Horror Movie Night

As Listener Submitted Month comes to a close and October begins, we felt compelled to watch something very Halloween-coded. This was perhaps not our best decision, because HACK O LANTERN (1988) is pretty much objectively a terrible movie… While there IS an inexplicable heavy metal music video scene, there is also no murderous jack-o-lantern-faced killer to be seen, so we would’ve felt a bit ripped...

Some things never go out of style… like watching Nazis get disintegrated by an evil cosmic entity. Bonus points for the big bad looking like En Sabah Nur (that’s Apocalypse for you normal people out there) and a fantastic albeit forgotten Tangerine Dream soundtrack. We’re moving along with Listener Submitted Month by taking a visit to THE KEEP (1983) and we hope you like tangents cuz boy we got a...

Much like Aperol, Italian horror can be a bit of an acquired taste, but this week’s listener submission is anything but… Claudio Fragasso’s NIGHT KILLER (1990) is 100% pure HMN fuel, featuring a rubber mask killer, a “hysteric” female lead, psychosexual Stockholm Syndrome, and even a bit of the Curse of Thorn energy if you look hard enough at it. It’s always a blast when we come across forgotten t...

Some movies we discuss are very superficial: kills, nudity, profanity and poor life decisions, but others ask the big questions in life, like “Who made who? Who made you?” That’s right, we’re gassing up the big rig and hitting the highway blasting AC/DC with Stephen King’s one and only directorial outing, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986). While a vocal minority of fans swear it was ghost-directed by Georg...

It’s always comforting to watch a movie from decades ago where there are clueless dudes with no game, it makes your hosts feel so seen… This week, we’re bathing in Axe body spray in preparation for our date with the GIRLFRIEND FROM HELL (1989) and we have a good feeling that we may even get to hold hands tonight! Just keep her away from the tequila, we’ve heard it can lead us into temptation. Wine...

Ya boys here at HMN love a wild horror sequel, and we’re dragging you down to the labyrinth with us this week as we gush (blood) about the 35-year anniversary of HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER ll (1988). There’s a lot to love here and we try our best to cover as much as we can while still getting lost in the maze while we’re chased by Cenobites. Become transfigured with us on a new episode of Horror Movie...

One of the hazards of the job as a horror movie podcast is that sometimes you’re forced to discuss especially divisive films featuring beloved slasher icons doing really dumb stuff. No matter what you say, you’re going to upset a large swath of horror fans. With that said, we’re probably going to upset everybody this week since we’re talking FREDDY VS. JASON (2003). It looks every bit of early 00s...

This week we are reflecting on one of the best meta comedies in horror history; but how does it hold up 13 years later? Is it tamer than we recalled it being? Is it as funny as we remembered and why hasn't Tyler Labine become a bigger name? If you like the show, be sure to Rate, Review & Subscribe! Email us at HMNPodcast@gmail.com Follow us on social media! Instagram: @hmnpodcast Facebook Group: H...

The tides of summer are beginning to ebb, but we’re still partying on the beach with our friends, drinking our dad’s skunky beer and getting chased by a slasher in the water who is also a shark. It’s a Matt pick in the summer, so here we are talking JAWS 2 (1978)! The slasher genre owes this one a major debt, and we plumb the depths of our collective knowledge to illustrate this point. Get on your...

You know what the world needs more of? Religious nuts who kill non-believers because they think they’re all possessed by a demonic incubus that plans to corrupt their creepy little farm cult. Or a bag of potato chips that doesn’t cost $6, whatever is more feasible… Anyway, we’re talking Wes Craven’s Hallmark slasher about murderous Amish, 1981’s DEADLY BLESSING and if you guessed that Kyle picked...

While running the Geekscape Booth at San Diego Comic Con 2023, our neighbors at Atomic Toybox happened to have Costa Dillon the writer of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes so we asked him for an interview. Jonathan's interview is part of the Day 2 episode at SDCC but with his permission we also decided to release it on Horror Movie Night feed. Get more interviews like this one from Jonathan by subscri...

Well, we were supposed to have the new mall’s grand opening on Fourth of July, but the security guards kept ending up slaughtered so we’re a little behind schedule… If it’s any consolation, Pauly Shore is at the froyo stand dishing out sweet treats! What started with Phantom of the Paradise, then Robert Englund’s Phantom of the Opera, continues with the deliciously cheesy PHANTOM OF THE MALL: ERIC...

It’s Hot Spartan Summer and your pasty hosts are ditching the New Balances for sandals and going on an epic, pantheon-approved adventure to find an animal skin that we definitely don’t plan to melt down and turn into gold swag chains. This week, we’re casting off with the Ray Harryhausen stop-motion classic JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) and not even a giant bronze statue can stop us (he’s a total...

Summer of Slashers is in full swing as we tan our cans at Coconut Pete’s Coconut Beach Resort… but the dopey employees are getting murdered left and right! Who will serve us fruity drinks and give us oddly erotic massages? Come with us as we uncover the mystery of CLUB DREAD (2004), a pretty bad Broken Lizard movie that is made watchable by our man Bill Paxton’s Jimmy Buffett impression and not mu...

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It's almost 4th of July so let's return to the I Know.... franchise with a very strange movie and the person who picked it is up to a controversial debate! If you like the show, be sure to Rate, Review & Subscribe! Email us at HMNPodcast@gmail.com Follow us on social media! Instagram: @‌hmnpodcast Facebook Group: Horror Movie Night Podcast | Facebook Donate to our Patreon: Horror Movie Night Podca...

Ahhhh, the sweet smell of freshly-mowed grass… Don’t you love it? Grassblood, the scent of a summer afternoon! But what’s that buzzing coming from the golf course… oh my god, it’s a possessed mower bent on human carnage! Only the fine folks at Troma Entertainment would take the risk of bringing an insane script like BLADES (1989) to life - one that perfectly mirrors JAWS throughout. And you best b...

Longtime listeners (and probably even casual ones) know how much we love some aquatic horror, and this week is no exception as we plumb the depths for monstrous crabs with DEEPSTAR SIX (1989). While this one suffers from serious pacing issues - the first 45min is basically pointless - but once the Depladon rears its barnacle-y head and levels its googly eyestalks at you, it’s pure salty joy. Grab...

The horror sequel you waited 20 years for… and then another 8 years of HMN picks for us to finally discuss… the better-than-expected PSYCHO II (1983)! While it apparently wasn’t a ton of fun to make the movie, it’s a surprisingly effective return to the Bates Motel as Norman has been released from prison and just wants to flip some burgers and drink some milk. But is his return to his childhood ho...

No more teachers, no more books… except the Necronicom Ex-Mortis! School’s out for summer, and that means one thing for Scott: it’s time to enjoy the godfather of all “fighting inanimate objects” movies, EVIL DEAD 2 (1987). Instead of trivia and plot dissection, this week is pure nostalgia tangents, so let’s head out to the cabin in the woods and pop some champagne with your boyfriends in Horror M...

High school can be a radioactive wasteland, especially when your water pipes connect directly to the nuclear power plant down the road… That’s just life in Tromaville, displayed proudly in this week’s movie - CLASS OF NUKE ‘EM HIGH (1986)! If you didn’t get enough gooey fist fights in The Toxic Avenger, then boy do we have a film for you. Also, there’s 3/4 of a super sick-looking reptile monster i...

Sometimes we daydream about the people that watched Rosemary’s Baby and thought, “the world could use another NYC brownstone filled with evil geriatrics” and then got the funding to hire an ensemble cast (before or after their Hollywood careers) to make 1977’s THE SENTINEL. It’s not a great movie, but if it was, we’d have nothing to talk about, so Kyle understood the assignment this week. Pull up...

Are we talking about a killer sandwich this week? No, that would be ridiculous! Instead, we're talking about a killer sheet of music - way more believable. The absurd Italian offering PAGANINI HORROR (1989) kicks off with a murderous child and the most brazen Bon Jovi ripoff you've ever heard, so you know we had to visit this one. We're killing it classically this week on a brand new episode of Ho...

Another week, another movie from 1993 - now with more dinosaur! We’re shoveling our mouths full of CARNOSAUR, and you may be saying to yourself, “Didn’t these jokers already do this movie?” No, but close… We did Carnosaur 2, also picked by Matt (anyone surprised?). The big difference between them is that this one is a ripoff of Alien and the sequel was a ripoff of Aliens. It’s an easy mistake! If...

Due to a clerical error, Kyle gets back to back 1988 schlock with his pick of the slow burn Cronenberg classic DEAD RINGERS! There's a serious ick factor in this one that sets it apart from last week's bad decision, but this bad boy is CRITERION CERTIFIED so the scholarly speech flows freely. Get out your brandy snifters and weird medical instruments, it's time to see double. If you like the show,...