Midnight Movies

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we're kicking off our Serial Killer/Slasher month with our review of The Strangers,directed by Brian Bertino. James and Kristen head home from a friends wedding, sad and worn out. James had proposed to Kristen at the party, but Kristen felt it wasn't the right time. At the house, they hear a knock at the door. A woman asks them if Tamara is home,...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we're concluding Jordan Peele month with a movie that he produced, HIM, directed by Justin Tipping. Cam is an up and coming football star, on track to become the next big name in the game. All that changes when Cam suffers a serious head injury that puts his whole future at risk. Cam gets a call from football legend Isaiah White, who recruits Cam to...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we're continuing Jordan Peele month with our review of Nope. After the death of their father, O.J. and Emerald Haywood are struggling to keep their family business of training horses going. One night, O.J. and Emerald experience a strange occurrence happen at their farm, and the two of them start to believe an alien ship is the cause of it. Seeing th...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we're continuing Jordan Peele month with our review of Us! Adeline and her family take a trip to Santa Cruz for the summer, but she's very hesitant to go. Adeline experienced a traumatic event at Santa Cruz as a child where she encountered her doppleganger. During their first night, a family of dopplegangers show up to Adeline's house and sta...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! We're kicking off the month of June by celebrating director Jordan Peele. Each week of June, we'll be reviewing each of Peele's films, starting this week with Get Out. Chris is going away for the weekend with his girlfriend Rose to meet her parents. Chris is nervous about the trip since he is the first black man that Rose has dated, and is worried about...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we are ending Cody's Birth Month with a review of Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan. Leonard Shelby is an insurance investigator whose life is upturned when two men break into his house and assault and murder of his wife. The incident also leaves Leonard with short term memory loss, and he has to take copious amounts of notes to try and live his...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we're continuing with Cody's Birth Month by reviewing The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan Set 9 months after the events of Batman Begins, Batman has done great things in Gotham City. Criminals are now afraid to go out at night in fear of running into the caped crusader, but a new threat now shows up in the form of a man calling himself...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we're continuing Cody's Birth Month by reviewing 12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet. An 18 year old boy is on trial for the murder of his father. as the 12 men on the jury go back to deliberate, the verdict seems very clear; the boy is guilty. One of the jurors disagrees, and argues that the evidence presented is not sufficient enough to give...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we're continuing on with Cody's Birth Month with his and Nikki's review of The Thing, directed by John Carpenter. It's the first week of winter at U.S. Outpost #31 in Antarctica, when two Norwegian piolets show up hunting down a dog. Before the Americans can figure out what's going on, both Norwegian men are killed. Two of the America...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! Today, we are celebrating Cody's Birth Month by reviewing his Top 5 Favorite Movies of All Time, and we're starting it off with A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick. Alex is a troubled youth living in a dystopian future. Alex goes around with his fellow Droogs (friends) committing various crimes. During one of their outings, Alex accidentally kil...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, Nikki and Cody are reviewing Candyman, directed by Bernard Rose. Helen Lyle is working on her thesis on urban legends when she comes across the myth of Candyman, the son of a slave from the 1800s who was murdered over falling in love with a wealthy man. After Helen's findings at Cabrini Green come up with nothing, she stumbles across the real Candyma...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, Nikki and Cody are ranking every Child's Play film. Child's Play is a long standing horror franchise, spanning from 1988 to 2019. Infamous for introducing Chucky the killer doll, the franchise has had a ton of love over the last 40 years. But do these films stand the test of time? Listen to Nikki and Cody's rankings to find out.

Welcome back to Midnight Movies. Today, Nikki, Cody, and special guest Jade are reviewing Five Nights At Freddy's, directed by Emma Tammi. Mike is struggling to keep a job down to help support himself and his little sister Abby. While job recruiting, Mike is offered a job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. Mike's job is to keep an eye on the place and make sure that no one breaks into the p...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, Nikki, Cody, and special guest host Jade are finishing off Found Footage Month with their review of Creep, directed by Patrick Brice. Aaron is a videographer who has been hired for a job by a man named Josef. Josef is dying of a brain tumor, and wants to leave behind a tape for his unborn child as a memento. Over the course of their day of filming, Aaron...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! Today, Nikki and Cody continue Found Footage Month with their review of Chronicle, directed by Josh Trank. Andrew is a high school kid living an awful life. His mother is sick with cancer, his father is a drunk and abusive, and his fellow classmates constantly bully him. The only friend Andrew has in life is his cousin Matt, who convinces Andrew to go to a party. A...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! Today, Nikki and Cody are continuing Found Footage Month with their review of Lake Mungo, directed by Joel Anderson. The Palmer Family have been struck by a terrible tragedy; Alice Palmer has drowned at the age of 16. As the family grieves Alice’s death, strange things start to happen around the Palmer house. Alice’s brother Matt starts to record these events, and...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, Nikki and Cody are kicking off Found Footage month with their review of Cloverfield, directed by Matt Reeves. Rob has found himself a new job in Japan, and his brother Jason decides to throw him a goodbye party. During the party, a massive explosion happens that causes them to leave the building. They soon come to realize that Manhattan is being attacked...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! Today, Nikki and Cody conclude Stephen King Month with their review of Misery, directed by the late Rob Reiner. Writer Paul Sheldon gets into a car wreck while driving home in a snowstorm. Unfortunate for him, he is saved by Annie Wilkes, who is a former nurse and Paul’s Number 1 Fan. As Paul is recovering from his injuries, he slowly discovers that Annie is unhing...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! Today, Nikki and Cody are continuing Stephen King month with their review of The Langoliers, directed by Tom Holland (not the actor). On a red eye flight to Boston, pilot Brian Engle wakes up on an airplane that all but nine other passengers have disappeared. Brian flies the plane to Bangor, Maine and discovers that whatever happened on the plane has happened every...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, Nikki and Cody are continuing Stephen King Month with their review of both IT: Chapter 1 and IT: Chapter 2. In the summer of 1989, a group of teenagers are haunted by an evil entity known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Pennywise is responsible for the disappearance of Bill Denbrough’s brother Georgie, and Bill is dead set on finding him. With the help o...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, Nikki and Cody are reviewing Stephen King’s IT, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. During the summer of 1960, a group of teens encounter an evil entity that goes by the name of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. This entity terrorizes each of the teenagers by taking the form of what they fear the most. These teens join forces to defeat the creature, and they seem...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, Nikki and Cody are reviewing Slither, directed by James Gunn. In a small town in South Carolina, a meteor crashes down, bringing an alien parasite with it. The parasite takes ahold of Grant, and slowly morphs his body into a horrifying slug-like creature. This new creature births thousands of slug-like parasites that start to take over the minds of the t...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! Today, Nikki and Cody are reviewing Super 8, directed by J.J. Abrams. In the summer of 1979, a group of teenagers are filming a zombie film, when they witness a pick-up truck run head straight into a train. Their lives get turned upside down when they realize the crash was no random accident, but a ploy to let free an alien being from government containment. As the...

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This is Part 2 of our Alien Ranking. Thank you all for listening to Part 1, and for staying patient for Part 2!

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! Today, Nikki and Cody are ranking every film in the Alien Franchise. Spanning from 1979 to 2024, the Alien franchise has managed to evolve and stay relevant for nearly 50 years. But which of these films stand out to be the best, or the worst? Listen to find out what your cohosts have to say. This recording ended up being a lot longer than expected. So, this will be...