Mike, El Kabong, and Dick White Tip return with Part II of our Snuff Film series, and while the subject matter for this one is tame by our standards, we ourselves get a little carried away talking about snuff in more mainstream films such as 8MM, Vacancy, Running Scared, Scream 4, and the Sinister films, along with the lesser known entries Mute Witness, Thesis, and The Brave. Sal gets a lesson in PC terminology and gives us a lesson in nasty pornography. Other topics and side tangents include scum-bucket Jerry Lewis, plastic surgery disasters, seedy motels and Bigfoot!

Our source for this episode: Killing for Culture: From Edison to ISIS - A New History of Death on Film by David Kerekes & David Slater.

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We’re starting an extensive series on Snuff Films and on this episode we’re starting at the very beginning, with Thomas Edison’s exploitation films of executions and bloodsports! We also get into Charles Manson and the Family’s influence on introducing the term “snuff films” into the lexicon as we know it today, as well as their influence on exploitation cinema through films like Snuff (1975) and Last House on Dead End Street (1979). Mondo documentaries and rumored footage of celebrity deaths is discussed, as well as Peeping Tom (1960) and voyeurism in cinema. We cover Faces of Death and touch on films such as Cannibal Holocaust, 8MM and the Guinea Pig Franchise. Emanuelle in America grosses Sal out, as it rightfully should. To close out this week we bring up Effects (1979) and George C. Scott in Hardcore (1979). Throughout the week we also give some recommendations on films to check out over the next week.

Our sources for this episode: Killing for Culture: From Edison to ISIS - A New History of Death on Film by David Kerekes & David Slater and VHS Nasty: The Video Nasties by Tony Newton & David Bond

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This week we sat down with our good friend Tony to shoot the shit about his favorite, the Halloween franchise. We also got into a plethora of other topics such as bootlegging, VHS and DVD’s, and collections. John Carpenter’s other films get some time as we talk about remakes and upcoming new releases such as X, The Cursed, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Death on the Nile. Have you ever wondered what movies made or make us cry? Find out on this episode!

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Closing out our series on the Misfits, we start off with a tiny recap on Static Age and discuss the Fly series that inspired the Misfits Return of the Fly song. THX 1138 and the ominous but obvious meaning of We Are 138. Moving on, we get into Walk Among Us, The Creature Walks Among Us and the American Psycho album. The BAT-RAT-SPIDER and Cinemagic Process from The Angry Red Planet, along with one of our favorites, Ray Harryhausen’s flying saucers in Earth vs the Flying Saucers. A few real life UFO tales and Teenagers from Outer Space, Invaders from Mars (‘53 and ‘86), with the remake focusing on Stan Winston’s creature FX. We also touch on the horrible Astro Zombies film and the Misfits songs they inspired that are so good you can’t help but sing along, same goes with The Brain Eaters. 

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Our sources for this episode: This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete History of the Misfits by James Greene Jr., Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema by Jamie Russell, The Price of Fear: The Film Career of Vincent Price in His Own Words by Joel Eisner, Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror by Michael Mallory, Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Films of the Fifties by Bill Warren, Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema by Vanessa Harryhausen, and The Winston Effect: The Art and History of Stan Winston Studio by Jody Duncan.

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On Part II of our Misfits series, we are covering lots of Horror Business! We kick off with a lengthy bit on the history of horror in music including Louis Armstrong’s Skeleton in the Closet from the film Pennies from Heaven, the man who allowed the devil to tune his guitar in exchange for his soul - Robert Johnson’s Me and the Devil Blues, the first true shock rock persona - Screaming’ Jay Hawkins’ I Put a Spell on You, Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the many variations of the Monster Mash, Splatter Platters and America’s fascination with the morbid, Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne’s animal mishaps, the Universal madman Dwight Fry, The Cramps and a small rundown on Psychobilly, Horrorbilly, and Gothabilly, 45 Grave and Riboflavin-Flavored Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood, Bauhaus and The Damned. Then, we pick up from last week with the Crimson Ghost and Horror Business, the deaths of Nancy Spungeon and Sid Vicious, Tammy, Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann and the infamous shower scene in Psycho, the documentary 78/52 and the Bomb Under the Table Technique, Diabolique's influence on Psycho and the sequels, Vera Clouzot’s untimely death and her work on The Wages of Fear - remade as Sorcerer, Scarface and Raging Bull scenes that copy Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero and his work with the Misfits on Bruiser, the Famous Monster’s album and the singles from the movie Bruiser, 3 Hits from Hell and the Fiend Club, Horror Hotel aka the City of the Dead, Jason Statham, King Diamond’s Sleepless Nights, White and Rob Zombie, Fanatic aka Die, Die My Darling! with Tallulah Bankhead, Vincent Price and the Oblong Box, Herschell Gordon Lewis and his Blood Feast’s inspiration on the slasher genre, Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood and the Psychopath aka Schizo, and last but not least…Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight!?!

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Our sources for this episode: This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete History of the Misfits by James Greene Jr., Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978-1986 by Adam Rockoff, Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography by Tom Johnson and Deborah Del Vecchio, Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema by Jamie Russell, and The Price of Fear: The Film Career of Vincent Price in His Own Words by Joel Eisner.

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Sit back and relax because we're starting a series on one of our favorite bands, the Misfits, and a plethora of films, magazines, and celebrities that inspired Misfits songs. On this episode we got into a wide range of topics... the Misfits early days and the Cough/Cool single, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Hollywood Babylon, and other sleazy literature. The cursed film, The Misfits, from 1960 starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, who would both be dead within a short time after filming. We ponder Who Killed Marilyn? with Static Age and Legacy of Brutality, Suicide's Ghost Rider, Wendy O. Williams and anger in punk rock. Plan 9 Records and the films of Ed Wood, most notably Plan 9 from Outer Space from 1959 - the inspiration behind Tim Burton's Ed Wood film from 1994 - and the cast of characters Criswell, Tor Johnson, Bela Lugosi, and Vampira. We also get into how Maila Nurmi aka Vampira inspired not only the Misfits but others in the punk scene as one of the very first goth horror hostesses, inspiring Elvira as well. After our discussion of The Crimson Ghost and Cyclotrode X is where our discussion pauses for this week, until we continue next week with Part II - Horror Business!

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Our sources for this episode: This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits by James Greene Jr., The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela Lugosi by Arthur Lennig, and Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi by Sandra Niemi.

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Krampusnacht might have come and gone and Christmas is now officially over, but we had to record a Krampus episode during Christmas week. Sam runs down some history of all things spooky in the European folklore of icons such as Krampus and Frau Perchta, and the gang discusses the films Saint, Rare Exports, A Christmas Horror Story, and of course…Krampus!

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This week we wanted to give you a special Christmas Bonus in the form of The Bully, a horror short story turned audiobook written and created by our very own host, Mike Morrissey in 2013. Starring Rian Jairell as Riley Fairhaven, Mike Morrissey as John Scratch, and Jen Martin as the narrator. In the story, Riley Fairhaven was a bully to everyone his whole life. One day he picked on the wrong guy. Like the saying goes, what goes around come around, well in this this case what came around was the worst thing imaginable. Special thanks goes out to Nissa Torres for her lovely artwork. 

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Join us as we discuss some Slayer Santas with criminal tendencies! We kick things off by exploring all the different laws and regulations Santa breaks on a regular basis, from tax evasion to unlawful surveillance. Next, we dive into …And All Through the House, both the segment from the 1972 anthology film and the episode from the 1989 television series Tales from the Crypt, the ladder featuring the most menacing Larry Drake as the escaped lunatic. We also get to hear Mike’s Cryptkeeper impersonation! If you’ve ever wanted to glue a beard and eyebrows to your face and go on a Yuletide rampage, then Christmas Evil aka You Better Watch Out from 1980, which is John Waters favorite Christmas themed film, is just for you. A Black Christmas / Friday the 13th mashup, To All a Goodnight. 1984’s Silent Night, Deadly Night also gets a lengthy, in-depth analysis, just in time for GARBAGE DAY! The film with many names that the ripped off as the basis for Home Alone, Dial Code Santa Claus aka Game Over features a Slayer Santa and a young French Rambo. Wrapping it all up, we get silly with the horrible Silent Night remake from 2012, which was partially inspired by the tragic real life Covina Massacre on Christmas Eve in 2008, where Bruce Pardo crashed the party of his in-laws and killed 9 members of his ex-wife’s family dressed in a custom made Santa suit before torching their house with a homemade flamethrower that he brought with him wrapped as a present. 

Sources for this episode include How Many Crimes Would Santa be Guilty of If He Were Real? by Sean Braswell and Adam Rockoff's Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978-1986.

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This week we are packing this episode full of GIANT MONSTERS! Join us as we grow in size to talk The Host, Dune, The Mist, go old school with Spectreman, and even father back to Ray Harryhausen classics such as Mysterious Island, the Sinbad Franchise and Jason and the Argonauts. We also get into Tarantula, Boar, and clear up that Lake Placid is a croc - not a gator. Mike brings up Troll Hunter and Ric Flair and goes full Rampage on the Rock, and Milla Jovovich in Monster Hunter also gets an elbow off the top ropes. Sal brings up his love for “amazing” films like The Amazing 50 Foot Woman and The Amazing Colossal Man. Sam shares his love for the kaiju’s of the Godzilla Franchise and Deep Rising. Peter Jackson’s King Kong and Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim get brought up with the Cloverfield Franchise and we go on a side tangent about The House That Jack Built and the gore of the August Underground film series.