Cowtastrophe. After kicking off July with discussions on the badass babes of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror (listen) and the queer undertones of Stanley Kubrick’s final film Eyes Wide Shut (listen), we’re taking a vacation from heavy analysis and having fun with Jan de Bont‘s 1996 special effects extravaganza Twister! In the film, a series of intense storms […]
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We’re on an express elevator to hell, going down! Join co-hosts Justin Gerber, McKenzie Gerber, Dan Caffrey, and Rachel Reeves as they continue their coverage of James Cameron‘s Aliens. In the second and final episode dedicated to the 1986 all-timer of a sequel, the crew heads deeper into LV-426 as they synch up with James […]
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Recently we had the pleasure of taking a deep dive into a personal all time favorite with Bill Paxton’s Frailty and then sitting down to speak with David Kirschner, successful producer of everything from Frailty to the Child’s Play franchise to Hocus Pocus and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. David graced us with some incredible stories about the making […]
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In the 1980s, it was too easy for a film like Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker to get lost in the horror shuffle. Icons like Freddy and Jason were coming into the world and franchise fever was catching. A “video nasty” label also did little to help this hidden gem find an audience overseas in the […]
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There’s a lot of awful horror movie dads that come to mind around Father’s Day every year. Everett McGill’s “Man” from The People Under the Stairs or Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance from The Shining, for example. There’s also good horror movie dads like John Krasinski in A Quiet Place or Thomas Jane in The Mist (okay, he’s maybe a bit impatient in […]
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“The night, it’s deafening.” There are vampire films, and then there is Near Dark. A high watermark to the gluttonous guff of the genre, Kathryn Bigelow‘s 1987 gem remains a stealth entry in the pantheon of vampiric content. It’s smart, it’s dirty, it’s unforgiving, and it’s stylish, all qualities that so many imitators have tried […]
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Bet on Bigelow. After reaching the end of the road on our Underseen or Underrated?” theme with the queer, DIY aesthetics of Death Drop Gorgeous, we then returned to our regular programming with an analysis of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom and a Spring Break celebration with Alexandre Aja’s 2010 schlock-fest Piranha 3D. Now we head back […]
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