Midnight Movie Distillery

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us have the arguments we love to have. Tonight we're launching a new segment: Original vs Remake. Two versions of the same story, one recording, one long night. Kicking it off with House of Wax — Vincent Price's 1953 Warner Bros. classic (the first major-studio 3-D color feature...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us argue about them. Tonight we're reviewing Soulm8te — Kate Dolan (You Are Not My Mother) taking the M3GAN universe R-rated. A grieving engineer at a ruthless tech giant is handed a new AI companion to beta-test. When he tries to reprogram her into a truly sentient soulmate, sh...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us figure out why some cult movies just don't die. Tonight we're reviewing Dog Soldiers (2002) — Neil Marshall's debut feature, made for two million dollars in a Luxembourg forest pretending to be the Scottish Highlands. A British Army squad drops in for what they're told is a t...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us figure out what's actually in the car with us. Tonight we're reviewing Passenger — André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Last Voyage of the Demeter) taking van-life horror on a demonic joyride. A young couple witnesses a gruesome highway accident and realizes they did n...

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Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us stay out of the swamp. Tonight we're reviewing Hungry — James Nunn's Louisiana-bayou creature feature about tourists on a swamp tour looking for a fabled monster alligator who instead find a rampaging hippopotamus lurking beneath the water. Yes: a hippo. In Louisiana. Which s...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us reckon with the ancient evil under the church. Tonight we're reviewing Prince of Darkness — the middle film of John Carpenter's self-described Apocalypse Trilogy, sandwiched between The Thing (1982) and In the Mouth of Madness (1995), which we reviewed a few weeks back on Aug...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us survive our neighbors. Tonight we're reviewing Hold the Fort — William Bagley's 74-minute suburban horror-comedy that premiered at Fantasia 2025 and had every genre-press outlet using words like "silly fun" and "punches above its weight." Lucas and Jenny move into "Gruber Hil...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that keeps us anchored to what's real. Tonight we're reviewing In the Mouth of Madness — the third and final film in John Carpenter's self-described "Apocalypse Trilogy," after The Thing (1982) and Prince of Darkness (1987). Sam Neill plays an insurance investigator hired to find bestselli...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us survive them. Tonight we're reviewing Evil Dead Burn — the sixth film in Sam Raimi's franchise, first from French filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček (Infested), and by consensus the most brutal, most claustrophobic, most mean-spirited Deadite entry to date. Alice, freshly widowed, m...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that carries us through them. Tonight we're reviewing Chum — a destination-wedding-in-Malta thriller where the yacht trip goes wrong in two directions at once: a shark in the water and a fisherman with an agenda closer to the boat than anyone realized. Sun-soaked vacation horror with two p...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us process what we just saw. Tonight we're reviewing Saccharine — Natalie Erika James (the writer-director of Relic) doing supernatural body-horror about Ozempic-era diet culture. A lovelorn Australian medical student takes ashes from a cadaver her gross-anatomy class has nickna...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us argue about them. Tonight we're reviewing Backrooms — A24's adaptation of Kane Parsons' viral YouTube liminal-space horror series. A furniture-store owner opens a door in his basement that leads to an endless dimension of yellow-carpeted office rooms; his therapist follows hi...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us appreciate where horror came from. Tonight we're reviewing Trilogy of Terror — Dan Curtis's 1975 made-for-TV anthology, three Richard Matheson stories, all starring Karen Black, all aired on ABC as a Movie of the Week. Two segments you may not remember. One segment you absolu...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us figure out whose side we're on. Tonight we're reviewing Over Your Dead Body — Jorma Taccone's English-language remake of Tommy Wirkola's Norwegian black-comedy The Trip (2021). Jason Segel and Samara Weaving as a married couple at a remote lakeside cabin for a "reconnection w...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us figure out whether what we just watched was actually a movie. Tonight we're reviewing Faces of Death — Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei (the Cam team) reimagining the 1978 cult shockumentary for the algorithm era. A content moderator at a TikTok-like platform starts seeing wha...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us argue about them. Tonight we're reviewing Obsession — Curry Barker's debut feature and the most remarkable indie horror origin story of the year. Barker came up making YouTube sketch comedy, shot a found-footage horror short for $800 that went viral, got hand-picked by Blumho...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us figure out what we just watched. Tonight we’re reviewing Pretty Lethal — Vicky Jewson’s action-horror-comedy about a ballet troupe whose bus breaks down on the way to a competition and have to fight off armed men. Uma Thurman is in it. Maddie Ziegler is top-billed. Whether th...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us survive them. Tonight we’re reviewing The Yeti — a 2026 creature feature set in 1940s Alaska, intentionally shot to look like it was made in the ’50s. Practical creature, period production design, and a cast that should make every horror fan’s antennae go up: Jim Cummings, Wi...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us decide if we’re losing our minds. Tonight we’re reviewing Hokum — the new film from Damian McCarthy, the Irish horror writer-director who made Oddity. Adam Scott plays a horror author who travels to a remote Irish hotel to scatter his parents’ ashes. The hotel is haunted. He...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us argue about them. Tonight we’re reviewing Lee Cronin’s The Mummy — yes, that Lee Cronin, the man behind Evil Dead Rise. He’s traded high-rise Deadites for an ancient bandage-wrapped horror, and the question is: does the contained-creature thing work, or did he leave all the g...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies and shows you’ve heard about… and occasionally deal with the consequences. Tonight’s episode is a little different. After our take on the Stranger Things finale… let’s just say someone had notes. So instead of ignoring it like mature adults, we did the obvious thing... we brought her on the show. That’s right, this is our first of...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us survive them. Tonight we’re reviewing They Will Kill You — which, honestly, we appreciate for not wasting time with subtlety. The title sets expectations, and we’re here to find out if the movie actually delivers… or just threatens us for 90 minutes. And in the glass, we’ve g...