Monsters. Metaphors. Mishigas? The boys break down the metaphors that classic monsters are supposed to represent, and provide modernized/better examples of them. You’ll never believe what JR thinks the aliens from ‘This Island Earth’ mean!

Resident Evil. Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Resident Evil: Extinction. Resident Evil: Afterlife. Resident Evil: Retribution. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Each worse than the one before it, but what if a good Resident Evil movie was made?

Sans Mai Tai’s, the boys round up some more horror in another episode. Nightmare Alley, Brand New Cherry Flavor, Hellbound, Antlers, No One Gets Out Alive, and House. That last one is the movie with the scary cat face on the poster, not the zombie hand ringing a doorbell one you remember off the VHS box at the video rental place of your youth.

The boys are back on their horror nonsense with a roundup of how they spent their winter break. Spoilers, it was by watching American Horror Story Season 9, Midnight Mass, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, Squid Games, The Devil Below, and Superdeep. Apparently breaks are the time to watch miniseries…

The Empty Man (2020). You definitely didn't see it in theaters, but maybe you've heard about its growing cult status (no pun intended). Come listen as J.R. and Derek discuss both the ironically fraught development and end result of this admirably fascinating yet frustrating smash-up of teen urban legend thriller, Lovecraftian cosmic noir horror, and muddled insanity.

Imagine being writer Scott Smith. Come out of nowhere and write "A Simple Plan" and then adapt the screenplay, and everyone loves the movie. Wait 13 years, release your second novel "The Ruins," adapt the screenplay, and critics and audience . . . well, it's no "A Simple Plan." J.R. and Derek discuss The 2008 film "The Ruins," and while finding it not to be a disaster, discuss how it could have been better and how it differs from the novel.

J.R. and Derek analyze and cogently explain the surprisingly tight logic behind Halloween III: Season of the Witch's plot . . . nah, we are just playing, this movie is a goofy mess involving Stonehenge power cells, Halloween masks, cyborgs, magic that melts faces and conjures snakes,, and a whole bunch of other nonsense. Come divulge with us.

J.R., perhaps inexplicably, has wanted to the The Power (2021) for some time, attracted to the gothic imagery of a nurse holding an oil lamp, stuck in a haunted hospital during a blackout. The duo watch, and get something else… something… well, just come listen!

The duo finish up Folk Horror month with a return to the work of Nigel Kneale with his 1976 series "Beasts" and the episode "Baby." Hysterics and bad masks aside, it's solid. Manimal isn’t the only beast in this one baby.

What's the folk horror movie we cover? Doesn't have a name? Without Name? How will we find it? Do we want to find out, or do we just want to take psychotropic mushrooms and freak out in the woods. Or IS that the whole movie? Find out, as we discuss this lesser-known Irish folk horror film from 2016, which gives us a new appreciation of the Lorax.