New Release

*Happy Halloween* This week on New Release … three podcasters, Ashley, Derrick, and Drew, disappear into the woods recording an overnight episode. This tape is all that remains. What you are about to hear is their farewell to The Blair Witch Project and all the wonderful times they had along the way. Why is Drew at wit’s end again with Derrick? Where did Ashley sneak off to? Whose tongue is that on the ground? Oh what a wicked journey this movie takes viewers on. Don’t be scared. Everything’s fine. We can take shelter in that abandoned house where the baby screams are coming out. Cool? If, perhaps, you ever want to see us again, you should search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple and subscribe. Our lives depend on it!

This week on New Release … ghoul-kids Ashley, Derrick, and Drew cancel their appointment with Dr. Giggles so they can talk about 90s horror movies that are actually good. We reveal the fright flicks that got stuck in our blood and guts and dark crevices of our gooey baby brains and never went away. Who can forget their first encounter with a killer clover sucker or high school witch pack or Rebecca Gayheart. This episode is pretty much everything you need to know about how horror shaped our adolescence. You may also be SHOCKED and APPALLED by the films that did not make the cut. We won’t apologize for being our own freaky selves. Make a deal with the devil by searching ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe. 666-4-LIFE.

This week on New Release … hookers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew get freaked out by another Clive Barker classic. Candyman terrorizes the residents of Cabrini-Green and anyone who dare doesn’t believe. Candyman holds the power of hypnotism in one hand and a bloody hook in the other. Candyman is a misunderstood artist. Candyman eats bees for breakfast. Candyman comes when you say his name five times! Oh. Shit. Did I do that? If you’ve gotten this far, you may also enjoy us ranking other urban legends that scare our pants off in this week’s episode. Past that, we’re bringing the chills and kills all month long so search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple and subscribe.

Big BnBers Ashley and Drew couldn’t resist talking about one of the scariest, most surprising horror movies to show up in a long time. So here we, twice in one week, coming to you (a)live from New Release studios … located down the stairs, in the basement, behind a false wall, past the bloody mattress, down more stairs, watch out for the cages, follow the flicker of an old VHS player and the not-so-faint smell of breast milk … to join us. Or just search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple and subscribe. Your call.

This week on New Release … chain gang Ashley, Derrick, and Drew return to the soft, fleshy underbelly of the human condition. Hellraiser (2022), on Hulu, is a reimagination, let’s call it, of the provocative world and mythos created by Clive Barker back in 1987. This new version features a delightfully deviant performance by Jamie Clayton as ‘The Hell Priest’ aka ‘Lady Pinhead’. The Cenobite design and skin-ripping gore and chompy sound effects are visceral as all get out. But does the story live up to such succulent mise en scène? Listen to find out. Then search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple and subscribe for so many more fiendish October delights to come.

This week on New Release … born stars Ashley and Drew peep one gem of a performance by Mia Goth. Pearl takes us on a twisted, technicolor journey all the way back to 1918. There, we learn more about the monster from Ti West and Mia’s previous movie ‘X’. Scarecrows and gators and pitchforks DIE DIE! Follow us down the yellowdick road as we rank eras of adult filmmaking and lament a certain loss of character in the medium. Where DO we go from here? Find out by searching ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple and hitting subscribe.

This week on New Release … double Ds Derrick & Drew team up with Evan & Jake of the Handsome Hockey Podcast to discuss the best (???) hockey movie of all time. How does The Mighty Ducks hold up 30 years after it introduced a whole generation of kids to the grandeur of Canada’s national pastime. Puck please! Join us as we celebrate how these scrappy little Duckies inspired so many people to strap on skates or blades or both in pursuit of team-first glory. QUACK QUACK QUACK time we take a crack at Bombay’s big comeback. What’s more, we rank The Mighty Ducks versus every hockey movie in history. Who will raise the New Release Cup? Listen to find out and search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe. Thanks again to Evan & Jake for making this episode an all-timer. Gear up for hockey season by searching ‘Handsome Hockey’ on Spotify or Apple + follow them on Twitter & Instagram. Ducks fly together.

This week on New Release … gods of grunge Derrick and Drew—with Mark on the hotline—explore Seattle’s dating scene in the early 90s. Singles is a regular who’s-who of famous actors and music legends from the Pacific Northwest. Where else can you see Bridget Fonda performing alongside the lead singer of Soundgarden? Or Eddie Vedder giving Matt Dillon dating tips? Somehow Cameron Crowe made the ultimate time capsule movie, while dealing with subject matter that never goes out of style. We were all 20-somethings at some point, right? Figuring out who to be, what to do, what gives, and where does love fit in. Glad that’s all sorted now! If you like music or love love, then search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe and get an endless supply of grungy good times.

This week on New Release … hellcats Ashley and Drew strap in for a wicked good time at the Boiler Room. Hellraiser III picks up where Pinhead and co left off in their quest to unleash mankind’s deepest, darkest impulses. Mini meathooks ripping through flesh. Killer compact discs. More leather than Mad Max. This movie is the ultimate exercise in, ironically, lack of restraint. If you like your bad guys quippy, creepy, and with Christ complexes, you’ve come to the right place. Cen-O-bite central. Find out what dark magic we have up our sleeves for the rest of the Fall season by searching ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple and clicking subscribe. We’ll be raising hell over here all year long.

This week on New Release … special agents Derrick, Drew, and a mystery caller return to Twin Peaks. In Fire Walk With Me—a prequel movie to the show—we follow Laura Palmer, played by Sheryl Lee, in her final days before her tragic ‘wrapped in plastic’ introduction. Being a Lynch picture, this nightmare story presents more questions than answers, using dream logic to show, best he can, the duality of man. From the moment Badalamenti’s heart-swelling piano music hits, you know this setting, and these characters, will haunt you forever. It’s been thirty-plus years since Twin Peaks aired on network TV, and we are still scared and thrilled to talk about how this movie takes advantage of—or abuses—the freedom a feature format affords. The fall season of New Release is just heating up, so make sure to search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe. 1992 is underway!