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Episode 539: Christmas Evil (1980)

Merry Killsmas from another white guy who took his job at a toy factory way too seriously and decided he would be the one to punish every scrooge he runs into. CHRISTMAS EVIL (1980) isn’t just another Santa rampage movie, it was the second feature-length slasher featuring Big Red, coming out 11 months after TO ALL A GOODNIGHT (1980). The trope might feel well-trod in this day and age, but go back 45 years and boy oh boy did this concept get the pearls clutched. Travel with us to simpler time when kids wanted nothing more under the tree than toy soldiers with stabby tips and Santa groping their mom. Happy holidays!

 
 
 
 
 
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Episode 538: Misery (1990)

The snow is falling, the logs are crackling on the fire, and Kathy Bates is about to break your ankles so you can’t escape her love. Also, you better rewrite your whole novel while writhing in excruciating pain. MISERY (1990) has a reputation which precedes it, as does our host this week, friend and author Erik J. Brown! Of course we would have a writer come on to discuss how bad it would suck to be in James Caan’s shoes. Baby it’s cold outside (but you might not want to come in)!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 537: Sint (2010)

The holiday season is in full swing, so why wouldn’t we watch a 15-year-old Dutch Christmas horror movie? SINT (2010) follows an undead evil Santa with a burned face and a badass cane that he uses to decapitate people. On top of learning about evil Dutch Santa, you will find that blackface is apparently a socially-acceptable thing in that part of the world, which is definitely way more disturbing than a killer Santa. For the folks who whinge about subtitles, fear not - this one is dubbed in hilariously bad fashion, so you won’t have to read. Hold onto your Netherlands, it’s Horror Movie Night!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 536: Death Race 2000 (1975)

Did you wake up today think the HMN boys were going to watch a 50-year-old dystopian scifi movie starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone that’s creepily prescient of what 2025 would look like? Neither did we, but here we are discussing DEATH RACE 2000 (1975). In a future America, the President is a worthless politician spending his days in Moscow, is more of a TV personality than statesman, and has created a gladiator-style race where the drivers kayfabe their way across the country running people over for points. Oh almost forgot, a huge part of the country is apparently Nazi lovers. Sound familiar? Listen to us enumerate how depressingly accurate these predictions really are.

 
 
 
 
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Episode 535: Frostbiter (1995)

We all love Troma ‘round these parts, but we often forget that Uncle Lloydie’s more than a director - he’s also a distributor of tons of underground films. Most are objectively bad, but not FROSTBITER (1990), this one is a total party. Take equal parts Raimi and Harryhausen, throw them in a pot and simmer for 8 (!) years, and you got yourself some chili… Better write 2 (!) original joke songs about said chili and use them for chili demon battles in your movie. It sounds insane, it is insane, it’s also incredibly entertaining and full of charm. Let’s go fishin' y’all!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 534: Playroom (1990)

Did you know Jackie Earle Haley wrote a horror movie after his child acting career ended and Shooter McGavin played the main character whose invisible friend drives him crazy? Oh don’t lie to us, we know you weren’t hip to the wonders found in PLAYROOM (1990), but that’s why this show exists - we find the hidden treasure for you! If you like Italian horror shots, this one’s for you; if you like man-goes-mad tropes, this one’s for you; if you like monster puppetry…. THIS ONE’S FOR YOU. We’ve been waiting since we were kids to have you sit on our circular saw throne, let’s play!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 533: Predator 2 (1990)

We got a two-fer this week - a movie so illustrious it’s celebrating both its 35 year anniversary AND a new entry in its franchise that may or may not be good. We don’t know yet, and frankly, this series has left some otherworldly stinkers in its wake… but we’re here for it anyway. PREDATOR 2 (1990) is a bullet-laden ode to what Republicans thought cities were really like in the late 80s; the sad part is that they still think cities are just nonstop shootouts between courageous cops and well-armed drug cartels. Time is a flat circle, y’all. At least this particular stop in history has Dan Glover and Bill Paxton visibly sweating for close to 2 hours straight.

 
 
 
 
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Episode 531: The Witches

It’s a year of just anniversaries, so Kyle decided to hit us with a John Leguizamo + Dennis Hopper combo under the direction of George Romero. Congrats to LAND OF THE DEAD (2005) on twenty years, we guess? Regardless of how well it has aged in the past 2 decades since release, LOTD had some good financials and was a chance for Romero to get back to his zombie chronicles, and again, the value of that is up for discussion. Which is what we’re doing this week on Horror Movie Night!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 531: The Witches

Every Halloween, we pick a kid-friendly horror movie from our childhood and take a cute, trauma-reviving trip down memory lane. This year, we went with none other than Roald Dahl’s THE WITCHES (1990), celebrating 35 years of Anjelica Huston tearing off her wig and face, to the terror of many a Gen X and elder millennial child in the 90s. Being scared is part of growing up, let’s relive it!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 530: Proteus (1995)

Where would this show be without forgotten Thing ripoffs boasting 3 minutes of Doug Bradley in full head makeup choking on tentacles that look like humongous earthworms? In honor (we guess) of its 30-year anniversary, the boys were once again talked into discussing a movie none of them had seen before by friend of the show/past guest Benji, the one and only PROTEUS (1995)! Based on the book SLIMER by Harry Adam Knight, the film version borrows as much from Raimi as it does Carpenter, to varying degrees of success. It’s all worth it for the last 15 minutes of absolute ridiculousness. Come on, we’re investigating this creepy abandoned oil rig with our fanny pack full of drugs - what could go wrong?

 
 
 
 
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Episode 529: The Funhouse Massacre (2015)

Of all the Matt Kelly picks that Matt Kelly has ever picked for this show, THE FUNHOUSE MASSACRE (2015) is definitely up there as a certified MATT KELLY PICK - it’s a somewhat obscure slasher from a decade ago set on Halloween in a funhouse staffed by a colorful list of deranged serial killers! Robert Englund for one day of shooting! Clint Howard as a psychotic but apologetic human taxidermist! Blood! Guts! Slapstick comedy! Westler guy wearing a clown killer’s face skin! What more could any of us want?!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 528: City of the Living Dead (1980)

Zombies are on our mind this week as we dive into part 1 of the Gates of Hell Trilogy thanks to Kyle! While this isn't Scott's first experience with the film, it is Matt and Kyles and we are floored by how fun it is (when it's not slow as a zombie)! Strap in from brain rips, evil priests and the end of the world this week on HORROR MOVIE NIGHT!!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 527: Night of the Scarecrow (1995)

It’s finally October, and there is likely no better way for us to kick off the finest month of the year than to discuss a very silly killer scarecrow movie that has sadly been mostly forgotten in the 30 years since its release - 1995’s NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW! If you need any sort of explanation for why this is prime HMN fodder, look no further than people dying from magical straw spewing from every orifice, a guy getting threshed to death by his own farm equipment, and of course a pilgrim sex orgy flashback. This one was hard to come by, so we’re hoping the HMN Effect gets it a proper Blu-ray release soon.

 
 
 
 
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Episode 526: Pagan Invasion: Halloween - Trick or Treat? (1990)

Rounding our Listener Submitted Month is a bit different film than our usual on the show, but still hits a lot of the same questionable beats so dammit, you’re going to listen to us deconstruct PAGAN INVASION VOLUME 1: HALLOWEEN - TRICK OR TREAT (1990). Shameless church propaganda from the first Satanic Panic (we are living through the second round currently), this one has more lies stuffed in its 47 minute runtime than candy in a boo bucket after hitting the rich people neighborhoods… You’d think the police would’ve followed up on the one guy’s assertions that he was part of a demon child trafficking sex cult if any of what he said was true, right? At least the theme song rips. If you grew up celebrating Family Fun Night while all your classmates were doing normal Halloween stuff, this one’s for you, you hopeless weirdo.

 
 
 
 
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Episode 525: Beyond Darkness (1990)

Listener Submitted Month continues with another banger from 1990, Claudio Fragasso’s BEYOND DARKNESS! Released the same year as his more infamous, so-bad-it’s-good TROLL 2, both films starred Michael Stephenson as the tormented son of a father lacking any ability to tell that his family is in mortal danger. This one may suffer a bit from its actual cinematic competency compared to TROLL 2, but it’s still a wild ride of blasphemy, witches and exorcism. Welcome to our casa (5)!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 524: Hardware (1990)

Let’s go back to the bad old days when HMN was the Reddit Horror Club; at the time, we rotated through the members of the group, doing 2 movies a week chosen by different people. One of them was HARDWARE (1990), so it’s only fitting that over a decade later it’s suggested by a listener and here we are doing a proper discussion of it on the show! If you can ignore how much Richard Stanley put of himself into the pervy landlord (who gets absolutely ROCKED by the killer robot later on), this is an almost flawless slice of grimy cyberpunk/post-apocalyptic horror.

 
 
 
 
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Episode 523: Sleepover Nightmare (2005)

Listener Submitted Month kicks off with a deep cut from our neighbor to the north. Sleepover Nightmare is in strong contention of being the cheapest movie we've ever covered (and that includes last week's Birdemic). This Canadian slasher film has the feeling of a shot on video 90's slasher but with a little less charm.

 
 
 
 
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Episode 522: Birdemic: Shock & Terror (2010)

We’ve been hard at work only discussing movies with anniversaries this year, and to show his displeasure, Matt chose to punish us all with the unwatchable BIRDEMIC: SHOCK AND TERROR (2010). Arguably one of the worst movies ever made. it really lives up to the hype and is without a doubt the dumbest thing we’ve ever discussed on the show. Hope you like terrible CGI bird clipart flapping in the foreground (though an argument can be made that it takes away some of the sting of the absolutely stupid dialogue). It’s Horror Movie Night and we’re not happy about it!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 521: Species (1995)

Like many boys in the mid-90s, naked women were very scary for your gentle HMN hosts. The concept of their strange anatomy, ability to smell your fear (and possibly boners) as well as their heightened intelligence made them seem like they were from another planet… So of course we studied SPECIES (1995) for clues on how to defend ourselves. We’re grown up now but still mystified by the kinder sex (even though we live with them these days; we are simple creatures) and need a refresher on what to do about hot alien monsters. Let’s learn biology together on this week’s Horror Movie Night!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 520: Flatliners (1990)

This week Scott let us bully him into picking Flatliners because neither Kyle or Matt had seen it before! The movie dances the line of horror or thriller but whatever genre it is, it's undeniable that it's perfect for Horror Movie Night!!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 519: Humanoids from the Deep (1980)

It was said that we would never cover this film, but since it's 45th anniversary is this year and Matt need to get his quota of "stay out of the water" films, it was too much of a perfect storm to ignore! We dive into the good, the bad and the gooey aspects that craft this sleazy showstopper!

 
 
 
 
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Episode 518: Hellraiser Inferno (2000)

Did someone say “Craig Sheffer back-to-back shows?” Because you bet your tush it’s a Craig Sheffer back-to-back show this week as we raise some H - E - double hockey sticks with 2000’s film noir HELLRAISER: INFERNO. This is actually a double two-fer, as we have now discussed both of Scott Derrickson’s directorial offerings in 2000, lest we forget about URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT, which is ironically one month older than INFERNO. He was certainly busy at the beginning of the new millennium, but at what cost? Is this a good Hellraiser sequel? Is this really even a Hellraiser sequel? You can find a lot of opinions on the internet about it, and here we are with our own unsolicited review. What’s your pleasure?

 
 
 
 
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Episode 517: Nightbreed (1990)

It’s the height of summer and the days are heating up… Better head to the graveyard and hang with the B-Men (B stands for Barker, of course). We’re cooling down with the oiled up monsters of 1990’s NIGHTBREED, which some rightfully call “monster X-Men” while others questionably call “creatures I wouldn’t kick out of bed.” You get tons of cool monster designs, David Cronenberg as a serial killer psychiatrist, and of course the beloved Doug Bradley as the leader of the pack. Get sweaty with us this week on Horror Movie Night!

 
 
 
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Episode 516: It Came From Beneath the Seas (1955)

We’re back with another installment of STAY OUT OF THE DAMN WATER and we got the illustrious Ray Harryhausen to demonstrate what happens if you don’t heed our warnings. It’s time for some Atomic Age scifi horror as we dive into 1955’s IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, an age-old tale of why humans should leave cephalopods to their own devices. Otherwise you’ve got angry tentacles and the ability to squeeze into tight spots and guess what? No one wants that!

 
 
 
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Episode 515: Crocodile (2000)

Spring break came a little late this year but don’t worry, the message stays the same - STAY OUT OF THE DAMN WATER! We’re pontooning like it’s the millennium with Tobe Hooper’s 2000-era romp CROCODILE. No matter what your drunk frat boy pals or the floozy with striped hair tells you, it is decidedly not safe to party in the swamp and bust open all of those mysterious reptile eggs you found. And don’t even think about stowing one away in your girlfriend’s backpack - she’ll have to carry it around like a fool while being chased by an angry lizard. Don’t drink and boat or you’ll get chomped in half this week on Horror Movie Night!

 
 
 
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Episode 514: Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Do you wanna party? It’s party time! To celebrate 249 years of American independence, we’re resurrecting literally everyone in the graveyard for a dance-off and you’re invited (as long as you’ve got brains to spare). We’ve somehow gone 10 years without discussing it outright, so it was high time we kicked off Fourth of July with 1985’s RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. You know it, you love it, now let’s quote it. Happy birthday America, you’re gonna get eaten by the sins of the past!

 
 
 
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Episode 513: Revenge of the Creature (1955)

It’s summer and Matt is back with his annual campaign, “Stay out of the damn water!” Kicking it off is the classic tale of man’s desire to control nature, 1955’s REVENGE OF THE CREATURE. These pesky American scientists couldn’t leave well enough alone so they went back to the Amazon, captured the gillman and brought him to Florida to teach him what it’s like to be an animal at Sea World via shock therapy. So basically how everyone feels living in Florida against their will. Marvel at the lengths science will go to put fish in pants on this week’s episode of Horror Movie Night!

 
 
 
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Episode 512: Mirror Mirror (1990)

In times of great upheaval, it helps to sit and do some self-reflection… unless of course that self-reflection is in a cursed mirror. That’s a big no no. To illustrate what kind of mayhem this leads to, we’re watching 1990’s lost gem MIRROR MIRROR. It’s got Temu Lydia Deetz in it so you know this thing is a blast! Let’s stare at ourselves until our demonic alter egos take over our lives and leave us in a hellish time loop this week on Horror Movie Night!

 
 
 
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Episode 511: Friday the 13th (1980)

It’s the 45th anniversary of one of horror’s most beloved franchises, and we have the holiday it took its name from falling in the month it’s supposed to be occurring - there was no way we were going to let this kind of opportunity slip away from us! We’re one step closer to discussing the entire franchise now that we’ve finally picked FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) and you know what? There’s nothing wrong with that. This is a warm blanket kind of summer slasher for us and yet we were still able to surprise each other with some new factoids and anecdotes - that makes us three very happy campers!

 
 
 
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Episode 510: Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

There’s nothing like summer in the city, except perhaps summer in the city plus a smooth operator who also happens to be an immortal bloodsucker trying to steal your girl (who is also your coworker and that’s just an HR violation waiting to happen…). Things are heating up this week as we talk Wes Craven’s much-maligned Eddie Murphy vehicle VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN (1995). It’s actually a pretty solid flick and doesn’t deserve the flak it got, let’s see if we can change some hearts and minds!

 
 
 
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Episode 509: The Exorcist III (1990)

Everybody loves an underdog story, so when a franchise is able follow up a stinker of an entry with a fan favorite, you know we’ve got to talk about it. EXORCIST III: LEGION ((1990) is one such film and it atones for every sin from Exorcist II: The Heretic - just check its prayer beads! It’s got William Peter Blatty in the writer AND director’s chair, George C. Scott and Brad Dourif… You can’t go wrong with that kind of star power. It’s also got jump scares that rival the original, another feat worth praising. Come wash away your transgressions with a confession session at the church of HMN!

 
 
 
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Episode 508: Constantine (2005)

Imagine a time when the biggest action star in the world wasn’t some musclebound dude with an oiled-up chest wearing a loincloth, but rather a tall, slim guy whose catch phrase was “whoa.” If you’re imagining Keanu Reeves, good; if you’re imagining him as John Wick, you gotta go back further, to the Matrix days of the early 00s. Now, imagine that he and a young Shia LaBeouf are kickass exorcists and the guy from Bush is a demon. Seriously! That might’ve been the elevator pitch for CONSTANTINE (2005). Based on the comic book Hellblazer in the most superficial ways, this one might be a contentious pick for those who don’t consider it horror, but it’s our show and we say angels, demons and sick forearm sigil tatz give it a pass.

 
 
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Episode 507: He Knows You're Alone (1980)

What would a year of anniversaries be without a slasher who goes after brides so they can never see their first wedding anniversary? On the other hand, he also seems to be willing to kill people who are only tertiarally related to his victims - like the guy working at the wedding dress shop who was unlucky enough to do a fitting for one of the killer’s potential victims. Pretty sloppy if you ask us. We get into this and more to celebrate the nuptials of HE KNOWS YOU’RE ALONE (1980) and Horror Movie Night this week on the show!

 
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Episode 506: Phantom of the Megaplex (2000) (f/Evan Fonseca)

In celebration of Geekscape’s newest podcast, The Phantom of the Podpera, we invite Kyle’s cohost Evan Fonseca on to discuss the anniversary of Disney Channel’s take on the mischievous masked man, 2000’s THE PHANTOM OF THE MEGAPLEX. Is this a horror movie? Not particularly. Has it aged well? Also, no. But one of the maligned theaters in the titular megaplex is, in fact, showing an HMN favorite: the infamous raincoat terrorize of ALICE SWEET ALICE! Let our 4 handsome voices serenade you this week on Horror Movie Night.

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Episode 505: Phenomena (1985)

We are finally back to a Giallo movie with one of the least offensive (but still plenty of trashiness here) classic Phenomena! This movie didn't BUG us but it's pacing did CREEP up on us.

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Episode 504: Fright Night (1985)

We’ve talked the remake, we’ve talked the sequel, but tonight, it’s time to talk about the start of it all, the one and only FRIGHT NIGHT (1985). Recorded in person at Creature Feature Weekend 2025, we went back to the beginning to fawn over sexy vampires and some seriously amazing transformations. We’re all toothy smiles and bloodthirsty intent as we say nothing but good things about a movie that deserves all the praise it’s gotten for the last 40 years. Matt even serves up an incredible pitch for a Fright Night series… a couple decades too late. Invite us in, why don’t you?

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Episode 503: Bruiser (2000)

A later entry into the legendary George Romero’s filmography? There is no way this could be anything less than a masterpiece… This week, Kyle subjected us to 2000’s head-scratchingly-titled BRUISER, in which a meek magazine editor gets a chance to knock off everyone who has ever inconvenienced him thanks to his crappy boss’s wife and her low-level mask-making skills. While the movie itself isn’t great, it took us on a real journey discussing the underlying social issues it tried to comment on. Was it successful? Unclear, but at least we got to wax poetic about it on the show. Let’s get psycho(analyzed)!

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Episode 502: Ghoulies (1985)

We love tiny terrors so much on this show that we could barely wait to discuss another classic, 1985’s GHOULIES! While perhaps slightly less bombastic as the sequel, the original entry in the Ghoulies franchise is still full of delightfully absurd moments and a ton of pint-sized pain. We may have had to wait until the next installment to see a Ghoulie eat a dude’s ass, but it was perfectly foreshadowed with its predecessor, so let’s show the OG some respect for its 40th birthday or the little butt-munchers will finally get us. Send help.

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Episode 501: Darkman (1990)

We've passed 500 episodes so we decide to do another round of "Does This Count As a Horror Movie?" Thanks to the popularity of Evil Dead 2, Sam Raimi was able to follow it up with this original Superhero film inspired by Universal Monsters and the radio drama The Shadow. Between obvious homages to Phantom of the Opera and Invisible Man and the evil being played by Larry Drake we feel pretty confident saying this counts!

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Episode 500: Troll 2 (1990) (f/Robert Bacon)

FIVE HUNDRED EPISODES? How, you ask? Well, we don’t have a good answer but we DO have a good guest along with us as we travel to the ill-fated town of Nilbog on a house-swapping (?) adventure: Robert Bacon! For our 500th conversation, we enjoy a rewatch of the infamous “best worst movie” TROLL 2 (1990), which has zero trolls but a ton of goblins. Bacon is a self-made bad movie connoisseur and asserts that this one is NOT an actual bad movie, not by a mile, but rather a work of art when one considers it from the perspective of a stage play. This thesis really has legs, which probably made the trolls(goblins) super mad because really, who can’t outrun monsters that short?

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Episode 499: The Mangler (1995)

If you weren’t afraid of industrial laundry machines, well guess again sucker! Tobe Hooper was brave enough to film a screen adaptation of one of Stephen King’s earliest short stories and 30 years later, we’re talking about THE MANGLER (1995). Obviously, some liberties were taken in the storytelling aspect here to pad it out into a feature-length film, but the basic tale is more or less intact: possessed laundry machine likes the taste of people and eventually becomes sentient and chases the detective main character around town. The premise is wacky and Hooper really got into the scrubbing here, so our discussion has time to… air dry, if you will…

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Episode 498: Re-Animator (1985)

By sheer strength of will (and a poor long-term memory), we made it almost a decade on this show without touching one of most HMN movies to ever grace the silver screen. Don’t knock our blocks off, it’s finally time to dissect 1985’s perfect RE-ANIMATOR! Is this a perfect movie? Well yeah, and a lot of shows have said so already but here’s us jumping on the Stuart Gordon bandwagon!

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Episode 497: Alligator (1980)

If last month threw you off a little, rest easy knowing we’re back to our regular content with a giant animal on the loose eating people at weddings. It’s about damn time we give 1980s ALLIGATOR a fresh watch and reminisce about how much that pool scene has shaped Matt’s worldview. Dive into this week’s episode or we’ll push you like the little jerks in pirate costumes we are.

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Episode 496: Eyes Without A Face (1960)

It’s our last week of Foreign Film February and we wanted to say”bonjour!” It’s too our faces have been horribly disfigured and the masks we wear garble our already-rough pronunciations. We’re mushmouthing our way through 1960’s French classic EYES WITHOUT A FACE and it’s still impressive the amount of horror and gore they were able to display at the time of filming. Things were different back then, just look at this crazy doctor doing unlicensed experiments at home!

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Episode 495: Trollhunter (2010)

Our next stop for Foreign Film February is the chilly mountains of Norway, home of the biggest, dumbest monsters according to this guy who gets paid to wrangle them. We met up with a real, life TROLLHUNTER (2010) and he had the audacity to smother us in the most horrible-smelling goop imaginable because he said, get this, it will repel trolls! He seems like a psycho but we’re a group of disbelieving college students making a documentary so let’s roll with it. What’s the worst that could happen?

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Episode 494: Noroi The Curse (2005)

J-Horror was hugely popular here in the States in the early 2000s, and arguably one of the best of that time was also arguably one of the best found footage movies we’ve seen - 2005’s NOROI: THE CURSE. This is a great example of what works best in found footage, from the mysteries intertwining as the story progresses, the ramping-up of creepy occurrences, to the legitimate reasons for the cameras to be rolling. It’s a 10/10 and surprisingly scary even after all these years! Listen to us wax poetic about fetus demons this week on Horror Movie Night!

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Episode 493: The Day of the Beast (1995)

We love foreign films here at Horror Movie Night, but we don’t get around to discussing them as often as we probably should, so Kyle suggested we do a month of them. To appease the horror gods across the world, we are doing it big-style with Foreign Film February! The inaugural pick goes to Kyle, who went with the Spanish black comedy Christmas/apocalypse combo THE DAY OF THE BEAST (1995). There’s a bumbling theology professor, a heavy metal guy on acid, a fake TV prophet, and the looming birth of the Antichrist - what more could you want for your yuletide entertainment (we know we’re 6 weeks late here, just go with it). Let’s save the world this week on Horror Movie Night!

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Episode 492: We Are Still Here (2015)

Trudging on through this wintry weather, it’s good to know that we’ve got a trio of burnt-up ghosts waiting at home keeping the place nice and toasty for us. This week, we’re snuggling up with the criminally underrated WE ARE STILL HERE (2015), which was released to genre fanfare and immediately forgotten about. It’s a great little film and we hope you like it as much as we do, else old Lassander Dagmar might come boil your brains in your silly little skull. It’s family time on this week’s episode of Horror Movie Night!

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Episode 491: Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

If there’s one thing this show’s hosts love, it’s movies that really peel back the layers of what film schools is truly like. Case in point, 2000’s URBAN LEGEND: FINAL CUT, a tale in which a film professor decides to steal a student’s movie and kill everyone involved so he can have the prize money and not have to be a teacher anymore. Makes total sense, right? This sequel is possibly a hair more believable than the plot of Scream 2, but not by much. Luck for us, we’re very good at suspending our disbelief here on Horror Movie Night!

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Episode 490: Blood Tracks (1985)

A good chunk of us are probably buried under snow right now, so why not grab our skis and hit the slopes? While we’re at it, we might as well crank some obscure 80s Swedish hair metal but be careful - they rock so hard that their music sometimes causes avalanches! It should be fine… What’s worse is there’s a murderous group of Hills Have Eyes knockoffs chilling in the nearby factory and definitely not enough lighting on set to show the viewer who’s killing who. That’s 1985’s BLOOD TRACKS in a nutshell (we think - it was really dark) and we’re digging ourselves out of that fluffy white stuff this week; we may even shovel some snow!

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Episode 489: The Gate 2 (1990)

Few horror tropes get our blood pumping quite like a little heavy metal and Satanic panic, so you must be wondering why it took us this long to get to THE GATE 2: THE TRESPASSERS (1990). Well, we don’t have a good answer for that, but we DO have a good reason for picking it now, and it has a lot to do with this baby turning 35 and our recent desire to celebrate such things on the show. Plus there’s a lot of demon poop in this one, which is objectively hilarious. So now we ask you, what would you wish for if you had summoned an 8” demon capable of making it come true (and then turn it into the aforementioned poop)… Quick suggestion, probably avoid getting your drunk dad his pilot job back right out of the gate…

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Episode 488: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

Our tradition of letting listeners vote on the first movie of the year for us has once again led to the most obvious choice: more kinder trauma! If you’re a millenial and weren’t homeschooled in the late 80s, you were scarred like the rest of us by the visual of Christopher Lloyd’s eyeballs falling out in the family favorite WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (1988), and we’re here to remind you about it. Welcome to the new year, try not to get dropped in a vat of caustic, toon-killing chemicals, ok?