BAMF Presents The Rewind Underground

This week on The BAMF Podcast , we celebrate the unluckiest episode with the unkillable franchise: Friday the 13th. Join Sideburnzombie as he slices through twelve movies of camp carnage, zombie resurrections, Manhattan detours, and one glorious space upgrade. We’ll break down what makes Jason timeless, why horror comfort food still rules, and how Friday the 13th secretly makes a perfect tabletop...

The Ultimate Experience in Grueling Podcast Terror. This week, Sideburnzombie cracks open the Necronomicon and bleeds nostalgia all over the mic as he dives into his all-time favorite horror masterpiece, The Evil Dead (1981). From a cabin in the woods to the birth of Bruce Campbell’s Ash. Join us for the Cult Pick of the Week where we breakdown Raimi’s relentless classic. From the wild camera work...

Before The X-Files , there was Kolchak . We rewind to the 1972 TV movie that broke ratings, spawned a cult series, and set the blueprint for every TV monster hunter that followed. Vampires in Vegas, Darren McGavin’s legendary sass, and the Top 5 Kolchak episodes you need to watch. PLus we talk to Russ who watched it when it originally aired in the Late Fee Confessional

Snow, paranoia, and one of the gnarliest creatures ever put on film. This week we’re thawing out John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). Sideburnzombie breaks down the cult pick of the week, runs through the icy terror scene by scene, and hits the Static Zone to ask: does this masterpiece of mistrust still hold up in 2025? Spoiler...it absolutely does. Grab your flamethrower, roll your sanity check, an...

Hop aboard the Pork-Chop Express as Sideburnzombie breaks down John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (1986), the cult classic that bombed in theaters but became unstoppable on VHS. From Lo Pan’s sorcery to the Three Storms’ boss-fight energy, we dig into why Jack Burton is every D&D character I ever played, and how this movie is basically the perfect tabletop campaign caught on film. Wh...

Rowdy Roddy Piper walks into L.A. with a mullet, a flannel, and no plan, then the next thing you know, he’s seeing aliens in Armani. This week, Sideburnzombie grabs the shades and breaks down John Carpenter’s They Live scene by scene: the black-and-white nightmare of consumerism, the most stubborn street fight in movie history, and Meg Foster’s eyes (aka Hollywood’s coolest special effect). Then i...

It is Badass Movie Friday again and enough is never enough, especially when it comes to Larry Cohen’s cult classic The Stuff . This week, Sideburnzombie scoops deep into the killer dessert that took over the 80s, scene by gooey scene. From Michael Moriarty’s smooth-talking badass Mo Rutherford, to gallons of glorious practical FX goo, to Cohen’s razor-sharp satire of consumerism, this movie has it...

Before Mario stomped Koopas on the big screen… there was TRON . It was neon, innovative, and way ahead of its time. Then came the '90s. And Hollywood said, “Hey, we can make video game movies too!” Spoiler: they couldn’t. In this episode, Sideburnzombie blows the dust off a whole stack of pixel-powered classics and catastrophic flops—from the beautiful disaster of Street Fighter , to the bizarre f...

It’s the return no one asked for...and yes, we’re talking about those sequels that show up 20 years late and 10 steps behind. From Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to The Matrix Resurrections , this episode dives deep into the long-gap sequel: when it works, when it really doesn’t, and why Hollywood keeps dragging your favorite VHS heroes out of retirement. Join Sideburnzombie as he rewinds through the bes...

On this week’s episode, I walk down the old VHS comedy shelf and revisit the hilarious, cringe-worthy, and endlessly quotable movies we rented way too many times. From Ace Ventura to Tommy Boy , we’re laughing our way through the sleepover classics that shaped our warped sense of humor. But there’s static ahead! We bravely venture into comedies from the '80s and '90s that… well, let’s just say the...

This week I dive into the whirlwind world of kung fu cinema, from Rumble in the Bronx to Master of the Flying Guillotine . It’s a tale of wrong rentals, flying kicks, and falling headfirst into the badass world of Golden Harvest. Plus a call from Mark, Host of Tales From the TTRPG Dust Pan.

This week, Sideburnzombie cracks open a cult classic so unhinged it makes Frankenstein look like a Hallmark special. We’re talking Re-Animator from 1985. The splatterpunk brain-melter filled with glowing green goo, dismembered drama, and enough gore to flood your basement. From Herbert West’s mad science to the infamous “head” scene (you know the one), we dive deep into what makes this flick a VHS...

Its Friday night, the BAMF Podcast blasts into your speakers like a nuclear waste truck into a New Jersey gym! Sideburnzombie is cracking open the vault with The Toxic Avenger , the cult classic where mops become weapons, bullies are dealt justice, and the sludge never stops flowing. Don’t touch that dial. Grab some stale popcorn. And whatever you do… Rewind and Be Kind.