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Spooky season rolls right along with the Unholy Trinity - Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and John Carpenter's Halloween!

Raygun Busch (frontman of Chat Pile!) stops by to dive into three stabbing movies that are all in conversation with each other.

Psycho hit theaters in 1960, scaring the shit out of audiences across America, suggesting that maybe the kids were not all right. A decade and a half later come the children of Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Halloween, on a different side of American history, taking what Hitchcock had done and expanding upon it in their own ways.

What are the differences between the three films and their makers, and what do they have in common? Which one's the best? Which is the scariest? How are different films frightening in different ways?

And...is it okay to admit that Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's best movie? These two guys seem to think so.

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