Halloween is Forever

This month's gut busting showdown pits three horror-comedies against each other. Who will have the last laugh when it's: Psycho Goreman (2020) vs Gremlins 2 (1990) vs Hell Baby (2013) Meg started the new year with a championship win, but can she keep the title two months in a row? Can she prove herself the Archduke of Nightmares, or will relying on 90s nostalgia cause a Switcheroo? Did Brian take...

This month's gut busting showdown pits three horror-comedies against each other. Who will have the last laugh when it's: Psycho Goreman (2020) vs Gremlins 2 (1990) vs Hell Baby (2013) Meg started the new year with a championship win, but can she keep the title two months in a row? Can she prove herself the Archduke of Nightmares, or will relying on 90s nostalgia cause a Switcheroo? Did Brian take...

Meg has escaped her captors and returned just in time to watch a horror movie with Brian and Steve. This week they watch a South American homage to 80s American slashers and 70s giallo films. The Last Matinee (aka Al Morir La Matinee aka Red Screening) directed by Maximilano Contenti honors horror of the past in a way that's sure to catch your eye. You'll be up to your eyeballs in gore and keeping...

Meg has be taken to a lost dimension, so it's just Brian and Steve this episode. They take a look back at the world of horror movies in 2021. They talk about some of their favorites that didn't make the podcast, but are worth the watch. Spoilers for Malignant and VHS '94. They also highlight smaller independent films: My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To In the Earth Sator Blood Conscious Boy...

Welcome to the new cycle in the new year. It's our first post-showdown film of 2022. Meg has once again ascended to glorious leader, so it befell her to choose whether or not to force a punishment film on Brian and Steve. She chose the 2009 Norwegian cult hit Dead Snow directed by Tommy Wirkola. What happens when a bunch of students ignore all the formulaic red flags of impending doom, and instead...

The first showdown of twenty-twenty-boo takes us back to institutional frights public and private. Who's film is scarier than your student loan debt? It's . . . Scream 2 (1997) vs Night of the Creeps (1986) vs Carrie (1976) After giving Brian the gift of a championship last month, Steve is out to complete his trilogy of titles. Is Mickey so fine he blows the competition's minds? Or does this seque...

December ends on the 31st, but for Halloween is Forever DEATHCEMBER ends this week. Steve has assembled a ragtag team of podcasters to dissect the final feast of films in this holiday anthology. From Hop Nation USA, Steve's co-host Adam who doesn't like horror movies, but agreed to this anyone. From Decayin' With The Boys, the duo of Adam and Matt; who both like horror movies. Also everyone like b...

This week we continue to spread holiday fear as Meg sits down with Dave Cerminara, horror nerd and owner of Apis Meadery in Pittsburgh. They're discussing shorts films 9 thru 16 in the advent calendar of terror known as Deathcember. Do Meg and Dave find this batch of films more palatable? How much Santa violence is too much? What's scarier than children around Christmastime? All this, plus learn a...

Tis the season to gather with your family and partake in holiday activities. Building snowmen, caroling, gift giving, watching horror movies and then podcasting about them. Brian has done just that. He's gathered his little ones to get their take on some holiday treats as well as Tim Burton's classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. His wife on the other hand was less lucky as she's been subjected...

With a bit of luck and mayhaps even a little destiny, Brian was crowned champion last week. In his B-movie-nevolence, he's gifted unto Meg and Steve 2005's Santa's Slay. The Christmas horror film stars WWE Hall of Famer and WCW Legend Bill Goldberg as the eponymous Santa Satan. This Canadian film doing an American impression fills stockings to the brim with cartoon violence, un-PC humor, practical...

The spirit of giving is upon us and this month we're giving each other Hell(raiser). Instead of joy and good will, Brian, Meg, and Steve spread pain and suffering in the form of straight to video garbage. Hellraiser: Inferno (2000) vs Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002) vs Hellraiser: Judgement (2018) Meg is seeking to put another championship win on the board. Will she get her revenge in the last 15 mi...

This week Meg tells Brian and Steve about her trips to The Anatomy of Death Museum outside of Detroit and the Museum of Death in New Orleans. She recounts the macabre collections of memorabilia from history and infamy. We learn the difference between wet specimens and dry specimens, but not which ones are jalapeno flavored. Also, a lot of general talk about the fascination around serial killers fe...

Continuing with the Thanksgiving season, we watch the other horror movie centered around Turkey Day; Blood Rage. In this episode Brian, Meg and Steve learn what is and isn't cranberry sauce. There's also discussion of what is and isn't candy. Other notes: The midwest's obsession with Twin Bings has to be stopped. Twins are weird, but ones with homicidal mommy obsessions are worse. This film is pro...

Halloween isn't the only horror movie holiday. Thanksgiving has one or three, too. This week Brian, Meg and Steve watch the late aughts pride of Columbus, Ohio. . . Thankskilling. A tinkled on totem turns loose Turkie to terrorize teens and it's terrible. Learn about Meg's turkey privileged past, turkey anatomy, and words you can't say to Brian.   Plus the winner of the December Secret Satan Showd...

It's time for another post-showdown minisode. And if you're weren't in the know, there's a new champ in town. And the champ gets to pick the movie. In his bene-violence, Steve has gifted unto Brian and Meg the 2008 Japanese splatterpunk masterpiece Yoshihiro Nishimura's Tokyo Gore Police. More blood than a slaughterhouse, more fascist cops than a Robert Heinlein wet dream, and more genital trauma...

Back at it again. You voted for it. We battle it out. One day removed from Halloween, it's the Haunted House Movie November showdown. Beetlejuice (1988) vs Terrified (2018) vs His House (2020) Meg is feeling stronk as champ heading into this challenge. Is Steve the host with the most? Or will they refuse to say his name? Does Brian's film have his co-hosts shaking in terror? Or is it simply too wa...

Special episode this week we have our first guest. Meg is on vacation in the wild west, so Brian and Steve are joined by Pittsburgh based author and werewolf expert Brandon Getz. They appropriately talk about Jim Cummings' The Wolf of Snow Hollow. Spoilers for this movie which you should absolutely watch first and spoilers for Jim's character in Halloween Kills. And Spoilers about the nature of th...

Recorded less than 24 hrs after watching David Gordon Green's second of three Halloween films, Brian, Meg and Steve tackle Halloween Kills. Is it more Empire Strikes Back or Attack of the Clones? Is it more splatter than substance? Find out how it compares and expands upon the 2018 film, what could be improved, the tap selection at Mick's and more.  Look what we can do! Plus find out the winner of...

Meg reclaimed the belt and has shown leniency on Brian and Steve by not making them watch something terrible. Instead, Meg has chosen to watch Peter Jackson's first feature film Bad Taste. Before hobbits roamed the hills of New Zealand, they were full of Dereks and aliens. Join these three mutant as they take trip down memory lane with the precursor to Dead Alive (Braindead.) Enjoy the marriage of...

*** SOME Podcast platforms don't appreciate a 3 and half hour podcast, so we've broken down the episode into two parts for easier distribution and consumption *** It's time! For you main event of the autumn! It's the John Carpenter October Halloween is Forever showdown Village of the Damned (1995) vs Ghosts of Mars (2001) vs The Ward (2010) This month's bout is a special Roulette Ruckus Rumble whe...

*** SOME Podcast platforms don't appreciate a 3 and half hour podcast, so we've broken down the episode into two parts for easier distribution and consumption *** It's time! For you main event of the autumn! It's the John Carpenter October Halloween is Forever showdown Village of the Damned (1995) vs Ghosts of Mars (2001) vs The Ward (2010) This month's bout is a special Roulette Ruckus Rumble whe...

It's time! For you main event of the autumn! It's the John Carpenter October Halloween is Forever showdown Village of the Damned (1995) vs Ghosts of Mars (2001) vs The Ward (2010) This month's bout is a special Roulette Ruckus Rumble where all three films were chosen at random. With Steve as champion, is he able to defend his total dark horse of a film along with his belt? Can Meg make a reclaim t...

This week Brian, Meg and Steve all watched different amounts of Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass and provide their SPOILER heavy thoughts. What happens when religious zealots and living in a dying community aren't the most sucky things in life? This episode you'll also learn what Cheetos Bag o' Bones piece is best, film school 101, and Christian doctrine and ceremony. Won't that be fun? For you.   Pe...

Spooky Szn has come to your little podcast, sheriff. If you haven't picked out your costume yet, let Brian, Meg, and Steve assist you. They take a trip down memory lane recalling some of their favorite costumes from childhood and (wo)man-childhood. Everything from Power Rangers to princesses to G.I. Joe. It's the 90s again on this week's show. Find out who the bad kid of the group is. Also, tell u...

Nothing good this way comes as Steve serves up some real Coffin Fodder in the form of Cradle of Fear, directed by Alex Chandon, "starring" Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth. Hell Awaits Brian and Meg as they're forced to sit through this Tortured Soul Asylum of a film. Ravaged both by time and incompetence, it's rare to find a film with so few redeeming qualities also not be a student film. Will...