No-Budget Nightmares

Saluto! It’s episode 83 of No-Budget Nightmares and this time we’re heading to Italy, renowned for its black gloved killers, expensive wines and MY LOVELY BURNT BROTHER AND HIS SQUASHED BRAIN! It’s a microbudget John Waters-tinged slasher with lashings of incomprehensible characters, dialogue, and a guy cutting off his junk with garden shears. Sixty minutes of shaky video and pun...

It’s No-Budget Nightmares episode 82, and this time Moe and Doug are wasted away again in 2007’s NECROVILLE, a buddy-comedy with vampires, werewolves, CHUPACABRAS, and zombies! Co-directed, co-written and starring microbudget stalwart Billy Garberina, it’s GHOSTBUSTERS meets SHAUN OF THE DEAD except with more giant chainsaws, hipster vampire masters and falling pianos. Call the s...

Listen up you BIG ASS, it’s time for No-Budget Nightmares to take another deep dive on the filmography of the immortal Tim Ritter with 1987’s KILLING SPREE! It’s rude, crude and full of ‘tude, and features a TRULY AMAZING lead performance from Asbestos Felt, who ably rants, raves and roars every demented line, as well as a requisite appearance from Joel D. Wynkoop!  TOOT A...

Psst.. Ya like zombies? Yeah? How about ARGENTINE zombies? Well, you’re in luck, buck-o, because on this week’s No-Budget Nightmares we’re taking a look at 1997’s PLAGA ZOMBIE, which has all the skin ripping, face peeling, blood drinking and ear slicing one could want out of a microbudget zombie movie from 1997! Not only that, but Moe and Doug get POLITICAL, with crucial po...

Get ready, boils and ghouls! After suffering for their sins for the past few episodes, Moe and Doug get a brief respite from their usual deep hurting with Chris LaMartina’s WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, a beautifully constructed tribute to 80s TV with a unique (and spoooOOOooky) found footage edge. Packed with lovingly constructed period detail and fine performances, this one is a (trick or) treat...

SKUNKY! Mike C. Hartman’s first film WRATH OF THE SKUNK APE is full of surprises: The acting is terrible, the plot is confusing, and most of it takes place in the dark, so good luck in figuring out what the heck is going on. Thankfully, it’s short, and on NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES that counts for something. NEVER TRUST A MONKEY! Want more of this goodness (and some fine perks)? Support No-B...

On an unprecedented episode of NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES, Doug and Moe are facing perhaps their greatest challenge: a movie that isn’t a movie. Sixty straight minutes of Barbie dolls slamming against each other for the amusement of none. Its 2006’s NIGHTMARE MUSEUM and it’s pure pain, administered directly to the eyeballs. You’ll be shaken, you’ll be stirred, and you&#8217...

YIPPEE KI-YAY BRAM STOKER! It’s episode 76 of NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES and this time our fiendish hosts are tackling DIE HARD DRACULA, a horror-comedy with a twist: it’s neither horrific NOR funny! It does, however, star Bruce (dad-to-Crispin) Glover as the world’s worst Van Helsing, as well as lovely Czech Republic locations and a rotating cast of – count em! – THREE Dra...

Time to UNSUBSCRIBE from all other podcasts because NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES is BACK and it’s WEIRD AS HELL. After a trademark hiatus, Moe and Doug delve deep into the behind-the-scenes Canuxploitation classic SPLATTER: ARCHITECTS OF FEAR which shows that behind their veneer of politeness, all Canadians THIRST FOR BLOOD. There’s throat slitting, death-by-sex, head explosions, and a full bo...

You lucky kids today can toss together a movie on your phone, but back in 1979 it took GUTS and BALLS and SOME SKILL. That’s what 16-year-old Nathan Schiff did with just a dream, a Super-8 camera, and some rudimentary modeling skill, and the result was the wonderfully titled WEASELS RIP MY FLESH!  Filled with violence and suspiciously turd-looking weasels, WRMF doesn’t make much sense,...

KILL YOUR DARLINGS and EAT YOUR MAKEUP, it’s time for Episoder 73 of NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES featuring the Patreon-requested shot-on-iPhone exploitation throwback JENNIFER HELP US from 2014! Moe is sleep deprived and Doug is high on caffeine so this time you’re getting  a messy, pun-filled affair with all of the half-considered diatribes you know and love. Grab your skull mask and rev up...

Oh don’t lean on me man/Cause you can’t afford the ticket/I’m back on SLIME CITY! NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES returns with the oft-requested, goop-covered, 80s low-budget classic SLIME CITY from director Greg Lamberson. Filled with grimy 80s NYC atmosphere and packed with ooze, sludge and gore, Moe and Doug are kicking off 2016 with a BANG as they dive into a pool of gloopy goodness and...

THE BASTARDS HAVE LANDED! It’s the NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES holiday spectacular, and this year Moe and Doug are giving themselves a treat: Peter Jackson’s microbudget sci-fi splatter classic BAD TASTE! Stoke the homefire and hang the stockings, because we’re kicking in the new year with BRAIN SQUISHING, SHEEP ‘SPLODING, and CHAINSAW DISMEMBERMENT.. Just like mom used to make! I...

IT’S HERE! Our rantiest episode EVER! It’s our look at the all-star microbudget anthology spectacular HOBO WITH A TRASH CAN, which is chock-full of aliens, radioactive condoms, murderous apples and SO MUCH MORE. It also contains the worst anthology segment we’ve ever seen, and a second half that made Moe and Doug want to hurl themselves into a WOODCHIPPER. But, they persevered an...

It’s our favorite time of the year! The time when ghosts, witches and goblins rule supreme! It’s.. uh.. HAUNTEDWEEN! So get your frat brothers together and slap a coat of paint on the ol’ Burber place, because it’s time to get SLOPPY. Doug Robertson’s microbudget slasher film makes for a fine respite for our dutiful hosts, but will they find themselves chilled to the...

PT Barnum said it so long ago/There’s one born every minute don’t you know Just kidding. KILLER KLOWNS FROM KANSAS ON KRACK has absolutely nothing to do with KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE, though it does have 100% more racist puppets, guinea pig eating and glorious, GLORIOUS ennui. KKFKOK comes from the mind of Charles E. Cullen, who is as good at dancing as he is bad at directing, an...

KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES! No-Budget Nightmares returns to tackle the mid-90s SOV alien invasion classic FEEDERS directed by Mark & John Polonia and Jon McBride! It has it all: primitive CGI, gore, knee-high aliens, beautiful BABES, and lots and lots of beautiful padding. Could this be a terrifying vision of things to come? Only one way to find out! LISTEN!     Want more of this goodne...

“D’you want to see some bloood?”. We’ve got ourselves in a TAILSPIN thanks to Pateron campaign contributor Jessica Garcia, who kindly suggested that Moe and Doug FINALLY tackle Canuxploitation classic THINGS! Being faced with such a ghastly, brutal, horrible, insane film drives our hosts to new heights(?!) of frivolity and madness, and the whole sick business culminates in...

WHO YA GONNA CALL! The.. uh.. Denver Ghostbusters! No-Budget Nightmares takes its first trip into FAN FILM territory, and this one’s a doozy. RETURN OF THE GHOSTBUSTERS brings together a whole new group of ghostbusters, and while they are missing the charm, wit and acting ability of the original GHOSTBUSTERS , they make up for it with plenty of awkward pop culture references and an appearanc...

It’s a few weeks later and WOMEN’S STUDIES still plague our host’s nightmares. Thankfully, there’s a Baltimore-lensed solution to their problems: Don Dohler’s sci-fi/action microbudget classic NIGHTBEAST! For ONE NIGHT ONLY the show becomes NO-BUDGET LEGENDS as Moe and Doug celebrate the amazing accomplishments and outstanding career of the late filmmaker, while delvi...

Uh oh! Something has Moe and Doug PEEVED. Yes, it’s the rantiest episode of No-Budget Nightmares EVER as the pair tangle with a viewer-picked movie that proves to be a blizzard of ignorance and threatens to break their resolve to tiny bits. At first WOMEN’S STUDIES seems like it’ll merely be innocently dumb and misguided, but soon a free-flowing river of misogyny spews all over t...

Johnny Dickie wrote, directed and starred in SLAUGHTER TALES when he was 14. In case you missed that, let me write it again: Johnny Dickie wrote, directed and starred in SLAUGHTER TALES when he was *14*. The hosts of NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES are both TWENTY years older than that, which makes them very, very sad to think about. They’ve decided to express their anger, frustration and jealousy by r...

Q: Where did the vampire open his savings account? A: At a blood bank Q: Why doesn’t anyone like Count Dracula? A: He’s a pain in the neck Q: When is a vampire movie NOT a vampire movie? A: When it’s a VAMPIRE COP movie! Fresh off the success of 1987’s CANNIBAL HOOKERS and 1989’s SCREAM DREAM , Donald Farmer decided to meld together HORROR and ACTION and came up with...

DON’T KILL THE ZOMBIES! LEAVE THE ZOMBIES ALONE! Assemble your ZOMBIE SQUAD, ladies and gents, because it’s time to dip back into the J.R. Bookwalter tub and experience the delightful dose of Super-8 zombie goodness that is 1989’s THE DEAD NEXT DOOR. STRAIGHT OUTTA AKRON, it’s one of the most well known – and well loved – microbudget films EVER, and Moe and Doug...

Are you ready? CAN you be ready? TODD SHEETS is here, and Moe and Doug are about to enter his HOUSE OF FORBIDDEN SECRETS before ALL OF YOU SUCKERS! That’s right! It might not be available to the general public yet, but OUR HOSTS ARE SPECIAL and they get to see things *nobody* else can see. It’s got GEORGE HARDY. It’se got LLOYD KAUFMAN. It’s got FABIO (F**CKING) FRIZZI. It&...