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Welcome to the Movie Dumpster LIVE for our October Wrap-up episode! We're gonna be talking all things 'Trick or Trash' including 'Halloween 6', 'Hauntedween', 'Night of the Demons 2', and our Patreon exclusive Watch-A-Long of 'Trick or Treat' and bite size minis for 'ALF' and 'Family Matters'! We'll also be taking ques...

It’s almost time, Dumpster Dwellers! Trick or Trash is coming to an end, but not before Angela returns to the MDU to throw another howl of a party and you’re all invited! We’re heading back to Hull House just in time for Halloween, with a new batch of teenagers ready to have their souls sucked out by The Devil before midnight. Angela (Amelia Kinkade) kidnaps her sister Mouse from a Catholic boardi...

Trick or Trash SCARE-ies on, as we reach deep into our treat bags for this hard to find independent horror flick! When a bumbling fraternity needs cash fast, they are visited by a mysterious stranger that offers them the perfect place for their Halloween-themed fundraiser–the old Burber House of Horrors! After putting in a little elbow grease, taking a sunbathing detour, and resolving a love trian...

Trick or Trash returns from the grave as we slash into the month with Dr. Death of the MDU himself, Sam Loomis! We've finally taken the dive, Dumpster Dwellers! We bring you the finale of the Cult of Thorn timeline–SIX TIMES the terror, SIX TIMES the fear, SIX TIMES the thrills!?After the events of Halloween 5, Michael Myers is broken out of jail Fratelli style and whisked away to the Thorn C...

Welcome to the Movie Dumpster LIVE for our September Wrap-up episode! We're gonna be talking all things Roger Corman's 'Fantastic Four', 'Bad Moon', and our Patreon exclusive Watch-A-Long from earlier this month of 'Scarecrows'. We'll also be covering the latest episodes of 'Talks from the Darkside' and hmm, we don't know...how about a sn...

Half man, half wolf, total terror! After having a run in with a werewolf in the jungles of Borneo, Uncle Ted (Michael Paré) returns to the states having been unable to cure himself of his lycanthropy. In a last ditch effort to use The Power of Love™ as a means to rid himself of his lethal lunar activities, he shacks up with his sister Janet (Mariel Hemingway), her son Dennis the Menace (Mason Gamb...

10 Djinn, No Chaser:In a ridiculous and wacky story, newlywed couple Danny and Connie Squires (Charles Levin and Colleen Camp) purchase a lamp which turns out to hold a genie (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). Extremely angered at being trapped for thousands of years, the genie tortures his new masters with various plagues. Fortunately, Connie offers a simple solution to the genie's problem. Based on a s...

09 A Case of the Stubborns:Jody Tolliver (Christian Slater) and his mother mourn the death of Grandpa Titus. Suddenly, Titus (Eddie Bracken) nonchalantly rises from the dead the next day. Jody and his mother enlist the aid of numerous townsfolk to help convince Titus that he is dead, the stubborn man refusing to believe it even as he decomposes. Written by James Houghton, based on a short story by...

Roger Corman strikes back at the MDU with this unreleased superhero flick based on Marvel’s First Family! Originally made just to hold on to the film rights, the movie was collecting dust on a shelf for years until some Dumpster Dwellers dug it up and slapped it on the web for us all to watch. See the origins of Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and The Thing for the very first time (bu...

Welcome to the Movie Dumpster LIVE for our August Wrap-up episode! We're looking back at our 'Fallen Empire' month with 'Terror Vision', 'Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama', and our Watch-A-Longs of 'Ghoulies 2' and 'Cellar Dweller'!! We also answer your live questions from the chat, give some updates on Watch-A-Longs and commentary...

Fallen Empire comes to an end with a John Carl Buechler classic and arguably one of Empire’s best films! Harry Potter Jr. and his family (yes, that is his name) move into the same apartment building as the evil troll Torok, who wants to transform his neighbors into fae folk of the forest as a means to merge the realms. With his magic ring, Torok transforms into Harry’s little sister Heather O’Rour...

Fallen Empire is well underway, and we have a David DeCoteau classic in tow! After a group of horny nerds crash a sorority pledge initiation, they are forced to steal a bowling trophy from a local mall with the aide of the two pledging sisters. They end up releasing a jive-talking, wish-granting imp with a nefarious agenda, bent on killing them one by one! Officially released under Charles Band&ap...

08 Word Processor of the Gods:Richard Hagstrom (Bruce Davison), a struggling novelist married to a shrewish wife and father to an ungrateful son, discovers that his new word processor, a gift from his deceased nephew, is more powerful than he could ever have imagined: every sentence he types into it alters reality. Based on the 1983 short story by Stephen King and adapted by Michael McDowell. Orig...

07 Inside the Closet:Graduate student Gail Aynsley (Roberta Weiss) takes up a room for rent in the house of Dr. Fenner (Fritz Weaver), the dean of a local veterinary school. She discovers that her new room has a strange miniature door inside it, and estimates that there may be something lurking on the other side. Original Air Date: November 21, 1984 Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/movied...

HOLY TOMATO, EMPIRE HAS FALLEN! While its heyday is long gone, these films are definitely not forgotten, and the Dumpster trio is here to pay homage to them! After a mutated alien creature gets blasted into deep space via energy beam, its trajectory makes a bee-line to Earth and into the Putterman family's brand new satellite TV receiver. From the mind of Charles Band comes a truly unique vie...

06 Slippage:Graphic designer Richard Hall (David Patrick Kelly) discovers that he has been turned down for a promotion, hasn't received an invitation to his high school reunion, and that his own mother has failed to recognize him. Putting everything together, Richard determines that the source of the problem is that he is literally slipping from existence. Original Air Date: November 11th, 19...

Welcome to the Movie Dumpster LIVE for our July Wrap-up episode! We're looking back at 'Kolobos' (1999), 'The Kindred' (1987), our Ripe Reviews of the 'Fear Street' trilogy, the latest 'Talks from the Darkside' episode 'Mookie and Pookie' with Chris Bahr, and so much more!! We also answer your live questions from the chat, give some updates on...

On her deathbed, molecular biologist Dr. Amanda Hollins sends her son John to destroy her lab notes left at her home, but she fails to mention that John's brother Anthony is living in the basement. You know, his Xenomorph-esque human-octopus hybrid monster brother that Amanda created using John's DNA. Add a group of John's friends to the mix, a fish-woman ripped straight out of the...

05 Mookie and Pookie:Susan "Pookie" Anderson (Justine Bateman) discovers that the spirit of her recently deceased twin brother, Kevin "Mookie" Anderson (Ron Asher), lives on through his computer, but her parents don't believe her. When they threaten to sell the computer due to her growing obsession with it, Susan must to prove her parents that her brother is still alive be...

The frightful finale! Rounding out the Fear Street trilogy, we get a glimpse into ye olde 1666 as we recall what was the deal the day Sunnyvale/Shadyside died. Head out to Razorback hollow to grab your grimoire from Haggis, and pop some young berries the Hugga Bunch gave you, because we're going on a witch hunt through Part 3 to get to Part 2 of the first sequel to Fear Street Part Three: 166...

The body count continues! The second installment in the Fear Street Trilogy shoots us back into the summer of 1978 at Camp Nightwing, as more of Sunnyvale/Shadyside's dark history unfolds. Light up that J-bird and pop some asprin, because we're chopping our way through some unhappy campers in Fear Street Part Two: 1978! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

A group of freeloaders, artists, and actors go on the world’s deadliest game of Big Brother ever, where hidden cameras are the least of their troubles. In the house that John Kramer built (Jigsaw himself), five strangers attempt to survive a booby trapped house while cameras record their horrifying experience! With projectile saw blades around every corner and a black-gloved, Giallo-killer Meat Lo...

Listener beware, you're in for a scare! Originally planned for a theatrical release, the classic R.L. Stine book series gets its very own 3 part event exclusively on Netflix. With elements pulled from series installments 'The Betrayal', 'The Secret' & 'The Burning', the first in this terrifying trilogy has finally dropped and the Dumpster trio is here to tack...

The lost George Romero film makes its way to SHUDDER™! Commissioned and later shelved by the Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennsylvania, this surrealist depiction of one of our deepest fears comes to light in a truly powerful short by one of the Masters of Horror. We'll see you Dumpster Dwellers in the park! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

Welcome to the Movie Dumpster LIVE for our June Wrap-up episode! We're looking back at 'The Beast Within' (1982), 'The Changeling' (1980), our Ripe Reviews of 'The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It' and 'The Amusement Park', our 'Super Mario Bros: The Morton Jankel Cut' Watch-A-Long and 'Deep Blood' commentary track for Patrons, the...