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Welcome to our October 2023 LIVE Wrap-Up!

We once again enter the world of survival horror... for the first time! The foreboding Mamiya Mansion has been closed for over 30 years after a horrible tragedy. Deadly supernatural occurrences have kept intruders and thrill seekers away, until a crew of documentary filmmakers embark to tell the real story of the mansion's tormented owner, and famous painter, Ichirō Mamiya. The crew quickly ge...

Trick or Trash returns to round out the Night of the Demons trilogy! Angela is up to her old tricks again, but is this third installment to the Halloween horror classic worth a watch?

Pack up the Butterfingers, Dumpster Dwellers, because we're headed to the Amazon this week with Mr. Lobo to MEET THE APPLEGATES! The spread of deforestation in the South American rainforest has been destroying the homes of local wildlife. Unbeknownst to the outside world, a race of giant insects with shapeshifting abilities plot to infiltrate Small Town USA and execute a nuclear holocaust in r...

Welcome to our September 2023 LIVE Wrap-Up!

We're traveling to Transylvania with Tony from Hack The Movies and sailing on a boat with a vampire to look at another movie based on Bram Stoker's iconic novel, Dracula! Well, it's based on a chapter from the book. Kind of... Following "The Captain's Log" portion of the story, a giant Man Bat terrorizes the ship's crew while out to sea, leaving no survivors onboard w...

We're braving the summer heat and heading to Camp Blackfoot to talk about one of the greatest slasher movies ever made! After an accident leaves the camp's groundkeeper Cropsy horribly burned, he returns 5 years later with nothing but his garden shears and revenge on his mind! Can our latest group of horror movie teenagers survive the Cropsy maniac, or, will George Costanza, Fisher Stevens...

Get ready to have a little mahogany, Dumpster Dwellers! We're back in the car with Daniel Baldwin and James Woods to hunt down some blood-sucking vampires, but this time we've got C.B. Smith with us to tell us all the differences from the book. What did John Carpenter keep for his adaptation and what did he change from John Steakley's 1990 novel, Vampire$? And why exactly is the book n...

16,000 feet below the ocean's surface, geologist Peter Weller is the court appointed captain of a ragtag group of precious metal miners. After Daniel Stern uncovers a safe inside of a nearby ship wreck, all hell breaks loose as a vodka-borne bio experiment starts infecting the crew, turning them into hideously deformed mutant fish monsters. Premiering the same year as James Cameron's The A...

Twice the Problem, twice the Child?! In one of the funniest comedy sequels ever made, John Ritter and Michael Oliver return for more over the top hijinks and even more Problem Children! Junior's reign of terror continues when dear ol' Dad decides to get back on the dating scene and the richest woman in town, LaWanda DuMore, sets her eyes on him. Now Junior must team up with his bitter riva...

It's Stepfathers Day and Terry O'Quinn has been working in the Wizards garden... again! After escaping Puget Sound Psychiatric Hospital for a second time, Terry O'Quinn surgically changes his appearance into another actor and then resumes his hunt for the perfect family. Now it's up to his Stepson (psychosomatically wheelchair bound Andy) to stop Daddy Dearest's latest nightmar...

A little girl named Susie (Jamie Ohar) blames her birthday present, a stuffed bear named Teddy, for various incidents around the house. Her parents, who don't remember purchasing Teddy in the first place, do not believe her... until Susie's mother (Marilyn Jones) discovers giant claw marks on the walls and overhears lumbering sounds at night. In the end, the mother destroys Teddy, but then...

Welcome to our May 2023 LIVE Wrap-Up!

We're finally taking the Dungeon back to Japan with a movie that Joe and Sean have been itching to talk about for years! When The Prowler and his brother Hideki find a new hunting grounds in an abandoned Japanese Umbrella factory, late night host Nami and her news team become their latest victims. It's only a matter of time until Nami is left as the final girl and forced to confront our Gi...

In a comedic parody of The Exorcist, inept occult practitioners Nora and Jack Mills (Phyllis Diller and Lawrence Tierney) are offered $50,000 to perform an exorcism on Mary Jane, a young girl possessed by a demonic seductress known as Aisha Candisha. Things go from bad to worse when the incompetent couple end up summoning another demon, a commander known as Gad, to get rid of Aisha, only for both...

The Dumpster boys headed to the PhilaMOCA for Tapes from the Crypt and Retro Release Video's annual CRYPT VIDEO RENTALS pop-up video store! Offering up a menagerie of tapes, toys, promotional items, and other nostalgic delicacies, Crypt Video Rentals hits that sweet spot for delivering a true video store experience. Headed by an amazing group of people, they are preserving an essential moment...

James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy has come to a beautiful and satisfying end. Join us in the Dungeon this week to talk about the Guardians series as a whole, the legacy of James Gunn, and how it changed super hero movies across the board. Hold on to your Zarg-nuts and crank that Zune because we're talkin' Guardians of the freakin' Galaxy Vol. 3!

Television studio executive Gil Hurn (David Margulies) is approached by Mr. Smith (Lenny von Dohlen), a mysterious investor who asks him to complete the final episodes of Max Paradise, a short-run detective series from 1965 that was cancelled before said episodes were aired. Mr. Smith and his mysterious backers are willing to pay any price, specifically gold bars, to see the series finished, compl...

Roll initiative, Dumpster Dwellers! We're heading back to Faerûn on the back of a rather corpulent Red Dragon to talk the latest Dungeons & Dragons movie! Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez gather their adventuring party of heroes to get revenge on their former con buddy Hugh Grant, but since its Dungeons and Dragons they also get involved in a world ending plot in the process. Druids, Pala...

Out of the pail and into the Video Dungeon! The Garbage Pail Kids have finally come home to mother ship Movie Dumpster for a piss-packed episode featuring the Doom Generation Podcast dames, Tessa and Nicole! Dodger has it rough–working for free in Captain Manzini's antique shop, being terrorized by thirty-year-old bullies, and constantly doused with raw sewage. When Dodger indirectly releases...

Luther Mandrake (Jerry Stiller) is the incredibly rude, arrogant, and mean-spirited host of a late-night radio show known as "The Devil's Advocate", where he unleashes the unbridled hatred he has accumulated through a life full of misery, hardship, and suffering onto callers eagerly seeking advice for the world's problems. One night, while taking some peculiar callers, Luther dis...

MONKEY!! We're returning to the MDU seminole classic Super Mario Bros. (1993) once more to see how it compares to the novelization based on it by Todd Strasser! Strap your belts on Dumpster Dwellers and join us, as we take a trip with C.B. Smith on the Buch-cannon back to Koopa City 1 and go Book to the Movie™!

Welcome to our March 2023 Wrap-up!

Pete Bancroft ( Michael Warren ), a musician in a creative slump, buys a revolutionary instrument that can read a person's thoughts and transform them into music. However, the instrument comes with a very high price; a price which Bancroft may not be willing to pay, especially since it leads to his daughter Justine ( Lisa Bonet ). being kidnapped by Wilson Farber, the man who sold Bancroft the...

Mr. Killup (Roy Poole) is a grumpy and misanthropic old man who hates Halloween, often spending the 31st of October tormenting trick-or-treaters who come to his door. This year however, he is visited by a sinister goblin who insistently demands candy. When its offer is repeatedly refused, the goblin punishes Mr. Killup by trapping him outside of time with little-to-no food, forcing him to sustain...