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Deep Dives continues and while Owen is sitting this one out, Ty Ippolito joins Gaius to talk about the sub-genre of horror in space and highlight different films that take place “where no one can hear you scream.” From Alien, to Event Horrizon, to Sunshine, the conversation shines a light on why this setting works and why it has led to some truly terrifying films that continue to resonate today. L...

Our Tales of Horror limited series with a chat about 1978’s Halloween, directed and scored by John Carpenter and co-written with producer Debra Hill. Starring Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis, the film is set in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, and centers on a mental patient, Michael Myers (Nick Castle), who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering h...

Deep Dives continues and while Owen is sitting this one out, this is a very special anniversary chosen by Gaius and Jackson! Kill Bill: Vol.1 just recently celebrated its 20th anniversary and the duo is looking back at the film 20 years later. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, the film stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, a former assassin who swears revenge on a group of assassins called The...

Our Tales of Horror series continues with the 35th anniversary of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. Directed by Dwight H. Little and written by Alan B. McElroy, the film stars Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, George P. Wilbur, Beau Starr, Kathleen Kinmont, and Sasha Jenson. In the film, after awakening froma ten year coma, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield, Illinois, to...

Tales of Horror continues with the team tackling 1974’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and the 2003 remake, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is also celebrating its 20th anniversary! Directed by Tobe Hooper and co-written by Hooper and Kim Henkel, the 1974 film stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Pertain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen, and follows a group of friends who fall victim to a famil...

Deep Dives returns! While Owen is sitting this one out, Jackson comes over from the main show with his pick of Lake Mungo, a 2008 Australian psychological horror film written and directed by Joel Anderson. Starring Talia Zucker and Martin Sharpe, the film employs mockumentary-style storytelling with found footage and docufiction elements, using actor “interviewees” to present the narrative of a fa...

Tales of Horror continues with Hellraiser, written and directed by Clive Barker and based on Barker’s 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart. The film marks Barker’s directorial debut and the plot involves a woman who discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her love/brother-in-law. Soon she starts killing for him to revitalize his body so he can escape the demonic beings known as the...

Tales of Horror continues with The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel of the same name. Starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair, the story follows the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests. In addition to talking this ho...

Tales of Horror changes things up this week with discussion about the Halloween franchise and it being shopped around in a bidding war around Hollywood. The team also discusses who their favorite horror directors are, if the horror genre is masochistic against women and, in none horror news, we celebrate the end of the writers strike after 146 days! The team then wraps things up with box office pr...

Tales of Horror continues with the directorial debut of Eli Roth, Cabin Fever, which is also celebrating its 20th anniversary. Starring Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, Joey Kern, and Giuseppe Andrews, the film follows a group of college graduates who rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a flesh-eating virus. Helping us out with this latest Tale of Horror...

Tales of Horror continues with the late 90s fan-favorite slasher film, Urban Legend, which is also celebrating its 25th anniversary! Directed by Jamie Blanks and written by Silvio Horta, the film stars Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, Michael Rosenbaum, Robert Englund, Joshua Jackson, Loretta Devine, John Neville, and Brad Dourif, and it focuses on a series of murders on the c...

Jackson and Gaius continue spooky season with another Tale of Horror courtesy of the 2016 Korean horror film, The Wailing. Written and directed by Na Hong-jin and starring Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee, the film centers on a policeman who investigates a series of mysterious killings and illnesses in a remote Korean village called Gokseong in order to save his daughter. Tales of Horror...

Even though we’re in the middle of spooky season, Gaius and Jackson are still here to give you the news on this special episode which focuses on the expose that revealed Rotten Tomatoes scores could be easily manipulated. In addition to this news, the duo is breaking down eight new trailers that include the second trailer for The Exorcist: Believer, followed by the trailers for No One Will Save Yo...

Spooky season has officially started on Back To Blockbuster and we’re excited to kickoff two months of a horror movie takeover with Wolf Creek, a 2005 Australian horror film written, co-produced and directed by Greg McLean. Starring John Jarrat, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, and Kestie Morassi, the film follows three backpackers who find themselves taken captive and subsequently hunted by Mi...

Gaius and Jackson look back at one of cinema’s greatest grudge matches between two horror movie icons in Freddy vs. Jason for the film’s 20th anniversary. Directed by Ronny Yu and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the film is a crossover between the A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises and it puts their respective antagonists, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, against...

WELCOME TO THE O.C. BITCH! Gaius and Jackson are looking back at The O.C. for its 20th anniversary, a series that began running on August 5, 2003, and concluding after four seasons and 92 episodes. Starring Ben McKenzie, Adam Brody, Mishca Barton, Rachel Bilson, Peter Gallagher, Kelly Rowan, Melinda Clarke, and Tate Donovan, the series centers on Ryan Atwood, a troubled and gifted young man from a...

Back To The Blockbuster is starting spooky season with a look back at Halloween: H20 for its 25th anniversary. Directed by Steve Minrer, the film stars Jamie Lee Curtis, LL Cool J, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Josh Hartnett, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Adam Hann-Bryd, Janet Leigh and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and finds Curtis returning to the role of Laurie Strode 20 years after the release of the first film....

This week it’s Gaius’ pick and he and Owen are deep diving into 2003’s Shattered Glass, written and directed by Billy Ray. The film is based on a 1998 Vanity Fair article of the same name by H.G. Bissinger and chronicles Stephen Glass’s fall from grace when his stories for The New Republic were discovered to be fabricated. The movie stars Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Z...

Gaius and Jackson get into the evolving story over whether or not Gal Gadot discussed doing Wonder Woman 3 with James Gunn and Peter Safran. Gadot says a meeting took place but other sources say such discussions never happen. The paid also get into news about the Talk To Me sequel, Blue Beetle's early reactions being mostly stellar and they end things with box office predictions for Strays and...

Back To The Blockbuster is celebrating its first anniversary pick that was chosen by our listeners and it was their decision for us to look back at Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl on its 20th anniversary! Directed by Gore Verbinski, the film stars Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley, and it’s based on the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disn...

Gaius and Jackson dive into the news that Radio Silence won’t be returning to direct Scream VII but Christopher Landon is next in line to scare up Ghostface terror. The pair also dive into Gal Gadot suggesting Wonder Woman 3 is still in development with James Gunn and Peter Safran, Stephen Amell’s strike comments, and the passing of legendary director William Friedkin. Follow Us On Instagram Follo...

Gaius and Jackson are looking back at the gripping true life drama, Fruitvale Station, ten years after its theatrical release. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, in his feature directorial debut, Fruitval Station is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man killed in 2009 by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer at the Fruitvale district station in Oakland. S...

Gaius and Jackson are back with another packed show discussing their reactions to the latest A24 horror movie release, Talk To Me. The duo also discusses the delays for Kraven The Hunter, the Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel, and Beyond the Spider-Verse due to strike and that’s followed by the pair ranking Christopher Nolan’s film now that they both have seen Oppenheimer. In new trailer releases, Ga...

This week it’s Owen’s pick and it’s another week of horror with Overlord, directed by Julius Avery and written by Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith. Starring Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, John Magaro, Gianny Taufer, Pilou Asbaek, Bokeem Woodbine, and Iain De Caestecker, the film follows several American soldiers who are dropped behind enemy lines the day before D-Day and discover terrif...

Gaius and Jackson are back reporting the news and discussing the massive box office performance for both Barbie and Oppenheimer and how the “Barbenheimer phenomenon helped both films bring in cash. The duo also updates on the SAG and WGA strike, including the delay of Challengers due to the strike and the potential delay of Dune: Part Two, The Color Purple and Aquaman 2. The pair also gives their...