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This week, Desmond and Duane get weird again with their review of the obscure 1989 erotic horror quasi-sequel to the German Expressionist masterpiece of the similar name, Dr. Caligari. Then, in a mix of laziness and a desire to rewatch it, Desmond comes back and discusses that classic: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. There's probably nothing else to say about this 104-year-old film that hasn't alread...

This week, Desmond and Tom watch a kidnapping plot go sideways when it is discovered that Abigail is not just any little ballerina. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Horror Crime Stories. Songs included: "Abigail" by King Diamond, "Blood and Tears" by Danzig, "TV Crimes" by Black Sabbath, and "High on the Crime" by Turbonegro. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @Devi...

This week, Desmond and Duane marvel over the visuals (but not so much the story) of the beautiful Stopmotion. Then, inspired, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Films that Mix Live Action and Animation. Perhaps the weirdest track list for an episode thus far: "Attacked by Monsters" by Meat Puppets, "Anema" by Tool, "04/12/05 Tuesday" by Fantomas, and "(Cartoon~) The Creed" by MD.45. Send fee...

This week, Desmond and Tom check out Oliver Reed's psychic connection with a giant snake in 1983's Spasms. Then Des go solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Big Dumb Animal Movies. Songs included: "Snake Appeal" by Melvins, "Snake Church" by Ringworm, "Don't Feed the Animals" by Shooter Jennings & Hierophant, and "I Am the Beast" by Dethklok. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @DevilDinos...

Before Duane suggested The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre, Desmond had never heard of it. But when a young Martin Landau is playing an occult investigator in a TV movie intended to be the pilot for an anthology horror series that is available on a free streaming platform, I watch it. I'm a simple man. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Occult Investigators. Songs included: "The Night Creeps...

This week on the show, Desmond and Tom review Late Night with the Devil. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Fake TV Shows from TV and Film courtesy of nestflix.fun. Songs included: "It's Inside You" by Candy, "Spooky" by Two Minutes to Late Night, "Counterfeit" by Limp Bizkit, and "When the Show is Over" by The Donnas. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @DevilDinosau...

This week, Duane and Desmond review Megalomaniac, a Belgian horror film about a brother and sister who are the grown children of a notorious serial killer. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Domineering Personalities in Horror Films. Songs included: "Megalomania" by Muse, "Playing God" by Ringworm, "Jesus He Knows Me" by Ghost, and "Megalomania" by Black Sabbath. Send feedback to: drea...

You know when you take a family on a road trip and the number one rule is avoid vampires? Obviously, the desert is the place to go. Not anymore. Desmond and Tom dig into Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat. This comedy horror western is chock full of nonsense to talk about, so enjoy the review. Then Desmond comes back to go solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Horror Oddities from the Late 80s/early 90s. Songs...

This week on the show, a woman is attacked by a mysterious monster and fights back in Desmond and Duane's review of Take Back the Night. Then, Desmond goes solo in a Dread Media Top 5 Vengeful Women of Film. All of these songs are new: "New Way Out" by Poppy, "Hunting Shadows" by High on Fire, "You Will Never Get Me" by CANDY feat. Justice Tripp, and "Flesh Habit" by Gatecreeper. Send feedback to:...

This week on the show, Desmond and Tom celebrate 875 episodes by watching the four Pet Sematary films. Surely, dead is better than the new ones. On the slab: Pet Sematary, Pet Sematary II, Pet Sematary (2019), and Pet Sematary: Bloodlines. There's singing, rage-induced laughter, a long personal story with only the thinnest connection to the topic, and plenty of other nonsense. So, it's an episode...

This week, Des and Duane talk all about the latest modern riff on Frankenstein: Birth / Rebirth. Then Des goes solo on a review of Lisa Frankenstein. Songs included: "Mistaken for Dead" by Gatecreeper, "Twice Born" by Ihsahn, "Lips Like Sugar" by Echo & the Bunnymen, and "I Walked with a Zombie" by Valiant Himself. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr and @dreadme...

This week, Des and Tom get to know Chauncey in Imaginary. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Imaginary Friends Double Features. Songs included: "Overactive Imagination" by Death, "The Chauncey Song" by Bear McCreary, "Imaginary Days" by Mark Morton, and "(sic)" by Slipknot. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr and @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebo...

This week, Desmond and Duane take a look at Unearthed Films' rerelease of extreme horror director Nacho Cerda's 2006 intense ghost film, The Abandoned. Then, after talking about Stir of Echoes for a little bit, Desmond goes solo on a loose and breezy Dread Media Top 5 Intense Ghost Stories from Across Media. Songs included: "Lights Out" by Black Band Shirt, "Abandoned Flesh" by Mountain Goats, "Ha...

This episode sees Desmond and Tom putting those floatie things on their arms and taking a Night Swim. Then, what begins as a review of HBO's Stephen King miniseries adaptation The Outsider turns into a rambling stream of thought discussion of Dream Scenario and this season so far in Star Trek: Discovery. Songs included: "Sacrifice" by Cirith Ungol, "Swim" by In Flames, "Outsider" by Night Demon, a...

This week, Desmond and Duane take an in-depth look at I Am Not a Serial Killer. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Child Psychopaths in Films. After you watch the movie, come back and listen to the spoiler conversation at the end! Songs included: "Smiler" by Melvins, "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads, "A Skeleton in the Closet" by Anthrax, "Where No Light Shines" by Ingested, and "Mr. Cr...

This week, our old friend Greg Lamberson returns to talk about the upcoming Amazing Fantasy Fest, as well as fundraising for his upcoming practical effects werewolf movie Frenzy Moon . Then, Desmond goes solo on a review of the six-novella collection In the Cold, Cold Ground: An Anthology of New England Horror edited by Ed Kurtz. Songs included: "Frenzy" by Killing Joke, "The Day the Moon Howls" b...

This week, Desmond and Duane take in the parade of character actors that is 1970's The Dunwich Horror. Then Desmond goes solo and finally checks out the related-in-title-only Beyond the Dunwich Horror from 2008. Songs included: "Goin' Down to Dunwich" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, "Devil's Witchcraft" by Les Baxter, "Escape from Dunwich Valley" by Witchery, and "Gardens in the Dark" by...

This week on the show, Desmond and Tom try to review The Redeemer: Son of Satan. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Religious Zealots in Horror Cinema (another list of amazing films). Songs included: "The Gory Story of Duane and Debbie" by Count Floyd, "The Redeemer" by Kataklysm, "Pilgrimage to Oblivion" by Ihsahn, and Everything Will Be Fine" by Einsturzende Neubauten. RIP Joe Flahert...

This week, Desmond and Duane get a little unsettled by the too-real The Snowtown Murders. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Films That Get Too Real which turns out to be a random answer to "what are your top 5 intense movies of all-time?" Songs included: "It's Not OK" by The Obsessed, "Barreled Rage" by Municipal Waste, "Human Offense" by Brat, and "Highway Shooter" by Loose Sutures. S...

This week, we do something we haven't done since episode 36 (from May of 2008): review six Lucio Fulci films in one episode! So first up, Desmond talks a bit about the "docudrama" Fulci for Fake. Then, Desmond and Tom talk about the giallo classic A Lizard in a Woman's Skin before Desmond goes solo on Dread Media Top 5 Capsule Reviews of Fulci Films Never Before Discussed on the Show! The list of...

This week, Terry Mitchell returns to discuss the 90s video game-themed horror film Brainscan. Then, I spend a few minutes paying tribute to my cousin. Songs included: "Leave Me Alone" by Butthole Surfers, "Welcome to This World" by Primus, "Hallowed Land" by Paradise Lost, and "Thought Crime Spree" by Pig Destroyer. RIP Steven Reddick. RIP Blake Harrison. Fuck cancer. Send feedback to: dreadmediap...

This week, Desmond and Duane dig the 2018 film that might be considered a Weird Western: The Wind. Then, Desmond goes solo on the 1928 silent film that inspired that movie: The Wind. Batten down the hatches and drown out the wind with these tunes: "Alone in the Wind" by Andrew WK, "It Must Be the Wind" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, "The Wind and More" by Roky Erickson and the Explosives...

This week on the show, Desmond and Tom take a look at a film set in California and filmed in Jamaica that features some films within films: Popcorn. Then Des goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Fake Films from Popular Films. Songs included: "Popcorn" by The Graveyard Boulevard, "Popcorn" by Bad Brains, "Night Danger" by Pretty Maids, and "Movie in My Mind" by Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real. Send...

This week on the show, Desmond and Duane talk about the erotic neo-giallo that doesn't quite hit the mark: Knife + Heart. Then Desmond delivers a Dread Medias Top 5 Erotic Horror Films that do hit the mark. Of course, there's tunes: "Homophobes Are Just Mad Cuz They Can't Get Laid" by Propagandhi, "Satan Is a Gay Porno Star" by Zimmer's Hole, "Erotic Nights of the Living Dead" by Gost, and "Love W...

This week, Desmond and Tom take a look at the Frankenstein story modernized once again as The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Frankenstein Reinventions. Songs included: "Feed My Frankenstein" and "Teenage Frankenstein" by Alice Cooper, "Puttin' on the Ritz" performed by Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle from Young Frankenstein, and "Jesus Frankenstein" by...