Final Transmission

It's Sam's birthday so, for a very special treat, we're taking a trip to Crystal Lake to discuss the seventh installment of the slasher franchise (and everything that came before and after). Take the bad news cruise with us as we chat censorship, telekinesis, donuts, and classic slasher tropes in what is likely to be our only episode on the Friday the 13th franchise. Do your bit: Rate and review u...

We're back in Italy for a classic of the zombie-surrealist-meta-necro-arthouse genre, Dellamorte Dellamore (or Cemetery Man, if you're American). It's a deep dive into Italian auteur cinema, with some stops on the way to chat about Type O Negative, comic book movies, TSOL's Code Blue, and loads more.   Do your bit: Rate and review us wherever you're listening  Email us with your thoughts, question...

It finally happened, we finally disagreed on a movie. Find out which one of us didn't love The Borderlands and which one of us would die for this movie. We also get into modern theology, pagan gods, found footage acting, and the idiocy of spelunking.  Do your bit: Rate and review us wherever you're listening  Email us with your thoughts, questions, and Final Transmission slash fiction Follow us on...

In honour of the second season of Steven Scarlata's excellent documentary podcast series, In The Shadow of the Neon Maniacs, we're deep diving into this daft, ensemble slasher.  We rank the maniacs, offer some theories for where they came from, unveil a new sponsor, and ask the ultimate question: would Oscar Wilde have liked Neon Maniacs?   Do your bit: Rate and review us wherever you're listening...

We get deep, dark, and downright philosophical when talking about Pascal Laugier's trauma-fuelled nightmare, Martyrs. Do your bit: Rate and review us wherever you're listening  Email us with your thoughts, questions, and Final Transmission slash fiction Follow us on  Instagram , Twitter and TikTok Follow the  Spotify playlist Check out Red Scare Industries Artwork by Dismay Design

This week we're talking Lewis Teague's giant alligator in the sewers, monster romp classic. We stop along the way to sprinkle some hate on Scorsese, Tarantino, and Ryan Gosling. We also pitch our Syfy original movies and do a deep dive on synonyms for boobs.  Do your bit: Follow us on  Instagram Follow the  Spotify playlist Check out Red Scare Industries Artwork by Dismay Design

Three questions that will be answered as we discuss Joe Berlinger's Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2: Is it fun or just fan-fiction? What would our Blair Witch sequels look like? Why does Sam have a complex relationship with Transformers? One question that we will not and could not answer:  What is the Book of Shadows? Jamie popped around to our pals at Shoot the Hostage to talk about the original B...

Jamie died and You're Next. Listen as the guys go deep on horror movie masks, final girl tropes, blender deaths, and why Sam hates Dead Alive. Do your bit: Support  Final Transmission on Patreon Follow us on  Instagram Follow the  Spotify playlist Check out Red Scare Industries Artwork by Dismay Design

Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger himself, took the time to make this movie so it would be insane for us to not talk about it. So we do. Here it is. If you want to hear pontification on Englund's childhood or his boob preference, this is the perfect episode for you. Do your bit: Support  Final Transmission on Patreon Follow us on  Instagram Follow the  Spotify playlist Check out Red Scare Industries...

Join us this week as we desperately try to navigate talking about the Takashi Miike classic, Audition, without saying anything inappropriate. We almost make it. We also discuss sex comedies, nazis, Promising Young Woman, and the Japanese breakthrough movies of the late-90s/early-2000s. Audition was chosen by one of our Patreons - if you want to influence future picks and get access to loads of add...

Nee naw, nee naw, here comes the punk police and we're investigating Jeremy Saulnier's punks-in-a-bad-situation nightmare, Green Room.  Hear some of our own tour stories and scary interactions with sketchy folk, learn how to correctly pronounce Guerilla Poubelle, and ask yourself if this truly could take place in the holodeck.  Do your bit: Support  Final Transmission on Patreon Follow us on  Inst...

This week, we go hard on the genius of Lance Henriksen, Stan Winston, and classic creature features of the 80s and beyond as we discuss the era-defining, underappreciated joy that is Pumpkinhead. Along the ride, we also discuss Michale Graves-era Misfits, Insane Clown Posse, and somehow end up plotting out our alternative take on Home Alone 2.  Do your bit: Support  Final Transmission on Patreon F...

It's Christmas so we're digging into a classic of the festive horror canon, Bob Clark's Black Christmas. We get into it on holiday horror, phrogging, unreliable narrators and also Goonies. If you ever wondered which classic 70s punk band represents Black Christmas - this episode is for you.  Do your bit: Support  Final Transmission on Patreon Follow us on  Instagram Follow the  Spotify playlist Ch...

This week we're talking about Ken Russell's church and state fever dream The Devils. A very silly serious movie about real issues that straddles so many different lines. It's a fun one. We also talk about Elvis, Barbie, and Randy Quaid as Frankenstein. Three questions we ask ourselves this week:  Is it blasphemous because it's good or is it good because it's blasphemous? Can you make a case for th...

This week, we're getting truly weird in a tiny hotel room with Michael Shannon and Ashley Judd, as we talk Bug. Things get all kinds of nuts as we dig into people's theories about the subtext, Sam gives us a different read on Titanic, and we pose the question: what happens when you get between daddy and daddy? Three kinds of people get ripped to shreds in this episode: People who are anti-sex scen...

Right folks, chug the last of that Tenafly Viper and let's get anarchic. We're talking Street Trash, a gooey, icky, melty, mucky slice of New York underground filmmaking. Filled with iconic gore effects and dubious character choices, the big question is: is it any good? We'll tell you, slowly over the course of 90ish minutes. Also, drinking stories. Do your bit: Support  Final Transmission on Patr...

Get a sneak peek at the content you could be getting over at the Wasteland Resort for as little as £3 per month. We release a minimum of two extra episodes per month with content ranging from bonus reviews to shooting-the-shit episodes where Sam and Jamie rail on a topic for an hour. In this Patreon episode, we take you on a tour of our twisted psyches as we discuss the things that terrified us as...

Sam and Jamie are back and this week they're taking a visit to rural England in search of missing brothers, ancient witches and horror icons in Curse of the Crimson Altar. It's your classic folk horror story told through a very swingin' 60s lens, with plenty of smutty, goofy charm. Some questions for this week include:  Why are they talking about Tammy and the T-Rex? Are all antique dealers horny?...

This week Sam and Jamie are talking about Hatchet, the most 2006 throwback slasher there will ever be. Questions asked and, maybe, answered this week include: Is it possible to create a new slasher icon? Is Kane Hodder a Juggalo? Why is torture porn called that? Who let Kevin Smith make Yoga Hosers? Do your bit: Support Final Transmission on Patreon Follow us on Instagram Follow the Spotify playli...

Join Sam and Jamie as they rip through your speakers for a double dose of Italian splatter with not one but two Demons movies. The boys get delirious as they hit Berlin's Metropol cinema and a nearby apartment block to discuss classic art, Nostradamus, and discover if these gore movies are more high-brow than the bulging eyes and claws would have you believe. Do your bit: Support Final Transmissio...

This week, Sam and Jamie are back in potential desecration territory with the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Tom Savini has a go at reanimating the classic and we decide whether it should have stayed dead. How could you make Night of the Living Dead more bleak? Should a Tom Savini-directed movie have actual good special effects? Where is all the damn gore? We answer all of these question...

This week, Sam and Jamie are joining Unity Field and getting fired up about Bad Dreams. Did you ever see that movie where a burned up guy terrorises the beautiful and bad Jennifer Rubin in a facility for troubled youths? Not that one, the other one... Could Bad Dreams somehow be more than just an Elm Street clone? Is there a worse credits needle drop than Sweet Child O' Mine? Would you ever accept...

Sam and Jamie get deep down and dirty with this Turkish nightmare as they try and figure out what the *hell* is going on. If you've ever told the cops to go to hell, then this is the perfect movie for you.  What's with the frogs? Is this movie based on a lie? Why is Jamie so scared of scare attractions? We answer all of these questions and more, right here on Final Transmission. Do your bit: Suppo...

This week, we're talking legacy sequels and sacred cows with Psycho II. Norman Bates is back and this time, he's sane! Or is he? Two questions: 1. Is it appropriate to make a sequel to Psycho? 2. Why is it so good? We answer both of these, and much much more.   Do your bit: Support Final Transmission on Patreon Follow us on Instagram Follow the Spotify playlist Check out Red Scare Industries Artwo...

This week, we talk about everything Nightbreed and so much more. From the Cabal Cut to the Cradle of Filth record, it's all here laid out mawkishly by a nostalgic man and his good friend Sam. Digressions include the girl's toilets at Satan's Hollow, Paul Giamatti, Beach Boys, Munchie and loads more.  Do your bit: Support Final Transmission on Patreon Follow us on Instagram Follow the Spotify playl...