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This week on the show, Desmond and Tom look at the most recent self-indulgent rock star thing: The Foo Fighters and Studio 666. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Rockstar (and Manager) Self-Indulgences. Songs included: "The Sweet Abyss" and "March of the Insane" by Dream Widow, "Cabin Essence" by Brian Wilson Presents... SMILE, and... you know what? The last song is a surprise. Send f...

This week on the show, the local crew (Brittney, Jeff, Mo, Scott, and mostly silent Stacy) returns after a year to take a look at Alex Garland's lates: Men. Lots to talk about with this one. It's wild. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Actors Who Played Multiple Roles in a Film. Songs included: "All the Bad Men" by Psychotic Waltz, "Love Song" by Lesley Duncan, "Evil Twin" by Anthrax,...

This week on the show, Desmond and Duane get extreme again as they take in the Taiwanese Shudder original The Sadness. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Rage Virus Things (including a very special surprise). Songs included: "Sadness Comes Home" by Converge, "Depravity Favours the Bold" by Anaal Nathrakh, "Aesthetics of Hate" by Machine Head, "We All Rage in Blood" by Neurosis. Send fee...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom take a look at two HBO TV movies from the 90s that were supposed to be a franchise. First up, the charming and fun Cast a Deadly Spell. Then, the puzzling and misguided Witch Hunt. Songs included: "Reality Spiral" by Greg Puciato, "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" by The Mountain Goats, "Witch Hunt" by Machine Head, and "Restless and Wicked" by Municipal Waste. Send...

This week on Dread Media, we present a double feature of Mexican extreme horror cinema. First up, Desmond and Tom review the 2014 anthology film Mexico Barbaro. Then, Desmond and Duane grin and bear the 2015 extreme horror found footage "classic" Atroz. Fair warning: these films feature horrible people doing the most horrible things that you can imagine to other people, so this episode features so...

This week on the show, our old friend Greg Lamberson stops by to chat about this year's feature film lineup for the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival (www.buffalodreamsfantasticfilmfestival.com), but not before I do a spoiler-free micro-review of Jordan Peele's Nope. Tunes included: "I Live Behind the Clouds" by Monster Magnet, "Beyond Electric Dreams" by Bad Religion, and "Buffalo Run" by Or...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane take in a viewing of Phil Tippett's stop-motion animation masterpiece, Mad God. Then, there's a Dread Media Top 5 Stop Motion Animation-Heavy Films. Songs included: "Disciple" by Slayer, "Descent into Inferno" by Entombed, "Bring Me His Head" by Lucifer, and "Ex Oblivion" by Tombs. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr an...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom look at the wild Hammer Horror film Vampire Circus. Then, Desmond goes solo on a review of The Black Phone, and the television show Monsterland. Songs included: "When Talking Fails, It's Time for Violence!" by Wormrot, "(Circus~) Hearts Will Bleed" by MD.45, "Telephone the Dead" by Deadbolt, and "Cronus" by White Ward. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@g...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane take a look at what may be Alejandro Jodorowsky's most accessible film, the completely bonkers Santa Sangre. Then Desmond goes solo on a review of Paula D Ashe's short fiction collection We Are Here to Hurt Each Other. There's also some TV talk, mostly Star Trek-related. Songs included: "Rites of Cruelty" by Misery Index, "Acid Revenge" by Simon Boswell,...

Get your Pop Rocks and soda ready, because Des and Tom are celebrating episode 775 with a rundown of quite possibly the most mediocre horror franchise ever: Urban Legend! In this episode of movies that will probably make you shrug are great reviews of Urban Legend, Urban Legends: Final Cut, and Urban Legends: Bloody Mary. Tunes included: "Better by You, Better Than Me" by Judas Priest, "Crop Circl...

This week on Dread Media, it's a classic hodgepodge episode. First up, Tom Deja and Desmond take a look at Ghosts of the Ozarks, a movie neither of them like very much, but they have a great conversation about it. Then, Desmond comes back for a short review of the cosmic horror novella Dirty Heads by Aaron Dries before talking about some TV he's watched lately, including the latest seasons of Barr...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane take a look at what might be patient zero of the New Wave of French Extreme Cinema movement, Trouble Every Day. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Unconventional Vampire Films. Songs included: "With Teeth" by Melvins, "Trouble" by Danzig, "Tainted Blood" by Blue Oyster Cult, and "Damn These Vampires" by The Mountain Goats. Send feedback to: d...

It's an obscure foreign double feature week on Dread Media! This week, the films that Desmond and Tom review are the Argentinian The Power of Darkness, and the British Doctor Sleep (aka Close Your Eyes). And, of course, there's music: "Blind Leading the Blind" by Trivium, "Blind Bleeding the Blind" by Carcass, "Mass Hypnosis" by Sepultura, and "Keep on Breathing" by Cancer Bats. Send feedback to:...

You want to get nuts? Let's get nuts! This week Tom and I dip our eyeballs back into Ken Russell's filmography with a look at the bizarre Lair of the White Worm. Then I go solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Movies That Are Just Weird. Weird songs ahoy: "Hex, Curse & Conjuration" by Temple of Void, "The D'Ampton Worm Song" by The Tossers, "Bastard Samurai" by High on Fire, and "The Weird Revolution" by Bu...

This week is a Dread Media first! Our old friend Greg Lamberson joins us in the waning days (hours) of The Frenzy Moon's Indiegogo campaign to do a double Dread Media Top 5 Favorite Werewolf Movies as an excuse to talk about werewolf movies. What's the best movie werewolf ever? What ridiculous choices did Desmond choose? You need to listen to find out. And that's not all! It isn't a werewolf movie...

This week it's a classic un-themed double feature. This time, the two oldest reviews in my stash! First up, Desmond and Tom kind of liked V/H/S/94. Then Desmond and Duane take in a viewing of the shocking Eden Lake. Music: "Stabbing Nightmare" by Video Nasties, "Let's Make a Video" by Poppy, "Cesspools in Eden" by Dead Kennedys, and "Never Ending Night" by Devil Master. Hail Raatma! Send feedback...

This week on the show, we've got a loose theme of weird houses and doors. After a life announcement and some solo chatter on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Duane joins Desmond to talk about the locally shot Come to Daddy. Then Desmond goes solo again on Wesley Southard's short novel Try Again. Songs included: "Madness at the Core of Time" by GWAR, "Come to Daddy" by The Dillinger Esc...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom review the bizarre black metal-themed Saga. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Heavy Metal Films. Soundtrack: "Church Burns" by Zeal & Ardor, "Barrow of Torolv" by Sarke, "We All Die Young" by Steel Dragon, and "More Torment" by Midnight. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr and @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane fight their way into the glorious brand new rotoscope animation fantasy film for adults, The Spine of Night. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 All-Time Favourite Sword & Sorcery Films. Battle hymns: "Destroy the Orcs" by 3 Inches of Blood, "Ripping Flesh" by Exhorder, "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" by The Sword, and "Forged in Iron - Crowned i...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom present a double feature of reviews of newer films with the theme of young women in trouble. First up, it's Edgar Wright's wild sort-of period piece Last Night in Soho. Then, the gritty, modern, weird haunted apartment building film plucked from the news The Scary of Sixty-First. Of course, there's tunes: "Slaughtered in Soho" by Carcass, "Avenues and Alle...

This week, Desmond and Duane review a little seen piece of delightful Canucksploitation in Siege. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Siege Films in the order of how badly he wants to rewatch them. Songs included: "Gay Bar" by Electric Six, "I Wanna Be a Homosexual" by Screeching Weasel, "End Credits" from Assault on Precinct 13 by John Carpenter, and "The Siege and Investiture of Baron...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom take in a double feature of two very different supernatural horror films. First up, the solemn and effective Under the Shadow. Then, Stephen Chow stars in a bizarre haunted apartment building comedy, Out of the Dark. Songs included: "Fancy Wind" by Nekrogoblikon, "Daughter of the Djinn" by Tribulation, "Out of the Darkness" by Blue Oyster Cult, and "Dread...

This week on the show, Desmond and Duane take in a viewing of one of the most visually striking fantasy films that managed to use only paper and cardboard for its effects: Dave Made a Maze. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Cinematic Oddities. And, of course, there are tunes: "Obsession" by Killing Joke, "Minotaur" by Clutch, "The High Cost of Playing God" by Converge, and "Terminally...

This week on the show, Desmond and Tom cover a double feature of films based on Native American evil spirits that have very little to do with actual Native Americans. We're going to go from best to worst, so first, a look at the weird body horror / cosmic horror freakout The Manitou. Then, a skinwalker is like an evil Navajo witch, right? So why is this dumb movie full of bikers and wolfmen? That'...

This week on Dread Media, Duane and Desmond take a look at an underseen early 90s sci fi horror film: Split Second. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Other B Sci-Fi Films From the Era, and some feedback on a previous Top 5. Songs included: "Future Now" by Corrosion of Conformity, "Killer by Night" by A Pale Horse Named Death, "We Come in Peace (Piece by Piece)" by The Crown, and "Days...