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Michaela visits the Halloweentown cursed by Sawtooth Jack the pumpkinhead in Dark Harvest (2023), a 1960s set tale in which all the boys in town must participate in an yearly ritual, in which they are required to hunt down a creature annually birthed from the corn rows to save themselves and the entire town. Listen as we talk literary origins, the career trajectory of 30 Days of Night director David Slade, and monsters that bleed candy on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly unloads pure New York grit on the Freak Show with Ms. 45 (1981), Abel Ferrara's no-holds barred revenge flick about a mute seamstress who is assaulted twice in one day, arms herself with a .45 and begins a methodical campaign of revenge against all the men of NYC. Listen as we dig into feminist rage, New York City special brand of sleaze, and who to root for when the good girl is the bad girl, on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean traps us in a flooded Florida nightmare with Crawl (2019), as a competitive swimmer goes to check on her estranged father during a Category 5 hurricane, only to find the basement filling with water and hungry alligators! Listen as we talk about: realistic pain response, sand sharks, visiting Florida and living in terror, and suspension of disbelief, all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin spent his whole life avoiding Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) because he believed what they told him - that it was one of the worst movies ever made. Linda Blair returns as Regan MacNeil, recovering just fine from her exorcism until a whackadoodle shrink (Louise Fletcher) gets the idea to poke around in her dreams via a telepathy machine, while screen legend Richard Burton stars as a Catholic priest who takes a side trip to Ethiopia to consult a pagan religion for how to beat the devil. Listen as we ponder one of life's most important questions - is it really one of the worst movies of all time - on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela likes her European travelogue with a side of slaughter and finds Amsterdamned (1988), a movie which finds a grizzled police detective hunting for the slasher-in-a-wet-suit who prowls Amsterdam's canals for victims, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Listen as we complete our hat trick of films from gonzo director Dick Maas, marvel at the cultural enthusiasm on display, and have thoughts about mysteries that don't play fair, all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly sets the temperature to sizzling with Body Heat (1981), a sweaty throwback to 40s-era film noir made with 80s-era permissive on-screen sexuality with Kathleen Turner (in her film debut) starring as a smoldering femme fatale ensnaring sleazy lawyer William Hurt in a plot to murder her husband. Listen as we find out what sexual activity is illegal in Florida, learn about female terror at male anatomy, and mourn the lack of modern erotic thrillers on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean spends spends a Nightmare Weekend (1986) making sense of a flick that combines hot coeds and a killer computer and ends in blood and guts! A telekinetic computer system makes drooling zombies out of visitors who've been invited to a scientist's home for a softcore sex romp. Pet Sematary's Dale Midkiff, NYPD Blue/Babylon 5's Andrea Thompson, and a hand puppet named George, star. Listen as we put in considerable brainwork to untangle a kaleidoscopic parade of strangeness on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin gets zapped back to the Old West on a motocross bike in Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swan (1982), a movie co-concocted, produced, and scored by original Monkee Michael Nesmith. Fred Ward stars as our hero, who wanders into a time travel experiment while racing the Baja 1000, and finds himself fending off gunslinging cowboys when he's transported back to 1875. Listen as we critique pistol grip techniques, puzzle over the early works of Mark Twain, and unravel how you could become your own grandpa on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela resurrects a memory-holed Halle Berry-Bruce Willis erotic thriller called Perfect Stranger (2007), about a disgraced reporter seeking to get close to a philandering murder suspect, a powerful NYC advertising executive, while her friend-zoned cyberhacker buddy snoops around for evidence. Listen as we uncover chatroom melodrama, unravel twisted plot machinations, and try to determine if Bruce Willis wears a hairpiece on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly goes to war with Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime as Commando (1985), the quippiest, explodiest, gunniest of all the 80s "one man army" actioners, with Big Arnie punching bad guys through plate glass windows, dropping them off cliffsides, scalping them with circular saw blades, and impaling them with steam pipes as he hunts down the men who abducted his daughter. Listen as we learn who Wings Hauser was initially set to play, admit Sully is a funny guy, and unleash 10,000 bullets on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean screams, you scream, we all scream for the Ice Cream Man (1995), with Clint Howard playing the adult version of a boy who witnessed the mob execution of his favorite ice cream man; after escaping(?) from an asylum, he assumes the duties but adds his own extra special ingredients for naughty boys and girls. Listen as we try to suss out what was the original intention of a porn filmmaker's attempt to go legit, and how he attracted all sorts of waning but still big name talent to his first (and only) mainstream feature, all on this week's exciting show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin spends the night is a creepy Irish hotel despite warnings of a witch locked in the honemoon suite, calling it Hokum (2026). The latest film from scare-master Damian McCarthy casts Adam Scott as a boorish novelist who begins investigating the strange goings on after a mysterious disappearance. Listen as we discuss frightmares, jackasses, children's programming, goat's milk and psychedelic mushrooms all on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michaela is out of gas and stranded at the Last Stop in Yuma County (2023), taking refuge in a twisty, Tarantino-esque character thriller about a group of people (and two on-the-lam bank robbers) waiting uncomfortably at a roadside diner for a refueling truck to appear. Listen as we recast Richard Brake as a romantic lead, reverse-engineer first time director Francis Gallupi's No Country for Old Men inspiration, and moral compromises on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly takes a film school detour to examine Gus Van Sant's experimental "remake" of Psycho (1998), a shot-for-shot, line-for-line remake of Alfred Hitchcock's horror masterpiece. Is it the ultimate work of homage or wholesale cinematic theft? Listen as we debate the wisdom of peephole masturbation, how to improve on perfection, the folly of unchecked hubris, and more on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean comes up with a plan to save virginal high school students from a virgin-killing slasher in Cherry Falls (2000), a bizarre slasher-comedy that stars Brittany Murphy as a student at a school where the sexually inexperienced teens are falling victim to a rampaging killer. Listen as we try to make twisted sense of absurdist deadpan comedy, unhealthy father-daughter relationships, cross-dressing killers, and mass orgies on this week's exciting episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.