Werewolf Ambulance: A Horror Movie Comedy Podcast

In this week's episode, we hit up another anthology film, 1990's "Tales from the Darkside." Special topics for your consideration include: late night HBO viewing that is most definitely not child friendly, the supernatural works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and who was cooler him or Houdini, college dorm life explained, and the assurance that your cat is most definitely going to eat you.  Have you se...

In this week's episode, we're discussing the 2007 action/comedy/mystery/...horror? film "Hot Fuzz." Special topics for your consideration include: is this actually a horror movie, or did we get fooled by an action movie?, "Point Break" and being crazy for Swayze, Dire Straits appreciation (how would you guys feel about a new podcast segment called "Straits Talk"? No? Just us?), the real secrets of...

This week we're joined by our friend Josef to discuss his pick, the 2008 Canadian horror/virus/zombie film "Pontypool." Special topics for your consideration include: our typically American lack of knowledge about anything Canadian, Josef's relationship with comic books and superheros,  the lack of effort that anyone at Netflix is putting into their film descriptions, conspiracy theories and thing...

In this week's episode, we dip back into the John Carpenter well with his 1980 film "The Fog." Special topics for your consideration include: our future careers as copyright-free jazz radio hosts, the questionable allure of Tom Atkins: why do movies seem to think that young women are gaga for him?, the predictive powers of one Jamie Lee Curtis, long shots of nothing, leaving your child with a sea...

Last year we had so much fun talking about "Days of Thunder" in our April Fool's episode that we decided to just do it again! Everyone loves movies about race car drivers! Just kidding...we're doing something much, MUCH more ridiculous this year. We hope you like it and we'll be back to our regularly scheduled blood and guts next week. Here are two hints as to what the movie is before you listen!...

This week we're discussing the sci-fi/horror/comedy/grossout movie "Slither" from 2006. Special topics for your consideration include: a very important AMA on Reddit that everyone should see, Muppets singing R&B/rap hits of the 90s, opinions on "Dinosaurs" (the television show, not the beasts), a very real need to stop using internet acronyms IRL and perhaps most importantly: two, count em, two co...

In this week's episode, we're discussing the 2011 horror comedy film "Cabin In The Woods." Special topics for your consideration include: a very important lesson in Pittsburgh accents, brief reviews of several in-theaters-now films such as "Kong: Skull Island" and "Logan," more meta horror, whether Channing Tatum and Chris Hemsworth have ever been seen in the same room together, Allen's limited to...

In this week's very special guestisode, we're joined by our friend Dave to discuss the 1997 sci-fi/space horror film "Event Horizon." Special topics for your consideration include: more talk about "Hellraiser" because let's always talk about "Hellraiser," Transylvanian salt mines and the treasures they contain, future magic technology such as CD-Rs, using CGI instead of plot devices to varying deg...

In this week's Very Special Episode™ of Werewolf Ambulance, we attempt to talk frankly about racism in America when we discuss the brand new, in theaters now film "Get Out." SPOILERS ABOUND, SEE THE MOVIE BEFORE YOU LISTEN! You already know we spoil everything. Special topics for your consideration include: hypnotism: real or not real?, straight talk about MMA, an important digression into Ethan E...

This week we're getting into an old Hollywood classic: the 1962 psychological horror film "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" Special topics for your consideration include: creepy dolls, how wonderful and terrible old Hollywood stars were, necessities of modern technology, the ever-present horror trope of incompetent police work, and what actually passed for entertainment in the 1910s. We've also W...

This week we're discussing the 2016 Iranian film "Under the Shadow." It's available on Netflix, so if you haven't seen it yet and don't want us to spoil it for you, check it out before you listen. Special topics we'll be discussing include: the advantages of subtitles over dubbing (seriously, who likes dubbing?? be sure to change it on your Netflix options if that kind of thing bothers you), how l...

This week we're enjoying (?) a piece of real garbage: the 1989 installment in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise, "Part 5: The Dream Child." Yeah, there's no dancing around it this week-- it is 100% terrible. It does provide us with some great special topics though, including the fact that his movie expects us to have seen and remember all or at least some of the preceding movies, the sheer v...

This week is a guestisode week, EMTs! We're joined by our pal and longtime supporter Jim to discuss his pick, the 1973 motorcycle/weird occult film "Psychomania." Special topics for your consideration include: a surprise treatise in defense of "Hellraiser," finding a tipping point for deciding to destroy your murderous undead son, being a lot like John Denver but having the nickname Chopped Meat,...

In this week's episode, we're discussing one of the most highly-regarded horror movies of 2015: "We Are Still Here." Special topics for your consideration include: holes that whoosh, being very ashy, the wonder of Barbara Crampton, when exactly movies should tell us information that is important to the plot (spoiler: it's not the end credits), Dagwood sandwiches and the fact that maybe we just kin...

Remember 2005? What a silly time! This week we're discussing the era along with that year's remake of "House of Wax." Special topics for your consideration include: a plethora of early-2000s television actors, feelings about Achilles tendons, the logistics of having a house made entirely of wax, always learning lessons from horror movies and a deep retrospective on many other films we're covered. ...

We hope that all of our EMTs had a lucky and lovely Friday the 13th last week. In honor of this dubious holiday, we picked a dubious movie: the 8th installment in the "Friday the 13th" franchise, "Jason Takes Manhattan." Why? Because we have no self-respect, seemingly. This one's a doozy. Special topics for your consideration include: the fact that this movie is achingly long for no real reason, c...

In this week's episode, we're diving into the all-female 2005 adventure/monster horror film "The Descent." Special topics for your consideration include: side effects of seitan consumption, being glad that one is not an adrenaline junkie by nature, tales of Kennywood (for those of you non-Pittsburghers, it's a local amusement park that is greatly beloved by the city's population), how a trailer ca...

Happy New Years, EMTs! We'd love to kick it off with a real doozy of a movie, selected by our very first repeat guest, our pal Carrie. She's picked the 1977 Japanese psychedelic horror film "Hausu." Special topics for your consideration include: the weirdness of cats, not being sure whether something is bananas or just lost in the translation, why the hell Mr. Togo is even in this movie, facts abo...

In this week's episode, an unprecedented second Christmas-themed episode, we're discussing the 1984 creature/holiday film "Gremlins." Special topics for your consideration include: television shows that we don't know why we watch, where on earth tiny creatures would get tiny adult clothes, a retrospective on the life, times and career of Corey Feldman, Billy's badass mom and Katie hitting the holi...

In our third annual Christmas episode, we're discussing the 1974 Canadian slasher "Black Christmas." Special topics for your consideration include: not knowing any of the words to any actual Christmas carols, refusing to acknowledge an entire floor of the house, being bad at piano, being good at wearing fur coats and calling from iiiinsiiiiide the hoooouuuuse! Oh also, we're eating cookies. Sorry...

After wayyy too many weeks spent pondering what was happening in cinema in the early 2000s, we've gone back to the 80s (and Stephen King and John Carpenter) with the boy-meets-car, boy-falls-in-love-with-car, car-ruins-boy's-life classic "Christine." Special topics for your consideration include: very serious discussions of science and philosophy, less serious discussions about mechanophilia, even...

In this week's episode, we're talking video games (and how little we understand about video games) with the 2006 adaptation "Silent Hill." Special topics include: How Sean Bean was cast in this film and (spoiler alert) how he LIVES!, the fact that you should really never trust Marita Covarrubias, ...witch hunters??, good concepts and bad executions, and GUCCI GUCCI.  Have you seen this one? What d...

We've got a double guestisode for you this week, EMTs-- we're joined by two guests, our friends John and Allison, to discuss the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola epic "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Special topics for your consideration include Youtubing Dracula's hair tutorials, a rough estimate at the percentage of this film that is just heavy breathing, what we were doing in 1992, what in the world Keanu Ree...

Crime night! It's crime night! What are we gonna do? We'll discuss that matter and many more in this week's episode about the 2013 home invasion/weird future film "The Purge." Special topics for your consideration include: how the logistics of legal crimes are carried out when it's a crime other than murder, owning Dean Koontz by marriage, the transitive property of crime in that all murder is cri...

After a long and quite frankly terrible week in American history, we're trying to lighten the mood a little with the 2006 Nicolas Cage remake of "The Wicker Man." Special topics for your consideration include: why Nic Cage is always a cop and how delightful his amazing freakouts are, sighting bands in the wild, our mutual affinity for creepy little girls in film, the majesty of Ellen Burstyn, Brit...