A Cure for the Common Craig

Send us Fan Mail A horror musical? A horror rock opera, even? Sounds like something that would be a demon for some, but an angel for others. No wait, that's something else entirely. Early in his career, director Brian De Palma collaborated with composer Paul Williams to create this bit of '70s madness that predates The Rocky Horror Picture Show ! He sold his soul for rock and roll! It&ap...

Send us Fan Mail What exactly are the requirements for becoming the Queen of Bones? What does that even mean? What does the Queen of Bones even do? I don't know. Does this movie ever explain that? I don't think so. What we do have is a widower, Malcolm, and his twin children, Lily and Sam, living in an Oregon forest during the Great Depression. As the children are coming of age, they beg...

Send us Fan Mail It's our 7th anniversary episode, and we're bringing you a Sci-Fi Actionversary Summer Spectacular, in the form of a Dystopian Double-Feature! Two movies featuring characters who are willing to stand up and challenge authority at great personal risk! Join the resistance! View the following educational films, They Live (1988) and Turkey Shoot (1982)!

Send us Fan Mail If I happen to vacation in Mexico, I wouldn't want to just spend the entire time at the pool or the beach, either. Where's the excitement in that? But while the idea of checking out some unexplored ruins may sound great at first, that may be a little too adventurous for me. Especially after seeing this movie. The world is full of wild and wonderful things, like The Ruins...

Send us Fan Mail "Cannibal spiders creep and crawl! Boys and ghouls having a ball! Frankenstein, Dracula and even the Mummy, are sure to end up in somebody's tummy!" If those theme song lyrics don't convince you to watch this movie, I don't know what else you could possibly want. Behold! Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)!

Send us Fan Mail Child trauma, family conflict, tragedy, mental health concerns, supernatural happenings. If this sounds like the kind of movie that you want to subject yourself to, then stay very focused and alert for visual and audible clues, and maybe you can piece together A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)!

Send us Fan Mail When technology works and does what you want it do to, that's great. But then sometimes it seems to have a mind of its own, and it's just not in the mood. And it sure seems like a lot of people keep wanting to give technology MORE control. Ah, the horrors of technology and AI. Good luck stopping it. But just be careful in deciding what to Upgrade (2018)!

Send us Fan Mail What better way to celebrate the 250th birthday of the U.S., than by discussing a movie from the former Czechoslovakia? I do like to be difficult. But it's time for letter V in our little game, which means that we can pay Valerie a visit. Perhaps a somewhat polarizing film these days, we'll share our thoughts, and you can decide for yourself if you would like to spend ti...

Send us Fan Mail If you look closely, you might see it. Evil. Is that evil over there in the corner? What about under the bed? Is that evil in the swimming pool? I don't know! What I do know is that in rural Argentina, you might find evil, and then you might not be able to get rid of it, avoid it, or stop it! Because no one is safe When Evil Lurks (2023)!

Send us Fan Mail You should be grateful for MyChart these days. It probably saves you from situations like this. Barbi Benton goes to the hospital to pick up some test results, and ends up being harassed for pretty much an entire day! Just give her the damn results! In the meantime, of course, some mad killer is murdering people all around her. Stay away from that ninth floor, for sure! The Cannon...

Send us Fan Mail A giallo in May? As far as I'm concerned, any day is a good day for a giallo. And when the title of your giallo is twelve words, I know that you're taking the subgenre seriously. Edwige Fenech joins Luigi Pistilli and Anita Strindberg for a sexed up death romp in Sergio Martino's Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)!

Send us Fan Mail Z-A of Horror Series? What kind of nonsense is this? Well, we have to try something to crawl out of this void that we've fallen into. Plus, it gives us a chance to discuss David Fincher's Zodiac (2007), starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Chloe Sevigny, Brian Cox, and approximately 187 other actors who you will immediately recogniz...

Send us Fan Mail The bats are ready to emerge from their winter hibernation in the United States, and we are back with an Adorable Animals All-Out Attack celebration! We are blessed by the presence of Lou Diamond Phillips in Bats (1999), Columbia Pictures was hoping that Nightwing (1979) would be their next summer blockbuster, and then from there, Bela Lugosi is so done with imbecilic, bombastic i...

Send us Fan Mail Okay, this movie is from 1977, just putting that out there. Being from the '70s, and with how this movie starts, communist soldiers in Romania discovering a Dracula family tomb, and accidentally unleashing Dracula's dog, this movie is clearly not to be missed. Get your tail wagging with excitement for Zoltan...Hound of Dracula (1977)!

Send us Fan Mail It's a dark and stormy night in Australia. If you were a young woman, caught in a storm at the beach at 2 am, would you run to the nearest trailer park, randomly pound on the door of a mobile home, and then enter, when a lone older man opens the door? If so, maybe you should listen to our discussion of You'll Never Find Me (2023), because you might change your mind.

Send us Fan Mail It's that time of year, and the curse is still with us. The Winter of Folk Horror is back! A mother is compelled to educate her daughter when she discovers that use of witchcraft runs in the family in Hellbender (2021). A girl with an interest in the occult performs a spell to summon a spirit to kill her own mother in Pyewacket (2017). And then from there, a young woman reluc...

Send us Fan Mail I know what you're thinking, 1963, a man with X-ray eyes? This has to be completely ridiculous. And sure, there are a few cute scenes. But at its heart is a thought-provoking screenplay, a solid performance from Ray Milland, and a surprisingly effective dramatic turn for Don Rickles as a shady carnival barker. Do not envy X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)!

Send us Fan Mail We again celebrate Giallo January, with a pair of gialli from 1972. A very restrained Lucio Fulci directorial effort brings us a series of child murders in a small Italian town, where superstition leads to distrust in Don't Torture a Duckling (1972). Our second featured giallo might have you asking, "Who the hell is Solange?" You will find out, eventually, if you ca...

Send us Fan Mail Seventeen children run out of their homes at 2:17 am, leaving just one remaining child to show up in the school classroom later that morning. Where have the children gone? No one knows. Or do they? Could their teacher be responsible? And who the hell is this Gladys character that shows up? It's one of the best horrors of last year, Weapons (2025).

Send us Fan Mail The tradition of holiday horror continues, with perhaps some lesser-known titles. A group of children discover someone in a Santa suit has fallen into a pit in the forest in Cuento de Navidad (2005). More children, during a family get together, seem to fall ill, resulting in homicidal tendencies in The Children (2008). And finally, isn't it time for Christmas trees to exact v...

Send us Fan Mail It's midday in the small English village of Midwich. Whether you're talking on the phone at home, driving a bus, riding a bicycle, you suddenly pass out, without warning. Even dogs and cows are down and out! And when everyone awakens, it is eventually discovered that something very peculiar has happened to the women of Midwich. Has it become a Village of the Damned (1960...

Send us Fan Mail Spirals, spirals everywhere, so let's all have a drink! You really could have a wild "spiral spotting" drinking party while watching this movie, if you're into that sort of thing. Of course, we're not condoning that behavior. That's your own decision! Leave us out of it! And get that Millipede out of your ear! It's the madness of the Uzumaki (200...

Send us Fan Mail Two cult horror films with identical titles (kind of), going head-to-head! Classic 1980s heavy metal horror, with appearances by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne, versus a 2007 horror anthology that became beloved against all odds! Which movie takes the Trick or/'r Treat crown??? Happy Halloween! It's Trick or Treat (1986) vs. Trick 'r Treat (2007)!

Send us Fan Mail As an adult, your common sense usually does more to protect you than it did when you were a teenager. But holding a mystical hand, seeing a spirit, and then inviting it into yourself? Hey, I get that there's peer pressure and all, but I really hope that I had seen enough horror movies as a teen to know that would be a terrible idea. And as an adult, there's no way in hel...

Send us Fan Mail It's time for the 6th anniversary episode of the podcast! And don't you think that it's about damn time that we watch a Reba McEntire movie? What's that? Oh, sure. Kevin Bacon is in this, and Fred Ward, too. Yeah, the dad from Family Ties, he's here, and the girl with the shaky Jell-O from Jurassic Park. But we're obviously here for the Queen of Count...