Midnight Cinema: A Horror Movie Podcast with Art & Erik

Step right up and direct your attention to the center ring! It's time for the Klown show!  But don't let these harlequins fool you; their plans for Earth are no laughing matter.  Midnight Cinema is the home of the carnival this week, and Art and Erik are taking you inside the big top for Killer Klowns from Outer Space.   Back in 1988 the Chiodo brothers created this horror comedy to show off their...

Zip up your sleeping bag, watch out for the giant salmon and don't pick up the mutant bear cub!  Midnight Cinema is heading to Maine for the 1979 eco-terror monster movie Prophecy!  John Frankeheimmer directed this strange mix of nature-takes-its-revenge B-movie and 1970's enviornmental/sociopolitical thriller.   Gorgeous cinematography of the natural landscape, a soaring score, and an earnest scr...

They slither, they slide, they waddle, they fly!  We're inviting some of the most memorable monsters to a special screening at the Midnight Cinema!  This episode, Art and Erik host a pantheon of the slimiest, cleverest, weirdest, funniest and most skin-crawling beasties you've ever seen on the silver screen!  They're cool. They're creepy! Join us as we count them down! What are the movie monsters...

She's a Space Girl, and she's gone too far... Bring your spacesuit, pack your passport and grab your leaded iron sword because we're heading to England for Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce !  This 1985 cult classic was a big sci-fi horror play by the famous Cannon films, and this week we're going to open the space coffins and unleash the naked truth about this cinematic mashup of vampires, aliens and zombi...

From the Cosmos, A UFO, A Mosquito, My Libido.... Pack the insect repellent, plug in the bug zapper and grab the chainsaw!  Midnight Cinema is heading to the campground for Mosquito!  This 1995 movie asks what if nature's little blood suckers weren't so little... and also had alien DNA! Art and Erik give you all the buzz on this low-budget sci-fi horror film that throws every puppet, miniature, st...

He's got Jeepers Creepers eyes… Hop in the car and don't slow down because Midnight Cinema is taking a road trip with Jeepers Creepers ! Art and Erik head to the church basement to explore this 2001 horror movie that kept a generation awake in their beds. We're covering every bit of it: Justin Long's freakout performance Why the villain is so memorable Gina Phillips flipping the script Eileen Bren...

You're a Stella Starr, That's who you are! Pack a change of outfit and brush up on your Amazonian, we're heading to the Haunted Stars with a team of notorious space smugglers. Art Hennessey and Erik Rodenhiser are on a mission from the Galactic Emperor to review Starcrash , a 1978 sci-fi, adventure fantasy film starring Midnight Cinema Popcorn Bucket Award winner Caroline Munro as the best pilot i...

No Bones About It... We are taking the chopper to Petrie Island for an Irish holiday with the slowest creatures in horror movie history!  Midnight Cinema is visiting Island of Terrror , the 1966 monster movie that ponders science, romance, and how to autopsy a boneless corpse.  Join us as Art and Erik poke at every flattened horse, open dangerously radioactive labs without a second thought and tos...

Hold Me Closer, Vampire Dancer!  It's almost sundown, so hop in the RV because we're heading to El Rey, Mexico with George Clooney and a creepy Quentin Tarantino! Once across the border we just have to make a quick stop at the wildest roadside bar south of the Rio Grande. Midnight Cinema is rolling up to From Dusk Till Dawn , Robert Rodriguez's 1996 crime/vampire/action film. Hosts Art and Erik wi...

Our Voyage Is Gonna Be, Gonna Be Golden Hop on board because the Midnight Cinema is sailing for Lumeria! So bring extra swords, don't look the centaur in his one-eye and check behind the cabinets for a homunculus!  Art and Erik are joining one of legend's most famous sea captains for The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. This 1973 action fantasy adventure is famous for its stop motion creatures courtesy of...

I'm Just Waiting on a Fiend Get your passports ready because we're heading to the Great White North for a good old 50's monster movie crossed with a military whodunnit and sprinkled with a dash of telekenisis! Midnight Cinema is turning the radar dish towards Fiend Without a Face, the 1958 creature feature about an invisible being terrorizing the townsfolk in Manitoba!  You'll have to wait a long...

I Dismember Mama The Evil Dead are hitting the West Coast, so bust out the ritualistic vinyl albums, fire up the woodchipper and don't use the elevator after a quake!  Art and Erik are going through every floor of 2023's Evil Dead Rise!  On this episode of Midnight Cinema it's all about family! Director Lee Cronin takes the franchise in a new direction with the Evil Dead hitting a city apartment b...

I will dismember you. Will you dismember me? Gas up the chainsaw, grab the map, and don't go into the basement. This week on Midnight Cinema , we're heading to a little cabin in the Tennessee woods, where a dusty reel-to-reel tape player is about to unleash  The Evil Dead -   Sam Raimi 's blood-soaked debut that introduced the world to one very unlucky guy named Ash Williams . Never letting off th...

These Foolish Games...Are Tearing Us Apart Grab your wedding dress, load up the crossbow, gather round the puzzle box and make sure the servants aren't in the line of fire!  This week on Midnight Cinema , we're crashing the blood-soaked family game night of Ready or Not - a wickedly fun blend of horror, dark comedy, and class warfare where the in-laws play for keeps! When Grace says "I do," she's...

Behind your seat might be a Vurdalak-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack… Don't steal rings from dead mediums. Don't answer the phone when your dead friend keeps calling. And if Boris Karloff tells you not to let him in after the bell strikes ten—because he might be an undead Vurdalak—for Pietro's sake… DON'T LET HIM IN. In Black Sabbath , Mario Bava 's stylish 1963 anthology horror classic, these are the lessons...

She's Always Inhuman To Me Pack your black gloves, practice your maniacal laugh, bring lots of bread and cigars and keep an eye on the leeeever because this week, Midnight Cinema is resurrecting one of the most iconic horror sequels of all time: The Bride of Frankenstein . Art and Erik dive into the gothic world of Universal Monsters where the hair is electrified, the emotions run surprisingly dee...

The Kids Are All Fright Turn off the lights. Pull the covers up. Stay absolutely still. And whatever you do, don't answer the phone . This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik take a trip back to the shadowy corners of childhood to revisit the horror movies that absolutely terrified them when they were kids. You know the ones. The movies you stumbled across on late-night TV. The VHS tapes with th...

It's not easy fighting green...  Buckle up patrons and check your radiation levels, because we're heading to Gamma 3! Zero your laser rifle, don your space helmet, and whatever you do, don't touch the foam! Our destination is  The Green Slime , the 1968 psychedelic space-monster flick that proves even an asteroid mission can be ruined by a little intergalactic mold. It's a groovy, neon-soaked co-p...

We're going on a road trip! So pack your tube tops, put the creepy mannequins in the trunk and grab your tiniest top hat!  Oh, and we just need to stop at this charming little roadside attraction called Slausen's Lost Oasis.... Our destination is Tourist Trap , an off-road nightmare from producer Charles Band and director David Schmoeller where flat tires lead to psychic chaos, mannequins scream l...

The Fossil in Our Stars Get out of the way - Tammy and her boyfriend are on the loose! She's Denise Richards. He's a 12-foot-tall animatronic dinosaur. Love finds a way... through brain surgery. This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik clear the balcony to make way for Tammy and the T-Rex! A 1994 teen romance mashed up with horror comedy where brains are transplanted, graves are robbed, accents...

Last Year's Winners. No...Last Year's Losers!  Strap on your spandex, lace up your skates, oil your chainsaw and warm up your opera voice because we're heading into the neon-lit, sweat-dreanched dsytopia that is The Running Man! This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik are sprinting straight into Quadrant One to face off with this gloriously excessive action satire starring peak-era  Arnold Schw...

"I gave him life!" Grab your syringes, lock the morgue doors, and for the love of God keep your head attached!  This week Midnight Cinema is injecting itself straight into the cult-splattered madness of Re-Animator . Art and Erik dive headfirst Stuart Gordon's gloriously unhinged 1985 adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft, the film that taught us two important lessons: medical ethics are optional, and dead...

"I hear funny things out here… funny things…" Bring your long johns, pack the J&B Scotch, make sure the flamethrowers are working, and don't trust anybody. We're taking the chopper to Outpost 31. This week Midnight Cinema is the warmest place to hide as Art and Erik trek to Antarctica for The Thing — John Carpenter's snow-bound masterpiece of paranoia, goo, and existential dread. Released in 1982...

Bring your shotguns, pack your tightest shorts, and dammit—stay away from the beaver lodge! Art and Erik chomp into the outrageous 2015 horror-comedy Zombeavers , the movie that bravely asks the question no one needed answered: What if a zombie apocalypse… but beavers? A weekend girls' getaway for three sorority sisters turns into a gnawing nightmare when toxic waste transforms a family of cute, i...

Welcome to Potter's Bluff! Don't stop at the diner. Don't get gas. And whatever you do...stay far away from the mortuary. Art and Erik are digging into Dead & Buried , the sun-bleached seaside nightmare that proves nothing good ever comes from a quiet coastal town. We're leaving no headstone unturned as we follow Sheriff Dan's investigation into a truly alarming number of murders, all committed wi...