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It's time for the final installment in our Stephen King triple feature. This week Wes and Lydia take a look at one angry pooch that's having a ruff day with 1983's Cujo! A lovable St. Bernard has a fateful encounter with a diseased bat in a cave that turns Cujo into a crazed carnivorous killer! Also Wes and Lydia try to set eachother up on dates with horror icons!

All right creeps! It's time to rev your engines! Buckle your seatbelts and hit the road with episode 69 of Dead Air. Today's episode Wes and Lydia turn their keys and drive down that loathsome highway with 1987's Maximum Overdrive. Planet earth narrowly escapes impact with a comet who's tail has left behind some lingering radiation that just so happens to imbue all machines on earth with life and...

When checking in to the Dolphin Hotel, do yourself a favour and avoid room 1408 unless you plan on packing a body bag! On today's episode of Dead Air, Wes and Lydia turn their keys and enter the 2007 Stephen King Adaptation; 1408. Mike Enslin is a horror author that seems to have a knack for debunking haunted hotels but when he receives a mysterious post card inviting him to room 1408 he finds som...

Ding dong! You're Dead! It's episode 67 of the Dead Air Podcast and with that comes this spacious four bedroom home. It's located in a quiet suburban neighborhood with friendly neighbors, elegant decor, an in ground pool and a backdoor in to another dimension! Monsters demons and spirits will drive you mad and attempt to shuffle you off this mortal coil faster than you can say MORGUE-age! in the 1...

Prepare yourself! Episode 66 of Dead Air shreds its way through time and space to your very ears! On today's episode Wes and Lydia answer the call with another fan requested fright fest in the form of 1987's The Gate. The family home of a young boy named Glenn becomes ground zero for Armageddon when a fallen tree is uprooted on his property that just so happens to create a portal to Hell. Now, Gle...

When throwing a party it's always considerate to inform your neighbors because, when your neighbor is the Blood Widow you're in for more than a noise complaint. Episode 65 of Dead Air is here where Wes and Lydia review a modern day Slasher from Midnight Release. Laurie and Hugh buy a house and while Laurie has visions of a rural lifestyle of peace and togetherness Hugh, has visions of having the g...

Picture the thing you desire most, now, what would you do to get it? Episode 64 of Dead Air sees Wes and Lydia sign the deed to the 2010 film; Dream Home. A seemingly ordinary woman named Cheng that has questionable taste in men and an impeccable work ethic has her heart set on a nearby luxury apartment but, how does one go about affording such a place during the worst housing crisis in Hong Kong'...

O Canada! Our Horror loving Land~! Right now you're thinking My Bloody Valentine on Canada Day? What?! That's right, for those in the know MBV is the quintessential Canadian slasher from the golden era of the sub-genre and if that wasn't special enough for you creeps, we got a double stuffed super special edition that includes an interview with one of the films stars Jim Murchison ! In three and a...

Enough is never enough of The Stuff! We hope you're hungry because we're serving up a big ol' bowl of Dead Air! This week it's a fan requested film in the form of the 1985 killer junk-food movie; The Stuff! A seemingly irresistible new food product has hit the streets all across America and while some people seem content to wolf it down in huge quantities others are noticing that fans of this frea...

Coming at you Fast As A Shark! No need for formal wear cause this ain't no White Wedding! Oh no it's a sneak preview of the latest and greatest episode of DEAD AIR. This week we rip our tickets and head to the theater where the floors are sticky with puss, bile and effluence, We tackle the classic 80's Italian splatterfest; Demons! Horror juggernauts Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava deliver an unfo...

WARNING WARNING: We have some bad audio in this episode. Not sure what happened but we figured it was better to give you a shitty sounding episode over no episode. Forgive us! We make up for it by talking all about the 2002 infection splatterfest Cabin Fever. A group of recent college grads head up to a cabin to enjoy a week of sex, drinking and fun but an encounter with a very sick local wonderin...

Introducing first - from Ottawa Canada: Wes and Lydia! Their opponent from "Parts Unknown" The 2006 film Wrestlemaniac! Here in the historic Dead Air Arena we bring you HELL IN THE CELLULOID. A movie about what is essentially an immortal Frankenstein Luchador composed of the bodies of three of Mexico's greatest wrestlers. Built by the Mexican government to one day win the summer Olympics against t...

A house divided against itself cannot stand! This week Wes and Lydia are certainly divided on the Blumhouse spookfest; Oculus. Oh boy is the snark strong with this one! An antique mirror possessed by an unknown entity drives a normal family to the edge of madness that ends in bloody murder. Years later the two surviving children are reunited with one of them intent on keeping the vow they made as...

A long weekend deserves a long episode! This time we tackle our first horror anthology and I can't think of a better one to start with than the 1982 film; Creepshow. Also, Wes and Lydia get their geek on and talk all about horror's relationship with comic books Also, Wes talks about his own creepshow involving a lot of maggots. For more episodes check out splatterpictures.net

It ate him! Who do you ask? Find out on today’s episode of Dead Air! The team from Re-Animator reunites for the 1986 body horror classic; From Beyond.

Do you feel it? Beneath the skin something sharp and jagged threatens to erupt from your flesh! It's episode 55 of Dead Air and we've got Shinya Tsukamoto's classic body horror masterpiece; Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Tetsuo finds himself inexplicably turning in to a man of living metal after a fateful encounter with a stranger who is deliberately pushing a metal rod in to his body. Who is this man and...

We are all connected by this podcast...and pain but, mostly this podcast. On today's episode of Dead Air Wes and Lydia take a look at revenge, demons, Satanism and the afterlife in this criminally underrated indie horror romp. For more episodes check out splatterpictures.net

Before you listen to episode 53 of the Dead Air Podcast we have one question for you. Who are you connected to? The question that resonates with our characters as Japan is hit with an unprecedented wave of inexplicable suicides. Seemingly happy and well adjusted people ending their own lives en masse have the police force baffled and grasping for explanations. Stranger still is the grisly clues be...

Episode 52 is exactly what you think it is! We're back in the 80's and it feels like we never left. This time to take on one of Lydia's favourite movies from her childhood. The exploitation slasher Pieces! A seemingly normal college is under siege by a trench-coated ne'er-do-well with a penchant for carving up nubile co-eds with a chainsaw. An intense investigation goes underway to stop this madma...

It may be April GHOULS day but this episode of Dead Air is no joke. Although, the movie is pretty funny I guess. Wes and Lydia discuss the triumphant return to horror for legendary director Sam Raimi with; Drag Me to Hell. In order to impress her boss for her next big promotion a young, kindhearted loan officers decides to get tough on an elderly woman way behind her mortgage payments. Desperate t...

We like to kick - streeeeeeetch - AND KICK we're 50! We hit this milestone in style with the Clive Barker Adapted Candyman. A grad student Helen is writing her thesis on urban legends and comes across a story about a ghostly figure with a hook for a hand that is known only as "Candyman" A vengeful legend born of a terrible tragedy that can be summoned to kill if only you dare to say his name five...

Sharpen your knife and strap on your combat boots because in episode 49 of Dead Air; Wes and Lydia dish out a review of 1981's The Prowler with military precision. In 1945 the war weary world was settling back down and men and women were returning home. What should have been a time of celebration turns to bloody murder. Now, decades later the killings start again by a man clad in WWII military gea...

You have the right to remain silent...forever. In episode 48 of The Dead Air Podcast Wes and Lydia wave that right and talk about what many consider to be the last of the great 80's New York based slashers. On the mean streets of New York city life is cheap and a rash of murders is as common as seeing the Statue of Liberty itself. However, even in the city that never sleeps a killer over six feet...

Coming hard on episode 47 of Dead Air. In this episode Wes and Lydia discuss the recent movie Condemned. A film strangely absent from horror outlets but all over mainstream media. A rich girl finds her way to her boyfriend's place in New York after she can no longer take the problems she faces at home. Little does she know that her man is squatting in a condemned building with a strange assortment...

In episode 46 we get deadly serious and class the place up a little as we talk about the 1965 Roman Polanski film, Repulsion. The first in what would be dubbed the "Apartment Trilogy" which includes 1968's Rosemary's Baby and 1976's The Tenant. Polanski takes us through a quiet and subtle journey through two weeks of a woman's life. For many in Carol's life she just seemed quiet and perhaps a litt...