Midnight Cinema: A Horror Movie Podcast with Art & Erik

Turn on the flashlight, pull out the horror comics, and get ready to be creeped out!

Creepshow, the 1982 collaboration between George A. Romero and Stephen King is on the marquee for this episode of Midnight Cinema, so don't be scared of the Creep in the ticket booth, he's just there to provide top fright customer service!

Horror comics pushed the envelope in the 1950s, and the pages were filled with dark humor, gore and titillation. Romero and King were two of the kids who were thrilled by stories from notorious publishers like E.C. Comics.

When these two masters of horror met, they kicked around the idea of a movie that would bring those comic panels to life, and Creepshow was born.

Join Art and Erik as they turn every page and encounter every evil plant, every bug, every vengeful ocean zombie, and every crate monster!

We discuss the amazing cast of legendary character actors and soon-to-be iconic stars: Ted Danson, Ed Harris, Leslie Nielsen, Fritz Weaver, E.G. Marshall and more!

Tom Savini provided the creature effects and the gore!

Congrats to three new Midnight Cinema Popcorn Bucket Award Winners

We discussed George A. Romero previously on the Dawn of the Dead episode.

Hal Holbrook and Adrienne Barbeau both appeared on our legendary episode covering John Carpenter's The Fog.

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The First Cut Is The Creepiest

Welcome to the Tilden Mortuary and Crematorium! When the Sheriff brings in a corpse after hours, you stay until you have a cause of death, no matter how many creepy sounds you hear or how many animated dead bodies start shuffling down the hallways.

This week Art and Erik pull out the scalpels and fire up the furnace as they conduct a forensic examination of Director Andre Øvredal's The Autopsy of Jane Doe.

In this 2016 horror procedural, Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch play a father-and-son coroner team who get the job of autopsying a strange, unidentified female corpse. But in looking for the cause of her death, they find deeper and deeper secrets hidden in the body and in history itself.

The eerie morgue spaces, atmospheric lighting and creepy screenplay boost this film onto many lists of underseen horror gems.

Join us in the Midnight Cinema to experience this firsthand!

Congrats to Brian Cox on receiving a Midnight Cinema Popcorn Bucket Award. We raved about him once before on our episode breaking down Trick 'r Treat.

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Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?

Check your harvest cake for eyeballs, read your animal sacrifice manual closely, and whatever you do, make sure to approve all loan extensions for witches!

Join us in the Midnight Cinema this week as we unspool Sam Raimi's 2009 horror movie Drag Me To Hell. Released in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, audiences and critics were delighted to watch a young bank loan officer (Alison Lohman) get tormented and face eternal damnation!

Art and Erik dig into this short, fast and surprisingly nasty supernatural curse story that blends practical effects, CGI and Raimi's signature style.

Moviegoers loved it, and critics ate it up in the early aughts, but does it still hold up today? We'll take you through every shattered tooth, every killer handkerchief and every flooded grave!

Watch out for anvils!

And we have two new Popcorn Bucket Award winners to hang in the lobby!

Director Sam Raimi, we previously discussed him when we covered The Evil Dead.

Actor Justin Long was praised once before in our episode on Jeepers Creepers!

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No matter how good the cottage looks, don't eat the candy! Instead, grab a crossbow, load up your Gatling guns, and find a white witch to tag along with you to the Midnight Cinema!

Art and Erik are watching 2013's Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Hansel & Gretel is one of the best-known tales of the Brothers Grimm, but did you know the rest of the story? It seems Hansel and Gretel grew up to become supernatural bounty hunters, and the forests of the fairy tale have been updated into an R-rated comedy-action-horror hybrid landscape.

Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton play the feisty siblings, squaring off against a grand witch played by Famke Jannsen. There are F-bombs, head explosions, brutal beatings and a lot of action choreography.

When Director Tommy Wirkola pitched the idea, the studios were instantly hooked and saw a string of sequels in the headlights.

But how did this updated Grimm story end up?

Join Art and Erik as they follow the breadcrumbs to the center of the Witch Forest.

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The Vatican has a top-secret mission for you, so grab the holy water, garlic, silver stakes, zip lines, circular saw blades, and machine gun crossbows because we're heading to Transylvania!

Art and Erik are joining the Pope's favorite monster hunter, Van Helsing, on an adventure that involves vampires, werewolves, zombies and Frankenstein's monster.

That's right, this 2004 action-adventure horror film was directed by Stephen Sommers after his massive hit with the Brendan Fraser-led The Mummy. After that success, Universal Studios threw open the monster vault as well as their checkbook, and the result was this mashup of James Bond, Universal Monsters, and swashbuckling adventure films.

Using CGI alongside practical sets and wirework, Sommers set out to make a blockbuster starring a young Hugh Jackman (entering his Wolverine era) and Kate Beckinsale, who was already beginning her own monster franchise, Underworld.

Van Helsing underperformed at the box office, and critics were underwhelmed. But we're firing up the projector in the Midnight Cinema to take another look at this curio.

Join us as we dive deep into the mysteries (there are so many mysteries!) of this unique take on the classic characters of Dracula and Frankenstein.

Congrats to two new Popcorn Bucket Award winners: Alun Armstrong and Silvia Colloca.

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The movie James Corden never wanted you to see! The movie with a title so cheeky it's been changed over the years!

It's the 2009 horror-comedy Lesbian Vampire Killers, in which two down-on-their-luck Londoners take a trip to the remote village of Cragwich and find themselves in the middle of a sapphic vampire apocalypse.

James Corden and Mathew Horne were paired as the leads off the success of their popular BBC series Gavin and Stacy. The film attempted to put Hammer Horror, Edgar Wright-like visual flair, frat humor, and a bevy of babes in a blender and pour out a cult classic.

Art and Erik hop in the VW bus and head for The Baron's Rest pub to investigate this forgotten campy oddity that promises a lot in its title.

The Midnight Cinema this week will be populated by vengeful Vicars, Swedish coeds and ominous barkeeps. Oh, and vampire women of course.

But does this film deliver on the comedy, or the horror, or the sexiness? Just how many lesbian vampires can one movie fit?

Find out with us!

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Wear your garlic T-shirt, tune up your saxophone, fill your squirt gun with holy water and don't forget to call the Frog Brothers because we're heading to Santa Carla, the murder and vampire capital of the world!

Art and Erik are riding towards the bluff with Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric and the rest of the sexy bloodsuckers of The Lost Boys!

In 1987, Director Joel Schumacher created an iconic hit by combining The Goonies with Dracula. And on this episode of Midnight Cinema, we're hanging on as tight as we can to the railroad bridge to give you all the scoop on this legendary horror comedy.

We'll even throw a new segment (with a musical intro) at you, along with a few Lost Boys musical numbers.

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Listen to the podcast, or there will be trouble!

Art and Erik are heading to dystopian Detroit for Paul Verhoeven's 1987 classic Robocop. And the prime directives are to serve the listeners, go deep into the movie, and leave you laughing.

This 80s genre-defining sci-fi/action hybrid turned a slain officer into a corporate-owned crime-fighting weapon. And along the way, it features gnarly practical effects, pitch-black satire, and a surprisingly emotional core underneath all the ultraviolence.

We're diving into the toxic waste, the boardroom backstabbing, and why ED-209 still can't handle stairs. Join us in the Midnight Cinema and stay out of Old Detroit after dark!

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Check the ceilings, stay out of the sewers and keep away from clogged drains - we're hunting The Blob!

Art and Erik are breaking down the 1988 remake of the classic monster movie featuring the slimy, gooey, globular creature that absorbs everything in its path.

This reboot used incredible special effects to make the insatiable blob more of a mean menace and to add some truly gnarly moments of gore. And the filmmakers set out to deliver an experience in which no character is safe.

Join us in the Midnight Cinema, and pay no attention to that glob of goo coming from the projection booth!

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Grab a motion tracker, call up the Colonial Marines, and hop in the APC — because we're heading back to LV-426, baby!

Art and Erik are facing the Xenomorphs once again as the Midnight Cinema projectors fire up for one of the greatest sequels in movie history. Aliens (1986) — James Cameron's third film — catapulted his unique vision into the stratosphere, trading in Ridley Scott's slow-burn horror for full-throttle war-movie action. Come join us as we dive into this one-of-a-kind blockbuster on its 40th anniversary.

Grab a motion tracker, call up the colonial marines, and hop in the APC — because we're heading back to LV-426, baby!

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Step right up and direct your attention to the center ring! It's time for the Klown show!

But don't let these harlequins fool you; their plans for Earth are no laughing matter.

Midnight Cinema is the home of the carnival this week, and Art and Erik are taking you inside the big top for Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

Back in 1988 the Chiodo brothers created this horror comedy to show off their special effects prowess and jammed it full of surprises. From balloon animal guard dogs to deadly shadow puppets, these Klowns mean business.

Is this film really a jewel of the cult classic midway? Grab a ticket and join us to find out!

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Zip up your sleeping bag, watch out for the giant salmon and don't pick up the mutant bear cub!

Midnight Cinema is heading to Maine for the 1979 eco-terror monster movie Prophecy!

John Frankeheimmer directed this strange mix of nature-takes-its-revenge B-movie and 1970's enviornmental/sociopolitical thriller.

Gorgeous cinematography of the natural landscape, a soaring score, and an earnest screenplay meet a lumbering mess of a mutant creature that the cast and crew referred to as "pizza bear."

Art and Erik are driving deep into the woods to get to the bottom of this cinematic hybrid that faced the poisoned pens of critics upon its release, but since has grown a following as a cult classic.

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They slither, they slide, they waddle, they fly!

We're inviting some of the most memorable monsters to a special screening at the Midnight Cinema!

This episode, Art and Erik host a pantheon of the slimiest, cleverest, weirdest, funniest and most skin-crawling beasties you've ever seen on the silver screen!

They're cool. They're creepy! Join us as we count them down! What are the movie monsters you can't shake?

Erik's Picks:

• Gamera
• Deep Rising
• Alien: Resurrection (Ripley Alien Baby)
• The Angry Red Planet (Bat Rat Monster)
• Slither
• The Host
• The Ritual
• Pan's Labyrinth (The Pale Man)
• Arcadian
• Robot Monster

Art's Picks

• Daimajin
• Creepshow 2: The Raft
• Prophecy (Mutunt Bear Baby)
• It Conquered the World
• The Deadly Spawn
• The Ruins
• Zygote
• Clash of the Titans -1981 (Medusa)
• Possum
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Bonus pick: Art and Erik recommend: Recorded Live!

You can watch Recorded Live on Youtube.

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She's a Space Girl, and she's gone too far...

Bring your spacesuit, pack your passport and grab your leaded iron sword because we're heading to England for Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce!

This 1985 cult classic was a big sci-fi horror play by the famous Cannon films, and this week we're going to open the space coffins and unleash the naked truth about this cinematic mashup of vampires, aliens and zombies.

Art and Erik are stripping down the film to its bare essentials and asking: Does this belong in the Midnight Cinema?

We'll talk about:

• Incredible special effects work
• Mathilde May's iconic performance
• Patrick Stewart's first screen kiss - under hypnosis
• Wild interrogation scenes

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From the Cosmos, A UFO, A Mosquito, My Libido....

Pack the insect repellent, plug in the bug zapper and grab the chainsaw!

Midnight Cinema is heading to the campground for Mosquito!

This 1995 movie asks what if nature's little blood suckers weren't so little... and also had alien DNA!

Art and Erik give you all the buzz on this low-budget sci-fi horror film that throws every puppet, miniature, stop-motion model and practical gag in its arsenal to bring these critters to life!

A spaceship crashes in a national park full of campers, and soon the mosquito population is out for blood... and they're big! A group of survivors needs to make it out of the isolated park and defeat the insect once and for all.

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He's got Jeepers Creepers eyes…

Hop in the car and don't slow down because Midnight Cinema is taking a road trip with Jeepers Creepers!

Art and Erik head to the church basement to explore this 2001 horror movie that kept a generation awake in their beds. We're covering every bit of it:

• Justin Long's freakout performance
• Why the villain is so memorable
• Gina Phillips flipping the script
• Eileen Brennan stealing the show
• How revealing just enough is sometimes the right move
• Is it possible to get the title song out of your head

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You're a Stella Starr, That's who you are!

Pack a change of outfit and brush up on your Amazonian, we're heading to the Haunted Stars with a team of notorious space smugglers.

Art Hennessey and Erik Rodenhiser are on a mission from the Galactic Emperor to review Starcrash, a 1978 sci-fi, adventure fantasy film starring Midnight Cinema Popcorn Bucket Award winner Caroline Munro as the best pilot in the universe, Stella Star.

On this episode we visit every planet in this discounted Star Wars universe:

• Christopher Plummer's Shakespearean-sized performance
• Caroline Munro's amazing wardrobe variety
• A robot with a wild west accent?
• An Amazon Queen with a resume of Italian sex comedies!
• Stop motion robots and flying neanderthals!
• Space torpedoes stuffed with troops
• David Hasselhoff with laser eyes and how his hair makes its entrance!
• Have you ever seen this many spaceships take off in one movie?

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No Bones About It...

We are taking the chopper to Petrie Island for an Irish holiday with the slowest creatures in horror movie history!

Midnight Cinema is visiting Island of Terrror, the 1966 monster movie that ponders science, romance, and how to autopsy a boneless corpse.

Join us as Art and Erik poke at every flattened horse, open dangerously radioactive labs without a second thought and toss petrol bombs awkwardly at silicon-based turtle creatures.

Peter Cushing starred in this cult classic, directed by Terrence Fisher of Hammer Films fame. It was scrutinized by British censors and terrified a young Erik, but will this trip to the island prove frightening or just plain funny?

Press play and join us to find out just how many Doctors can one horror movie hold!

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Hold Me Closer, Vampire Dancer!

It's almost sundown, so hop in the RV because we're heading to El Rey, Mexico with George Clooney and a creepy Quentin Tarantino! Once across the border we just have to make a quick stop at the wildest roadside bar south of the Rio Grande.

Midnight Cinema is rolling up to From Dusk Till Dawn, Robert Rodriguez's 1996 crime/vampire/action film. Hosts Art and Erik will get you safely through every liquor store holdup, every kidnapping and every gory vampire killing. And we promise a lot of laughs along the way.

Upon its release, critics and the public were confused by its mid-movie turn in both tone and story, but it quickly found a fierce cult following. Does it deserve another look - find out with us. Now be quiet, Santanico Pandemonium is about to take the stage!

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Our Voyage Is Gonna Be, Gonna Be Golden

Hop on board because the Midnight Cinema is sailing for Lumeria! So bring extra swords, don't look the centaur in his one-eye and check behind the cabinets for a homunculus!

Art and Erik are joining one of legend's most famous sea captains for The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. This 1973 action fantasy adventure is famous for its stop motion creatures courtesy of effects icon Ray Harryhausen.

It's the middle child in a trilogy of successful Sinbad movies. It stars John Phillip Law as Sinbad and Midnight Cinema favorite Caroline Munro (At the Earth's Core).

Also, the villain is played by the original Doctor Who, Tom Baker in a glorious, scenery chewing performance. But he's not to be outdone by Robert Shaw in a cameo as a disembodied, rhyming oracle head. We're not kidding.

Join Art and Erik for the most fun horror movie podcast on the seven seas!

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