Blood and Black Rum Podcast - A Cult Film / Horror Podcast

Continuing our Halloween Reanimated series, we take a look at Lucio Fulci's Zombie, another one of the zombie genre's defining films. And we watched it using Blue Underground's 4K UHD release, so you know we were able to appreciate every facet of its imagery. We talk about the famous scenes - eye-gouging, shark-fighting - as well as break down the influences to the film, its gore, pacing and plott...

We're back! We're kicking off our Halloween season with Reanimated, a series of films focusing on zombies and/or close relations to zombies, and the first in that series is Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead! We're talking the storyline, the fast-moving zombies, Ty Burrell in a non-Phil Dunphy roll, the relation to Land of the Dead, and more! Also, we have Founders' Oktoberfest on the show. Approximat...

It's another St. Patrick's Day and that means another Blood and Black Rum Podcast episode on the Leprechaun series. This time we're up to Leprechaun 5: Leprechaun in the Hood. Ryne was sort of dreading this episode having seen the film before, and we actually struggle with what to talk about about this truly bad movie. However, we do manage to conjure up an hour of discussion about the song "Lep i...

We've been talking about doing this episode and we finally got to it - Parasite ,  the Best Picture winner from director/writer Bong Joon-Ho about rich  and poor, upper and lower class, and everything in between. This is a  complex film from its story to cinematography, and we try to break down  our favorite elements from it as much as possible. There's a lot to  dissect,...

We wanted to make sure we tackled Valentine's Day with a special episode, and since we've already done My Bloody Valentine we decided the next best thing is 2001's Valentine, a slasher film that utilizes the classic holiday themes of '80s horror films with a lot of homage to those movies. We talk about the killer, the gore, the red herrings, and a whole lot more in this special romantic episode of...

We said we'd do the 2019 Child's Play at some point after we were unable to cover it during its release due to the theater's projector issues, and here we are! Only a few months late. However, we were particularly surprised by this reimagining of Chucky the killer doll, who is transformed into an uncanny valley-style smartbot rather than a voodoo serial killer. While we admit the themes are sort o...

We're going in a bit of a different direction with this episode.  Instead of tackling gruesome horror, we're dealing with sobering  real-life tension with the melancholy and overtly realistic divorce tale   Marriage Story . We were thrilled by this Noah Baumbach drama,  especially with Adam Driver's performance. We talk about the overall  themes of the film, how it relates...

We're back! It's 2020 and we finally have a new episode. Yes, we had to skip Black Christmas 2019 but we decided to go a bit farther back in time to 1958 to cover the original The Fly starring  Vincent Price, Patricia Owens, and David Hedison. We talk about the  shocks and surprises of this grisly classic, Price as the straight man,  the interesting red herring murder mystery, and m...

Our Festivus Series carries on and we technically finish off the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise with our episode on Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker! This DTV horror film from 1991 has only a tenuous connection to the series but it does at least have a crazed Santa and a bunch of killer toys in very '90s fashion. We're not super stoked on the film but it does have a few good eleme...

On our second Festivus episode of Christmas 2019, we're talking Joe Dante's excellent GREMLINS - they're cute and cuddly until they're not! We discuss the Spielberg influence on this film, the puppeteering effects, the other small creature films that came out in the '80s, and more! Sorry for Ryne's echo mic - we had some issues with the mic this episode, all fixed now though. Also, we're drinking...

It's that time of year again! We kick off our third annual Festivus Series by returning and finishing a film franchise we started a while ago: The Santa Clause. This time we torture ourselves with The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause starring Martin Short as Jack Frost. The whole thing is a cartoony festival of the worst elements of the Santa Clause sequels, from the over-the-top set designs to t...

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our US listeners! If you're Canadian,  you've already had yours. For this special festivity we're tackling the  OTHER John Hughes film for Thanksgiving that we haven't done yet, Planes, Trains & Automobiles .  Now both of us love this movie and instead of a normal critical review  of the film, we're going to be talking about our favorite scenes...

And so we come to the end of Antholoween, on Halloween no less, with our Tales of Halloween episode. This is the most stories we've seen in an anthology so far, and we do our best to talk about them all individually. We're talking horror cameos, directors, and the good and bad of each story. There are some hits, some misses, but most of all we like the atmosphere. We're also drinking Saranac's Bla...

We've finally gotten to the actual Halloween anthologies! We're covering Trick 'r Treat ,  probably the best Halloween-centric movie to actually accomplish the  atmosphere of the holiday. We talk about all the segments in the best  order we can since they intermingle with each other, and we give our  perspective on how well the film manages its Halloween setting and its  m...

We've already done Creepshow, but moving into the '90s, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie followed the template of that film pretty heavily to the point where it is sometimes nicknamed Creepshow 3. However, we discuss the flaws in this anthology of three short stories, going over each in depth - including "Lot 249," "The Cat from Hell," and "Lover's Vow" along with the wraparound story. While the...

We move from 1982 to... 1983 in our second '80s anthology film. This time we're going in a little different genre direction, from horror to fantasy, with The Twilight Zone: The Movie. Yes, the most interesting thing about this film is its tragic backstory, but we also dive into each of the four segments to give you an in-depth look at how we feel about each of them (spoilers: two are great, two ar...

Antholoween continues! We're in the '80s now with the highly esteemed anthology film Creepshow, which couldn't have any more big names attached to it. Written by Stephen King, directed by George A. Romero, with Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, Adrienne Barbeau, and more, this horror hit emulating EC Comics is pretty much the cream of the crop. We talk each of the five shorts in detail along with the To...

Our second anthology film in our trip through the years lands us in 1972 with Tales from the Crypt, the original adaptation of the EC Comics line of horror stories. This series of five shorts has some hits and some misses, and a curious moralistic view - while a lot of the characters are clearly awful, a couple don't seem to deserve their demise. We talk about each story in detail, including compa...

We begin our annual Halloween festivities with the first anthology in our Antholoween series, the 1963 film from Mario Bava Black Sabbath. This one's a slow burn for sure, with all of Bava's familiar tropes - ornate decorations, sexy ladies, unique photography, and ridiculously colorful lighting. Led by Boris Karloff, we're treated to three stories - "The Telephone," "The Wurdulak," and "The Drop...

It's been two years since we covered the first film in the new IT reboot and It: Chapter Two takes us 27 years later after the kids have grown up and forgotten about Derry. But the evil is still festering, forcing them (and us) to come back to see the final showdown. Andy Muschietti's second film doesn't have the same appeal; it has some strong comedy especially from Bill Hader, but that comedy fe...

We've already done Friday the 13th Parts 1-3 over at the Jay MovieTalk podcast, so we thought for our early Friday the 13th episode we'd go right to the next - and FINAL - Friday the 13th - Part IV: The Final Chapter. This is where we say goodbye to Jason, who does all of the things he normally does except with three different, and disconnected, groups of people. We talk about that disconnect, Cor...

Yeah, She's All That might seem  like a weird pick for a B&BR episode. But we're a weird podcast, and  we enjoy a wide variety of films. That includes '90s teen romantic  comedies, of course (and we're still itching to do that Mean Girls episode).  Though you might be shrugging your shoulders, looking to skip this  episode, I'd say it's one of our best - we have a ton...

Also known as The Stranger's Gundown when released with its English dub, Django the Bastard is a 1969 spaghetti western that is sometimes credited as being an important precursor of the supernatural element in spaghetti westerns. However, we mostly see this as a ripoff of the Man with No Name series, including Anthony Steffen trying very hard to be both Clint Eastwood and Franco Nero at the same t...

We're taking a look at the second film in the web-slinging Spider-Man series from Marvel. Here Peter Parker travels to Europe and we are loving the washed-out, Eurocinema colors and the risks that have been taken with the character. We also talk about Jake Gyllenhaal's charisma, the teenage romance antics, Mysterio as a villain, the heavy CGI, and a whole lot more. Approximate timeline 0:00-10:00...

We were unable to get out to see the new Child's Play film, but we had always wanted to do the original first anyway. So we sat down to devote an hour to America's favorite murderous doll, Chucky, taking a look at the first film in the franchise. No Aubrey Plaza here, but we still remark on all of the great actors in this (Chris Sarandon, Brad Dourif, and his giant-dicked mural) as well as remarki...