Based on the mentions on another podcast, Andrew loads the final episode of Scare You Movie Mad 2024 with Stuart Gordon’s HP Lovecraft adaptation from the mid-90s, and Johnny discusses post-birthday malaise and missing out on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new Warriors musical adaptation because time has been unkind. Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut is discussed as well as the continual fallout of Joker: Folie A Deux.
293 - IN A VIOLENT NATURE
Cronch cronch cronch, walking on dried leaves and bark, a ramble in the woods to start October’s Scare You Movie Mad run, we’re looking at the conceptual killer movie of 2024 about… walking. And sometimes a li’l murder for fun. Andrew eggs Johnny on to be more like the Johnny of the movie, and Johnny sings us his thoughts of new films including Joker: Folie A Deux, Megalopolis, The Substance and The Outrun. Andrew, though, slams down on some Salem’s Lot for good measure. We’re coming into Halloween month swingin’!
282 - TERRIFIER 2
The sequel to a barely-seen 84 minute indie horror splatter picture was of course a film longer than Star Wars (Episode IV) and made a tidy $15m worldwide, but what is it about the film, Damien Leone’s blank cheque and Art The Clown that gets audiences riled up and excited for more of his nasty, gory shenanigans? Andrew and Johnny probe the hard questions on the second half of an all-nighter recording that may have broken everything in both hosts’ brains, not in the way Art usually handles gooey organs though.
281 - TERRIFIER
It’s (gonna be) May, and with that we’re celebrating for some reason by clowning around with new horror ‘icon’ Art The Clown who seems to go around with knives and a gun to do killings to people. That’s as far as the lore allows us to go. Andrew recites half of Bart Simpson’s Deep Deep Trouble off the top of the dome and Johnny prepares for a wild night of FrightFest-related film watching, because this ain’t the end of our Terrifier coverage this month.
BONUS - THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 3 (FINAL SEQUENCE) COMMENTARY
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
What’s scarier than the notion of another hour and forty minutes in Tom Six’s ‘shocking’ ‘button-pushing’ mind? We’re watching Eric Roberts in a prison-set Centipede movie, and finding anything to talk about whilst what technically counts as video synced to audio running over 70 minutes, and thus is a feature film, plays out. Not worth watching along with us, just listen and play trivia games like a normal podcast.
Commentary begins at 00:07:43
BONUS - THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (FULL SEQUENCE) UK CUT COMMENTARY
First off, legally we can only watch the UK Cut version so there may be sync problems at times due to, ya know, the original cut being rejected over where we record.
Johnny recalls his FrightFest experiences with this film and Laurence R. Harvey, while Andrew spends most of the time playing games because there’s literally nothing in this film to discuss besides ‘Mike Leigh coulda made something with this’.
Commentary begins at 00:11:44
264 - ROAR
Ok, so, there was a bit of a mistake, this was meant to be us watching Julia Ducournau’s Raw in the build-up to us covering Titane next year, but it seems we got the wrong disk in so here’s us watching a movie about living with lions and tigers and hairy men, oh my! Andrew discusses seeing this film in a packed cinema, and Johnny rates animals based on how he’d most be comfortable living with them.
256 - WRINKLES THE CLOWN
Halloween Kills Ends and we’ve saved the scariest for last, a documentary on creepypasta, the legacy of virality, child trauma, a rise in clown hauntings just before the world fell apart, and the serious work that goes into being a funny, kind, hopeful clown performing artist. We bring positivity and hope into a world feeling low and broken, and wave adieu to scary clown halloween.
255 - WRONG TURN 2021
Halloween Kills Month carries on with another scary franchise’s rebooting experience. Johnny digs into his childhood memories of the original Wrong Turn, and an adult run in with the final in the first phase of the franchise, and Andrew discusses watching later Halloween films over the past week as a friend gave updates on their own Wrong Turn marathon, all leading to a screening of this nearly 2-hour revamp of the entire concept.
254 - HALLOWEEN II
As Halloween Kills prepares to take a stab at the big screen, Johnny takes Andrew back to Haddonfield for the follow-up to the original Halloween movie. Everyone knows the big reveal, but what else is there waiting for them? What are their takes on the franchise, compared to other slasher features, and working out the timelines of this particular set of movies?
253 - THIR13EN GHOSTS
October is, of course, the spookiest month, Halloween Kills month itself, and Johnny has once more taken the reins to show Andrew a series of scary motion pictures. We begin with the Matthew Lillard-starring ‘I remember this from back at school’ movie 13 Ghosts, where Johnny reads descriptions for each of the Ectocean’s gang, and the duo discuss No Time To Die, a film they had definitely watched before recording.
252 - DAY WATCH
Johnny is forced back into the fantasy lore of Russian trilogy-turned-two-film-franchise Nochnoy Dozor, and he’s being at his best behaviour, but will he last the 2 hour follow-up? Andrew discusses the death of cinema, at least as he waves goodbye to a Cineworld Unlimited card, and the Comic Con hunt for a DVD of Day Watch in 2006.
251 - NIGHT WATCH
Andrew takes the reigns of the nostalgia-buster-fantasy-action programming this week, with Timur Bekmambetov’s weird Russian piece of cinema. Will it hold up? Probably not. Will Disney+ offer kinetic subtitles? Of course not. What will be left of hope when the film comes to an unthrilling climax?
213 - E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
Johnny closes out Shocktober with the film he deems scariest of all, based on childhood traumas. Andrew is ready for a Spielberg slice of fun. Will ET remain a terrifying figure for Adult Johnny? Will Halloween in lockdown be any fun whatsoever? What good is having an alien buddy if you can’t go around freaking folk out?
212 - DEATH OF A VLOGGER
On the time of FrightFest’s Halloween spooktacular, Johnny pays homage with another of 2019’s festival favourites, an indie Scottish found-footage-cum-shockumentary (shocking mockumentary) about a vlogger, a ghost, and a series of scares. Andrew spirals deeper into his own madness and commences naming HBO shows for 15 minutes, he’s doing fine, he’s doing fine, he’s...doing……….fiiiiiiiine.
211 - SINISTER
Johnny takes command of the episode and makes Andrew sit through a modern horror that he absolutely adores. Andrew prepares for the Ethan Hawke of it all, and finds ways to make horror less scary by turning Sinister into a Muppet movie. Johnny tries to remember his top 10 films of 2012, but there seems to be some cursed beast within the archives, unleashing its own sinister brand of evil. The bad guy of this film is named Mr. Boogie, by the way.
210 - REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA
It’s the cross pollination of musical month and Shocktober, as horror director Darren Lynn Bousman delves deep into the dingy world of operatic storytelling, and gets a pre-I’ll Kill Harvey Weinstein Paul Sorvino to perform, whilst Paris Hilton loses face and Anthony Head remains vastly underpaid for his services to cinema. Also, Andrew laments horror cinema and Johnny works through furloughed worker schemes, because that’s where we are mentally now!
BONUS - FRIGHTFEST DAY 4
Johnny wraps up FrightFest with a mysterious vampire co-host cracking wise throughout.
Hitting up the films The Swerve, Enhanced, AV: The Hunt and the short films Werewolf, The Motorist, Love Bite, The Gift, Wash, Fuel, Polvotron 500, Keith, Death Walks On Nitrate and The Afterlife Bureau.
BONUS - FRIGHTFEST DAY 3
Johnny lost the internet for a bit, but still he found the scares of FrightFest Day 3, including a whole pack of shorts.
We’re talking Clapboard Jungle, Hall, Aquaslash, Two Heads Creek and short films Bark, Jeff Drives You, Ouzo And The Blackcurrant, Breakfast, A Bit Of Fun, FLESH Control, Subject 3, Tarrare, Guest and The Beholder.
BONUS - FRIGHTFEST DAY 2
Hours after we recorded Day One we lost a modern cinema titan, and so tributes are paid to Chadwick Boseman, before heading into discussion on Day 2 of FrightFest online.
The films reviewed are The Columnist, The Horror Crowd, They’re Outside and Don’t Click.