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Day 52 in 60 Days of Halloween is part 3 of our coverage of Knoxville Horror Film Fest X! We recorded some interviews at the film fest that we will be releasing over the next few days, but tonight's episode wraps up our KHFF coverage, in terms of the movies and our experiences there. I've said this every time that I talk about KHFF, but it is an amazing horror film festival, we had an absolute blast, and we cannot wait til next year!!

Today's episode includes:

Latched (short)

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot

Blood Spook (short)

42 Counts (short)

Don't Eat at Dave's (short)

Survival of the Film Freaks

Shock Waves (live podcast)

We also talk about some of our favorite movies from the weekend in our very own Gargyle Awards!! Categories include:

Most Bonkers Short Film

Most Bonkers Feature Film

Most Pleasant Surprise

Movie that Kicked You Hardest in the Feels

Most Excited to Share with Someone Else

Most Rewatchable

Best Actor, if watching the movie with the sound off

Best Actress, if watching the movie with the sound off

Most Cringeworthy Effects

Movie We Most Want on 4K Blu-ray

If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous 60 Days of Halloween coverage and be sure to check back tomorrow as we start Fear of Being a Bad Horror Geek Week, in which Eric and I admit major gaps in our horror knowledge and watch iconic horror movies that we hate to admit that we have never seen before.

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Day 51 in 60 Days of Halloween is part 2 of our coverage of Knoxville Horror Film Fest X! We had an absolute blast watching some amazing horror films in a theater full of fellow horror fans and we are super stoked for the rest of the weekend!!

Today's episode includes:

The Field Guide to Evil (part of it)

Luz

Sadistic Intentions (world premiere)

Cabin Killer (short)

The Bloody Ballad of Squirt Reynolds (short)

Anna & the Apocalypse

Lunch Ladies (short)

Granny (short)

BFF Girls (short)

Gwilliam's Tips for Turning Tricks into Treats (short)

Schwartzy (short)

Freelancer (short)

Grindhouse Grind-Out 2018 (collection of local shorts)

If you enjoy this episode*, check out our previous 60 Days of Halloween coverage and be sure to check back tomorrow for the third part of our coverage of Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!

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*We apologize for the audio quality of today's episode being poorer than it typically is. We recorded before getting on the road, so the quality is better than yesterday's episode. But, there is still more ambient noise that what I was hoping for (and removing it made us all sound like cheap robots...). But, don't let the technical quality detract from the content...we were still able to talk about how much we loved the movies!!

Day 50 in 60 Days of Halloween is part 1 of our coverage of Knoxville Horror Film Fest X! We had an absolute blast watching some amazing horror films in a theater full of fellow horror fans and we are super stoked for the rest of the weekend!!

Today's episode includes:

Riley Was Here (short)

The Clovehitch Killer (IFC Midnight film)

Lucy's Tale (short)

Scary Stories (documentary)

Zombie (4K restoration)

Mannequins (short - US premiere)

Maniac (4K restoration)

Deep Clean (short)

The Ranger

If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous 60 Days of Halloween coverage and be sure to check back tomorrow for the second part of our coverage of Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!

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We apologize for the audio quality of today's episode being poorer than it typically is. We recorded on the drive back to Cleveland (in part, to keep the 60 Days going without a missed episode...also, in part, to make sure we stayed awake) and there is a bit more ambient highway noise than I was hoping for. But, don't let the technical quality detract from the content...Eric and I might have been sleepy, but we were still able to talk about how much we loved the movies!!

Day 49 in 60 Days of Halloween is the analysis episode for Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week, the fear of writer/director/actor and all-around-awesome-guy, Matt Mercer!! Eric and I have definitely faced some pretty heavy fears over the last few weeks, so this entire week has felt like a palette cleanser week (of sorts) for us. Of course, that doesn't stop us from tearing into the analyses of these movies like a horde of hungry zombies!

If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous 60 Days of Halloween coverage and be sure to check back tomorrow for the first part of our coverage of Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!

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Day 48 in 60 Days of Halloween wraps up Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week (the fear of Matt Mercer) with Jaws - a summer blockbuster about a giant shark, or one of the greatest horror movies...scratch that...just all around greatest movie ever??

If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous 60 Days of Halloween coverage and be sure to check back tomorrow as we dive into the analysis episode for Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week with special guest, Matt Mercer!!

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Day 47 in 60 Days of Halloween continues Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week (the fear of Matt Mercer) with The Blob - an 80s remake of the classic Steve McQueen red scare creature feature, but with way more body horror and 1000% more permed mullet on the lead character (Kevin Dillon)

If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous 60 Days of Halloween coverage and be sure to check back tomorrow as we close out Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week with a palette cleanser (whoops...just realized that yesterday's episode said that today would be the palette cleanser. That was incorrect.  Tomorrow is the palette cleanser...for real this time) before diving into the analysis episode with special guest, Matt Mercer!!

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Day 46 in 60 Days of Halloween continues Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week (the fear of Matt Mercer) with Tremors - a horror comedy about carnivorous sand worms that takes the comedy seriously and the horror lightly, while at the same time having a solid grasp on what makes horror movies fun. I said this while recording the podcast, but Tremors takes place in Perfection, and it IS perfection!!

If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous 60 Days of Halloween coverage and be sure to check back tomorrow as we close out Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week with a palette cleanser before diving into the analysis episode with special guest, Matt Mercer!!

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Day 45 in 60 Days of Halloween continues Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week (the fear of Matt Mercer) with Day of the Dead - before there was a glut of zombies in pop culture, mindlessly overtaking everything just as they do in the movies about them, George A. Romero terrified audiences with his iconic "dead" films...each of which understood that what makes zombie movies so terrifying is what the zombies represent and not the zombies themselves, while at the same time expanding on zombie lore which still has a lasting influence on most modern iterations of zombies. Day of the Dead still stands out as an amazing horror movie, with practical effects by Tom Savini that still hold up to this day!!

If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous 60 Days of Halloween coverage and be sure to check back tomorrow as we continue Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week (the fear of Matt Mercer) with Tremors!!

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Day 44 in 60 Days of Halloween continues Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week (the fear of Matt Mercer) with Piranha - a film that has many flaws from a technical standpoint, but still has all of the Joe Dante charm that makes it really enjoyable and highly rewatchable!!

If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous 60 Days of Halloween coverage and be sure to check back tomorrow as we continue Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week (the fear of Matt Mercer) with Day of the Dead!!

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Day 43 in 60 Days of Halloween kicks off Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week (the fear of Matt Mercer) with Anaconda - a late 90s creature feature that got a lot of things right in theory (and does have some definite highlights), misses the mark overall in execution, but still manages to have a decently high rewatchability factor...if for no other reason than trying to figure out where Jon Voight's accent is supposed to be from.

If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous 60 Days of Halloween coverage and be sure to check back tomorrow as we continue Fear of Being Eaten Alive Week (the fear of Matt Mercer) with Piranha!!

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