Season two of "The Horrored Girls" premiered Wednesday on Screamify with a guest built for the moment: Jessica Rothe, arriving the same week her creature feature "Beware Boiúna" opened in theaters. The episode, titled "Jessica Rothe: Death Looks Good on Her," runs just over an hour and marks the first new installment since hosts Geri Courtney-Austein and Harley Bronwyn wrapped season one last year. The show rates horror on thirst, thrills and nightmares, and returns with a new studio and a new producer who jumps into the conversation from behind the mic.
Rothe is best known as Tree Gelbman in "Happy Death Day" and its sequel, along with a turn in "La La Land" and the thriller "Affection." Her new film, "Beware Boiúna," comes from director Mike P. Nelson and writer Alan B. McElroy, and co-stars Kiana Madeira in a story of medical volunteers who run afoul of a legendary giant snake in the Amazon. The movie opened Fantastic Fest in September before Lionsgate put it in theaters on October 2. Rothe told the hosts that snake wranglers were kept on set specifically to keep real snakes away from the actors.
Motherhood ran through much of the episode. Rothe described how having two kids reshaped her relationship to horror and to the job itself, including a now-familiar instinct she called mama bear mode. Before she had children, she told her husband their dog needed to be small enough for her to physically carry out of the house in an emergency. She connected that instinct directly to the body horror she now responds to differently on screen, framing parenthood as a lens that sharpens the genre rather than one she avoids.
One More Take
The craft talk centered on "Affection," where Rothe recalled pushing for an extra take on the film's brutal opening scene even after crew offered to pad the ground beneath her. She wanted the physical take without the cushioning, describing the appeal of filmmaking that commits to discomfort rather than smoothing it out. She also described a separate shoot built around sustained water work, with stunt crew in the water alongside her for most of the day.
Asked where she wants to go next, Rothe said she would like to play a villain, pointing to something as stylized as Ti West's "Pearl" as a model. That led into the episode's "Pearl" segment, where the hosts ran Mia Goth's performance through their rating meters, scoring it low on jump scares and giving the character zero martinis on their villain-thirst scale. The conversation circled back more than once to the idea of Rothe and the hosts eventually making a western together.
Games and Fears
The new recurring segment had Rothe playing Pictionary and a horror-themed mad lib, including a rapid-fire bit asking which single day of her life she would loop forever, a nod to her own "Happy Death Day" premise. She also revealed a project from a sculpture class: a xenomorph bookend paired with a matching Ellen Ripley piece. On fears, Rothe named aliens as what actually unsettles her, feeding into the hosts' running bit about whether Dwayne Johnson might be one himself.
"The Horrored Girls" season two is streaming free now on Screamify across iOS, Android, web and connected TVs, with new episodes arriving weekly.
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