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🧶 In this month's episode of The Cherry Picker AFTER DARK we are comparing and contrasting eight final girls with their remake counterparts across a variety of different horror films. Final Girls and Movies included are: Nora Manning from House on Haunted Hill (1959) vs. Sara Wolfe from House on Haunted Hill (1999) Lila Crane from Psycho (1960) vs. Lila Crane from Psycho (1998) Sally Hardest...

🦽 We are very excited to be talking about this indie psychological horror gem from the early 2000s. It does have a small cult following, but maybe it's brand new for a lot of you. In this episode we will discuss the effectiveness of the film's atmosphere on its shoestring budget, explore the ambiguity of the session 9's horror, and discuss the film's correlation to true crime...

🪙 After finishing the Evil Dead franchise last year, we figured we'd check out some more contemporary work by Sam Raimi. This week, it's all about Drag Me to Hell, which may be another forgotten relic from the late 2000s. Join us as we dissect, discuss, and cherry pick this film about curses. We'll also nominate which characters we think were most deserving of death, so be sure to...

🌑 Happy New Year everyone! As we continue on through the winter season, we're delving into some titles that have been frozen in time. Such as the graphic novel-adapted vampire flick 30 Days of Night. Join us as we shine some light onto this forgotten film, and reminisce on the darker days of 2000s horror. We'll also nominate which characters we think were most deserving of death, so be...

🦐 Celebrating its 25th anniversary this week, The Faculty was another 90s teen horror flick in the same vein as Scream. This time with Kevin Williamson infusing his meta voice and high school archetypes into the alien sub genre. The film was directed by Robert Rodriguez and has developed a massive cult following over the years, borrowing a lot of tropes from other science fiction films. Unfortuna...

🐧 This is a preview of the first 35 minutes. The full episode is a Patreon exclusive, and can be accessed by supporting Zack Cherry (The Cherry Picker Podcast) on Patreon. Details below.   In this month's episode of The Cherry Picker After Dark, we are covering Batman Returns, which other than being a bonafide Christmas movie, is also a supervillain movie and a Tim Burton movie, thus making...

🦄 Merry (Early) Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Festivus for the rest of us, from your friends here at The Cherry Picker! This week we bring you the seminal holiday classic, Black Christmas... THE REAL ONE!!! In this episode, we will be discussing all things related to this Canadian treasure, from the unsettling score, to the effective, yet simplistic cinematography, and the wonderful characters...

🎹 Kicking off December with a Christmas movie... well sort of. There's a Christmas tree! That counts, right? Anyway, you can always find a good excuse to talk about Dario Argento, and this is the perfect opportunity to discuss one of his finest works, Deep Red (aka Profondo Rosso). This was not only the movie that made him an Italian household name, but it also transformed the Giallo subgenr...

👱🏻‍♀️ This is a preview of the first 36 minutes. The full episode is a Patreon exclusive, and can be accessed by supporting Zack Cherry (The Cherry Picker Podcast) on Patreon. Details below. In this month's episode of The Cherry Picker After Dark, we discuss, analyze, and rank every episode from the seventh (AND FINAL) season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Also, we will be deciding which cha...

🕶 John Carpenter's They Live opened in theatres 35 years ago, and became a No. 1 hit at the box office after the director had a string of commercial failures throughout the 80s. Despite this, the movie fell off of the box office in the week following its release, and to this day does not really get much fan fare aside from people recognizing it for the iconic faces of it's clandestine, v...

🕯 Prey. Slay. Display. Dark Castle made a millennialized remake to House of Wax back in the 2000s, which was already a remake of Mystery at the Wax Museum (1933). Remake is a bit of a loose term here, however, as the movie is much more in the style of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. That's not necessarily a bad thing though, and in this episode we are going to run through all the fun a...

📺 It's time for another ANOES movie, this time covering Dream Warriors. Join us this week to talk about what is possibly the best movie in the franchise (sorry Wes), and why Nancy Thompson is one of the BEST final girls ever! In fact, Dream Warriors might have one of the best casts of any of the Nightmare movies... However, not everyone is great. and we still gotta nominate which characters...

🏚 Happy Halloween!!! To celebrate, we are covering everyone's favorite entry in the franchise... Halloween Resurrection. Unless for some reason you love this movie unironically, we promise you that you'll have a hoot listening to us trash talk this movie. We've got a lot to say too. Everything from the shoddy looking production, the death of Laurie strode, the complete lack of a plo...

🔪 This is a preview of the first 73 minutes. The full episode is a Patreon exclusive, and can be accessed by supporting Zack Cherry (The Cherry Picker Podcast) on Patreon. Details below.    In this month's episode of The Cherry Picker After Dark, we first give our own mini reviews of Saw X and The Exorcist Believer , before moving onto a tier list ranking of 32 notable horror movie slashers...

💍 Happy 25th wedding anniversary to Charles Lee Ray and Tiffany Valentine!!! We're celebrating the release of Bride of Chucky this month, and as per usual, we've got plenty to say about our favorite horror franchise. Join us for some good old fashion 90s nostalgia, and be sure to stick around all the way through, where we'll  nominate which characters we think were most deserving o...

🪀 We've got another Friday the 13th approaching, and in October no less. Join us as we delve into the very weird and extremely campy third dimension of horror, with Friday the 13th part III: 3D. We love this movie, but we also have a lot of notes with it, so listen to us critique this fine piece of 80s schlock with as much attention to detail as humanly possible, because you might learn some...

🪚 With the Saw franchise back in full swing with the recent release of its 10th instalment (Saw X), we are going back 19 years to the humble beginnings of the film that started it all. Join us as we share our thoughts about the original Saw from writer/director team James Wan and Leigh Whannell, and explore what it is that made this little indie flick so fascinating to be able to become a full-fl...

👱🏻‍♀️ This is a preview of the first 50 minutes. The full episode is a Patreon exclusive, and can be accessed by supporting Zack Cherry (The Cherry Picker Podcast) on Patreon. Details below. In this month's episode of The Cherry Picker After Dark, we discuss, analyze, and rank every episode from the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , including the musical episode "Once More, Wi...

🪓 Urban Legend is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month, so naturally we are going to talk about. And we've got a lot to say. Everything from its Scream influence, to its homage to 80s slashers. Rebecca Gayheart's career defining performance. Jamie Blanks's creative vision. Christopher Young's eerie score. The list goes on and on... As always, we'll also nominate wh...

🛁 In case it hasn't been made clear yet, we here at The Cherry Picker are HUGE fans of Michelle Pfeiffer, and have been dying to cover this 2000 suspense thriller for a very long time. If you haven't seen it, or just haven't seen it in a while, we recommend you check it out and come join us for this in-depth conversation. We have a lot to say about it. As always, we'll also no...

🪖 This week we're covering Child's Play 3, cuz why not? Well, it was more of one of those back to school themes, what with Andy joining the military academy, but we still have a lot to say about this one. Join us as we dissect the studio film that almost ended Chucky, including the overseas controversy that had parents, political and religious groups on a tirade to get this movie cancel...

🍎 ATTN: This is a preview of the first 42 minutes. The full episode is a Patreon exclusive, and can be accessed by supporting Zack Cherry (The Cherry Picker Podcast) on Patreon. Details below. In this month's episode of The Cherry Picker After Dark, we are talking about the true gateway into horror: The Disney Villains. Going through a selection of 16 of the most vile characters known to the...

🦊 Celebrating 10 years of You're Next (based on its theatrical release). Considered by many as the movie that perfected the home invasion sub genre, this week we revisit this contemporary treasure to see how well it still holds up, and discuss the powerhouse final girl that is Erin Carson (Sharni Vinson). We'll also nominate which characters we think were most deserving of death, and th...

🐛 Place your bets! Freddy vs. Jason turns 20 years old today, so naturally we had to jump ahead in our chronology to cover it... Don't worry though, it won't break up continuity too much, after all there's very little that connects this movie to either of its franchises. Expect us to cover the long history of these two horror titans coming together, the production that almost was,...

🐶 Keeping the summer heat sizzling with Stephen King's tale of the rabid Saint Bernard that tormented E.T.'s mom!!! Cujo is now 40 years old, and us being the basic Bs that we are, have been sticking to an anniversary schedule here. So join us as we bake inside a hot car with a crying child for 90 minutes and talk about this movie. We'll also nominate which character we think was m...