100 Horrors

Although the title of this week's film could quite easily be used to describe a tenancy agreement in 2020's era London, in the 90's it carried with it a much more (or less, when you think about it) insidious tone. Both written and directed by Wes Craven, TPUTS toes the line between horror, comedy, political commentary and home alone rip off - but is it any good? Tune in this week to find out!

The further through this poster we go, the more I'm starting to suspect that John Carpenter himself curated the movies on it. This week we tackle his 1980 film The Fog, which was panned at by critics but which was a monster at the box office, making 20 times its initial budget. The film has since gone on to take on cult-classic status, but is it deserving of that status? Tune in this week to find out!

There was a HUGE amount of critical acclaim heaped onto Jordan Peele's horror debut 'Get Out' when it was first released in 2017. Naturally, we're late to the party, coming in to say everything that everybody else has already said only 5 years too late. To be fair though, we did manage to discuss issues with pooing again this week, so we are putting our own spin on it in a way. EPISODE 75! 3 quarters done!

This week we discuss Misery. The 1990 one. Based on a Steven King book.

It is widely regarded that a Mr John Michael Osbourne (Ozzy to his friends) is the Prince of Darkness. This makes it all the more surprising that a Mr Vincent Damon Furnier (Alice Cooper to his friends) was cast as the gaunt, shuffling zombie in John Carpenter's 1987 film Prince of Darkness. The movie is about a vial containing the liquid essence of the son of Satan, and it deals with quantum physics, the nature of reality, the question of whether Jesus was an extra-terrestrial and finally what happens to your body if you drink the son of the devil. Spoiler. Turns out you melt. Not all the way, but most of the way.

It is a sad (but true) fact that teenagers are 3 times more likely to crash their cars than people over the age of 20. It is however, entirely possible that these figures have been skewed by teens driving possessed cars, as Arnie Cunningham, the protagonist in John Carpenter's Christine does. This week we welcome Mr George Martin (not that one, or that one) into the studio to discuss an often overlooked gem of the horror genre.

Hollywood: The creative centre of the universe... until it runs out of ideas and looks to the East for already successful Japanese movies to remake. I'll be honest, I'm glad they did this. Gore Verbinski's 2002 remake of Ringu (The Ring) is one of the last few films on this poster that I absolutely love. Gorgeous cinematography, excellent narrative pacing and a scene where a horse gets churned up by a ship's propeller, there really is something for everyone here.

Which is the worse Friday? The one the kids in Sean S Cunningham 1980 genre cementing slasher flick have to endure while vacationing at Camp Crystal Lake, or the one that Rebecca Black subjected us all to that summer in 2011? We know which one we’d vote for, but as you know by now, our ability to rate anything is sketchy at best, so our answer is surely going to alienate the majority of the population! Anyway, it’s Friday!!!!

Children: Murderous? Sometimes. Fanatical? Occasionally. Easy to batter? Always. Just why the two leads in this Stephen King adaptation don’t realise that children are the optimum size for a boot in the face is beyond us, but a lot of the kids in Fritz Kiersch’s 1984 Children of the Corn look like they’ve already taken a blow or two to the face anyway, so maybe that’s not the best way to correct bad behaviour in early years after all.

Rumour has it that a lot of the more brutal scenes in Last House on the Left have been lost to the ages, and I say 'Thank God'. This film is a filthy, sordid little turd on the shoe of cinema history, but for some reason people seem to love it. This week we got stuck in to Wes Craven's seminal rape-revenge picture The Last House on the Left to see if we could work out why... (SPOILERS: We couldn't).