Rants From The Black Lodge

Autumn leaves fall to the ground as the smell of oven roasted turkey wafts in the cool November air when suddenly a pilgrim decapitates unlucky youths… that’s right it’s turkey time again and in this LIVE episode of the Rants From the Black Lodge Podcast Brandon and Fat Tony were granted the awesome opportunity to carve up some conversation with the cast of Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving courtesy with the folks at Frankencon.

October 31st is here and for your sake we hope you’re not a nubile babysitter because Brandon and Fat Tony are headed to Haddonfield to track the exploits of the boogeyman with an in-depth retrospective of the 1978 John Carpenter classic, Halloween.

Tonight we celebrate the (2nd*) holiest of slasher holidays we’re gonna be praying at the alter of Jason Voorhees by watching the 2009 remake of Friday the 13th. Specifically the Killer Cut because… why the fuck not!? So, Listen along as Brandon and Tony chat about all things Jason Voorhees, debate the best slasher remakes and rank the top 5 best breasts in the Friday the 13th series.

Pack your bags, load up on bug spray and for the love of god don’t engage in any premarital sex because we’re celebrating the 7 year anniversary of the Rants From the Black Lodge Podcast by heading back to the bloody shores of Camp Crystal Lake with an in-depth retrospective of 1988’s seminal slasher, Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood.

How Stella Got Her Groove Back is an adrenaline fueled romantic comedy for the ages about a jacked up soldier of fortune attempting to get her groove back from a technologically advanced alien creature who might be in love with her or something. Blah, Blah, Blah… Happy April Fool’s Day.

As we inch closer to the release of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire we’re gonna satiate our ectoplasmic lust by revisiting the previous entry Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Join Brandon and Fat Tony as they share their love for the Ghostbusters fandom.

The month of March brings to mind many things ranging from Leprechauns and St. Patrick’s Day festivities but to sports fans this month is special because of March Madness where Division 1 college teams duke it out for basketball supremacy... Here at the Rants From the Black Lodge Podcast we love our heavy metal and in 2024 will continue our new tradi- tion in the style of the famed NCAA single elimination tournament with a hard rockin’ twist! Tonight the Rant Army will album by album, song by song whittle down OZZY OSBOURNE’S stellar catalog to decide which head banging anthem will reign supreme and win HEAVY METAL MARCH MADNESS

It’s that special time of year again where love is in the air and we invite all you out there in the Rant Army to spend Valentine’s Day with the man of your dreams… or in this case- nightmares! This has been a tradition we’ve held since the beginning but tonight we’re also celebrating the 40th anniversary of “A Nightmare Elm Street” with an in-depth retrospective of the inaugural exploits of everyone’s favorite dream slasher, Freddy Krueger. Joining us in the Black Lodge this month we have “Razor’s Edge” author Blake Best with an ode to his love for Nightmare 1. Not to be out done but we also have star, Jsu Garcia who will discuss his racial struggles in Hollywood and a breakdown of his infamous death scene.

Happy 2024, Rant Army! Here’s to another great 365 days, 52 weeks and 12 months. Speaking of 12 months, that’s gonna important to what we have going on tonight. I am constantly being asked by you out there in the rant army for movie recommendations and It always gets my brain cells a churning as to what to recommend to our listening audience. It’s simply impossible to whittle the cavalcade of excellent possible options so fuck it- why do it when you can over do it instead !?! So, I’m gonna give you not 1 recommendation, I’m gonna give each and every one of you out there in the rant army 12 recommendations and short reviews. One for every month of 2024… but it comes with a cost and that cost will be your precious time because I am ordering the ranks of the rant army to watch all 12 of these movies over the next 365 days.

If you took the surreal nature of a David Lynch film threw it into a blender with a dash Monty Python-esque sketch comedy, a dollop of meta humor ala Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job and copious amounts of mind altering hallucinogenics you might just get a series like we will be discussing this episode- the BBC4 cult classic, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Listen along as Brandon and Fat Tony, dive deep into all six episodes of the award winning but under appreciated series.