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Microwave Massacre (1979) Directed by Wayne Berwick Starring: Jackie Vernon, Lori Sauber, Sarah Alt, Daniel Dean What if Frosty the Snowman got tired of his wife's cooking and started microwaving people? That's essentially the pitch for Microwave Massacre, a movie so thoroughly, unapologetically bad that it somehow circles back around to being almost charming. This week, Justin from the Po...

The Fly (1986) Directed by David Cronenberg Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel If you haven't seen The Fly by now, this movie's f*cking 40 years old — just go watch it. David Cronenberg's body horror masterpiece takes a simple premise — scientist accidentally fuses his DNA with a fly — and turns it into one of the most effective, disturbing, and weirdly emotio...

Night Terrors (1993) Directed by Tobe HooperStarring: Robert Englund, Zoe Trilling, Ilona Kimi, William Finley What if the Marquis de Sade had a descendant running an eye-gouging cult in Egypt, and also there's a naked guy flopping around on horseback for no reason? This week we're kicking off HorrorWeen with the first half of our Tobe Hooper double feature, and we honestly still don't...

Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil (2010) Director: Eli Craig Starring: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss What if the scary hillbillies in every horror movie were just two sweet guys trying to fix up their vacation cabin? This week we dive into the cult classic horror-comedy Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil — a movie that bombed at the box office but built a devoted following by flipping ever...

Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) Director: Michael A. Simpson Starring: Pamela Springsteen, Renee Estevez, Walter Gotell, Brian Patrick Clarke What do you get when you take a trans slasher, send her to summer camp as a counselor, and let her murder anyone who breaks the rules? You get one of the most gloriously stupid, tone-shifted horror sequels of the 1980s — and we wouldn't have it...

District 9 (2009) Directed by Neill Blomkamp Starring: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, David James Aliens crash-landed on Earth over 40 years ago, and humanity's response was basically "cool, let's build a slum for them." This week we're diving into District 9, Neill Blomkamp's genre-bending sci-fi masterpiece about bureaucratic ineptitude, body horror, and pr...

Scream 4 (2011) Director: Wes Craven Starring: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Emma Roberts Ghostface is back, Sidney's book tour just became a body count, and Woodsboro is once again the worst place in America to answer your phone. This week we're revisiting Wes Craven's final film — the soft reboot nobody asked for but almost everybody needed. We're breaking down wh...

The Dirt Bike Kid (1985) Directed by David Zucker Starring: Peter Billingsley, Stuart Pankin, Patrick Collins, Chad Sheets The Thing with Two Heads (1972) Directed by Lee Frost Starring: Ray Milland, Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier, Don Marshall, Roger Perry A haunted dirt bike and a racist surgeon's severed head walk into a double feature — honestly, what more do you need to know? This week...

Evil Dead: Burn (2026) Director: Sebastián Vaneček Starring: Suheyla Yacoub, Tandy Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan The Deadites are back, and this time they brought a body count and a grudge. This week on the Dewey Pod Monster podcast, we tear into Evil Dead: Burn , the newest entry in the long-running franchise, and figure out whether it earns the name on the poster or just borrows it. Ex...

Obsession (2026) Director : Curry Barker Starring: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Andy Richter, Cooper Tomlinson One wish. One willow. One absolutely insufferable dude who ruins it for everybody. This week Sean and John dive headfirst into Curry Barker's breakout horror hit * Obsession *, and let's just say... they did not walk away polar opposite on this one. Between career-best gore,...

BACKROOMS (2026) Director: Kane Parsons (Kane Pixels) Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett What if the walls of your crumbling life literally swallowed you whole? That's Backrooms — the 2026 horror film from YouTube phenom Kane Parsons (aka Kane Pixels), who built an entire mythology out of liminal spaces and creepypasta lore before Hollywood came knocking. This w...

OnlyFangs (2025) Director: Angelica De Alba , Paul Ragsdale Starring: Nina Lane Kent, Drew Marvik, Kansas Bowling, Jessa Flux A bloodsucking girl gang builds an app to keep the blood — and the subscribers — flowing. This week we sink our teeth into OnlyFangs, the crowdfunded, indie vampire-comedy that takes the classic "monster hides among us" story and drags it kicking and screaming int...

Stone Cold (1991) Director: Craig R. Baxley Starring: Brian Bosworth, Lance Henriksen, William Forsythe, Richard Gant Somewhere in 1991, a man in a skunk-tail alligator duster looked at a grocery store full of Ritz crackers and decided they had to die. That man was Brian "The Boz" Bosworth, and the movie is Stone Cold — the single greatest hour and 32 minutes of biker-gang, courthouse-si...

In the Mouth of Madness (1994) Directed by John Carpenter Starring: Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen, David Warner There's a scene in In the Mouth of Madness with a "little fucking flappy arm thing" pretending to be an unspeakable cosmic horror, and honestly, that's the whole movie in a nutshell. This week we dig into John Carpenter's 1994 slow-burn descent into madne...

Pieces (1982) Director: Juan Piquer Simón Cast: Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Paul L. Smith, Ian Sera If you've ever wanted to watch a chainsaw-wielding maniac assemble a human jigsaw puzzle on a Boston college campus while the cops shrug and grab a Baconator — brother, have we got a movie for you. This week on Dewey Pod Monster, we're diving headfirst into Pieces (1982), the Spani...

Future Force (1989) Director: David A. Prior Cast: David Carradine, Dawn Wildsmith, Robert Tessier, William Zipp The Power Glove is on the cover. David Carradine is visibly drunk. The future is 1991. Welcome to Future Force — the Action International Pictures masterpiece that had one genuinely cool idea and then locked it in the trunk of a Jeep Cherokee for 80% of the runtime. This week on Dewey P...

Radical Jack (2000) Directed by: David Heavener Cast: Billy Ray Cyrus, Dee Dee Pfeiffer, George Buck Flower, Noah Blake Billy Ray Cyrus walked so John Wick could run — and then immediately tripped over his own mullet. This week on Dewey Pod Monster, we strap in for Radical Jack , the year-2000 straight-to-video action masterpiece that dared to ask: what if Road House, but worse? And also Billy Ray...

HELLMARE (2026) Director: Victor Gabriel Cast: Boyd Coffman, Lloyd Kaufman, and the rest of the crew who clearly had a blast making this thing Indie horror isn't dead — it got sucked into a VHS tape and came out swinging. This week we're covering Hellmare , the brand new 2026 horror-comedy from director Victor Gabriel and RFN Pictures, literally 48 hours after its premiere. Fresh takes, ze...

Clear History (2013) Director: Greg Mottola Cast: Larry David, Michael Keaton, Bill Hader, Jon Hamm What happens when you take a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, forget to trim the fat, and stretch it into a feature film? You get Clear History — and honestly? It's still kind of great, even if it refuses to be anything other than exactly what it is. This week John and Sean dive deep into this 2013...

Primate (2025) Director: Robert Woods Cast: Johnny Sequoyah, Troy Kotsur, Victoria Wyant, Jess Alexander A rabid chimpanzee. An infinity pool. Five absolutely useless young adults. What could go wrong? Everything. Everything could go wrong — and somehow, the chimp is still the most competent character in the movie. This week on Dewey Pod Monster, we're reviewing Primate (2025) , the January horror...

Eliminators (1986) Director: Peter Manoogast Cast: Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby, Patrick Reynolds, Roy Dotrice Robots. Cavemen. A ninja who shows up two-thirds of the way through for absolutely no reason. A mandroid who can't stay on a boat. This is Eliminators , and it is exactly the fever dream you're hoping it is. This week, John and Sean dive headfirst into the 1986 Charles Band-produce...

Planet Terror (2007) Directed by Robert Rodriguez Starring: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Jeff Fahey If you haven't seen Planet Terror yet, Sean has a message for you: turn this podcast off right now and go watch it. We'll wait. This week on Dewey Pod Monster, we're diving deep into Robert Rodriguez's gloriously unhinged 2007 grindhouse masterpiece — a movie about zo...

Timecop (1994) Director: Peter Hyams Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill Time travel has been invented — and naturally, someone's already trying to weaponize it to steal an election. Welcome to Timecop , the 1994 JCVD action sci-fi spectacle where the mullets are questionable, the CGI is deeply committed to being bad, and the concept is actually way more interesting...

GREEN ROOM (2015) Director: Jeremy Saulnier Cast: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Patrick Stewart A punk band walks into a Nazi bar. No, that's not the setup for a joke — it's the setup for one of the most suffocating, nerve-shredding thrillers of the last decade. This week on Dewey Pod Monster, Sean and John dig deep into Jeremy Saulnier's 2015 siege film Green Room , where...

Masters of the Universe (1987) Director: Gary Goddard Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Billy Barty By the power of Grayskull — and a budget that clearly ran out before they could build a decent set — we're diving headfirst into the gloriously broken 1987 Cannon Films fever dream that is Masters of the Universe . This week, John and Sean strap on their cosmic keys, dust off the...