To start off the spooky season, we bring you 1988’s GHOST TOWN! Directed by Richard McCarthy (well, Richard Governor as far as the DGA is concerned), this film stars Catherine Hickland as a woman who abandons her wedding and is kidnapped by old-timey ghosts and Franc Luz as a semi-law-abiding deputy who tries to save…
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This episode asks an important question: “are high-waisted undies still a thing?” We also talk about SLUGS, the 1988 horror film from director Juan Piquer Simón, based on the novel by Shaun Hutson, that sees the town of Ashton tormented by irradiated slugs out to kill! Well, eat, but it’s essentially the same thing! But…
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Imagine a world where alien creatures own humans like pets and everyone speaks French. Also, nothing else in this world makes any sense. There are sex orgies. Alien food comes in the form of floating air pockets. Meditation takes the form of an acid trip. Aliens use vacuum cleaners and bowling balls as military equipment. …
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In this episode, we discuss 1985’s Making Contact aka Joey, from director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) which follows a little boy who makes friends with an alien. No, sorry, a doll. A ventriloquist’s doll. Because his house is haunted. No, sorry, that’s the house nearby, which is owned by the Bates family. Okay, the film…
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The Oil War has come and gone, leaving the world a disaster unless you know how to make fuel out of chicken poop, or are welcomed into a friendly yet horny enclave of survivors, or if you own the biggest semi-truck in all of New Zealand. So sit back and pour yourself a glass of…
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Are you considering the glamorous world of modeling? Before you do, please listen to this episode. We watched Covergirl and learned a ton. For example, you will live in a lavish dormitory in NY where you’ll need to share a single with your model friends? You will get in huge bubble bath fights. Your cocktails…
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James Lawrence of the The Iron Sequel joins us to discuss the hixploitation film BLACK OAK CONSPIRACY!
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Esquire writer and podcast host Dave Holmes (Homophilia, Troubled Waters) joins us to talk about the best time of year, Fraternity Vacation Season. Starring Stephen Geoffreys, Cameron Dye, Sheree J. Wilson and some other guy too (Timothy something?) in a quest to either win a jacuzzi, or a bet, or defeat the Police Chief of…
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Omega Syndrome is a lot of things. It’s a kidnapping movie. It’s about a writer going up against an underground white supremacist group in Los Angeles. It’s also about cottage cheese diets, the danger of eating too much sugar, and the value of the yellow pages. What it’s not is a high-octane action movie.
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One of the only New Word Pictures movies to not make money. It’s easy to see why – it’s about cockfighting. When you make a movie about cockfighting, you have to show a lot of cocks fighting which makes it a hard watch. On a positive note, we learned Eric used to love The Squirrel…
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