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The Toxic Avenger is unrated, unhinged, and full of heart. In this episode, we’re exploring the explosive color work of unrated horror, Toxie’s fantas…
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Of all the horror franchises, Hell House LLC might have the boldest and most terrifying sequels. In this episode, we’re discussing them all, while tra…
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The fifth and ‘final’ Hell House LLC film is out now in theaters, and causing quite a stir. We both loved this movie, and in this episode we are respo…
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Like most horror movies, The Poughkeepsie Tapes is a mixed bag — in this case, an uneven combination of mockumentary interviews and shaky found footag…
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Jimmy and Stiggs is what you get when you throw Evil Dead and Saw in a blender, open the top, splatter it all over a laser tag arena, and then shoot t…
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In a true ‘bucket list’ moment, we got to see My Chemical Romance perform the entirety of their masterpiece “The Black Parade” album live on stage. Fo…
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Eddington is a bold, fascinating, ambitious satire, but it’s also the film that cements certain patterns within Ari Aster’s way of telling stories. In…
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s — a sudden influx of life-affirming summer blockbusters? In this episode, we’re taking a look at both Superman and The…
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The Pitt isn’t just one of the best shows of the last ten years, it is an astonishing work of horror — an urgent, unflinching, life-affirming tapestry…
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When Diablo IV is good, it’s really good. We’ve been dungeon-crawling and monster-slaying nonstop for the last month, and thought it was time to take …
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"Oh, Hi!" is not really an homage to Stephen King's "Misery" - it's a companion piece, that dives much deeper into the insecurities and obsession of i…
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We’re celebrating Ozzy Osbourne by doing a close reading of the very first Black Sabbath song — which just so happens to be one of the best “Doctor Fa…
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The thing you really notice about Pennywise during a rewatch is the startling, impressive amount of DROOL he’s got going on in every scene. In this ep…
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Imagine if The Lord of The Rings ended with Frodo deciding to keep the Ring for himself — and the film presented that as a happy ending! That’s more o…
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The original Friday the 13th is not only the blueprint for the slasher genre, it might just be the best execution of that tried and true formula. This…
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This might be the Frenchest movie ever made. To describe it at all is to spoil it, but the thrust of this episode is about Titane’s relationship to on…
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Diablo IV is nothing if not inconsistent, and Season 9 is yet another moment of whiplash for the game. In our State of the Game segment, we discuss se…
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Beneath the roar of the engines, F1 is hiding an intense study of human nature — a pointedly Faustian story of obsession that feels equally cautionary…
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This goofy, earnest indie horror movie left us with one big question — why isn’t Frendo scary? Our discussion trails through the pantheon of scary clo…