Strange Highways

This week Terry and Paul meet Mr. Kirby Sweetman, a man who has just as much debt as he does guilt, when he is given an offer too good to refuse. He has been tasked with finding a film of legend that affects all in strange and brutal ways even before they set eyes on it...

This week Terry and Paul are joined by special guest James to talk about 1975's The Devil's Rain. It's a film that has many Twilight Zone connections, Ernest Borgnine, a bunch of melting people, and the founder of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey. Then it gets weird... 

This week Terry and Paul finish up season 3 of Creepshow by heading the US/Canada border to get some questionable pills and meet one of the most unusual monsters ever seen in 'Drug Traffic' and then they head back to a very familiar night in 1968 and see how a town deals with justice in the face of the apocalypse in 'A Dead Girl Named Sue.'

This week Terry and Paul discover a wardrobe that has time bending properties but it comes at a cost in 'Time Out,' and then they get animated while trying to uncover 'The Things in Oakwood's Past.' 

This week Terry and Paul open the door for each other before being compelled by mysterious singing to head down the street on the worst first date in 'Stranger Sings,' and then they ride out into the very orange horizon to fight a plague or demons, or a demon plague in 'Meter Reader.'

This week Terry and Paul pretend to be art snobs and sneak into a private viewing of 'The Last Tsuburaya' and learn that just because you can buy something, doesn't mean you should, and then they go behind bars to meet Mr. Elmer Strick, a man who's only friends are his spiders in 'Okay, I'll Bite.' 

This week Terry and Paul stop by a movie prop museum and learn the true cost of collecting in 'Skeletons in the Closet' and then they go a get their fortunes read only to learn something sinister followed them there in 'Familiar.' Lesson learned: make sure you have a sacred crate handy at all times.  

This week Terry and Paul start Season 3 of Shudder's horror anthology series Creepshow. 'Mums' is about a young man in a abusive home tending to his missing mother's garden and happens when he plants some oddly sharp seeds. 'Queen Bee' is about how far three mega fans will go to see their popstar idol give birth. Come along with us for some spooky and goopy fun!

This week Terry and Paul eat some really stale cake and take a detour into 1957's The Incredible Shrinking Man. Mr. Scott Carey has a problem, he is getting smaller by the moment and there is no cure. As his frame shrinks, his problems only get bigger and bigger...

This week Terry and Paul are joined by Steve from the Invasion of the Podcast to talk about 1983's Twilight Zone: The Movie. Does the spirit of the original series translate well to the big screen? Bonus: one of the most random paragraphs you will ever hear read aloud comes courtesy of Twilight Zone: The Movie: The Book.  

This week Terry and Paul are joined by friend of the show Richard as they look back on Season 5 of the Twilight Zone, provide their Bottom 5, Most Frustrating 5, and Top 5 episodes of the season.  Thanks to everyone that has listened and supported the show over the past 5 years. It's been a wonderful ride through the original series. Don't worry, we still have many more miles to go on Strange High...

This week with the season 5 and series wrap up of the original Twilight Zone, Terry and Paul walk right up to the edge of the Bewitchin' Pool, stare down at it and agree that these are not waters they want to swim in. Does Earl Hamner Jr. have the last laugh? Next week, a look back on season 5!

This week Terry and Paul went looking for a pickle barrel wheeler dealer and ended up meeting Ms. Charlotte Scott and Trooper Robert Franklin. He is there to check our her reports of lights in the sky and she is there to hide from the world. Soon they will encounter something neither one of them could have ever imagined... 

This week Terry and Paul are just trying to find their way to Norfolk when they meet Mr. Floyd Burney, a rockabilly singer in search of a new hit song. He soon hears a haunting melody and follows it into the woods to find its source...

This week Terry and Paul somehow get fired by Mr. Wallace V. Whipple even though they don't work for him.  Wallace believes that key to efficiency and profit is through computers and automation. He doesn't see a downside to replacing everyone around him with machines... 

This week Terry and Paul wander into Happiness, Arizona, a quiet town with a very violent past, and meet Mr. Jared Garrity, a traveling salesmen of sorts. Garrity tells the townsfolk that he can resurrect the dead and will do so at midnight tonight...

This week Terry and Paul get stuck in a hot and sweaty attic with Fenton, a WWII veteran that blames the world for his problems, and Arthur, a Japanese American that has his own history with the war as well. Tensions escalate, secrets come to light, and a samurai sword keeps turning up... 

This week Terry and Paul wake up with hangovers and fully clothed in bed together and meet Mr. and Mrs. Frazier, a couple that had too much to drink the night before and find themselves in a small town that is not their own. A town with no people and most everything, including the squirrels, appear to be fake...

This week Terry and Paul don't drink the obviously suspicious wine as they meet Major Ivan Kuchenko, an escaped political prisoner trying to get overseas to freedom. What stands in his way though is his former torturer, 3 hours, and bomb planted somewhere in his hotel room...

This week Terry and Paul are looking for Jake's Special Cheese when they meet Mr. Jonathan West, a down on his luck ventriloquist, and his dummy, Caesar. Jonathan is looking for his big break while Caesar has plans of his own... 

This week Terry and Paul are forced to meet Mr. Roswell G. Flemington, a brash, rude man that insists on living in a world full of sound and fury. He wants it all loud, and he will get it...

This week Terry and Paul take a detour and discuss the recent release of George Romero's 'lost' film, 1973's The Amusement Park. They talk about Romero as a director and influence and how this work for hire PSA about elder abuse/neglect still is steeped in social commentary and his visual style. It's a dark ride, but we all enter the Amusement Park eventually...

This week Terry and Paul get real sweaty as they head to an unnamed town that has scheduled a questionable execution for the morning. The people gathered there to witness the hanging wonder why the sun hasn't risen as the sky stays as black as midnight... 

This week Terry and Paul head down to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and meet Mr. Jason Foster, a man at death's door who isn't quite ready to walk through it. Jason has assembled his ungrateful family for one last meal and for a party involving oddly specific masks...  

This week Terry and Paul just want to drink beer and watch wrestling and not meet Mr. and Mrs. Britt. Joe is a crabby cab driver and Phyllis is the thankless wife who thinks Joe is having an affair. When Joe sits down to watch his repaired television and the recently discovered Channel 10, he starts to see his past cheating and possible future sins...