Our Fantastic Fest 2018 corespondent Kyle sits down with Diane Michelle, the writer and director of Goodnight, a short film premiering this week at the festival. They’re joined by her partner Luke Jaden, the director of the upcoming horror film BOO!, which he co-wrote with Diane. And if you’re thinking “hey, that’s a Tyler Perry movie”, don’t worry, WE GET INTO IT! We are hard-nosed journalists!

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Our friend Adam Hrabik (stand-up comedian, co-host of Adam and Avery's Christmas Committee podcast) helps us get meta this week with Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. Is it an insightful satire or just a trite, lesser version of the thing it’s commenting on? YOU decide! Just kidding, we decide: it’s trash!

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Our guest this week is Griffin May (Pendulum, The Rose)! He tricked us into watching Drag Me to Hell, a movie that Kyle believes is a masterpiece but Emma and Steven have NO TIME FOR! Listen closely and you can hear the exact moment Kyle loses respect for his co-hosts.

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Comedian Ashley Leisten (Second City, Two Kids in a Trenchcoat) brings The Babadook, a movie about a mother coping with the trauma of her weird kid wanting to be a magician. Grab your dead husband's violin, draw up a fully-clothed bath, and try your best not to scream mean things at children because that's (apparently) not cool!

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We’re joined by Wet Daddy Supreme Nathan Sowell (The Rose, Frankenfriends) to watch John Carpenter’s extremely underrated movie In the Mouth of Madness! Are we driven irreversibly mad by the stygian horrors of this film? Did Emma watch the movie? No, to both!

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Our guest this week is Yola Lu (The Rose, Uncomfortable), who crowd-sourced her movie selections from her Facebook friends and ended up showing us The Witch, which she hated. The gang discusses the finer points of maggot extraction and skinning babies. Kyle finally reaches his breaking point, but we all agree that witchcraft rules. Hail Satan!

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Special guest Katie Stone (Martini Ranch, Stool Pigeon) joins us live to discuss The Ring. Everyone is legitimately scared except for Emma who lets slip that her childhood bedroom was in a barn loft and she has driven horses to suicide. Is Emma Samara? How many nipples do you need to make a belt? Is wet hair grosser than throat hair? This episode is filled with answers!

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Special guest Ryan Darbonne (Sugar Water Purple, I AM TX) brings us the extremely under-appreciated Wes Craven film The People Under the Stairs! This movie has it all: gimp suits, booby traps, mole men, literal treasure, and pointed criticism of the capitalistic structure that allows racial oppression to continue unabated. Emma likes this one! Smash that subscribe button, comrades!

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Emma is on vacation in sunny New England. So Steven and Kyle step outside the confines of their recording crypt and visit an actual movie theater to see Unfriended: Dark Web! They're joined by #1 Wet Daddy Dylan Garsee (Pendulum, Hail to the Queen). Get ready for a 20 minute rant about Cards Against Humanity when you step inside T H E  B O Y  Z O N E !

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Put on your darkest lip liner and wriggle through that garage doggie door because we're watching Scream, baby! The gang is joined by Ashlee Jordan Pryor (Hellhole, Secret Mountain) to put the finishing touches on their slasher education. This is the slasher movie that pretty much murdered slasher movies. "Do you like scary movies?" To be honest, we can go either way!

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