Halloween is Forever

Exercise your freedom to listen to the most awesome horror movie podcast in America and enjoy our Remakes and ReImaginations episode. It's . . . Crimes of the Future (2022) vs The Blob (1988) vs Cape Fear (1991) Brian celebrated his championship reign last week at the Live Show; Garfield suit, Dragula theme song, and all. He's 1-0 on the year. Will the streak continue? Steve looks to surgically re...

Exercise your freedom to listen to the most awesome horror movie podcast in America and enjoy our Remakes and ReImaginations episode. It's . . . Crimes of the Future (2022) vs The Blob (1988) vs Cape Fear (1991) Brian celebrated his championship reign last week at the Live Show; Garfield suit, Dragula theme song, and all. He's 1-0 on the year. Will the streak continue? Steve looks to surgically re...

Super Duper Special Episode as Brian, Meg and Steve take on their first LIVE show from Hop Farm Brewing in Pittsburgh, PA. They celebrate the release of the May Queen beer, a collaboration brew between Hop Farm, Pink Boots Society, Caiti from Coven Brewing and Meg herself. Then the gang talks about Ari Aster's film Midsommar the inspiration for the beer and highlights some of the more memorable mo...

A special two-part episode for all the boils and ghouls where Brian, Meg and Steve get to talk to the director of THE SADNESS, Rob Jabbaz all the way from Taiwan. This part involves a lot more about the inspiration for the film The Sadness and how it builds upon Garth Ennis' CROSSED, the SCREWFLY SOLUTION, and THE FOG. Plus Rob gives insight into the Taiwanese film industry and suggestions for mus...

A special two-part episode for all the boils and ghouls where Brian, Meg and Steve get to talk to the director of THE SADNESS, Rob Jabbaz all the way from Taiwan. They get to know Rob's beginnings in animation, moving from Canada, and his influences in Western and Asian cinema. Rob also talks about his connections to A SERBIAN FILM and how he relates his film to it. Of course, there's lots of talk...

Turning bogwater into lemonade through alcohol. . . This week Brian gets his revenge for his championship win by inflicting the Milwaukee Retirement Community's Production of "BOG." A film from 1979 about the harms drunk fishermen bring on small town ecology, and the scientists who love each other. If you suspect you have a dracula in your town, consult your doctor to see if it's cancer. Plus, Meg...

Happy Pod Birth to Us! We kick off Year 2 with a showdown of monstrous proportions. So monstrous, it's in two parts. Monster of the Deep is: Piranha 3D (2010) vs. The Host (2005) vs. Deep Blue Sea (1999) Steve is walking in as the final champ of Year 1 and plans on extending his reign. Will he turn this showdown into a bloodbath or be left without a leg to stand on? Can Brian effectively spread hi...

Happy Pod Birth to Us! We kick off Year 2 with a showdown of monstrous proportions. So monstrous, it's in two parts. Monster of the Deep is: Piranha 3D (2010) vs. The Host (2005) vs. Deep Blue Sea (1999) Steve is walking in as the final champ of Year 1 and plans on extending his reign. Will he turn this showdown into a bloodbath or be left without a leg to stand on? Can Brian effectively spread hi...

In the 80s, the nation was gripped in the fear of metal music. Satanic panic had spread, and so B-level filmmakers did what they did best and exploited it for storylines. John Fasano is one such filmmaker and really has done it multiple times over. If Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare was the opening act, then Black Roses is his million dollar budget headliner. Full of pervert mustaches, wobbly puppets, Ita...

This week we take a spin at Tubi Roulette. Old Gods such as Tubi do not deal in granting wishes, but it does deal in the Wishmaster series. Specifically, Wishmaster 3: the third or fourth worst thing about 2001. Before streaming originals and VOD releases, there was the straight-to-video market of low budget films kicking the corpses of previously loved films (see also Hellraiser.) After losing al...

The most brutal film adaptation of Cannibal Corpse album artwork has landed on Shudder, and Brian, Meg and Steve watched. Rob Jabbaz's The Sadness is intense to say the least. Everyone is triggered this episode. Meg is triggered by the content. Steve is triggered by freelancing. Brian is triggered by thinking about Verotika again. Is there any hope in a post pandemic apocalypse? Tune in and find o...

As the one year anniversary approaches, darkness is cast across the podcast. Too many months of Brian and Meg trading the belt left Steve bitter and resentful. After last week's reclaiming of the belt, he had no other recourse but to unleash one of the worst films he could think. A disgusting, soulless, brainless vanity project. From the mind that brought you The Misfits and Danzig, Glenn Danzig b...

In the Final Showdown of Year 1, the wheel gave graced us with one of the biggest horror franchises of all time Friday the 13th. But which summertime slasher is best? It's: Friday the 13th (1980) vs Friday the 13th Part IV The Final Chapter (1984) vs Friday the 13th Part VI Jason Lives (1986) If Brian holds onto his title, he'll finish Year 1 with the first three peat in Halloween is Forever histo...

In the most Pittsburgh-centric episode to date, Brian, Meg and Steve are joined by special guest Bigfoot Benjamin to discuss all things squatch. Ben talks about his expertise and love for The Foot while they all enjoy the 2015 Western Pennsylvania filmed, Bigfoot: The Movie. Written and directed by Jared Show, the film also features local personalities Curt Wootton (Pittsburgh Dad,) Jim Krenn, Dar...

Our holy site Tubi has been getting into original content lately, so Brian, Meg and Steve checked out their most recent release in partnerboat with The Asylum. Directed by who knows, written by who cares, starring poet laureate Annalynn McCord and the improv troupe you avoid eye contact with at open mic nights. Plenty of films are classless and tasteless cash ins on real tragedies, but not all of...

From the renowned Shaw Brothers studio, comes The Boxer's Omen (aka Black Magic 4 aka Zombi 10) If you didn't listen to the Sasquatch Showdown, Brian won again. This is the film he's chosen as a punishment ... ? Demon to some, spaghetti clown to others. The story follows Chan Hung aka Baluo Kaidi as he battles forces of evil from all directions in the forms of gross magicians, cheating boxers, and...

Supersized like the feet of the missing link in evolutionary history, this episode finds Brian, Meg and Steve defending their picks of Best Bigfoot movie: Exists (2014) vs Willow Creek (2013) vs Suburban Sasquatch (2004) Current champ Brian has some mighty big shoes to fill if he expects to have a Wrestlemania worthy reign or be a bigfoot himself. Can Steve put on a stunning performance to capture...

Supersized like the feet of the missing link in evolutionary history, this episode finds Brian, Meg and Steve defending their picks of Best Bigfoot movie: Exists (2014) vs Willow Creek (2013) vs Suburban Sasquatch (2004) Current champ Brian has some mighty big shoes to fill if he expects to have a Wrestlemania worthy reign or be a bigfoot himself. Can Steve put on a stunning performance to capture...

This week Brian, Meg and Steve take another turn toward true crime with the release of Netflix's series Worst Roommate Ever. The first episode focuses on serial poisoner with a penchant for pilfering pensions, Dorothea Puente. Meg also happens to own her cookbook. They discuss the story presented on the show and what they learned outside of it. Then get into "Grandma"'s recipes and find out what M...

This week Brian, Meg and Steve take a bite out of the 2022 Hulu film, Fresh. Directed by Mimi Cave and starring Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Find out if The Winter Soldier is a marvel in the kitchen. Ponder if you'd prefer ground ground meat or boob tartare. Wonder, what do you think is in that barn? Also, do you think this is a propaganda film by Blue Apron to make Hello Fresh look bad,...

If you didn't know, Brian was the deadeye last episode and took home the gold in the Old West Horror Shootout. That means this week he gets to pick the movie we watch this week, and he's decided to go benevolent. We're (re)watching Steve Miner's all-star cast driven creature feature Lake Placid. Before there was Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus we just had regular giant crocodiles and they were built by...

In what will be rebranded as In the Mouth of March Madness, Brian, Meg and Steve have decided to defend Old Worst Horror films. Zombies, Vampires, Undead Whatevers, and Poor Dental Hygiene all of which aren't the grossest things in these films. It's: Bloodrayne 2: Deliverance (2007) vs Gallowwalkers (2012) vs The Dead and The Damned (2011) Meggoth is looking to complete the first three-peat in HiF...

In our historic first of hopefully many future episodes, we play Tubi Roulette and randomly choose from the incredible breadth of horror films on the online streaming service. The Old Ones fling us back to our formative years to relive the Australian Travel Board's worst brochure video, ROGUE. Directed by Greg McClean and starring Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill) and an early role for Sam Worthington...

True horror icons never stay dead. A statement never truer in [current time] as another franchise is resurrected and retconned. Think about it. This show isn't even a year old and we've gotten Candyman 4, Scream 5, Halloween 2 Kills 2 Furious, and now we have the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. What's all the buzz? Does the film put on its best face, or is Netflix posting cringe, again? Is the franchise...

Happy Valentine's Day from the Halloween is Forever crew. This week current champ Meg has gifted to Brian and Steve and the audience, the 1981 wildly Canadian slasher flick My Bloody Valentine. She also gifts the world with the greatest philosophical question of a generation. Tune in to have your mind expanded. They get into mining culture, processed meats, folk hero songs, Canadianisms, and more....