Video Express

Welcome to MAXIMUM OVERVIEW, a special edition of Video Express where we leave the video stores of yesteryear and discuss the new & noteworthy horror movies of today. In this episode we hack our way through the brutal, baffling, and divisive second entry of the Blumhouse Halloween reboot trilogy: HALLOWEEN KILLS. 

Featuring: Trilogy Middle Child Syndrome, Arts & Crafts With Michael, questionable hospital floorplans, and what NOT to do when you find a bloody hand print in your kitchen. 

Please be kind, rewind, but most importantly just be kind!

Shout out to The Alamo Drafthouse of Winchester, VA! The Alamo Drafthouse celebrates cinema of yester-year and today, featuring a wide variety of beer and adult beverages, as well as a rotating menu of delicious foods! Alamo Drafthouse Cinema elevates the cinematic experience with their commitment to exceptional picture and sound. Catch the latest blockbuster or your favorite cult film at the Alamo Drafthouse in Winchester, VA, at 181 Kernstown Commons Blvd!

WE'RE BAAAAACK, and we're rounding off our Roger Corman month with 1995's BLACK SCORPION starring Joan Severance! 

Featuring: Matt realizing that he actually meant for us to watch the sequel, Matt pouring drinks to cope with said realization, Power Rangers villains, "Yo, Computer!", interesting fashion choices, and a plot that...almost makes sense. 

Please be kind, rewind, but most importantly just be kind!

Shout out to LUNCHMEAT! Lunchmeat VHS is your number one destination for the appreciation, celebration, and preservation of VHS and video store culture! Check out their website at lunchmeatvhs.com and explore their store full of old school horror goodies on VHS, apparel, and much more! You can also follow them on Instagram/Twitter @lunchmeatvhs

This week we're joined by actress & cinephile, Jackie Kelly (Instagram: @actressjackiekelly), as we dig up Roger Corman's 1989 Alien rip-off, THE TERROR WITHIN! 

Featuring: CDC employees in Hawaiian shirts, a botched mutant C-section, mutant humanoids looking for love in all the wrong places, and Butch the Dog aka The Goodest of Bois.

Please be kind, rewind, but most importantly just be kind!

Shout out to The Alamo Drafthouse of Winchester, VA! The Alamo Drafthouse celebrates cinema of yester-year and today, featuring a wide variety of beer and adult beverages, as well as a rotating menu of delicious foods! Alamo Drafthouse Cinema elevates the cinematic experience with their commitment to exceptional picture and sound. Catch the latest blockbuster or your favorite cult film at the Alamo Drafthouse in Winchester, VA, at 181 Kernstown Commons Blvd!

This week we're joined by the leader of the Monster Squad and director of Wolfman's Got Nards, Andre Gower, as we dissect the underrated early-aughts sequel, Urban Legends: Final Cut.

Featuring: late-90s film school fashion, a "surprise twin" subplot, overfunded student films, various tangents, and 6 Degrees of Andre Gower. 

Please be kind, rewind, but most importantly just be kind!

Shout out to The Alamo Drafthouse of Winchester, VA! The Alamo Drafthouse celebrates cinema of yester-year and today, featuring a wide variety of beer and adult beverages, as well as a rotating menu of delicious foods! Alamo Drafthouse Cinema elevates the cinematic experience with their commitment to exceptional picture and sound. Catch the latest blockbuster or your favorite cult film at the Alamo Drafthouse in Winchester, VA, at 181 Kernstown Commons Blvd!

Ah, the 2000s: when glossy teen slashers, white tank tops, and nu-metal soundtracks ruled all...

This week we're breaking down VALENTINE, the 2001 slasher that made us all think twice about heart-shaped chocolates. 

Featuring: Denise Richards' eyebrows, nose bleeds, out of place Rob Zombie remixes, early aughts "f a s h i o n", and David Boreanaz doing his best. 

Please be kind, rewind, but most importantly just be kind!

Shout out to LUNCHMEAT! Lunchmeat VHS is your number one destination for the appreciation, celebration, and preservation of VHS and video store culture! Check out their website at lunchmeatvhs.com and explore their store full of old school horror goodies on VHS, apparel, and much more! You can also follow them on Instagram/Twitter @lunchmeatvhs

Today we're talking BLOODSUCKERS FROM OUTER SPACE, the 1984 low budget gem about a Texas town terrorized by a body-snatching alien wind! 

Featuring: drunk scientists, chainsaw decapitation, a surprising amount of Nitrous Oxide, Aunt Kate's famous spaghetti recipe, and a small town photojournalist having the best day of his life. 

Please be kind, rewind, but most importantly just be kind!

Shout out to LUNCHMEAT! Lunchmeat VHS is your number one destination for the appreciation, celebration, and preservation of VHS and video store culture! Check out their website at lunchmeatvhs.com and explore their store full of old school horror goodies on VHS, apparel, and much more! You can also follow them on Instagram/Twitter @lunchmeatvhs

This week we're descending into the depths of...THE DEAD PIT! (1989) 

Featuring: brain probing, an undead doctor with a penchant for rings, a scantily clad amnesiac, and a heartwarming tale about the video store that inspired the name of this podcast!

Please be kind, rewind, but most importantly just be kind!

Shout out to LUNCHMEAT! Lunchmeat VHS is your number one destination for the appreciation, celebration, and preservation of VHS and video store culture! Check out their website at lunchmeatvhs.com and explore their store full of old school horror goodies on VHS, apparel, and much more! You can also follow them on Instagram/Twitter @lunchmeatvhs!

We're slithering into the final part of our Jill Schoelen celebration with this slimy sequel that's not actually a sequel: 

Curse II: The Bite! 

Featuring: Radioactive mutant snakes, the opposite of #relationshipgoals, bad doctors, a trucker convoy, TWO gas station harbingers, and one of the goopiest, snake-vomit-filled special FX sequences we've covered so far. 

Please be kind, rewind, but most importantly just be kind! 

Shout out to LUNCHMEAT! Lunchmeat VHS is your number one destination for the appreciation, celebration, and preservation of VHS and video store culture! Check out their website at lunchmeatvhs.com and explore their store full of old school horror goodies on VHS, apparel, and much more! You can also follow them on Instagram/Twitter @lunchmeatvhs! 

It's Jill Schoelen Month here at Video Express, so we're headed back to the theatre with 1991's Popcorn! 

Featuring: Jill Schoelen's bangs, a villain that's basically Freddy Krueger for theatre kids, and a seemingly cursed production that somehow managed to pull it all together despite multiple major setbacks. 

Please be kind - rewind, but most importantly: just be kind!

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We're headed down under this week with Howling III: The Marsupials! 

Featuring: Philippe Mora's CHOICES™, werewolf nuns, surprise hairy pouches, and a nightmarish human/marsupial werewolf baby puppet. 

Be sure to subscribe to Troma NOW! at WATCH.TROMA.COM and get your first month FREE! Also check out Troma's latest film directed by Lloyd Kaufman: #Shakespeare's Sh*tstorm.

TROMA: 46 years of disrupting media!