1939’s the Return of Dr. X (unrelated to the previously released, color Dr. X) is our movie this week. We chat about Humphrey Bogart’s only sci-fi/horror film where he creeps about as the titular character, white-streaked hair and all. The plot? Someone is murdering people and stealing their blood and the duo of a doctor ... Read moreEpisode 48: the Return of Dr. X

1958’s Murder by Contract is covered this week. When hitman Claude fails to carry through with the execution of a star witness, he finds himself marked for murder. Dig that guitar strumming soundtrack, snappy dialogue, and a fine supporting cast.

The Great Vorelli plots to gain an heiress’ millions by way of hypnotism and ventriloquism, and Hugo the Dummy is sure to give you the creeps whenever he appears on screen! Gratuitous nudity (by 1960’s standards), bullshit facial hair, and the best eyebrows we’ve witnessed over the course of making this podcast all appear in ... Read moreEpisode 47: Devil Doll

The 1953 Ida Lupino-directed film the Hitch-Hiker is this week’s topic: Ray and Gilbert’s fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He’s killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they’re no longer useful, ... Read moreGuns Dames Cigarettes Episode 23

The original Godzilla gets covered this week with guest Marz. The giant rubber monster destroys Tokyo with atomic breath while eating trains and shaking off military offensives like swatting flies away. This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights & Gravely Unusual Magazine.

1941’s Horror Island get discussed this week. Not at all a horror movie, and barely a comedy/mystery as advertised, we make the best of it and ponder such topics as the ineffective phantom, the lack of concern over murders occurring on an isolated island with no escape, and why there is an actor in this ... Read moreEpisode 45: Horror Island

1947’s Nightmare Alley gets discussed this week. Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband, Pete. But when Pete dies, Zeena is forced to take on Stanton as a partner, and he quickly proves more gifted than his predecessor. Ambitious ... Read moreGuns Dames Cigarettes Episode 21

A Satanic cult in Whitewood, Massachusetts celebrates Candlemas Eve and the Witch’s Sabbath with some sacrifices on the Hour of Thirteen in 1960’s the City of the Dead aka the foggiest movie of 1960 featuring inappropriate jazz background music and a young Christopher Lee. This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights & Gravely Unusual Magazine.

1947’s Brute Force gets the treatment this week. Released from solitary confinement, prisoner Joe Collins learns that his supportive wife, Ruth, is refusing surgery to treat her potentially deadly cancer unless Joe can be by her side after the operation. But while Joe is plotting his escape with fellow prisoner Gallagher, a violent incident in ... Read moreGuns Dames Cigarettes Episode 20

1964’s the Last Man on Earth is our topic this week. The survivor of a global epidemic, played by Vincent Price, battles a race of zombie vampires. MORGAN! This episode is sponsored by Fright Lights & Gravely Unusual Magazine.