This week we return to Woodsboro to take on the latest person(s) to don the Ghostface attire and play a new game of our own. Scream (also known as Scream 5) is a 2022 American slasher film from Radio Silence. It is the fifth installment in the Scream franchise and though billed as a relaunch of the series; the film is a direct sequel to Scream 4 and is the first film in the series to not be directed by Wes Craven, following his death in 2015. The film stars Melissa Barrera, Mikey Madison, Jenna ...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 30 min
This week we look at a film that most of you probably haven’t seen, and if you haven’t watched the Disney+ limited series “Pam and Tommy” may have never even heard of. Barb Wire is a 1996 American superhero film based on the Dark Horse comic book of the same name. The film is a loose remake of Casablanca and stars Pamela Anderson in the titular role as a nightclub owner who moonlights as a mercenary in one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire (V...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr
With the recent release of its 2022 sequel on Netflix, we thought it was time we looked at the often referenced horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, directed by Tobe Hooper, and see what we can do to survive it.Loosely based on the crimes of real-life serial killer Ed Gein, it tells the story of a group of young friends who discover a family of crazed, murderous outcasts living in rural Texas. As the group is picked off one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), the...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 36 min
This week we break free from the simulation, go to war with the machines, try to appease Roko's Basilisk, and have a very Matrix Christmas. INFO HAZARD WARNING: This episode may doom you to an eternity of torture. The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. It depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality k...
Dec 25, 2021•1 hr 41 min
This week, after losing all our money trying to bring back cassette tapes, we wind up in debt and are forced to play the Squid Game. If you want to skip the bunker keeping, go to 00:16:30 Major plot spoilers from 00:50:40 Squid Game is a South Korean survival series created by Hwang Dong-hyuk for Netflix. The series revolves around a contest where 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial debt, risk their lives to play a series of deadly children's games for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billio...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Halloween may be over, but Spookvember isn't. And so this week we're returning to a cabin in the woods. The Cabin in the Woods is a 2011 American horror comedy film directed by Drew Goddard and written by Joss Whedon and Goddard. The film stars Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, and Bradley Whitford. The plot follows a group of college students who retreat to a remote forest cabin where they fall victim to backwoods zombies while techn...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 31 min
This week, another deadly foe interrupts our annual Halloween picnic.The Evil Dead is a 1981 American horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, and starring Bruce Campbell. The film focuses on five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a remote wooded area. After they find an audiotape that, when played, releases a legion of demons and spirits, four members of the group suffer from demonic possession, forcing the fifth member, Ash Williams (Campbell), to survive an onslaught ...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 22 min
This week we have an appointment to keep... with The Wicker Man. The Wicker Man is a 1973 cult British horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, and Christopher Lee. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, centers on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 13 min
This week we Live Die Repeat with one of the best science fiction/action movies of the last decade: Edge of Tomorrow starring the beautiful, smart, funny, and extraordinarily talented Emily Blunt... and some other guy. He isn’t really important. Based on the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and released in 2014, the film was considered a failure at the box office, but thanks to the positive critical response and word-of-mouth became a hit on home release and streaming. S...
Oct 09, 2021•1 hr 28 min
This week, in the wake of a deadly pandemic, we're called upon in our dreams, to come to Hemingford Home and stand alongside Mother Abagail in the ultimate battle between good and evil. The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by Stephen King and first published in 1978. It was recently adapted by Josh Boone as a CBS All Access miniseries but has made its way to TV previously in the 1990s. The novel has received critical acclaim and is regarded as one of King's best works. It h...
Jul 04, 2021•2 hr 1 min
This week, if you thought Covid-19 was bad, then hold on to your butts, cause we're trapped in the Wildfire facility deep under the Nevada desert and going up against a deadly space virus known as The Andromeda Strain. The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by legendary filmmaker Robert Wise and based on Michael Crichton's debut novel of the same name. An underrated sci-fi classic, the film paved the way for other viral disaster movies like Outbreak and Contagion a...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 47 min
This week we got to pull off a heist during another zombie apocalypse and go to battle with the Army of the Dead. Army of the Dead is a 2021 Netflix Orignal zombie film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Matthias Schweighöfer, Tig Notaro, and many others. It follows a group of mercenaries who plan a Las Vegas casino heist amid a zombie apocalypse. Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists Fin...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 30 min
This week, we are forced to abandon our planned Mighty Joe Young episode after a mysterious package shows up in the bunker from the infamous Jigsaw Killer. .... Oh yes, there will be blood. SAW is a 2004 American/Australian horror movie created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell and stars Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, and Tobin Bell (as Jigsaw). The story revolves around a serial killer (yes, he's a killer) who tests his victims by putting them through deadly "games" where they must inflict g...
Jun 01, 2021•1 hr 40 min
A little late because of some technical issue but here it is, the Apetober finale in which we go in search of Bigfoot. Please head over to https://www.myrodecast.com/listen/entry/3491 and vote for us in the MyRodeCast competition. every vote helps. Your vote really counts. Check out all our other links here: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 20, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Apetober continues and doesn't end until we say it ends. This week, it's east versus west, as the king of the monsters and the eighth wonder of the world go head-to-head in a battle for the ages. Meanwhile, we're caught up in an unnecessary b-plot that is of little consequence to the final result. Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 25 min
This week, to celebrate the release of Godzilla VS King, and Apetober itself (yes, we're making that a thing). We're climbing aboard the S.S. Venture, setting sail for Skull Island, and coming face to face with the eighth wonder of the world. King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code monster movie directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. It stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot, and features groundbreaking stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien. King Kong opene...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 47 min
An unaired episode of Disaster Artists to keep you occupied. Recorded in 2017 and for reasons explained in the intro, locked away in the vault until now. In it, we are joined by friend-of-the-show Darren to discuss the ramifications of a global nuclear war (and an accidental bombing) on Ireland. Could we survive the immediate disaster? Could we rebuild the country? And if the controls of the nukes fell into our laps, what County would we blow out of it?Check out https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukema...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 37 min
A new year means new fears. So today we look at some works of fiction from decades past, set in a Post-Apocalyptic or Dystopian 2001. Be it the cybernetic future of Johnny Mnemonic, the post-plague world of Jeremiah, or any of the other grim visions of 2021. With the way last year went, there's a good chance one of these will come true. Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/Disaster...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 25 min
This Christmas we bring you our most festive episode yet. That's right, the harrowing tale of survival cannibalism on the Andes Mountains made famous in the 1993 film Alive! Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. The film was directed by Frank Marshall, and stars John Malko...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 45 min
We're back in an apocalyptic world this week with the 2006 film Children of Men, based on the novel of the same name by P. D. James and directed by four-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón. The film takes place in 2027, after two decades of human infertility has left society on the brink of collapse, and stars Clive Owen as a cynical bureaucrat tasked with transporting a young pregnant woman across the border, and away from the militant groups who want to use her and her unborn child for th...
Dec 12, 2020•1 hr 25 min
This week, in order to save the Avatar franchise, James Cameron is sending us back to the Mariana Trench to take care of a little megalodon problem. But it's okay, we brought some cockney muscle to help. The Meg is a 2018 science fiction/action film loosely based on the 1997 book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten. The film stars Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, and Ruby Rose. It follows a group of scientists who encounter a 75-foot-long megalodon shark while on a rescue mission...
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr 28 min
It's Halloween night and we haven't heard a dog bark or a car pass by since we got here. it's just us and the Strangers. The Strangers is a 2008 American horror film starring Liv Tyler about a couple who become the target of a sadistic group of masked strangers who infiltrate their holiday home. The screenplay was inspired by two real-life events and is considered by many to be the definitive "Home Invasion" movie. Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at www.patreon.com./Disas...
Oct 31, 2020•1 hr 50 min
This week we intervene in the grim reaper's design, regale you with some creepy true stories of people who tried to cheat him but couldn't, and learn that sometimes to defeat death, one must become death. Continuing our tradition of testing our survival skills in some classic (and not so classic) horror films during the Halloween season, it's the 2000 supernatural horror, Final Destination. Support the Show & get access to all-new exclusive episodes at www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists Find u...
Oct 19, 2020•1 hr 29 min
This week we're heading down into true Lovecraft country, the underwater abyss where eldritch abominations await. Underwater is a 2020 film starring Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, and T. J. Miller as members of an oceanic researcher crew trying to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their facility at The Mariana Trench. The film takes influence from classic sci-fis such as Alien and The Thing; and the works of H. P. Lovecraft, chiefly his most famous short story, The Call of...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 18 min
In this episode, Gordon Rochford from Those Conspiracy Guys joins the podcast to talk about the 2004 film, The Butterfly Effect; the moral and philosophical quandaries of time travel, and the reality of chaos theory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 23, 2020•2 hr 48 min
Come with us on a most excellent adventure to record the podcast that unites the world. With the release of Bill & Ted Face the Music, we thought it was about time we looked at the 80s classic that spawned a generation of copy cats and introduced the world to Keanu Reeves. Can we survive a journey through the circuits of time? What figures from history would we bring back to be guests on the podcast? And how would they feel about life in 2020? Support the Show & get access to all-new exc...
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Imagine a world where a small group of humans have seemingly transformed into entirely new beings? Should they be feared? Or are they simply just passing another step on the ladder of evolution? This week, we try to solve The Mutant Problem. Support the Show & get access to all-new exclusive episodes at www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 11, 2020•1 hr 48 min
In a world on the brink of destruction, one podcast will face the apocalypse so you don't have to...Find more at www.disasterartistspodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 30, 2020•2 min
Just an update/Apocalypse Watch episode recorded remotely to let you know where we are and what's been going on. Topics include The Last of Us Part 2, Coronavirus, The 2020 Protests, Gardening, and whether we are in any rush to get back to the pub. Please vote for us in the 2020 My Rode Cast Competition and help improve the show: https://www.myrodecast.com/listen/entry/2092 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 27, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Sandramania is running wild! This week, we're not just on lockdown, we've got to keep our eyes shut. Can we survive in a world where even opening our eyes means certain death? Probably not, but we'll sure as hell try.Bird Box is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film starring the legendary Sandra Bullock. In it, a mysterious force decimates the population and only one thing is certain -- if you see it, you die. The survivors must now avoid coming face to face with an entity that pushes it'...
May 05, 2020•1 hr 44 min
