The Vatican has a top-secret mission for you, so grab the holy water, garlic, silver stakes, zip lines, circular saw blades, and machine gun crossbows because we're heading to Transylvania!

Art and Erik are joining the Pope's favorite monster hunter, Van Helsing, on an adventure that involves vampires, werewolves, zombies and Frankenstein's monster.

That's right, this 2004 action-adventure horror film was directed by Stephen Sommers after his massive hit with the Brendan Fraser-led The Mummy. After that success, Universal Studios threw open the monster vault as well as their checkbook, and the result was this mashup of James Bond, Universal Monsters, and swashbuckling adventure films.

Using CGI alongside practical sets and wirework, Sommers set out to make a blockbuster starring a young Hugh Jackman (entering his Wolverine era) and Kate Beckinsale, who was already beginning her own monster franchise, Underworld.

Van Helsing underperformed at the box office, and critics were underwhelmed. But we're firing up the projector in the Midnight Cinema to take another look at this curio.

Join us as we dive deep into the mysteries (there are so many mysteries!) of this unique take on the classic characters of Dracula and Frankenstein.

Congrats to two new Popcorn Bucket Award winners: Alun Armstrong and Silvia Colloca.

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The movie James Corden never wanted you to see! The movie with a title so cheeky it's been changed over the years!

It's the 2009 horror-comedy Lesbian Vampire Killers, in which two down-on-their-luck Londoners take a trip to the remote village of Cragwich and find themselves in the middle of a sapphic vampire apocalypse.

James Corden and Mathew Horne were paired as the leads off the success of their popular BBC series Gavin and Stacy. The film attempted to put Hammer Horror, Edgar Wright-like visual flair, frat humor, and a bevy of babes in a blender and pour out a cult classic.

Art and Erik hop in the VW bus and head for The Baron's Rest pub to investigate this forgotten campy oddity that promises a lot in its title.

The Midnight Cinema this week will be populated by vengeful Vicars, Swedish coeds and ominous barkeeps. Oh, and vampire women of course.

But does this film deliver on the comedy, or the horror, or the sexiness? Just how many lesbian vampires can one movie fit?

Find out with us!

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Wear your garlic T-shirt, tune up your saxophone, fill your squirt gun with holy water and don't forget to call the Frog Brothers because we're heading to Santa Carla, the murder and vampire capital of the world!

Art and Erik are riding towards the bluff with Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric and the rest of the sexy bloodsuckers of The Lost Boys!

In 1987, Director Joel Schumacher created an iconic hit by combining The Goonies with Dracula. And on this episode of Midnight Cinema, we're hanging on as tight as we can to the railroad bridge to give you all the scoop on this legendary horror comedy.

We'll even throw a new segment (with a musical intro) at you, along with a few Lost Boys musical numbers.

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Listen to the podcast, or there will be trouble!

Art and Erik are heading to dystopian Detroit for Paul Verhoeven's 1987 classic Robocop. And the prime directives are to serve the listeners, go deep into the movie, and leave you laughing.

This 80s genre-defining sci-fi/action hybrid turned a slain officer into a corporate-owned crime-fighting weapon. And along the way, it features gnarly practical effects, pitch-black satire, and a surprisingly emotional core underneath all the ultraviolence.

We're diving into the toxic waste, the boardroom backstabbing, and why ED-209 still can't handle stairs. Join us in the Midnight Cinema and stay out of Old Detroit after dark!

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Check the ceilings, stay out of the sewers and keep away from clogged drains - we're hunting The Blob!

Art and Erik are breaking down the 1988 remake of the classic monster movie featuring the slimy, gooey, globular creature that absorbs everything in its path.

This reboot used incredible special effects to make the insatiable blob more of a mean menace and to add some truly gnarly moments of gore. And the filmmakers set out to deliver an experience in which no character is safe.

Join us in the Midnight Cinema, and pay no attention to that glob of goo coming from the projection booth!

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Grab a motion tracker, call up the Colonial Marines, and hop in the APC — because we're heading back to LV-426, baby!

Art and Erik are facing the Xenomorphs once again as the Midnight Cinema projectors fire up for one of the greatest sequels in movie history. Aliens (1986) — James Cameron's third film — catapulted his unique vision into the stratosphere, trading in Ridley Scott's slow-burn horror for full-throttle war-movie action. Come join us as we dive into this one-of-a-kind blockbuster on its 40th anniversary.

Grab a motion tracker, call up the colonial marines, and hop in the APC — because we're heading back to LV-426, baby!

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Step right up and direct your attention to the center ring! It's time for the Klown show!

But don't let these harlequins fool you; their plans for Earth are no laughing matter.

Midnight Cinema is the home of the carnival this week, and Art and Erik are taking you inside the big top for Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

Back in 1988 the Chiodo brothers created this horror comedy to show off their special effects prowess and jammed it full of surprises. From balloon animal guard dogs to deadly shadow puppets, these Klowns mean business.

Is this film really a jewel of the cult classic midway? Grab a ticket and join us to find out!

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Zip up your sleeping bag, watch out for the giant salmon and don't pick up the mutant bear cub!

Midnight Cinema is heading to Maine for the 1979 eco-terror monster movie Prophecy!

John Frankeheimmer directed this strange mix of nature-takes-its-revenge B-movie and 1970's enviornmental/sociopolitical thriller.

Gorgeous cinematography of the natural landscape, a soaring score, and an earnest screenplay meet a lumbering mess of a mutant creature that the cast and crew referred to as "pizza bear."

Art and Erik are driving deep into the woods to get to the bottom of this cinematic hybrid that faced the poisoned pens of critics upon its release, but since has grown a following as a cult classic.

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They slither, they slide, they waddle, they fly!

We're inviting some of the most memorable monsters to a special screening at the Midnight Cinema!

This episode, Art and Erik host a pantheon of the slimiest, cleverest, weirdest, funniest and most skin-crawling beasties you've ever seen on the silver screen!

They're cool. They're creepy! Join us as we count them down! What are the movie monsters you can't shake?

Erik's Picks:

• Gamera
• Deep Rising
• Alien: Resurrection (Ripley Alien Baby)
• The Angry Red Planet (Bat Rat Monster)
• Slither
• The Host
• The Ritual
• Pan's Labyrinth (The Pale Man)
• Arcadian
• Robot Monster

Art's Picks

• Daimajin
• Creepshow 2: The Raft
• Prophecy (Mutunt Bear Baby)
• It Conquered the World
• The Deadly Spawn
• The Ruins
• Zygote
• Clash of the Titans -1981 (Medusa)
• Possum
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Bonus pick: Art and Erik recommend: Recorded Live!

You can watch Recorded Live on Youtube.

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She's a Space Girl, and she's gone too far...

Bring your spacesuit, pack your passport and grab your leaded iron sword because we're heading to England for Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce!

This 1985 cult classic was a big sci-fi horror play by the famous Cannon films, and this week we're going to open the space coffins and unleash the naked truth about this cinematic mashup of vampires, aliens and zombies.

Art and Erik are stripping down the film to its bare essentials and asking: Does this belong in the Midnight Cinema?

We'll talk about:

• Incredible special effects work
• Mathilde May's iconic performance
• Patrick Stewart's first screen kiss - under hypnosis
• Wild interrogation scenes

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