Murder by Jake
Movie Meltdown
Movie Meltdown - Episode 651 (For our Patreon "Horror Club") Gather around the table with the beloved family members of the Horror Club as we celebrate Thanksgiving Jake-style. Together we discuss the state of the holiday season as well as the Thanksgiving classic Home Sweet Home starring Jake Steinfeld. And while we’re trying to figure out family relations, we also cover… IT: Welcome To Derry, Doctor Sleep, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, being addicted to PCP, close-up magic, Steve Guttenberg, Trapper Keeper artwork, Jacob Elordi, cutting someone's brakes for the holidays, a...
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You Wanna See a Dead Body?
Movie Meltdown
Movie Meltdown - Episode 650 Join us as we recap our day at Scarefest, discuss things we’ve watched lately and reminisce about going out to look for dead bodies. And as we reveal the best way to break your ribs, we also bring up… Billy Wirth, Legacy of Rage, Stand By Me, Scream Queens, Night of the Creeps, the official Back to the Future skateboard, Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen, American Gladiators, Brandon Lee, collector’s cards, Linda Miller, Gleaming the Cube, Wednesday, a broken toe, that six-foot hole is just for landscaping, Doug Bradley, burying bodies, old...
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Hauntingly Yours
Movie Meltdown
Movie Meltdown - Episode 649 On this special holiday spooktacular we discuss Haunt directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. And as we try to avoid tattooed weirdos, we also delve into… Clown in a Cornfield, Bring Her Back, 28 Years Later, monster cereals, working at a haunted house, what’s the plan, tax incentives for shooting in a certain state, who’s in charge, Aaron Abrams, eating soup, Diane Keaton, do you want to see my face, sour candy, Hocus Pocus, childhood trauma escape room, Talk to Me, oil bags, crawling through a tunnel, microwaving cell phones, 28 Weeks Later, identifying...
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Kill, Creepy Kid... Kill!
Movie Meltdown
Movie Meltdown - Episode 648 (For our Patreon "Horror Club") This episode we discuss Mario Bava's Kill, Baby... Kill! And as we bask in the weird fog, we also address… Final Destination Bloodlines, Death of a Unicorn, Weapons, No Such Thing, vintage CSI skills, human arm sconces, 60s eyeliner, Burgomeister, old-timey superstitious people, dumb names for ghost, music, the spiral staircase, Tony Todd, you are your own ghost child, green lights, Sarah Polley, murdering a guy in an alley and ghost child with a bouncy ball. Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers for "Kill, Baby... Kill!", so go watch the...
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What's Your Favorite Dinosaur?
Movie Meltdown
Movie Meltdown - Episode 647 Join us for a prehistoric-packed episode as we welcome special guest "Dino" Don Lessem. He is an author, journalist, and was a scientific advisor for Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park! Not to mention building giant, robotic dinosaurs, befriending Michael Crichton and having a dinosaur named after him! Then we discuss some of our favorite dinosaurs in movies. And then more specifically... our favorite dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park series of films. And while we all try to figure out what our dinosaur names would be - we also mention… The Valley of...
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Loud & Upsetting
Movie Meltdown
Movie Meltdown - Episode 646 (For our Patreon "Horror Club") This episode we discuss the 2022 film Soft & Quiet, written and directed by Beth de Araújo. And while we critique certain people’s pie skills, we also cover… Barbarian, Sinners, Naked Lunch, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Crystal Lake, David Cronenberg, dalliance, Zach Cregger, Linda Cardellini, the director’s perspective and making people very upset and very uncomfortable. Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers for the “Soft & Quiet”, so watch the movie before you listen. “I will say, immediately… you get...
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WonderProm
Movie Meltdown
Movie Meltdown - Episode 645 This episode we’re coming to you “live” from WonderFest as we hang out and talk about movies, toys, models and eventually a bonus, full horror club discussion of Fear Street: Prom Queen directed by Matt Palmer. And while we determine the specifics of how you know you are in the 80s, we also bring up… Godzilla Minus One, Midnight Mass, Summer of 69, Empire of the Dark, Demon City, Chris Klein, using profanity, hugging Tiffany, Stuck in the Middle, everyone's a suspect, the kills, Space: 1999, comedies that should be traumatic but are just fun, monsters...
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Falling into the Pit
Movie Meltdown
Movie Meltdown - Episode 644 (For our Patreon "Horror Club") A talking teddy bear, a hole full of murderous beasts, a random ghost and a horned up 12-year-old with boundary issues… what could go wrong? Find out as we discuss Lew Lehman’s 1981 classic The Pit. And while we have cake on Halloween, we also delve into… The Rule of Jenny Pen, Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!, Strange Darling, making food, Teddy, a very complicated family, two amazing over-actors, emotional gazebo, leading a cow, ghosts, eating soup, Buckaroo Banzai, keeping your purse in a drawer, just shrug and go on...
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Chicken Jockey and the Robotic Companion
Movie Meltdown
Movie Meltdown - Episode 643 Sam Drog returns as we try to decide just what it is that’s trying to kill Hollywood. And while we try to mimic the Magnum P.I. lifestyle, we also address… Minecraft, Andor, The Studio, The Da Vinci Code, Gods of Egypt, Black Mirror, Cherry 2000, Barry, Eyeborgs, RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Viy, religious discussions over the internet, Barbenheimer, Seth Rogen, parent your kid, Dracula 2000, Godzilla Minus One, content creation, sacrilege, Gerard Butler, Phil Tippett, Starship Troopers, Adam Wingard, watching money...
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Dead and Confused
Movie Meltdown
Movie Meltdown - Episode 642 (For our Patreon "Horror Club") Listen as the Meltdown Horror Club comes together to discuss Dead & Buried directed by Gary Sherman and featuring James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson and Robert Englund. And while we’re dropping off our film, we also mention… The Dead Don't Die, Mikey Madison, Longlegs, The Banana Splits, Slugs, filming people, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, Scream 7, witchcraft/voodoo teacher, Superbad meets Shaun of the Dead, Oscar-winning slashers, Christopher Lee, taking photos, public domain horror,...
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Join us as the horror club discusses She Beast, directed by Michael Reeves and starring Barbara Steele, John Karlsen and Ian Ogilvy.
And while we try to decide our favorite thing about Ghost Toast, we also mention… Sarah Squirm, pumpkins, Longlegs, Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, Alien: Romulus, Halloween encroachment, a dunking chair, because Communism, terrible fashion choices, The Thing with Two Heads, he creeped me the hell out, fake grilled cheese sandwiches, British accents, Witchfinder General, my circadian rhythms were screwed up just watching this, who designed your kitchen, it never got dark that day, you don’t look for your wife, special popcorn buckets… doing things, the screaming was really distracting, is this Back to the Future, Osgood Perkins, Black Sunday, torches at noon, the thematic through line of Communism, alcohol and barbiturates, I expected at some point to have raw meat thrown at me, slow atmospheric and bleak, about spending about 90% of the movie unconscious, state fair fun and we ask, do Volkswagen Beetles actually float?
Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers for She Beast (aka Revenge of the Blood Beast) so watch the movie before you listen.
“That should be the tagline… what was the point of any of this?!”