Nightmares and Cold Ones

Sister G, Tini and John take a trip to the house of Annie Wilkes for an extended stay. The trio dissect this thriller about a writer trying to satisfy his number one fan. What started out as a potential gruesome short story idea turned into one of the Master of Horror's greatest triumphs. Sit back, crack a cold one and enjoy this discussion about one of King's best.

Sister G and John find themselves back on the path of the Dark Tower again. This time, Roland finds himself stranded on a desert, injured and sick: the last gunslinger is going to need help if he's going to reach the Tower and Roland is going to find that help from some of the least likely people possible; a heroin addict and a woman plagued by having two different personalities. John and G di...

John and Jim finish up their chat on the flick.

100 years ago, the good guys had a chance to banish the bad guys into limbo and give earth peace forever... the good guys blew it! Yes, that is a snippet of the excellent prologue of tonight's flick, The Monster Squad directed by Fred Dekker. Join John and Jim as they discuss one of their favorite movies from childhood. You got foul mouthed kids, you got monsters, you have a pretty serious sub...

Jim and John find themselves in Dark City, a neo-noir sci-fi flick directed by Alex Proyas of the Crow fame. The story follows a man with amnesia with psychic abilities who is a murder suspect that is on the run from fancy hat wearing ghouls called the Strangers - yep there's a lot going on in this one. The Cold Ones gang get into all the reasons why the movie is great: incredible set design,...

G, Kristina and John take one more trip back to Derry. The Losers are back in town, but do they have what it takes to eliminate an interdimensional evil creature? Join us one last time to discuss one of King's best works.

The Cold Ones gang takes a break from Stephen King's It and find themselves on 8 Mile staring Eminem. Yes, that's right, the drinking obsessed horror podcast is watching a movie about an aspiring rapper, big whoop wanna fight about it? Between recounting B-Rabbit's struggles, John and Ronan get nostalgic about growing up in the nineties and early aughts with the shifting music scene. S...

Kristina, John and Gina continue their analysis on one of King's best horror stories...

On a rainy day a boy in a yellow slicker sailed a paper boat down a stream along a flooded street. Little Georgie was dismayed when he saw the paper boat sail into a sewer. When he had all but given up on retrieving the boat Georgie heard the voice of a curious character in the sewer, it was Pennywise the Dancing Clown. While Georgie was first caught off guard by seeing a figure in the sewer, he c...

Join Jim and John as they sink their teeth into (I did it, I made the dumb joke!) one of John Carpenter's less appreciated but still awesome flick, Vampires. The Western/Horror hybrid follows a band of vampire hunters sanctioned by the catholic church. The two hosts praise the 90's aesthetic and get into what's so satisfying about Carpenter's directing style. Towards the end of the...

Kristina and John finish their marathon discussion on The Long Walk

Tini and John discuss the year's best feel bad/good movie, The Long Walk, directed by Francis Lawrence, based on a Stephen King novel written under the Richard Bachman penname. A precursor to Battle Royale and The Hunger Games, The Long Walk follows a group of kids participating in a deadly competition where there's only one winner. Kristina and John dig into how they could love such a mov...

John and Jim are back to discuss James Gunn's Superman! The two touch on the state of the DC films over the past few years and also the excitement of Gunn-led DCU. And while the Internet doesn't require two more dudes debating Zach Snyder's take on The Man of Steel vs. James Gunn, the Cold Ones guys decided to pitch in their thoughts on the matter here and there. It's a bit of a lo...

G and John take a big 'ol bite out of Thinner, written under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman. What happens when you have an egotistical lawyer, an old man with a grudge, and a cartoony gangster? Well perhaps King's best book written under the Bachman pen name. Throw in some disturbing curses, a slingshot wielding girl, and a cursed pie... yep that's right, a cursed pie, then you have some schlock...

Oh boy! Tini and John take a deep dive into Robert Zemeckis' satire of the glamours Hollywood life of the '90's. The two can't help but talk about their love of movies from this time along with seminal horror series that may have inspired today's movie, Tales From the Crypt. Sit back, crack a cold one and enjoy.

G and John have a fun chat about one of King's very few forays into the fantasy genre. The two are very happy to see an old friend return; the magician with the smile of a dead man, the man with many monikers that loves to bring chaos in his wake, whether it's in mid-world, a plagued alternate version of America, or in this case an ancient kingdom called Delain. Yes, that's right Randa...

What's this, The Cold Ones gang repeating themselves? Not quite, guys. While we covered Edgar Wright's classic zombie movie a few years ago, Jim and John are tackling the flick in a different way today: Could we survive the movie? To spoil stuff, na, we wouldn't make it - but you should still tune in to see how we think we'd die! Mixed in are some musings on burgers and bitching ab...

G and John are back with the Stephen King discussions! In this episode we take a deep dive into one of King's earliest entries into the fantasy genre. The two discuss this world hopping, Dark Tower related tale of a kid on a quest to save his mother while battling creatures from another dimension. Please join us, right here and now as we run with the moon and journey with Jack Sawyer on his qu...

John and Rich finish up their marathon discussion!

That's right, true believers, it's the triumphant return of Capes and Cold Ones! Join Rich and John as they dissect what many consider to be the gold standard of comic book movies - Spider-Man 2 directed by Sam Rami. John gives a brief run down on the hurried pre-production that somehow still allowed arguably the best movie to ever feature your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. The two also do not...

Join John and Kristina as they take a deep dive into Robert Egger's masterful retelling of the Dracula myth. The two gush over the visual language of the flick, the costumes as well as the makeup. The two also crown Bill Skarsgard as one of the kings of horror now that he has Pennywise and Count Orlock under his belt. Sit back, crack a cold one and enjoy.

John and G discuss the underrated story of a werewolf haunting a small New England town. John may be a bit loopy, and we may have missed the spookiest month of the year by not posting a pod, but we're back now and that's all that matters! Sit back, crack a cold one and enjoy.

Kristina, John and Jenn with two n's sit down to chat about Richard Donner's The Omen. The trio dig the old timey score, '70's aesthetic and the fact that the doctor from The Secret of the Ooze plays a major part in this flick. Sit back, crack a cold one and enjoy.

G and John chat about one King's greatest, but also darkest works. The two chronicle the doomed lives of the Creed family that just wanted a nice little life in a sleepy Maine town, but were doomed by a busy road and a cursed burial ground a few miles away. The two dig into the tough to handle but true lesson that King imparts to his readers; Sometimes Dead is Better. This book certainly isn&#...

Join Jim and John for a an adventure that spans hundreds of years as they recap the masterpiece that is Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits. What, not a horror movie you say? To that I will point to the horror of being threatened by a band of thieves the appear out of your bedroom wardrobe and then being chased by the disembodied head of The Supreme Being and then having misadventures in time and spa...