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Happy New Year! We return with our next mash and this time we are looking at “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” (1962 – Vinny), “Amsterdamned” – (1988 – Professor) and “The Substance” (2024 – Grizz). Available now on apple podcasts, Spotify and our blog. Thanks for listening!

Season’s Greetings dear listeners! We hope you find yourself enjoying these final weeks of 2025 and we are delighted to be a small part of that with a new episode for your ears. On this episode we revisited dead-end sequels, which is exactly like what it sounds like. A sequel that was the quick end of a potential franchise. This series frequently delivers some rough watches but occasionally the diamond in the rough as well. Wonder which happens this episode? Listen in as we examine at “Teen Wolf Too” (1987 – Vinny), “Stir of Echoes:The Homecoming” (2007 – Professor) and “Don’t Breath 2” (2021 – Grizz). Available now on apple podcasts, Spotify and our blog. Thanks as always for sticking with us and Happy Holidays!

We hope your October has been as great as ours so far and we hope to join your last stretch of it with this new episode. We are back with another mash and this time we are covering “The Primevals” (2023 – Vinny), “Haunt”(2019- Grizz) & “Teen Wolf”(1985-Professor). Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and our blog. Thanks as always for lending us your ears and stick with our unusual schedule this year. Happy Halloween!

Halloween season is back and so are we! Together in person after a busy summer, we are here with a new episode and this time we are talking Halloween calendars. We discuss our individual picks for a different category for each day of the month. Listen in to hear our picks and why we made them and in the process touch on 80+ movies. As always, thanks for sticking with us and listening. Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and our blog. Happy Halloween!

Listeners, as we continue to navigate a busy year with challenging schedules, we appreciate you sticking with us! Today we are back and this time with familiar friends, as McRib and Brent Terhune join us to take a look at the Beetlejuice Franchise. We briefly touch on the cartoon and dig into the two movies and have plenty of fun along the way. Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and our blog. Thanks for listening!

Dear listeners, we hope you are enjoying your summer and we thank you for sticking with us as we navigate a busy chapter that has challenged our schedules! While we are not back on track yet, we do like to keep checking when possible and this time we have a discussion with Brian Blair. Brian runs Pumpkin Pulp where he makes incredible masks and an array of other fun items to scoop up in his store or online. Brian also runs a haunt and stays busy with plenty of other side projects as well, which often touch the film and music industries. Join us, as we discuss his history with horror movies, how he arrived at his profession, and lots more. Available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and our blog. Thanks for listening!

Listeners we are back with a new episode and some fun company this time! Join in as Grizzly Abner and Venomous Vinny have a fun conversation with Tennessee-based horror host Dr Gangrene! Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and our blog. Thanks for listening!

Dear listeners, lend us your ears for another trip into real life horror with another true crime episode. We are looking at the seedy “Wonderland Murders” this time, aka “The Four on the Floor” and the movie “Wonderland” (2003). John Holmes at one time was a mega star of the golden age era of adult films but eventually found himself an addict and wrapped up in the underbelly of Los Angeles. Listen in as we discuss the film and this case of desperation, savagery, and the juxtaposition of the high society of Los Angeles against the street tough world of drugs and crime. Available now on spotify, apple podcasts and our blog. Thanks for listening!

We are back to rank our last decade and we saved arguably the toughest for last. The 1970s were a transformative decade for film, especially the horror genre. Whether big budget blockbusters or seminal indie terrors, the 1970s delivered copious amounts of memorable horror for moviegoers. Listen in as we have a great time digging into this fun topic. Available now on spotify, apple podcasts and our blog. Thanks for listening!

It has been nearly a decade since we talked about the Candyman franchise and a lot has changed since then, so we decided it was time to revisit the classic film and the small franchise that it birthed. Available now on spotify, apple podcasts and our blog. Thanks for listening!

Your favorite cohosts are back together in-person and we’re doing some more rankings by the decade. On this episode we did a hybrid of the 20s and….the 20s, so listen in as we pick 5 from the 1920s and then 5 from the 2020s. Available now on spotify, apple podcasts and our blog. Thanks for listening!

We are back with a new episode and this time we are looking at “The City of the Dead” (1960-Vinny), “Consecration” (2023- Grizz) and “Evilspeak” (1981-Professor). Dear listeners, as we navigate busy 2025 schedules, we will continue to check in with random episodes when possible. As always, we appreciate your support and thank you for listening! This new episode is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and our blog.

Surprise dear listeners! Although we are not quite back on our usual schedule, after a brief break, we are at least back with a new episode today. Join us as we jump into another Mash episode and this time we are talking about “Wind Chill” (2007 – Professor), “Werewolves Within” (2021 – Grizz) and “Godzilla Minus One” (2023 – Vinny). Bear with us as we navigate a brief but busy winter schedule, as we look forward to a new year of new episodes for you! Available now on Apple podcasts, Spotify and our blog. Thanks as always for listening!

As another year comes to a close, we are taking some time to have a festive look back at Holiday horrors. Listen in as we have a roundtable discussion on some Thanksgiving and yuletide terror, the highs and lows and some of our personal favorites. Available now on Apple podcasts, Spotify and our blog. Thanks for listening! We will be on a Holiday break into 2025 now, so let us now wish you a safe and happy holiday season dear listeners!

Halloween season has come to an end but the hobby never stops, so join us now as we rank our favorite movies of the 1940s! The 1940s boomed with Horror offerings as franchises grew, while prestige and poverty row studios alike both got in on the party as well.  Available now on Apple podcasts, Spotify and our blog. Thanks for listening!