Midnight Movie Mania

Welcome to Midnight Movie Mania and the start of shark month with another listener request, thanks to listener William H for Jaws: The Revenge. It's several years after the events of the shark attacks on Amity. Sheriff Brody has died of a heart attack and his widowed wife is on holiday to the Bahamas after the death of her youngest son. The shark is now stalking her and what's left of her...

Welcome to Midnight Movie Mania as we give Pride month a fond farewell, until next year, in this episode we look at Alix's pick, Rope from the great Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Two homosexuals murder their old school friend just for shits and giggles. They then decide to throw a party and invite the school mate's family. However things go wrong when the old college professor show up to the party...

Welcome to yet another episode and another Fan Pick as we look at the camptasic 1987 Masters of the Universe from Canon Films. The war for Eternia is over Skeletor has won, by cheating of course, He-Man and his forces have to regroup and take back over Castle Greyskull. With help of a cosmic key He-Man, man at Arms and Teela is teleported to 1980s Earth. Here they teens Julie and Kevin who have an...

Welcome to Midnight Movie Mania as we look at one of the weirdest movies we've ever covered, 1996s Killer Tongue. Starring horror icons Robert Englund, Doug Bradley and Melinda Clark. A female bank robber turned nun is turned into a black suited alien that takes over her tongue and makes her a killer after she eats a shard of a meteorite this also turns her four poodles into drag queens. Meanw...

Welcome to ep 53 of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at the cult classic My Stepmother is an alien. The insane movie of a SETI researcher that mistakenly shoots a radio wave to a distant galaxy that will destroys their planet. So they send a female scientist to hunt him down and get him to force him to fix the planet. Unfortunately they fall in love. Is her home planet finished? Can she pass as hum...

This ain't my first rodeo! Hello and welcome to the Mother's Day special of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at Mommy Dearest. The story of Christina Crawford and the relationship she had with her Mother Joan. This insane high camp OTT movie shows Joan as an OCD sufferer, a high emotion control freak and an abusive mum, So yeah come with Alix and myself as we look at this campy cult classic...

Call me by your dream name.......Hello and welcome to ep 51 of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at one of THE ultimate midnight movies in the sequel to one of the greatest horror movies ever made , The Exorcist. Yes folks we're covering 1977s Exorcist 2: The Heretic. It's several years after the events of the first movie and Regan McNeil is now a teenager living in her Mother's New York penthouse w...

Welcome to episode 50 of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at another fan request Tales from the Darkside: The movie. When a young boy is kidnapped by a witch who plans to eat him in order to stall her he tells her three tales of terror. The first being a college frat buys an ancient mummy to take out his bullies but one gets his revenge. Or does he? The second is about a multi millionaire that hire...

Welcome to episode 49 of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at Wes Craven's Cursed. This is the only time Craven tipped his toe into the werewolf universe and it must've been under a bad moon rising cause this dog don't hunt. A brother and sister are stalked by a werewolf while trying to survive the dog eat dog world of LA. Thing is can they figure out who the bad wolf is before they'...

Welcome to the first listener pick Creepshow. Five intertwined stories play out in Creepyville. In the first story a bratty teenager is turned into a rabbit after her father uses an universal control made by a mad prof. Story two a security guard buys a magical radio that changes his life but is it for the best? The third story is a call girl turned serial killer who meets her match with her lates...

You survived Friday the 13th but can you survive Saturday the 14th???? Welcome to episode 47 of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at 1981's Saturday the 14th brought to us by the wife of the King of B movies Roger Corman. A hapless family moves into a cursed and haunted house where their son finds the book of all of Earth's evil. He stupidly reads from and unleashes all sorts of monsters. Th...

Welcome to another episode of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at 2000s Charlie's Angels. Three female Private investigators are hired to track down stolen voice ID software but it's all a ruse as their client wants revenge on Charlie Townsend.....the girls' boss. Can they solve the crime and save their boss? Find out here. Follow us on Instagram: @midnightmoviemaniapod, @heresjohnny79...

Welcome to ep 45 of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at the full CG version of Pokémon: Mew Two Strikes Back: Evolution. Scientists clone the mystical Pokémon Mew. However the clone turns on the Drs and tries to kill all humans and Pokémon. Can Ash, Misty, Brock and a handful of other Pokémon trainers stop Mewtwo from taking over the world? Find out here! Now follow us on Instagram @midnightmoviema...

Would you spend the night in a haunted house for $10k? How about £100k? Fine then spend it with us at Midnight Movie Mania! We look at the cult classic House on Haunted Hill starring the late great Vincent Price. Brought to us by the Hitchcock of B-movies William Castle. A multi millionaire throws a party for his gold digging wife in a supposed haunted house. Will someone pay the ultimate price an...

Welcome to ep 43 of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at the Japanese cult classic Battle Royale. Set in the near future , Japan isn't doing so well and the education system is in the toilet. Once a year a random class of kids are taken to a deserted island to kill or be killed. When a class is picked a shy school girl and her best friend fall in love but can they survive the battle royal or are...

This ain't no Frosty the Snowman! No it's Jack Frost and he's not nipping at your toes but breaking them. Hellhohohoho and welcome to the Christmas special of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at the other living snowman movie called Jack Frost, no folks not the kiddie friendly one but the killer snowman. When a serial killer named Jack Frost is set to die on Christmas Eve an accident with genetic a...

Welcome to Ep 41 of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at Ginger Snaps 2. It's 7 weeks after the events of Ginger Snaps and Bridget is all alone in the world when a horny male werewolf is tracking her down to either fight, fuck or feast her. She's picked up by a dry out clinic who mistake her Wolfsbane as an illegal drug. In the clinic she meets 13 years old Ghost a sociopathic pyro nut. Once...

Welcome to ep 40 of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at the John Carpenter cult classic They Live. When a drifter comes to LA he's shocked to discover that the rich and elite are actually aliens hell bent on using humans as sheep and using up Earth's resources. So can he and his new best friend stop them? Find out here. Also in this we discuss Rowdy Roddy Piper's wrestling career also w...

Welcome to not only the Halloween special of Midnight Movie Mania but a personal double milestone for me it's my 500th podcast and 10 years of being a podcaster. I thought we'd look at not only Halloween 6, for it's 30th birthday, but at the Halloween franchise and horror as a whole. So light that Jack-O-Lantern and come take a walk down the streets of Haddonfield with Alix and myself...

Welcome to ep 38 of Midnight Movie Mania as we kick off spooky season with our look at Trick or Treat from 1986. When a controversial shock rocker kills himself and his band mates during a black magic spell, his number one fan goes nuts and brings him back from Hell. Thinking he could control the demon to do his dirty work things start to go wrong, however once he realises the demon wants to rule...

Welcome to episode 37 of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at Catwoman. Is this movie the cat's whiskers or is this as bad as a week old kitty litter? A graphic designer is killed by her insane boss then she's brought back to life by a magic cat that turns her into Catwoman. Then she seeks revenge. Yeah it's as crazy as a roomful of cats on rocking chairs. Follow us on Instagram: @midnig...

Welcome to ep 36 of Midnight movie mania as we look at a slice of the 90s in Mighty Morphin Powers: The Movie from 1995. You know the story. Six "teens" take on a giant monster and use their powers and Zords to defeat it. In this we viciously rip into this much to Alix's childhood pain. Also we look at the fan theories surrounding this. Anyway sit back and enjoy as we, read that as I...

Welcome to episode 35 of Midnight Movie Mania, as we look at MTV's first movie, Joe's Apartment. A down-on-his-luck nice guy who moves from Iowa to NY where he meets a rich environmentalist that wants to start her own community garden in the East Village of NY. Unfortunately her rich Senator Dad wants the land for a prison. Not to worry Joe is the last tenant in a rent control tenement on...

Welcome to ep 34 of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at the little known Donnie Darko sequel S Darko. The story of Donnie's little sister who is on a road trip with a wild child, free spirited friend. When their car breaks down in a small desert town in Utah. Wouldn't you know it she gets stuck in a time loop just like her older brother. Can she save herself, the town and the world? Find out here....

Welcome to the Pride edition of Midnight Movie Mania as we look at Slay from 2024 the Tubi original about drag queens vs vampires. Yes folks 4 RuPaul Drag Race alum drag queens vs a horde of undead blood suckers. Can they survive the night and the bickering of drag queens? Find out here. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram: @midnightmoviemaniapod, @heresjohnny79 and @mr_alixander also follo...