A Cure for the Common Craig

Send us Fan Mail It's 1981, and things are not okay. Seemingly normal people are doing some pretty messed up things. One might even describe these acts as...nasty. A picturesque coastal town is the setting for the local residents to just kill people off whenever they feel like it. The local sheriff does his best to solve these mysterious deaths, but who can he trust? Especially when the morti...

Send us Fan Mail We had better get a head start on summer, with the first in a series of episodes featuring horror movies from the 80s.  Because we're behind schedule with episode releases and we're going to have to do some cramming! And there's probably no better way to kick things off than with Stanley Kubrick's version of the Stephen King classic, The Shining (1980). Is it j...

Send us Fan Mail It took something special like a 100th episode to do another list show, but here it is. Submitted for your approval, we present our top 10 favorite original Twilight Zone episodes. And in classic TZ tradition, you'll hear some well-known episodes being mentioned, but there are a few twists to this list, deviating from some of the more popular titles. We hope you'll enjoy...

Send us Fan Mail We've heard the disembodied voice screaming, "GET OUT!" That means the new owner probably wants to move in. So, it's time to wrap this move up with a true story of a house oozing with evil! Wait, though. Is it really true, or is it all just a lot of hokum? George and Kathy Lutz just got a great deal on what they feel could be their dream home, paying well under...

Send us Fan Mail The stress of preparing to move is bad enough, so I guess that it's nice to know the history of the house that you're moving into. Unless it happens to be a murder house. And if it does, you might think that getting out of there as quickly as possible is the best plan. Or is it? The chances of finding a box of Super 8 snuff films in the attic of our new house is probably...

Send us Fan Mail Most of us have been there. There's a life change, something happens, and you have to move. That's what is happening with us, right now! And why not celebrate the stress and exhaustion of moving preparation, with a series of episodes on people moving into horrific situations? Because at least we can take comfort that what happens to them probably won't happen to us....

Send us Fan Mail When March rolls around and things are not warming up quickly enough, sometimes you just need to get away on a spring break! But what if you're on a limited budget? Then you might end up on a zombie-infested island like we did! Realistically, this movie has nothing to do with spring break, we know. Just humor us, please. A seemingly abandoned boat turns up in the New York Cit...

Send us Fan Mail We take a little horror break, and hit the streets for some exploitation action! And high school. Because when you think action, you think high school. But let me tell you, these teachers might actually struggle more than the gang members in the other two movies. Director Jack Hill brings us a tale of rivalries and betrayal in an all-female gang. Juvenile delinquency and exploitat...

Send us Fan Mail The long, cold winter is upon us. And can't you just feel the folk horror lurking about in the silence of the snowfall? Join us, as we travel back to Europe for three more folk horror nightmares. Bears behaving badly in Lithuania, in Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach (1970).  Serbian vampire legends making for dangerous mill work in Leptirica (1973). And then from t...

Send us Fan Mail There's still time to celebrate Giallo January! And what better way to spend it than with master of horror, Dario Argento. And we can't talk about Suspiria or The Bird with the Crystal Plumage again, can we? No, no. We covered those in our Top 10 Horror Films of the 1970s episodes. So here are three more titles, just dripping with blood red Italian horror! After witnessi...

Send us Fan Mail That date on the calendar seems to have rolled around again. Yes, it's Friday the 13th. And we are clearly obligated to deliver the sixth entry in our ongoing series covering Jason Voorhees. We've finally made it to the ninth and tenth movies featuring Jason. So what does that crazy guy do this time? First, he goes to hell! In the appropriately titled, Jason Goes to Hell...

Send us Fan Mail It's time to close out 2022 by going back 35 years to 1987! But we then have to go back forward, into a dystopian future where criminals are forced to participate in a sadistic game show. And the future of law enforcement is a heroic cyborg-cop! Let's not get too excited, though. They are two separate movies. Can you imagine RoboCop  (1987) as a contestant on The Running...

Send us Fan Mail It's December. Time for family gatherings, baking cookies, happiness and all that stuff. Oh, and horror. There's always time for a little horror. It must be Horror for the Holidays IV! A young boy, well-versed in action movies, defends his grandfather from a home invasion by an evil Santa in 36.15 code Père Noël (1989), which is also known as Deadly Games , Game Over , a...

Send us Fan Mail Probably a good time to check in on the infected and see how they're holding up, 20 and 15 years later. And hey, let's see how many names we can mispronounce along the way. Well shit, there goes any hope of that Cillian Murphy interview. The Rage virus is running wild in the United Kingdom! And it is infecting people and transforming them into highly agitated killing mac...

Send us Fan Mail It may be November, but Halloween still haunts us. And YOU, if you dare listen to The Final Chapter of the 18th Annual A-Z of Horror Festival! It's a festival first! A guest host! As the Common Craig's sister, Average Amy, creeps out of that casket in the root cellar, to help us sink our fangs into the original mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's L...

Send us Fan Mail The festival continues with Part Two, featuring TEN more movies, letters I-R! We'd better get right to it! A chance encounter with a strange mist causes a man to begin to shrink! His whole body, not just...you know. What an emasculating experience for The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). Even the cat wants to eat him! Did you see that hole in the ground? Yeah, the one with th...

Send us Fan Mail Halloween is upon us. Go buy every single pumpkin spice item you can find, and don't forget the Count Chocula! Oh, and the October ritual is back! It's time for the 18th Annual A-Z of Horror Festival! Part one consists of entries A-H. Gear up for a wild Mexican exploitation ride, with enough evil to set your Satan detector into PANIC mode! Curse the day you meet Alucarda...

Send us Fan Mail It's the third anniversary of the podcast and the Common Craig is STILL not cured! Nicole has chosen a nostalgic favorite, John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (1986), in hopes of finally escaping the Hell of the Way Too Long Podcasts! Kurt Russell stars in this 80s box office flop turned cult film sensation, as Jack Burton, a truck driver who uses his swaggering...

Send us Fan Mail Nicole catches a break, sitting out the majority of this episode before the A-Z of Horror season comes to consume her! Brother Brian sits in as guest co-host, to talk some video games. Stories from our youth, including some unusual choices for games that scared him, for a number of somewhat irrational reasons. We also try our best to come up with a top five of our favorite horror...

Send us Fan Mail What do a vampire, a pregnant lady, a pious nurse, a film censor, and an urban legend have in common? They're the main characters that appear in the final part of our trilogy of episodes focusing on women horror directors. Get ready for some fresh new blood, as we discuss five movies from the past ten years! I don't know about you, but if I lived in a place called Bad Ci...

Send us Fan Mail More women! More horror! Directors. And movies. We're right in the middle of a three-part series on horror movies directed by women! This episode features very strong evidence that sometimes dead is better, a young girl who dreams of creepy storybook characters while rabbits run wild in Australia, western expansion and cannibalism in the 19th-century, and a promising medical...

Send us Fan Mail We take a little journey through horror history, with a three-part series focusing on films directed by women. Let's get things started with a psychopathic hitchhiker, a horny desert vampire, a toxic monster, and a denim-clad driller killer! A pioneer in women's filmmaking, Ida Lupino directs a claustrophobic movie set in the wide open desert, that is in truth more class...

Send us Fan Mail Beware the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet! From tombs beneath the scorching desert sand, it's a four-way battle to the death! Which movie endures the curse and earns the right to be called The Mummy? Contender 1: The Mummy (1932). Boris Karloff, fresh off of his sensational performance as Frankenstein's monster a year earlier, has become THE theatrical attraction for Uni...

Send us Fan Mail Time to wrap up our little horror vacation to Mexico, but we've saved two of the best for last! Both featuring children as the primary characters. Along with a Mexican movie set in France and filmed in English. Madness, you say? You would not be wrong. And with madness we begin! We visit a sanatorium, curious about the methods the doctor uses to treat his patients. However, i...

Send us Fan Mail Yo, yo, yo, let me speak on this! Orale! Arriba la raza! Join us as we hope to regale you with discussions of our movie experiences from our vacation to Mexico! There seems to be some debate as to whether or not we actually physically went to Mexico, but this episode covers four of the experiences that we claim to have had, so we'll just let you decide. Folklore, ghosts, the...