Boys and Ghouls

‘Salem’s Lot has gone from being Stephen King’s second published novel, to an influential 1979 mini-series, to a second mini-series in 2004 that expanded on the townsfolk and the darkness of the doomed Maine town of ‘Salem’s Lot.

Join Kat and Marshall as they take a bite out of this story of vampires in a small town and follow its effect on the next couple decades of vampire movies.  Stay tuned as the Boys and Ghouls duo compares characters from the original novel to their mini-series counterparts and judge each of the works on how well they manage to evoke the feeling of autumn.

Also, listen in as they recap their day spent at the Scare LA convention and as they try a limited-run Ghostbusters tie-in snack cake.

‘Salem’s Lot has gone from being Stephen King’s second published novel, to an influential 1979 mini-series, to a second mini-series in 2004 that expanded on the townsfolk and the darkness of the doomed Maine town of ‘Salem’s Lot.

Join Kat and Marshall as they take a bite out of this story of vampires in a small town and follow its effect on the next couple decades of vampire movies.  Stay tuned as the Boys and Ghouls duo compares characters from the original novel to their mini-series counterparts and judge each of the works on how well they manage to evoke the feeling of autumn.

Also, listen in as they recap their day spent at the Scare LA convention and as they try a limited-run Ghostbusters tie-in snack cake.

The year 1976 is explored in this star-spangled episode.  Join the  “Boys and Ghouls” duo as they look at the fashions of  “Carrie” and examine what the energy crisis did for the “King Kong” remake.

Hitch a ride, as they look at the first batch of “Jaws” rip-offs to hit the theater.  Then, they have sympathy for the devil as they take on ’76 satanic cinema with “The Omen” and “To the Devil a Daughter”.

Then, they keep on truckin’ with mid-70’s children’s programing, Vincent Price product promoting, and the dazzling but stupefying 1976 time capsule that is the “Paul Lynde Halloween Special”.

Can you dig it?

I knew that you could.

The year 1976 is explored in this star-spangled episode.  Join the  “Boys and Ghouls” duo as they look at the fashions of  “Carrie” and examine what the energy crisis did for the “King Kong” remake.

Hitch a ride, as they look at the first batch of “Jaws” rip-offs to hit the theater.  Then, they have sympathy for the devil as they take on ’76 satanic cinema with “The Omen” and “To the Devil a Daughter”.

Then, they keep on truckin’ with mid-70’s children’s programing, Vincent Price product promoting, and the dazzling but stupefying 1976 time capsule that is the “Paul Lynde Halloween Special”.

Can you dig it?

I knew that you could.

I Know What You Did Last Summer, the 1997 horror movie with a hook, is the subject of this scorching episode of “Boys and Ghouls”.  Join Kat and Marshall as they look at the original 1973 book that started it all as well as its 2010 update (it has more cell phones).

Listen close as we dive into the story of four friends who try to keep a secret about the horrible thing they did last summer, and what happens when it comes back to haunt them.  Then, gasp at the tale of how hotshot screenwriter Kevin Williamson, fresh off of Scream, took the story and increased its bodycount while relocating the tale to his home state of North Carolina, added the unforgiving fishing waters of the Atlantic, and made it, possibly, the MOST North Carolina of all horror movies.

So… head to the beach, time to sit back and unwind, be sure to wear sunscreen, and listen in as the duo discusses the bloody, revenge-fueled movie that Kat watches every 4th of July.

“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” is explored in this podcast by pod people Marshall and Kat.  Join them as they explore the classic tale from it’s start as a magazine science fiction story, to a novel and a 1956 movie.

Set in the McCarthy era suburbs (or, disco era in the book) the invasion takes people over and enters them into a conformity that takes a long while to notice in an era of conformity.

Then, listen closely as the Boys and Ghouls duo look at its every-other-decade remakes and see what taking over the world looks like when civilization has progressed since the last the time it was taken over.

It’ll grow on you!