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The things that haunt you are about to begin all over again.

Ep 161 of Dead Air is here to close out this years Stephen Kingapalooza with the seldom talked about 1991 film; Sometimes They Come Back.

Jim Norman is a teacher with a troubled past. As a kid, a typical day of two young brothers ended in tragedy and death. His older brother was killed along with a group of bullies on a railway track.

Now decades later, he's returned to his hometown and is immediately haunted by intense flashbacks of the event. Worst yet, it seems like the students in his glass are dropping dead.

Stranger still is the fact that new students are replacing the deceased from out of town. Each one eerily resembling one of the dead bullies.

Is Jim imagining things? Can the dead, really come back?

You've been away too long. But, now you've come home, to Dead Air!

A podcast unmolested by time. Today we continue our Stephen Kingapalooza with the 1979 TV movie, Salem's Lot!

Ben Mears is a successful writer that has returned to his hometown of Salem's Lot after many years. All to write about a supposedly evil Marsten house that has loomed large in the town since as long as anyone can remember.

This house has recently become home to a Vampire named Barlow that unleashes his hunger and plague of vampirism throughout the town. As citizens are slowly turned it's up to Ben and a few survivors to take out Barlow and flee the town. Unless they want to end up one of the many ghouls that now inhabit, Salem's Lot.

It's Friday night! The moon is bright! Gonna have some fun, show yah how it's done. TGIF! That's for; Thank Goodness It's Fright-Day! Seriously though, there is a full moon tonight, weird right?

We're smack dab in the middle of Stephen Kingapalooza! This time we talk about the 1985 Werewolf adaptation, Silver Bullet!

Marty and his Sister Jane, live fairly typical lives in Tarker's Mills, Maine but, in the the summer of 76, strange and gruesome murders start occurring.

Over time the bodies start to increase and a scared and outraged town go on a manhunt. However, all signs point to the impossible, a werewolf.

Marty is the only one who's seen it gets the help of his sister and Uncle Red. They have precious little time before the next full moon and everyone in town is suspect. Can they discover who is changing to a murderous wolf at night before it strikes again? Or will the town tear itself apart with suspicion and fear before the wolf has a chance to.

There's something in the mist!

It's Stephen Kingapalooza 2019! Our first film in this block of King adaptations is none other than the 2007 classic; The Mist

After a terrible storm David Drayton takes his son Billy to the local supermarket. Trailing behind them from over the lake is a mysterious and thick Mist that is coming from the mountains.

Once at the market the mist envelopes the town and with it comes death, paranoia and mayhem.

As the dark and deadly monsters siege the store it becomes obvious that the danger is not only outside, but, within. Tensions and religious beliefs flare. Is this the reckoning? Or is the secret military experiments within the area to blame for the apocalyptic horrors that are hiding in the mist?

Today on Dead Air,terror will be delivered on six legs! We talk about the 1988 creature feature; The Nest!

The sleepy island town of North Port has a serious roach problem and while most citizens find them to be an annoying fact of life, this nuisance is about to become a nightmare!

INTEC has genetically altered these cockroaches in hopes of destroying the pests once and for all but instead, because of their meddling, has created a hungry swarm that thrives on meat!

Humans, pets and wildlife start vanishing and it's up to the last survivors of the island to make it through the night while help arrives. However, a voracious appetite was only the beginning. The cockroaches are mutating further and becoming something else entirely. Something almost human.

What's gotten into you?!

Episode 156 of Dead Air is here! Today we talk about James Gunn's 2006 cult classic, Slither!

A sleepy South Carolina town is invaded by a parasitic alien entity that has been consuming worlds for eons.

It latches on to the host body of Grant and after a short incubation period begins to spread to the other inhabitants.

It's a goo filled eruption of slugs and body horror!

There is nothing spookier than a trailer park at night, and the only thing this one needs is creepy windchimes. And power. And telephone lines... and oh, the cellphones are all smashed in a pile and masked killers are stalking a family to kill them one by one. Sounds like it is summertime in the Strangerhood! Wes and Lydia brave neon waters and drown in the worst best music the 80s had to offer with Brian Bertino's follow-up, The Strangers: Prey at Night.

Come midnight. When the wicked must pay for their sins. Dead Air is the one who comes to collect!

Today's show we tackle the criminally underrated 2014 film, Let Us Prey!

Officer Heggie has her first night on the job cut out for her. A mysterious man known only as Six is struck by a drunk teenager but, leaves no body behind. When Six finally does show up it appears his very presence unnerves people to their very core. With good reason for everyone at this precinct has a dark sin in their past. Some sins, so bad they are unspeakable and worth killing to keep secret.

Six warns that come midnight they all will pay for their crimes. As the night lingers and both officers and prisoners start to loose it. It's clear that whoever Six is, he will make good on his promise to collect.

Also! As a bonus, Wes and Lydia play horror trivia pursuit!

In a world where magic is real. Death is only an Illusion!

Episode 153 of the Dead Air Podcast brings us to the year 1995 where Clive Barker's film Lord of Illusions takes us on a spellbinding journey to the outer reaches of horror!

Harry D'Amour is a private-eye with experiences in the occult. He's brought to LA because a serious of strange and violent killings, seemingly linked the horrific events 10 years prior are threatening the life of a world renowned celebrity magician named, Swan.

Swan is a man who has made a dark pact with the forces of Hell and a long dead deranged cult leader named Nix for genuine magical abilities. However, Nix's followers are still loyal after all these years and the ritual to resurrect him has already begun. Will Nix make good on his proclamation of "being born to murder the world?" Or will Swan and Harry show him who the true Lords of Illusions are?!

Somewhere, closer than you might think, is a podcast that's not on any map. Dead Air. Episode 152 brings us the cult classic; Nightbreed!

From the twisted mind of Clive Barker comes the story of Boone, a regular heartthrob in a tight t-shirt that's been having bad dreams about killing people.

His psychiatrist, Decker convinces him that he is remembering genuine killings. However, Decker has his own agenda. Pinning Boone for a series of brutal murders he himself has committed!

The deception leads to Boone's death and his transformation to one of the fabled "Nightbreed" super-human monsters of the night that dwell in the legendary city of Median. Deep below the earth.

Was this fate? Was Boone foretold in an ancient prophecy? Will he lead the Nightbreed to salvation? Or will the humans, rallied by Decker, eradicate them once and for all?