Michaela cuts the cake while surrounded by corpses of her friends, and finds herself singing Happy Birthday to Me (1981)! Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Sue Anderson is a prep school student plagued by repressed memories and blackouts as members of her rich-kid clique are murdered by a black gloved killer. Listen as our brains explode from over-processing a overly complicated plot on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 22, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Holly becomes a fire whisperer with Backdraft (1991), Hollywood's ode to firefighters, with Highlander / The Prophecy scribe Gregory Widen pitting two adversarial Irish brothers against each other and a serial arsonist who's been terrorizing Chicago. Listen as we turn to a Hannibal Lecter stand-in to gain psychological insight on the anthropomorphic monster on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 15, 2024•1 hr 25 min
This week, we took a Freak Show Field Trip to see In A Violent Nature (2024), a indie Friday the 13th-style slasher shot almost entirely from a 3rd person perspective of it's Jason-like monster. Listen as we go stomping through the woods turning campers into curly-Qs in an effort to determine if the movie is having a go at us as a deadpan comedy sendup of F13 flicks on this weeks' exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 08, 2024•1 hr 27 min
God created Sean, but science turned him into a god after getting programmed by The Lawnmower Man (1992), the best remembered 90s cautionary tale about the horrors of virtual reality. Simple-minded Jobe becomes a tyrannical terror after he's given VR brain chemistry enhancements by unscrupulous scientist Pierce Brosnan. Listen as we discuss how well VR is going in the present day, trip out to the most rudimentary computer animation ever rendered, and side with Stephen King on this week's excitin...
Jun 01, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Colin kneels at the throne of Stirba, the werewolf queen of Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985), following Freak Show man of action, Reb Brown, into battle alongside werewolf hunter Christopher Lee into deepest, darkest Transylvania to infiltrate an orgy of punk lycanthropes. Listen as we discuss full moon sex rituals, monkey wolves, and threaten to hang the editor on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 25, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Michaela wishes to explode over the local ruffians as a gelatinous mutant after watching X-Men (2000), the movie often credited with kick-starting the Marvel movie takeover. Listen as we reminisce about a simpler time when wire-stunts and small scale disasters were the order of the day, have nightmare flashbacks of cramming for the high school exam, and go out as swamp goblins on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 18, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Holly finds all the boys think Nicole Kidman is To Die For (1995) playing a narcissistic, media obsessed weathercaster who seduces an idiot teen (Joaquin Phoenix) into killing her husband (Matt Dillon) in Gus Van Sant's fictionalized version of the Pamela Smart case. Listen as we discuss true-crime documentaries, 90s TV talk shows, and discover we're complicit in the ongoing media takeover on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 11, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Sean tries to catch the invisible sex predator at large in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man (2000), which casts Kevin Bacon as a narcissistic scientist who discovers invisibility allows him to pursue his darkest impulses. Listen as we discuss invisible peen, God complexes, science battle montages, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 04, 2024•1 hr 24 min
"Into the light I command you," Colin exclaims, drawing out the occult investigator Constantine (2005). Keanu Reeves plays the very American version of the DC Comics exorcist, caught up in a battle between angels and demons on the streets of Los Angeles. Listen as we learn shocking things about intelligent crabs, the TV series "Lucifer," and debate if Keanu is a good actor on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 27, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Michaela says she will never ever drive on a highway again after witnessing the catastrophic calamity that opens Final Destination 2 (2002), the movie that did to road trips what Jaws did for swimming in the ocean. Listen as we learn about Sean's real-life horror movie cat scare, challenge each other to build a red-string evidence board, and philosophize on the life of death on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 20, 2024•1 hr 28 min
Holly waits for the Blood Moon to bring the return of the "Dark Stranger" from the ocean's depths with Messiah of Evil (1973), in which a woman goes searching for her missing artist father in a seemingly abandoned seaside town where residents await the fulfilment of a centuries old curse. Listen as we revisit the first film from the Howard the Duck-Indiana Jones writing team of Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, get chased by crowds of cat-screeching undead ghouls, bleed from our eyes, and camp with...
Apr 13, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Sean creates ripples through time and fractures his mind with the time-travel mind-bender The Butterfly Effect (2004), in which childhood friends experience a catalog of traumas that one of them tries to fix as an adult when he discovers his power to warp time by uncovering repressed memories. Listen as we rate the Misery Index as "High" on this one, discover that worms' memories are the key to human survival, and remind each other of traumatic past experiences on this week's exciting episode! H...
Apr 06, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Colin gets caught in the middle of warring factions of angels battling it out on Earth in The Prophecy (1995), with Christopher Walken having the time of his life as the archangel Gabriel, searching for "the darkest soul" to lead his army against heaven. Listen as we wonder what an angel smells like, suck souls out of corpses, experience apocalyptic visions, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 30, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Michaela downloads the latest in high tech CD-ROM interactive horror, Brainscan (1994), in which Edward Furlong gets immersed into a virtual murder simulator emceed by a big-hair Freddy Krueger wannabe named The Trickster. Listen as we discover our mail demon's secret Hollywood history, normalize mutual window peeping flirtations, and realize (with horror) that sometimes we agree with movie authority figures, all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...
Mar 23, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Holly stares into the sun at close range and gets space madness in Sunshine (2007), Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's follow up to 28 Days Later and The Beach, which fires a crew of scientists toward the dying sun in hopes of rekindling it with a nuclear device. Listen as we find dozens of new space travel related anxieties, reduce humans to dust, worship the almighty sun god and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Sean's head explodes fighting the good fight against the evil telepaths of Scanners (1981), David Cronenberg's first real hit about a mind reader sent on a covert mission to infiltrate a group of other ESPers and kill their leader. Listen as we link our nervous systems, polish our holes, eat Hot Pogo Dogs, apologize for our "O" faces, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 09, 2024•1 hr 22 min
Colin studies up on the occult to do battle with the Goat of Mendes in The Devil Rides Out (1968), in which Christopher Lee and friends discover Satanism is being practiced by a wealthy cabal of astronomy geeks and their best pal is in danger of losing his soul! Listen as we attend summonings, conjurings, woodland revels, step into protective circles and ward off the Angel of Death himself on this week's exciting episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 02, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Michaela warns that if you create a sexy feminine creature in your lab you should not have sex with it with Splice (2009), a movie that stars Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley as scientists in Cronenbergland who do exactly that. Listen as we talk about tongue flowers, sex in the proximity of children, mommy issues, and science run amok on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 24, 2024•1 hr 24 min
Holly chucks grenades and ten-thousand bullets at Reb Brown but nothing can touch him cuz he's a Strike Commando (1987), a Rambo clone from the Italian Ed Wood, Bruno Mattei. Former TV Captain America Brown sets out to avenge his teammates on the corrupt general who abandoned them. Listen as we talk childhood electrocution, violent innocence, and the magic of Disneyland on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 17, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Sean gets his heart broken with a pickaxe with My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009). Ten years after an initial killing spree, a demented miner returns to pick up where he left off. The bloodbath coincides with the return of the town pariah (Supernatural's Jensen Ackles), who's come back to sell the mine and rekindle a romance with his former sweetheart, now the sheriff's wife. Listen as we applaud the return of horror legend Tom Atkins and talk about naked chase scenes, bloody love triangles, and buri...
Feb 10, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Colin's got to get to the Witches Sabbath in City of the Dead (aka Horror Hotel, 1960), in which an intrepid college student goes to a spooky coastal village where a witch was burned in the 17th Century, and discovers witchcraft may still be afoot in the 20th. Listen as we discuss 60s shapewear, accidental summonings, and possessed digital devices on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 03, 2024•1 hr 22 min
And the most requested movie of Listener Choice month is: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), in which an alien lifeform threatens to replace humanity by birthing clones from giant seed pods. Listen as we discuss wearing "backhand gloves", how to ruin a hypnotist's charades, and wonder 'if you kill a pod person can they grow another one?', on this week's exciting show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 27, 2024•1 hr 18 min
You voted for it, so we watched Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991), a Hong Kong adaptation of a Japanese Manga that might be one of the goriest movies ever made. A super-strong man is sent to a maximum security prison and discovers its a cover for a heroin operation, and punches, kicks, pulverizes and dismembers a couple of dozen bad guys. Listen as we marvel as other people's jaws hit the floor, confront The Gang of Four, and pop Red Hots to prevent from hulking out on this week's exciting epis...
Jan 20, 2024•1 hr 19 min
We're back live and in person as Listener Choice month continues with Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006), a mockumentary that provides self-analysis of the slasher film. In a world where Jason, Freddy, and Michael exist, a camera crew follows an up and coming serial killer as he chooses his 'survivor girl' and prepares for a homecoming massacre. Listen as we discuss moral grey areas of journalism, yonic imagery, flip phones and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast...
Jan 13, 2024•1 hr 30 min
The listeners have spoken! The first of four listener choices we're watching this month is Witchery (1988), also known as La Casa 4 in Italy, a team up of David Hasselhoff and Linda Blair as visitors to a Massachusetts island resort that's haunted by a witch and a centuries old curse. Listen as we take jets of blood to the face, witness selfless defenestration, visit chicken wire Hell, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 06, 2024•1 hr 18 min
It's that time of year again where we venture out of the dank, dark basement for our annual love and hate fest as we rank the Best and Worst Movies of 2023 . We say "movies", but pleas for decency fell on Sean's deaf ears and he went and picked a Netflix stand up comedy special. The rest of us stuck to the mission at hand and each deliver our favorite and most hated feature films of the Year of our Lord 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 30, 2023•3 hr 5 min
Michaela tries to survive 30 Days of Night (2007) in an Alaskan town where the sun doesn't rise for a month and vampires show up. Josh Hartnett is the small town sheriff trying to keep people alive in an attic without food, or pee or poop buckets, while vampires send their Renfield to collect all the cell phones and cut the power. Listen as we take a jump back to the indie comic scene of the 00's and watch the first vampire movie from the director of Twilight: Eclipse on this week's exciting epi...
Dec 23, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Holly spends Christmas in the Netherlands to find out the horrifying origins of St. Nicholas with Saint (aka Sint aka Saint Nick, 2010), as Dutch madman Dick Maas envisions Father Christmas as a murderous zombie who visits Amsterdam every 32 years as part of an evil curse. Listen as we uncover the legend of Black Peter, strange college mating rituals, blowtorch wielding policemen, and a massive government conspiracy on this week's show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...
Dec 16, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Sean finds out the hard way that bringing a loved one back from the dead via Frankensteinian science can create a Deadly Friend (1986). A genius highschooler does just that after his pretty neighbor is killed by an abusive parent, creating a rampaging killing machine. Listen as we smash heads with basketballs, wake up screaming from Wes Craven nightmares, and master the automaton walk on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 09, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Colin tries to piece together clues that will identify T he Prowler (1981), a film that delivers rivers of blood courtesy of makeup wizard Tom Savini. College students are stalked by a killer after reinstituting a graduation dance that had ceased after a WWII-era murder. Listen as we revel in graphic impalements, slicings, piercings, and maimings and try to unravel exactly what the heck is going on with this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 02, 2023•1 hr 20 min
