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We humped the hell out of Halloween yesterday and why not just go ahead and do an every weekday drop for this week as well? We’re long overdue to get back to the movies and we’re discussing a much hyped flick that came out about a week and a half ago. It’s based on the true story of systemic serial murder that happened some time after the Osage tribe found oil on some land they were shoved on to....

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! All month long, we dropped a different horror movie discussion every weekday and now we culminate to our grand HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST FINALE. There’s no better way to go out on our theme, on Halloween, by discussing the first six films in the iconic franchise created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Yes. This episode we review: Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1982), Halloween III: Se...

We’re feeling a little melancholy, not unlike Christopher Lee’s Dracula, because this will be the last Hammer Film Dracula movie we will discuss for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST. Christopher Lee appears in three more Hammer Films as Dracula but Peter Sasdy’s 1970 film “TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA” will be our last for the season and perhaps that’s for the best because some of Dracula’s choices seem a little...

It’s HALLOWEEN HUMPEST and we’re humping around with a horror discussion every weekday this month and we’re capping off this week with a fucked up Austrian/German flick that was banned in many theaters in Europe as well as the United States. It was Gerald Kargl’s last and most notorious movie based on a true story. This movie didn’t even get widely distributed until the 2000s. We’re talking about...

It’s been a weird week in this final full week of HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST. It’s been some pretty crazed haunts and Michael J. Fox enterprising haunts and now we’re back to more crazed haunts in another Japanese feature that somehow, arguably, isn’t the weirdest shit we’re watching this week. Commercial director Nobukiko Obayashi was tapped by Toho Films to make whatever their own version of JAWS should...

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST stays humpin’ and this mid-week sub theme is “ghosts, spirits, and haunts” and we go for a bit lighter spooky fare with Peter Jackson’s 1996 comedy-horror “The Frighteners” starring Michael J. Fox as a man who can see ghosts and makes a buck off of it. There’s also Starkweather type antagonists and an FBI agent who is beyond absurd. This was Peter Jackson’s most mainstream movie...

It’s our last full week of HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and shit is about to get haunted as we drop what will probably be our strangest movie this month. We’re breaking the MOVIEHUMPERS seal on Takashi Miike and that should tell you most everything you need to know. This isn’t one of his kids movies. We’re deep diving into YAKUZA HORROR territory and for the love of God, don’t go to Nagoya. Don’t let your Y...

We’re returning for our penultimate Hammer Films Dracula feature this month and we aren’t with Terence Fisher this week, instead we check out an early director work by the acclaimed cinematogrpaher, Freddie Francis. Last we saw Dracula, his sad-ass fell into some ice. How does he get out of that pickle? Well, a sadder-ass priest slips on some rocks right outside of the castle and bleeds into crack...

We just can’t get enough Christopher Lee this month so let’s make it five and check out his “Austin Powers” look. You’re the most catholic Scottish cop on the planet. You’re literally abstaining sex until marriage like a madman. You get a letter telling you that a girl has been missing on a place called Summerisle. You go there alone. People are fucking out on their lawns. Children are laughing at...

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST will end up being discussions of 27 different movies when it’s all said and done. Frankly, we’re already tired and we’re gonna lie down and go to sleep. Let the little fibers of the special plant touch our skin. We will dry up into husks and come back good and wet as fresh pod people. Ready to continue the show in a much more dead-eyed fashion. We pick Podworld. Remember when pe...

Second week into HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and you might notice that our midweek theme is involving things from beyond the sky. Lethal space invaders that might want to suck your blood out with a one of those whacky straws that they just pull out of nowhere. The Chiodo brothers rocked us with some great looking creatures in this 1988 sci-fi horror cult classic, “Killer Klowns from Outer Space”. These Kil...

We’re deep into HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and this week we’re going to explore a little bit of horror from beyond the stars and this applies…we think. We’re discussing Jordan Peele’s “junior” effort. You never hear “junior” being sited when describing a director’s 3rd movie. You always hear “sophomore” but never “Junior”. But wait…didn’t Jordan Peele direct “Keanu”? His actual best movie that we saw in t...

“Please Hammer, don’t hurt ‘em”. That line is from an M.C. Hammer song. I typed it because every Monday for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST we are discussing a Hammer Films vampire classic and since that film company is called “Hammer” and then you got the musician “M.C. Hammer”, I just thought that would be an interesting thing to type but it’s not. I’m sorry. It’s grasping. Another thing I wish was grasping...

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST ends week 2 on a John Carpenter movie that was unappreciated in its time but has since aged like fine wine. It’s the second in what Carpenter has declared his “apocalypse trilogy”. Yep. Hell and Satan is a little more than what we traditionally know in John Carpenters 1987 horror “Prince of Darkness” starring Donald Pleasance as “Father Loomis”, the twin brother of “Professor Lo...

For this second week of HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST we basked in the glory of Larry Cohen’s killer mutant babies and now we close out the trilogy with his 1987 straight-to-video finale to the It’s Alive Cinematic Universe (IACU) with “IT’S ALIVE III: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE”  starring Michael Moriarty and Karen Black. By court order, these mutant babies are the original “Island Boys” (except for the female) an...

For this week’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST drops we’re exploring Larry Cohen’s “It’s Alive” trilogy and we continue with the not-so-subtle social commentary as Frank returns and is backed by an organization that wants to keep these killer mutant babies alive and he will do whatever it takes to protect the Scott’s abnormal baby. But there’s a doctor whose wife had one of these babies in Seattle and it kill...

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST keeps on truckin’ and this week we’re gonna burn through Larry Cohen’s cult classic “It’s Alive” trilogy and today we discuss the 1974 murder baby movie that started it all. What caused this killer mutant baby to come into our world? We got some theories and one pharmaceutical corporation wants that thing destroyed just in case. We got a crazed mother and a dad that’s in deep de...

We’re continuing our weekly vintage reviews of some Hammer Horror of the vampiric kind and we miss out on Christopher Lee’s Dracula this week because, well, he died at the the of “Horror of Dracula” but his cult lives on as Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing comes across a strange case of a weird little Baron and his mother who keeps him chained up until a little French hottie sets him free. The Baron Me...

It’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST!!! That means it’s a horror drop every weekday all October long and we end our first week with a movie that grew to cult status after a box office bomb in 1987. We’re talking about Kathryn Bigelow’s “Near Dark”, the OTHER 80’s vampire movie that isn’t the first one you think of. Not “Fright Night” either. This Okie kid gets turned by a midnight hottie and has to roll with t...

Oh what sights we have to show you! HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST is in full effect! A Horror discussion dropping every damn weekday and we cap off our midweek theme of sex, romance and passion with a movie all about psychopathic adoration and the thin line between pleasure and pain. Much of the sequels fall off hard, but Clive Barker’s directorial debut based upon his novel “The Hellhound Heart” stands out...

Our first week for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST (in which we discuss a different horror movie every weekday) is all about getting physical. Sex, Romance, Seduction and all of the consequences. Today’s discussion is a resonating sleeper hit from 2014 directed by David Robert Mitchell in which a young girl finds herself constantly pursued by something after sleeping with a boy. She’s the only one that can see...

It’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST every weekday all month long and we’re just getting started with an early selection from the body freak master himself, David Cronenberg. Marilyn Chambers and her boyfriend wreck their motorcycle in the Canadian countryside but fortunately there’s a plastic surgery facility close by that is willing to do some bold flesh grafting experiments. The result is a Marilyn Chambers...

It’s time to set spooky season off right because it’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and we’re dropping a variety of horror flicks on your nuts FIVE DAYS A WEEK. Yes, every weekday in October there will be a horror film discussion with weekly sub themes and for our Monday vintage selections we’re delving into some HAMMER HORROR vampiric fare! Today we’re discussing Christopher Lee’s debut as a rather seductiv...

We end this month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM with someone who might be the biggest asshole in all of film. We think he beats Jordan Belfort, Indiana Jones, Jar Jar Binks and every other asshole we’ve discussed this month. It’s time to break the John Hughes seal and dive right into a real piece of work by discussing his 1986 hit “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” starring Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan...

There are so many movies you can pick when your theme is ASSHOLES ON FILM. There simply isn’t enough days in a month to fill with all the great assholes in cinema. But one character certainly springs to mind when you’re thinking up movies for such a subject and that’s one of our favorite assholes, Daniel Plainview. In the last week of our theme we’re pulling out some heavy hitters and there’s few...