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  • 12. The Holy Mountain (1973)

    Episode 12 of Season 2! Hosts Gratton Conwill, Matt Fields, and special guest Zain Hashmat discuss The Holy Mountain (1973).

    Day 12

    The Holy Mountain  1hr 46m

    The Holy Mountain was released in May of 1973. It’s a Mexican surrealist fantasy film directed and written by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The director also stars as the Alchemist. The story of the film was based on the novel


    Mount Analogue by René Daumal. However, since Daumal died before the novel was completed, Alejandro Jodorowsky had to create his own ending to the story.

    Intent on committing to the spiritual and psychedelic themes of the movie, Jodorowsky used several unorthodox activities to steep the cast into the material. Spiritual exercises, yoga, communal living in the Director’s home, consumption of LSD, and mushrooms were just some examples of what went on behind the scenes. Before filming began, Jodorowsky went a week without sleep under the guidance of a Japanese zen master. Once filming began, things did not calm down. A scene involving the cast jumping into the ocean went awry when the actors started drowning. Nothing of the scene was captured as the crew had to rescue the cast from the water.

    The film had an estimated budget of $750,000, which contradicts a popular claim that ex-Beatle John Lennon himself donated $1 million to the film’s production.

    Due to the film’s bizarre nature, unhinged production, and (for its time) controversial subject matter involving religion and violence, The Holy Mountain has a big cult following. For over 30 years The Holy Mountain was not officially available on home video in the united states, but thanks to modern boutique media companies and a staying interest in director Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Holy Mountain is now widely available for fans to see.

    The Holy Mountain has:

    4.1 on Letterboxd

    7.9/10 on IMDb

    83% on rotten tomatoes

    76% on Metacritic

    84% on google

    8.1 average CTS score

    From the creators of Giant Monster BS: Gratton Conwill and Matt Fields bring you Only In Amityville season 2: Escape from Amityville!

    Escape from Amityville is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2021! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Each movie will be a lesser known or appreciated, but culturally significant, horror movie made within the past 100 years. None of these movies have anything to do with the original tale of America's most haunted house, but in the spirit of the Amityville story, we promise to review chilling and horrifying movies featuring demons, monsters, and various ghouls! 15 episodes in total! The series finale takes place on Halloween night with a special mystery review. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or  Horror films will be right at home with this podcast. Vulgar, brutally honest, scary as hell, oh yeah... it's Escape from Amityville time Baby!

    Only In Amityville is an ad-free, self funded podcast hosted by Gratton Conwill and Matthew Fields.

    If you would like to support the show, you can donate to us at: https://anchor.fm/giant-monster-bs or buy our merch at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cheesemouse2/albums/39997-giant-monster-bs-merch

    Follow us on twitter at: https://twitter.com/GiantMonsterBS

    2 hr 6 min
  • 11. What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)

    Episode 11 of Season 2! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969).

    Day 11

    What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice     1h 41m

    What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice is a Hollywood Horror-thriller film directed by Lee H. Katzin and written by Theodore Apstein. It premiered on July 23rd 1969. It was adapted from Ursula Curtiss’ 1962 novel: The Forbidden Garden. The name of the movie brings to mind Robert Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, and this was no mistake. Aldrich was a producer for What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice and the name was meant to attract some of the success that Baby Jane experienced 7 years earlier. In the years following the release of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, the hagsploitation genre exploded. Hagsploitation usually involved the practice of casting older actresses who were popular decades earlier as deranged or murderous older women in horror-thriller films. Aldrich produced a loose series of unconnected hagsploitation films starting with Baby Jane in 1962 and ending with What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice in 1969.

    After The Forbidden Garden Novel gained popularity, Robert Aldrich bought the rights to make a film adaptation, seeing the potential to make something similar to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Filming began with Bernard Girard as director. After just four weeks of filming, Girard left the production, citing “differences in interpretation” as the reason. He was replaced by Lee H. Katzin and went uncredited in the final film.

    Producer Robert Aldrich also had plans to make a final “What Ever Happened to” film based on the novel Goodbye, Aunt Elva by Elizabeth Fenwick, but the project never materialized.

    Despite a mostly positive reception, the film was a financial loss for the studio. Today, What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice has a cult horror status and has been named by Edgar Wright as one of his 1000 favorite films.

    Escape from Amityville is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2021! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Each movie will be a lesser known or appreciated, but culturally significant, horror movie made within the past 100 years. None of these movies have anything to do with the original tale of America's most haunted house, but in the spirit of the Amityville story, we promise to review chilling and horrifying movies featuring demons, monsters, and various ghouls! 15 episodes in total! The series finale takes place on Halloween night with a special mystery review. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or  Horror films will be right at home with this podcast. Vulgar, brutally honest, scary as hell, oh yeah... it's Escape from Amityville time Baby!

    Only In Amityville is an ad-free, self funded podcast hosted by Gratton Conwill and Matthew Fields.

    If you would like to support the show, you can donate to us at: https://anchor.fm/giant-monster-bs or buy our merch at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cheesemouse2/albums/39997-giant-monster-bs-merch

    Follow us on twitter at: https://twitter.com/GiantMonsterBS

    42 min
  • 10. Häxan (1922)

    Episode 10 of Season 2! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss Häxan (1922).

    Day 10

    Häxan     1h 45m

    Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages is a Swedish silent film that premiered on September 18th 1922. It was written and directed by Benjamin Christensen.  The title in Swedish translates to “The Witch.” Like the other silent films featured this season, the director stars in the film as well. Christensen appears as the Devil, Jesus Christ, and himself in Häxan. Many descriptions of Häxan struggle to place it in any genre. As an early film, Häxan was experimental in the way the material was approached. Informed by a 15th century book on hunting witches, Häxan was meant as a documentary with well produced dramatization scenes. What resulted was something that hasn’t been replicated. Part essay film, part horror, Häxan is a product of the silent era as it conforms to none of the filmmaking rules we associate with contemporary cinema.

    At the time of its production, Häxan was the most expensive film produced in any Scandinavian country. Filmed entirely in Denmark, Häxan was shot both indoors and at night, which was uncommon for films of this era. As a result of the emulsion of the film stock used, the blue of many of the actors' eyes did not register, giving them a unique appearance.

    Originally, Häxan was intended to be the first film in a trilogy, however Director Benjamin Christensen never made the sequels. After falling into the public domain, Häxan became widely available, albeit usually in poor quality. But the result was Häxan becoming one of the most prevalent silent horror films remembered by movie fans. Among its contemporary fans is the acclaimed horror and effects film director Guillermo del Toro and, unsurprisingly, Robert Eggers.

    With a place in “1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die” and the Criterion Collection, Haxan enjoys an impressive status as a celebrated and respected piece of film history.


    From the creators of Giant Monster BS: Gratton Conwill and Matt Fields bring you Only In Amityville season 2: Escape from Amityville!

    Escape from Amityville is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2021! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Each movie will be a lesser known or appreciated, but culturally significant, horror movie made within the past 100 years. None of these movies have anything to do with the original tale of America's most haunted house, but in the spirit of the Amityville story, we promise to review chilling and horrifying movies featuring demons, monsters, and various ghouls! 15 episodes in total! The series finale takes place on Halloween night with a special mystery review. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or  Horror films will be right at home with this podcast. Vulgar, brutally honest, scary as hell, oh yeah... it's Escape from Amityville time Baby!

    Only In Amityville is an ad-free, self funded podcast hosted by Gratton Conwill and Matthew Fields.

    If you would like to support the show, you can donate to us at: https://anchor.fm/giant-monster-bs or buy our merch at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cheesemouse2/albums/39997-giant-monster-bs-merch

    Follow us on twitter at: https://twitter.com/GiantMonsterBS

    36 min
  • 9. The Devil Rides Out (1968)

    Episode 9 of Season 2! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss The Devil Rides Out (1968).

    Day 9

    The Devil Rides Out     1h 36m

    The Devil Rides Out is a British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Richard Matheson. It premiered on July 20th 1968. It shares its name with the 1934 novel it was adapted from. It was the last film produced by Seven Arts Productions before they were acquired by Warner Brothers in 1967. The film’s star, Christopher Lee, played a large role in getting this film made and considered this his favorite Hammer production. Although pre-production began in 1963, the movie was pushed back so that the subject matter of Satanism would be less of an issue to censors.

    The author of The Devil Rides Out novel, Dennis Wheatley, was apparently so pleased with the movie adaptation that he gifted Christopher Lee a first edition copy of the book.

    For release in the United States, the name of the movie was changed to The Devil’s Bride because The Devil Rides Out sounded too much like a western.

    The film was a financial loss for the studio, but like many of the movies we’re reviewing, it is considered to be a classic in the horror genre.

    The Devil Rides Out has:

    3.5 on Letterboxd

    7/10 on IMDb

    95% on rotten tomatoes

    93% on google

    8.2 average CTS score

    From the creators of Giant Monster BS: Gratton Conwill and Matt Fields bring you Only In Amityville season 2: Escape from Amityville!

    Escape from Amityville is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2021! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Each movie will be a lesser known or appreciated, but culturally significant, horror movie made within the past 100 years. None of these movies have anything to do with the original tale of America's most haunted house, but in the spirit of the Amityville story, we promise to review chilling and horrifying movies featuring demons, monsters, and various ghouls! 15 episodes in total! The series finale takes place on Halloween night with a special mystery review. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or  Horror films will be right at home with this podcast. Vulgar, brutally honest, scary as hell, oh yeah... it's Escape from Amityville time Baby!

    Only In Amityville is an ad-free, self funded podcast hosted by Gratton Conwill and Matthew Fields.

    If you would like to support the show, you can donate to us at: https://anchor.fm/giant-monster-bs or buy our merch at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cheesemouse2/albums/39997-giant-monster-bs-merch

    Follow us on twitter at: https://twitter.com/GiantMonsterBS

    24 min
  • 8. Onibaba (1964)

    Episode 8 of Season 2! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss Onibaba (1964).

    Day 8

    Onibaba     1h 45m

    Onibaba (translated as Demon Hag) is a Japanese historical drama and horror film written and directed by Kaneto Shindô. It was released in Japan on November 21, 1964. In a subversive turn of events, an unedited, subtitled version was released theatrically in the United States less than a year later. In the wake of popular Japanese period films such as Yojimbo, distributors were less inclined to change Japanese drama films for foreign audiences. This makes Onibaba a rare example of a foreign film being brought to the states completely untouched from the time of its release. That being said, Onibaba was edited down for its UK release as the original edit was rejected by UK censors.

    Onibaba was based on a Buddhist parable about a woman who scares her daughter in law by wearing a mask and jumping out from behind a bush. In the parable, she is punished by Buddha who makes the mask stick to her face, when she begs for the mask to come off, it finally does but it takes her face with it.

    Original reception was mixed, but over time Onibaba has become regarded as a horror classic.

    Onibaba has:

    4.0/5 on Letterboxd

    8/10 on IMDb

    83% on rotten tomatoes

    88% on google

    4/4 on Deep Focus Review

    8.62 average CTS score

    From the creators of Giant Monster BS: Gratton Conwill and Matt Fields bring you Only In Amityville season 2: Escape from Amityville!

    Escape from Amityville is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2021! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Each movie will be a lesser known or appreciated, but culturally significant, horror movie made within the past 100 years. None of these movies have anything to do with the original tale of America's most haunted house, but in the spirit of the Amityville story, we promise to review chilling and horrifying movies featuring demons, monsters, and various ghouls! 15 episodes in total! The series finale takes place on Halloween night with a special mystery review. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or  Horror films will be right at home with this podcast. Vulgar, brutally honest, scary as hell, oh yeah... it's Escape from Amityville time Baby!

    Only In Amityville is an ad-free, self funded podcast hosted by Gratton Conwill and Matthew Fields.

    If you would like to support the show, you can donate to us at: https://anchor.fm/giant-monster-bs or buy our merch at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cheesemouse2/albums/39997-giant-monster-bs-merch

    Follow us on twitter at: https://twitter.com/GiantMonsterBS

    27 min
  • 7. Night of the Demon (1957)

    Episode 7 of Season 2! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss Night of the Demon (1957).

    Day 7

    Night of the Demon     1h 36m

    Night of the Demon is a British black and white horror film released in December of 1957. It was directed by Jaques Tourner and written Charles Bennett and Hal E. Chester. The script was based on the 1911 short story “Casting the Runes.” The story of this movie’s production is an interesting one. Upon acquiring the rights to the short story, Charles Bennett loosely adapted it into a screenplay titled The Haunted. He sold the screenplay to an independent producer, Hal E. Chester. Unfortunately for Bennett, not long after the script was sold, he was approached by RKO with an offer to buy the script and let him direct. Since the script was already sold, Bennett could not accept the offer although he would have preferred to direct the movie himself. After producer Hal E. Chester brought in French director Jaques Tourner of Cat People fame, the two had numerous disputes continuing into post production. Tourner claimed that he never wanted the demon to be shown in the final film, however Chester disagreed and without the director’s blessing, added shots of the demon in post production. At an earlier point in production, Tourner was so upset with script changes made by Chester that he threatened to shoot him.

    In its original theatrical run, Night of the Demon was shown as a double feature with 20 Million Miles to Earth. As was the trend however, this movie was edited down and renamed for a delayed American release. The film was renamed from Night of the Demon to Curse of the Demon. The rationale being that the distributors did not want audiences confusing Night of the Demon with The Night of the Iguana. Although this explanation comes from producer Charles Bennett himself, the Tennessee Williams play The Night of the Iguana would not debut until three years later in 1961, and the John Huston film adaptation would not be made until 1964.

    I could not find any details of the financial or critical success of Night of the Demon when it was released. But, as it stands today, Night of the Demon is considered a British Horror classic and managed to land 9th place in Martin Scorsese’s list of 11 scariest horror movies of all time.

    Night of the Demon has:

    3.8 on Letterboxd

    7.5/10 on IMDb

    100% on rotten tomatoes

    91% on google

    8.58 average CTS score

    Escape from Amityville is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2021! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Each movie will be a lesser known or appreciated, but culturally significant, horror movie made within the past 100 years. None of these movies have anything to do with the original tale of America's most haunted house, but in the spirit of the Amityville story, we promise to review chilling and horrifying movies featuring demons, monsters, and various ghouls! 15 episodes in total! The series finale takes place on Halloween night with a special mystery review. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or  Horror films will be right at home with this podcast. Vulgar, brutally honest, scary as hell, oh yeah... it's Escape from Amityville time Baby!


    40 min
  • 6. The Phantom Carriage (1921)

    Episode 6 of Season 2! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss The Phantom Carriage (1921).

    Day 6

    The Phantom Carriage  1hr 46m

    The Phantom Carriage was released on January first of 1921. It’s a Swedish silent horror film directed and written by Victor Sjöström. In addition, Sjöström stars as the character David Holm in the film. The Phantom Carriage was based on a 1912 Swedish novel, Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! by Selma Lagerlöf.

    An anecdote about the preproduction of this movie involves Sjöström visiting author Selma Lagerlöf at her home and reading the entire screenplay aloud while acting out each part. Upon finishing, Sjöström collapsed into her couch from exhaustion. In response, Lagerlöf offered him something to drink as her blessing of his adaptation.

    Noteworthy for its special effects, The Phantom Carriage had a lengthy post production of five months which was very unusual for the time. The double exposures used throughout the film were all achieved in camera, as optical printing technology would not be available until the 1930’s. This means that each time they shot a scene, the camera had to be hand cranked at precisely the same speed during both of the separate exposures.

    This movie’s legacy today is found in its influences on directors Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick. Bergman would even go as far as casting Victor Sjöström in his 1957 drama, Wild Strawberries. Another notable figure in film history who enjoyed this movie was Charlie Chaplin who once called this movie the best film ever made, although he was likely referring to the heavily edited version released in the U.S. in 1922.

    The Phantom Carriage has:

    4.0 on Letterboxd

    8.1/10 on IMDb

    100% on rotten tomatoes

    92% on google

    8.83 average CTS score

    From the creators of Giant Monster BS: Gratton Conwill and Matt Fields bring you Only In Amityville season 2: Escape from Amityville!

    Escape from Amityville is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2021! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Each movie will be a lesser known or appreciated, but culturally significant, horror movie made within the past 100 years. None of these movies have anything to do with the original tale of America's most haunted house, but in the spirit of the Amityville story, we promise to review chilling and horrifying movies featuring demons, monsters, and various ghouls! 15 episodes in total! The series finale takes place on Halloween night with a special mystery review. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or  Horror films will be right at home with this podcast. Vulgar, brutally honest, scary as hell, oh yeah... it's Escape from Amityville time Baby!

    Only In Amityville is an ad-free, self funded podcast hosted by Gratton Conwill and Matthew Fields.

    If you would like to support the show, you can donate to us at: https://anchor.fm/giant-monster-bs or buy our merch at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cheesemouse2/albums/39997-giant-monster-bs-merch

    Follow us on twitter at: https://twitter.com/GiantMonsterBS

    38 min
  • 5. Black Sabbath (1963)

    Episode 5 of Season 2! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss Black Sabbath (1963).

    Day 5

    Black Sabbath 1h 33m

    Released on August 17th 1963, Black Sabbath is a low budget Italian horror anthology film directed by Mario Bava. Screenplay credits were given to Mario bava as well as Marcelo Fondato. An English language version of the film was made at the same time as the Italian version as American international pictures (known as AIP) was involved in the production. The two versions are very different with the English version being heavily edited and censored.

    It’s important to mention the version we’re about to review is the unedited Italian version originally titled The three faces of fear. Though we’re reviewing this movie as Black Sabbath, that was really only the title of the AIP version. The Black Sabbath title was an effort to connect this film to Mario Bava’s previous film Black Sunday.

    While the English version was a moderate success, in Italy The three faces of fear was a financial failure.

    The legacy of this film is its influence on the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. The band is said to have changed their name from “Earth” to Black Sabbath after seeing that this movie was playing in a movie theater and selling more tickets than the band was.

    Quentin Tarantino has also cited Black Sabbath as a source of inspiration for pulp fiction.

    Some trivia:

    This is the only movie in which Boris Karloff plays a vampire.

    The telephone section was the first Italian thriller to be shot in color.

    It’s important to mention the version we’re about to review is the edited AIP version originally titled The three faces of fear.

    Today the movie has somewhat of a cult following for a number of previously mentioned reasons. Mario Bava is considered an extremely influential Italian horror director.

    Black Sabbath has:

    3.7/5 on Letterboxd

    7.1/10 on IMDb

    88% on Rotten tomatoes

    92% on Google

    82 on metacritic

    4.4/5 on shudder

    8.25 average CTS score

    From the creators of Giant Monster BS: Gratton Conwill and Matt Fields bring you Only In Amityville season 2: Escape from Amityville!

    Escape from Amityville is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2021! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Each movie will be a lesser known or appreciated, but culturally significant, horror movie made within the past 100 years. None of these movies have anything to do with the original tale of America's most haunted house, but in the spirit of the Amityville story, we promise to review chilling and horrifying movies featuring demons, monsters, and various ghouls! 15 episodes in total! The series finale takes place on Halloween night with a special mystery review. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or  Horror films will be right at home with this podcast. Vulgar, brutally honest, scary as hell, oh yeah... it's Escape from Amityville time Baby!

    Only In Amityville is an ad-free, self funded podcast hosted by Gratton Conwill and Matthew Fields.

    If you would like to support the show, you can donate to us at: https://anchor.fm/giant-monster-bs or buy our merch at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cheesemouse2/albums/39997-giant-monster-bs-merch

    Follow us on twitter at: https://twitter.com/GiantMonsterBS

    33 min
  • 4. Willy's Wonderland (2021)

    Episode 4 of Season 2! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss Willy's Wonderland (2021).

    Day 4

    Willys Wonderland 1h 28m

    Released on February 12th 2021, Willy’s Wonderland was directed by Kevin Lewis and written by G. O. Parsons. Willy’s Wonderland was originally scheduled for release on October 30th of 2020, but was postponed due to Covid 19.

    Similarities have been drawn between Willy’s Wonderland and The Banana splits movie as well as the five nights at Freddy’s video game franchise. Given the premise of Willy’s wonderland, it’s a safe bet that Five nights at Freddy’s was a large source of inspiration for the film’s plot. That being said, Willy’s Wonderland is a full length adaptation of G. O. Parson’s 2016 short film Wally’s Wonderland which was released just two years after the release of the first five nights at Freddy’s video game.

    While this film and The banana splits movie share a similar cult following because of their connections to the popular game franchise, Willy’s wonderland has proven to be exponentially more popular, overshadowing the the banana splits movie despite releasing two years later. The presence of fan favorite actor Nicolas Cage is likely the source of the movie’s success.

    Original reviews were mixed.

    Willy’s Wonderland has:

    2.7 out of 5 on Letterboxd

    5.5 out of 10 on IMDb

    61% on rotten tomatoes

    84% on google

    1 star out of 4 on roger ebert.Com

    44% on metacritic

    5.38 average CTS score

    From the creators of Giant Monster BS: Gratton Conwill and Matt Fields bring you Only In Amityville season 2: Escape from Amityville!

    Escape from Amityville is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2021! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Each movie will be a lesser known or appreciated, but culturally significant, horror movie made within the past 100 years. None of these movies have anything to do with the original tale of America's most haunted house, but in the spirit of the Amityville story, we promise to review chilling and horrifying movies featuring demons, monsters, and various ghouls! 15 episodes in total! The series finale takes place on Halloween night with a special mystery review. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or  Horror films will be right at home with this podcast. Vulgar, brutally honest, scary as hell, oh yeah... it's Escape from Amityville time Baby!

    Only In Amityville is an ad-free, self funded podcast hosted by Gratton Conwill and Matthew Fields.

    If you would like to support the show, you can donate to us at: https://anchor.fm/giant-monster-bs or buy our merch at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cheesemouse2/albums/39997-giant-monster-bs-merch

    Follow us on twitter at: https://twitter.com/GiantMonsterBS

    31 min
  • 3. The Banana Splits Movie (2019)

    Episode 3 of Season 2! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss The Banana Splits Movie (2019).


    Day 3

    The Banana Splits Movie   1h 29m

    Released on July 18th 2019, The Banana Splits Movie was directed by Canadian filmmaker Danishka Esterhazy. The screenplay was written by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas.

    The film is a reimagining of the 1968 children’s tv show The banana splits adventure hour. Although Chopping mall from 1986 and the original child’s play are cited as inspiration for the banana splits movie, notable connections have been made between this movie and the five nights at Freddy’s video game franchise. As a result, The Banana Splits Movie has a small cult following.

    Initial reviews were mostly favorable with critics embracing the absurd premise and elements of horror comedy.

    Being one of the more contemporary movies on our list, it remains to be seen what legacy, if any, The Banana Splits movie will have in the coming years. But because of its bizarre nature, it seemed worth including for variety if nothing else.

    The Banana Splits Movie has:

    2.6 out of 5 on Letterboxd

    5.1 out of 10 on IMDb

    63% on rotten tomatoes

    73% on google

    5.97 Average CTS score


    From the creators of Giant Monster BS: Gratton Conwill and Matt Fields bring you Only In Amityville season 2: Escape from Amityville!

    Escape from Amityville is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2021! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Each movie will be a lesser known or appreciated, but culturally significant, horror movie made within the past 100 years. None of these movies have anything to do with the original tale of America's most haunted house, but in the spirit of the Amityville story, we promise to review chilling and horrifying movies featuring demons, monsters, and various ghouls! 15 episodes in total! The series finale takes place on Halloween night with a special mystery review. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or  Horror films will be right at home with this podcast. Vulgar, brutally honest, scary as hell, oh yeah... it's Escape from Amityville time Baby!

    Only In Amityville is an ad-free, self funded podcast hosted by Gratton Conwill and Matthew Fields.

    If you would like to support the show, you can donate to us at: https://anchor.fm/giant-monster-bs or buy our merch at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cheesemouse2/albums/39997-giant-monster-bs-merch

    Follow us on twitter at: https://twitter.com/GiantMonsterBS

    40 min

About Only In Amityville

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This is Only In Amityville, a horror series review podcast! Each episode, Gratton and Matt discuss a different movie in the Amityville series. Ghosts, Ghouls, Spirits, and more! We provide biting commentary, movie expertise, and humor. It's time to get honest about some of the worst movies ever made, and each review is packed with laughs and insight. With no other podcast of this kind, it's a no brainer! Only In Amityville is the podcast that started it all!