Between Salem's Lot and Poltergeist Tobe Hooper gave us a reason to fear the carnival.  You never know whats lurking under the attractions of the bizarre.  For our 166th podcast we give the Horror 101 Treatment to The Funhouse.  This movie is heavily steeped in 80s fun...

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
03:30  A 50th Birthday Surprise...
06:30  Tobe Hooper Films...
12:10  The Psycho Halloween Beginning...
14:20  Don't go near that Carnival...
16:20  God is Watching You!
17:50  The Barkers! (Kevin Conway)
19:50  The Strippers...
20:45  Let's Spend the Night...
22:30  Funhouse Attractions...
23:50  Witnessing Murder...
27:25  Finders Keepers...
31:30  Buzz's Misfortune...
36:00  Liz Trapped...
37:00  Carney Showdown...
40:30  Crunch Job...
44:30  Scoring the Film...
51:15  Conclusion!  Thanks for Listening!

We hope your Christmas went smooth and Santa fulfilled all your wishes this year.  We have something very different for you for our final show of the year.  Think Zombieland meets high school musical.  How was this ever made?  I dunno but we're ending 2025 giving the Horror 101 Treatment to John McPhail's Anna and the Apocalypse!  Sharpen your candy canes, Kids.  Its going to be a WILD ride!

Show Hightlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
04:00  Hasty Promises...
12:40  Gotta Pay off that Ticket...
14:10  Savage!
17:20  Hollywood Ending...
19:00  High School Pageant...
20:50  Its a Beautiful Day...
22:15  Snowman Zombie...
24:00 Bowling Alley Attack...
27:00  Warm Plastic...
30:00  Xmas Tree Emporium...
33:00  School Lockdown...
37:20  Office Problems...
39:39  Savage Square off...
41:15  Saying Goodbye...
46:00  Scoring the Film...
55:00  Final Thoughts and Conclusion...  Happy New Years!

In the early 60s there was an anthology horror released by American International Pictures.  Around the same time Vincent Price was making his mark with the Corman pictures an Italian Director was given an opportunity to give his take on several  classic horror tales and somehow got Boris Karloff to join in as the movie's host and star.  We hope you enjoy as we give the Horror 101 Treatment to Mario Bava's Black Sabbath!

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
05:50  Thinking of Ozzy...
12:45  The Drop of Water...
23:55  The Telephone...
33:50  The Wurdulac...
48:00  Scoring the Film...
56:45  Final Thoughts and Conclusion...

Its Halloween 2025!  Welcome to our 163rd show!  To celebreate the occasion, The Crew all agreed to focus on a sequel that we felt deserved a show.  We hope you enjoy as we give the Horror 101 Halloween treatment to Brian Trenchard-Smith's Night of the Demons 2 from 1994. 

Show Highlights:  

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
04:30 Setting up the movie...
10:00 A Slice of Cake...
13:50  Folklore...
16:05  Gorey Dream...
19:00 Sister Gloria...
21:40  Getting Grounded...
22:55 Perry's Experiment...
25:00 Invited to Party...
30:30  Hull House Scares...
34:55 Shirley's Possession...
37:05  Tit Attack...
40:15  Beheading...
41:40  Back to Hull House...
43:30  The Fifth Commandment...
49:55 The Inner Sanctum
54:05  Snake Angela...
55:40  The Ending...
57:00  Scoring the film...
63:15  Conclusion.. Happy Halloween!

We're going to the 80s for our 162nd show. You know we're all about Hidden Gems and there was some talk about doing Wishamster 2 for this podcast, since we had such a great time covering the original last show.  But instead we decided to honour the director of Wishmaster 2 by covering another of his films.  One of several he made for New Line Cinema back in the 80s.  This guy is not very well known and neither is this film, which makes it perfect for the podcast.  So we hope you enjoy as we give the Horror 101 treatment to Jack Sholder's The Hidden from 1987. 

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror
04:45  Choosing The Hidden...
10:40  Bank Robbery and Chase...
16:50  Transference...
19:20  Miller's Massacre...
25:05  The Stripper...
34:55  The Dog...
40:10  Police Station Assault...
46:30  Assassination...
48:45  Final Transfer...
53:00  Siskel and Ebert Weigh in...
55:00 Scoring the Film...
61:20  Final Thoughts and Conclusion

Thanks for Listening!

We've received a LOT of requests to cover this one over the years.  Directed by F/X mogul Robert Kurtzman and produced by Wes Craven, this late 90s gem features a TON of 80s Horror Icons.  Anyone who wanted an 'Expendables" version of Horror actors need look no further.  This is what you want.  Very few movies from this era had so many great practical effects.  The Gore is superb.  The Djinn was a fantastic new villain for the time, played by a deliciously charismatic Andrew Divoff.  We hope you enjoy our Horror 101 Treatment of Wishmaster.  

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
05:30  Remembering Wishmaster from the 90s...
11:20  "Show me Wonders!"
15:00  Shipyard Disaster...
16:50  The Fire Opal...
21:00  Djinn on the Loose...
22:45  Buck Flower and Reggie...
27:12  Visiting Beaumont...
30:40  Taking a Face...
34:00  "Everybody's a Witness..."
35:20  Going 'Through' Kane Hodder
38:45  Djinn Revealed...
44:00  Two Wishes Down...
45:10  Johnny Valentine...
48:00  "I'd Love to Host a Party Like That..."
52:15  The Final Wish...
57:10  Scoring the Film...
62:30  Conclusion...Thanks for Listening!!

Another 80s classic is being remade and should be released in August so before that comes out, for better or worse we want to spotlight the original from 1986.  Its our pleasure to give the Horror 101 treatment to Kevin Tenney's first feature film.  A solid entry in light 80s spiritual horror.

Show highlights:

01:00  Prelude to Terror...
04:00  Introducing Witchboard and the pending remake...
11:30  Ouija Party...
17:25  Construction Accident...
20:15  Magician Cop...
21:50  Using the Board Alone...
25:00  Progressive Entrapment...
27:45  Zarabeth The Medium...
37:00 Dewhurst in Hospital...
38:40  Hunting David...
41:10  Brandon's Final Contact...
45:45  Possession...
48:10  Closing the Portal...
52:38  Scoring the Film...
58:15  Conclusion!  Thanks for Listening!

Welcome to our 159th show.  For the first time in 13 years we cover a Mario Bava horror film from 1971.  We recorded this on Friday the 13th to pay homage to a film that inspired the Friday franchise.  With 13 deaths in an 84 minute movie, Bava certainly had no issue with letting the blood flow!  We hope you enjoy as we give the Horror 101 Treatment to Bava's classic Italian slasher, A Bay of Blood from 1971.

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror
05:15  Introducing Bava's works...
13:20  The Countess' Demise
16:30  Going to The Bay...
17:42  Insects and Fisherman...
18:50  Four in a Happy Buggy...
23:40  The German's Death...
24:28  Hooked Blade in the Face...
25:25  Double Skewer...
28:25  Visiting Paulo and Anna...
31:00  The Squid and the Corpse...
33:05  Axe Vs Scissors...
34:40  Strangled by Phone...
40:15  Simon's Vengeance...
45:22  "Alls Well That Ends Well..."
49:00 Final Thoughts...
51:30  Scoring the Film...
60:40  Conclusion...Thanks for Listening!

We're going back to the 80s to spotlight a low budget horror from The Empire days of legendary producer Charles Band.  We hope you enjoy as we give the horror 101 treatment to Luca Bercovici's Ghoulies.  

Show Highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
05:15  Before Full Moon....
07:55  You have a Big Hit on your hands...
09:35  PG-13!?
14:00  Ritual Infanticide...
17:05  Inheritance...
19:10  First Party...
23:20  Becoming an Adept...
26:00  Weird Sexy Time...
27:55  Summoned Dwarves...
31:55  Resurrection Ritual...
34:23  Malcolm's Ghoulie Massacre...
43:50  Black Magic Showdown...
47:45  The Ending...
51:00  Scoring the film...
59:00  Conclusion!  Thanks for lIstening!

Horror 101 Episode 6... That was the last time we touched anything directed by Michele Soavi.  For this show we decided to speculate on his film from 1994 which many believe to be his best piece of work.  It did NOT go as planned.  I broke my crew with this viewing.  You're about to have a box seat to that mayhem.  We hope you enjoy our hilarious Horror 101 treatment of Saovi's Cemerty Man AKA Delamorte Dellamore.

Show highlights:

01:00 Prelude to Terror...
04:20  Top 100 on Feedspot!
06:45  Michele Saovi info...
12:45  First Impressions...
13:45  Franceso Dellamorte...
16:30  The First 'She'...
19:45  She Returns...
21:00 Vomiting on Valentina...
22:25  Bus Massacre...
23:30  Boy Scouts Return...
26:28  Valentina Returns...
27:27  She Returns...
29:00  Stop Killing The Dead....
34:00  The Next She...
35:00  The Needle...
38:15  Hospital Massacre...
41:30  Escaping Nothing...
45:20  Scoring the Film...
56:30  Conclusion....Thanks for Listening!