We’re going back to the movies for Episode 206 of HORROR MOVIE PODCAST, where we’re Dead Serious About Horror Movies! On this episode, Dr. Shock, Gillman Joel, and Wolfman Josh discuss meta movies of the silver screener, including movies within movies and and movies at the movies, with feature reviews of Popcorn (1991) and a Shudder-Sponsored Screaming Online review of Demons (1985).

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SHOW NOTES:

I. Introduction



We’re broadly discussing movies about horror movies which are physically located on a film set, inside a cinema, or actually inside the movie itself, with feature reviews focused on films that take place at a movie theater.

We’re excluding strictly “Found Footage” films from this conversation—despite good examples like The Blair Witch Project, They’re Watching, or Be My Cat—because the entire subgenre is about filmmakers and they have their own set of conventions and tropes. We did an in-depth discussion of the found footage format on Horror Movie Podcast Ep 64: https://bit.ly/2TBxRBJ



[ 0:03:33 ] II. Film School Rejects List

—Read “10 Cinema-Set Horror Films That Are Safer Than Visiting a Movie Theater”

by Jacob Trussell at Film School Rejects

10. Messiah of Evil (1973)

9. Matinee (1993)

8. Popcorn (1991)

7. An American Werewolf in London (1981)

6. Gremlins (1984)

5. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

4. The Tingler (1959)

3. Scream 2 (1997)

2. The Blob (1988)

1. Demons (1985)



[ 0:13:40 ] III. Listener Feedback —  HMP listeners’ scariest cinema-set movies:

-Anguish (1987) from @EricYvon

-Donnie Darko (2001) from @HorrorZest

-Inglourious Basterds (2009) from @TheDaveyDave

-The Final Girls (2015) from @HalloweenYrRnd

-Messiah of Evil (1973) from @Mystyglass

-Midnight Movie (2008) and The Blob (both versions) from @kwag229

-Tingler, Matinee, and Popcorn from @Christi05278007

-Madhouse from @SchlockV

-Gremlins from @dansierras77

-Demons (1985) from <a href="https://twitter.com/SirMarLamont/status/1320777988670136322?