Nostalgia Highway

🎶🎵Reunited and it feels so good!🎵🎶

Welcome back Hitchhikers...it’s great to be back & it’s been way too damn long!!! Taking September off wasn’t the plan, but sometimes you gotta adapt to what’s going on. We’re so excited to kick off the spooky season of October with our first of three NHP Halloween Favorites, the King’s pick for EP. 46, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)!!! We decided to start the month off light-hearted and crank up the scary as we go on. This King family favorite is basically a Scooby-Doo plot without Scooby-Doo, that stars the legendary Don Knotts as our lovable loser - Luther Heggs. The Mayor has issues with crickets, there’s Don Knotts impressions, NHP Halloween giveaway news, & shenanigans abound.

Imagine, if you will, a movie review podcast bringing you horror anthologies by a campfire. This time bringing from the outer reaches of the unknown, EP. 45 - Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). Discussions about early 80s PG ratings, how things would be in the NHP rest home in a few years, & comparisons between the original shows vs. 1983’s segments are made. We get multiple Mayor retractions, find out our favorite unconventional burger toppings (Lord not included), & we fantasy book our picks to from the original tv series to be included for this movie.

AHHH...the great outdoors!!! There’s not many things better than scary stories being told by a campfire, so we agreed to make another go of a camping theme this summer, cracking beers & facing fears, making horror anthologies the topic of conversation, picking up right where we left off with Creepshow (1982), we bring you Creepshow 2 (1987) for EP. 44!!! We get some old school King parenting, while spiteful King makes a triumphant comeback! The Mayor says “filler isn’t filler if it’s effective,” and we give mini-reviews of the lesser known Creepshow 3, as well as our thoughts on the new tv series from Shudder.

Greeting Hitchhikers!!! To close out Hitchhiker’s Choice for the month of July, we bring to you NHP’s very first anthology review with Justin Ramsey’s selection of Creepshow (1982)!!! We ask, “to didgeridoo...or to didgeridon’t,” the Barbeau Challenge, & our hate for old Warner Bros. DVD cases. We give our Creepshow segment rankings, bad Nathan Grantham impressions, & we fantasy book Tom Atkins and Adrienne Barbeau as the Elrods for Halloween Ends.

Welcome back Hitchhikers as we officially open July with our very first Hitchhiker’s Choice theme out here on the Highway!!! 12 movies went in...2 came out. Originally chosen by Adam Parsons, we present to you EP. 42 - Se7en (1995)!!! The Lord envies the King a little bit and we discuss a certain jump scare from the movie while we try to figure out where it ranks all-time for jump scares. We ask what exactly is the measurement criteria to snag an Oscar nomination for Best Editing (let alone win it) and we get some wifey hot take mini reviews, in which the Mayor gets “Mayored.”

SURPRISE & HAPPY BIRTHDAY ‘MERCIA!!! For the second year in a row, NHP is bringing you a 4th of July bonus episode for your ear holes...& this time we’re bringing a different format & a special guest for the very first time ever on the show!!! Hitchhikers, please welcome one half of the Psycho Siblings from the Raised in Horror podcast, Justin Ramsey!!! We are extremely grateful & fortunate to have Justin come on to provide some fresh insight to the many movies we discuss in the almost 4 hour runtime we have waiting for you. Enjoy & have a safe 4th of July weekend!!!

What better way to close out June than wait until the last day to release the final entry for It Came from Late Night TV Month...Night of the Creeps (1986) for EP. 41?! We discuss how this may be the ultimate love letter to all things horror/science fiction, King tries to crush the Lord’s fanboy dreams of meeting Fred Dekker, & we share bathroom stall graffiti memories from our younger days. We also ask is this and The Monster Squad (1987) in the same univer...Dekkerverse & do we really want a sequel 35+ years later?? Oh yeah...Tom Atkins y’all. Recognize. All this & more in EP. 41 - Night of the Creeps (1986)!!!

Greetings Hitchhikers & welcome to our second entry for It Came from Late Night TV Month for EP. 40 where we are bringing to you Sssssss (1973)!!! First things first, we want to apologize for the poor audio quality we are regrettably exposing you to for this episode. Skype wasn’t our friend the night we recorded this show and our schedules didn’t allow us time to re-record segments that truly needed redone. This is the best chicken salad we could come up with. Anyways, we ask, “What exactly did Strother Martin inject Dirk Benedict with in one particular scene and was Harry, the drunken snake once human or a real snake?” Also, we discuss our favorite special FX/transformation movies from yesteryear. Our personal feelings toward the snake kingdom are revealed and we spitball ideas for the sequel that never happened.

Greetings Hitchhikers and welcome to “It Came From Late Night TV” Month here on the Highway for June!!! We are going to be reviewing three of our personal favorite, oddball, quirky movies you’d catch staying up past your bedtime that have become cult classics among horror/sci-fi fans. Roundhouse kicking this month off is the Chuck Norris vs. Great Value Michael Myers flick, Silent Rage (1982) for EP. 39!!! We compare fashion similarities between our bad guy John Kirby and the Lord, while we also feel brief “dad quarantine pity” for Kirby...until he picks up an axe. Chuck Norris pulls a Dr. Loomis and the single greatest line in NHP’s show note history begins a deep cut discussing one of the weirdest montages in 80s cinema. We also ask, “Is this a slasher horror movie?” The King and Mayor agree, while the Lord wants to be stubborn and oppose. 😜 What do you say Hitchhikers, is this a horror movie?!

HOWDY HITCHHIKERS!!! We have a rootin’, tootin’ review for you that will satisfy your inner cowboy as we finish out Wild West Month for May; we bring you the star-studded Silverado (1985)!!! Right off the bat we go barkin’ at a knot when we realize every VHS the Lord finds at Goodwill costs him a quarter and gives us the history and meaning of the muff pistol. We take time to recognize the massive amount of horror movie connections there are with this and we discuss luck and what lucky charms we all have. Did I mention there’s virtual social distancing whiskey shots with the King? There are...but only of the good stuff. Oh, and he also explains that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Fast & the Furious are essentially the same movie. Somehow. All this and more in EP. 38 - Silverado (1985), available NOW on all your favorite podcasting apps!!!