Midnight Movie Distillery

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us appreciate where horror came from. Tonight we're reviewing Trilogy of Terror — Dan Curtis's 1975 made-for-TV anthology, three Richard Matheson stories, all starring Karen Black, all aired on ABC as a Movie of the Week. Two segments you may not remember. One segment you absolu...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us figure out whose side we're on. Tonight we're reviewing Over Your Dead Body — Jorma Taccone's English-language remake of Tommy Wirkola's Norwegian black-comedy The Trip (2021). Jason Segel and Samara Weaving as a married couple at a remote lakeside cabin for a "reconnection w...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us figure out whether what we just watched was actually a movie. Tonight we're reviewing Faces of Death — Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei (the Cam team) reimagining the 1978 cult shockumentary for the algorithm era. A content moderator at a TikTok-like platform starts seeing wha...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you've heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us argue about them. Tonight we're reviewing Obsession — Curry Barker's debut feature and the most remarkable indie horror origin story of the year. Barker came up making YouTube sketch comedy, shot a found-footage horror short for $800 that went viral, got hand-picked by Blumho...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us figure out what we just watched. Tonight we’re reviewing Pretty Lethal — Vicky Jewson’s action-horror-comedy about a ballet troupe whose bus breaks down on the way to a competition and have to fight off armed men. Uma Thurman is in it. Maddie Ziegler is top-billed. Whether th...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us survive them. Tonight we’re reviewing The Yeti — a 2026 creature feature set in 1940s Alaska, intentionally shot to look like it was made in the ’50s. Practical creature, period production design, and a cast that should make every horror fan’s antennae go up: Jim Cummings, Wi...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us decide if we’re losing our minds. Tonight we’re reviewing Hokum — the new film from Damian McCarthy, the Irish horror writer-director who made Oddity. Adam Scott plays a horror author who travels to a remote Irish hotel to scatter his parents’ ashes. The hotel is haunted. He...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us argue about them. Tonight we’re reviewing Lee Cronin’s The Mummy — yes, that Lee Cronin, the man behind Evil Dead Rise. He’s traded high-rise Deadites for an ancient bandage-wrapped horror, and the question is: does the contained-creature thing work, or did he leave all the g...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies and shows you’ve heard about… and occasionally deal with the consequences. Tonight’s episode is a little different. After our take on the Stranger Things finale… let’s just say someone had notes. So instead of ignoring it like mature adults, we did the obvious thing... we brought her on the show. That’s right, this is our first of...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us survive them. Tonight we’re reviewing They Will Kill You — which, honestly, we appreciate for not wasting time with subtlety. The title sets expectations, and we’re here to find out if the movie actually delivers… or just threatens us for 90 minutes. And in the glass, we’ve g...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery — or MMD if your idea of commitment is finishing the bottle, not the movie — where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us explain them. Tonight we’re reviewing The Bride (2026) — a fresh take on a very familiar monster story, which means romance, tragedy… and at least one situation where someone absolutely ignores every...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery — or MMD if your family gatherings also feel like psychological warfare — where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us survive them. Tonight we’re reviewing Ready or Not 2 — because apparently one homicidal game night wasn’t enough for this family. More chaos, more rich people making terrible decisions, and hopefully mo...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery! If your idea of ‘research’ is drinking mystery whiskey and pretending your palate is sophisticated, then you are on the right channel. We usually watch the movies you’ve heard about… but tonight, we’re skipping the screen and going straight to the glass. This episode, we’re diving into the Blind Barrels whiskey tasting subscription — the service that mail...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery — or MMD if your cleaning habits are as questionable as your movie choices — where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us make sense of them. Tonight we’re digging into Dust Bunny — a title that sounds harmless… until it absolutely isn’t. You know the deal: something small, something ignored… and now it’s probably a ful...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery — or MMD if you’re still answering unknown calls like that’s a good idea — where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us survive them. Tonight we’re diving into Scream 7, with Neve Campbell back in the mix — because apparently, Ghostface just will not let this franchise rest. Same rules, same suspects (literally), same t...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery — or MMD if your idea of ‘just one drink’ has never once been accurate — where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that helps us explain them. Tonight we’re cracking open Cold Storage with Liam Neeson and Joe Keery — a film that promises science, suspense… and at least one situation that absolutely should’ve stayed sealed. If thin...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery ! Have you ever read a whiskey label and thought, ‘Yeah… that sounds official enough.’ Tonight we’re doing something a little different — no movie, no plot holes… just us questioning everything you think you know about what’s in your glass. Where does most whiskey actually come from? Are all these distilleries really making their own juice? And what do lab...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey that makes us think we understand them. Tonight we’re stepping into Keeper, from Osgood Perkins — which usually means things are going to get slow, unsettling… and just confusing enough that we’re going to pretend we totally got it. And in the glass, we’ve got Espy House George 1794 bourbo...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery — or MMD if your judgment has already started to slip — where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey you probably shouldn’t have bought right before your credit card bill hit. Tonight we’re reviewing Primate — a film that promises intelligence, instinct, and probably at least one decision that makes absolutely no sense. We’ll be here...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery — or MMD if you’re already a few drinks in — where we watch the movies you’ve heard about… and drink the whiskey you probably can’t justify buying. Tonight we’re reviewing Bugonia, the Oscar-nominated film that critics love, audiences argue about, and we’re about to confidently overanalyze. And yes… the whiskey is back. We’re pouring Virginia Distillery Co...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery where we dive into the strange, the legendary, and the completely unhinged corners of cinema. Tonight we’re stepping into Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 fever dream, HOUSE — a psychedelic haunted-house nightmare filled with killer pianos, floating heads, and visuals that feel like they were beamed in from another dimension. It’s surreal, it’s beautiful, it’s abs...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery, where we dive headfirst into cult classics, questionable decisions, and cinematic madness. Today we’re heading all the way back to where Peter Jackson first got weird — Bad Taste. No budgets, no limits, and this time… no whiskey. That’s right. We’re doing this one sober... well... sort of. Let’s see if we survive. Comment below and if you have any suggest...

Welcome back to Midnight Movie Distillery. This is Part Two of our Stranger Things Season 5 finale review, where we stop being polite and start asking harder questions. We’re breaking down the discrepancies, the narrative shortcuts, and the moment that sparked what has been dubbed "Conformity Gate." Blade and Bow bourbon is still on the table—because when the dice don’t roll the way you expect, yo...

Tonight we’re talking about the end of an era with our honest review of the Stranger Things Season 5 finale. No hype, no nostalgia goggles—just real reactions—every victory, every critical failure, and everything in between. And since this story began around a D&D table, we’re toasting the end with Blade and Bow bourbon, because it sounds exactly like something you’d drink while rolling for initia...

Some rituals should never be completed… and some whiskeys might be too powerful. This week on Midnight Movie Distillery, we confront the unsettling horror film Bring Her Back, digging into its disturbing imagery, creeping tension, and whether it truly earns its place among modern horror standouts. To steady our nerves, we pour a glass of Dark Arts Whiskey — a bold, mysterious bourbon that feels pe...