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We're seven Children of the Corn movies deep, and once more we find ourselves lacking the guidance of our resident Corn Kidz expert, Sean Thomason. But what we lack in guests, we more than make up for in strippers who get dressed for work at home. Also in this episode: a brief overview of the TV show Orange County Choppers. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com...

GET ME MOONFACE! That's right: it's David Morse back up in it with HEARTS IN ATLANTIS. He's not actually in it all that much but it's nice to see his big face. This movie is on the boring side of King movies so we have a hard time staying on topic. But that's fun right? Also Rob is baffled by the most basic hair and makeup disguise. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://pa...

This week we watched THE GREEN MILE and we cried and cried. Hanks delivers a fantastic performance both inside and outside of the bedroom. This movie is stacked with amazing talent and one real life super creep. You'll have to listen to find out who it is. Hint: it's NOT Harry Dean Stanton Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@g...

The sixth installment in the CHILDREN OF THE CORN franchise returns the series to its roots...sort of? Inasmuch as a character from the first one is back? Other than that, this one's about as faithful as the other four sequels. There's a prophecy now, it's cool to be an adult, and there's ZERO corn. But there's one other constant: our resident Corn Kidz expert, RiffTrax's Sean Thomason, is [Aerosm...

A litte mini episode to talk about the new IT trailer that dropped this week. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe/rate/review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Subscribe & rate on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5fWr5...

There's no accounting for why SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK spawned two sequels, and there's certainly no explaining why the third installment, SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK...FOR MORE, is a knockoff of John Carpenter's THE THING. But here we are. Something of a spiritual sequel, SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK...FOR MORE takes into account the source material of the first two, and then just mostly ignores it. Now...

Just some of our thoughts on the new Stephen King project CASTLE ROCK Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe/rate/review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Subscribe & rate on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5fWr5bSjFLtCD...

This week we're talking about the very weird, painfully 1999, THE RAGE: CARRIE 2. This movie could have been called CARRIE 2: TOXIC MASCULINITY. It also has very strange ties to the original Carrie film. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe/rate/review on iTunes:...

Give him what he wants and he'll go away. We're back in Maine with a town of townies. This week we're talking about the mini series STORM OF THE CENTURY from 1999. Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: kingmepod@gmail.com Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe/rate/review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king...

What happens when your neighbor turns out to be a nazi war criminal? You make him read you bedtime stories of course. This week we're joined be friend of the show Mark Henely to talk about APT PUPIL. Also which one of the FRIENDS had the best film career? Check out Mark's podcast here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-the-first-appearance-podcast/id993523477?mt=2 Get weekly episodes...

They say that horror films reflect the anxiety of the time, and if that's true, people in 1997 must have hated poisonous gas. TRUCKS is the second adaptation of the Stephen King short story that also served as the foundation of the surprisingly uneventful MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE. We'll do a bit of comparison, while also giving TRUCKS its due for being totally unwatchable in its own right. The saving gra...

We're on our fifth round of Corn Kid and we're starting to get fatigued. We are once again joined by Rifftrax writer and King Me's resident Corn Kid scholar Sean Thomason to discuss what we all hoped would be a wild romp, but ended up just being five minutes of David Carradine being a beautiful lunatic. That is, until Sean's wifi cuts out three times. What a beautiful mess. Also in this episode: H...

We're taking a slight detour to break up the monotony of shoestring budget Stephen King adaptations from the late '90s, and exploring the King family tree. Stephen King's son, Joe Hill, is a novelist and acclaimed comic book writer in his own right, and in 2013 his novel HORNS was adapted for film. An attempt at an Americanized magical realism, HORNS is packed with supernatural goings-on, religiou...

Friend of the show and former guest JC Hendricks joins us as we try to justify to ourselves the watching of this movie and guzzle La Croix like vampeers guzzle blood. Miguel Ferrer stars as Richard Dees, a hard-boiled reporter for a Weekly World News-type publication who for some reason has journalistic integrity sometimes, and also has a plane. Then there's a vampire for a while. Also in this epi...

No, not THAT The Shining. That was The Shining. This is STEPHEN KING'S The Shining. Stephen King was famously displeased with Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation of his book about hotels and the souls they devour. Apparently King felt that 17 years was all it took for the public to forget one of the most beloved horror films of all time, and set about EPing a miniseries adaptation of his classic nov...

The first plot twist of Quicksilver Highway is learning that there's a movie called Quicksilver Highway. Another "horror titan" team-up anthology, Quicksilver Highway takes stories from both Stephen King and Clive The Hellraiser Guy Barker. For the second time in a short time, Mick Garris is steering the ship to tell the story of the bizarrely named Aaron Quicksilver (Christopher Lloyd), who then...

We take a look back at the first year of King Me (and try to figure out if auld acquaintance should be forgot), counting down our Dirty Doz' of best movies we've covered thus far. Plus the best miniseries. Plus the best anthology. We take time to make fun of Adrian Brody's weird rasta character from SNL though. Also in this episode: Rob and Dan make pornography for you, dear listener. Get weekly e...

When comedian/host of Callin' the Shots Taylor Allen chose to come on the show for the THINNER episode, he might have known the movie itself would be good, but he probably didn't know how badly Rob and Dan needed it after the past few weeks of schlock. Thinner is everything we're looking for in a Stephen King movie: scenery-chewing performances, the state of Maine, a Stephen King cameo, and no blo...

The '90s was truly a boom era from corn horror, and so our resident Corn Kid expert Sean Thomason (Rifftracks) is back for the second time in a month to learn us a thing or two about these damned kids. As the Corn Kidz franchise expands, so does the scope and vagueness of Corn Kid properties and abilities. Naomi Watts stars as a fake doctor being mentored by another fake sleepover doctor in this s...

SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK...AGAIN marks round three of two of our favorite King Tropes--evil greasers and hot rod lawnmowers--as well a cornucopia of others. And without a guest around to make them feel like there's any accountability for time or effort (no offense, King Me listeners), Rob and Dan embark on a free-wheelin' romp through a direct-to-video sequel of a made-for-TV movie. But if you're...

Beyond cyberspace, there are green screens. Depending on who you ask, this movie is either called LAWNMOWER MAN 2: BEYOND CYBERSPACE or LAWNMOWER MAN 2: JOBE'S WAR. We're joined by comedian Melissa Jouben (Warm Things Comedy, Pop-Break.com) and comedian/friend of the show JC Hendricks to pick our favorite title, and to try to get even a tenuous grasp on this deeply perplexing movie. Also in this e...

Our resident Corn Kid expert Sean Thomas (Rifftrax) has returned from his sabbatical to help us understand the third installment in the Children of the Corn franchise, Children of the Corn 3: Urban Harvest. Sadly, Dan might have sent him the wrong link to the movie, but he's happy to discuss what he watched instead. And if you're asking yourself if Sean has an on-air meltdown, the answer, my dude,...

What if I told you that all of reality is just snacks for meatballs? THE LANGOLIERS is a 1995 miniseries starring no one, but Bronson Pinchot is in it, screaming relentlessly. It's three hours long, and nothing happens. At one point a soda is flat, but then it's not anymore, and that's honestly almost everything. Join us, won't you? Also in this episode: Dan's got election fatigue, Rob is patient,...

The bone-chilling death of an old woman begins DOLORES CLAIBORNE, setting the stage for two hours of pure, nonstop character development. Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Christopher Plummer star in a movie that's truly unlike any other we've covered on this show, because it features strong, complex female characters. And who better to talk about that than two men? How about THREE men? Our g...

What happens when Robert Englund, Tobe Hooper, and (to a much lesser extent) Stephen King team up to make a film? Somehow, not that much. Much of THE MANGLER is set in an industrial laundry factory, and that's about as exciting as it gets. Luckily, comedian/friend of the show JC Hendricks returns to help tackle THE MANGLER, and he's got reams of notes. Also in this episode: Hard Left Turns, Hard R...