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Halloween is a series that spans 12 films, novels, comics, and saucy, saucy fan fiction... so saucy. 

But let's admit it, not all of the of them are good, right? In fact, some of them are pretty bad.

Virtually no horror franchise is immune to weak installments, regardless how iconic. That is why Ade is acting as the public defender of sorts for the lesser Halloween films. 

In this last installment of Talktober, we feature each of the branching and divergent timelines. Curse of Thorn? We got you covered. Headmistress Laurie Strode? We've got opinions. 

But do not fret, we also touch on the tenets of the franchise that make them great too, including John Carpenter's formative works. 

We discuss the performances of many of the Michael Myers actors: Nick Castle, Tony Moran, Dick Warlock, George P. Wilbur, Don Shanks, Chris Durand, Brad Loree, Tyler Mane, and James Jude Courtney.

We also ponder how Rick Rosenthal could have directed both Halloween II and Resurrection. Yeah, explain that one. 

We compare Rob Zombie's iteration of the Myers family to that of Blumhouse, but admittedly this episode was recorded before we had seen Halloween Kills. 

Also, remember that last year we did an entire episode on Season of the Witch, which is like, totes gnarly. 

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This week, Doug's topic is horror sequels, and what makes them great. 

The gang talk about their favorites, spanning from Creep Show 2, to Child's Play, with basically every key franchise in between. 

What sets apart Nightmare on Elm Street 2, to the other sequels, remakes, and reboots?

How does Guillermo Del Toro take a quaint idea of vampire vampires and turn it into the best of the Blade franchise (so far, because there's hope with Mahershala Ali)?

Why does Jake love Gremlins 2: The New Batch, but hate Evil Dead II?

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Happy Monday Goons and Happy Week 2 of Talktober here on Slashers Podcast.  This week we delve into Ade’s topic, her experience with Halloween Horror Nights 30 on her side of the country, Orlando, Florida.  Luckily, Doug went to HHN here in Hollywood, so the two are able to discuss the pros and cons of each park and determine which experience has more to offer.

Topics for HHN 30 include haunted houses, scare zones, food, drinks and shows. Be sure to listen in and find out why this is one of Ade’s yearly ventures and perhaps maybe even worth taking a trip to the Sunshine State in the fall.

We also discuss video games, Goldeneye making the list, along with Jake’s comparing Doug and Ade’s neighborhoods to both Manhunt and Grand Theft Auto, respectively. We even talk about what it would be like to have a Troma haunted house, fat guy being eaten by the escalator and all (not to be confused with Mall Rats!) Finally, we discuss what we would consider the ultimate haunted maze attraction -- little hint, it involves Doug’s favorite Karens.

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Welcome to Talktober! That's right, and entire month of talking... on a podcast... wait wait wait, this theme kinda makes sense. For spooky season, we are breaking from the tradition of nearly every episode of this show, where talk about a singular film or franchise, instead opting to a topic presented by each host. If you like this format, please let us know. If not, please let us know.

This week's topic is hosted by Jake, who asks, "which are better, reboots or remakes?"

Now, when we write these episode descriptions, it's kinda tough. Imagine a book report, but instead of a teacher, you are writing it for Skynet from Terminator (i.e., the Google algorithm). Given the topic this week, we literally touched on over 50 films, and now we are left trying to include mention of them in this description, but crafted in a way that is not a generic list. Let's see if this works...

The discussion defends the Friday the 13th (2009) reboot, but trashes the Nightmare on Elm St. remake. We kinda defend the Rob Zombie Halloween reboot and distinguish it from a remake. We take a hefty dump on the Let the Right One In remake. The 13 Ghosts reboot kicks ass. The Carrie remake does not. The Blob can kinda be a reboot or a remake; find out which we call it. The Hills Have Eyes has a remake, or is it a reboot?

The Thing gets arguably the most successful reboot ever, but Psycho may have the worst remake. The Fly has a wicked reboot. The Omen has a dorky remake. The Child’s Play reboot is amazing, shut up. The Grudge remake is butts. The Evil Dead (2013) reboot rules your behind. The Ring remake is caca. Evil Dead II is a reboot, right? 

My Bloody Valentine has a remake and it's not worth watching. Piranha 3D is a great way to revitalize a franchise. Willard is a rat-infested remake. Dawn of the Dead is a bombastic reboot, whereas both Night of the Living Dead remakes from 1990 & 3D 2006 are alright. I am Legend and Omega Man are different and thusly we have a reboot. 

No one gives Manhunter credit, but its remake, Red Dragon, is a masterclass. The Crazies is kinda bleh until its reboot. Quarantine is a lesser remake of Rec.  Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a super fun, vibrant reboot. Amityville Horror... sigh... is fine, but the sequels need to shut up.

House of Wax/ House of Wax/ Tourist Trap are all movies. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot/ remake argument could go round and round like leatherface's chain.  Black Christmas has shitty remakes that pretend to be reboots. Suspiria is great in both forms. Pet Sematary has a reboot. 

And then we talk about a bunch of other flicks, so just like... download this episode and let us word vomit inside of your noggin, bruh. 

Doug also interviews extreme videographer and director, Samhel. Find trailers for his films and links to buy them here: https://vimeo.com/user90082436

This week's "Hidden Track" is Runaway by Mercury Rising. These gents have a show coming up on Friday at Dublin Castle in London, what what. Try and make it, if you're cool. If not, also try and make it so you can learn how to become cool. IG: @mercuryrisingband

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The last week of Hack to School is upon us, and the class is body shop... as in... Student Bodies shop. Boom. We truly save the best punny title for last. This week we ponder, Is Student Bodies the Naked Gun of Horror? 

Never seen it? Well, as of the time of this recording, it was free on Pluto TV... even if Pluto TV is the most annoying free streaming app since the times of a town crier yelling nonsense with a clangy bell. 

The film was written and directed by Mickey Rose with contributions from Michael Ritchie as "Allen Smithee." Rose was an early contributor of Woody Allen.

A key consideration in this film is its history and its contemporaries. We create a timeline of horror form the 60's to the time of the film's release, so show what the filmmakers had to rely upon, then the films that came out the same year to show its competition. 

I'll just copy and post some of those titles  for the metadata here: 

1960- Peeping Tom, Psycho; 1963- Blood Feast; 1971- A Bay of Blood; 1972- The Last House on the Left; 1974- Black Christmas, Texas Chainsaw; 1976- The Town that Dreaded Sundown, Alice, Sweet Alice; 1977- The Hills Have Eyes, Martin; 1978- Halloween, The Toolbox Murders, I Spit on Your Grave; 1979- The Driller Killer, When a Stranger Calls, Microwave Massacre, Tourist Trap; and 1980- New Year’s Evil, Christmas Evil, fade to Black, Friday the 13th, Mother’s Day, Prom Night, Terror Train, Motel Hell.

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Hack to School month continues with Idle Hands from our hosts' awkward adolescence, and yours too (probably). 

The film was directed by Rodman Flender, who had a tremendous amount of restraint in taking the chance to reshoot the entire ending to ensure that it was tonally accurate to the remainder of the film. 

Idle Hands was written by Terri Hughes and Ron Milbauer. The team started with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and have gone on to write and produce tons of content. 

We talk about all of the uhm... influences? that the film relied on, perhaps too heavily in some ways, including most famously An American Werewolf in London. *Cough* Seth Green is basically just Jack, but also really good *cough*

Devon Sawa plays Anton Tobias, who perhaps is named after Anton Levay... perhaps. 

Seth Green plays Mick alongside Elden Henson as Pnub. The team embody stoners as well as Jay and Silent Bob and spookiness as well as Reaper, Deadbeat, and even Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. 

Vivica A. Fox is violent, beautiful hand-hunter, Debi LeCure. She aligns herself with Jack Noseworthy as Randy, the heavy metal heart throb, or whatever. 

Doug also takes time to interview Jonathan Doe, aka Cinema's Underbelly, director of Barf Bunny. Check out his youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/c/CinemasUnderbelly and his podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEd-DJJpKSJxAMSEfh6rw1g/featured

This week's "Hidden Track" is by Cherisher. Please please please take the time to check out their debut EP, Bloom Code, either on Bandcamp or Spotify. You may know their guitarist, Jordan Olds aka Gwarsenio Hall from Two Minutes to Late Night, a much more successful show than ours, but with the same level of engorged wiener energy. IG - @cherishernyc; Bandcamp- https://cherisher.bandcamp.com/

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Happy Monday everyone, and happy #hacktoschool week 2!  This week, we are joined by our esteemed podcast buddies of Much Ado About Nerding, Joe and Sally, to discuss our history class lesson: Apostle (2018).

Apostle is the Netflix original film written and directed by Gareth Evans, who you may know from The Raid, The Raid Part 2, and the Safe Haven segment from VHS 2.  If you’re a fan of any of these, you may be pleasantly, or not so pleasantly surprised by Apostle, as it steers clear from a lot of the thematic elements present in the aforementioned films.  However, Apostle is about a cult, so maybe there's a cult following. We could sure use the downloads, people. I'll drink whatever punch you've got if you make this show a success. 

The film stars Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton, Mark Lewis Jones and Bill Millner, and takes place in 1905.  The backdrop of the film is this dreary island and even features some supernatural elements, which may or may not surprise you, as Jake makes abundantly clear. But there’s a lot of fun gore, a lot of questions that don’t get answers, and finger crunching that we definitely recommend you watch, at the very least.  In addition, the four of us go on a few side rants that include Hugh Jackman, Age of Apocalypse, and a bit about a mirror that you won’t want to miss!  We had a lot of fun on this one, most of it not having much to do with the film nor the history lesson, but could also be classified as a debate if we really want to go there.

If you want to check out Joe and Sally’s podcast, you can find them anywhere you listen to podcasts, as well as Instagram @much_ado_about_nerding and Patreon.com/muchadoaboutnerding; and [email protected]

This week's "Hidden Track" is The Slain Six by Coltcrusher. https://coltcrusher.bandcamp.com/ 

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Not gonna lie, writing these episode descriptions feels like homework... So that's perfect for this month's theme: Hack to School! Grab your class schedule and meet up with your old buds to find out what they did on summer vacation. 

We are starting off the month with Home Economics. The big takeaway, do not make chicken nuggets like they do in Cooties from 2014. 

The film was directed by the team of Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion, who did Bushwick and Becky. The film was written by Leigh Whannell of Insidious, Saw, and The Invisible Man fame, alongside Ian Brennan, who is like the guy  for the show Glee... apparently, I've still never watched it. Both play incredibly memorable, perhaps the best, characters in the film. 

Produced by Elijah Wood's company, Spectrevision, which was originally called The Woodshed. There's a useless piece of trivia from my notes that I did not babble on air. 

The film stars Wood, who almost blocked Rainn Wilson's "hobbit" line, but left it in as any good executive producer would. The film also features Allison Pitt, who was in Goon, and in the making of featurette for the film, references Sidney Crosby. Kinda cool, again forgot to mention it on air.

Speaking of all these damned actors, we take a creative jaunt and recast the actors from Return of the Living Dead into this film. Find out who we picked and why. 

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For our final week of 2001: A Space Augusty, we decided to take your childhood favorites and turn them on their head.  We’ve exposed the horrors of Critters, Mac and Me, Lilo and Stitch, Star Kid, The Iron Giant, and Spaced Invaders, to name a few.

We discuss why aliens are so enamored  by children, why Invader Zim is the shit, why The Hunchback of Notre Dame is definitely not kid friendly, and what we really think of the Shape of Water.  This episode is definitely NSFW, so we  strongly suggest ear buds if you’re in public. We had a ton of fun with this one--it’s definitely a mish mash of insanity, but we wouldn’t have it any other way.  We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed being inappropriate lol.

This episode also features an interview with Dr. Chris Impey, a super genius and genuinely nice guy. He is is a professor and deputy head of the department of astronomy at the University of Arizona, has written nearly 20 books, and is a pioneer of online education. http://chrisimpey-astronomy.com/ 

This week's "Hidden Track" is ROT by Hey Sunshine. Check their music video out here: https://youtu.be/tm2fbJkBeG0 and their socials here: https://www.facebook.com/heysunshineband/

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Get ready to get raunchy this week with all three Goons as we discuss all four installments of Species for week 3 of 2001: A Space Augusty!  Find out where we rank them, what our favorite moments were, and sit in on a few tangents that involve Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Incredible Melting Man, Kissing Booth 3 and more.

The first Species was released in 1995--which, for those of you who weren’t born or simply can’t remember--was a golden year for horror movie releases.  It was directed by Roger Donaldson, with voice effects by Frank Welker and stars Natasha Henstridge, Michelle Williams, Marg Helgenberger, Alfred Molina, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker.  Be sure to listen in and find out why Alfred Molina’s, aka Doctor Octopus, sex scene was so special.

Then we get into the magic and wonder that is Species 2.  The effects, the story, the Patrick Batemen lookalike, it’s a wonder it flopped as badly as it had.  There are some crazy, gory, fun effects with part 2, and while some of the premise is certainly cringey, it’s a great standup sequel that deserves more love.

Finally, parts 3 and 4 are explored in all their crazy mess and splendor.  Join us as we talk shit, discuss schlock and more importantly, pay homage to some of the craziest alien-related flicks we’ve discussed all month.

This week's "Hidden Track" is by Spellbook. You can find them here and on all social media sites @SpellBookBand https://spellbookband.bandcamp.com/album/magick-mischief 

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