Movie Meltdown - Episode 211 Santa Sangre . Is it the story of a young boy working in the circus? Is it a poignant drama about a slightly overbearing mother? Is it a horror story about a crazy killer? Is it a movie about a super hero? Or a super villain? Or both? Or maybe neither?? Hell, whatever it is... this week we discuss the specifics of Santa Sangre , about Alejandro Jodorowsky as a filmmaker and surrealist cinema as a whole. And as we try to figure out exactly what we think of Wes Anderso...
Jan 12, 2013•1 hr 46 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 210 Are you ever really ready for "Sleepaway Camp"? NO... the answer is no. Never. You can never truly be prepared for the horror that awaits you. And once you have seen "it"... you can never unsee it! And someone in the Meltdown Gang has NEVER seen this movie before, and this week we unleash it on them!! This... is the horrorific result! (Including a LIVE recording of their reaction to the finale!!) Plus among our own horrors... we also feature a One from the Vaults ses...
Jan 05, 2013•1 hr 30 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 209 It's been a while since we checked in with our beloved Misty and Jay, so this week we return to The Bastion of Awesomeness to hang out and talk about... well, a little of everything. As we bask in the glow of the glittery squirrel, we also discuss... a shark quadruple feature, The Devil's Carnival, Zooey Deschanel, I just love her weird little monkey-face, Amish people are full of holes, The Complication, The Hole, Red Bank, Thora Birch, Warm Bodies, ninja sharks, Ja...
Dec 29, 2012•1 hr 30 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 208 This week our holiday/Lifeday celebration rages on, and one of the gang has faith that: " We can save this special... I sense the good in it. " That is arguable, but at least we can look forward to watching the Star Wars cartoon AND the first canonical appearance of Boba Fett! And then as we imagine the Holiday Special can't get more tedious, we also mention... hairy Bea Arthur, Triumph the insult comic dog, a Christmas tree-shaped hole, the Scarface-home of the wook...
Dec 22, 2012•1 hr 32 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 207 This holiday season, we embark upon the most frightening journey EVER!! We sit down to watch The Star Wars Holiday Special ... or at least attempt to make it through the entire thing. It turns out to be one of the greatest challenges of our lives. But not before we take a moment to acknowledge one of the creepiest of holiday songs. Plus a certain member of the gang, explains how Frosty the Snowman and Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Hamlet are all basically the sa...
Dec 15, 2012•1 hr 38 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 206 Recently, as we sat down to discuss a ridiculous Bigfoot movie, we veered off into a different area. One of personal stories and weird circumstances. Of strange things happening not on the big screen, but in the real world. The session was so interested, that we decided that it needed to stand on it's own. As a subsection of our "Tales from the Cryptids" series. A reality-based tangent that we call... "Bigfoot: Myths and Legends". Hopefully you'll find it as engaging...
Dec 07, 2012•1 hr 10 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 205 This week starts off a little different, as we attempt to let someone else lead the introduction. Bear with us, as we quickly get past that and move on into some really interesting discussions. Including new movies, the future of retro and what is it that gives each decade it's own look, feel and personality. And just what killed Fred?!? We'll find out in an amazing story, involving old caves, a flour sifter, the mall, pollutants, twigs, dioramas, asbestos and a box ...
Nov 30, 2012•1 hr 17 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 204 This week the caffeinated movie geeks are back! And they get so hopped up on coffee they start gyrating around and taking their clothes off! Boy, you are really gonna see a lot... oh wait, this is an audio podcast huh?? Oh well, I guess we better just stick to talking in front of the microphones. So instead we spin our vocal tassels with a round of geek activities that at one point reveals "The Birth of Burlesque". Well, sort of. And with a peppering of big-breasted ...
Nov 24, 2012•1 hr 8 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 203 Our own little Movie Meltdown dysfunctional family gets together for Thanksgiving, in this holiday "special". After we eat a conglomeration of semi-traditional foods (including The Bride 's maid of honor... Tofurkzilla!), we sit down to discuss the horrific turkey-themed movie " Blood Freak ". And as we are all creeped out by "The Waddle-thing", we also discuss... macaroni and cheese casserole, vampire turkey, being dressed as crazy clowns, KFC bowls on steroids, Bag...
Nov 16, 2012•1 hr 42 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 202 After years of threats and planning... "Movie Meltdown" has put together their first LIVE event! For one night "Nancy's Bagel Grounds" became "Nancy's Italian Bistro" as Movie Meltdown unleashed upon the world - THE YETI SPAGHETTI SHOW! Listen as we give you a condensed version of all the spectacle and ridiculousness that occured that evening. Including spaghetti (obviously) as well as an amazing Yeti ice sculpture, live music, Yeti-cakes for dessert, a classic carto...
Nov 09, 2012•1 hr 30 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 201 So we've featured many interviews with actors and filmmakers over the years, but this week we change things up a little as WE ourselves are interviewed. We welcome Emily from "The Courier Journal" who asks us to try to explain, just what "Movie Meltdown" is exactly. Then we fall right back into our usual discussion mode as we talk about this week's Sofa Theater feature "The Lie". Directed by Joshua Leonard, and starring Joshua and our beloved (adopted cast member) Je...
Nov 02, 2012•1 hr 52 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 200 In this our GIANT 200th episode, we talk to none other then actor Richard Kiel! Yes, most of the world remembers him as Jaws from the James Bond movies. But he's had a rich career filled with television work from "The Twilight Zone" to "Gilligan's Island". From "Gunsmoke" to "The Monkees". Not to mention his massive list of movie credits that include: "The Longest Yard", "Silver Streak", "Pale Rider", "Happy Gilmore", "Cannonball Run 2", "Force 10 from Navarone" and ...
Oct 23, 2012•1 hr 34 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 199 Recorded "live" from our favorite local movie theater, we hear spooky stories from the theater's past. Including creepy ghost kids, slamming doors and the unsettling Legend of Crawling Joe!! And as we are charging up our glow-in-the-dark skeleton, we also mention... hearing footsteps, a Frankenstein crazy person, a whore's bath, Beetlejuice, sounded like a car hit the wall, we just walked on a guy, make the room brighter, Liam Neeson, Lanford Wilson, a new place goin...
Oct 19, 2012•56 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 198 This week we continue our Halloween festivities, by heading out on a creepy fieldtrip to the cemetery! That's right, we come to you "live" from the grave of horror and exploitation director William Girdler. The infamous filmmaker is buried right here in our backyard (so to speak), and we pay tribute to him this week by not only paying our respects at his grave, but by also by discussing one of his films as this week's Sofa Theater feature. So join as as we talk about...
Oct 18, 2012•1 hr 22 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 197 This week we kick off our Halloween festivities... and we do it "live" from ScareFest ! Where we not only discuss one of our favorite topics - Halloween-themed foods, but we also talk to "Candyman" himself Tony Todd! As well as Nicholas Vince star of "Hellraiser" 1 and 2, "Nightbreed" and author of the book What Monsters Do . Plus we have a One from the Vaults memory from Jonanthan Breck (aka The Creeper) as we delve into this week's Sofa Theater feature: "Jeepers Cr...
Oct 13, 2012•1 hr 39 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 196 This episode marks the triumphant return of Movie Meltdown's Bigfoot series!! We welcome not one but two Bigfoot experts, or "observers", to discuss the phenomenon that is - BIGFOOT! We start off with an overview of the Bigfoot film craze, starting with "The Legend of Boggy Creek" and look at what has become the sometimes crazy community of Bigfoot enthusiasts that has sprung up in the real world. Then after that intelligent observation of a specific slice of society...
Oct 05, 2012•1 hr 41 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 195 This week, we are joined by our special guest co-host Jay Mohr. Jay has been acting for years, starring in movies from Cameron Crowe's "Jerry Maguire" to Clint Eastwood's "Hereafter". He was a member of the "Saturday Night Live" cast as well as the creator of NBC's "Last Comic Standing". Not to mention his lengthy stand-up comedy career and hosting his own podcast "Mohr Stories". And this week Jay sits in for our "Sofa Theater" feature, as we discuss Spike Lee's "Do ...
Sep 28, 2012•1 hr 28 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 194 This week we feature special guest - comedian, actor, writer, producer... Margaret Cho. Margaret is one of the most successful stand-up comics working today, starting back when she was just a teenager. So we discuss not only her introduction to the world of stand-up comedy, but also how she was quickly thrust into acting and how she ended up in unconventional projects like the cult film "The Doom Generation", John Woo's big budget action extravaganza "Face-Off" and t...
Sep 21, 2012•41 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 193 This week we hit the road and head up to one of those convention-type things. And while we're there we talk to The Chiodo Brothers! The guys who not only brought us "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", but over the years have also worked on "Vincent", "The Simpsons", "Team America: World Police", "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", "Critters", and many more projects! Then we talk to Jenette Goldstein, otherwise known as Vasquez from "Aliens"! With Jenette we discuss assuming the...
Sep 14, 2012•1 hr 40 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 192 Sure the zombie apocalypse is upon us... but it's still business as usual here at "Movie Meltdown"! Recorded "live" from the middle of the 8th Annual "Louisville Zombie Attack", we wander the streets with droves of the undead and somehow still manage to deliver our usual movie geek banter. This event was one of the first of it's kind and has since become one of the largest gatherings of zombies in the country. Last year alone they unleashed between 8000 - 9000 zombie...
Sep 06, 2012•1 hr 33 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 191 If you thought we got nostalgic in the past - just wait 'til you hear this episode! Basically, anyone who ever grew up loving movies needs to hear this week's show. As we return to our series The Grind , we cover the topic... movies that touched us in a very special way. Ok wait, not like that! More or less what we discuss is: the first movie that just clicked with us and because of that viewing, we saw movies differently. Or... what made us fall in love with the who...
Aug 31, 2012•1 hr 43 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 190 All right kids... put on your space helmets, because we are about to blastoff with Luigi Cozzi's science fiction "classic" - STARCRASH! Epic outer space action ensues as we indulge in all the stellar special effects and fine acting that 1978 Italy had to offer! Plus we feature a " One from the Vaults " memory from the (Stella) Star of the movie - Caroline Munro herself! Hear what Caroline thinks is a great "word" to describe this film. And what she first though when ...
Aug 24, 2012•1 hr 22 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 189 This week we discuss hobos and what we see out the window... oh yeah, and movies. Speaking of segways, we also mention... the Sight & Sound Top Ten poll, paper or plastic?, Lizzy Caplan, drugged-up movie reviews, show me the way to go home, Hitchcock, how beautiful the late 70's were, Oddities, talking like Sean Connery, Monster Fighters, Punch Drunk Love, reading reviews, BASEketball, Vertigo, Samurai Night Fever, Lean on Me, Jaws, Best Little Whorehouse in Texa...
Aug 17, 2012•1 hr 37 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 188 Unlock the cage and let loose the beast that we know as Tom Hardy! Yes, we are back this week with not-so-special guest (according to Scooter) co-hosts director Scooter Downey and actress Rose Sirna !! As they sit in for this week’s Sofa Theater feature: Bronson . Both the star Tom Hardy and director Nicolas Winding Refn have gone on these days to more mainstream success. So we take a look at their work just before they broke through, with this story about Britain's ...
Aug 10, 2012•1 hr 22 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 187 After a couple of months of jonesin’ for both coffee and our usual brand of movie geek conversation, we return to the coffee shop for a full-fledged episode of The Caffeinated Movie Geek! WITH special guest co-hosts director Scooter Downey and actress Rose Sirna!!And while reminiscing over some favorite VHS memories, we eventually discuss... Batman Returns, John Vernon, Friends with Kids, setting a Zoomba world record, The Professional, Step in Time, a mermaid that t...
Aug 03, 2012•1 hr 33 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 186 This episode is not for the weak or faint-hearted (and also probably not a good starter episode). This week we culminate all of the convention and film fest trips of the last two months with one full episode of crazy convention talk. That's right, "live" insanity from the floor of Fright Night/FandomFest . With returning special guest co-hosts Rose Sirna and Scooter Downey . Plus we feature an interview with Kristina Klebe from “ Rob Zombie’s Halloween ” and director...
Jul 28, 2012•1 hr 50 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 185 Recorded "live" at Days of the Dead in Indianapolis, this week we welcome special guest co-host Sean Whalen ! An accomplished actor, Sean has been in many films over the years from Twister to Waterworld to the upcoming Hatchet 3 . But horror fans probably know him best at the lovable Roach from Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs . We talk about Sean’s career and he sits in for this week's Sofa Theater feature: Spider-Man . In the wake of the recent Spider-Man h...
Jul 21, 2012•1 hr 14 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 184 This week we are “live” at Fright Night Film Fest / FandomFest (and Christine's bedroom), as we sit down with actress, writer, director Christine Elise McCarthy and talk about her career and her short film Bathing and the Single Girl. She has an amazing list of credits, from Child’s Play 2 to Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers. From starring on Beverly Hills 90210 and ER to China Beach and In the Heat of the Night. Christine has worked on some terrific projects over the y...
Jul 13, 2012•1 hr 14 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 183 Recorded "live" at Fright Night Film Fest/Fandom Fest we hang out and talk with actor Vernon Wells! Star of The Road Warrior, Commando, Weird Science and many other films! Plus we celebrate the 166th anniversary of the birth of the blockbuster motion picture - which happened right in our backyard. And while categorizing and judging people, we also discuss... the biggest painting in the world, the Thomas Edison House, Facebook issues, wheat and chaff, John Banvard, li...
Jul 06, 2012•59 min
Movie Meltdown - Episode 182 A year in the making... we present you - the Paris, Texas episode! With a “live” intro from the Kentucky Theater during Harry Dean Stanton Fest... we feature our interview with Hunter Carson co-star of this week's movie. We sit down and talk with Hunter about the very first time he met Harry Dean Stanton. Plus playing the original Bud Bundy! All that plus weird Facebook connections and the magic of Harry Dean Stanton, before we roll into our full group discussion of ...
Jun 27, 2012•2 hr 6 min
