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This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane take a look at the South African bizarro masterpiece Fried Barry. Then, Rich the Monster Movie Kid is back with a review of The Suicide Squad. Songs included: "Sacrifice" by Motorhead, "Druganaut" by Black Mountain, "Folsom Prison Blues (live at Folsom Prison)" by Johnny Cash, and "Pseudocide" by GZR. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow...

This week on Dread Media, we have a loose theme of parents doing things to protect their children in extreme circumstances. First, a witchy mother protects her son from his father as he is turning into something else in Outcast. Then, Rich the Monster Movie Kid returns with a review of M Night Shyamalan's Old. Songs included: "Change" by Killing Joke, "Outcast" by Diablo Blvd, "It Was a Very Good...

This week on Dread Media, Duane and Desmond discuss George A Romero's lost film, The Amusement Park, and where or not it should have remained lost. Then Desmond goes solo on an editorial about lost films and posthumous films. Songs included: "Old Blood" by Cancer Bats, "Old" by Machine Head, "Lost and Found" by Rollins Band, and "Lost in Hollywood" by System of a Down. Send feedback to: dreadmedia...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane check out Open 24 Hours. Then, Rich the Monster Movie Kid returns after a long absence to discuss eight films he's recently seen in a movie buffet! Songs included: "Raindrops" by Dee Clark, "Sociopath" by Prima Donna, "Crash of the Crown" by Styx, and "Hellnation" by Mayhem. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr and @drea...

This week, Desmond and Tom kick off week 725 of Dread Media by taking a look at Joel Soisson and Patrick Lussier's Dracula 2000 trilogy. The original film, Dracula II: Ascension, and Dracula III: Legacy are all covered, along with the bonus film Dracula 3000 (if you can call that a bonus). And all this week's songs have been selected from the Dracula 2000 soundtrack: "Blind World" by Flybanger, "B...

This week on Dread Media, we take a look at some single-location films. First up, Desmond and Duane review Ryuhei Kitamura's Downrange. Then, Desmond does a Dread Media Top 5 Single Location Films. Songs included: "Watch the Corners" by Dinosaur Jr., "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" by the Beastie Boys, "Bad Place Alone" by Alice Cooper, and "A Principle on Seclusion" by Lychgate. Send feedback...

This week on Dread Media, we beat the heat by talking about some cold movies. First up, Desmond and Tom vehemently disagree about Black Mountain Side. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Underrated Winter Horror Films. Chill out to some tunes: "Freeze Up" by Operation Ivy, "Evil Ways" by Black Mountain, "Cold" by Tombs, and "Cold, Dark Place" by Mastodon. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodc...

Let's talk fast zombies! This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom take a look at the controversial Netflix feature Army of the Dead. Then, Desmond goes solo on an informal discussion of another Netflix production, the first two seasons of Black Summer. If you need a running playlist to help you keep away from the ravenous dead, you can do worse than this: "Dead Man Walking" by Raging Speedhorn, "...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane discuss Savage Dawn. Then Des returns for a Dread Media Top 5 Underrated Modern Action Films! Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @DevilDinosaurJr and @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebook group! Support the show at www.patreon.com/dreadmedia. Visit www.desmondreddick.com, www.stayscary.wordpress.com, www.dreadmedia.bandcamp.com, an...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom take on a double feature of witch-hunting films. First up, a brand new Neil Marshall swashbuckling take on the sub-genre, The Reckoning. Then, we take a look back at the grandaddy of the sub-genre: Witchfinder General. Here's the soundtrack to an interrogation: "Season of the Witch" by John 5 and The Creatures, "The Reckoning" by Bleed to Sleep, "Hopkins (...

This week on Dread media, it's a classic themed double feature episode! Duane and I take a look at two "loop" movies. First up, former DM guest Brea Grant is hunted every day by a mysterious slasher who won't stay dead in Lucky. Then, a creepy Swedish gang of killers stalks a couple in the woods on a day that won't stop happening in the weirdly titled Koko-di Koko-da. Play these songs over and ove...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom take a look at Villains, the home invasion film turned on its ear. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Home Invasion Films. Also, songs: "Take No Prisoners" by Megadeth, "Prey for Villains" by Devildriver, "Home Invasion" by Agoraphobic Nosebleed, and "Homewrecker" by Converge. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Follow @DevilDinosaur...

This week on Dread Media, we get a little dour and historical with our horror. First, Desmond and Duane take a look at Polish missionaries getting more than they bargained for in the impressive Sword of God. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Historical Horror, where he keeps it dour and dark and middle-agey. Then, tunes: "Missionary Man" by Ghost, "Empty Temples (acoustic)" by The Swo...

This week on Dread Media, we're going punk AF! First up, Tom and Desmond agree and disagree and agree to disagree about the punk rock road / ghoul horror film Uncle Peckerhead. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Cross-Genre Punk Rock Movies. Here's your punk mixtape: "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" by The Adverts, "Trash Age" by Holy Mess, "Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?" by Hard Core Logo, a...

This week on Dread Media, Duane and Desmond review a true oddity: 1981's Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Horror Oddities from the late 70s / early 80s. Then, we play a bunch of (mostly brand new) songs: "Blood Lust" by SHI., "Our Dark Mother" by Sleep of Monsters, "The Autopsy Garland" by The Mountain Goats, and "Mangler" by Zombi. Send feedback to: d...

This week on Dread Media, we're paying tribute to genre titan Joe R Lansdale. First up, Tom joins Desmond to discuss the weird western film he produced, The Pale Door. Then, Desmond goes solo on the documentary about the man, All Hail the Popcorn King, and delivers a Dread Media Top 5 Starter Pack for Lansdale Fandom. Songs included: "19 Witches" by Monster Magnet, "Into the Coven" by Mercyful Fat...

This week on Dread Media, we get a little extreme. First, Desmond and Duane take in a viewing of the feel-good hit of the summer, Landmine Goes Click. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Favorite Extreme Horror Films (with a shitload of caveats). Songs (mostly extreme metal) included: "Bomb Blast" by Misery, "Boom!" by System of a Down, "Screaming Fucking Mayhem" by Extreme Noise Terror...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom pay tribute to their fallen friend, Derrick Ferguson, by reviewing his favorite horror film: House on Haunted Hill. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Ways to Keep Derrick's Legacy Alive. Songs included: "Arsenic on the Rocks" by A Split Second, "Head Like a Haunted House" by Queens of the Stone Age, and "When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane take a look at the Mexican dark fantasy film Tigers Are Not Afraid. Then, Rich the Monster Movie Kid takes a look at Tammy and the T-Rex. Finally, Desmond goes solo to pay tribute to a friend, a great writer, and a mentor in the late Derrick Ferguson. Songs included: "When the Tigers Broke Free" by Year of the Cobra, "Ghost Tigers Rise" by Tiger Army, "W...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom ward you off from watching the time-traveling werewolf western High Moon. Then, Rich the Monster Movie Kid returns to review The Love Witch. Songs included: "Howl" by Murder By Death, "High Moon" by Countress, "Crimson Witch" by Moving Sidewalks, and "The Eternal Struggles of the Howling Man" by Rob Zombie. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gmail.com. Fo...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane review the "vampires on a German U-Boat" film, Blood Vessel. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Horrors of War Across Media. Songs included: "Warship" by Torche, "Armata Strigoi" by Powerwolf, "Are We Fit for Glory Yet? (The War to End Nothing)" by Anaal Nathrak, and "With the Ship" by Hank Williams III. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcast@gma...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane take a look at Pascal Laugier's 2018 film Incident in a Ghostland. And then, for no reason whatsoever, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Modern Horror Films with Twists. Songs included: "Sinister Sister" by Vinum Sabbatum, "Little Doll" by The Stooges, "Twist of Cain" by Danzig, and "Under the Scalpel Blade" by Carcass. Send feedback to: dreadmedi...

This week on Dread Media, it's a doozy. First, Desmond and Tom review the Indonesian horror film The Queen of Black Magic. Then, Desmond goes solo on the Indonesian horror film The Queen of Black Magic. One is from 2020, and the other is from 1981. It is claimed they're an original and a remake, but it is definitely not a remake, other than the fact that the original movie's credits feature images...

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane take in a viewing of Joe Begos' Carpenter homage VFW. Then, a Dread Media Top 5 Films Inspired by John Carpenter from the Past Decade. And, of course, tunes: "Whiplash Liquor" by Ugly Kid Joe, "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" by Blue Oyster Cult, "Night Siege" by Black Tower, and "Assault on Precinct 13" by John Carpenter. Send feedback to: dreadmediapodcas...

This week, Dread Media returns to the well-worn theme of killer kids. First up, a young single father is haunted by the hooded delinquents who killed the mother of his child in Desmond and Duane's review of Citadel. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Non-Supernatural Killer Kid films. Music included: "Lil' Bloodred Ridin' Hood" by Children of Bodom, "Children of the Damned" by Iron Mai...