Covering a movie that surprisingly didn't have a wide release when it came out 20 years ago, we're talking about a movie instrumental in Robert Downey Jr's comeback, and the directorial debut of the screenwriter behind Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. After barging in on a movie audition to escape the police, New York City burglar Harry Lockhart is flown out to LA and paired with a private detective to learn the craft for his role, only to be roped up in a murder mystery while also connecting with an unrequited love from his past. Naturally. . . hilarity ensues as the bullets fly a-fancy free!  

Remember when the director of all those Saw sequels directed a dystopian sci-fi/horror nu-metal musical starring Paul Sorvino, Bill Mosley, Sarah Brightman, Giles from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and PARIS HILTON?!?!? 

This week, we're talking about Repo! The Genetic Opera, a fitting movie given our current healthcare woes, as the story posits a future where countless citizens suffer from organ failure, and have to get replacement organs from the megacorporation GeneCo on predatory payment plans. And should they even miss one payment . . . they'll send the Repo Man to collect their property violently . . . but with a song! 

The week, we're discussing the maybe-controversial Japanese action thriller from 2000, Battle Royale. Based on the novel by Koushun Takami, a group of high school students believing they're on a class trip are instead taken to an evacuated island and forced to engage in a brutal game of survival over a three-day period. Loyalties and friendships are tested as the classmates must fight each other to the death, for the privilege of being the last student standing, or be killed as well. 

**TW: This episode features discussion about suicide and sexual assault relating to underage characters .**

You have to hand it to the trailer for War of the Worlds informing audiences of its quality by including the line, "It's worse than you think." We finally got around to discussing one of the most talked about streaming releases of the year, and that talk has not been good, as Ice Cube stars in the latest adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic science fiction tale, as aliens descend upon our planet. Clearly shot during Covid in the style of movies like Searching and Unfriended, this new version of War of the Worlds shows us all the action through computer and mobile phone screens, as Ice Cube's Homeland Security surveillance tech character is on lockdown in his office while extraterrestrial attacks ravage the planet. 

Cast aside by Sony Pictures and rescued by Netflix, we're talking about the monster hit that is K-Pop Demon Hunters, bringing together vibrant animation, surprisingly catchy k-pop tunes and . . . a supernatural battle to protect the souls of all mankind from a horde of demons?!?! K-Pop superstars Rumi, Mira, and Zoey split their time between selling out stadiums and taking don't demons when they're faced with a whole new challenge, a rival K-Pop boyband, the secretly demonic Saja Boys, who are looking to beat them on the charts and the battlefield. 

Our resident Adorable Lil' Hypebeast Clarissa has us venturing back to Tubi to discuss the 2009 "horror" anthology film, The Telling, starring former Playboy Playmate Holly Madison and produced by fellow Playmate Bridget Marquardt. Forced to change their rules after the suicide of a previous pledge, a vain and vapid sorority forces their current pledges to tell them a collection of scary stories to see who will be worthy of joining their ranks. 

There's been a ton of stops and restarts along the way, times when I thought it would probably be best just to shut the whole thing down, but we finally made it to 200 episodes of Casting The Net! And to celebrate this momentous occasion, we're talking about the sequel to The Guyver, Guyver 2: Dark Hero! Sean Barker is back, facing off against a new army of zoanoids that threaten a team of archeologists who have made a discovery that may provide him with answers to the origins of the Guyver unit. 

An early 90s anime adaptation starring Mark Hamill as a biomechanical suit wearing superhero?!!? NOPE!!! but the movie cover sure tried to trick folks into thinking that! Other than Mark Hamill NOT being the actual hero of The Guyver, this is one of those straight-to-video adaptations of a Japanese IP that comes courtesy of the folks behind films like Society, Re-Animator, and Faust: Love of the Damned. After finding an alien weapon sought after by the nefarious Cronos Corporation, Sean Barker is inadvertently turned into The Guyver, and forced to face off against Cronos' monstrous cohorts, the Zoanoids. 

The Fear Street Saga continues! Following up on the success of the Fear Street Trilogy from 2021, Fear Street: Prom Queen sees a new group of teens, this time in 1988, having to contend with a savage killer looking to slay the competition for Shadyside High School's Prom Queen. There's plenty of blood and mayhem to go around, but maybe we could have done with a few more dance routines? 

We're finally diving deep into Netflix's Fear Street Trilogy and it is long overdue. Beginning in 1994, we're introduced to the rival towns of Shadyside and Sunnyvale, as a group of high schoolers are being terrorized by ghostly spirits tied the legends of a vengeful witch from the towns' shared history, Sarah Fier. This eventually puts them in contact with a survivor from a camp massacre in 1978 who witnessed a similar attack, with their shared horrors tying back to the origins of Sarah Fier in 1666. We had plenty to talk about when it came to this adaptation of the works of RL Stine, from the music to the fashion, and the surprisingly graphic kills. From start to finish, the team behind these three films did not pull any punches!