Grab your banana cake because we’re Lee Grant stans this week as we talk about 1977 made-for-tv witch(?) movie THE SPELL!!! When a bullied 15-year-old girl’s enemies start unaliving her mother begins so suspect that she’s behind it. We’ve got a very young Helen Hunt, A LOT of talk about weight and weight loss, some great acting from Lee Grant and some classic flutey 70’s music. Christopher loves this one and gives it way too much credit and Mitch does not! We talk about family dynamics, how big of an asshole the Dad in this is and more! SIMPERING TOAD!

We're back and kicking off the new year with 1974/5/6 Canadian home invasion flick THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE!!! Brenda Vaccaro plays a car-savvy model who is whisked away to this dopey dentist's mansion in the Ontario country side where they're terrorized by a gang of rowdy assholes! This was a first viewing for both of us and we have no idea how we haven't watched it before! It rocks! It's like being in a bullying simulator filled with chaos and noise. We loved it! Diane rules!

Mitch is unexpectedly away, but Christopher saw M3GAN, loved it and proceeded to talk about it for 5 minutes!

Yet another New Year is upon us. They just keep making these things, huh? Sticking with tradition we’ve got another New Years bracket: Last One Standing Standings: Slasher One-And-Dones (The Ones We’ve Done)!!! Mashing some previous bracket ideas together we pit final folks from slasher films without sequels that we’ve talked about on the pod against each other in a battle royale until only the supreme remains! From Blood Lake to Blood Rage and Blood Tracks - this is quite the group of contenders!!!

Cryptmas is upon us once again and we’re talking both the 1972 and 1989 Tales From The Crypt: And All Through The House! Both versions are about a woman who has just murdered her husband while a maniac in a Santa suit is murdering women in her area and sets his sights on her! We’ve got genre icons like Freddie Francis directing the ’72 version with the legendary Joan Collins, Fred Dekker writing the ’89 with unsung, alternative-Christmas-movie Queen Mary Ellen Trainor as our murderess being pursued by Larry Drake! The 1972 version is visually amazing and we really wish it was a full-length film and 1989 is campy fun! Merry Christmas!!!

Where have all the lynx gone? This week we’re talking 2011 Yeti film SNOW BEAST!!! A research team and a delinquent teen head into the “Canadian” wilderness for their annual lynx-tracking but end up being tracked by the Yeti instead! Much like the footprints of the Snow Beast, Mormonism has its footprint solidly smushed into the snow that is this movie and Christopher has some thoughts! Overall this is pretty standard, milquetoast Sy-Fy fare of the period!

What happens when dynamite fishing awakens a primordial fish-monster? Lots of research. Lots and lots of research. This week we’re talking about 1979 creature feature BOG starring Gloria DeHaven, Marshall Thompson and Aldo Ray as a trio of small-town authority figure types who have to unravel the mysterious blood-draining happening in their sleepy town. Is it a Dracula? Are the cells crystalline? Is the wind perfect? What defines a bog? This one teeters the line of being so bad that it’s entertaining… but lands on the just plain bad side. BYE DUMMIES!

We’re back and hitting the slopes this week with 1977 Bigfoot-in-the-snow TV movie SNOWBEAST!! This movie dares to ask the question, what if Jaws was cold? We’ve got a stuck-in-his-glory-days former Olympian, his television journalist wife and the manager of a ski lodge in a decades-long, amicable love triangle that could easily be solved with a poly relationship doing battle with a pissed off Snowbeast terrorizing a winter carnival! It’s an okay creature feature with some fun actors involved but doesn’t really bring anything unique to the table. SHE DOESN’T HAVE ONE!

Another year, another Halloween! We celebrate the holiday with the fifth instalment in the franchise HALLOWEEN 5: THE REVENGE OF MICHAEL MYERS! We talk about how awful Slayers (2022) was, try to guess what Christopher’s costume is and Christopher defends and dies on the hill that is Tina Williams! We’ve got the return of Donald Pleasance, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell and Beau Starr alongside newbies Wendy Kaplan and Tamara Glynn as they face off against the lame plot that is The Black Thorn! This is one of Christopher’s faves of the franchise! ROMEO, ROMEO!

We’re headed to the museum of mid-00’s fashion this week where shirts are long and hair is straight with HOUSE OF FEARS!!! Pretty standard steup here: group of teens goes to House of Fears after-hours and start getting picked off one-by-one. For a PG-13 it’s not half bad though. The idea is interesting, the acting is good, it doesn’t look awful… it’s just kind of fine!