Channel 37's Midnight Movie Show

Speculative fiction has long been a means of answering some of life's greatest questions. What happens when we die? What are we going to do with all these dead guys' brains lying around? Can Denise Richards have implied sex with a robot dinosaur in a way that doesn't trample her character's sense of agency? All this and more, as we study 1931's Frankenstein and 1994's Tam(nn)my and the (Teenage) T...

What do you get when you cross three directors, two scripts, a hand puppet, a pirate were-cat, a Founding Father's estate, an exploding Grim Reaper, flatulence golems, and Duke the Horny Ghost? We're not 100% certain either, but we got a little closer when we watched 1986's Spookies. Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

Season three of Channel 37's Midnight Movie Show is almost upon you! Come smell the excitement! Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

We're taking a quick break from our quick break to wish everyone a merry merry and also to scratch that completionist itch. With that, we wrap up the most important trilogy of the 21st century with 2017's A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby! (We're super hyped for the prequels.) With that dragon finally slain, we see out 2023 with a Christmas zombie romantic comedy musical and I'm already exhausted...

We're at the end of Season Two, and there are still a bunch of musicals on the shelf. What better way to clear some of them out than picking a bunch at random? In so doing, we took a deep dive into the summer of 1984 with Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (don't worry, we'll catch you up with the first one so you don't get lost) and Streets of Fire, starring Willem Dafoe in rubber overalls and a Wolve...

Self-care is important. When life seems like a lot, it's important to slow down, appreciate the beauty of nature, and take refuge in the arts. So slow down, take some you time, and wrap yourself in a warm, soothing embrace of exploding inflatable dolls, razor frisbees, and radioactive poison toilet-snakes. Also boobs. It's 1987's Hard Ticket to Hawaii! Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

There's one episode to go before we wrap up Season Two, and we're gonna spend it making fun of a movie the internet as a whole forgot about two years ago. Join a panel of musical theatre experts, and also Dan is there, as we puzzle our way through 2019's Cats. Free the Butthole Cut! Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and we're jumping into the festivities with a pair of highly influential movies that start from a similar place but go in wildly different directions: 2013's The WNUF Halloween Special and 1992's Ghostwatch! Don't worry, you can get back to that special where Garfield gets threatened by an old man when you're done. You ever see that? That cartoon is fucked...

Sometimes two movies with very different vibes turn out to have a lot in common. Like a plot. And general goofiness. Kicking things off is a certified classic of science fiction, This Island Earth from 1955! Then, we're gonna gaze wistfully at an uncertain future in the stars while we ponder how much Star Wars we still had in us by 1984. Turns out a lot. It's The Last Starfighter! Email: info@chan...

Animation can free the imagination and give full, colorful voice to worlds full of wonder and inspiration. We discuss this with Rankin-Bass' 1977 (under 90-minute) adaptation of The Hobbit! After that, we can remember what it's like to wonder what it'll be like to have sex someday, along with 1981's Heavy Metal! Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

The journey from fresh-faced, innocent newcomer to crumpled-up has-been is a fixture of song and story from time immemorial. The library's copy of the Edda was checked out, though, so instead we focused on two ends of the music industry: 2001's Josie and The Pussycats, and 1984's This is Spinal Tap. One was way better than anyone remembered. The other was exactly as good as everyone remembers. Ema...

There's nothing we enjoy more than taking a deep dive into the WWE's long and storied history of self-mythologization. Remember when Hulk Hogan tried to act? Find it as adorable as we did as we tackle 1989's No Holds Barred! After that, we're gonna see if this Florence Pugh person might be someone to keep an eye on with 2019's Fighting with My Family! Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

We recently lost character actor Treat Williams, pulp villain and WB-dad par excellence. To pay tribute, we look at two of his many contributions to midnight movie culture: the zombie buddy cop horror comedy Dead Heat from 1988 and 1998's Indiana Jones and the Luxury Ocean Liner Full of Tentacle Monsters, or Deep Rising! Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

What theatrical form gives you the opportunity to express your emotions, delve into philosophy, and achieve classic status more effectively than the rock opera? Asking for a friend. While you ponder that, give a listen as we go over a couple of tentpoles of the genre with 2008's Repo! The Genetic Opera alongside Ken Russell's 1975 adaptation of The Who's Tommy! Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter:...

Don't let all that sunshine and not being in school get you down! We're here to ask Santa for a podcast sponsorship and a baby brother, but in lieu of that, we're going to say hello to some old favorites while we criticize their outfits, the way the holidays should be! Come a-wassailing with us while we discuss 2018's A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding - The Legend of Curly's Gold! Email: info@...

The comic book movie boom of the 1990s was responsible for some classics, probably, but here we're looking at the best in cardboard spaceships and Lori Petty turned up to 11. Settle in for 1994's unreleased Roger Corman masterwork The Fantastic Four! We're following that up with basically a Mad Max remake except it's a Jim Carrey movie. It's 1995's Tank Girl! Let loose the Bjork Army! ('90s!) Emai...

On your way to a remote village with unknowable secrets whispered about only in rumor? Spend your poorly planned trip with us as we dive into 1973's The Wicker Man, then follow that up with 2019's Midsommar! (After that, we just needed to be alone for a while.) Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

Sometimes something sounds like it's gonna be an absolute riot before you actually have to do it. Anyway, Here's 2015's Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre. Before you ask, no, there's no women's prison. Or a massacre. Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

Memorial Day Weekend! A perfect time for picnics, cookouts, and watching 30-year-old teenagers hold surfboards without ever getting in the water! We’re kicking off summer 2023 by heading back to summer 1965 and sneaking into a twin bill of Beach Blanket Bingo and The Beach Girls and the Monster! Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

We see a Full Moon rising! We're gonna explore the early days of Charles Band's empire with 1985's Trancers (yes, we know, that one's technically Empire, shut up) and 1989's Puppet Master, all while trying to figure out how a company that started out consistently entertaining ended up making Barbie and Kendra Storm Area 51 or whatever. Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

From the depths of the nightmare plane they return! One is previously underappreciated and currently receiving a modern re-evaluation. The other is super goofy and has the Wings lady in it. Get your Jolt Cola and stay awake for 1985's A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and 1987's Slumber Party Massacre II! Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

Both of this week's movies probably had a plot, but we couldn't bother following them. One of them had a lawyer, we think? Doesn't matter. We're here to sing the fiery, kick-punchy, bullet-riddled praises of this year's nominees in the category for Greatest Movies Called Above the Law, Not Starring Steven Seagal Division: 1989's Action USA and 1986's Righting Wrongs! Email: info@channel-37.com Twi...

Richard Elfman and the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo brought their musical theatrical arthouse cabaret thing to the big screen with 1980's Forbidden Zone! Four decades later, Elfman made a movie where his son poops an obelisk after having sex with his stepmom! It's 2019's Aliens, Clowns and Geeks! We don't get paid for this! Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

The Midnight Movie Show is back and roughly the same as ever! We're kicking off Season Two with the 1964 film that changed pop culture forever: A Hard Day's Night! (We're here to shine a light on obscure cinema.) After that, the Monkees smash that theatrical self-destruct button with 1968's Head! Fab! Email: info@channel-37.com Twitter: @WHXN37

Season 2 of Channel 37's Midnight Movie Show is coming soon!