Horror Movie Night

Even short-time listeners of the show have probably guessed that HMN loves all things practical effects, especially murderous playthings. So it should come as no surprise that we tackled the awful/entertaining 1992 Full Moon direct-to-video release DEMONIC TOYS! Baby Oopsie Daisy tries desperately to suck the joy out of our rewatch of this classic b-horror with its terrible puns, but thankfully, we have Jack Attack and Grizzly Teddy to keep things going strong through the final act. It's anyone's guess what the writers were on while crafting this masterpiece, but this kind of genius most certainly requires an altered state to achieve such thought-provoking prose as a killer baby doll grumbling, "HI YA FAT FUCK!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You've heard basically all the interviews now so here's just a recap of my weekend in Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Madame Yankelova's Fine Literature Club was one of the most unique films I've ever sat through. I was extremely honored to get to talk to director Emilio Schenker about Israel's first fantasy film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ducks have flown away again so it's time for JTRO to return to save the FP. The battle begins, sitting outside LICK during Fantastic Fest and talking with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the most challenging and heavy films Matt saw at Fantastic Fest was LADYWORLD. It was an honor to get to talk with director Amanda Kramer about her feature film debut... check it out if you can. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just before You Might Be the Killer Fantastic Fest attendees were treated to a short called The Bloody Ballad of Squirt Reynolds. Immediately after seeing it I knew I needed to contact director Anthony Cousins to talk about this incredible short Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt has a new favorite horror film of 2018 and he's gonna be talking about it ALOT so get your ass prepared for YOU MIGHT BE THE KILLER by listening to his interview with the director Brett Simmons, writer/producer Thomas P Vitale and producer Griff Furst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt's at Fantastic Fest 2018 and sat down the creative team behind CAM which is coming to Netflix this November. He talked with director Daniel Goldhaber, writer Isa Mazzei and star Madeline Brewer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We promised we'd have this as a new series and now it's here. Enjoy as Brian, Scott and Matt break down every film/TV show/comic book/whatever that their eyes passed over this month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We haven't tackled any sex-crazed aliens in a while (ahem, Lifeforce) and thought it was high time we make it weird around here with the very uncomfortable and trippy 1982 British alien/monster movie XTRO. As you well know, every child in a horror movie is an insufferable brat who will get at least 1 person killed, but what you might NOT know is that the bratty kid here also trips balls on alien hickey goo (thanks Dad), sees murderous midget clowns, and sends full-size army men to kill his downstairs neighbor. There's a lot more to unpack here, and we do our best to wash off the dirtiness we each felt after viewing. If you're coming over, don't forget the snake eggs, they're our favorite! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Football Season (we think) so join us as we discuss Varsity Blues on this month's episode of SOUNDTRACKING Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This weekend Philadelphia's newest convention KEYSTONE COMIC CON occurred. Friday night was kicked off by Rapper.Teacher.Hero Mega-Ran and Matt took some time to sit down with his hip-hop friend to talk about the gathering of Juggalos, San Diego Comic Con, The Spawn/Stephen King IT connection and various other topics (including a little wrestling talk). Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our most literally named Bonus Episode! After the 90's Night event help at the 1984 I had the chance to chat with Danny Tamberelli and Michael Maronna of the podcast "The Adventures of Danny and Mike" as well as the hit Nickelodeon show "The Adventures of Pete and Pete". We had no plan or direction and most just shot the shit but I thought you guys would enjoy it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes we here at Horror Movie Night make mistakes - after all, we're only human. Sometimes, that mistake is getting wasted on cheap champagne and reciting cursing in a graveyard; other times, it's watching the 8 Films to Die For's 2006 flick The Gravedancers. While the movie itself is pretty stupid, there IS fun to be had watching it in a group (ostensibly) or at least giving it the HMN treatment with your boys Matt, Brian and Scott. PSA, there's a giant fricking skull that chases a Jeep in the last couple minutes... that's all you need to know about this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This one was a long time coming, but we heard your footsteps on the sand and decided it was time to air out some Bacon. Kevin Bacon, that is; the dance-fighting cowboy heart-throb of the early 90s who then became the dong-flashing invisible rapist a mere decade later. This week, we are kicking off Listener Submitted Month with 1990s TREMORS. Thrill at this marvel of modern storytelling that seamlessly weaves DUNE and ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 into one very uneven monster flick. But seriously, the Graboids' PR guy should consider renaming them something a bit less Weinstein-y. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some movies are good due to the sum of their parts, and this week's film knows how to stitch together something great and get it walking around, killing frat boys and engaging in necrophiliac laffs. We got a fresh one on the slab for you: 2015's delightful Patchwork! Tyler MacIntyre made a splash last year with Tragedy Girls, but his directorial debut two years earlier is equally as fun, touching and gruesome. On the surface, this may seem like a Frankenhooker/Bride of Reanimator pastiche, but stands on its own reattached legs and is a total blast. Kick back with your favorite green glowing beverage as we get to know the voices in our heads this week on Horror Movie Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt sits down with Jenny Pellicer of the new Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich and discusses her career in Norway, playing Rizzo in her schools first ever musical and how she came to star in the newest Puppet Master film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk semi-regularly about the diminishing returns of horror franchises, but rarely do we see one fall so far into nebulousness as the 1989 House "sequel," The Horror Show, starring Lance Henriksen! Lance is a hard-boiled cop dealing with PTSD after his partner dies while apprehending Meat Cleaver Max, so of course he spends his time choking his wife out and shooting his tv set. No one believes that his family is being haunted by Max's electrically-charged spirit, and we wonder multiple times if we're not just watching Shocker again. This is a real stinker (thanks Matt), but we make the most of it in typical HMN style, so bring your appetites for a random non-Thanksgiving turkey dinner with all the fixins, including a ghostly psychopath's terrible goatee. Yum! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We don’t wanna wait for this movie to be over…but like the killer kids it features, it just won’t die. For Brian’s first pick, he chose the painfully boring James Van Der Beek Left Behind knockoff The Plague from 2006. Do you like Children of the Corn, Village of the Damned, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Romero zombie films, and religious Armageddon? This movie borrows heavily from all of them but not the good parts, and even the “living” characters are portrayed as zombies. Bottom line, this is a snoozer of a movie but Matt and Scott are wide awake and do their best to snap Brian out of his Dawson’s Creek fugue state. Let us touch your face and steal your soul this week on Horror Movie Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Soundtracking is back and we're ready to Psych you out this month talking about the pop punk and ska heavy BASEketball Soundtrack. Is Take on Me really the greatest pop punk cover song? What's Reggie the Full Effect's best song? What's Matt's beef with Goldfinger's new record?! All this and more this month on Soundtracking! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Continuing last week's theme of monstrous brothers, the guys tackle the delightfully gooey and criminally forgotten 1987 bottle-baby flick The Kindred! Scott's not trying to say anything about Brian, but maybe he really is a half-fish monster with a bunch of tentacles and a hunger for house pets - who can really say?? Grab a watermelon and some wet naps, both will come in handy for this week's episode of Horror Movie Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time for another episode of Saturday Nightmares. This time we go back to the Are You Afraid of the Dark well and watch "Tale of Laughing in the Dark". Not only is it the second episode ever, it's also one of the most infamous episodes. Did we all love it though? Listen and find out! This episode was recorded live on Twitch during our 12 hour stream. Horror Movie Night is a Proud Member of the Geekscape Podcasting Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We did it, we really did it. We can now say that HMN has covered the entire Basket Case series, so......yay? This week, we discuss Basket Case 3: The Progeny from 1991 thanks to Matt (and yes, the other 2 were picked by him as well) and it goes as well as a schoolbus full of singing freaks. Matt's just happy to be reunited with his little brother Brian, and Scott does his best Little Hal impression for 30 minutes, so you know you're in for a ride. Watch where you sit, those baby Belials are not full of strawberry jam! Horror Movie Night is a Proud Member of the Geekscape Podcasting Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt and Scott were joined by Stephen of Analog Jones at Monster-Mania in NJ this spring and decided to make a "threevening" of it by discussing Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors! This is the second live episode recorded after Mania, and we can happily report that no one has their tendons ripped out to be used as marionette strings or gets called bitch by a TV. Join us for another live episode of Horror Movie Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt sits down with Miguel Rodriguez (the founder of Horrible Imaginings) to discuss the 2018 festival and the years of friendship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the 3rd Year in the Row Matt sat down with Scream Factory's Jeff Nelson to discuss the Scream Factory Title Announcements at tonight Panel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back in 2012 Matt started Reddit Horror Club with his friend Miguel. On their 10th episode they had a man named Scott Roger on to discuss Behind the Mask: the Rise of Leslie Vernon and a friendship for life was born! There is no truer "Horror Movie Night" origin story than this one! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In March, Matt and Scott teamed up with Stephen of Analog Jones to record some live episodes, and this week showcases the first of the "threevening" discussions, the inimitable Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth from 1992! It's got the coolest goth club the early 90s had to offer, Puzzle Box architecture and the worst (best?) Cenobite ever, CD Cenobite. It also features arguably the best Pinhead portrayal and soliloquies. Relive the weirdness of the lesser Hellraiser sequels this week on Horror Movie Night - live! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the Second episode of Growing Up Kelly we do a commentary Track for the Spooky World VHS Tape that Matt and Brian watched repeatedly as kids. Below is a link to the video on YouTube so you can watch along! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4gvV4d_OHw&t=4s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's better than Christmas in July? A Brian Yuzna Christmas in July! At Scott's longtime insistence, the boys finally tackle 1990's barely-xmas-horror goop-fest Silent Night Deadly Night 4: Initiation. It's got everything you expect from a Yuzna flick - racial caricatures, bugs, nightmare logic, and of course the requisite swimming pool full of KY. Hey, it's even got our boy Clint Howard in it! There is absolutely no reason to sleep on this one, except for the fact that it's only available as a multipack DVD with SNDN3 (brain under a glass helmet Santa killer) and SNDN5 (rapey Pinocchio), so maybe go searching on Vimeo for it like we did. Don't forget to put out some milk and cookies for the giant cockroach! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been three whole years of Horror Movie Night! This year was definitely one of our most interesting years. So join us while we answer questions, listen to favorite episode moments and bring year 3 to an end and gear up for a great Year 4. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Soundtracking is back with a 4th of July classic. Last year we discussed the film, now it's time to talk the music! Scott and Matt breakdown track by track the grunge and metal and sneaker pimps inspired tracks that make up this genre covering collection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's America's birthday and you know what she hates more than anything? COMMIES. She needs a knight in shining red, white and blue armor (and totally not-creepy mask) to replenish the blood on the roots of the Tree of Liberty and who better suited for the job than an abusive rapist husband/brother/uncle-cum-undead soldier named Sam? We're celebrating our independence from sanity with 1996's Uncle Sam and just wow. The unspoken subplot of the film has to be that the main child actor is really a robot in synthetic human skin, that's the only reasonable explanation for his performance. You also get some interesting kills and the faintest hint of a critique of the military you'll see in a Fourth of July horror film, so it's definitely worth the price of admission. Nothing says AMERICA like corrupt politicians, Chinese fireworks and Horror Movie Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nyahnyahnyahnyah nyah nyah,nyahnyahnyahnyah nyah nyah, nyahnyah nyah nyahnyahnyahnyahnyah nyahhhhhh! It's episode 150 of Horror Movie Night and we decided to treat ourselves after midnight with a little film we like to call GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH from 1990! We also were finally able to bring our Podfather Jonathon London, creator of Geekscape, along for the ride, and this was way better than our original request to do CHUD with him 3 years ago... We have a blast revisiting this beloved gem and questioning some of the movie logic on display, but does it really matter because VEGETABLE GREMLIN! Thanks for sticking with us and helping keep us crazy enough to watch 150 horror films and discuss them weekly over the last 3 years of the show. Here's to 150 more (and Gremlins 3, written by, directed by and starring Pizzaboy Jon London)! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We may not all agree on wrestling and its entertainment value as an art form on this show, but we sure as hell agree that Netflix's GLOW was damn good television, and have been eagerly waiting for season 2 to drop. In preparation, Scott finally unleashed the most bloodless, tame pick ever on Matt and Brian, featuring some of the actual Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling in starring roles, 1989's Slashdance! While it's not a good film by any measure, and the weakest aerobics killer movie we've ever seen, there is a certain charm to it, and by its actresses' pedigree alone worth talking about. The budget didn't cover live goldfish, so there was likely no coke on hand for the writing, filming or editing of Slashdance, and what's left is a serviceable made-for-tv cop drama cut into 40 minutes of dance rehearsals. Let's get in shape and possibly choke someone with their own lasso while they sing You Are My Sunshine because really, these auditions ain't cuttin it for Horror Movie Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPOILERS ALL OVER THE PLACE! DO NOT LISTEN UNTIL YOU'VE SEEN THE MOVIE! WE WARNED YOU! Aslo Katie joins us to talk about Hereditary now in theaters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You had to know this was coming after Episode 148. We couldn't let a full discussion of Idle Hands go by without an in-depth conversation about the music from its OST! We get misty-eyed remembering some of the great and forgotten pop punk and alt bands of the late 90s, and argue about which songs really didn't deserve slots on the soundtrack while Rob fuckin Halford didn't make the cut. Time to chill with Mighty Joe Bong and the HMN crew on another bonus episode of Soundtracking! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you haven't realized, we bleed nostalgia here on HMN, so it's frankly shocking that we have gone almost 3 years doing the show and have yet to formally discuss Devon Sawa's greatest role as drowsy doper Anton Tobias in the modern classic Idle Hands from 1999! Joining us this week is Andrew Verdecchio of the seminal Christian ska band Five Iron Frenzy (can we say seminal here? Sunday School seems so long ago). We hope you like the episodes where we just recite our favorite lines because...well, you'll understand soon enough. Grab the nutmeg and oregano, we're going to party with our Jessica Alba waifus this week on Horror Movie Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Continuing last week's spectacle of cat abuse, we're setting sail for parts unknown with a killer mutant tabby and there's nothing to eat except champagne and cereal... and rat poison. You might have guessed it, we're talking 1988's Uninvited and man, what a ride. We are joined again by our resident Film Freak, horror handyman Kyle Kuchta, as we wax poetic about animal shelters, Clu Gulager's fake teeth, how much cats hate wine, and why you should never pick up strays. How much would YOU debase yourself for a suitcase full of dirty money? This is the question that burns within our psyches daily, but can finally elaborate upon with each other, this week on Horror Movie Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt grabbed some interviews while at Philadelphia Wizard World. Give the podcast a listen and make sure to check out Zenescope Comics, Day One the Comic and Victory Screech Labs! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We start our Violence Against Cats marathon with arguably the most out-there movie Stephen King has ever gotten paid to put his name on (and act in) - 1992's feline vampire flick Sleepwalkers. We subjected our friend, previous guest and film freak Kyle Kuchta to this one, because that's the kind of frat we run here on HMN. Stephen King reprises his role as a drunk New England hick while 30 year old actors play high schoolers, one of which has a disturbingly graphic sexual relationship with his immortal mom, who is also a cat vamp. This one is a yarn ball of crazy and we're just batting it around like we're high AF on catnip. Join us for a purrrrfectly good time this week on Horror Movie Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nu metal sucks, but nu metal + vampires?? That's some pornstar oral prowess in that kind of power couple. On our third installment of Soundtracking, we drain the life from the most mediocre metal to hit the 1999 Billboard charts and fondly remember our misspent youth wearing Trapp Pants, wallet chains and ball bearing necklaces with our good buddy Stephen of Analog Jones and the Temple of Film. Scott may or may not have confused Monster Magnet and Powerman 5000 - you'll have to listen and find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Somewhere in Hollywood 1999, a fat movie exec sits smoking a stogie in a darkened board room. "We need a monster movie but we're broke. Anyone know any companies willing to fund one?" A quivering hand raises slowly into the air; the nerdy intern clears his throat and croaks, "My dad runs Virgin Records. Want me to ask?" And that's how Dracula 2000 got made, an odd mashup of nu-metal, C-list 90s actors, vampire Mardi Gras, and a a slightly liberal interpretation of the Bible. This movie is a 90 minute advertisement for a dead music chain, but isn't really that bad of a watch, no matter how much Matt, Scott and Stephen (of the Analog Jones and the Temple of Film podcast) whine. We hope you have a thing for young Gerard Butler, because we sure do this week on Horror Movie Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donater's to our Patreon have just been treated to a Bonus Episode of us talking 2006's The Wicker Man. Here's the first 5-ish minutes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some people are just careless with their money. Case in point, whoever funded the sixth (SIXTH!) installment in the Wrong Turn franchise, 2014's Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort. This movie is just gross, and not even in any sort of fun way, but the one shining spot is that Matt was able to successfully pawn it off to some sorry bastard at Monster-Mania like a cursed button that a crusty old Gypsy breathed on. Stephen Bay of Analog Jones joined us once again for this film, and then we all took bleach showers. Bring your siblings to this one, because, well, it's a pretty important plot point on this week's episode of Horror Movie Night! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices