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What happens when The Texas Chain Saw Massacre meets Les Misérables in Estonia? Apparently, you get Chainsaws Were Singing, a gloriously deranged horror-comedy musical featuring singing serial killers, exploding vehicles, questionable family relationships, and enough bodily fluids to qualify as a plumbing emergency.

🎵 Musical November has arrived on Found on Shelf! Dustin and Patrick kick off their annual celebration of cinematic song and dance with this bizarre Estonian independent horror film that took roughly a decade to finish after filming wrapped.

The story follows two strangers who fall hopelessly in love almost immediately, only to find themselves pursued by a chainsaw-wielding maniac literally named Killer. Along the way, they encounter a constantly changing wardrobe, a heavily armed action hero, a deeply dysfunctional family, and a forest full of people whose religious practices probably shouldn't be described on Spotify.

In this episode:

🪚 Why did an Estonian chainsaw musical take ten years of post-production, and could it have benefited from another decade of editing?

🎶 Can a two-hour horror musical be simultaneously hilarious and exhausting?

💥 Exploding cars, flying babies, and chainsaw-related creative decisions that somehow made it past the producers.

🌲 A mysterious forest tribe worshipping something inside a refrigerator. We have several questions. None are appropriate.

👗 Jan, the man whose wardrobe changes more frequently than the movie's tone.

🔪 A killer named Killer, his deeply unpleasant family, and a surprisingly serious backstory in the middle of cartoonish mayhem.

🔫 And finally, Johnny Applegun, the mysterious forest wanderer generously distributing firearms to strangers. The hero Estonia deserves.

Meanwhile, Patrick struggles to survive on two hours of sleep, Dustin experiments with increasingly questionable podcast marketing strategies, Gimcrack considers involving HR, and a listener voicemail suggests our audience may be getting exactly what it deserves.

Plus, our traditional Three Things to Change, featuring a much shorter runtime and an entirely unnecessary Lin-Manuel Miranda intervention.

Is Chainsaws Were Singing an overlooked masterpiece of independent musical horror, or an elaborate test of human endurance?

There's only one way to find out.

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Obscure movies. Cult cinema. Improvised comedy. Questionable musical numbers.

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What do you get when you combine an alcoholic firefighter, a mysterious serial killer, ancient demonic creatures, and cannibal gerbils? Apparently, you get In the Woods (1999).

🎃 This Halloween, Found on Shelf ventures back into the forest for another obscure horror movie that probably should have stayed buried.

Dustin and Patrick tackle this forgotten '90s supernatural horror oddity about a troubled firefighter who accidentally unleashes an ancient monster while on a hunting trip. Soon, severed body parts are appearing everywhere, detectives are behaving suspiciously, and a giant demon dog is leaving increasingly disturbing presents for its new favorite human.

In this Halloween episode:

• A surprisingly impressive opening shot followed by some truly unforgettable acting.

• A serial killer whose entire criminal career is derailed by a poorly packed backpack.

• Two detectives who seem more interested in recruiting swingers than solving murders.

• A demonic dog that might just be the world's worst emotional support animal.

• The completely unexplored cinematic potential of cannibal gerbils.

Meanwhile, Gimcrack prepares for Halloween, Dustin doubles down on his Sigma Brain consumption, and Patrick begins questioning whether anyone involved in this podcast should be allowed near the woods again.

It's a Halloween celebration of forgotten horror movies, practical monster effects, questionable filmmaking, and improvised comedy from the basement of a cursed video store.

Because if you introduce cannibal gerbils in the first act, they'd better eat a demon dog by the third.

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This Halloween, Found on Shelf ventures into the woods with returning guest Bitter Karella, author of Moonflow and the new queer folk horror novel Quaint Folk, to tackle the cult horror-comedy There's Nothing Out There (1991)!

Before Scream made self-aware horror cool, director Rolf Kanefsky unleashed a low-budget creature feature about horny teenagers, a murderous alien frog, and one insufferable horror nerd who knows every scary movie cliché but somehow remains completely useless.

What follows is less a traditional horror movie review and more an increasingly unhinged investigation into the strange, slimy, and surprisingly horny history of B-movies.

In this Halloween horror spectacular:

• Is There's Nothing Out There a forgotten precursor to Scream, or proof that being first doesn't mean being good?

• Why does everyone agree that Mike desperately needs to die?

• Bitter Karella reveals the bizarre true story behind Mood Boobs, a crowdfunded fetish comedy featuring practical breast-enlargement effects.

• We explore director Rolf Kanefsky's fascinating journey through low-budget horror, science fiction, and erotic cinema.

• Is this alien frog trying to murder people, impregnate them, or just find love?

• Could There's Nothing Out There secretly be Thursday the 12th, the missing chapter of Friday the 13th?

• And can we convince Rolf Kanefsky to direct a film adaptation of Moonflow?

Plus, Bitter introduces Quaint Folk, their satirical queer folk horror novel about an obnoxious American family visiting a suspiciously charming British island. Think The Wicker Man, but with more reasons to distrust everyone.

Meanwhile, Gimcrack struggles to maintain control of the podcast, Dustin discovers some unsettling truths about his own DNA, and Patrick continues to exist. Allegedly.

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Join us for obscure horror movies, cult cinema, terrible filmmaking decisions, monster madness, and enough inappropriate tangents to make your Halloween deeply uncomfortable.

🎃 Happy Halloween, you beautiful degenerates!

📚 Find Bitter Karella's Quaint Folk and Moonflow wherever books are sold.

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Keywords: There's Nothing Out There 1991, Bitter Karella, Quaint Folk, Rolf Kanefsky, Halloween horror movies, cult horror comedy, obscure horror films, B-movies, creature features, 1990s horror, Scream, Mood Boobs, horror movie podcast.

Got Resident Evil fever? Take a wrong turn into Silent Hill. This week on Found on Shelf, guest host Casey joins the crew for “Hobo-MurderMaxxing,” a spoiler-filled Return to Silent Hill review featuring an intervention for Gimcrack, an exorcism that backfires, and some deeply questionable attempts to help a friend.

With Zach Cregger’s new Resident Evil movie feeding our appetite for survival horror, we’re digging into another video game adaptation—and asking how Christophe Gans’ return measures up to Silent Hill 2. From Pyramid Head and monstrous nurses to James Sunderland’s baggage, we unpack the scares, the baffling choices, and what gets lost when psychological horror goes Hollywood.

Meanwhile, Gimcrack’s friends would really appreciate it if he spent less time in hell. Their solution? An intervention. Their backup plan? An exorcism. Their qualifications? Unclear.

Come for the movie discussion.

Stay because the doors are locked.

The Jackalope is back—and apparently therapy has taught them absolutely nothing.

This week on Found on Shelf, Specc joins us for Dragonheart: Vengeance, the fifth movie in the Dragonheart franchise and the 2020 direct-to-video fantasy sequel nobody realized they were missing.

A young man sets out to avenge his murdered family with the help of a mysterious sellsword and Siveth, an ice-breathing dragon voiced by Helena Bonham Carter. Sounds straightforward. Unfortunately, Siveth is also a vegetarian pacifist who can transform into a horse, dog, cat, and mouse, the villains feel like rejected Mortal Kombat characters, and the whole adventure plays like somebody found an unfinished fantasy RPG, deleted every side quest, and left in all the walking.

Along the way, we discuss the increasingly inexplicable Dragonheart franchise, bargain-bin Johnny Depp, dragon gender essentialism, suspicious assassins, Linkin Park and Evanescence, direct-to-video sequel economics, and whether this entire story should have just been a PS2 game.

By the end, we may not be able to explain what happened in Dragonheart: Vengeance.

We will not apologize.

Welcome to TERF THE MAGIC DRAGON.

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Somehow, Dustin made it nearly 20 years without watching Twilight.

Kalynn has come to correct that mistake.

This week on Found on Shelf, we revisit the 2008 vampire romance starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and ask the important questions: Is Edward Cullen romantic or just an extremely sparkly stalker? Why do immortal vampires keep going back to high school? Where is the actual downside to being a Twilight vampire? And exactly how cold is Edward’s pee pee?

Kalynn brings years of Twilight lore to the table while Dustin slowly realizes what he’s gotten himself into and Patrick tries to determine whether Edward and Bella are somehow more toxic than Anne Rice vampires.

Along the way, we discuss Team Edward vs. Team Jacob, Forks, Washington, Mormon vampires, vampire baseball, glitter, emotional support cacti, Edward watching Bella sleep, the surprisingly good filmmaking of Catherine Hardwicke, questionable relationship advice, Robert Pattinson’s deeply weird energy, and the enduring cultural damage of the Twilight Saga.

Plus: our pitch for improving the movie involves more glitter, less high school, and considerably more vampire baseball.

Welcome to Ice Cold Pee Pee.

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Patrick promised Gabe they could watch a Dragon Ball movie.

Unfortunately, Dustin picked the Dragon Ball movie.

This week, Found on Shelf tackles Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins, the bizarre 1991 live-action adaptation that somehow manages to be a cheap knockoff, a surprisingly competent martial-arts movie, and occasionally a better Dragon Ball adaptation than Dragon Ball Evolution.

Joining us is returning guest Gabe, who attempts to explain actual Dragon Ball lore while Dustin meets Monkey Boy, a plastic crocodile, discount Yamcha, a disturbingly accurate Master Roshi, inexplicable CGI fight doubles, and possibly the greatest googly-eyed Shenron ever committed to film.

We also play Head Canon or Head-Cha-La, discover exactly how many adaptations removed from Dragon Ball this thing actually is, continue developing Horse Dog: The Movie, summon Scarab Jam, destroy another laptop, and confront several adaptation choices that absolutely did not need to be made.

Against all odds?

Temu Goku kinda rules.

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Patrick is back from the dead, Dustin is skipping through time, and somehow the safest thing inside the cursed video store is the sushi.

In “We’re Just Bad People,” Found on Shelf takes on Dead Sushi, Noboru Iguchi’s gloriously unhinged Japanese horror-comedy featuring flying killer sushi, martial arts, zombie rice, sushi nunchucks, an acid-spitting egg sushi named Eggy, and a tuna-headed revenge monster commanding a floating sushi battleship.

Along the way, we discuss questionable Grogu products, receive some deeply upsetting listener voicemails, revisit our history of accidentally insulting filmmakers, and discover the perfect new slogan for the podcast.

Is Dead Sushi good? Does it make sense? Could it be improved?

The answers are yes, absolutely not, and only by giving it a 4K restoration with Dolby Atmos.

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In CGI Flydays, Dustin, Gimcrack, and returning guest Gabe dive into S.S. Rajamouli’s gloriously excessive 2012 Telugu fantasy-revenge film about a murdered man reincarnated as a CGI housefly.

What begins as a romantic melodrama quickly becomes a full-scale Looney Tunes assassination campaign involving fly vision, micro armor, tiny weapons, occult sparrows, an increasingly unhinged billionaire, and one of the most spectacularly over-the-top fiery finales ever committed to film.

We discuss why Sudeep is a certified sexual icon, whether humanity has dangerously underestimated the intelligence of flies, how Eega compares to RRR, and why a movie this good leaves a comedy podcast with surprisingly little to complain about.

Plus: no trailer tonight, clone containment failures, inherited memories, Patrick’s uncertain medical status, plans for three unnecessary sequels, and Gabe’s future blockbuster Horse Dog—a touching story involving a doglike horse, an evil land developer, and a deeply suspicious incident in Needles.

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Due to some....complications we need to take a short break.

Have no fear, Dustin and Patrick will be resurre....I mean they will return shortly.

Wait, if they are gone then who am I? Maybe I can finally use this space to write the next great American Novel. Hmmm, but there's a character limi