face the fear and embrace the battle of years 1961 and 2017!
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Check out our list on Letterboxd to stay up to date with the movies representing each year: https://letterboxd.com/benworldpro/list/the-slay-offs/
If you want to follow Ben Ellt:
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Music made by Bran Reid
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Artwork made by pixiecorpses
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Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
Welcome to the twisted twelth 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 with a levelled up battle of icons, legends and horror on a plane, try not to get to enraged as you follow us into a magical world where there's a war between years 2002 vs 2006!
If you want to email us go to: theslayoffspodcast@gmail.com
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Check out our list on Letterboxd to stay up to date with the movies representing each year: https://letterboxd.com/benworldpro/list/the-slay-offs/
If you want to follow Ben Ellt:
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Spook Station Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/spook-station/id1788477112
Deck of Hearts: https://open.spotify.com/artist/49NooQHvGle1vJYMS9fyGq?si=4_L-969rQraY8g1nSAr0Hg
Music made by Bran Reid
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Artwork made by pixiecorpses
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Monday Jul 14, 2025
Monday Jul 14, 2025
Hello and welcome to a very songful episode of The Slay Offs! Come play a game with your host Ben Ellt as they are put to the test by returning guest host Rosie in a game of melodies and memory! In this game songs will be played by Rosie and it is up to Ben to guess 1 - The song name, 2 - Who preforms the song, 3 - Which horror movie the song appears in and 4 - What year that horror movie came out. This episode is really fun, try and play along and see if you can beat the host!
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Check out our list on Letterboxd to stay up to date with the movies representing each year: https://letterboxd.com/benworldpro/list/the-slay-offs/
If you want to follow Ben Ellt:
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Music made by Bran Reid
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Artwork made by pixiecorpses
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Monday Jul 07, 2025
Monday Jul 07, 2025
Welcome to the enormous eleventh 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! If you get a phone call after witnessing the vampiric alien assimilation in the battle between years 1998 vs 2012, hopefully Mystery Incorporated will help you unmask the solution!
If you want to email us go to: theslayoffspodcast@gmail.com
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Check out our list on Letterboxd to stay up to date with the movies representing each year: https://letterboxd.com/benworldpro/list/the-slay-offs/
If you want to follow Ben Ellt:
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3RAyR
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Music made by Bran Reid
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Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/8vLRB
Artwork made by pixiecorpses
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Monday Jun 30, 2025
Monday Jun 30, 2025
Welcome to the tantalizing titillating tenth 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 the deep to the horrors of the body, prepare to follow us into an overly sexual battle between years 1975 vs 1990!
Check out the Lyric video I made for Deck Of Hearts using the original Night of the Living Dead clips; E-Motion https://youtu.be/aQUg-xOLf5A?si=y7dHqYI86qeQGbhN
If you want to email us go to: theslayoffspodcast@gmail.com
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Check out our list on Letterboxd to stay up to date with the movies representing each year: https://letterboxd.com/benworldpro/list/the-slay-offs/
If you want to follow Ben Ellt:
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3RAyR
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Music made by Bran Reid
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Artwork made by pixiecorpses
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Monday Jun 23, 2025
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Good thing I've been sick because welcome to the doctor focused ninth 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! Prepare to follow us into a battle of rats, hags and doctors between years 1962 vs 1971!
If you want to email us go to: theslayoffspodcast@gmail.com
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Check out our list on Letterboxd to stay up to date with the movies representing each year: https://letterboxd.com/benworldpro/list/the-slay-offs/
If you want to follow Ben Ellt:
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3RAyR
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Music made by Bran Reid
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Artwork made by pixiecorpses
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Monday Jun 16, 2025
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Hello and welcome to a prideful bonus interlude in the Golden Age of Horror tournament bracket where your host Ben Ellt goes over some essential LGBTQIA+ horror movie recommendations to watch this pride month!
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Check out our list on Letterboxd to stay up to date with the movies representing each year: https://letterboxd.com/benworldpro/list/the-slay-offs/
If you want to follow Ben Ellt:
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Music made by Bran Reid
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Artwork made by pixiecorpses
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Monday May 26, 2025
Monday May 26, 2025
Hello and welcome to a special bonus interlude in the Golden Age of Horror tournament bracket where your host Ben Ellt looks over deaths list to talk about the glorious Rube Goldberg style deaths that make up the Final Destination franchise, going one by one through Final Destination (2000), Final Destination 2 (2003), Final Destination 3 (2006), The Final Destination (2009), Final Destination 5 (2011) and the newly released Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) to work out which death stands supreme as the best death and worst way to die in this franchise!
If you want to email us go to: theslayoffspodcast@gmail.com
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Check out our list on Letterboxd to stay up to date with the movies representing each year: https://letterboxd.com/benworldpro/list/the-slay-offs/
If you want to follow Ben Ellt:
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3RAyR
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Music made by Bran Reid
Artwork made by pixiecorpses
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