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Note* I wasn't aware of quality in which my microphone was working so at time I come off very hard to understand. I deeply apologize for this* 1980 was truly the beginning of the slasher genre. With Friday the 13th dominating the box office, other filmmakers were quick to realize there was money to be made in cheap low budget horror. Which brings us to tonights discussion of Prom Night starrin...

We're back folks with a Lucas pick this time! We're talking Spawn from 1997: the film that probably should have ended toy collecting maker Todd McFarlen's career quite honestly... When Al Simmons is betrayed, he strikes a deal with Hell ruler Malbolgia to avenge his name in return for leading Hell's army. But things don't go exactly smooth for Al as he comes to grips with his n...

Welcome Cinacultists we are back with another little side episode to tide you over. Schedual's seem to be conflicting so Lucas and I decided to bring you an hour of movie talk bs! I give my EXTREMELY long list of movies I've watched over the past week ranging from slasher and Chuck Norris to my first Italian giallos. We look (and fail) to find some juicy news on Bloody Disgusting.com and w...

Happy 2024 listeners! Thank you so much for supporting and listening to CinaCult! To thank you, we're bringing you a review of a lesser known slasher from the early aughts of the 80's: New Year's Evil! When Blaze (Roz Kelly) hosts a New Year's special, she gets more then she bargained for. A mysterious caller going by the name "EVIL!" is attacking women at each time zone...

Listener note* This episode is heavily edited due to recording issues during the session. Some audio may not sound cohesive. Merry Christmas CinaCult fans! Lucas and I are back to give you a late present with our review of the 2000 Jim Carrey live action adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. A beloved tale of a green fuzzy curmudgeon who learns the blessing of Christmas from a young Cindy...

Before the story continued almost a decade later, Sidney Prescott's story was meant to end in the bookended Scream 3 released in 2000. Hiding from society, Sidney is forced to resurface when a new Ghostface targets the production of Stab 3, the final chapter of the Woodsboro saga and leaves photographs of Sidney's mother Maureen. Along with Gale, Dewey, Kincaid (Patrick Dempsey) and the St...

Parody is the ultimate form of flattery and in 1990, Leslie Neilson gave flattery to cinema's most profound demonic possession film The Exorcist with 1990's horror spoof Repossessed When Nancy Aglet (Linda Blair) is repossessed by Satan, she enlists of the help of Father Luke Brophy (Anthony Stark) and Father Jebadiah Mayi (Leslie Neilson) to rid her of the Prince of Darkness. But as the F...

Hello Cinacultists! Lucas had the idea to forgo our usual formula this week and instead just sit back and BS about some major horror news and we decided to toss in some horror trivia while we were at it! Along the way we get into a major debate about the Star Wars franchise, talk about Spyglass' recent fumble with Melissa Barerra and Jenna Ortega, Cordell tries to win an eBay bid on some Tales...

Wes Craven/Kevin Williamson's Scream was a box office hit in 1996 so a sequel was never in doubt. A sequel which happened to hit the following year in the form of Scream 2 . It's been two years since the Woodsboro Massacre and Sidney and Randy are now in Windsor College hoping to put the past behind them. But a copycat Ghostface killer begins targeting students and harassing Sidney. With n...

After the disappointing reception of Part 5, Paramount brought Jason back in Jason Lives which underperformed at the box office in 1986. However Jason still had some life left in him the following year in today's review of 1987's The New Blood! Tina Shepherd (Lar Park Lincoln) is special. She can harness the power of telekinesis. She's got two downsides: one is her sleezy doctor, Dr. C...

WARNING: THIS EPISODE WILL CONTAIN AUDIO SOME MAY FIND DISTRESSING. September 11th 2001 will live on in our collective memory. The terror, pain and loss still haunts the American consciousness. To mark the 22nd anniversary, the hosts of CinaCult are reviewing Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. When a plane strikes the Twin Towers on September 11th, John McGloughlin (Nicholas Cage) leads a resc...

How do you make horror great again when Michael joins a cult, Freddy makes NES puns and Jason goes to hell? You Scream ! The box office hit child of Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven revitalized the slasher concept while honoring and satirizing the cliches in this 1996 horror classic. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) isn't having a great time. The one year anniversary of her mother's murder i...

The 80's was the decade of horror from slashers, to werewolves and zombies. Michael Myers, Freddy and Jason ruled the big screens. But by the end of the decade, slashers were being replaced by thrillers and schlocky low budget and seemed worn out. That didn't stop cult filmmaker William Lustig, who shocked audience's with 1980's Maniac to team up with Larry Cohen for 1988's Man...

Uwe Boll sucks D!CK! That is the feeling of many a video gamers and film fans who have been subjected to this man's filmography. But before he got his hands on beloved titles like BloodRayne , Far Cry or Postal , Uwe showed us just how incapable he was in 2003's zombie flick House of the Dead based on the cult 90's Sega rails shooter! When a group of friends join Rudy on an island rave...

By the late 2000's, horror remakes (not a new phenomenon but not common) were becoming insanely popular with titles like Halloween, The Fog, My Bloody Valentine 3D, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Prom Night all receiving new life in cinemas between 2005 and 2010. However hardly anyone thought that a forgotten Charles B. Peirce 1976 slasher would ever warrant such attention but...

Mel Brooks is the undisputed master of parody. The man has tackled all the genres from horror ( Dracula: Dead & Loving It, Young Frankenstein ) to westerns and fantasy/medieval ( Blazing Saddles, History of the World, Robin Hood:Men in Tights ) so it made sense in 1987 when he tackles the sci-fi classics of Aliens, Star Wars, Star Trek etc. with SPACEBALLS! The nefarious Spaceballs led by Pres...

In 1978, Halloween showed slashers could be successful. In 1980, films like Friday the 13th, Maniac, Prom Night and Terror Train proved there was an audience who thirsted for the bloodlust of the masked maniac. But 1981 was the boom of the slasher craze giving us classic gems like My Bloody Valentine, Halloween ll, The Burning and Happy Birthday to Me . But there is one that stands out among the c...

The world of wrestling has given us many great icons over the past several decades and none were bigger than Hollywood Hulk Hogan! With his trademarked "Hulkamania!" and "Brother" catchphrase, Hogan brought the world of wrestling to life with rivals like Andre the Giant and the Iron Sheikh. In the 90's however, the Hulkster decided to get some acting chops in with films like Suburban Commando and...

Jason Voorhees is going to Hell! After the disappointing reception to Jason Takes Manhattan, Paramount decided to bid farewell to the iconic franchise and sold it to New Line Cinema, home of dream demon Freddy Kruguer. An effort was started to pit these two titans against each other but the Wes Craven came along wanting to make Wes Craven's New Nightmare so Sean Cunningham, absent since the origin...

Welcome back and Happy Friday the 13th!  By 1989, the slasher genre was dying down after a successful decade of cinematic boogeymen hacking up our screens. However Paramount, home to hockey masked maniac Jason Voorhees, decided to change things up a bit after the success of Part VII: The New Blood , bringing us to tonight's review of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan ! The prem...

New Year! Good Point! Happy New Years! CinaCult wants to start off the year with a bang for everyone with a review of Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 ! Picking up 8 years following the death of Billy Chapman in the first film, we find Billy's little brother Ricky (Eric Freeman) locked away in a sanitarium giving his life story to his doctor recounting (in a ridiculous amount of flashback) the eve...

Welcome back CinaCultites and today we are diverging from our usual formula to review the 1970 Japan-U.S. co-production Tora! Tora! Tora! to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Looking to recreate the success of their 60's star studded D-Day blockbuster The Longest Day , 20th Century Fox turned it attention to another monumental date in US history: December 7th 19...

Merry Christmas! We are back with an exciting review of Die Hard -the movie the completely cuckholded action movies for the next decade! The 80's-a time of horror, action and gratuitous nudity....lots of big names too like Stallone and Schwarzenegger and...Willis? Coming late in the 80's action game, Die Hard seemed like a monumental flop starring TV's Moonlighting actor Bruce Willis as NYPD cop J...

Welcome Cinacultists! We're back, continuing our Steven Seagal fun with his follow up sequel to arguably his most successful film Under Siege. Taking place (when I have no damn clue) after the events of the first film, Casey Ryback is now a Denver restaurant cook who takes a vacation to see his niece Sarah (played by a young Katherine Heigl) after her father- Ryback's brother-and mother are killed...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! The hosts of CinaCult have gobbled up a special treat for you this November! The world of horror movies is filled with low budget, non-Hollywood backed films. People who have a heart for film, a decent camera and a little cash will whip up a title and it will find an audience in the various film festivals and straight to DVD/streaming market. One such film appeared in...