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HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST means we stay spooky five days a week all October long and on “TRUE THREAT THURSDAYS” our scares are rooted in reality. For certain movies there is a level of skepticism and exploitation you can’t ignore but today’s discussion involves a film based on one of the most notorious unsolved serial killings in US history. The seemingly unending spiral that is the Zodiac Killer case ca...

It’s Wednesday during October so that means it’s HAMMER HORROR HUMPDAY and we’re on the last of our three Oliver Reed starring films and we saved one of his most scene chewing performances for today. This is also the show’s first discussion of a film starring the classic British Scream Queen Janette Scott. A family is in shambles. The mother and father are dead. A brother, Tony,  gone from taking...

Every Tuesday during HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST is JOHN CARPENTUESDAY and we’re catching up with some John Carpenter selections that we’ve been long overdue to see. Especially this one considering the pro wrestling appreciation of the hosts as well as the pretty significant cultural reverberations that this particular movie inspired. Critics were not high on it at the time and executives were confused by...

Every Monday is “Universal Monster Monday” all October for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and today we discuss probably the coolest looking one when you see a picture of all the monsters lined up. We’re talking about Gill-Man and he’s only defending his territory that humans have unfairly encroached on. You can’t just enter the Black Lagoon without presenting Gill-Man a gift of a human woman and if you’re not...

Every Friday during Halloween Humpfest is devoted to those Friday Night Fiends. Iconic creatures and monsters who give us the chills and today is the second of three werewolf flicks for the month. Dee Wallace plays “Karen” a TV news anchor who is being stalked by a predatory serial killer. She, quite bravely, attempts to entrap her stalker in the back of a porn store where police barely arrive in...

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST continues and we’re discussing our second “True Threat Thursday” selection! Every Thursday this month is horror based on true events and we hit up an early slasher film by “Legend of Boggy Creek” director Charles B. Pierce. In 1946 a masked man killed 5 people in Texarkana and seized the mid-size town in fear. Maybe if you removed the cop comedy and the trombone scene then Charl...

For HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST, our loaded celebration of horror, we will always make room for the thrills and chills of Hammer movies. Each Wednesday in October is “Hammer Horror Humpdays” and we’re tracking some Oliver Reed films. Today’s discussion is like a mystery/adventure/horror hybrid. Horror in a more classical sense as we go back to the late 18th century in the wake of the death of a notorious p...

Every weekday during HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST represents a different horror them and we’re happy to kick off the first of four JOHN CARPENTUESDAY selections. Every Tuesday we discuss a John Carpenter film that we’ve been long overdue to watch and today is his follow up to his and Debra Hill’s smash hit “Halloween” that sees the return of Jamie Lee Curtis and Nancy Loomis. We’re discussing the salty 1980...

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST HAS RETURNED! That means a horror movie discussion every weekday all October long and we often like to do classic film selections on Mondays. For Halloween this month, each weekday has a particular theme and every Monday is UNIVERSAL MONSTER MONDAYS! The iconic Universal Monster characters that have been the face of a studio for generations. Today we hit the strange romantic hor...

All month long is HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and that means a horror movie discussion every weekday for October. Each weekday represents its own horror sub-category and every Friday is “FRIDAY NIGHT FIENDS”. The creatures, the creeps, the monsters and the fiends get the spotlight at the end of every workweek and today we got an infamous monster that bucked the slow, quiet trend of slashers to get inside o...

Every weekday during HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST represents a different theme and today is our first discussion for Thursdays’ theme we’re calling TRUE THREAT THURSDAYS. Scary and chilling movies that are based upon true stories. Some selections are understandably more speculative than others and for our first “true threat” talk we’re delving into an adaptation of an allegedly true alien abduction whose al...

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST has officially begun and last year we tackled some Hammer Horror starring ( mostly) Christopher Lee. This year, every Wednesday, we’re rocking even more Hammer Horror movies with another actor that will (mostly) appear. We’re talking about Mr. Funtimes himself, Oliver Reed. Today we discuss an emotional Oliver Reed performance in the 1961 film “THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF” directe...

We are back for that most magical time of the year. Spooky season. Autumn. October. Halloween. HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 2! Every weekday all October we discuss a different horror movie discussion and we will have even more horror to discuss than last year because we’re bookending the month with TWO movie review 6-Pack episodes in which we discuss 6 movies within a franchise or genre within a specific ti...

What a journey. We’re rolling through our ninth discussion in our year-long theme of A DREARY YEAR OF VON TRIER. This US election year was guaranteed to feel heavy and hopeless and it’s lived up to that spectacularly. Add a dozen Lars von Trier movies to that because why not? Today we talk of his third in his “Depression Trilogy” and it’s definitely a fun one to trick your in-laws into watching. I...

With this episode we end September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION and we’ve hit up plenty of classic Euro bangers. The A and S-Tier lists are swelling. This is a good thing and today’s discussion is no different as we make our final stop in Germany to discuss our third Fassbinder movie for the show. One last fling before Halloween time and we got one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most infamous. His...

We’re winding down our European Vacation and we make a stop in Norway but there’s something that goes beyond the borders in Joachim Trier’s 2021 romance/comedy/drama/coming-of-age film “THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD”. Renate Reinsve plays “Julie” whose fickle and drifting life might seem a little too familiar especially if you’re in a certain age range. She meets Aksel, played by Anders Danielson...

We’re in our last stretch of September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION and we’re broke as fuck now. We spent way too much money in France on wine, cigarettes and food cooked in heavy cream and now we’ve come back to postwar Italy and we got to get a job. But we need a bike. When it comes to representing poverty on film Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 film “THE BICYCLE THIEF” (or “BICYCLE THIEVES”) stands amo...

This is our last stop for French movies this month and the last of our most romantic week under September’s EUROPEAN VACATION theme. This movie bounces around from France to Spain and is one of the most bizarre romantic comedies out there. Pretty impressive for any director to hit it like this at the age of 80 but Luis Buñuel was a different breed. Fernando Rey plays a well-to-do widower who falls...

A few more Frenchies this week as we hit peak romance for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION and when it comes to French New Wave, today’s discussion is amongst the most infamous. Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 international hit “BREATHLESS” helped set a standard in style at a time when the filmgoing world was hungry for more international flair. Like a few other movies we cover this month, it represe...

We’re backpacking across Europe all month long and we’ve been circling back around to France for weeks now. What can we say? France loves their movies. We’ve even got a couple of movies this month that are French movies whose directors aren’t even French. For today’s French feature we’re gonna get a little dirty like some stinky muskrats on the banks of the Seine. It’s the river barge life for a n...

Boy did we miss a golden opportunity the last time it fell on a Friday the 13th because the last one was during October. Maybe we should have done this then but we were grinding for Halloween Humpfest and we didn’t think about it. Today marks our first Friday the 13th since that time and we think it’s a good time to do another 6-Pack movie review. We’re diving into another spooky franchise whose t...

September’s theme is EUROPEAN VACATION and it’s not all French! We head up to Norway in this episode. Way up by the Arctic circle in a small town where, in the summer, it can be 24 hour daylight for days. They call it the midnight sun and it’s gonna fuck up your circadian rhythm. A girl has been murdered and two Kripos are sent up from Oslo to investigate but horrible accidents happen and many bad...

We’re spending a lot of time around France and ‘ol Gay Paris for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION because Bob has a lot of French DVDs that he’s been holding on to for a while that need to be watched. We finally get to a movie by the notorious Austrian director Michael Haneke and if his other movies hit like this one? Well, we may need more uncomfortable Haneke movies to watch in the future....

For this month’s EUROPEAN VACATION we got a lot of French features. They love their movies and we love movies so it all works out. Today we break the seal on Robert Bresson with his 1959 classic “PICKPOCKET” starring Martin LaSalle and Marika Green. The strange Michel is very driven into relieving people’s wallet weight and is so intent on it that it seems to overtake his life and his relationship...

When we’re backpacking across the old countries for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION we gotta stop and sample some of that fine French excellence that Orson Welles so drunkingly told us about. We’re playing it cool with today’s discussion of our second ever Jean-Pierre Melville movie for the show and it’s his swaggiest by far. We’re talking “Le Samouraï” from 1967 starring Alain Delon, Franc...