CULT and CLASSIC Films

In our Season 12 launch, we talk with Writer/Director Craig Ouellette and Star/Producer Bonnie Jean Tyer about their highly anticipated new romantic slasher STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING (2025)! So gear up to talk of love, gore, and so much more on this episode of CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS Podcast! Stream or buy STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING on Physical Media at LoveIsScary.com ! Listen : Wherever you get your...

To celebrate the lovey-dovey season, we're setting our phasers on love and laughter with this revisiting of our chat about EASY A (2010) ! EMILY STONE (she prefers we call her that rather than EMMA, and she asked nice!) stars in this teen comedy with wit and stars-a-plenty. When a little white lie has the whole school thinking quiet girl-next-door Olive is a prostitute, Olive takes a stand against...

As we slide painfully over the gravel of life in our times, let us provide you and your love with a bevy of film recommendations sure to set your loins on fire (and ignore that the world's on fire!) Whether it be popcorn romance, deep and heartfelt emotional journeys, or time-traveling J. K. Simmons with a crossbow, these picks are sure to please! So strap on--sorry, "in"--for this week's episode...

It’s finally happened—the writer/director of THE ROOM , TOMMY WISEAU , has released another movie! And it’s GLORIOUS. Try and follow this: three boozing firefighters who all live together and wear cowboy clothes in New Orleans are tasked with saving the city from an enormous shark that attacks by slip-and-sliding its way through the French Quarter. Need we say more? Yes, of course! Learn why you a...

The highly anticipated Part 2 of our "Vampires Can Dance" is here with the Italian gothic dance flick THE VAMPIRE AND THE BALLERINA (1960) ! This one's got all one expects from a gothic undead feature--dance parties, black leotards, and disfigured bipolar gentlemen who laugh at odd moments. In other words, it's a shot-for-shot remake of Citizen Kane! Check-in for this tale of madness and monstrosi...

We're back with a Christmas-kick in the pants! That kick is delivered by two handsome hunks famous for being SHREDDED. We're talking DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON and CHRIS "CAPTAIN AMERICA" EVANS in the new Christmas family flick RED ONE (2024) ! Does this AMAZON MGM-produced action comedy have the guffaws to become a holiday classic? Hey, JINGLE ALL THE WAY did for some reason, so who the hell knows...

If you think you've got a break from holidays, we're here to dash your dreams with a dose of X-MAS INSANITY! To do that, we tackle the new RIFFTRAX version of the obscure NEW ZEALAND holiday film titled THE MONSTER'S CHRISTMAS (1981 --not to be confused with the animated 1994 film of the same name)! It's chocked full of unintelligible mumbling and HORRIFYING monsters sure to give the hardiest of a...

We're bringing the holiday cheer with THANKSKILLING 3 (2012) , writer/director JORDAN DOWNEY 's follow-up to the low-brow comedy slasher THANKSKILLING (2008) ! Will more gravy-flavored condoms be coming your way? Dad-face wearing turkey puppets? Nay, but there WILL be filthy rapping grandma puppets, literal lost minds, giant turkey-plucking-roasting-stuffing machines, and colonial-obsessed entrepr...

It's election time again here in the U.S., and it's an important one! Listen to this very serious message from host NATE WYCKOFF about why voting for KAMALA HARRIS is necessary for FILM LOVERS , GOOD FOLKS , and EQUITY FOR ALL OF US . Don't think this election can't hurt the things we love (including movies)--it can! Get the lowdown on how, where, and why to vote DEMOCRAT this election with CULT A...

Part 1 of our double-feature dubbed "Vampires Can Dance" is the flick about the bloody dancin' diva of the year, ABIGAIL (2024) ! Join us as we talk killer kids, questionable endings, and how pale Matthew Goode is! Oh, and there's some stuff about vampire ballerinas in there, too, on this episode of CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS Podcast! Listen : Wherever you get your podcasts & at cultandclassicfilm...

We have on the pod actor TOBIAS JELINEK , who we all know and love as long-haired bully extraordinaire "Jay" from the legendary Halloween favorite, HOCUS POCUS ! "But wait!" you say. "Isn't that the handsome face from season 1 of STRANGER THINGS ?" "No," another of you cry, "It's Capt. Luke from AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. !" SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU! You're all right! And we have him here, answering the be...

Could it be true? Could "SHREK CRACK" (2024) be the ultimate magnum opus from auteur JANICE.CLICK? If it is, we have nothing to complain about, because this flick is BATSH*T BONKERS! Nothing we imagined got anywhere close to the dingy, beautiful crazy that is SHREK CRACK, so what else can we say but WATCH & LISTEN TO this Shrek-errific, crack-tastic episode of CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS Podcast! L...

janice.click is back on their marvelous bullshit with a double-shot of new flicks exploding into your eyeballs and earballs! We talk SQUATCH JUNKIES (2023) , the first film from janice.click written by someone else--in this case, actor SLADE SCHALK ! With a cast featuring many returning click-ians, hear all about this tent abusing, meth abusing, moonshine abusing, ad-lib abusing hairy creature fea...

Since we're gearing up for new a JANICE.CLICK double-feature hella soon, we revisit Janice's first feature-length movie, ATTACK OF THE SCARECROW FROM MARS (2022)! Are there murders? Are there aliens? Are their babies that get punched in the head? All that and so much more! It's time to "Butter the space-corn" on this week's episode of CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS Podcast! Listen : Wherever you get your...

We toss in our two cents with this review of ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024) ! Horror and gore director Fede Álvarez (EVIL DEAD 2013) tosses his writer/director hat into the ALIEN -franchise ring with this much-awaited sequel in the long-running series. With shots (and plots) of prior ALIEN films crammed in, does Romulus have what it takes to start a new cycle (and does it deserve to?) We'll tell you, on th...

It's time we revisit the time our esteemed panelists revealed what sequels they found better than the originals, and exactly what caused these unnatural happenings! CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS Podcast tackles sequels that outshine their predecessors, so get your fightin' gloves on to defend your beloved first flicks! It's "Sequels Better Than The Originals!," this week on CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS Podcast...

In this classic episode revisited, Nicolas Cage keeps the movies coming with these two recent cinematic fun-flicks! To start is the wild-animal/trapped-at-sea thriller PRIMAL from 2019 , which we pair with the brand-spanking new martial arts/Predator genre-mashup JIU JITSU (2020) with TONY JAA! It's a Nic-o-rific Nicolas Cage celebration episode, here on CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS Podcast!  Listen: W...

This week, we revisit a favorite episode that warns us to “Turn off that idiot box!” We match DAVID CRONENBERG 's body-horror hit VIDEODROME (1983) with TED NICOLAOU 's satirical sci-fi horror flick TERRORVISION (1986) ! Get ready for gruesome effects and drooling beasts, and don't sit so close to the screen! "Turn off that idiot box!" is the name of the game on this episode of CULT and CLASSIC Po...

This week, we return to our celebration of film and TV legend GARY BUSEY with this double-Busey bash! First up is 1986's stellar action romp EYE OF THE TIGER (1986)--and yes, the soundtrack is SURVIVOR- rific!--followed by Charles Band's cult favorite THE GINGERDEAD MAN (2005), where Busey voices a deadly cookie bent on revenge! It's "More Busey, More Problems!" on this episode of CULT AND CLASSIC...

As temperatures rise and force us indoors, it's baby-makin' time! Perfect timing, as we're revisiting IT'S ALIVE (1974) from cult icon LARRY COHEN, followed by ALICE LOWE's piece of British brilliance PREVENGE (2016)! Filled with wit, satire, blood and murderous fetuses, it's time for a cinema bris! It's "Baby-Makin' Blues," this week on CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS Podcast! Listen: Wherever you get you...

We give a spoopy little nod to romance in this revisiting of our discussion on the OSCAR-WINNING film GHOST (1990) and the little-talked-about follow-up to TEEN WOLF, TEEN WITCH (1989) ! In the first flick, we have legends like WHOOPI GOLDBERG, PATRICK SWAYZE , and DEMI MOORE challenging the barriers of death, and in the second, we have ROBYN LIVELY, DICK SARGENT , and ZELDA RUBINSTEIN wreaking hi...

We explore our bodies in part 2 of our "SEX EDUCATION WITH EMILY/EMMA STONE" double-feature! We talk POOR THINGS (2003) , the film where Ms. Stone's character masturb8tes with an apple! Yes, it's weird, but what would you expect from the director of 2017's THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER? EMILY STONE (she prefers we call her that rather than EMMA, and she asked nice!) It's a subversive imagining of t...

Join us for a good old-fashioned revisiting family horror flicks! GOODNIGHT MOMMY (2014) is a harrowing tale of tense mother-child mistrust gone horribly wrong, which makes it the perfect companion piece to cult legend Charles Band's mutant-family melee, HEAD OF THE FAMILY (1996) ! We keep it all in the family in this episode of CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS Podcast ! Listen: Wherever you get your podcas...

In honor of actor, LGBTQIA+ advocate, and poet VINCENT CALVARESE—a member of the CULT AND CLASSIC FILMS family—we are rebroadcasting a favorite, joyous episode: our “VIDEO GAME FAN FILM” pairing featuring the famed THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: HERO OF TIME (2009) and the lesser known and larger budgeted MEGAMAN (2010) ! Sick of not having a film adaptation of the classic games we know and love? Well, thes...

We get hot and heavy with part 1 of our "SEX EDUCATION WITH EMILY/EMMA STONE" double-feature! EMILY STONE (she prefers we call her that rather than EMMA , and she asked nice!) stars in this teen comedy with wit and stars-a-plenty. When a little white lie has the whole school thinking quiet girl-next-door Olive is a prostitute, Olive takes a stand against the double standard. However, when the pres...