Werewolf Ambulance: A Horror Movie Comedy Podcast

In this week's episode, we pander lightly to our Finnish listeners by reviewing a truly dark film from our Nordic pals: 2016's "Lake Bodom." Special topics for your consideration include: cultural understandings of Finland, the possibility of fun tow truck hijinx, having a visceral reaction to seeing someone drinking from a lake and the script getting flipped and then flipped again and then flippe...

Say it with us now!  E-M-Ts HEY! E-M-Ts HEY! E-M-Ts HEY! LET'S TALK MOVIES!* *seems like we could have written a better cheer than this but honestly, peppiness is not generally our strongest suit. In this bonus quarantine episode, we're discussing the 2000 cheerleading classic "Bring it On." Special topics for your consideration include: a celebration of friendship!, the Venn diagram of our tastes...

In this week's episode, we're celebrating the birthday of one of your best friends and mine- Allen. Since we can't talk about "The Thing" without having to end the show (it has been prophesied), he picked the next best thing for him: the 1966 Don Knotts film "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken." Special topics for your consideration include: numerology and the angels, Morgantown tourism tips, a newfound ap...

Hi EMTs! We thought that, while we're sheltering-in-place, we might as well watch some movies and record a few bonus episodes for you. We hope you enjoy our first foray into recording ourselves remotely with the 1985 children's (?!) film "Return to Oz." Special topics for your consideration include: an outright celebration of Fairuza Balk, what happens when you decide that the Scarecrow, the Tinma...

In this week's episode, we are discussing the 2010 film "Black Death" but please be assured that we did not glibly choose this movie; we picked it back in February to be the final installment of our month of folk horror and the actual episode has been recorded for a couple weeks. So, not ill-intentioned but certainly ill-timed. That said, let's make the best of it. Special topics for your consider...

Hi EMTs. First of all, we'd like to say that we hope you are all well and healthy, both physically and emotionally, in this worrisome and trying time. We are here with you. Second, we hope that you can get a break from the real world with us for 45ish minutes today and it's our absolute privilege to be able to do that. Third, good lord, this movie is a disaster. This week we're talking about the 1...

In this week's episode, we're tentatively easing back into the story of "The Wicker Man" with the original 1973 film starring the one, the only, Christopher Lee. Special topics for your consideration include: expectations for Christopher Lee's hair, expectations for the wig that your butt double is wearing, a hearty discussion about Easter candy, talking serious about bathroom time, the problem wi...

This week we're kicking off our solstice celebration and a month of folk horror movies with the 2019 Ari Aster film "Midsommar." Special topics for your consideration include: the true horrors of the world, a scale of how attractive one must be to get away with terrible behavior, crappy academics, beautiful cinematography and cartoon mallets.  Did you miss our first Ari Aster film? Check out Episo...

In this week's episode, the finale of our ~*~month of love~*~, we're deviating a bit from our usual horror to talk about one of Katie's all-time favorite movies: the 1998 teen romp "Can't Hardly Wait." Special topics for your consideration include: having dirty thoughts that one need not be ashamed of, a perfect time capsule of the late 1990s, an absolute celebration of giant pants, a cavalcade of...

In this week's episode, the third in our ~*~month of love~*~, we're discussing the 2016 film "The Love Witch." Special topics for your consideration include: a lot of discussion about the messages of this film, questioning the possibility of satire, the raw deal that Trish got, having friends in the Ren Faire: a relationship deal breaker?, the exhaustion that must come along with being in a coven...

In this week's episode, the second episode in our ~*~month of love~*~, we're discussing the 2013 zombie romantic comedy (zomromcom) "Warm Bodies." Special topics for your consideration include: the concept of using 'Romeo & Juliet' as the basis for your romcom: a good idea? (not really, as it turns out), slow zombies with a high Dexterity, and probably our most tangent-filled episode to date* incl...

In this week's episode, we're kicking off our ~*~month of love~*~ for February with the 2009 Australian film, "The Loved Ones." Special topics for your consideration include: expecting one kind of movie and getting a vastly different one, the most earworm-y of songs, testing the limits of our tolerance for gore, a tale of a weird night on makeout lane and hey-- don't lie to us, we remember being v...

After what felt like interminable weeks in the 1990s, we're taking a step back. This week, we are discussing the 1988 film "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama," which is kind of a longer title than it is a film. Special topics for your consideration include: the golden age of underboob, reminiscing about Charles Band's greatest hits, chainwallets: a good idea?, the problems with Uncle Imp...

In this week's episode, we are thankfully done with the space rock block but are somehow STILL in the 1990s! We're talking about the film "Deep Blue Sea," the 1999 killer shark vehicle picked by the winner of our YouTube sweepstakes, Jermaine Howard. Special topics for your consideration include: shark science explained, a lil bit of poetry, feeling joy at a main character's death, a lovely rousin...

In this week's episode, we're wrapping up our weird space horror movies of the 90s rock block with the 1996 film "Leprechaun 4: In Space." Special topics for your consideration include: the fact that the subtitle of this film is merely "In Space," interesting naming choices, special effects that are charming if somewhat terrible, more of the following things: space marines! poorly lit spaceships!...

In this week's episode, we're discussing the second of our three horror-films-in-space rock block: the 4th entry into the Hellraiser franchise, "Hellraiser: Bloodline." Special topics for your consideration include: an exploration of our continued confusion about how puzzle boxes work, why puzzle boxes work, what sex demons are doing, why sex demons are doing and so on, confusion about Adam Scott'...

In this week's episode, we're reviving a ghost of New Years' Past-- oh yeah, we're talking about a rom com. What better way to ring in the year 2020 than with a movie about TECHNOLOGY? We're talking about the 1998 Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks classic, "You've Got Mail." Special topics for your consideration include: Ryan and Hanks at peak cuteness, wondering if the concept of negging is romantic, Jimmy Stew...

In this year's annual Christmas horror movie extravaganza, we're heading to Finland and the great wonders of snowmobiles, wolf traps and pig heads. That's right, we're discussing the 2010 film "Rare Exports." Some other topics you may want to consider: a positive affirmation about the great outdoors being for...well, not us, perks of being lowkey terrifying, a most Pittsburgh treat and a buncha na...

In this week's episode, we're kicking off our horror-movies-in-space rock block (that will be interrupted by our regularly scheduled holiday programming) with the 2001 entry into the "Friday the 13th" franchise, "Jason X." Hoo boy, this one. Special topics for your consideration include: the personal grooming habits of one Jason Voorhees, having a real Stone Cold Steve Austin quality about you, un...

In this week's episode, we're bringing our "Hell House LLC" franchise coverage to an end with the third installment, "Lake of Fire." Special topics for your consideration include: previous jokes about the franchise finally paying off, woo-ing like Ric Flair, a stage production that is "lightly Faust," a question of whether Nana Cognetti helped finance this one and a middle-of-the-night revelation...

In this week's episode, we're discussing another sequel-- this time it's "Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2" from 1987. Special topics for your consideration include: putting a bunch of horror movies in a blender and seeing what you get, inadvisable parenting on several fronts, confessionals, Michael Ironside, Degrassi High and by far and away the most horrifying horse that has ever existed.  Did you m...

In this week's episode, we're going back to the well of COGNETTI! with the second film in this franchise, "Hell House LLC 2: The Abaddon Hotel" (or "Hell House 2 LLC," depending on who you ask.) Special topics for your consideration include: day jobs for demons, documentaries in documentaries in documentaries with some added documentary footage, non-subtle story choices, dramatic cultist behavior...

In this week's episode, we decided that maybe we'd been having too much fun lately and wanted to bring it down a notch with the 2008 Australian ghost story "Lake Mungo." Special topics for your consideration include: a bit of sadness, a bit of existential dread, a surprising lack of knowledge when it comes to drug terminology, loose understandings of what a doppelganger is, boomer talk and a sugge...

In this week's episode, we try to keep the Halloween vibes alive with the 2015 found footage film "Hell House LLC." Special topics for your consideration include: COGNETTI!, questionable choices, Steven Weber, having plot holes that are not filled until the sequel, and...wait, which one is Tony? Do you like found footage films? If so, you might be into Episode 15- "The Blair Witch Project," Episod...

In this week's episode, we talk about a bunch of people we think we might know from other things with the 1984 sci-fi horror film "C.H.U.D." Special topics for your consideration include: a deep dive on the career and sartorial choices of one Mr. Daniel Stern, a lil bit of baseball talk, sitcoms, cop 'tude, signs of a toxic relationship and the kind of loopiness that we can only muster with a rare...