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Horror Comedies May 13, 2015

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Comedy meets horror as Marshall and Kat incite a real laugh riot. Listen along as they examine those movies that use monsters and mayhem to make you scream… with laughter. And shriek… also with laughter.

Join the duo as they discuss the classic Young Frankenstein and why it still holds up. Then, they examine a few that don’t quite hold up, a couple of famous filmmakers’ first films, as well as the fabulously crafty Death Becomes Her and the outrageously bawdy Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.

So, give the episode a listen. It’s newer than Sean of the Dead and shorter than Saturday the 14th!

Ladies of the Night (Classic Episode) May 01, 2015

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Vampire strippers and vampire hookers was the sub-sub-genre of horror films which Kat and Marshall chose to be the topic of their second ever episode of Boys and Ghouls.

Listen in as the duo navigates through three movies that well represent the topic; Vamp (1986), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), and Bordello of Blood (1996). All three are populated with beautiful and deadly women of the night, all of who follow their queen (be it Grace Jones, Selma Hayek, or Angie Everhart). No man can resist them as they lure victims through their tawdry dens of ill repute.

Also, Kat gives a recipe for blood and Marshall relates his good time had on a carnival spook ride.

We Saw Saw Apr 13, 2015

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The “Saw” franchise is well covered in this torturous episode of Boys and Ghouls. Marshall and Kat watched the original from 2004 and its six one-every-year sequels. It’s left them with a new appreciation for the highest grossing horror movie franchise; and left them scratching their heads, trying to unravel seven movies worth of crisscrossing flashbacks. Join this intrepid duo as they get together to report which of Jigsaw’s devious traps made them squirm the most and which twist endings made them reach to put in the next DVD the fastest.

Also, listen in as they detail their recent experience with the latest technology in at-home scares.

Freddy's Revenge (Classic Episode) Apr 01, 2015

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Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge was the first episode Boys and Ghouls produced. Three years after its initial debut (April 2012), its now back and available for your listening enjoyment.

So look back with us as we looked back to 1985 and the sophomore effort of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Just finding our podcasting feet, we go through every beat of this odd, deliciously-80’s movie and throw in our two cents at its many hard-to-believe moments as Freddy goes about taking over the body of a teenage boy.

I hope you have as much fun listening to it as we had making it!

Mad Marchness Mar 13, 2015

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Insanity in horror films is the topic of this mad, mad, mad, mad episode of Boys and Ghouls. Listen in as Kat and Marshall take a look at a selection of movies where the main character’s biggest problem is the touch-and-go status of their own sanity.

The Boys and Ghouls duo take a look at what Anthony Perkins got up to in the 1983 sequel to “Psycho”, “Psycho II”, as well as his wonderfully titled made for TV movie, “How Awful About Alan”.

We look at the movie that started the term gaslight, “Gaslight” (1944) and then go into the mouth of madness with “In the Mouth of Madness” (1994). And we see just what insanity awaits in 1920’s “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".

Also, Kat relates the story of hearing a scary noise in her apartment.

Urban Legendary (Classic Episode) Mar 01, 2015

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Urban Legends are the focus of this classic episode. The 1998 movie "Urban Legends" and the heard-it-from-a-guy-who-heard-it-from-a-guy stories that inspired it are explored by the Boys and Ghouls duo.
THRILL as Marshall and Kat dare to ingest Pop Rocks and soda. GASP as they tempt fate by reciting "Bloody Mary" into a looking glass. And listen in as they cover the urban legend inspired movies, "When a Stranger Calls" and "Candyman".
Also, SWOON as Kat makes Marshall guess what notable actor she ran into at brunch.

Love That Lovecraft Feb 13, 2015

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H.P. Lovecraft wrote in the horror and sic-fi pulp magazines of his day. A writer's writer, mass appreciation of him came after his death as his influence found its way into an abundance of horror writing and horror movies through the years.
And so, he is the subject of this episode of Boys and Ghouls. Join Kat and Marshall as they discover the source of many of the spooks and chills they've loved for years, and explore the man behind them, that odd recluse from Rhode Island.
So, listen in as Marshall and Kat get into (among other things) his masterwork, "The Call of Cthulhu" and the 1980s adaptation of his pulpy best, "Re-Animator".

Still Scary (Classic Episode) Feb 01, 2015

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Does what scared us as kids still hold up? Join the duo as they explore this topic and share what frightened them as little boys and ghouls.

This classic episode was originally recorded as part of the “Something Wicked This Way Comes” installment of Boys and Ghouls. But, the coverage of this topic came out so fun and nostalgic as to release it on its own, along with Kat’s spooky gab about her time spent on the set of an indie horror movie.

So, listen in as Kat discovers that 1990’s “Arachnophobia” was actually a comedy (or thrill-omedy) and as Marshall reveals which MTV music videos gave him the willies.

As Marshall and Kat discuss what kids are afraid of and why, you can discover if this episode (Boys and Ghouls’ fifth ever) holds up. Is what passed for top-shelf horror movie podcasting in 2012 still effective and engaging today? It is as much as Ozzy Osbourne’s “Bark at the Moon” werewolf is still scary (because it totally is).

The Silence of the Lambs Jan 13, 2015

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Terrifying and Oscar winning, “The Silence of the Lambs” gets its own episode with the Boys and Ghouls duo. Listen in as they pretty much go through the entire movie, scene by scene, spoiling all the way.

Hear Kat take a feminist perspective on the movie with its unmatched lady-hero, and hear Marshall as he lets you know what it would have sounded like if original-choice actor Sean Connery had performed as Hannibal the Cannibal.

Also, learn just how much Kat doesn’t like the Dr. Chilton character. At all. And discover which tense scene was filmed on the site of where Marshall participated in democracy for the first time.

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Classic Episode) Jan 01, 2015

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Ray Bradbury wrote the book and then screenplay for “Something Wicked This Way Comes” about a sinister carnival that preys on the desires of a small town in yesteryear Illinois. As well as a master of horror, Bradbury was a master of nostalgia and simpler times. And, way back in the simpler times of 2012, recorded in tribute of Bradbury’s passing, the Boys and Ghouls duo dedicated an episode to the masterwork’s movie adaptation.

While Marshall had been getting spooked for years by this tale of two boys running afoul a dark carnival, Kat watched it for the first time right before recording their classic episode.

So, listen in as we take this ride through a great movie that still holds up (made by Disney all the way back in the golden days of 1983) for spooking kids and adults alike.

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