The Half Hour of Power

Brandon and I discuss Alien Romulus. Is it enough to cram nostalgia in a movie?

Plot: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

In this throwback episode to our Blogtalk days, Jesse and I discuss The Rock's Hercules movie!

Plot: Having endured his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord.

Is the new Crow movie an uninspired cash grab? Of course, it is! Brandon and I try to make sense of this mess.

Plot: Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save the love of his life, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking revenge.

In this throwback episode to our BlogTalk days, Jesse and I discuss the Eric Bana Horror film, Deliver Us From Evil! Plot: New York police officer Ralph Sarchie investigates a series of crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest, schooled in the rites of exorcism, to combat the possessions that are terrorizing their city.

Brandon and I discuss this odd, desperate news.

Why they cannot say no? Mark Hamill could not do it. Harrison Ford could not do it. The list goes on. Someday, one of them will say NO!

Brandon and I are back! Our apologies for taking so long! We finally discussed the new Apes movie! How does it stack up against the others?

Plot: Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

Brandon and I have reached the end of this travesty. The show never got better. It never did anything well...except waste Star Wars!

Plot: Past tragedies are revisited in the light of new truth, and a surprise choice leads the way to an uncertain future.

In this throwback episode to our Blogtalk days, Jesse and I discuss our love of Takashi Miike. If you have not seen one of his movies, for shame on you!

We made it to episode 7! How can it be that this show never improves? It never does!

Plot: A bitter truth is revealed.

Brandon and I discuss the horror film, In A Violent Nature. It is a different take on the slasher film. Enjoy!

Plot: When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 60-year old crime, his body is resurrected and becomes hellbent on retrieving it.

Brandon and I continue our journey through the new Star Wars show, The Acolyte. Unfortunately, we are bearing witness to something atrocious.

Plot: On a distant island, unsettling questions about identity and destiny arise.

Brandon and I take on the new Russell Crowe demon movie, The Exorcism! Is it better than the Pope's Exorcist?

Plot: A troubled actor begins exhibiting disruptive behavior while shooting a horror film. His estranged daughter wonders if he's slipping back into his past addictions or if there's something more sinister at play.

Brandon and I continue with the Acolyte! This episode gives us the Villain reveal, and lightsaber fights! Is the episode good or passable because of those two things? Nope!

Plot: In a dense jungle, the Jedi are put to the test when they confront a rising darkness.

Brandon and I try to make sense of all the DEEP HURTING The Acolyte is inflicting on the world.

Plot: Racing to the next target, the Jedi head to a new world as they close in on the clever assassin.

Brandon and I discuss the sad Blair Witch news.

Brandon and I brace ourselves for more DEEP HURTING with the 3rd episode in Star Wars: The Acolyte Series!

Plot: On a mysterious planet, the tragic journey of two sisters begins.

Brandon and I discuss the first two episodes of the new Star Wars show. We are prepared for some Deep Hurting!

Plot: An investigation into a shocking crime spree pits a respected Jedi Master against a dangerous warrior from his past. As more clues emerge, they travel down a dark path where sinister forces reveal all is not what it seems…

Mike Flanagan is helming the new Exorcist Movie. He sounds like he does not want to and that Blumhouse hates all of us! Brandon and I discuss the absurdity of it all!

https://www.cbr.com/mike-flanagan-exorcist-movie-long-monologues/

Brandon, Marc, and I discuss the new Taika Waititi version of Time Bandits. It made Terry Gilliam walk off the set. Hmmm...

https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/05/24/in-apparent-avoid-offense-taika-waititis-time-bandits-tv-remake-will-not-feature-dwarfs/

Brandon and I are joined by Godzilla Superfan, Brett, to discuss the new Monsterverse throwdown...Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire!

Plot: Two ancient titans, Godzilla and Kong, clash in an epic battle as humans unravel their intertwined origins and connection to Skull Island's mysteries.

Brandon and I discuss the trailer for the new Crow movie. Is this a remake, a reboot, or a reimagining? Who knows anymore as all those terms are now used interchangeably. This movie is based on the same book as the 1994 film The Crow. Why do they do this? Why do they not learn the lessons of the previous Crow sequels? They never learn and never will.

Marc of the Toys of a Time Gone By joins me for a brief discussion of Comic Book and Horror Movies! Alas! Alack! Brandon could not be one with us...next time...next time!

Jesse and I discuss the second Captain America movie! Journey back in time with us to when the Marvel Cinematic Universe was still EXCITING! This is a Throwback episode to our Blogtalk days!

Plot: As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.

Brandon and I discuss the Passion of the Christ on the 20th anniversary of the release of the film.

Plot: Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.

In this episode from our BlogTalk days, Jesse and I discuss the Darren Aronofsky movie, Noah. It is now ten years old. Is it better now?

Plot: Noah is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.

In this throwback to our Blogtalk days, Jesse and I discuss the 1987 Predator film. Directed by John McTiernan! Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, R.G. Armstrong, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, and Kevin Peter Hall! Predator is and always will be a classic!

Plot: A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Brandon and I finally tackled the Casper Van Dein epic...Christmas Twister!

Plot: On Christmas Day the Texas area to the southwest of Fort Worth is struck by a massive storm sprouting several severe tornadoes.

Jesse and I discuss the 1984 Terminator in this throwback episode to our Blogtalk days.

Plot: A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.

Chris sits in for Jesse as we discuss the Mad Scientist movie...The Human Centipede! This show is from our Blogtalk radio days! Enjoy this trip to the Mad Scientist's lair!

Plot: A mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists to reassemble them into a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others' rectums.

Here is an outtake from our Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull show that Brandon and I thought would be fun to share!

Brandon and I re-evaluate Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! Is it as bad as we remember? Is it as bad as people say it is? Join us as we uncover the mystery of the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!

Plot: Indiana Jones becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.

Brandon and I discuss our three favorite films of 2023. We also discuss what we think is wrong with Warner Brothers and the state of movie-making today!

Jesse and I tackle Peter Jackson's King Kong in this throwback episode from our Blogtalk days!

Plot: A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.

Join Jesse and me as we journey to Skull Island and take on the Classic King Kong from 1933!

Brandon and I discuss our love of Doctor Who! We combined this episode with the 50th anniversary Doctor Who episode Jesse and I did in 2013!

More silliness from Exorcist Believer! It is the gift that keeps on giving! Linda Blair speaks about her cameo in the newest Exorcist movie!

https://www.cbr.com/the-exorcist-linda-blair-cameo-blumhouse-sequel/

Brandon and I are back with Blackenstein!

Plot: Eddie is a Vietnam war veteran who loses both his arms and his legs when he steps on a land mine. A brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs, but his assistant switches the DNA injections, transforming him into a huge hulking monster.

Brandon and I join forces with Jesse and I from 2019 to discuss one of the best films ever made...The Bride of Frankenstein!

Plot: Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

Brandon and I discuss the very odd Mary Shelley's Frankenstein! Is this the movie that is closest to the book as the title suggests?

Plot: When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.

Brandon, and discuss the 1931 Frankenstein. We have combined this episode with an episode Jesse and I did in 2016 from our Blogtalk days. It is good to be able to share this with all of you...And if you still have not seen the 1931 Frankenstein...SEE IT!

Plot: Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

Continuing our journey with re-animated corpses, Brandon and I come to the Hammer classic...The Curse of Frankenstein!

Plot: While awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a creature he built and brought to life - only for it to behave not as he intended.

Here we go. Brandon and I talk about the newest entry into the Exorcist movie series...The Exorcist 4...sometimes known as The Exorcist: Believer!

Plot: When two girls disappear into the woods and return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, the father of one girl seeks out Chris MacNeil, who's been forever altered by what happened to her daughter fifty years ago.

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Brandon and I take on Hallmark's Frankenstein! This one from 2004 stars William Hurt, Donald Sutherland, Luke Goss, and Alec Newman! How close to the novel is this one? How much does it get right?

Plot: When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and swears revenge.

Brandon and I discuss Frankenstein: The True Story! Is this the best movie adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel?

When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.

Brandon and I discuss the very first film version of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein! This was produced by the Edison Company and released in 1910! This is an absolutely fascinating film to behold! Follow the link to watch this for yourself!

The first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ENQibFW9w

Marc and I discuss the absurdness of J.J. Abrams working on a new Krull movie! Will the madness never end?!

Brandon and I journey back to Dracula in, The Last Voyage of the Demeter!

A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo.

In this throwback episode to our Blogtalk days, Jesse and I discuss the Hammer Horror movie, The Quiet Ones!

A university professor and a team of students conduct an experiment on a young woman, uncovering terrifyingly dark, unexpected forces in the process.

It is here! Brandon and I discuss our thoughts on the Superman movie, Man of Steel, on its 10th anniversary! How does it hold up? Have our thoughts on the movie changed from 10 years ago?

Plot Synopsis: An alien child is evacuated from his dying world and sent to Earth to live among humans. His peace is threatened when other survivors of his home planet invade Earth.

Brandon and I discuss the 70's classic, Grizzly! Andrew Prine and Christopher George fight Jaws on Land!

An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving it up to a Park Ranger to save the day.

We go way back to January 2014!  In this throwback episode, Jesse and I discuss what movies we are looking forward to for the year of 2014!

Jesse and I discuss our love of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 in this throwback episode to our Blogtalk days.

Brandon and I tackle the most anticipated Valentines's Day movie of ALL TIME!  Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey!  Grab some Honey coated popcorn, sit back, and enjoy..Piglet...Pooh, and a rampage that Leatherface would envy!

Plot Synopsis:

After Christopher Robin abandons them for college, Pooh, and Piglet embark on a bloody rampage as they search for a new source of food.

Taglines: 

A horror retelling of the famous legend of Winnie-The-Pooh

This ain't no bedtime story

We'll be friends forever, won't we?

Jesse and I discuss the fun he had working at a Haunted Attraction during the Halloween season of 2013!  Join us for this look back at the first year of the Half Hour of Power!

Marc sits in for Jesse on this throwback episode to our blogtalk days!  We discuss Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992)

Marc sits in for Brandon for this episode!  Marc and I discuss what Leslie Odom Jr. said..."The Exorcist reboot will be really scary and fun".  Let us hope it is good and scary.   

https://collider.com/exorcist-reboot-leslie-odom-jr-content-comments/

Jeremy and I discuss some of our favorite horror movies from the 1980s!  This is a throwback episode from our Blogtalk days.  This episode is from October 2013.  Jesse was out working at a Haunted House, and Jeremy graciously sat in for him.  Please sit back and compare some of our favorite 80s horrors to yours!

Brandon and I take on the newest Chainsaw movie...Texas Chainsaw Massacre!  

Plot Synopsis:

After 48 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.

Taglines:

In 1974, The World Witnessed One of the Most Bizarre Crimes in the Annals of American History. In 2022, The Face of Madness Returns.

In this throwback episode to our Blogtalk days, Jesse and I discuss the Breaking Bad TV show!

Plot Synopsis:

A chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with a former student in order to secure his family's future.

Brandon and I discuss this semi-sequel to Werner Herzog's 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre.  Klaus Kinski is back!  Christopher Plummer and Donald Pleasence try to find and destroy Nosferatu!  Can they do it this time?

Plot Synopsis:

Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.

In this throwback episode to our Blogtalk days, Jesse and I discuss the fun we had at the 2013 HorrorHound Weekend!  Guests included Robert England, Robert Russler, Mark Patton...and many more!

Jesse and I discuss the third film in the Pitch Black series, Riddick!

Plot Synopsis:

Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick's past.

Taglines:

Rule the Dark

Survival Is His Revenge

Brandon and I discuss our favorite movies of 2022.  Our criteria for this show was, the movie had to be new to us in 2022.  The movie could have come out any year, we just have to have seen it for the first time in 2022.  That does not mean we do not have any picks from 2022!

Jesse, Brandon, and I discuss the Summer of 2013 in this throwback to our Blogtalk days!  Can Brandon change our minds about Man of Steel this time?

Oh no!  Not another creepy doll, AI horror movie!  Brandon and I discuss the PG-13 horror robot movie M3gan! 

Plot Synopsis:

A robotics engineer at a toy company builds a life-like doll that begins to take on a life of its own.

Taglines:

Friendship has evolved.

She's more than a toy. She's family.

In this throwback episode from our Blogtalk days, Jesse and I discuss the 2014 Robocop!  No squeal for this one!  That is a good trend!

Plot Synopsis:

In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy, a loving husband, father and good cop, is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer.

Taglines:

We've got the future under control.

Your move

Crime has a new enemy.

Brandon, Marc, and I discuss the Christmas Classic - Santa Claus: The Movie! 

Plot Synopsis:

The legend of Santa Claus is put in jeopardy when an unscrupulous toy manufacturer attempts to take over Christmas.

Taglines:

This year he REALLY IS coming to town.

Guess who's coming to town!

The legend comes to life.

Seeing is believing!

Santa Claus. The spirit of Christmas. But who is he really?

From the team who brought the three Superman blockbusters to the screen comes a story to stir the imagination - and warm the heart.

In this throwback to our Blogtalk days, Jesse and I travel to The World's End!  Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star in this Pub crawl comedy!

Plot Synopsis:

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from twenty years earlier unwittingly become humanity's only hope for survival.

Taglines:

Good food. Fine ales. Total Annihilation.

Prepare to Get Annihilated

One Night. Six Friends. Twelve Pubs. Total Annihilation.

Now they're going home, but it feels like another planet.

Drink responsibly.

Join us for a throwback to our Blogtalk days!  Jesse and I discuss the Martin Scorsese movie, The Wolf of Wall Street.

Plot Synopsis:

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.

Taglines:

Earn. Spend. Party.

More is never enough

Bob Carter passed away in 2013.  Bob Carter created the Horror Host Sammy Terry.  Jesse and I discuss our love of Sammy Terry and Horror hosts.  Bob Carter's son Mark, continues what his father started.  Thank you Bob and Mark!  Long live Sammy Terry!  Join us in this throwback episode from our blogtalk days!

Avatar 2 is here!  13 years in the making!  Brandon and I discuss this movie, immersion, 2D, 3D, and HFR 3D!

Plot Synopsis:

Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.

In this throwback episode to our Blogtalk days, we discuss the classic western, Tombstone!

Plot Synopsis:

A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.

Taglines:

Justice Is Coming

Every town has a story. Tombstone has a legend.

Brandon and I discuss the immortal Christmas Classic...Ernest Saves Christmas!

Plot Synopsis:

Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor.

Taglines:

A holiday comedy unlike any other!

He's back! And this time...

In this throwback to our Blog Talk days, Jesse and I discuss the Conjuring! 

Plot Synopsis:

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.

Taglines:

Evil Loves Innocence.

Based on the true case files of the Warrens.

Brandon and I discuss the Christmas action flick Violent Night!

Plot Synopsis:

When a group of mercenaries attack the estate of a wealthy family, Santa Claus must step in to save the day (and Christmas).

Taglines:

You better watch out.

In this throwback episode to our Blog Talk days, Jesse and I discuss the Guillermo del Toro film...Pacific Rim!

Plot Synopsis:

As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.

Taglines:

Go big or go extinct

To fight monsters we created monsters

Brandon and I go back to Dracula with Son of Dracula!  Lon Chaney Jr. stars as the Count!  Mist!  Bats!  Intrigue!  Join us for Son of Dracula!

Plot Synopsis:

When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.

Taglines:

Can You Take It? More Startling . . . More Blood-Curdling Than Anything You've Ever Seen! (print ad - Lubbock Avalanche Journal - Palace Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - March 26, 1945)

LON CHANEY -- MORE THRILLING! MORE TERRIFYING! As History's Blackest Curse Strikes Again!

BLOOD on his lips...! DOOM in his eyes...! an accursed VAMPIRE!

WOULD YOU BECOME A VAMPIRE FOR ETERNAL LOVE? (Print Ad-Philadelphia Inquirer, ((Philadelphia, Penna.)) 12 March 1944)

More Startling...More Blood-Curdling Than Anything You've Ever Saw Before! (print ad - Lubbock Avalanche Journal - Palace Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - April 2, 1944)

Chill and Thrill to Dracula's Curse!

In this throwback to our Blog Talk days, Reid joins Jesse and I as we discuss the Star Wars thing.

Brandon and I have an interesting discussion with Justin and Brendon about why they enjoy Halloween Ends!

We journey back to our Blog Talk days!  Ray Harryhausen passed away May 7th, 2013.  His influence on films continues to this day.  Join Jesse and I from our 2013 Ray Harryhausen tribute show!

In our Halloween 2022 wrap up show, we discuss some of the things we just did not get to in the shows.  Brandon talks about his impressions of the Dracula novel after his first read through.  We discuss some TV shows and just have fun!  Join us for Dracula: Odds and Ends! Why can't they get the movies right?  The world may never know!

We journey back to 2013 to the first Half Hour of Power Halloween Special!  Brandon joins me to discuss Universal Studios Monsters!  

Brandon, Marc, and I discuss Halloween Ends.  

Plot:

The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode comes to a spine-chilling climax in the final installment of this trilogy.

This throwback episode combines 2 episodes where we talk about which Dracula movie is most like the book!

Brandon , Marc, Jesse and I discuss Nosferatu!  We wove a new episode into a past episode!  Nosferatu turns 100 years old this year!  Does it stand the test of time?  Yes...yes it does.

Plot:

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

Taglines:

A thrilling mystery masterpiece - a chilling psycho-drama of blood-lust.

Nosferatu drinks the blood of the young... ...the blood necessary to his own existence.

Brandon and I discuss the Dan Curtis' Dracula.  Starring Jack Palance as Dracula, written by Richard Matheson!  How does this one stack up?  Join us as we discuss the original Bram Stoker's movie!

Plot:

Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.

Brandon and I discuss Bram Stoker's Dracula!  Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with Anthony Hopkins, and Gary Oldman.  How does this one stack up?  Is this really the definitive screen telling of the Bram Stoker novel?

Plot:

The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

Taglines:

Beware

The blood is life.

Love Never Dies

We made it to our sixth Dracula movie that adapts the novel!  This one is the 1977 BBC version starring Louis Jourdan as Dracula!  How does this one stack up? 

Plot:

The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.

Taglines:

Louis Jourdan, one of film's most dashing leading men, turns chillingly sinister to portray the infamous vampire king.

Join us for Universal's Spanish version of the 1931 Dracula.  Shot on the same sets with an all Spanish cast!  Special guest Marc weighs in on his own journey with Dracula movies!

Plot:

Centuries-old vampire Dracula preys upon the innocent Eva and her friends.

Brandon and I discuss the 1979 Dracula!  Starring Frank Langella as Dracula, Laurence Olivier as VanHelsing, and Donald Pleasence as Jack Seward!  With gorgeous Gothic sets, a score by John Williams...how can this not be the definitive screen version?

Plot:

In 1913, the charming, seductive and sinister vampire Count Dracula travels to England in search of an immortal bride.

Taglines:

Throughout history, he has filled the hearts of men with terror, and the hearts of women with desire.

Throughout history, one name has inspired both horror and desire.

He has walked through centuries, untouched by time. He has seen empires rise and fall. He possesses the wisdom of the ages.

Throughout eternity, no man has ever provoked such terrible fear, and such haunting desire.

The story of the greatest lover who ever lived, died, and lived again.

Brandon and I discuss Jess Franco's Count Dracula.  This one starring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, and Klaus Kinski.  Is this one closest to the novel?

Plot:

Count Dracula, a gray-haired vampire who regains his youth by dining on the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris after he victimizes them and their loved ones.

Taglines:

Finally! The Original Version!

The moon is full... the grave is empty... and terror stalks the land!

We continue our vampire journey with, Horror of Dracula!  Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing face off in the Hammer Studios adaptation of Dracula!

Plot Synopsis: 

Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula after he accepts a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses. Harker's friend, Dr. Van Helsing, then embarks on a hunt for the predatory villain when he targets Harker's loved ones.

Taglines:

Don't Dare See It...Alone!

Important Note!! Don't Confuse This Picture With the Other DRACULA Movies! This is the NEWEST and BEST One and the ONLY ONE in TECHNICOLOR!

Sensational SHOCK and THRILL SHOW!

Every night he rises from his coffin-bed silently to seek the soft flesh, the warm blood he needs to keep himself alive!

Christopher Lee's fang-tastic, first ever performance as the Lord of the Undead.

The chill of the tomb won't leave your blood for hours... after you come face-to-face with DRACULA!

After taking a break this past September, The Half Hour of Power is back!  We begin a series of shows on Dracula movies.  We are focusing on the Dracula movies that are translations of the novel to the screen.  We begin with arguably the best known adaptation of Bram Stoker's book.  Bela Lugosi stars as the Count in the Universal Studios 1931 adaptation!  Which Dracula movie is your favorite?

"Just a moment, ladies and gentlemen! A word before you go. We hope the memories of Dracula and Renfield won't give you bad dreams, so just a word of reassurance. When you get home tonight and the lights have been turned out and you are afraid to look behind the curtains — and you dread to see a face appear at the window — why, just pull yourself together and remember that after all, there are such things as vampires!"

Plot Synopsis:

Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.

Taglines:

Carl Laemmle Presents The VAMPIRE THRILLER! (original posters)

A NIGHTMARE OF HORROR!

The story of the strangest Passion the world has ever known!

In this throwback from our blogtalk days, Jesse and I discuss our favorite 90's movies.

Brandon and I discuss Hands of Steel!  Hands of Steel is an Italian action, cyborg film inspired by the Terminator.  Hands of Steel may be the inspiration for Over the Top, Robocop, and Universal Soldier...so there ya go.

Plot:

A cyborg is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. He fails and hides in a diner in a desert run by a woman who likes him. The people who sent him are after him and so is the local arm wrestling champ.

Taglines:

30% human, 70% robot, 100% lethal.

From our blogtalk days way back from 2013, Jesse and I discuss the re make re boot re imagining trend that is always present.

Brandon and I continue with Italian animal attack films!  Cruel Jaws is up next!

Plot:

A huge shark terrorizes a beach in Florida, and the locals try everything to kill it.

Taglines:

This Time It's Even More Personal Than Last Time!

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Into The Sea Again!

New Terror Surfaces

In this episode from our blogtalk days, Jesse and I discuss the Rob Zombie movie Lords of Salem!

Plot:

Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record - a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?

Taglines:

We've been waiting... we've always been waiting.

The Lords Are Coming.

Heretic. Witch. Devil.

Brandon and I discuss the Greg McLean crocodile movie, Rogue!

Plot Synopsis:

An American journalist on assignment in the Australian outback encounters a man-eating crocodile while trapped on a rapidly flooding mud island.

Taglines: 

Welcome to the Terrortory

How Fast Can You Swim?

From the director of Wolf Creek

Brandon and I talk a little bit about what the Half Hour of Power is about and what we hope you get out of the show.

Brandon and I discuss the follow up to Killer Crocodile!  Can Anthony Crenna save the day again?

The Caribbean swamps which is to be made into a holiday resort is terrorized again by a second monstrous crocodile which is killing off anyone unfortunate to be on the water.

Brandon and I continue with Italian animal attack movies!  Killer Crocodile!  Can Anthony Crenna tame this giant beast!

A group of environmentalists arrives at a faraway tropical delta where toxic waste is being dumped. However the water also hides a giant crocodile. The corrupt local officials don't help much either.

Enjoy the list of Killer Animal Films!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_horror_films

In this episode from our Blogtalk days, Jesse and I discuss the Conjuring.

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.

Evil Loves Innocence.

Based on the true case files of the Warrens.

Join us for The Last Shark!  This is the Italian version of Jaws!  James Franciscus and Vic Morrow really need some Bat Shark Repellent, but Adam West is now where to be found!

James Franciscus tries to save hundreds of swimmers in a coastal resort after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing the area.

A quiet, restful summer in the lazy coastal town of Port Harbor is abruptly about to end.

You're what's for dinner

Jesse and I discuss the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie in this episode from our early Blogtalk days!

When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.

The leader. The brains. The attitude. And Mikey.

Mysterious. Dangerous. Reptilious. You've never seen heroes like this.

Meet the new face of justice.

Brothers become legends.

Brandon, Marc and I discuss the original 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie!  Jim Henson helped to bring the turtles in to live action!  How does it stack up?  Join us!

Four teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from a gang of criminal ninjas.

Heroes in a half shell!

Lean, Green And On The Screen.

They're mean, green and on the screen

Hey dude, this is NO cartoon!

Brandon joins me as the new co host for the Half Hour of Power!  Join us as we discuss the Mario Bava classic, Kill, Baby...Kill!  

A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.

The night brings terror! Blood chilling fear!

Coming soon to scare you!

Eerie, Horrific, Bloodcurdling!

Shiver and quiver with KILL BABY KILL

In this throwback episode to our Blogtalk days, Jesse and I discuss the birth of the summer blockbuster movie season!  

Brandon and I discuss the Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires!  This is a King Fu Horror movie co made by Hammer and the Shaw Brothers!  

While lecturing in China, Van Helsing agrees to help seven kung fu trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves.

Deadly Horrors! Dragon Thrills! The First Kung Fu Horror Spectacular!

You haven't seen Kung fu until you've seen the 7 BROTHERS and 1 SISTER take DRACULA

It's fist vs. fang in Dracula's kung-fu showdown!

The First Kung Fu Horror Spectacular!

Hammer Horror! Dragon Thrills!

SO BIG that it required 3 MOVIE COMPANIES - HAMMER HORROR! (Hammer Films - British masters of the macabre) DRAGON THRILLS! (Warner Bros. - American Kings of Kung-Fu) SHAW SPECTACLE! (Shaw Bros. - Asia's biggest film company)

Black belt vs. black magic!

Jesse and I discuss the Guillermo del Toro movie, Pacific Rim!

As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.

Go big or go extinct

To fight monsters we created monsters

Jesse and I discuss Troma Studios from this throwback episode to our blogtalk days.

Brandon joins me to discuss Futureworld!  Futureworld...the sequl to Westworld.  Is it a worthy follow up to Westworld?

Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex-employee is killed after he tips off two other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.

Where the only way to survive is to kill yourself

Futureworld - If you can afford to go there, you're lucky. If you can't, you may be luckier than you think.

Human Error destroyed Westworld. FUTUREWORLD has replaced all humans

...where they sensualize you, pleasurize you, and synthesize you...then dare you to stay alive!

Join us as we discuss the original Crow movie!  This adaptation of James O'Barr's book is a visual masterpiece.  They don't make em like this anymore.

A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder.

It Can't Rain All The Time.

Nothing is trivial.

Believe in angels.

In a world without justice, one man was chosen to protect the innocent.

Join us as we discuss Devil's Due and other found footage horrors!

After their wedding, Zach (Zach Gilford) and Samantha McCall (Allison Miller) head to the Dominican Republic for the honeymoon. The trip takes an unsettling turn when a psychic gives them an ominous warning. The newlyweds eventually make their way to a bar and get very drunk; the next morning, they remember little of the night's events. Later Sam learns that she is pregnant. However, strange physical and mental changes lead her to the realization that the pregnancy has a sinister origin.

Join us as we discuss the Black Cat episode of the Masters of Horror series!  

The Black Cat, set in 1840 Philadelphia, has the great writer Edgar Allan Poe, struggling with alcoholism, writers block, as well as being out of ideas, short on cash, and tormented by his wife Virginia's black cat that will either destroy his life or inspire him to write one of his most famous stories.

Perversity "The human thirst for self torture."

      E.A.Poe

Join us for the new Alex Garland movie, Men!

A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband.

What haunts you will find you

Join us for the found footage anthology...V/H/S!

When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.

This collection is killer.

Marc and I discuss found footage horror and the newest entry in the V/H/S horror anthology series...V/H/S/94!

A police S.W.A.T. team investigates about a mysterious VHS tape and discovers a sinister cult that has pre-recorded material which uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.

Jesse and I discuss which Dawn of the Dead did what better.  This episode is a throwback from out blogtalk days!  

Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

hen there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.

Brandon and I finally discuss The Batman!  How does it stack up?  Join us on the Half Hour of Power!

When the Riddler, a sadistic serial killer, begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.

Unmask The Truth

Join us for the Northman!  Robert Eggers 3rd movie starring Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nichole Kidman, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke, and a role that redeems him, Claes Bang!  The Northman is Poetic, Bloody, and Gorgeous!  

From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.

Conquer your fate.

Join us for Michael Crichton's directorial debut...Westworld!  You have not seen it?!  Watch it! 

A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

Gunmen Versus ROBOT Killer...they didn't stand a chance

Westworld ...where robot men and women are programmed to serve you for ...Romance ...Violence ...Anything

Boy, have we got a vacation for you...

...Where nothing can possibly go worng!

Jesse and I discuss the 2014 Godzilla film!

The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity.

The king will rise

The king arrives

The world ends, Godzilla begins

Jesse and I finally finish the Netflix Dracula.  Wow, what a rush.

Count Dracula has made it to England - a new world pulsing with fresh blood - and lays his plans to spread his foul vampire contagion, but why does he set his sights on the seemingly ordinary Lucy Westenra?

Jesse and I discuss the second episode of the 2020 Dracula series!

The crew aboard the Russian ship, The Demeter, are locked in a life-or-death struggle to stop Count Dracula before he reaches England.

Join us for Mario Bava's masterwork, The Whip and the Body.  This is a gorgeous piece of film making you just do not see very much any more! Get ready for this surreal, Gothic horror film...The Whip and the Body!

The ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorized, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly engaged to his brother.

The most deliriously romantic horror picture ever made!

Evil Horror!!!

Horror!!!! Beyond the bounds of Hell!!!!!!!!

WHAT secret haunted the castle dungeon? WHAT thing walked in the night? WHAT body lay in the coffin?

WHAT is her terrifying secret?? Is she the victim of a madman???? Or a dead man? You must see "WHAT?"!

Jesse and I discuss the first episode of the Netflix Dracula series.  This is one we originally did on blogtalk...and 6 months later, we switched platforms!  How does this Dracula stack up?  

English lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet a new client - and a legend is about to get fresh blood.

Join us as Jesse and I discuss Superman: The Movie.  Director Richard Donner brings Superman to life!  Starring Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, and Christopher Reeve as Superman!  

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.

You'll believe a man can fly.

The movie that makes a legend come to life.

Join Jesse and I as we discuss the landmark film...Pulp Fiction.  Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction is often imitated, never replicated!

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Girls like me don't make invitations like this to just anyone!

You won't know the facts until you've seen the fiction.

From the creators of 'True Romance' & 'Reservoir Dogs'

I don't smile for pictures.

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

Marc joins me for the Spainish giallo, The Corruption of Chris Miller!  Does Chris Miller really get corrupted?  Only time will tell!

Abandoned by their husband/father, a traumatized woman and her disturbed stepdaughter hire a drifter handyman at their secluded estate while a series of murders begins.

When it rains it pours...BLOOD!

See It With Someone You Can Hold Onto!

Six Brutal Murders Terrorize a Town

two women trapped alone in a locked house and a psychopathic killer is on the loose.

Jesse and I discuss the Darren Aronofsky movie Noah!  Russell Crowe IS Noah!  Jennifer Connelly IS Naameh!  Anthony Hopkins IS Methuselah!  Join us as for the ONLY Darren Aronofsky movie we did a show on!  "Noah?!  I want you to build an ark."  "Right!  What's an ark?"

Noah is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.

Rediscover the epic story of one man and the most remarkable event in our history.

The end of the world... is just the beginning.

A look into the future of humanity by looking into the past.

Join Jesse and I as we discuss the second in Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man series.

When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones.

No more secrets.

His greatest battle begins.

Rise of Electro

Join us for The Legend of Lizzie Borden!  Elizabeth Montgomery heads up this re telling of the murder of Andrew and Abby Borden!

In 1893 Massachusetts, Lizzie Andrew Borden is put on trial for murdering her father and stepmother with an axe.

Accused of the shocking murder of her parents, she must prove her innocence...or be hanged!

Could this woman commit the crime of the century?

Due to mature subject matter, parental discretion is advised.

Lizzie Borden took an ax, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, gave her father forty-one.

Jesse and I discuss the film Midsommar!  Folk horror!

A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

Join us for more 80's fun!  Gor features Jack Palance and Oliver Reed!

American professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help an oppressed country overthrow its evil king and his barbarian henchmen.

Join us for the Alex Garland sci-fi extravaganza, Annihilation!

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

Fear What's Inside

One way in. No way out.

Join us for Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak!

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.

Beware

Love makes monsters of us all.

Join us as we discuss the John Cusack movie The Raven!

When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's works, a young Baltimore detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality.

The only one who can stop a serial killer is the man who inspired him.

Join us for this throwback episode from our blogtalk days!  Continuing the folk horror theme!  We bring you the Robert Eggers horror film, The Witch!

A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

A New-England Folktale.

Evil Takes Many Forms.

We journey back into the world of Folk Horror in Eyes of Fire!  Join me for this hidden gem of witches and spirits!  

A preacher is accused of adultery, and he and his followers are chased out of town. They become stranded in an isolated forest, which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.

When America was young and Spirits of Evil reigned in a Forest of Darkness.

The Secret is sleeping in the trees

Sinister evil is waiting in the woods.

Join me for Lizzie!  Did she really give her mother 40 whacks?  Find out in this movie version of the 1892 Borden murders starring Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart!

A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of Lizzie Andrew Borden's family.

The legend of Lizzie Borden.

Her legend is written in blood.

Marc joins me for Die Hard!  Nuff said!

An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

It will blow you through the back wall of the theater!

40 Stories. Twelve Terrorists. One Cop.

40 Stories Of Sheer Adventure!

High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages and declared war. One man has managed to escape. An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.

Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.

He's the only chance anyone has got.

Join me for a dark journey through the canals of Amsterdam in this Dutch serial killer film!  The water is filthy!

A hard-boiled police detective sets out to capture a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the canals of Amsterdam.

The city is murder

The danger lies just below the surface

Be glad you're afraid. It means you're still alive.

Marc from The Toys of Time Gone By joins me to discuss the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake.  I had not seen it since it came out and thought it was time to revisit it.  Was it as bad as I remember?

We also discuss a recent article from Screen Rant about how tough it will be to reboot A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The spectre of a disfigured man haunts the children of the parents who murdered him, stalking and killing them in their dreams.

Never Sleep Again.

All you have to do is dream...

Welcome to Your New Nightmare.

He knows where you sleep.

Join me for Tourist Trap!  Chuck Connors stars as the proprietor of a defunct roadside attraction!  Creepy dolls stalk the viewer for 90 minutes of sheer terror!

A group of young friends stranded at a secluded roadside museum are stalked by a masked assailant who uses his telekenetic powers to control the attraction's mannequins.

Join us for a discussion on Hammer Horror!  Christopher Lee!  Peter Cushing!  Michael Gough!  Terence Fisher!  Michael Carreras!  Jimmy Sangster!  Dracula!  Frankenstein!  The Mummy!  Witches, Werewolves, and Zombies!  Hammer has it all! 

Jesse and I shared a love for Hammer Horror!  Here is an episode from the beginning months of the Half Hour of Power!

Join us for the 1962 classic, Burn Witch Burn...aka Night of the Eagle!  Working from a script by Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, director Sidney Hayers has created a gorgeous hidden gem of a movie!  Filmed in beautiful Black and White, do you dare experience, Burn Witch Burn!

A woman who may be a witch defends her husband from forces attempting to harm him.

Witch or Woman, What Was It?

You Must See It From the Beginning To Feel The Shock-Impact of the End!

The Most Terrifying Screen Experience of Your Life!

Do the undead demons of hell still arise to terrorize the world?

Damien Booker joins me to discuss the Expanded Cinematic Universe!  What is an expanded cinematic universe?  What is a sequel?  What is a spin off?  We discuss and try to answer these burning questions!

Marc and Damien join me for Spiderman: No Way Home!  We discuss the new Spiderman movie.  We also go into if there could or should be An Amazing Spiderman 3 with Andrew Garfield!

With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

The Multiverse Unleashed.

Special guest Marc joins me for the Clint Howard classic, Ice Cream Man!  Come and get your Butter Brickle Waffle Cone!

Poor Gregory. After being released from the Wishing Well Sanatorium, all he wants to do is make the children happy. So Gregory reopens the old ice cream factory, and all the unappreciative brats are reprocessed into the flavor of the day.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the...

This is the last episode with Jesse Handlon.  We recorded this at the beginning of November 2021.  We intended to re record it as we were not happy with audio issues we were having.  Upon re listening to it, the audio is good not great.

Join us for the hidden gem Just Before Dawn!

Five young people venture into the backwoods of Oregon to claim a property, and find themselves being stalked by a hulking, machete-wielding psychopath.

Will Anyone Survive Those Hours Just Before Dawn?

The nightmare has begun --

Don't camp in the woods... ...Just don't!

The nightmare has just begun

Uneartherd horror from the director of Squirm

The Nightmare Has Begun

From the director of 'Squirm'

Join us for Maniac Cop 2!  We intended to re-do this episode.  We had some technical difficulties recording it and were afraid it would be too disjointed.  Upon re-listening to it, the episode flows together well.  We recorded this mid November 2021 and is one of the last new episodes with Jesse as co host. 

A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.

You have the right to remain silent forever.....Again!

You'll be screaming blue murder.

You Have The Right To Remain Silent...Forever!

Keep off the streets... because he's back on the beat.

January 3rd 2022 Co-Founder and Co-Host of this podcast, The Half Hour of Power went to the great Cinema in the sky.  I am joined by Jeremy Riley and Marc Scrudato as we take a trip down memory lane remembering our friend, Jesse Handlon.  Needless to say, this is the most difficult show we have done.  Jesse would want to show to go on.  We will miss you Jesse Handlon!  Until we meet again.

Join us as we compare the two Bram Stoker's Dracula movies, the 1974 movie directed by Dan Curtis and the 1992 movie directed by Frances Ford Coppola! 

The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.

Join us for Killer Nerd!  This last episode of 2021 comes to us from our Blogtalk days!  It has been a busy year end here at the Half Hour of Power!  We look forward to the new year and new episodes!  Until then, enjoy Toby Radloff as Killer Nerd!

A nerd is harassed by punks, and is the object of ridicule at work. Enamoured by a co-worker, he buys a tape series on how to be cool, summons up his nerve, and goes to the co-worker's house, only to find her in the clutches of another co-worker. Dejected, he goes out on the town and parties with some babes, but when their friends, who turn out to be the same punks that harassed him earlier, trash him again something snaps, and the irritants in his life begin experiencing an attrition problem.

Join us for a throwback episode from our Blogtalk days!  Here, we discuss the films the great Dario Argento!  Deep Red, Suspiria, Opera, suspense and terror!  The one and only Dario Argento!

Join us for A Christmas Horror Story!  It took William Shatner and three directors to bring us this anthology Christmas horror movie!  This is the second episode we did for our Youtube channel!  Enjoy Santa Claus fighting Krampus!

Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, Santa slays evil.

You Better Watch Out

Join us as we look back at our first full year on Anchor.  We will talk a bit about past shows and what our favorites were.

We believe we have fixed the sound issues we have had for the past two episodes!

Join us for the Clint Howard masterpiece Evilspeak!  Bullies beware...Clint Howard is coming for you!

To our dismay, this episode contains some audio issues that we were unaware of at the time of recording it.  We have been changing and experimenting with our set up to capture the best audio for our listeners.  Unfortunately, we fell short here.  We will have the issue fixed for future installments.  Thank you for understanding, and thank you for listening!

An outcast military cadet taps into a way to summon demons and cast spells on his tormentors through his computer.

Data incomplete... Human blood needed.

Data incomplete... Human blood required. Thus spake the computer.

Remember the little kid you used to pick on? Well, he's a big boy now.

Nicholas Cage has been cast as Dracula in the upcoming Renfield movie.  Join us as we discuss our thoughts on this bit of casting and thoughts about Dracula movies in general!

To our dismay, this episode contains some audio issues that we were unaware of at the time of recording it.  We have been changing and experimenting with our set up to capture the best audio for our listeners.  Unfortunately, we fell short here.  We will have the issue fixed for future installments.  Thank you for understanding, and thank you for listening!  

Join us for the Luca Guadagnino directed Suspiria (2018)!  Not to be confused with the far superior Dario Argento directed Suspiria (1977)!

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Tremble tremble!!! The witches are back...

Give your soul to the dance.

Join us for Deathstalker 2!  Sword and sorcery from the 80s!

In this parody of the sword and sorcery films, a princess is deposed by an evil sorcerer. She enlists the aid of Deathstalker to battle the forces of evil, including a clone of the princess, and win back her kingdom.

"Deathstalker? Is that your first name or your last name?"

Join us as we travel through the ancient lands of magic, mystery, swords and sandals!

A lone warrior nicknamed Deathstalker is sent by a witch on a quest to find a sword, a chalice, and an amulet, two of which are held by the wicked king and sorcerer, Munkar.

The Might of the Sword... The Evil of the Sorcerer...

Journey to an age of awesome magic

The last great warrior king.

Join us for Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers!  After being absent from Halloween 3, Michael Myers is back!  Was is worth the wait?  We will discuss this and how Halloween 4 is the superior version of Halloween Kills!

Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?

Ten Years Ago HE Changed The Face Of Halloween. Tonight HE'S BACK!

Ten years ago, on the night of October 31st, a small Midwestern town fell victim to an escaped killer. Under the cover of darkness, he carried out the most horrifying mass murder on record. Sixteen people, in cold blood! Ever since that night, no one has forgotten his name... and Halloween has never been the same. Now, Michael Myers has come home. He has returned for one more night of unholy TERROR!

HE'S BACK!

Horror has returned to Haddonfield

It's gonna be one hell of a family reunion!

Join us as we revisit Yor the Hunter from the Future!  

A warrior seeks his true origins in a seemingly prehistoric wasteland.

He was a powerful warrior from the future, trapped in a prehistoric land, battling for the survival of his people.

He is from a future world. Trapped in prehistoric times. Searching for his past. A hunter of incredible power and strength. In his quest for his origin, he and the woman he loves must fight hostile tribes. Battle deadly beasts. And try to survive the violent forces of a newly born Earth.

Cinemark has recently stated they are going to run Netflix movies.  Regal and AMC are not going to do that.  Is it really such a bad thing to show a movie produced by Netflix on your theatre screens?  I guess people will vote with their dollars!  

Join us for Maniac Cop!  Bruce Campbell and Tom Atkins try to stop Robert Z'Dar from killing indiscriminately in New York City!  Can they stop Maniac Cop?

A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.

You have the right to remain silent. Forever.

Sometimes help can be dangerous.

He Prefers To Kill, Instead Of Protect

Join us as for the latest in the Texas Chainsaw series...Leatherface.  Not to be confused with Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.  Can a young Leatherface beat the odds and grow up to be an old Leatherface?   

A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.

Witness the beginning of your end.

Meet the world's most ruthless serial killer.

The Legend Lives On...

Leatherface: The origin story of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

The Monster Lies Within.

Join us for It Waits! Can Cerina Vincent and Dominic Zamprogna lead unsuspecting hikers away from the monster?  Or are these hikers just that dense?  Find out!

A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park.

It hungers for human carnage... and it will wait no longer.

It lurks... It prowls...

Join us for The Cleansing Hour!  Watch fake priest Father Max exorcise demons live on the internet!  Can he succeed?  Find out! 

Another successful "exorcism" streamed online - or so it seems. Can the "exorcist", producer and their team bring the ratings up? Ratings skyrocket, when a real demon gets involved.

The perfect internet hoax just went to hell.

Join us as we discuss Zack Snyder's Justice League!

Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.

Us United

Join us for the Rock n Roll horror extravaganza...Black Roses!  Can the Demons steal your children with Rock n Roll?  Black Roses sets out to answer that question!

Demons hypnotize the general public by posing as a rock and roll band.

Turn up the volume, turn down the lights, but don't watch it alone!

Live for one night only ... that's all they ever need.

Join us for the Alfred Hitchcock classic...Psycho!  Based on the novel by Robert Bloch, does Psycho still hold up today?  Of course it does!

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

The picture you MUST see from the beginning... Or not at all!... For no one will be seated after the start of... Alfred Hitchcock's greatest shocker Psycho.

It Is _Required_ That You See Psycho From The Very Beginning!

Don't give away the ending - it's the only one we have!

Join us as we discuss the book by Jay Anson...The Amityville Horror!  It works as a documentation of the Lutz family in the houe.  Does it work as just a stand alone horror novel?

In December 1975, George and Kathy Lutz and their three children moved into the house. After 28 days, the Lutzes fled the house, claiming to have been terrorized by paranormal phenomena while living there.

Join us for Blood Beat!  Have you ever wanted to see a movie set in rural Wisconsin that featured a Samurai running around?  Now your dreams are realized in Blood Beat!

A young woman accompanies her boyfriend to his family's rural Wisconsin home for Christmas, where the spirit of a Japanese samurai begins wreaking havoc on them.

Who can survive it's reign of terror?

A force of evil

Join us for Halloween Kills!  This is the second in the David Gordon Green trilogy.  Does it keep up the quality of Halloween 2018?  

The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode continues in the next thrilling chapter of the Halloween series.

Join us for Hell Night!  Hell Night finds Linda Blair, Peter Barton and, Vincent Van Patten fighting off ghosts in a haunted mansion...or is it something else that lurks in the shadows!?

Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion, where they are stalked by the monstrous survivor of a family massacre years earlier.

Pray for day!

Join us for the 80's epic, Hack O Lantern!  Part Horror movie!  Part pumpkin farming training video!  Watch Hy Pyke eat the sets in this wondrous fairy tale of deceit and intrigue!

A kindly old grandfather is actually the leader of a murderous satanic cult which sacrifices its victims on Halloween.

Join us for April Fool's Day!  This film Amy Steel from Friday the 13th Part 2 and Thomas Wilson from Back to the Future!  What can go wrong?

Nine college students staying at a friend's remote island mansion begin to fall victim to an unseen murderer over the April Fool's Day weekend, but nothing is as it seems.

Last one out's... a goner. ...A cut above the rest.

Guess who's going to be the life of the party?

Childish pranks turn into a bloody battle for survival!

Good friends... with some time to kill.

Join eight guests who are dying to have fun.

It's the party to end all parties!

Get ready to party till you drop!

Don't let the joke be on you!

Join us for War Gods of the Deep!  Vincent Price, Tab Hunter and David Thomlinson star in the Jacques Tourneur directed take on Edgar Allan Poe's City in the Sea!

In 1903, in Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.

They Became Pawns In A War Beneath The Waves!

A fantastic journey to a lost empire one thousand fathoms beneath the sea!

They dared the most fantastic journey that has ever challenged imagination!

Victor Miller wins the lawsuit...did the fans win?  We also discuss the similar lawsuit between Disney and the creators of the Marvel characters...Spider-Man, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, and Ant Man...to name a few.  How is all this going to shake out?  Will the fans win?

Join us for Death Ship!  Watch as George Kennedy and Richard Crenna fight to survivor the ghost ship of a Nazi torture freighter!  

A mysterious ghostly freighter rams and sinks a modern day cruise ship whose survivors climb aboard the freighter and discover that it is a World War II Nazi torture vessel.

What in the living hell is on board?

Those who survive the ghost ship are better off dead!

Out Of A Sea Of Endless Terror... Into A World Of Eternal Damnation.

It's not just a ship... it's a killing machine!

Join us for James Wan's Malignant!  Malignant is an original movie with an original story!  It is not a sequel, reboot, re imaging, or spin off!  It is however, inspired by Italian giallo movies such as Dario Argento's Tenebrae, Phenomena, and Trauma.

Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.

A new vision of terror.

Join us for Brett Leonard's first feature film...The Dead Pit!

A renegade doctor is shot dead and entombed with his fiendish experiments in the basement of an abandoned wing of a mental hospital. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman is admitted with amnesia, and her arrival is marked by an earthquake - which cracks the seal to the Dead Pit, freeing the evil doctor to continue his work.

Drop In Anytime.

They're out. (US VHS)

When the dead start to walk you'd better start running...

Join us for Amityville Horror 2: The Possession! Burt Young as Anthony Montelli and Andrew Prine (minus his famous The Evil Pants) as Father Tom, Face of against The Amityville Horror before George and Kathy Lutz!  Can they win?!

A dysfunctional family moves into a new house, which proves to be satanic, resulting in the demonic possession of their teenage son.

If these walls could talk...they would shriek!

In "The Amityville Horror", the Lutzes got out of this house alive. This family was not so lucky.

In 1976 a New York family fled this house with their lives. The previous owners weren't so lucky . . . This is their story!

Don't forget to check under the bed...

The night of February 5, 1976, George and Kathleen Lutz fled their home in Amityville, New York. They got out alive! Their living nightmare shocked audiences around the world in "The Amityville Horror". But before them, another family lived in this house and were caught by the original evil. They weren't so lucky... this is their story!

Join us as we take on the Retreat!  The Retreat comes to us from director Bruce Wemple!  The Retreat seems to be the beginning of the Wendigo/Sasquatch shared movie universe or the Wempleverse!

A man finds himself alone and lost after a horrifying encounter with a monster during a backpacking trip into the Adirondack High Peaks. Now, he must fight for his life, and sanity, as he battles the evil Native American legend, The Wendigo.

There's something waiting in the mountains.

Join us for the last of the original Psycho movies.  Psycho 4 is a 1990 made for cable movie.  This is Anthony Perkins last turn as Norman Bates.  Is this a fitting end? 

Norman Bates recalls his childhood with his abusive mother while fearing his unborn child will inherit his split personality disorder.

Before the terror can end, see how it all began...

You've met Norman... now meet Mother.

Join us for the feature directorial debut of Anthony Perkins...Psycho III.  How does this entry stack up?

Norman Bates falls in love with a fallen nun who stays at the Bates Motel alongside a drifter and a curious reporter. Meanwhile, "Mother" is still watching.

Unlock the terror. Unlock the fear. And enter into the all new nightmare of...

Norman Bates is back to normal. But Mother's off her rocker again!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the shower!

Norman Bates is back home with Mother again!

The most shocking of them all.

Join us for Psycho 2!  Anthony Perkins returns as Norman Bates in Psycho 2!  Written by Tom Holland, and directed by Richard Franklin, is this a worthy follow up to Hitchcock's original? 

After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.

The mystery continues...

It's 22 years later, Norman Bates is coming home and he's back in business.

Norman Bates is back. Coming home was a bad mistake!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the shower!

It's 22 years later, and Norman Bates is coming home.

The Bates Motel is back in business!

Join us for the new Anna Shields and Bruce Wemple Bigfoot movie, Dawn of the Beast!  Can the campers escape Bigfoot this time?  Wait, there is something else in the woods that maybe even Bigfoot can't kill!  Let's get ready to rumble!  Bigfoot in one corner and Wendigo in the other!

A group of graduate students get more than they bargained for while searching for the legendary Bigfoot. Not only is he real, but there's something far more evil lurking in the shadows, the Wendigo.

The legends are real ... and they kill.

An Albanian castle with bloodthirsty creatures is inherited by a young woman.

Join us as we discuss the Castle Freak remake!  Is this version really a bold re-imagining of Stuart Gordon's horror classic?  How necessary was this?

Join us for this throwback episode!  Man of Steel is the worst Superman movie ever made.  We had a listener who wanted to come on our show and defend it!  We obliged!  Can our minds be changed about the movie?  Can we change our listener's mind?  Tune in and find out!

An alien child is evacuated from his dying world and sent to Earth to live among humans. His peace is threatened, when other survivors of his home planet invade Earth.

Accomplish Wonder.

Join us for the original Haunted House movie...The Amityville Horror circa 1979!  Margot Kidder and that molten mountain of lust, James Brolin have high hopes for their new family home!  The house tells Rod Steiger and the family to, "GET OUT!"  Rod Steiger cries and the family gets out!

Newlyweds and their three kids move into a large house where a mass murder was committed. They start to experience strange, inexplicable manifestations which have strong effects on everyone living or visiting the house.

Houses don't have memories.

From the bestseller that made millions believe in the unbelievable.

For God's sake, get out!

The best-selling novel about a haunted house... has become real!

Join us for the bigfoot movie to end all bigfoot movies, Monstrous!  Can bigfoot win this time?  Find out on...Monstrous!

A young woman goes searching for answers after her friend mysteriously vanishes in Whitehall, NY, an Adirondack town known for its Bigfoot sightings. She quickly learns that hiding in the woods is an evil more sinister than she could ever imagine.

Something is out there.

Join us as we discuss Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow Lawsuit!  Yep, she is suing Disney!  Grab your bucket of popcorn!

Blumhouse is planning a new Exorcist trilogy to be directed by David Gordon Green.  This is the same team that brought us 2018's Halloween. Ellen Burstyn is set to reprise her roll from the original.  Join us as we discuss the story ideas that have been released and if this is even needed.

"I think it’s going to pleasantly surprise all the sceptics out there"-Jason Blum.

Let us hope Jason is correct.

Join us as we discuss the live action He-Man movie, Masters of the Universe!  What happened here?  Why did this movie turn out this way?  Come along as we travel to Castle Grayskull in search of answers.

The heroic warrior He-Man battles against the evil lord Skeletor and his armies of darkness for control of Castle Grayskull.

From a distant galaxy... they have come to Earth.

A battle fought in the stars, now... comes to Earth.

The live-action motion picture

Only the universe could hold adventure this big!

Richard Donner probably has a film from every genre...horror, comedy, adventure, family, fantasy, action.  Join us as we remember Richard Donner...one of the best!

Join us for Seytan!  Seytan is the Turkish remake of The Exorcist.  Seytan came out in 1974.  How does it stack up?

A little girl is possessed by a demon.

A real Turkey from Turkey!

Join us for the Busy Body!  This classic comedy from William Castle features an all star comedy line up!  Sid Caesar, Dom DeLuise, Bill Dana, and the feature film debut for Richard Pryor!

Sid Caesar stars as the bumbling right hand man of mob boss Robert Ryan who is sent to find a corpse buried in a suit lined with stolen mob money.

A Joyous Comedy of Peril!

All this picture has is SEX, GANGSTERS, STRIPPERS, A MILLION STOLEN BUCKS, 3 STIFFS IN A COFFIN and some of the other little Happenings in life.

The day the Mob muffed!

Join us for novel that inspired the scariest movie of all time...William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.

Join us for Psychomania AKA The Death Wheelers!  Motorbike gang tied up in murder and mayhem! 

An psychopathic leader of a violent teen motorbike gang is spurred by his mother, a Satan-worshiping spiritual medium, into committing suicide and returning to life as an "undead".

Seven Suicides - and they roared back as The Living Dead.

The Dead Still Ride...the living howl in TERROR!

Ride with the Living Dead!

Motorcycle Maniacs on Wheels

When a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her.

Something beyond comprehension is happening to a girl on this street, in this house . . . a man has been sent for as a last resort. That man is The Exorcist.

Somewhere between science and superstition, there is another world. The world of darkness.

Nobody expected it, nobody believed it, and nobody could stop it. The one hope, the only hope: THE EXORCIST

Join us for the scariest movie of all time...The Exorcist!

A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now condemned Willy's Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronics. Fists fly, kicks land, titans clash -- and only one side will make it out alive.

Let playtime begin

2020 isn't over yet kids!

The Fun Begins This Winter

Join us for the biggest surprise of the year!  Willy's Wonderland is and enchanting romp!  Nicholas Cage fights demon robots!

Over-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced he will encounter a monster...and he does.

Be Prepared

Join us for the Belgian horror movie Cub!  Can the cub scouts escape the horrors that lurk in the woods?

A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist.

The evil lives on. . .can it be stopped?

Their minds locked together-with the most terrifying vision of all.

It's four years later...what does she remember?

Join us for Exorcist II: The Heretic.  How do you make a sequel to the most terrifying horror movie of all time?  How is a movie with talent like, John  Boorman, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, James Earl Jones, Max Von Sydow, Linda Blair, and Ennio Morricone considered one of the worst movies ever made?  We try to make sense of this in Exorcist II: The Heretic!

A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.

He's Setting Sail On The High Seas... Without A Rudder, A Compass, Or A Clue!

The contentious classic that angered a nation.

Join us for the Chris Elliott classic, Cabin Boy!  This fun, whimsical comedy was big box office flop...the horror!  Set sail with us aboard the Filthy Whore as we make our way through Hell's Bucket and some of the controversy surrounding this misunderstood gem!

MMA fighter Cole Young seeks out Earth's greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.

Get over here.

Join us for the new Mortal Kombat movie!  Can it win the tournament?  Find out!

Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu leads to the rediscovery of his faith.

Before the Legend You Know, is the Story of How Evil Began.

Join us for Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist.  This is Paul Schrader's version of the Exorcist prequel.  Is it better than Exorcist: The Beginning, or is it also no good?  We will discuss the differences between the two and which one we think works better.

A newspaper and television station funded by a pharmaceutical company want a sensation, which happens to be the discovery of King Kong on an island. He is captured and brought to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles Godzilla.

The motion picture screen beckons you to adventure that thrills the emotions with shock and terror!

The Two Mightiest Monsters Of All Time!

The two mightiest monsters of all time! ...In the most colossal conflict the screen has ever known!

The most colossal conflict the screen has ever known!

The Battle of the Century!!

Now an all-mighty all-new motion picture brings them together for the first time in the colossal class of all time!

Mighty King Kong! Mighty Godzilla!

Join us for the classic 1963 King Kong vs Godzilla!  Let them fight!

The cinema's first vampire Western! Young women in a small Western town are dying one by one of an unknown malady involving massive blood loss. The Carter family's ranch is being terrorized by ruthless land baron Buffer. And a mysterious black-clad gunfighter with an aversion to sunlight has just arrived in town.

The Mystery Drama of the Old West!

HIS BODY IS AN EMPTY SHELL THAT HOSTS A LUSTFUL FIEND!

The countryside, terrorized! The young and beautiful, drained of life! Even the strongest man, destroyed by the unholy...

Join us for Curse of the Undead!  Eric Flemming, who starred as Gil Favor on Rawhide, as Preacher Dan finds his town plagued by a vampire!  Can he stop the evil and save his town?  Curse of the Undead is possibly the first vampire western!  Ride along with us for a piece of cinema history!

The epic next chapter in the cinematic Monsterverse pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against one another - the fearsome Godzilla and the mighty Kong - with humanity caught in the balance.

One will fall.

God vs. King.

The second coming.

Our Fate. Their Fight.

Join us for Godzilla vs Kong!  It has been 59 years since the first match up!  That's a lot of time to refine your fighting style!  Sit back throw popcorn and soda in your face hole and enjoy these screen legends as they duke it out once again!

A newly wed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.

Join us for the Finnish folk horror film, The White Reindeer!  This 1952 movie is the first Finnish film to compete at Cannes Film Festival!  Can you outrun the White Reindeer?

The gun-totin', Bible-thumpin' Preacher Man Bob must right the universal karma accidently set wrong when Brian inadvertantlty kills his obnoxious butt-cleavaged roommate, Wade.

We're all zombies in the end!

Join us for some Buttcrak!  Zombies, Voodoo, and Vengeance!  Buttcrack has it all!

Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.

A new chapter of evil

God is not here.

Join us for Exorcist: The Beginning!  This is one of the two prequel movies made.  This one got a wide theatrical release.  How does this stack up?

An axe murderer terrorizes a small Northern California mountain community, while two young computer-obsessed adults attempt to solve the killings.

There is nothing silent about nights in Paddock County.

It takes a lot of guts to make a movie like this

Join us for Edge of the Axe.  Edge of the Axe is an 80's slasher with some boats and severed heads...also a church choir.  Can you escape the Edge of the Axe?

On his seventeenth birthday, Michael unwittingly unlocks the evil forces of a Ouija board.

Forget Freddie and Jason. Virgil's the newest nightmare in town.

The REAL nightmare is just beginning!

Your are already dead but don't panic... it could be worse

Join us for the third Ruben Galindo Jr. horror movie, Don't Panic!  Once again we learn not to mess with Ouija boards but you can still look cool fighting demons in your pj's!

A police Lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased Gemini serial killer, leads him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.

Dare you walk these steps again?

The horror is Legion.

Join us as we discuss The Exorcist III.  We also talk about the director's cut of The Exorcist III so titled Legion.  Which cut is better?  

Join us as we discuss the William Peter Blatty novel, Legion.  Legion is the follow up to The Exorcist. Can detective Kinderman stop the copycat Gemini killings?

Join us for a throwback episode of the Half Hour of Power!  This episode first aired in 2013!  Vampire movies, always a favorite!  What are your favorite vampire movies?

Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.

In his wildest dreams, Alex never suspected that tonight he would become... the Last Starfighter.

For every Earthling whose ever dreamed of adventures beyond the stars, comes the astonishing story of one who made it.

He didn't find his dreams... his dreams found him.

Join us for the 80's classic, The Last Starfighter!  

Two fraternity pledges travel to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.

A Frightening Comedy

the first kiss is the deepest.

Ever have one of those nights?

The first kiss could be your last.

Join us for Vamp!  Watch Robert Rusler and Chris Makepeace battle Grace Jones and her vampire clan in the 80's classic, Vamp!

Joe and Jesse discuss their top ten lists from 1994.  This is the third episode of our show and was recorded in March of 2013.  What are your favorite movies released in 1994?

Horror thriller set in 17th century England about the children of a village slowly converting into a coven of devil worshipers.

A CHILL-FILLED Festival of HORROR!

A living nightmare of black magic... and unspeakable evil!

Join us for the classic The Blood on Satan's Claw!  Can the villiage stop the Witch Coven from summoning the spawn of the devil?  Find out in The Blood on Satan's Claw!

A horribly disfigured lawyer, wrongfully pronounced dead after a terrible car accident, is taken to an asylum for dissection, only to come back alive, kill everyone, and make the asylum his killing grounds.

SLASHING with a snicker, SLAUGHTER with a smirk...

It'll send shivers up your funny bone!

Join us for the 1988 slasher...Doom Asylum!  Can a group of teenie boppers out wit a sadistic killer?  Find out as we discuss Doom Asylum!

Teenagers accidentally resurrect a satanic killer who targets the local police captain's daughter to birth the antichrist.

Join us for Ruben Galindo Jr.'s epic Grave Robbers!  Ruben packed Grave Robbers with everything you would come to expect from a late 80's satanic slasher flick!  So come on down in the grave with us if you dare!

After a raft accident in the jungle, three anthropology students and their guides attempt to escape from a primitive cannibal tribe that has hunted them down.

Incredible but true!

The Eerie and Scarifying Primitives

Captured by Flesh-Eating Savages!

The savages from civilization invade the jungle!  Join us for a descent into the cannibal movie genre!

A group of college students go into the woods to study birds. They encounter a strange blind man who's connected to the killer zombies that prowl a dilapidated house deep in the forest.

Join us for the 5th movie in the Italian Zombie film franchise...Zombie 5: Killing Birds!  Directed by Claudio Lattanzi and Joe D'Amato!  Starring Robert Vaughn!  Zombie 5: Killing Birds!

Professor Nugent and his students try to track down Bigfoot, but end up uncovering something more sinister at work.

An evil mutation embarks on a wave of brutal butchery.

Join us as we discuss the 80's Bigfoot movie, Night of the Demon!  Can the professor and his students find Bigfoot and help Crazy Wanda?  

It has been reported that Christopher Nolan may return to Batman.  Would this be a good thing?  We discuss and give our take on this seemingly impossible news.

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

Black Christmas will ROCK you too!

If this movie doesn't make your skin crawl... It's on TOO TIGHT

Christmas is coming early this year. And it's murder.

The sort of Christmas you don't dream of.

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, a creature was stirring...The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, but it was hard to say that St. Nick would be there. This year, a Christmas of another color brings a killer on the loose.

Have yourself a scary little Christmas...Not at all like the ones you used to know.

He knows when you're sleeping, he knows if you're awake, HE KNOWS...

It's beginning to look a lot like...bloodshed! Christmas is almost here, and an axe-wielding psycho is terrorizing a sorority. As it happens, the mad murderer also makes obscene phone calls -- and he lives right above the girls...

Join us as we get into the spirit of the season with, Bob Clark's Black Christmas!  Margot Kidder, Oliva Hussey, John Saxon, and Andrea Martin take on a killer at Christmas!

An archaeology professor discovers an ancient crypt which contains living dead corpses. The zombies go on a rampage and attack a group of people which the professor had invited to celebrate his discovery.

The earth shall tremble.... graves shall open.... they shall come among the living as messengers of death and there shall be the nights of terror.... "Profecy of the Black Spider"

They craved flesh with a hunger!

When the moon turns red, the dead shall rise!

Join us for Burial Ground an Italian zombie picture from 1981!

Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.

"The good news is your dates are here. The bad news is... they're dead."

If you scream... you're dead.

It'll be the night of your life... death

They don't bother to knock

Join us for Night of the Creeps!  Aliens!  Serial Killers!  Zombies!  Teeny Boppers!  Night of the Creeps has all this and Tom Atkins! 

A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.

Meet Eric Binford, the ultimate movie buff. If you know someone like him... run!

The theater is dark. Eric's mind is darker.

Twinkle twinkle movie star. Eric knows just where you are. Try to run, try to hide. You won't get out of this alive.

If you're not nice to Eric, his imaginary friends will even the score...

Eric Binford lives for the movies... Sometimes, he kills for them, too!

People used to laugh at Eric Binford. Now with every performance, he knocks them dead.

Join us for Fade to Black!  Fade to Black features Tim Thomerson, Dennis Christopher, and Mickey Rourke.  Fade to Black features cosplay before cosplay was cool!  Could you survive and encounter with Eric Binford?  Find out on Fade to Black! 

A psychotic redneck, who owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.

Meet the maniac & his friend. Together they make the greatest team in the history of mass slaughter in...

He's out there and he's got murder on his mind!

Join us for the Tobe Hooper classic...Eaten Alive!  Loosely based on Joe Ball who was sometimes called The Alligator Man, Butcher of Elmendorf,  and Bluebeard of South Texas!  Joe Ball is said to have murdered 20 women in the 1930s.  Can you survive the gator pit or will you be Eaten Alive!

A physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.

For the sake of your sanity, pray it isn't true!

Join us for The Legend of Hell House!  Based on the novel, Hell House by Richard Matheson.  Can Roddy McDowall guide you safely through the Belasco Hell House?

In order to join a sorority, three friends go to a hazing party in an old house where a sadistic bloodthirsty demonic spirit is lying in wait.

By the end of the dance, some of the sorority sisters were dead on their feet.

DEADicated to the class of '86.

Join us for a mid 80's slasher!  Brought to us by William Fruet, the director of Funeral Home, and Barney Cohen, the writer of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter!  What can go wrong at this college campus?  It will certainly be a Killer Party!

After a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs.

A new breed of enemy has taken over the world... Sam Hell has come to take it back.

Join us for Hell Comes to Frogtown!  Can you survive a nuclear war and the mutant frogs that follow?  Find your answer with the Half Hour of Power as we visit Frogtown!

A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.

It'll have you screaming for morning!

They were warned... they were all warned... don't go down to the cellar.

Some things never rest in peace

Join us for the hidden gem Funeral Home!  Can you survive a night in the funeral home?

In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.

There is something evil in this house.

There's no place like home, bloody home.

Some films take their audience to the brink of terror ... This one crosses the border.

...she should never have returned.

Evil Erupts In A House of Death.

Join us for Next of Kin!  This Next of Kin does not star Patrick Swayze!  This Next of Kin is an eerie thriller from Australia.  Can you survive the horror of Next of Kin?

A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers.

He'll show you the way to hell and meet you there!

Join us for John Saxon in Hellmaster!  Can you escape Bobby Razorblades and the psycho mutant army?  Tune and find out!  

A doctor buys a Civil War era dilapidated mansion, and hires a few friends to fix it up, but the mansion hides a deadly secret.

Escape is just a nerve-shredding scream for salvation!

Witness Its Awakening.

An ancient horror slept beneath the old haunted mansion... nothing could stop its escape!

Join us as we descend into The Evil!  The Evil is a haunted mansion movie from the 1970s!  Witness Richard Crenna and Andrew Prine battle...The Evil!

A deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps, among others, as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.

Pretty Sally Mae died a very unnatural death! ... But the worst hasn't happened to her yet! DERANGED ... confessions of a necrophile!

Ma Cobb: Remember what I've always told you: The wages of sin is gonorrhea, syphilis, and death.

Join us as we dig into Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile.  Deranged is based on Ed Gein.  

A master of disguise deranged killer begins killing off the college students who are organizing a horror-movie marathon in an abandoned theater.

Pay to get in, pray to get out.

Buy a bag, go home in a box.

The Possessor. Fifteen years ago, he murdered his family on stage and burned down the theater. Tonight... he's back for an encore!

Join us as we discuss the cult classic Popcorn!

In an abandoned 6-meter deep pool, a couple is stranded there with a deadly predator.

No water. No Ladder. No Way Out.

Join us as we discuss The Pool.  The Pool is a movie that comes to us from Thailand.  Could you survive a week in an empty pool with a deadly crocodile?

In a totalitarian future where deviants are held in rehabilitation camps, a freedom fighter and a wrongly-accused prisoner form an alliance to survive their decadent oppressors' game of kill-or-be-killed - and turn the tide against them.

Controversial! Violent! The film that shocked Australian critics and broke Box Office records in London!

No film for chickens!

Join us as we discuss the Australian film Turkey Shoot!  Run, you are being hunted!

A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.

Join us for Richard Stanley's first movie since 1992...Color Out of Space!  An adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name!

A man struggles to save his family from the strange and deadly occurrences in the castle they've inherited.

Join us as we discuss Stuart Gordon's Castle Freak!  Based on the Outsider by HP Lovecraft!  Castle Freak!

Hideous... hungry... and loose!

Has the original Dawn of the Dead (1978) aged well?  We breakdown and discuss an article from Sreenrant saying that it has not aged well.  Join us for a fun discussion of one of our favorite movies!

It's been five years since Terry's friend Glen discovered The Gate to hell in his backyard. Glen has now moved away and Terry begins practicing rituals in Glen's old house and eventually bringing back demons through The Gate and leading to demoniac possession and near world domination.

There's only one thing more terrifying than the first visit. The second.

Join us as we walk through Gate 2: The Trespassers!  

A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

Join us for the House on Haunted Hill and Sammy Terry's 58th Birthday Bash!  Vincent Price!  Elisha Cook!  The ghosts are moving tonight in...the House on Haunted Hill!  Sammy Terry is the longest running Horror host at 58 Halloween Bashes!  Join us as we pay tribute to the great Sammy Terry! 

We tackle another Claudio Fragasso Movie...Monster Dog!  Alice Cooper plays a pop star who takes his band to his hometown to shoot his latest video. They are greeted by the sheriff (whom he's known since a kid) that warn him that there's been several murders in the area where the bodies were ripped to shreds.

Unleashing a new dimension of terror!

The fear... the terror... the nightmare... they will never forget it!

Twenty years later, the nightmare begins again and now it's Lou's turn to pay...

Join us for the Alice Cooper werewolf movie...Monster Dog!

Join us for this Hidden Gem, The Sadist.  Starring Arch Hall Jr.!  The Sadist!  Inspired by true events!  The Sadist! 

Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.

Hey, Sweet Baby, what makes you so sweet... The blood on your hands... or the snake at your feet?

Never before a motion picture Rampacked with... Suspense... Terror... Sudden Shock, as The SADIST

A Human Volcano Of Unpredictable Terror!

What Fiendish Passion Twisted His Mind--Made Him Torment, Torture, Kill?

A serial killer with rubber-like Freddy Krueger mask terrifies the city of Virginia Beach.  Join us as we tackle Night Killer!  Night Killer is directed by Claudio Fragasso and Bruno Mattei.  It stars the original screen Dr. Strange, Peter Hooten!  Join us as we battle a rubber mask wearing, serial killer and we countdown to Halloween...or are you too frightened? 

A sorcerer tries to sacrifice a group of people inside his house with the intention of using their vitality to keep his wife alive.  We take on Spookies!  A weird entry to 80's horror!  Do you dare join us for Spookies?

The Mockbuster or the Knockoff.  Movies made to cash in on other movies!  From the Mad Max knock off Wheels of Fire to the Terminator knock off Hands of Steel, join us for the Mockbuster!

Bryan Singer has made some very recognizable movies.  He is also a terror on set.  Where is the line drawn?  Are there any directors whose movies you can't watch because of on set or of set behavior?  Join us for the Bryan Singer Trauma.

Cineworld responds to the AMC Universal deal.  We discuss our thoughts on that and the future of cinema.

AMC and Universal have come to an agreement over PVOD and streaming.  Is this a good deal?

Much is floating around about the Justice League: The Snyder Cut.  We discuss Joss Whedon and changes he made to the theatrical cut.  Join us for a fun discussion about two cuts of the same movie!

An evil scientist implants the brain of Michael, a murdered high school student, into a Tyrannosaurus. He escapes, wreaks vengeance on his high school tormentors, and is reunited with his sweetheart Tammy.

Will AMC really and truly not play Universal movies in their theatres?  Join us as we try to make sense of the madness!

Will Michael Keaton Return to play Bruce Wayne/Batman?  If he does, is that a good thing?