The gang discusses everything about Messiah of Evil, the 1973 Lovecraftian horror movie about a desolate seaside town being overtaken by a mysterious cult. It's a movie that is inspired, insipid, captivating, nonsensical, engrossing, and idiotic.

As JR continues his long recovery, we look back on Clive Barker’s masterpiece, Rawhead Rex. As Clive said: “They got it all completely wrong. I whined at them a little bit and they said ‘get out of our face’.”

A very special announcement from your very special duo. Also, if you have 80ish minutes, watch some version of Carnival of Souls. If you have 850ish minutes, watch all of The Prisoner. If you have 9600ish minutes, listen to our entire back catalog again.

Our grab bag theme continues with His House (2020) and The Block Island Sound (2020) as we move on to Netflix offerings. Give a listen to find out which was the good movie, and which had JR railing against the alien EPA.

What’s lost in an adaptation of a horror story? The gang ponders if atmosphere can be more than just a low drone, if great works will ever be adapted well. and why more people don’t go back to the original work. Also, 217 episodes in, JR finally reads The Willows.

Master of horror, or master of making movies that are almost good? You may want to get that madness out of there for you to get in that mouth, but we put on those special glasses and take a critical view of him. We break down his 18 films and decide if where we think he falls between Starman and a 5 star man.

More movies we are actually interested in watching! We give Hulu some attention by streaming Sputnik (2020), which has been called Russian "Alien" but is more like Russian "Lilo and Stitch"; and Amulet (2020), which is . . . well, where to begin with that one . . . . Come and have a listen!

The duo have a revelatory idea: why not watch some movies they've wanted to watch for a while? So they watch "The Devils" (1971) and "The Dark and the Wicked" (2020). Does it work out? Does anything work out for our hapless duo?

Is there any actual benefit to watching horror movies? It would be nice to think so, right? J.R. and Derek explore this (remote) possibility.

The Bigfoot. The Sasquatch. The Skunk Ape. It goes by many names, but why isn’t it in more horror films? The boys tell those dusty mummies, rotten Frankensteins, and goofy Loch Ness Monsters to go home and examine the quintessential American monster. They don’t call him the Wild Man of the Woods for nothing!