Half Price Horror

It's time to go full-out weird with the red-headed stepchild of the Halloween franchise, HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH! Will there be commentary on Dan Challis sleeping with a woman half his age? Will we discuss the obvious lampshading of the Stonehenge Heist? All that and more, folks, on the night where NO ONE comes home!

Some movies can be seen, some movies can be described, but some movies simply have to be experienced. Join Half Price Horror in an effort to understand that strangest of movies, that cultiest of cult classics, that bizarro masterpiece of outsider art... 1989's direct-to-video effort, 'Things'!

Spooky Season may be over, but Michael Myers is a lot harder to stop! He's still hunting Laurie Strode as we pick up on the night he came home, and discuss what goes wrong and what goes very, very right with the 1981 sequel to John Carpenter's immortal classic.

It's Halloween weekend, and you know what that means--time to spend a little while breaking down a classic episode of Elvira's Movie Macabre from 1983! This time out she's showing 1973's "The Devil's Wedding Night", and man. If you love Italian grindhouse cinema, you are in for a blood bathing, twin confusing, vampire fighting, lesbian sex-filled treat! We get into every detail, including the film's connections to Wagnerian opera, and celebrate the end to another year's glorious Spooky Season with the Mistress of the Dark.

It wouldn't be Spooky Season if we didn't cover something legendary, and it doesn't get more legendary than John Carpenter's immortal classic from 1978, 'Halloween'! Listen and learn the location of the three real pumpkins, the identity of the announcer on Tommy Doyle's TV set, and just what makes the ending of the iconic slasher flick so scary!

It's been a while since we've been to Woodsboro, and even longer since Sidney Prescott has visited her old hometown. But there's a new Ghostface and a new round of murders, and that means it's time for her--and us--to answer that old question one more time. "What's your favorite scary movie?" And what do we think of legacy sequels, mental health depictions in horror, and the first sequel without Wes Craven? Time to find out!

HPH goes full Hammer horror for Spooky Season, with the role that made Christopher Lee a horror icon--Dracula, lord of the undead! We discuss the changes made to this chopped and channeled adaptation, the fantastic performance of Peter Cushing, and everything else that made this 1958 film a classic of the genre.

Half Price Horror jumps into the Halloween season with a 1951 classic of science-fiction horror that John Carpenter loved so much he almost refused to remake it, 'The Thing From Another World'! Join us for a discussion of Cold War politics and atomic horror as we take on one of the greats of the genre that inspired another one of the greats of the genre.

It's time to bid farewell to the Phantasm franchise, and we end as we begin with a microbudgeted surrealist horror film created by a group of close friends that defies logic and refuses easy answers as it meditates on death, grief, and what lies beyond the world we know. So let's get into the 'Cuda one final time and go out guns blazing as we take on the Tall Man once more in 'Phantasm: Ravager'!

HPH dives into Taika Waititi's mournful, elegiac meditation on aging and loss as seen through the eyes of a group of immortal vampires unable to die even as they see their loved ones and the world they knew pass away. It's full of bleak dread and endless sorrow... oh yeah, and also werewolves not swearwolves, a look they call 'Dead But Delicious', and plenty of arguments over who should do the dishes. It's funny, it's sad, it's scary, it's WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS!