Cheap Chills - On Art and Monsters

Ben and Amanda introduce a new segment, Conspiracy Something, Say Something and talk about a strange pattern emerging in children's programing. They give more thought and tips on going "Full Addams" (living like the Addams Family), then launch into the main topic: Time Travel. What would you do if you went back to High School? Can you convince a stranger to do something just because you are from t...

Amanda is Back! We're back! Ben and Amanda talk about what happens when you are awake during surgery. They take a big step toward living "Full Addams" (Family). Then they explore the idea of "smudging" and bad vibes in a home. Plus a few personal ghost stories!

Ben is joined by guest, co-host Kristen Lucas. Kristen is a comedian and actor who once tried to win over the crowd at an audition with a Cry Baby reference. Ben and Kristen check out the fun in the sun and teenagers making Hey-Hey in some beach horror movies. Plus! Hear the true story of the time Ben got a call from Gallagher. This episode brought to you by Suckerman. Check out www.kristenreneelu...

Ben is joined by Super 7's Josh Herbolsheimer. They talk about the new lines of Reaction figures, Universal Monsters (Can we just call him Frankenstein, already?) Plus art school and collisions with celebrities.

In this special 1 year anniversary show, Ben and Amanda veer away from movies to have a fireside chat about their most memorable Halloweens. The costumes, trick or treating, taking sexy pictures with Gramma. Plus some tangents about unfortunate swimwear.

Ben and Amanda start of with a bit of a State of the Podcast address as it's Episode 25 and the 1 year mark for Cheap Chills. Then it's Bad Apples spoiling....the World? at least the neighborhood. Ben and Amanda talk about their favorite bad boys, Damien from the Omen series and John Waters' Cry Baby Walker. What's up with doomsday people who are worried about the Mark of the Beast? The couple fin...

This time, Ben and Amanda watch clips from David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch then tell their stories about cockroaches and hoarders. They check out clips from Videodrome which launches Ben into a Shark Tank pitch for a ground-breaking, new adult product. One more trailer, Chatterbox gets the two into the realm of disappointing sex comedies and those 80s movies about switching gender. This episode is...

Ben and Amanda watch clips from Friday the 13th, The Series and wonder if there are cursed items in their own home. Plus Amanda gets a tour of the historic (haunted?)Cary House Hotel from Eugene Butler, The Halloween Man.

This time Ben and Amanda are joined by Producer, Director, Actor, Lowell Northrop (Hap & Leonard). They watch trailers to some movies about extra parts growing out of people's bodies and talk about vestigial twins, love and loss between the conjoined, an awful lot about Ben's artwork and a bit about dark side.

Ben and Amanda are joined by Entertainment journalist and former Famous Monsters of Filmland Editor, David. Weiner. We watch trailers to films that were featured on some of our favorite, classic FM covers. We recall some classic FM memories, and that time we teamed up to cover the release of Dana Gould's Stan Against Evil (IFC). Plus why is Vincent Price such a stud? And who else has the "IT" Fact...

In this episode, Ben and Amanda check out some favorite knock-offs of our favorite cult movies of the 1970s and 80s. A few trailers for movies in post-apocalyptic and barbarian genres prompt some personal stories from Ben. Amanda also explores her lifelong fear of outer space. Plus! Are we made by Ancient Aliens?

In this episode, Ben and Amanda talk briefly about the horror of knowing the people in your hometown feel very differently about current events. Which leads to the theme of the show: The Addams Family and the hosts' goal of living "Full Addams". Ben reads his Addams Code. The couple also tell tales from the back rooms of Northern California's Goth dance clubs.

In episode 18 of The Cheap Chills Show, Ben and Amanda delve into one of Ben's visceral fears, bodies dissolving into husks and vapors. The couple watch clips from cult classic films and discuss people melting, drying up and blowing away, turning into evil yogurt, and being left below. Plus a mysterious Hometown Horror and the couple come face to face with local wildlife in the foothills of Califo...

Ben and Amanda watch the trailers for Duel, The Car, Christine and Maximum Overdrive. They talk about when it was cool to be a trucker, their own road rage, car chase experiences and the terror that lays waiting in the garbage disposal. The couple caps it off by writing a possessed car-teen comedy on the fly.

Ben and Amanda wipe the dust from Mom's VHS collection. It's a lovely evening at home complete with a workout, beauty and pampering, a feature film and some late night romance.

We watch the trailers for Parents, Soylent Green and C.H.U.D. and talk man-eaters, man-made meat, and man-meat. Plus, do younger siblings get less genetic beauty juice? And, who said Sir-we-have-no-control-over-the-robots-at-all?

Ben and Amanda watch the trailer for Stephen King's Graveyard Shift and swap tales of awful jobs from their pasts. Plus, reasons not to go to Art school, the wordy horror of Lovecraft and white jeans.

This episode is devoted to the mysterious disappearance of Jim Bray, star (along with Linda Blair) of 1978's Roller Boogie. Ben and Amanda reveal their personal attachment to roller-skating and pitch a heavily fictionalized Jim Bray biopic.

Ben and Amanda explore a few of the unforgettable movies of 1973, The Baby, Legend of Hell House, Godspell and Psychomania. Plus personal tales of cat attacks, a Second Coming movie pitch, and more!

It's Birthday Week so Ben and Amanda look at some cult movies from Amanda's birth year, 1981. Time Bandits, Ghost Story and Escape From New York. They launch seamlessly into tangents about American fast food in Asia, roping dad into a John Carpenter concert, the downside of pizza and benefits of lounge music.

Ben and Amanda watch clips from five movies that freaked people the eff out as kids. Can it be a good thing to be traumatized as a younger?

Welcome to the Club! Ben has a religious experience while watching the 1981 film, Monster Club. Amanda is on board with the whole thing. That's a first!

This week, Ben and Amanda check out movies about evil body parts. Amanda and Ben each pitch their own evil body part film. Plus! Nightmares from childhood. Nightmare boyfriends. And Amanda discuses her aversion to being fed romantically.

Bonus! Ben sits down with comedian, Drew Platt to talk about a movie that terrified him as a kid, Pet Sematary. Plus Kepi Ghoulie's cover of Pet Sematatary! Thanks Kepi!

Neighbor and comedian, Gabe Callahan joins Ben and Amanda as we examine The Asphyx, plus all the Ghostbusters. Before they delve into deep personal fears and the movies that bothered their souls, Ben, Amanda and Gabe pitch a found footage-style movie about film students who stumble on their own Asphyx while re-hashing 1973's Asphyx.