We check in on what new shenanigans our old buddy the shape gets up to this time. This week Matt and Tristan pick up every stitch for the Samhain masterpiece, Halloween III.
Would I say that Newlydeads has a modern sensibility that really speaks to an enlightened audience? Not really. Would I say that it has several exposed breasts and someone running neck first into a two person wood saw? Yes. Matt and Tristan talk about the movie with the least GLAD nominations for 1988, Newlydeads.
Severed ties was originally called "Army". Which is the kind of pun that works way better once you've already seen the movie. So Severed Ties it became. The specific ties being severed are limbs. They then grow back with a magic serum. Plus, they're evil and kill people. Matt and Tristan talk about one of 1992's best killer limb movie, Severed Ties.
Virus is a movie directed by an FX legend. Directing...maybe not so much. Matt and Tristan talk Virus.
When it comes to weird Christian themed monster movies featuring Billy Zane and a guy from Wings, it just doesn't get much better than this. Matt and Tristan talk Demon Knight.
Sometimes you see a movie that is so close to being a classic that it makes you sad. This is one of those movies. There's so much to love in this movie, but somehow it just never reaches its potential. Just like me. Matt and Tristan talk about the 1989 zombie sex-comedy-zombie-horror, Night Life.
Based on the Stevie Wonder song of the same name, Superstition fills in all the parts of the song where nobody was getting cut in half by sentient window frames. Matt and Tristan talk about the surprisingly fun 1982 haunted pond movie, Superstition.
Do you like puns in a bad German accent? Well, tough. Revenge of the Red Baron is ostensibly a kids movie, but has a massive body count and the teen protagonist is a sociopath, but he is played by Toby McGuire, so he's a charming sociopath. Matt and Tristan talk about the kids(?) horror movie, Revenge of the Red Baron.
You think you have problems...this family has to live with Alan Thicke! If that isn't bad enough, all the good comics about Trepopkins are $500. Matt and Tristan talk about Stepmonster, the best movie that Amy Dolenz made that year. Probably.
In the third installment of the Poltergeist series, we're going to double down on the mistakes made in the second one and make them even bigger and more confusing. Are there moments of magical brilliance? Totally. Are there big swaths of walking up stairways and calling out someone's name like a lesser 70's Hammer movie? You betcha. Matt and Tristan talk Poltergeist 3.
In the original Poltergeist a happy likable family, through no fault of their own, become the victims of a malevolent spectral force. In part two, the spectral force is there, but the happy likable family...is not quite as happy or likable. By adding too much Amityville and Shining to the mix, plus a tiny dash of xenophobia it misses the mark a bit. But there's still a lot to like about it. Matt and Tristan talk Poltergeist 2 : The Other Side.
There's like a troll or something? I guess his name is Grim or maybe not. There's some caves. People walk a whole bunch. I guess there's a talisman that does something, but they lose it. Sometimes people's eyes go red. Matt and Tristan talk about it for some reason.
My toxic trait is that I would totally sign up for the lot 6 tests, even after that dude clawed his eyes out. Join Matt and Tristan for the closest thing we got to an X-Men movie in the eighties, Firestarter.
Ok. Big old trigger warning. If there's a thing that bothers you to hear discussed even in less than graphic detail (SA, animal deaths) this might not be the one for you. This is a pretty mean movie in places, and pretty incomprehensible in places so be forewarned. That said, on the good side it's a very impressive low budget movie that did a whole lot with not much. On the bad side, some of the not much was comprehensible dialogue and character motivation. Matt and Tristan talk about the biggest little melt movie ever, The Carrier.
Without a doubt, this is the best movie ever to feature James Earl Jones wearing a Locust mascot costume.
This movie is a case study in how a generic title combined with a bad poster can sink even the best of movies into obscurity. How this thing isn't talked about CONSTANTLY is a downright tragedy.
Turns out that the real Curse was the movie we all watched together.
A special Valentine's Day episode!
Remember telephones? Well, if you do, there were these numbers you could call for psychics, sex talk, or drunken Santas. As it turns out, like the majority of capitalist enterprises, they were run by the devil. Join Matt and Tristan for the eighties best phone-based-satan movie, 976-Evil.
Crime is the disease, he's the cure. He's going to inoculate society with a vaccine made of bullets. He's putting a cast on society's broken leg. A cast of punching. He's going to treat society's plantar fasciitis by pouring gas on it and setting it on fire. Matt and Tristan watch the Cannon films masterpiece, Cobra.