Friday Night Frights

Two Michael B. Jordans and Irish-dancing vampires!!! Ryan Coogler's Sinners has it all, including the most Academy Award nominations in Oscar history. Michael and his cinephile son Ian break down this period horror film, which features one of the best vampire characters in recent memory, and so much more. We'll also suggest a second feature, from which Coogler said he drew inspiration, to pair with Sinners. We’d love to hear from you. Send us a text and let us know what you thought of the epi...

Award-winning film critic and Shock Cinema magazine contributor Mark Burger joins Michael as they talk about the beloved horror legend Peter Cushing. They each recommend a Cushing double feature that shows the actor at his very finest. It's Hammer time once again on FNF with a side dish of cossacks and aliens. We’d love to hear from you. Send us a text and let us know what you thought of the episode. Thanks for joining us. Leave us a review...if you dare. IG https://www.instagram.com/...

Grab your flashlights. It's time to battle Vecna one last time. Michael is joined again by his Stranger Things pal (and daughter) Lucy as they review the final season of the Netflix phenomenon. SPOILERS abound as they dive into each block of episodes to decide if the Duffer Brothers stuck the landing. They also dive into the connections between the Broadway play Stranger Things:The First Shadow and the show, and choose their MVPs (Most Valuable Performer) from this last season. We...

In the 70s only one seersucker-suit wearing reporter took on the classic monsters. Carl Kolchak. Michael takes a look back at the groundbreaking made-for-TV movies THE NIGHT STALKER, THE NIGHT STRANGLER and the TV series KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER. Join us for our final episode of 2025! We’d love to hear from you. Send us a text and let us know what you thought of the episode. Thanks for joining us. Leave us a review...if you dare. IG https://www.instagram.com/fridaynightfrightspodcast/ B...

Michael and his STRANGER THINGS pal, Lucy (also his daughter) breakdown the Broadway prequel STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW. They rave about the spectacular cold open, list the many classic horror references in the series and play and debate who might die when the TV show returns to Netflix this Thanksgiving. We’d love to hear from you. Send us a text and let us know what you thought of the episode. Thanks for joining us. Leave us a review...if you dare. IG https://www.instagram.com/frid...

Just in time for its debut on Netflix, father and son discuss a movie that’s about a...father and son. Michael is joined by his cinephile son, Ian, to break down Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. They compare it to Frankensteins Past, rave about the creation scene and ask the big question; will Frankenstein 2025 stand the test of time. We’d love to hear from you. Send us a text and let us know what you thought of the episode. Thanks for joining us. Leave us a review...if you dare. IG https...

Just in time for Halloween Michael counts down his top 10 Hammer Horrors with special Halloween recommendations. Dracula may be mentioned once or twice. We’d love to hear from you. Send us a text and let us know what you thought of the episode. Thanks for joining us. Leave us a review...if you dare. IG https://www.instagram.com/fridaynightfrightspodcast/ Blue Sky https://bsky.app/profile/fridaynightfrights.bsky.social

He’s big and he’s back! With the imminent release of Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN we offer you a Frankenstein Sequels double feature. It’s Universal’s SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939) and Hammer’s THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1958). Michael takes a look at these two classics and also wonders is it Ygor or Eyegor? We’d love to hear from you. Send us a text and let us know what you thought of the episode. Thanks for joining us. Leave us a review...if you dare. IG https://www.instagram.co...

New to Hammer? Love Hammer? We’ve got the perfect Hammer double feature for you today as Michael dives into “the most satisfying Dracula film ever made” and a film that’s a western, a vampire film, a swashbuckler and a whodunnit. We’d love to hear from you. Send us a text and let us know what you thought of the episode. Thanks for joining us. Leave us a review...if you dare. IG https://www.instagram.com/fridaynightfrightspodcast/ Blue Sky https://bsky.app/profile/fridaynightfrights....

We kick off the podcast with a very brief look at the history of the studio that dripped blood, gush over the unmitigated joy of creating horror double features and ask the age-old question - Camp and Cleavage? We’d love to hear from you. Send us a text and let us know what you thought of the episode. Thanks for joining us. Leave us a review...if you dare. IG https://www.instagram.com/fridaynightfrightspodcast/ Blue Sky https://bsky.app/profile/fridaynightfrights.bsky.social