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Episodes

Double Dragon is Dumb Fun! - Talking About Tapes (#184)

Tony and JoeyC team up to talk about Double Dragon! The video game movie from the 90s that isn't as good as Mortal Kombat, as funny as Street Fighter, or as memorable as Super Mario Bros. It is full of dumb fun though! In post-apocalyptic California, brothers Billy Lee (Scott Wolf) and Jimmy (Mark Decascos) are highly trained martial artists living in the ravaged city of New Angeles. The pair have been trained by Satori (Julia Nickson), who took them in after their parents died. When Satori find...

Nov 22, 202253 min

How A Nightmare on Elm Street Changed The Slasher Genre! - Talking About Tapes (#183)

Click here https://helixsleep.com/hackthemovies for up to $200 off your Helix Sleep mattress plus two free pillows! Free shipping within the US! #helixsleep It's time to finally dive into the Nightmare series! What better way to start than with the original Wes Craven classic. Johanna and Jess join Tony as they talk about how A Nightmare on Elm Street changed slasher movies forever! In Wes Craven's classic slasher film, several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a...

Nov 15, 20221 hr 19 min

The Marvel Horror Movie You Forgot About! - Hack The Movies (#182)

Marvel is dipping its toes into the horror genre lately. It's not the first time though! Of course they did Blade before but they actually put out a full on monster creature feature in the mid 2000's. Tony and Mint Salad from @ASE Presents: get together to talk about this forgotton horror classic.

Nov 08, 20221 hr 4 min

2022 Horror Movie Round Up - Hack The Movies LIVE (#180)

Tony and Johanna wrap up spooky season talking about some horror films that have come out this year! Movies discussed in this video: Don't Worry Darling V/H/S 99 Fall Watcher Barbarian X The Black Phone They/Them Hocus Pocus 2

Oct 29, 20221 hr 13 minEp. 180

Did We Hate Halloween Ends? - Hack The Movies (#179)

Guys, try BlueChew for FREE and Have Better Sex Today! Promo code: HACK https://www.get.bluechew.com/hack Halloween Ends is here. The internet has determined that it is the worst Halloween movie since whatever the last one was. Others are saying its great and will one day be a "classic" like Halloween III. Where will Tony and Crystal land on this debate? Watch and find out! Four years after her last encounter with masked killer Michael Myers, Laurie Strode is living with her granddaughter and tr...

Oct 25, 20221 hr 54 minEp. 179

Did We Hate The Munsters? - Hack The Movies (#177)

Tony, Casey, and Sean from @Movie Dumpster get together to talk about the extremely panned Munsters reboot by Rob Zombie. Did we hate it? Do we actually like it? Watch and find out! Lily is a typical 150-year-old lovelorn vampire who's looking for the man of her nightmares -- until she lays her eyes on Herman, a 7-foot-tall green experiment with a heart of gold. It's love at first shock as these two ghouls fall fangs over feet for each other in a Transylvanian romance. Unfortunately, it's not al...

Oct 11, 20221 hr 15 min

What is The Best Halloween 2? - Hack The Movies (#176)

What is the best second Halloween movie? Is it Halloween II which takes place on the same night as the first film and has many of the cast and crew from the original return? Could it be Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 which is a sequel to his remake. Perhaps it is Halloween 2018 which has an older Laure Strode taking on Michael Myers again 40 years later? This is what the Movie Dumpster guys and I will try to decide in this episode!

Oct 04, 20221 hr 30 min

What is The Best Red Dragon Adaptation - Hack The Movies (#175)

One book. Three movies. What is the best adaptation of Thomas Harris' Red Dragon? The options are Manhunter directed by Michael Mann, Red Dragon directed by Brett Ratner, or the second half of the Hannibal TV show's third season? Watch and find out! Red Dragon is a psychological horror novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. The plot follows former FBI profiler Will Graham, who comes out of retirement to find and apprehend an enigmatic serial killer nicknamed "the Tooth ...

Sep 27, 20221 hr 6 min

Fright Night is A Great Horror Comedy - Talking About Tapes (#174)

Mr. Lobo and Ryan Hickey sabotage Tony's show for his birthday and review their favorite movie. Its apparently Tony's favorite movie now. See what they have to say about this original horror comedy! A teenager discovers that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire, so he turns to an actor in a television horror show for help dealing with the undead.

Sep 20, 20221 hr 38 min

Is Darkness Falls A Modern Cult Classic? - Talking About Tapes (#173)

Darkness Falls is a film whose production is more interesting than the final project. The whole movie was being rewritten and reshot while it was being made. They even changed the title and the whole look of the monster super late which lead to funny situation with McFarlane toys. Despite all of this some people consider it a modern cult classic. People like johanna and Kira. Darkness Falls is a 2003 supernatural horror film written by Joe Harris and John Fasano, and directed by Jonathan Liebesm...

Sep 13, 20221 hr 15 min

The Faculty is Scream Meets The Thing - Talking About Tapes (#172)

Guys, try BlueChew for FREE and Have Better Sex Today! Promo code: HACK https://www.get.bluechew.com/hack It's back to school season lets go back and visit the alien invasion classic, The Faculty! Official JoeyC from Screen Rant joins me to talk about this cult classic by Robert Rodriguez. Imagine Scream if it was mixed with The Thing or Aliens. The result is a really fun time! The Faculty is a 1998 American science fiction horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Kevin Williamson...

Sep 06, 20221 hr 8 min

Is Final Destination A Secret X-Files Movie? - Talking About Tapes (#171)

Tony, Johanna, and for the first time editor Jessica get together to talk about the first Final Destination movie and how it started out as a spec script for an X-Files episode and went on to be a huge film franchise! Alex Browning is among a group of high school students readying themselves for a trip to Europe. When he suddenly has a premonition their airplane will crash, he screams to warn the others but instead he is thrown off of the plane along others, but the plane actually crashes after ...

Aug 30, 20221 hr 9 min

Underrated Animated Batman Movies - Hack The Movies (#170)

Tony, Crystal, and Frank team up for another Batman themed episode! Everyone knows Mask of The Phantasm is one of, if not the best Batman movie ever. We decided to shed some light on some other great Batman movies that we think deserve a closer look. We each picked 2 movies and mention some runner ups. Let us know if you agree with us and what you would choose as underrated.

Aug 23, 20221 hr 9 min

What is the Worst Predator Movie? - Hack The Movies (#169)

Install Raid for Free ✅ IOS/ANDROID/PC: https://clcr.me/HackTheMovies and get a special starter pack 💥 Available only for the next 30 days Tony, Tom, and Casey reunite to to talk about Prey. Why stop there though? Why not talk about ALL the Predator sequels? We go through the whole franchise including the AVP movies. I've actually never reviewed Aliens vs Predator Requiem so this is a first! We dive deep into Prey and then rank the series and pick what we think is the worst Predator movie! A sk...

Aug 16, 20221 hr 43 min

The Rundown is The Most Underrated Action Movie - Talking About Tapes (#168)

After I teased it on an old episode of Rental Reviews I FINALLY come around to reviewing The Rundown aka Welcome to the Jungle. I am joined by Tom as we revisit this cult classic which may very well be the most underrated action movie ever made! Beck (The Rock) is a tight-lipped bounty hunter who doesn't like to use a gun and accepts any job without asking questions. When Beck's employer, Walker (William Lucking), sends him to the Amazon to locate Walker's cocky son, Travis (Seann William Scott)...

Aug 09, 20221 hr 11 min

How Blade Reinvented The Character - Talking About Tapes (#167)

Did you know who Blade was before 1998? Maybe you saw him in the Spider-Man cartoon. You might have seen him show up in some comics too. The Blade movie not only reinvented the character but it made him a household name. Join us as we go through this Marvel classic and talk about how Wesley Snipes made the definitive Blade character. A half-mortal, half-immortal is out to avenge his mother's death and rid the world of vampires. The modern-day technologically advanced vampires he is going after a...

Aug 02, 20221 hr 37 min

What Are The Best and Worst Thor Movies? - Hack The Movies (#166)

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Jul 26, 20221 hr 39 min

Is The Mummy Returns A Good Sequel? - Talking About Tapes (#165)

Tony invites Kira back to the show and they discuss the divisive sequel to The Mummy from 1999. they break down the hit film The Mummy Returns and try to decide if it is a good film or terrible. We also toy with the idea of coming back to review The Scorpion King franchise. The evil mummy Imhotep returns to wreak havoc as he resumes his relentless search for power and immortality. To make matters worse, another ancient evil has been unleashed, even more dangerous than Imhotep. Only the heroic Ri...

Jul 19, 20221 hr 15 min

What is the Worst Tremors Movie? - Hack The Movies (#164)

The first 1,000 people to use my link to sign up will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/hackthemovies07221 Tony and the guys from Movie Dumpster team up to dive into Tremors and all its direct to video sequels. After binge watching the films they finally decide one which ones they think are the BEST and which one is the WORST!

Jul 12, 20221 hr 29 min

Why Ang Lee's Hulk is Underrated - Talking about Tapes (#163)

She-Hulk is on it's way so Tony and @Klayton Fioriti got together to talk about what was once considered to be the worst superhero film ever. Some even thought it was the worst movie ever! We are here to let you know that Ang Lee's Hulk is actually underrated and is actually better than most modern superhero films! Eric Bana ("Black Hawk Down") stars as scientist Bruce Banner, whose inner demons transform him in the aftermath of a catastrophic experiment; Jennifer Connelly portrays Betty Ross, w...

Jul 05, 20221 hr 26 min

Is "The Thing" John Carpenter's Best Movie? - Hack The Movies (#162)

It is the 40th Anniversary of The Thing this month. To celebrate we thought it would be fun to do an episode where we look at John Carpenters filmography. Will we agree with the common consensus that The Thing is the best film or will we pick one of his others? Watch to find out!

Jun 28, 20221 hr 9 min

What is The BEST Jurassic Park Sequel? - Hack The Movies (#161)

Now that Jurassic World Dominion is out Tony and Jordan (from Geek Anything) discuss all 5 Jurassic Park sequels and try to decide what is the best one. Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures.

Jun 21, 20221 hr 44 min

The Worst Director's Cuts We Have Seen! - Hack The Movies (#160)

Protect yourself from America's fastest-growing crime. Try 14 days for free: https://aura.com/HackTheMovies Thank you Aura for sponsoring this video. Director's cuts, Extended Cuts, or Special editions are sometime the best way to view a movie. It allows you to see the story they way they wanted it told before they compromised. Most times they're great. In the case of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 20th anniversary edition an alternate cut can completely damage and ruin a movie. We talk about this f...

Jun 14, 20221 hr 4 min

Did Peter Jackson's King Kong Try Too Hard? - Hack The Movies (#159)

Did Peter Jackson try too hard with his King Kong movie? Is his Director's cut worse than the theatrical cut? Klayton Fioriti (also host of Dragoncurve ) Joins me to answer this question about a movie we love. Peter Jackson's expansive remake of the 1933 classic follows director Carl Denham (Jack Black) and his crew on a journey from New York City to the ominous Skull Island to film a new movie. Accompanying him are playwright Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) and actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), wh...

Jun 07, 20221 hr 32 min

How Cuban is Scarface? - Talking About Tapes (#158)

How Cuban is Scarface? Tony invited Cuban American Royce Lopez on the show to discuss this topic. Everything from the way they talk and dress in the film will be discussed. We’ll also talk about the plot of the movie and see if there are any inaccuracies there. After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the bigges...

Jun 03, 20221 hr 25 min

Predator Is The Manliest Movie Ever Made - Talking About tapes (#157)

Is Predator the manliest movie ever made? Yes it is! Tom and Casey join Tony from Hack The Movies to talk about this classic film about the manliest men from earth fighting the ultimate manhunter from space. See what they have to say about this infinitely quotable sci-fi/action classic! Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a soldier of fortune, is hired by the U.S. government to secretly rescue a group of politicians trapped in Guatemala. But when Dutch and his team, which includes weapons expert Blai...

May 31, 20221 hr 18 min

How Alien 3 Got Fixed - Hack The Movies (#156)

Tony, Johanna, and Joe from Movie Dumpster get together for the long awaited review of Alien 3's Assembly Cut! Released in 2003 the cut inserts important characters moments and entire sequences that were deleted. It even has a few alternate versions of scenes. Join us as we talk about all the ways it fixed Alien 3!

May 27, 20221 hr 16 min

Why The Alien 3 Theatrical Cut Failed! - Talking About Tapes (#155)

At long last the Alien 3 review is here. This is only part 1! In this video me and my many guests will go over the theatrical cut of the film and try to pinpoint the reasons it failed to please fans and audiences in 1992. Why do you think this failed? Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor when she crash lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Once again, Ripley must face skepticism and the alien as it hunts down ...

May 24, 20221 hr 12 min
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