Not gonna lie, writing these episode descriptions feels like homework... So that's perfect for this month's theme: Hack to School! Grab your class schedule and meet up with your old buds to find out what they did on summer vacation. We are starting off the month with Home Economics. The big takeaway, do not make chicken nuggets like they do in Cooties from 2014. The film was directed by the team of Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion, who did Bushwick and Becky. The film was written by Leigh Whan...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 9 min
For our final week of 2001: A Space Augusty, we decided to take your childhood favorites and turn them on their head. We’ve exposed the horrors of Critters, Mac and Me, Lilo and Stitch, Star Kid, The Iron Giant, and Spaced Invaders, to name a few. We discuss why aliens are so enamored by children, why Invader Zim is the shit, why The Hunchback of Notre Dame is definitely not kid friendly, and what we really think of the Shape of Water. This episode is definitely NSFW, so we strongly suggest ear ...
Aug 30, 2021•1 hr 26 min
Get ready to get raunchy this week with all three Goons as we discuss all four installments of Species for week 3 of 2001: A Space Augusty! Find out where we rank them, what our favorite moments were, and sit in on a few tangents that involve Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Incredible Melting Man, Kissing Booth 3 and more. The first Species was released in 1995--which, for those of you who weren’t born or simply can’t remember--was a golden year for horror movie releases. It was directed by Roger Dona...
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr 24 min
We are keeping this flying saucer spinning until the damn tractor beam falls off here for 2001: A Space Augusty. All month we are doing alien content and we hope you think it's... out of this world. ...don't worry, the jokes on the episode are better than that. This week, Producer C.H.A.D. swings by to talk about Paul Verhoeven's sometimes misinterpreted masterpiece, Starship Troopers. Verhoeven is obviously a master of satire, but it seems audiences mistook Johnny Rico as the American Jesus ins...
Aug 16, 2021•1 hr 11 min
As we continue our bold adventure of 2001: A Space Augusty, trekking through all alien content, we talk Mars Attacks! The film was directed by visual maestro of the macabre, Tim Burton (Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Pee-wee's Big Adventure). We talk about his original vision of the film, and his aspirations for a stop motion masterpiece. Writer, Jonathan Gems, wrote not only this film, but also its novelization. He wrote the ill-fated, Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. The film stars Jack Nicholson, Gle...
Aug 09, 2021•2 hr 12 min
Let's give this another go shall we? After penning what was actually an admittedly gnarly episode description to kick off 2001 A Space Augusty, it was all lost. Let's see Jake parody himself. *cracks fingers* This film is James Gunn's directorial debut, after writing for Troma with such films as Tromeo and Juliet and Terror Firmer, then Scooby Doo for Warner Bros. He went on to do Guardians of the Galaxy and after he was thoroughly swagger jacked by DC with their feeble Suicide Squad from 2016, ...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 45 min
Little reminder about this often-maligned gem from the 90s, it takes place in DINOhattan, the perfect backdrop for our last episode in Julyssic Park. Find out how we rank this film compared to Jurassic Park, Carnosaur, and Tammy & The T-Rex. Super Mario Bros was directed by husband and wife duo, Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel. We talk about their interesting methods and what stars Bob Hoskins (Hook, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), John Leguizamo (Spawn, Land of the Dead), and Dennis Hopper (True ...
Jul 26, 2021•2 hr
People often ask what media we hosts enjoy when we are not watching horror schlock for this show. Jake's all time favorite YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/c/YourDinosaursAreWrong Luckily, we get a chance to speak with host, Steven Bellettini, on this week's episode and discuss what dinosaur he thinks would be scariest. We also touch on tokusatsu, animation, and our other obsessions. We then have the thrilling pleasure of discussing Tammy and the T-Rex, or Tanny and the Teenage T-Rex, ...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 35 min
Hold onto your -- oh, wait -- this episode is about the entire CARNOSAUR franchise, not Jurassic Park. Silly me. Welcome to our second week of Julyssic Park and join Jake, Doug, and Ade for their various thoughts on Roger Corman’s Carnosaur. But we don’t stop there! We also discuss Carnosaur part 2, Carnosaur part 3, and the two “bastardizations” that follow the trilogy -- Jake’s words, not mine-- Raptor and The Eden Formula. The original installment, Carnosaur, was loosely based on the 1984 nov...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 28 min
This is perhaps one of the toughest movie reviews we have ever done: Jurassic Park, a legendary film that has been dissected frame by frame for nearly 30 years, since it came out in 1993. No pressure in reviewing arguably Steven Spielberg's best creature feature, right? No one could ever fathom a scenario wherein they could yell at the hosts through their stereo for leaving out trivia, but also for including too much trivia, right? How do your hosts think this film compares to Jaws? Were there s...
Jul 05, 2021•2 hr 18 min
Happy Pride Month, Week 4!!! This month has been an absolute blast; we’ve explored everything from a questionable Al Pacino, to Wendy Carlos’s brilliance, to the creator of Scream and Dawson’s Creek. For our final week of Pride Month, we are celebrating the life and creations of one James Whale. James Whale is the director of some of your favorite Universal Monster favorites, such as The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, and Bride of Frankenstein. Whale, himself, lived a fascinating life--he was a pr...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Happy Week 3 of Pride Month! Today’s episode features a celebration of the past and future works of Mr. Kevin Williamson! You know Williamson as the screenwriter for, oh, I dunno, this little film called SCREAM. He’s also known for writing Teaching Mrs. Tingle, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2 and 4 (currently working on Part 5), Cursed, Halloween H20, The Faculty, Dawson’s Creek, The Vampire Diaries and a million other things us metadata whores salivate over. Jake and Ade also discuss ...
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Happy Pride Month, goons. In this second outing (yes, pun intended) we are doing a career retrospective of Wendy Carlos. Carlos is an incredible innovator of electronic music, whose work was influential in their design, and the implementation of the instruments themselves. You may recall her work with Stanley Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange, adapted from Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel, and The Shining, adapted from Stephen King's 1977 novel. She also went on to provide the score for Tron, both elect...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 19 min
Happy Pride Month to all our wonderful Mutant Goons! We are celebrating the LGBTQ+ community all month long with everything horror related--be it films, directors, actors, musicians, etc… We are very excited to share our thoughts with you this month on 1980’s Cruising , starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, and Karen Allen. There are also some young faces/cameos from Ed O’Neil, James Remar and William Russ. Cruising follows a “young” cop undercover in the underground S&M world of New York City, ...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 3 min
“It’s scrumdidilyumptious! It’s everybody’s non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun!” What do chicken beheadings, child kidnappings, and a psycho in a tophat all have in common? That’s right, people, we are talking about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory--the 1971 horrifying children’s classic tale of a chocolate factory tour gone awry. This is not to be confused with the god-awful Tim Burton adaptation (and while we all love Burton, Danny Elfman and Johnny De...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Our next installment of MAYbe It's Horror is Paul Verhoeven's masterpiece: Robocop. Verhoeven had passed on this project until the intervention of his wife and Barbara Boyle encouraged him to look past a seemingly silly title. After reading the script, then dozens of Judge Dredd comics, Verhoeven dove into the film so deeply that he even ended up making a cameo (in the night club). On this episode, we feature director and friend, Price James, who will shamelessly admit this is his favorite film....
May 24, 2021•1 hr 48 min
Another thrilling installment of MAYbe It's Horror is upon us with the 2001 cinematic masterpiece, Freddy Got Fingered. The film stars Tom Green, who also directed and wrote the film, along with his friend, Derek Harvie. The film was nominated for a total of eight Razzie Awards, winning five: worst screenplay, worst actor, worst director, worst screen couple, and worst picture, though it lost for worst supporting actor, worst supporting actress, and worst movie of decade. We compare the film to ...
May 17, 2021•1 hr 34 min
MAYbe it's a horror movie continues! This week, we are doing Toys, starring the late and great, Robin Williams. This inexcusably unsettling movie was a 10-year passion project by writer/ director, Barry Levinson (and then wife, Valerie Cutrin). It is inarguably polarizing, because while it was nominated for a Razzie for worst director, it also received Oscar nominations for Art Direction and Costume Design. Joan Cusack plays robot, Alsatia Zevo, which is oddly similar to Bicentennial Man, also s...
May 10, 2021•1 hr 50 min
It’s the first week of May, so that kicks off our MAYbe Horror Month; and our first week begins with Ade’s pick, the titular JAWBREAKER. Yes, that’s right, Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz and Judy Greer’s cult-favorite, inadvertent murder tale that involves a piece of hard candy and a creepy as fuck Marilyn Manson. We have a special treat for you: interview with writer/director of Jawbreaker, Darren Stein--who is an absolute gem and we would be remiss if we didn’t say we’d love to hav...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 41 min
The end is nigh, even though you wish the end was nah. Sorry gang, this is our last episode of No April, Only Zuul (aside from our Patreon bonus). What did you think? Was this whole month worth it? Are you overloaded? Are you there, god? It's me Janosz. This episode is a barbarous melee of button mashing mayhem as we talk about literally every Ghostbusters game (that is worth commenting on). We talk Nintendo, Sega, arcade, PC, Amiga, Atari, pinball, mobile games, pachinko, The Real Ghostbusters,...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 48 min
Since we are in our third week of No April, Only Zuul, it’s only fitting that we discuss and dissect all of the animated content that the Ghostbusters Universe has provided us. Adam and Doug go into the magic that is The Real Ghostbusters--the OG animated series--before segueing into Slimer and The Real Ghostbusters and all of the trivia in between. We talk about the other DIC Entertainment properties from Inspector Gadget, Hello Kitty, Sonic, Super Mario, and like 15 others. Oh, and because it ...
Apr 19, 2021•2 hr 21 min
This week, we review the unfairly maligned, Ghostbusters 2. The film came out five years after the firtst, churned out by Columbia Pictures, who was in dire need of a hit after firing their CEO, David Putnam. The production was chaotic. While this film did not have the drastic re-writes of the first, it also had a shooting schedule of approximately one-third of the original's 13 month shoot. Ivan Reitman returned to direct. He and both of his children had cameos in the film. That's right, Jason ...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 50 min
Here on Slashers, there is No April, Only Zuul. That’t right human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! An ENTIRE MONTH of Ghostbusters content! This film was originally written by Dan Aykroyd. It was admittedly a bloated, overly expensive movie for someone with his pull in the industry at the time. Then came Harold Ramis to help parse the script down to something financially viable. Truly, short of a Troma movie, I have never come across a more fluid script in doing this s...
Apr 05, 2021•2 hr 21 min
To celebrate/ mourn the end of TroMarch, enjoy my interview with Mark Torgl, who played Melvin Ferd, in The Toxic Avenger. We talk about his career as an editor, along with some of his favorite projects, such as Stan Lee's Who Wants to be a Superhero?. We talk about filming The Toxic Avenger many moons ago, the process and the relationships he built along the way. Did you know Mark leveraged his nerdy looks into getting a script supervisor position from Lloyd Kaufman on The Toxic Avenger? We tal...
Mar 31, 2021•34 min
It’s here! The end of TroMarch is finally here! And what better way to send you Goons off with the last episode discussing Cannibal! The Musical? This one’s special, because not only is it a musical, but it’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s debut full-length feature film. Before South Park was conceived, this was the first love child, so-to-speak. It’s interesting how this film came to be in the first place, how this showcases a funny little character attribute of Trey Parker, and all of the trivia...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Check out our latest contribution to TroMarch, the crossover event no one wanted, besides us and Damn, That's Scary! This week, we review Redneck Zombies from 1987, which was only distributed by Troma, not made by. Of course-- OF MOTHER FLIPPIN' COURSE, on the one episode where we got an interview with someone from the actual movie this month, our pals from Damn, That's Scary! don't like it. Well, we at Slashers love Redneck Zombies, and that was even before we set up the interview with Ed Bisho...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 25 min
This week, we are continuing our TroMarch collaboration with Damn, That's Scary with probably the second most famous Troma film ever: Class of Nuke 'Em High! Written and directed by Richard W. Haines, Michael Herz, and good ol' Uncle Lloyd Kaufman (under that weird pseudonym Samuel Weil), the film takes us back to Tromaville, New Jersey. More specifically, we end up at Tromaville High. This film features veterans of multiple other Troma films such as Toxic Avenger, Lexx, and Werewolf Bitches fro...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 8 min
It’s Week 2 of our Tro-March collaboration with Damn, That’s Scary! Podcast, and this week we’re featuring the Troma distributed (but not created) Rabid Grannies . Join all four Slasher goons as we discuss all the goey, gory fun of Grannies gorging on their ungrateful relatives (my alliteration skills are something to be envied). We talk about the somewhat deceptive title and whether demonology can count as hydrophobia (rabies). Filmed in Belgium at the Ingelmunster Castle in 1988 and written an...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 46 min
And the award for longest episode title in Slashers Podcast history goes to... Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) & Interview with Price James! As the title suggests, this episode is a hearty slaw of content, so let's get right down to it! This kicks off Tro-March! That's right, an entire month of Slashers dedicated to Troma. But wait, I can hear the disappointment in your collective sighs through the ether of space and time. If five episodes and a Patreon bonus are not enough Tr...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 44 min
To cap off Femme Fatale February, we are slipping a spit-covered pinky finger into your ears in the form of a review of Becky. Yeah, remember that movie that came out in June of last year? I think that was during the "murder hornet" phase of that dumpster fire of a year. So, being realistic, you probably didn't see it. Wanna find out if you should? Why not listen to us ramble about it? The movie stars Lulu Wilson as Becky Hooper. Lulu has been in tons of horror movies, for a kid who is not legal...
Feb 22, 2021•1 hr 6 min
