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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 Originally made just to hold on to the film rights, the movie was collecting dust on a shelf for years until some Dumpster Dwellers dug it up and slapped it on the web for us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...

After a completely avoidable tragedy, composer George C. Scott retreats to Seattle for some R&R to focus on his music. Soon after he moves into an old haunted mansion, the ghost of a little boy starts bugging him to expose his murder, while serving his dastardly duplicate a mouthful of just desserts. Tony from Hack the Movies™ joins us as we navigate this classic haunted house flick to ask the...

We're back from the movie to give you the book...to the movie! C.B. Smith from Taking a Page joins us again as we discuss the film Razorback and how it stacks up to the novel of the same name written by Peter Brennan. Take a ride through the bush as we compare and contrast the differences including the actual size of the titular Razorback and the road to salvation for a certain wily wallaby!...

We're back from the movie to give you the book...to the movie! C.B. Smith from Taking a Page joins us again as we head back to Outworld and go a few rounds with the novelization for 'Mortal Kombat: Annihilation'! FIGHT! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

04 The Odds:Tommy Vale (Danny Aiello), a bookie who never turns down a bet, meets Bill Lacey (Tom Noonan), the luckiest man he may ever know, who becomes determined to break the bookie at any cost. When Tommy ends up wagering on the time of his death, he must do everything he can to outsmart a man who has never lost. Original Air Date: October 21, 1984 Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/mov...

Exactly 17 years after a woman is attacked on her wedding night, her son Michael becomes gravely ill. Now, Caroline and her husband Ronny Cox must return to where their nightmarish secret began, only to find out that the town of Nioba has a few secrets of its own! Crack open your Necronomicon, shed the skin of your human host, please wash your hands after you handle any raw meat, and let those Bro...

The third Conjuring movie in the main saga is here! Helmed this time by Michael Chaves instead of James Wan, the exploits of Ed and Lorraine Warren may have finally run their demonic discourse. Could this be the final main entry to The Conjuring series? Did the Devil make us sign up for HBO Max to watch this movie? Have they hit the bottom of the barrel to make this shared universe work? Find out...

Welcome to the Movie Dumpster LIVE for our May Wrap-up episode! We're looking back at 'Mother's Day '(1980), 'Son of Dracula' (1974), our Ripe Reviews of 'Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made' and 'Spiral: From the Book of Saw', our secret 'Jigsaw' (2002) Watch-A-Long for and Hack the Movies crossover 'Annabelle&a...

In 1970, one of the most famous musical groups to ever be assembled disbanded. In the wake of that break up, one of them decided to make a film about a rock 'n' roll vampire becoming king of the underworld. That man was Ringo Starr of The Beatles. Starring Harry Nilsson as Count Downe, the titular 'Son of Dracula', and Ringo himself as the great wizard Merlin, along with a motl...