Colin squirts 3-D hallucinogenic acid in the eyes of his Freak Show family with Charles Band's Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)! On a remote planet, a ranger named Dogen (Jeffrey Byron) teams up with a plucky blonde (Kelly Preston) and a washed up soldier (Tim Thomerson) to hunt down an evil magician (Mike Preston) who is leading the indigenous cyclops population (lead by Night Court's Richard Moll) into an uprising, all while dodging laser blasts, tree branches, lightning golems,...
Aug 05, 2017•1 hr 22 min
Michaela goes for a ride along with the cure for crime himself: Cobra (1986)! When the mysterious Night Slasher begins terrorizing Los Angeles, the only man who can get things done is an officer from the L.A.P.D.'s "Zombie Squad", Marion "Cobra" Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone). Here, he's charged with protecting the only witness (Stallone's wife-at-the-time, Danish model Brigitte Nielsen) who can identify the killer. Listen as we try to quote (or sing, in Sean's case) every single one of Stallone'...
Jul 29, 2017•1 hr 27 min
Holly turns to the life aquatic with this week's pick of Waterworld (1995), the notoriously expensive Kevin Costner spectacle. Here, he plays a half-man/half-fish mutant loner who lives on a flooded, futuristic Earth, pursued by evil Smokers (literally - they smoke at least a pack and a half a day) while ferrying his charges - a woman and the mysterious child she cares for - in search of a mythical place called Dryland. Listen as we contemplate the egos involved in the creation of the movie, fas...
Jul 22, 2017•1 hr 17 min
Sean says it's open season on Predator 2 (1990) as Danny Glover subs for Arnold Schwarzenegger, fighting a technologically advanced killer from another world through the concrete jungle of L.A. This time, the cops - already fighting Mexican and Jamaican gangs - find themselves being chased by an alien trophy hunter who's in town with a few days to kill. Listen as we imagine the pre-safari Predator gearing up at the alien Gander Mountain, postulate that cocaine fueled the making of the movie, and...
Jul 15, 2017•1 hr 31 min
Colin wishes he was as cool as The Lost Boys (1987), a vampire classic that finds brothers Sam and Michael relocating to the beachfront community of Santa Carla with their mother, only to discover that its the hunting ground for a pack of ultra-chic teenage vampires; only with the help of the vampire-hunting Frog Brothers does humanity stand a chance. Listen as we celebrate the film's 30th anniversary by charting the history of the cinematic vampire, revel in the cinematic team up of the two Cor...
Jul 08, 2017•1 hr 30 min
Michaela hopes many kicks to the head will cure her hunger for Bloodsport (1988), the movie that unleashed Jean-Claude Van Damme upon the world. Here, JCVD portrays a martial artist who sneaks into a forbidden, underground tournament known as the Kumite to compete to become the World Heavy Weight Full Contact Kumite Champion! There, he must fight the formidable Bolo ( Enter the Dragon ) Yeung! Listen as we horribly mispronounce Asian names, imagine a better version of Bloodsport, discuss the art...
Jul 01, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Holly hopes exposure to spider-men will help cure her Arachnophobia (1990). When the residents of a friendly small town start dropping dead, the newly arrived doctor with an acute fear of spiders (Jeff Daniels) suspects the worst - that they are victims of a never-before-seen, super-poisonous species of arachnid. Listen as we discuss childhood enthusiasm for entomology, the importance of spider love, how to coax an Oscar-worthy performance from an insect, and more, on this week's exiting episode...
Jun 24, 2017•1 hr 15 min
Colin unwraps 85 years of Universal horror with The Mummy (1932). Members of an expedition to Egypt accidentally bring to life a 3,700-year-old priest named Imhotep (Boris Karloff), who immediately sets to work on resurrecting his forbidden love. We'll have you shouting "Show me the mummy!" as we guide you through Universal Studios' Dark Universe (old and new) and address at least a dozen mummy movies from over the years, from Hammer Films Gothic chillers with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, ...
Jun 17, 2017•1 hr 28 min
Michaela continues to celebrate the Summer of Cannon Films with her choice of Breakin' (1984), a movie about a formally trained dancer ( Ninja III: The Domination' s Lucinda Dickey) who befriends a crew of street trained break dancers (Adolpho "Shabba-Doo" Quinones and Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers) and teams with them to compete in a dance competition. Listen as we choose our own street names and discuss 80's break dancing movies, witness Jean-Claude Van Damme's hardcore affection for danc...
Jun 10, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Holly keeps repeating "my head is like a shark's fin" after becoming trapped in the Deep Blue Sea (1999), an aquatic tale of terror which finds a group of scientists trapped inside an underwater research station with super-intelligent, genetically modified mako sharks. Listen as we wonder what happened to former blockbuster director Renny Harlin, and name-drop every killer shark movie ever made, wrestle with movie logic, tell tales of meeting LL Cool J and both "jump the shark" and "grow the bea...
Jun 03, 2017•1 hr 24 min
Sean sits ringside for the epic Busta Rhymes vs. Michael Audrey Myers kung fu smackdown called Halloween: Resurrection (2002). This final entry in the long running horror franchise (it was followed in 2009 by Rob Zombie's series reset) not only brings to a close Jamie Lee Curtis' involvement in the storyline, but also introduces Mr. Rhymes as the unstoppable, unkillable proprietor of an Internet webcam horror show who discovers his true inner power as The Shape's ultimate foe. Listen as we extol...
May 27, 2017•1 hr 39 min
Colin's brain is invaded by alien slugs when we watch Night of the Creeps (1986), a comedy-horror film from writer/director Fred Dekker (House, The Monster Squad, Robocop 3), which finds two college guys, their dream girl, and a hard-boiled cop teaming up to protect sorority girls from brain burrowing alien parasites which turn fraternity bros into zombies. Listen as Brandon from Sock Monkey Sound joins Colin, Holly and Michaela as we talk about what defines a fun horror movie; the career of B m...
May 20, 2017•1 hr 28 min
Michaela promises an entire summer dedicated to the output of cheese-factory Cannon Films, which starts with Sylvester Stallone's Over the Top (1987), a movie that finds our hero cast as a truck driver trying to win back his estranged son's heart, on a road trip. Along the way, said son discovers dad is a semi-pro, semi-famous arm wrestler who's gotta get to Vegas to win the International Arm Wrestling Championship! Listen as we debate the merits of Cannon, Stallone, and movies about arm wrestli...
May 13, 2017•1 hr 30 min
Holly advocates against zombie prejudice by taking a cadaver to the prom in My Boyfriend's Back (1993). All Johnny Dingle wants to do is win the heart of his longtime crush, Missy McCloud, but his plan goes awry and he ends up a inexplicably re-animated corpse! Will his high school sweetheart still want to go with him to the dance? Listen as we: examine this rom-zom-com from the creative team behind Jason Goes To Hell; tell tales of ordering Edward Herrmann a scotch; and find out why Colin doesn...
May 06, 2017•57 min
Sean hangs ten with Snake Plissken in John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (1996). Having successfully rescued the President from the New York City Maximum Security Penitentiary, the United States' most notorious outlaw is captured and forced once again to go on a mission into hostile territory, this time the post-apocalyptic landscape of the Island of Los Angeles, cut off from the mainland by an earthquake. Listen as we do much jaw jabbing about both of Carpenter's Snake Plissken adventures and di...
Apr 29, 2017•1 hr 24 min
Colin disturbs the hallowed resting place of the bloodthirsty Templar knights in Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972). Vacationers Bette, Virginia and Roger do the same, waking the cloaked, moldy ghosts, who search out their victims by sound (being blind, after all - their eyes pecked out by crows) to feast upon blood, in order to prolong their un-dead existence. Listen as we throw some facts your way about Spain's contributions to 70's Euro Horror cinema, discuss the architectural merits of a mannequ...
Apr 22, 2017•1 hr 20 min
Michaela chases werewolves back to the aughts with the 2005 time capsule called Cursed, from director Wes Craven. After being attacked by a werewolf on Mulholland Drive, a brother and sister start to realize not only that they've acquired strange powers, but that the creature continues to stalk them and their friends all over Hollywood and Los Angeles. Listen as we re-evaluate this pairing of the writer and director of the Scream movie series while we test Holly's encyclopedic knowledge of the p...
Apr 15, 2017•1 hr 26 min
Holly invites moody Goth-girl Angela to our party and all hell breaks loose in Night of the Demons (1988)! When a group of high-schoolers meet at an abandoned funeral home for a Halloween party (never a good idea), they unwittingly unleash a demonic entity that takes possession of them one by one. Listen as we revisit this 80's cult classic and talk scream queens, demon possession, and bizarro interpretive dance, while Holly works out her childhood trauma - caused by this movie - all on this wee...
Apr 08, 2017•1 hr 24 min
Sean swings into action with the face-swapping superhero Darkman (1990)! Before Marvel would turn him loose on Spider-Man, director Sam (Evil Dead) Raimi came up with his own cinematic superhero story, that of brilliant scientist Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson), who is transformed into a vengeful, bandage-wrapped creature after a band of thugs torches his lab. Listen as we connect dots between the superhero movies of the pre-Marvel Cinematic Era, examine the parallel careers of both Rami and Tim B...
Apr 01, 2017•1 hr 20 min
Colin hears a whisper in his ghost and thinks he might be being brainjacked by a viewing of 1995's sci-fi anime Ghost in the Shell, about a female cyborg supersoldier who comes to question her life, the universe, and everything when she's tasked with hunting down an international cybercriminal known as The Puppetmaster. Join us for a very loose episode - recorded after our original show is eaten by audio gremlins - in which we try to explore the film's narrative concepts, anime culture and the S...
Mar 25, 2017•46 min
Michaela grows tired of mainstream movies and treads carefully into Rubber (2010) a flick about a killer tire that wakes up in the desert one day and subsequently rolls around, murdering everyone that crosses its path using it's psychokinetic mind powers - with the exception of a pretty French girl who's on vacation. Listen as we dive deep into the subgenre of movie surrealism, go over the fine print of the contract between filmmaker and audience, and bemoan the lack of inspired product placemen...
Mar 18, 2017•1 hr 13 min
Holly wants to know how the three seashells work when Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes go head-to-head in Demolition Man (1993)! When cryogenically frozen super criminal Simon Phoenix (Snipes) escapes into the Utopian San Angeles of 2032, the hapless authorities thaw out framed cop John Spartan (Stallone) to hunt him down in this satiric sci-fi actioner from producer Joel ("I never met a building I didn't want to blow up") Silver. Listen as we answer the mystery of the three seashells and lo...
Mar 11, 2017•1 hr 20 min
The luck of the Irish runs out on Sean when he encounters a Leprechaun (1993)! Jennifer Aniston makes her movie debut as a spoiled city girl who moves to a country house with a captive leprechaun (Warwick Davis) in the basement. The tiny terror soon escapes and begins killing everyone who stands between him and his stolen gold. Listen as we contemplate the existence of seven(!) entries in the Leprechaun movie series, discuss the diminishing effects of 90's nostalgia, and come up with our own sce...
Mar 04, 2017•1 hr 11 min
Colin comes to believe he's the Kwisatz Haderach as we take on David Lynch's much-maligned science fiction epic Dune (1984). Two feudal houses war over the production of a spice, mined from only one planet in the galaxy - the desert world Arrakis - where 400 foot sandworms roam the landscape and where the prophecy of a coming messiah promises freedom from a corrupt empire. Listen as we try to untangle Hollywood's ongoing attempts to bring Herbert's novel to the screen, through versions by Alexan...
Feb 25, 2017•1 hr 27 min
Michaela falls in love with a cute killer monkey in George A. Romero's Monkey Shines (1988). After an accident leaves him crippled from the neck down, Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) is recruited by his mad scientist best pal (John Pankow) to try out a super-smart helper monkey who caters to his every wish, and begins helping a bit too much whenever Allan gets mad at someone. Listen as we continue to document the best animal performers in Hollywood, speculate as to what parts of the story might have be...
Feb 18, 2017•1 hr 17 min
Holly loses her heart to the holiday slasher My Bloody Valentine (1981). The town of Valentine Bluffs hasn't celebrated Valentine's Day in 20 years, not since miner Harry Warden killed all those people after the cave-in. Now, the residents of this coal-mining town just want to cut loose...but a masked killer appears and starts taking out hearts one by one. Listen as we examine a curious couple of years in film history that spawned dozens of stalk-and-slash masked killer movies, show our love for...
Feb 11, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Sean detects signals from deep space, which leads to The Arrival (1996). Charlie Sheen (aka Carlos Estevez) stars as a radio telescope operator who uncovers an alien conspiracy while trying to uncover the source of a series of intergalactic signals he's detected, one of which seems to be originating on Earth, in South America. Ron Silver also stars in this first feature film from writer/director David Twohy, who later created Pitch Black and A Perfect Getaway. Listen as we spend an hour wonderin...
Feb 04, 2017•1 hr 21 min
Colin loads up the van and rides into a world of heavy metal gods and monsters with Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987), as legendary (but mostly unheard of) rock showman Jon-Mikl Thor (of the 70's band Thor) takes his band, their horny girlfriends, and assorted groupies to a Canadian farmhouse to record a new album, unaware that the place is overrun by tiny, one-eyed demon puppets. Listen as we marvel at the demon-fighting power of 80's heavy metal, marvel at the storied career of Jon Mikl Thor, and...
Jan 28, 2017•1 hr 15 min
We move into a house on Terror Tract (2000), a horror anthology about a highly-motivated realtor (the late John Ritter) who spins three tales to his clients as they look at a trio of houses with sordid histories. Listen as we marvel at the scenario which pits Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston against an evil Capuchin monkey; reminisce about staying up all night to catch movies on the USA Network; and the untold family stories of Hollywood's best animal performers on this week's exciting show! Hosted...
Jan 21, 2017•1 hr 14 min
Holly worships at the feet of Clive Barker's resurrected, pagan god-monster Rawhead Rex (1986)! When a farmer digs up a pre-Christian era pillar in his field he unleashes the titular beast, which goes on a murderous rampage across the Irish countryside, while a visiting American author finds himself caught up in the violent shenanigans. Listen as we talk about the effectiveness of estrogen lasers against hyper-masculine monster deities, the horrors of being peed on by a 8ft tall pagan god, and t...
Jan 14, 2017•1 hr 14 min
