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Smarmy politician Bo Gumbs (Dick Shawn) checks into a hotel to prepare for a speech. After he tells the hotel waitstaff his philosophy that politics is solely about entertaining people, they help him to get ready by dressing him up as the clown that he truly is.  Co-Written by Armand Mastoianni and David Gerrold, directed by Mastroianni.  Original air date: May 12th, 1985

Talks from the Darkside intro cover by Matt Cannon/Lapses

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Welcome  to the replay of our March 2022 Wrap-Up! Make sure to head over to our  Twitch channel to watch and chat live with us at the end of every month!

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Cathy and Edward Osbourne (Therese Pare and Stuart Whitman), along  with their attorney Michael Fox (Nick Benedict), discover through  communication with a spirit known as Ben that their house contains a  boarded up room that causes anyone that steps inside it to go insane.  Cathy and Michael, who are lovers, plot to scare Edward to death in the  supposedly cursed "Madness Room" so they can abscond with his fortune.  Written by Thomas Epperson.

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Prudence (Jessica Harper), a young woman who suffers from clinical depression, meets Ambrose Cavender (Victor Garber), a peculiar therapist who collects the tears of his patients, insisting they are for a purpose. It isn't long before Prudence wonders if Cavender is merely pretending to help her and is actually exploiting her constant crying fits to gather more tears.

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This week on Movie Dumpster, the Video Dungeon is being invaded by alien bozos with an appetite for close encounters! Rudy from  Lucky Duck Entertainment joins us to show us some magic tricks, balloon art, and share the love for this B-movie cult classic! Grab some popcorn, snuggle up in your cotton candy cocoons, and get ready for some grease painted sci-fi shenanigans under the big top with Killer Klowns from Outer Space!

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Ripe Reviews returns to the Video Dungeon this week on Movie Dumpster! The mutants of Tromaville forced us to watch killer whales defecating on cancel culture activists, big pharma bigwigs ingesting mutation-inducing drugs, wheelchair-bound-crack-addicted sex workers doing musical numbers, horrible freaks of nature fornicating with "upstanding members" of society in moments of poetic justice... AND WE LOVED IT! Climb aboard because good ol' Uncle Lloyd is steering this ship right into the brown eye of #ShakespearesShitstorm! 

Joan Matlin (Jean Marsh), an aspiring actress who has moved to New York in the hopes of finding work, is driven to near insanity by a telephone in the next apartment that rings constantly. She attempts to complain to the tenants inside, but finds that the apartment has been vacant for some time. She tries to have the phone disconnected, but it is revealed that the phone has a life of its own. Written by Michael McDowell.

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Abe North (Bud Cort), a put-upon math professor who studies the dark arts, quits his job, confident that his magic is about to help him win the lottery. Unfortunately, Abe finds out that he has lost by one number to hairdresser Anne MacColl (Carol Kane). When he comes to confront her, Abe discovers that she too studies the dark arts... and that she is more skilled, bitter, and unhinged than he is.

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This week in the Video Dungeon we are getting festive for St. Patrick's Day on Movie Dumpster! King Kevin and his leprechaun kin have dropped by to spread their mischievous malady upon Grant Cramer for destroying their home to make way for his IRELAND LAND theme park. Can grandpa Mike convince his family the wee folk exist and save their home on Fairy Hill before he's locked away in a rubber room? We're going back to the shelf for another magical pull from the Moonbeam library, as we try to reinvigorate our imagination and believe in those Leapin' Leprechauns! 

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