Re-Animator
Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik
“I gave him life!” Grab your syringes, lock the morgue doors, and for the love of God keep your head attached! This week Midnight Cinema is injecting itself straight into the cult-splattered madness of Re-Animator. Art and Erik dive headfirst Stuart Gordon’s gloriously unhinged 1985 adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft, the film that taught us two important lessons: medical ethics are optional, and dead bodies do not appreciate unsolicited resurrection. Jeffrey Combs delivers an all-time performance as Herbert West, a brilliant, abrasive, morally bankrupt mad scientist armed with...
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The Thing (1982)
Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik
“I hear funny things out here… funny things…” Bring your long johns, pack the J&B Scotch, make sure the flamethrowers are working, and don’t trust anybody. We’re taking the chopper to Outpost 31. This week Midnight Cinema is the warmest place to hide as Art and Erik trek to Antarctica for The Thing — John Carpenter’s snow-bound masterpiece of paranoia, goo, and existential dread. Released in 1982 to tepid reviews and skimpy box office, The Thing was unfairly dismissed on arrival. But it over the decades it has clawed its way to being considered one of the greatest...
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Zombeavers
Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik
Bring your shotguns, pack your tightest shorts, and dammit—stay away from the beaver lodge! Art and Erik chomp into the outrageous 2015 horror-comedy Zombeavers, the movie that bravely asks the question no one needed answered: What if a zombie apocalypse… but beavers? A weekend girls’ getaway for three sorority sisters turns into a gnawing nightmare when toxic waste transforms a family of cute, industrious beavers into an army of undead furballs with an unstoppable appetite for flesh, limbs, and very unfortunate college students. We’re diving teeth-first into: Zombie beavers with...
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Dead & Buried
Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik
Be sure to follow and subscribe on , , or wherever you listen! No coastal road trips required. And come hang with us on , , and for clips, chaos, behind-the-scenes shenanigans, and and the occasional warning about towns that look a little too friendly. .
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They Live
Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik
MAKE SURE YOU PUT THE GLASSES ON! This week on Midnight Cinema, we’re tuning in to John Carpenter’s They Live. It's the alien-invasion, anti-consumerist, pro–back-alley-fistfight classic that proves the real monsters were inside the boardroom all along. Roddy Piper stars as Nada, a drifter who stumbles upon the single most powerful accessory in movie history: a pair of sunglasses that reveal the ugly truth beneath our shiny, ad-soaked reality. Billboards bark commands. Newscasters rot from the inside out. Capitalism is literally not human. And the only way to wake people up… is...
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Gremlins
Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik
Don’t get them wet. Don’t feed them after midnight. And whatever you do… don’t press play alone. This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik head to Kingston Falls to unwrap one of the most chaotic holiday gifts ever committed to film: Gremlins. What starts as a sweet 1984-era Christmas fantasy quickly mutates into a punk-rock creature feature stuffed with anarchic humor, broken rules, and homicidal puppets in Santa hats. Directed by Joe Dante and produced by Steven Spielberg, Gremlins somehow manages to be heartwarming, horrifying, and completely unhinged often in the same scene. We...
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Rare Exports
Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik
Gas up the snowmobiles, staple your Advent calendar shut, grab the gingerbread cookies and please study the safety instructions! We’re heading to Finland. This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik travel deep into the frozen wilderness to unwrap one of the most wickedly original Christmas movies ever made: Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Forget everything you think you know about Santa Claus. This isn’t a jolly old man squeezing down chimneys — this is ancient folklore, buried alive beneath the Arctic ice, waiting to be unearthed by corporate greed, dynamite, and...
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik
Ho-ho-hold onto your helmets! This week, Art and Erik blast off into one of the most delightfully bizarre holiday oddities ever projected onto a screen: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians—the children’s matinee fever dream that boldly asked, “What if Mars just really needed Santa?” This 1964 movie answers crucial questions like: What if Martian kids binge-watched too much Earth TV and got sad? What if Mars solved its depression problem by… kidnapping Santa? What is this terrifying creature called Torg? How cute can a polar bear attack actually get? And how many puns can one movie jam...
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Krampus
Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik
Robots and Angels and Bears, Oh My! Get the Christmas cookies in the oven, finish your letter to Santa, and whatever you do, don't let the fire go out! Hop in the Hummer because Midnight Cinema is celebrating the holidays with the Engel family! And you're invited! Art and Erik are facing down the shadow of Saint Nicholas as they lead you through the snowbound fun that is Michael Dougherty's 2015 holiday horror comedy Krampus! We're opening every present and examining every demonic toy of this Christmas-set modern classic. In this episode, we unwrap: The...
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The Guardian
Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik
Grab your baby monitor, oil up the chainsaw, and for the love of all that is holy stay away from the tree line because this week Art and Erik are diving head-first into William Friedkin’s The Guardian, the 1990 “Wait… Friedkin made THIS?” supernatural horror oddity. That’s right: the director of The Exorcist, The French Connection, Sorcerer, and To Live and Die in L.A. decided to go full druid-nanny-tree-monster—and we’re here to lovingly pick through every branch, twig, and inexplicable creative decision. From mystical kidnappings to nature-worshipping erotica to...
info_outlineDon’t get them wet. Don’t feed them after midnight. And whatever you do… don’t press play alone.
This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik head to Kingston Falls to unwrap one of the most chaotic holiday gifts ever committed to film: Gremlins.
What starts as a sweet 1984-era Christmas fantasy quickly mutates into a punk-rock creature feature stuffed with anarchic humor, broken rules, and homicidal puppets in Santa hats. Directed by Joe Dante and produced by Steven Spielberg, Gremlins somehow manages to be heartwarming, horrifying, and completely unhinged often in the same scene.
We dig into:
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Gizmo: how Spielberg saved our little furry hero
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The gremlin rulebook (Erik breaks down timezones and liquids.)
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That infamous chimney/Santa monologue and how it traumatized a generation
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Why Gremlins helped create the PG-13 rating
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Small-town Americana vs. full-scale creature chaos
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And how this movie still feels dangerous in a way modern studio films rarely do
From barroom mayhem to movie-theater mania, Gremlins is a Christmas movie that actively wants to ruin Christmas, and we love it for that.
So pour some eggnog, lock up your mogwai, and join us as we celebrate the holiday classic that proved the ’80s were absolutely feral.
Happy Holidays from Midnight Cinema! And remember, follow the rules!
And if you make it out of Dotty's bare without getting your mogwai wet come hang with us for more late-night deep dives into cult classics, holiday oddities, and all the wonderfully unhinged cinema we adore at midnightcinemapod.com
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