This year, for the spookiest night of the year, we are revisiting John Carpenter's classic horror movie - Halloween (1978) - the film that brought us the Shape, AKA Michael Myers!
It's crap film time again, and we have a movie about undead wildlife - Zombeavers (2014)! Yes, a film about zombie beavers... Does hilarity ensue?
In this minisode we return to the Jim Henson's The Storyteller to look at two episodes from the little known second season. In this series, Michael Gambon takes on the mantle of the Storyteller to recount tales from Greek myth. And in this episode, we watch the story of Daedalus and Icarus, and the legend of Orpheus.
In this episode we take a trip to Delos for the holiday of the future! Yes, we are revisiting Michael Crichton's first tale of a futuristic theme park gone bad Westworld - the seminal science fiction meets Western movie starring Yul Brynner as the unstoppable android Gunslinger!
For our classic movie this time we are watching a hugely important film, a massive influence on modern science fiction and the grandfather of Hammer horror - yes, it's The Quatermass Xperiment (AKA The Creeping Unknown in the US) from 1955.
As a tribute to the late great John Saxon we settle to watch one of his most celebrated movies - the martial arts classic Enter the Dragon (1973), in which Mr Saxon, an actual real-life black belt, co-starred with the legendary Bruce Lee!
In this show we take a look at one of the most infamous rubbish films of all time Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978). Is this a terrible movie made by morons or actually an ahead-of-its-time spoof?
In the next of our stay in, stay safe comedy podcasts, we look at the sixth and final episode of The Black Adder - the tragic tale of the Black Seal! The most cunning plan and the most evil men in England plot to take the crown... Who will survive, and what will be left of them?
It's cult movie time again, and this time we are looking at one of the best horror comedies of recent years - What We Do in the Shadows a mockumentary created by Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement exploring the shows world of the undead in present day New Zealand!
In the fifth of our stay in, stay safe comedy specials, strange omens and dark forces are abroad in the kingdom of The Black Adder , and the dreaded Witchsmeller Pursuivant cometh! Folk horror vibes, bloody milk and dire warnings about the fruit of the carrot tree ensue... Plus watch out for a cameo from Satan himself!
In the fourth of our stay in, stay safe comedy specials, we voyage back in time to watch The Black Adder - Born to be King! It's St. Leonard's Day and cunning plans and woeful variety acts ensue...
It's crap film time again, and this time we have gone for one of the worst movies of all-time - Robot Monster from 1953! Shot in four days and in 3D, see an incredible alien invader, the Ro-Man - which looks suspiciously like a gorilla in a space helmet - fart about with a bubble machine while pestering the last surviving humans on earth!
As we enjoyed it so much last time, we pay tribute again to the late great Tim Brooke-Taylor, with another two of our favourite episodes of classic 1970s comedy series, The Goodies! In this episode we are watching are Kung Fu Capers from Series 7 and Saturday Night Grease from Series 8!
We are back in cult film territory and back to the films of Tim Burton too - this time for his 1990s SF comedy Mars Attacks ! Ack! Ack! Ack!
In the third of our stay in, stay safe comedy specials, we voyage back in time to watch The Black Adder - The Archbishop ! Has the King finally found a use for his other son... you know, the slimy one?
Once again we are going back to the 1980s for a classic movie! This time is the celebrated horror comedy Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder!
As a tribute to the late great Tim Brooke-Taylor, we celebrate his life and works with a rewatch of two of our favourite episodes of classic 1970s comedy series, The Goodies . The episodes we are watching are Lighthouse Keeping Loonies and the awarding winning Kitten Kong!
It's crap film time again, and we embark on our most gruelling challenge yet - Roland Emmerich's disaster (in every sense of the word)movie 2012 which confusing came out in 2009. Very strong language and pizza recipes ensue...
For a little Easter extra surprise, we couldn't resist going back to another movie from the late great Stuart Gordon. And we picked that dream teaming of Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, HP Lovecraft and two dozen gallons of blood - yes, it's the splatastic Reanimator (1985)!
We return to the world of glorious television for another episode of some vintage Blackadder! In the second ever episode of this classic comedy, the Black Adder finds himself betrothed to be married...
Our cult movie is From Beyond (1986) - a classic adaptation of a story by HP Lovecraft from the late great Stuart Gordon. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and Ken Foree, cult 1980s horror doesn't get any better than this!
In the first of our staying in comedy shows, we look at the very first episode of The Black Adder - The Foretelling!
In this show we are revisiting one of the early classics of cinema, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920). Starring Conrad Veidt, this silent German Expressionist masterpiece is a genuine piece of movie history and has just celebrated its one hundredth birthday!
To celebrate that special day of the year when everyone pretends to Irish and drinks too much, we are watching cult classic Leprechaun starring the legendary Warwick Davis and a pre- Friends Jennifer Aniston!
It's the dreaded crap movie point of our podcast cycle, and in this episode we are delving into the murky world of 1980s slashers and one of the worst outings for Mr Jason Voorhees esq. Yes, it is the infamous Friday 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in which the iconic killer visits New York in circumstances that beggar belief!
It's cult film time again, and this time we are back to the 1980s for a slice of dystopian sci-fi satire! Yes it's Brazil, the strange retro-future nightmare from the mind of Terry Gilliam
It's Valentine's Day and so we thought we'd go for something from the heart... Well, The Hellbound Heart at any rate! Yes, in this massively inappropriate special, we revisit classic British horror movie, Hellraiser , created by the great Clive Barker. Uncle Frank gets a puzzle box, Cenobites ensue...
Once again we return to Jim Henson's The Storyteller, this time for the final story from the fireside, the tale of The Heartless Giant
In this special podcast we pay tribute to the late great Terry Jones with a look back at Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)
It's classic film time again, and in this show we set sail with one of the greatest heroes of them all! We accompany the legendary Sinbad on a fantastic adventure masterminded by of the true geniuses of cinema, Ray Harryhausen!
