Dread Media

This week we hit both ends of the spectrum with the same director as Desmond and Darryll check out Christopher Smith's yet-to-be-released medieval plague film, Black Death, and his horror comedy, Severance. The following terror tunes get a spin on the old wheel: "Goin' Down to Dunwich" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, "Necromancer" by Gnarls Barkley, "Workin' Man" by Hank III, and "Rotter" by Doomriders. Send feedback to: [email protected], or 206.203.1213. Join the Facebook group! Visit www.audibletrial.com/dreadmedia to get a free audiobook!

The chief export of this podcast is pain this week as Desmond and Darryll take on the 1982 Chuck Norris classic Silent Rage. Then Desmond goes solo on Michael Louis Calvillo's novella Bleed for You. Songs, sure to kill you on contact, this week: "Eyes of a Ranger" by Chuck Norris, "I'm The Law" by The Chuck Norris Experiment, "Bleed For Me" by Black Label Society, and "The Kicking Machine" by The Melvins. Visit www.audibletrial.com/dreadmedia to get a free audiobook! Walker told me I have AIDS. Send feedback to: [email protected], or 206.203.1213. Join the Facebook group!

This week, Greg Lamberson returns to talk about Slime City Massacre and his first two Jake Helman File novels now available as downloadable audiobooks! Then Desmond and Darryll make what they can of Lucio Fulci's Cat in the Brain. Songs included: "True Believers" by Bouncing Souls, "Voodoo" by Black Sabbath, "Mean Eyed Cat" by Johnny Cash, and "Wipe it 'til it Bleeds" by Turbonegro. Support Greg and Dread Media by partaking in a 14-day free trial at Audible.com by going to www.audibletrial.com/dreadmedia and getting either Personal Demons or Desperate Souls by Greg Lamberson for free! Send feedback to: [email protected], or 206.203.1213. Join the Facebook group!

It's monkeys on Mars, brooding twenty-somethings, and French-Canadian werewolves in this family-friendly episode of Dread Media. Nothing here worse than PG-rated this week as Desmond and Darryll check out the Criterion release of Robinson Crusoe on Mars before Desmond goes solo on The Haunting of Amelia and Le Poil de la Bete (The Hair of the Beast). Tunes, family-friendly and not, include: "Fields of Mars" by Bad Religion, "Mars Needs Women" by Rob Zombie, "Everyone I Went to High School With Is Dead" by Mr. Bungle, "Hair of the Dog" by Guns N' Roses, and "Welcome to the Family" by Avenged Sevenfold. Send feedback to: [email protected], or 206.203.1213. Join the Facebook group!

It's giant wild boars, human slavery, decapitations, and bad impressions this week on Dread Media. So, basically, it's business as usual. Darryll and Desmond look at Pig Hunt. Then Desmond goes solo on And Soon the Darkness, and the novella by Kurt Newton and LL Soares, Breaking Eggs, in a nasty classic episode. Tunes include: "Booneville Stomp" by Les Claypool, "I am a Pig" by Two, "The Human Traffic King (White Slavery Pt. 2)" by Necro, "Buried with Children" by Wednesday 13, and "Red Velvet Upholstery, Black Leather Curtains (Blade Slays Edward Remix)" by Mary Shelley Overdrive. Send feedback to: [email protected], or 206.203.1213. Join the Facebook group!

This week Dread Media kicks off 2011 with a splat of bodily fluids as the Scumdog himself, Oderus Urungus of Gwar, joins Desmond to talk about sex, crack, Dana Carvey, and more! Then Jeff Crazy from It Came from the Basement reminisces with Desmond about the Gwar long-form music video "Phallus in Wonderland." And Desmond and Darryll explore the origins of Gwar's latest album by reviewing the film from which its name is derived: Bloody Pit of Horror! The following Gwar songs can be heard here: "Sick of You," "The Morality Squad," "Ham on the Bone," "Sick and Twisted," and "You Are My Meat." Check out Gwar online at www.gwar.net to buy their shit, and see Oderus's latest appearances on FOX News Red Eye. Find Jeff at: itcamefromthebasement.wordpress.com, www.myspace.com/helltrackca, and www.myspace.com/themotherfuckingbrowns. Send feedback to: [email protected], or 206.203.1213. Join the Facebook group!

Episode 175 of Dread Media is near, and Desmond teases all of us with this cryptic trailer! Just who is Earth-2.net's Master of Horror going to interview on Monday, 03 January?

This Holiday limbo episode of Dread Media sees a clear departure from tradition, as Desmond and Darryll spend almost an hour talking about the Criterion release of David Cronenberg's Videodrome! Canadian television, the 1980s, and a certain actress' assets are also discussed. But the two go deep as well. Deep as a stomach vagina. Tunes included: "TV Casualty" by The Misfits, "All Hail the New Flesh" by Strapping Young Lad, and "Television" by Bad Religion. Send feedback to: [email protected], or 206.203.1213. Join the Facebook group!

This week, after a cryptic announcement, Darryll reviews Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. He even lets Desmond say a few things! Then, Desmond slakes his thirst for blabbing with a Dying in the Gutters segment on Jason Aaron's Ghost Rider Omnibus. The following yuletide tunes should tide you over for the holidays: "The Biggest Killer in American History" by Bad Religion, "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads, "Ghost Rider" by Rollins Band, "Vigilante Christmas" by Kirby Krackle, and "Silent Night, Deadly Night (acoustic)" by The Browns! Send feedback to: [email protected], or 206.203.1213. Join the Facebook group!

Think we're currently in the Golden Age of the superhero film? Wrong. This week Desmond and Darryll take a look at the lineage of the French superhero / antihero film. First up: one of the greatest comic films ever made: Mario Bava's 1968 psychedelic Danger: Diabolik. Then Desmond does a What Music They Make segment looking at Ennio Morricone's score for that film before Darryll returns to go over the first two films covering the silent exploits of the French pulp anarchist, Fantomas: 1913's Fantomas in the Shadow of the Guillotine, and Juve vs. Fantomas. It's a show loaded with debonair antiheroes and their lovely ladies. Enjoy! Diabolikal tunes abound: "Deep Down" by Mondo Cane, "Body Movin'" by The Beastie Boys, "Underwater Wah Wah" and other selected music from Ennio Morricone, "Experiment in Terror" by Fantomas, and "Something Diabolical" by The Bloodhound Gang. Send feedback to: [email protected], or 206.203.1213. Join the Facebook group!