Holly discovers that terror can come in any shape after watching Sphere (1998), an attempt by Hollywood's A-list to imbue geometric shapes with unworldly menace. After discovering an alien craft at the bottom of the ocean, the Navy recruits Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel Jackson to investigate. Once in the murky depths, paranoia, hallucinations and death take hold. Listen as we try not to lose our own minds as we experience the Sphere-effect of retrograde amnesia while watching the movi...
Mar 03, 2018•1 hr 23 min
Colin discovers that in Yor's world, he's the man, as we grovel before Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983) in which we follow our musclebound hero (Reb Brown, TV's original Captain America) on a sword and sorcery quest to rescue fair maidens, defeat hideous beasts, and ultimately discover the mysterious origin of his people. Listen as we discover there's no bad movie magic like that of bad Italian movies; discuss the pros and cons of using action figures as your stunt performers; and, bemoan ...
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr 32 min
Michaela discovers that neither by hook nor by crook can she get rid of The Babadook (2014). A troubled youngster and his widowed mother find themselves pushed to the breaking point when a sinister pop-up storybook appears in their home, heralding the arrival of a malevolent spirit. Listen as we discus the critical vs audience reactions to the movie, what the Sundance hype train means for horror movies, and deep dive into the meaning behind the titular monster on this week's illuminating episode...
Feb 17, 2018•1 hr 30 min
Holly suggests a better sacrifice to The Wicker Man (2006) might be the film itself, as the often-imitated-but-never-duplicated screen icon Nicholas Cage finds himself alone on an island populated by an all-female pagan cult; he thinks he's there to rescue a young girl from becoming a sacrificial victim but, well, you've seen the "not the bees!" memes. Listen as we are denied our moment of ultimate satisfaction by watching the theatrical cut instead of the unrated version; compare the film to th...
Feb 10, 2018•1 hr 24 min
Sean sends us all to the madhouse after watching Cathy's Curse (1977), a Canadian Exorcist-rip off about a little girl who becomes possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt (we think) or her dead great-uncle (could be), which may have taken control of her doll (possibly) and now wants to kill everyone else in the family (definitely). Listen as we try to deal with a series of anti-climaxes, uncomfortable situations, crazy psychics, creepy neighbors and foul mouthed youngsters on this week's exciti...
Feb 03, 2018•1 hr 12 min
Colin unwittingly brings back rubber-suited monsters from space after coming in contact with The Green Slime (1968)! After destroying an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, the space station Gamma 3 finds itself host to a green, slimy substance that transforms into a horde of electricity-sucking, tentacled creatures that threaten all life as we know it. Listen as we talk about this slice of 60's sci-fi cheese, swinging martini parties, beehive hairdos, and dish out love for the film's swa...
Jan 27, 2018•1 hr 21 min
Michaela spends time trapped in a box with Ryan Reynolds in the thriller Buried (2010). Reynolds plays an American contractor, taken hostage in Iraq, who awakens to find himself buried alive in a wooden coffin and - armed only with a cigarette lighter and a cell phone - must try to figure a way out. Listen as we talk about the "one man show" movie genre, Holly's fear of snakes, claustrophobia, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 20, 2018•1 hr 27 min
Holly earns a Flawless Victory by accepting a challenge to appear in the Mortal Kombat (1995), a martial arts tournament held on a secret island, the outcome of which will affect the fate of the entire world! In this colorful adaptation of the popular fighting video game, the god of lighting, Lord Rayden, gathers a disparate group of fighters to battle the forces of evil wizard, Shang Tsung. Listen as we talk about puppet performers, EDM, the history of the Mortal Kombat franchise, bloodless fat...
Jan 13, 2018•1 hr 23 min
Sean wonders why the dead won't stay dead in Cemetery Man (aka Dellamorte, Dellamore, 1994), an existentialist Italian zombie movie from Dario Argento protege Michele Soavi, which stars Rupert Everett as the beleaguered caretaker of a rural cemetery where the dead return to life. Listen as we talk about zombie boy scouts, severed head romances, odd Italian burial practices, and commit Sean's Last Will and Testament to the permanent record on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See aca...
Jan 06, 2018•1 hr 18 min
We wrap up 2017 with our 2nd annual Best and Worst Movies of the year episode. Listen as we go around the table and attempt to distill a very good year in film down to our choices for the 5 best movies and the one we think was the worst. Will your favorite make the cut? Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 30, 2017•3 hr 20 min
Colin considers assault and battery charges against Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981), which chronicles the apocalyptic implosion of the marriage between Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani in Cold War-era Germany. While he gets kicked around by her effete German lover and sleeps with her doppelganger on the sly, she has sex with a slimy, tentacled creature that she may have given birth to in the subway. Listen as we break down reality, wonder about pink socks, lost shoes, God, relationships, Armag...
Dec 23, 2017•1 hr 14 min
Michaela makes the case for Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me (2007), a 8-time Razzie award winning thriller in which Lohan plays dual roles - as a diligent student and a exotic dancer - one, or both, of whom are targeted by a blue-glove wearing serial killer who has a fondness for torture and amputation. Listen as we try to unravel the film's color-coded plot mechanics, debate Lohan's questionable stripper techniques, and determine if the film qualifies as an American giallo, all on this wee...
Dec 16, 2017•1 hr 15 min
Holly learns the Way of the Samurai for a Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) which features a potentially epic team up between action superstar Dolph Lundgren and the late Brandon Lee, starring as two renegade cops thrown together to stop the rise of the Japanese Yakuza in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood. Their mission escalates into an explosion of bloody mayhem after Lundgren recognizes the head Yakuza as the man responsible for his parents' murder! Listen at we marvel at Brandon Lee's bad...
Dec 09, 2017•1 hr 21 min
Sean breeds an attack cat to take on the soul sucking menace of Stephen King's Sleepwalkers (1992). When his owner is killed by a duo of ancient, incestuous, shape-shifting creatures (Brian Krause and Alice Krige), Clovis (Sparks) rises to become the hero he was always meant to be and must save the Sleepwalker's virginal target (Mädchen Amick) from their clutches, while rallying together the town's house cat population for a fiery raid on their booby-trap laden lair. Listen as we talk about slim...
Dec 02, 2017•1 hr 13 min
Colin hopes to survive the melting Hell on Earth of The Devil's Rain (1975). William Shatner's family guards a Satanic book from the clutches of evil goat-headed cult leader, Ernest Borgnine, who needs it to enslave all mankind. They do battle in an abandoned Western mining town while Tom Skerritt and his wife hope to save the day from Satan's followers. Listen as we talk about the involvement of mobsters and the Church of Satan in the film's making, fantasize about satanic Westerns, and get all...
Nov 25, 2017•1 hr 8 min
Michaela has a bone to pick with the black sheep of the Scream movies, Scream 4 (2011). Wes Craven's final film reunites the surviving cast of the hit, self-aware series of horror films with a fresh cast of up and comers, while writer Kevin Williamson throws shade at millennials and the conventions of horror movie remakes and reboots. Listen as we talk about horror movie home design, dump hate on the movie's propmaster, and gush over Hayden Panettiere, all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted...
Nov 18, 2017•1 hr 25 min
Holly develops a taste for raw meat and a hunger for world domination after being possessed by the aliens of Slither (2006), James Gunn's affectionate homage to 80's sci-fi/horror films. When Grant Grant (Michael Rooker) is taken over by a malevolent extraterrestrial intelligence, it's up to the small town sheriff (Nathan Fillion) to save his dream girl (Elizabeth Banks) and the townspeople from the gooey, tentacled menace. Listen as we discover the joys of Mr. Pibb, laud the talents of Gregg He...
Nov 11, 2017•1 hr 20 min
Sean tells us a story that happened to someone who knows someone he knows, and an Urban Legend (1998) is born. Someone in a winter coat is murdering students at snooty Pendleton University, using the hook of urban legends as his deadly punchline. The late 90's cast of the CW Network has to team up with the Noxema girl to sleuth out the killer's identity before they become his next victim. If you love the 90's then this is the episode for you, as we go on Full-On 90's Throwback Mode to discuss th...
Nov 04, 2017•1 hr 40 min
Colin cranks the fog machine and creeps around the haunted world of Mario Bava's Black Sabbath (aka I Tre Volti Della Paura - "The Three Faces of Fear," 1963), an anthology horror movie hosted by and starring Boris Karloff. In "The Telephone," a beautiful woman is terrorized by threatening phone calls; in "The Wurdulak," a mountain family worries that their elder has returned home as a vampire; and in "The Drop of Water," a nurse robs a medium who died during a seance, and supernatural shenaniga...
Oct 28, 2017•1 hr 27 min
Michaela joins a circle of teenage witches who practice The Craft (1996) and makes poor Fairuza Balk lose her mind! Balk plays a sullen, Goth misfit who lures Sarah, the new girl in school, into her coven of witches (alongside Neve Campbell and Rachel True) in hopes of getting revenge on their high school tormentors, but things turn deadly and escalate into a full blown Satanic freak out! Listen as our invocations and magic spells lead to a surprising Freak Show duet, reveal surprising details a...
Oct 21, 2017•1 hr 19 min
Holly hopes to survive an apocalypse of running zombies as she outmaneuvers Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (2004), a remake of George Romero's classic. As before, a disparate group of strangers must band together within an abandoned shopping mall as hordes of the living dead gather outside. Listen as we contribute to the slow zombie vs fast zombie debate, compare and contrast the remake to its namesake, imagine a zombie movie starring only a cast of pets, and more - on this week's exciting episo...
Oct 14, 2017•1 hr 20 min
Sean cozies up to the seductive vampire fantasy that is Fright Night Part 2 (1988), which finds Charley Brewster and the Fearless Vampire Killer, Peter Vincent, re-teaming when the sister of the original film's vampire descends on Los Angeles with revenge on her mind. Listen as we try to uncover how this sequel ended up in movie limbo; discuss the high fashion of vampire chic; and wistfully long for cheesy 80's rubber monster FX, all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
Oct 07, 2017•1 hr 21 min
Colin uses benign pharmacology and energy sculpting to trip out Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011), director Panos Cosmatos' nod to science-fiction and horror films of the 1980's. A mad doctor keeps a young woman with telekinetic powers trapped in an underground clinic, where 60's-era psychedelic experiments have produced inhuman results. Listen as we discuss the merit of pop culture objects that imitate the style and design of the 80's, movies that value atmosphere over character or plot, and lay ...
Sep 30, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Michaela wants to go serial killer-hunting with American Psycho 2 (2002), an in-name only cash grab sequel to the Christian Bale-starrer. This time, That 70's Show 's Mila Kunis plays a college student who killed Patrick Bateman as a child and becomes obsessed with hunting other serial killers, so much so that she's willing to kill her rivals for a teaching-assistant post that guarantees a spot at the FBI academy in Quantico. Listen as we cast shame upon quick buck sequel producers, ponder Willi...
Sep 23, 2017•1 hr 19 min
Sean takes us on a Freak Show Field Trip to the sewers of Derry, Maine to scrutinize not one but two screen adaptations of Stephen King's IT - both the 2017 theatrical feature and the television mini-series from 1990. Listen to our IT overindulgence as we compare and contrast the novel, the mini-series, the screenplay for the aborted Cary Fukunaga-directed version, and the final Andy Muschietti-helmed version and talk Deadlights and cosmic turtles, compare both Tim Curry and Bill Skarsgard's tak...
Sep 16, 2017•1 hr 47 min
Holly doesn't want to be buried in a Pet Sematary (1989), especially not one that once belonged to Micmac Indians and has the power to bring the dead back to life! Louis Creed and his family soon find out that "sometimes, dead is better" after moving into an adjacent home and taking advantage of its evil magic, once tragedy strikes. Listen as we discuss zombie kittens, Zelda, ghostly harbingers, and wonder what Pet Sematary would have been like directed by George Romero and starring Bruce Campbe...
Sep 09, 2017•1 hr 29 min
Colin prays for daylight after hanging with the grimy vampires of Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987), which follows a farmhand named Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) who is seduced by a sexy Southern belle (Jenny Wright) into joining a group of fangless, hillbilly vampires who prowl the American Southwest. Listen as we spend way too much time talking about the Twilight movies, contrast Near Dark with it's similarly-themed cousin The Lost Boys , and invent plots for half a dozen vampire movies on this week'...
Sep 02, 2017•1 hr 30 min
Michaela kits up, heads into the brush, and howls at the moon with Dog Soldiers (2002), which sees a squad of British squaddies (that's soldiers to you) who, during training exercises in the wilderness of the Scottish highlands, come under siege from a pack of werewolves. Listen as we discuss the career of director Neil ( Game of Thrones ) Marshall, learn new English slang, rate the surprise villains, and generally cause mischief on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Aug 26, 2017•1 hr 32 min
Holly is bitten by a Sumatran Rat-Monkey and finds herself Dead Alive (aka Braindead, 1992)! After his overprotective mother is bitten by the aforementioned rat-monkey, her grown son, Lionel, finds himself over his head in a pile of zombies, romance, zombie babies, and anthropomorphic entrails in what has been called "the goriest movie ever made". Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson shovels on the blood and guts by the bucketload with a side helping of comedy in this splat stick classic. Li...
Aug 19, 2017•1 hr 26 min
Sean refuses his right to remain silent after choosing to watch Maniac Cop (1988)! As brutal murders shake New York City, a jaded detective (Tom Atkins) begins to suspect a uniformed cop is the suspect, while another officer (Bruce Campbell) unwittingly finds himself the number one suspect. Can these two team up to stop the Maniac Cop?? Listen as we marvel at the historic team-up of two of modern horror's biggest icons, discuss the political ramifications of remaking Maniac Cop, and invent rules...
Aug 12, 2017•1 hr 21 min
