The Retro Craptacular

For Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson), nothing is the same after she meets Merrick Jamison-Smythe (Donald Sutherland). Merrick tells the teen that he's been sent to train her to fight vampires, and he proves himself by displaying his supernatural powers. Buffy is a quick study, and soon takes fellow student Oliver Pike (Luke Perry) under her wing, repeatedly saving him from fierce bloodsuckers. But,...

We are joined by our good friend Steve the Bearded to talk about a 90s classic, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie! It's also our 2 year podcastiversary! The TV heroes return for a sequel, chasing a vicious villainess named Divatox. Can they rescue the kindly wizard Lerigot from her clutches before he's thrown into the volcano? Spoilers for Happy Death Day 2U (15:03 - 16:50)   iTunes:  http://tinyurl.co...

Have you ever wanted to experience The Lord of the Rings whilst tripping on acid? Well, now there's no need for LSD because we have Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of Tolkien's classic work!    iTunes:  http://tinyurl.com/Rcpod Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/retrocrappod GooglePlay: http://tinyurl.com/y9bfyz72 Twitter:  https://twitter.com/retrocrappod  Facebook:  https://tinyurl.com/y8...

It's time for a Craptacular Christmas Classic! Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is easily one of our favourite Christmas traditions and one of the most craptacular films we've ever seen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're starting down the rabbit hole of watching all of the Resident Evil films. Considered a cult classic by some, Resident Evil started a billion dollar film franchise spanning 6 movies over a decade and a half. We dive in head first into one of the strangest and most maligned film series in recent memory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Venom has graced cinemas with his presence this month and is killing it (at the box office, at least. Not so much with critics). But it isn't the first time he has appeared on the big screen. The character made a brief appearance at the end of Spider-Man 3 in 2007, played by Eric Foreman.   Better buckle up. This one's gonna be rough. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here it is, our longest episode ever! This month we sat down with John and James from the Action, Action podcast to talk about the action-packed, somewhat stupid sequel to one of the greatest action movies ever: Predator 2! We discuss all the best and worst this film has to offer while coming up with some helpful rewrites and pitch completely different movies while we're at it.   Check out Action,...

This month we're taking a look at the 2004 action thriller Ultraviolet. Starring Milla Jovovich as Violet, a "Hemophage" who steals a kid and runs away from the government/church in order to save all the other Hemophages (Vampires, but no really). The movie co-stars Horrible CGI and a man who can say lines from a script.   This episode contains SPOILERS for Avengers: Infinity War. (Skip to 15:22 t...

It's time for us to take a trip Down Under for a rip roaring action-packed ripper of a film. When a number of near apocalyptic events occur all over the world, Australia is plunged into chaos. When a fella named Crabs takes his Sheila to a local drive in, they find themselves trapped inside with the rest of Australia's troublesome teenage population an no way out. This is the second film by Brian...

On the 25th anniversary of the original Jurassic Park, we sat down to watch one of it's less beloved sequels, Jurassic Park III. With another Jurassic World/Park sequel on the horizon we thought it would be a good idea to investigate the land of the Jurassic sequels.   We also touch on the latest Star Wars film, Solo: A Star Wars Story and address the controversy involving Kelly Marie Tran being c...

In preparation for Solo: A Star Wars Story, we're taking a look at an early Star Wars ripoff from Japan: 1978s "Message From Space." It stars Sonny Chiba and Vic Morrow and it's basically a Japanese sci-fi equivalent of a spaghetti western. Interesting to say the least.   iTunes:  http://tinyurl.com/Rcpod Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/retrocrappod GooglePlay: http://tinyurl.com/y9bfyz72 Twitte...

With the biggest event in the history of comic book movies upon us, we looked back to the days when Marvel couldn't even make a movie good enough to get a theatrical release. Captain America (1990) is a movie that went straight to VHS and Cable TV because it was so embarrassing and terrible. We also give our thoughts on the trailer for The Meg, A Quiet Place, and Ready Player One.   iTunes:  http:...

There's a new Tomb Raider movie coming out soon starring that Swedish girl from The Danish Girl that's a reboot of the previous film series based on the game that's a reboot of the previous game series.   We revisited this movie for the first time in a long time. It was a big movie for us in our youth along with it's sequel and it was fun to revisit.   Listen to Aaron on: Action, Action Podcast  ...

In honour of Black Panther hitting theatres we decided to watch one of the original black superhero films, Spawn! Based on the hugely successful comic book by Todd McFarlane, Spawn stars Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, and Martin Sheen. It was hailed as "The Special Effects Movie Event of the Year" in 1997. Just how special were those effects? We're about to find out.   iTunes:  http://tinyurl....

We're back with Season 2 of The Retro Craptacular! And to kick things off we watched the first Marvel movie ever: The Punisher (1989) starring Dolph Lundgren! It's weird to think this came out in the same year as Tim Burton's Batman. But it did.   iTunes:  http://tinyurl.com/Rcpod   Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/retrocrappod GooglePlay: http://tinyurl.com/y9bfyz72 Twitter:  https://twitter.com...

We watched the worst thing on planet earth. It's the thing that George Lucas (the man who brought you Jar Jar Binks, Howard the Duck, Emo Anakin, and Mutt Williams) is embarrassed of. It brought Art Carney and Bea Arthur into the Star Wars universe. The Star Wars Holiday Special is a special kind of evil. It crushes your soul and brings you down into a black abyss of despair. Enjoy!    iTunes:  ht...

To celebrate the release of the best Thor movie ever, we watched the original Hulk/Thor team up movie: The Incredible Hulk Returns. The TV movie follow up to the beloved TV series starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno has Hulk team up with The Mighty Thor to help him rescue his woman and save the day from the bad scientists. It's an intriguing early attempt at a super hero team up film and how it d...

Jason X is a film about an indestructible mass murderer in space. Sounds awesome enough, right? Look, I don't want to spoil it for you, but this movie basically killed the franchise, so... Let the bodies hit floor!   iTunes:  http://tinyurl.com/Rcpod   Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/retrocrappod GooglePlay: http://tinyurl.com/y9bfyz72 Twitter:  https://twitter.com/retrocrappod   Email:  retrocr...

On this episode we examine the one and only Road House starring Patrick Swayze, and Patrick Swayze's Mullet! It's a rip-roaring action extravaganza full of face-punching, face-kicking, throat-ripping, repressed homosexual desires, and mullets! So many mullets!  iTunes:  http://tinyurl.com/Rcpod   Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/retrocrappod GooglePlay: http://tinyurl.com/y9bfyz72 Twitter:  https...

With all the Stephen King content coming out recently, like IT and The Dark Tower, we decided it would be a good idea to watch Children of the Corn. Boy were we wrong. We were so, so wrong.   iTunes:  http://tinyurl.com/Rcpod   Patreon:  http://tinyurl.com/ko4qh4x   GooglePlay: http://tinyurl.com/y9bfyz72 Twitter:  https://twitter.com/retrocrappod   Email:  retrocrappod@gmail.com retrocraptacular....

This month we take a look at one of Nicole Kidman's first ever film roles in BMX Bandits! This 1983 film directed by Aussie Schlock-meister Brian Trenchard-Smith is a pretty fun romp featuring much BMX and slightly less bandits. Sorry to all the Aussies we may offend with our terrible imitations of your accents; we love Australia and it's films so much.   iTunes:  http://tinyurl.com/Rcpod   Patreo...

  To make a good film, all you need is the three M's: Murder. Musical Numbers. Meat Loaf. Stage Fright has them all. Join us as we celebrate Canada's 150th birthday by watching one of the worst Canadian films ever made. Or maybe it's great, eh?   iTunes:  http://tinyurl.com/Rcpod Patreon:  http://tinyurl.com/ko4qh4x Google Play: http://tinyurl.com/y9bfyz72 Twitter:  https://twitter.com/retrocrappo...

On this episode of The Retro Craptacular we examine Jim Wynorski's 1986 classic, Chopping Mall. It's got all the makings of a cinematic classic: Action! Romance! Robots! Exploding Heads! Boobs! Exploding Paint! It's an all around good time. iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/Rcpod Patreon: http://tinyurl.com/ko4qh4x Google Play:http://tinyurl.com/y9bfyz72 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCquvyEAL...

Get ready for Alien: Covenant by revisiting one of the greatest things to ever happen to movies. Or maybe it's terrible. All we know is it's got Aliens fighting Predators, and that's all we really wanted. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month we dive deep into the 1980 cult classic Flash Gordon! It's got an iconic theme song, ridiculous costumes, amazing over acting, amazing under acting, and Timothy Dalton! Also, Did we mention the theme song? https://twitter.com/retrocrappod https://www.patreon.com/retrocrappod     Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.