Mystic Frightcast

This week Zane and McKenna drive to Forks to review the "classic" franchise. They also announce their hiatus, marking the end of season one of the MYSTIC FRIGHTCAST. Then they review the movies. This is a short description because I got places to be.

This week we're taking a break from horror to watch the new Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and talk about Charles Manson and his lovely little family. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the ninth film from famed writer/director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), following Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight. Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie star as washed up western actor Rick Dalton, his stuntman/gopher Cliff Booth and actor Sharon Tate. The film follows them over the course of the summer of 1969 as they navigate failing film careers, movie premieres and one fateful run-in with the Manson Family. To prep for the movie, Zane and McKenna go over the timeline of the actual Manson family and his strange connections to hippie culture and surf-rock legends The Beach Boys.

Mystic Frightcast is a weekly podcast about horror movies and other scary stories hosted by Zane DeYoung and McKenna Lynch. They've tackled classics like The Haunting and Poltergeist, overlooked masterpieces such as Veronica and brand-new releases like Child's Play and Midsommar.

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This week Zane and McKenna were going to talk about the 2009 documentary Cropsey, but then they saw The Art of Self Defense and decided to talk about that one too. They're both good movies. Woops. Probably shouldn't have let the cat out of the bag in the description. Oh well. Enjoy!

This week Zane and McKenna take some time to write their very own script for a brand new Wicker Man movie with the help of McKenna's old and illbalanced dog Kate. Then they talk about the 1973 Robin Hardy version and 2006 Nicolas Cage version. One of them is excellent and one of them is horrible. You probably know which is which.

Zane and McKenna make a cult and review the movie Midsommar. I'll write more later but I gotta blast rn.

In this very special MIDWEEK FRIGHTCAST, Zane and McKenna take a hazy trip down memory lane to last week and review Child's Play (1988 and 2019). They also take the ULTIMATE Chucky quiz, despite having only seen 1 out of 7 Chucky movies (spoiler alert they do pretty good, you can answer most of lifes questions through context). In Child's Play 2019, Mark Hamill is the voice of the evil "smartdoll" Chucky, who goes on a killing spree after winding up in the home of single mom Aubrey Plaza and her tweenage socially awkward son. A fun if not entirely successful reinterpreting of the original, Child's Play light tone and grossout humor is enough to pull it away from the morass of dull and joyless modern horror. In Child's Play 1988, Brad Dourif is the voice of Chucky, a doll possessed by the soul of murderer Charles Lee Ray. After single mother Catherine Hicks buys the doll from a homeless gentleman, he begins terrifying her and her young son Andy before heading out to fulfill his mission of murdering those who wronged him as a human. A well written, engaging and occasionally quite creepy movie, Child's Play benefits from strong writing and performances and an atmospherically filmed Chicago. Despite being thirty years old, it holds up extremely well in practically every sense including special effects. A rare 80's movie that Zane LOVED! Huzahh!

WE'RE BACK BABYYY. After losing their Child's Play review, Zane and McKenna are back with another timely and politically charged episode of Mystic Frightcast. This week we're talking about all things Annabelle, from the Annabelle doll in "real" life to ALL THREE FUCKING MOVIES. We started with 2014's Annabelle which is not a good one, moved on to Annebelle: Creation which is also not a good one and finish with 2019's Annabelle Comes Home. McKenna also discovers the joys of podcasting from bed like a true millennial and Zane drinks wine and reads Michael Crichton books. Cheers folks. 

This week Zane and McKenna watch the LGBTQ+ defining movie The Babadook and talk about childhood trauma. Specifically all the movies that they watched that scarred them for life. Such as the family classic The Princess Bride. And Harry Potter. And Fantasia (seriously wtf is up with fantasia?) Then they review the 2014 movie The Babadook and can't decide on it. There is no catharsis. One does not sway the other. Such drama. What a great time. 

This week McKenna and Zane do a (not so) quick roundup of the spooky movies that have come out this year. It's Zane's birthday (Happy Birthday Zane!) and they went to the zoo. Woohoo. Aren't we all happy for them. They discuss how some movies have aged well, some have aged poorly and some they still haven't seen. What a wild ride. Anyway, keyword keyword keyword. Trump wall dumb poopyhead. What's even going on anymore? Does anyone really want to do another election? The last one really took it out of me. I know we need to so we can get the big poopoodoodoohead out of the white house, but holy fucking shit does it get tiring to keep doing these. Peace and love to your mother and happy papa day.

This week Zane and Kenna talk about CRAZY TRIPS YO and the best movie twists of all time. And the Netflix movie The Perfection. I'm on my break at work so I can't make this longer so I'm just gonna throw in some hot SEO keywords rul quick. Trump wall Mexico tariff apocalypse zombies Game of Thrones Chernobyl HBO Marvel Avengers Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker AOC. Thanks bye.