Rounding our Listener Submitted Month is a bit different film than our usual on the show, but still hits a lot of the same questionable beats so dammit, you’re going to listen to us deconstruct PAGAN INVASION VOLUME 1: HALLOWEEN - TRICK OR TREAT (1990). Shameless church propaganda from the first Satanic Panic (we are living through the second round currently), this one has more lies stuffed in its 47 minute runtime than candy in a boo bucket after hitting the rich people neighborhoods… You’d think the police would’ve followed up on the one guy’s assertions that he was part of a demon child trafficking sex cult if any of what he said was true, right? At least the theme song rips. If you grew up celebrating Family Fun Night while all your classmates were doing normal Halloween stuff, this one’s for you, you hopeless weirdo.

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Listener Submitted Month continues with another banger from 1990, Claudio Fragasso’s BEYOND DARKNESS! Released the same year as his more infamous, so-bad-it’s-good TROLL 2, both films starred Michael Stephenson as the tormented son of a father lacking any ability to tell that his family is in mortal danger. This one may suffer a bit from its actual cinematic competency compared to TROLL 2, but it’s still a wild ride of blasphemy, witches and exorcism. Welcome to our casa (5)!

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Let’s go back to the bad old days when HMN was the Reddit Horror Club; at the time, we rotated through the members of the group, doing 2 movies a week chosen by different people. One of them was HARDWARE (1990), so it’s only fitting that over a decade later it’s suggested by a listener and here we are doing a proper discussion of it on the show! If you can ignore how much Richard Stanley put of himself into the pervy landlord (who gets absolutely ROCKED by the killer robot later on), this is an almost flawless slice of grimy cyberpunk/post-apocalyptic horror.

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Listener Submitted Month kicks off with a deep cut from our neighbor to the north. Sleepover Nightmare is in strong contention of being the cheapest movie we've ever covered (and that includes last week's Birdemic). This Canadian slasher film has the feeling of a shot on video 90's slasher but with a little less charm.

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We’ve been hard at work only discussing movies with anniversaries this year, and to show his displeasure, Matt chose to punish us all with the unwatchable BIRDEMIC: SHOCK AND TERROR (2010). Arguably one of the worst movies ever made. it really lives up to the hype and is without a doubt the dumbest thing we’ve ever discussed on the show. Hope you like terrible CGI bird clipart flapping in the foreground (though an argument can be made that it takes away some of the sting of the absolutely stupid dialogue). It’s Horror Movie Night and we’re not happy about it!

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Like many boys in the mid-90s, naked women were very scary for your gentle HMN hosts. The concept of their strange anatomy, ability to smell your fear (and possibly boners) as well as their heightened intelligence made them seem like they were from another planet… So of course we studied SPECIES (1995) for clues on how to defend ourselves. We’re grown up now but still mystified by the kinder sex (even though we live with them these days; we are simple creatures) and need a refresher on what to do about hot alien monsters. Let’s learn biology together on this week’s Horror Movie Night!

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We all make mistakes from time to time… Some of us accidentally bully a child to death (it’s ok if you’re also a kid. Maybe.) while others choose a movie set on Halloween to discuss in the middle of August. When we put it that way, it’s not quite so bad that we’re doing the supernaturally-charged medical thriller FLATLINERS (1990) this week on the show. Plus, it’s got an all-star cast of incredibly attractive people. Also Oliver Platt. Heat up the defibrillator and pop some melty candy corn in our mouths, it’s Horror Movie Night!

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It was said that we would never cover this film, but since it's 45th anniversary is this year and Matt need to get his quota of "stay out of the water" films, it was too much of a perfect storm to ignore! We dive into the good, the bad and the gooey aspects that craft this sleazy showstopper!

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Did someone say “Craig Sheffer back-to-back shows?” Because you bet your tush it’s a Craig Sheffer back-to-back show this week as we raise some H - E - double hockey sticks with 2000’s film noir HELLRAISER: INFERNO. This is actually a double two-fer, as we have now discussed both of Scott Derrickson’s directorial offerings in 2000, lest we forget about URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT, which is ironically one month older than INFERNO. He was certainly busy at the beginning of the new millennium, but at what cost? Is this a good Hellraiser sequel? Is this really even a Hellraiser sequel? You can find a lot of opinions on the internet about it, and here we are with our own unsolicited review. What’s your pleasure?

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It’s the height of summer and the days are heating up… Better head to the graveyard and hang with the B-Men (B stands for Barker, of course). We’re cooling down with the oiled up monsters of 1990’s NIGHTBREED, which some rightfully call “monster X-Men” while others questionably call “creatures I wouldn’t kick out of bed.” You get tons of cool monster designs, David Cronenberg as a serial killer psychiatrist, and of course the beloved Doug Bradley as the leader of the pack. Get sweaty with us this week on Horror Movie Night!

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