How I Met Your Monster - Zach Wincik and Danny Salemme

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Michael Myers in John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN (EP66 Re-Release) Oct 12, 2026

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Back in 2022, we met Michael Myers in John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN to celebrate the spooky season. This year, we're bringing back what became one of our personal favorite episodes. So carve your Jack-O-Lanterns, eat some candy corn (if you're a monster), and revisit this spooktacular episode of How I Met Your Monster!

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Pinhead and Angelique in Kevin Yagher's HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE Sep 28, 2026

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We kick off our SPACE: THE FINAL FRONT-FEAR triple feature with Kevin Yagher's land-locked space race to Hell. The Box has gone digital, the pain remains mythical, and in space, you can get your flesh flayed in just under 12 parsecs as we leap through time and space in a black hole of horror to meet the sadomasochistic Cenobites in HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE.

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Vengeful Zombie Pirates in John Carpenter's THE FOG Sep 14, 2026

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Danny's pick to wrap up our DEAD OF SUMMER triple feature is the John Carpenter classic, THE FOG. In this episode, we meet the vengeful zombie pirate, Captain William Blake, and his undead crew of the Elizabeth Dane. We uncover all 10 monster reveals, chat John Carpenter's original vision and the reshoots that followed, compare Carpenter's storytelling with another horror master, sing Goo Goo Dolls parody songs, and even discuss what's up with Jesus' last name. So hitch a ride with Tom Atkins and head over to Antonio Bay because this fog's rolling in.

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Hugh Crain in Jan de Bont's THE HAUNTING (1999) Aug 31, 2026

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Casey picks Jan de Bont's The Haunting for the second movie in our Dead of Summer triple feature. In this episode, we meet Hugh Crain, along with Hill House itself. We trace the film's tangled path from a planned Spielberg/Stephen King collaboration (that eventually became King's Rose Red) through Jan de Bont taking the reins, and break down all 16 monster reveals hiding in Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, and Lili Taylor's ill-fated sleep study. We compare this haunted house movie to both the 1963 original and Mike Flanagan's Netflix series, geek out over the ILM and Tippett Studios effects work, run our Real Monsters segment, and find out once and for all whether any of us would survive a night in Hill House.

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Reverend Kane in Gary Sherman's POLTERGEIST III Aug 17, 2026

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We're kicking off our Dead of Summer triple feature with Poltergeist III (1988), the divisive third entry in the Poltergeist franchise where Reverend Kane follows Carol Anne to a high-rise apartment building in Chicago. In this episode we break down all 13 monster reveals, dig into the film's ambitious in-camera mirror effects, and unpack the real-life tragedy behind star Heather O'Rourke's final performance and the film's reshot ending.

In this episode we cover:

Director Gary Sherman and co-writer Brian Taggart's approach to the Poltergeist mythology
How the practical, on-set mirror and reflection effects were actually filmed
Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Zelda Rubinstein's performances
The confusing family dynamics that replaced the original Freeling cast
Heather O'Rourke's death, the misdiagnosis, and how the ending was reshot
Comparisons to the Insidious franchise's mythology

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The Grim Reaper in Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS (Re-Release) Aug 03, 2026

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THE FRIGHTENERS is 30 years old this year, and to celebrate we're re-releasing over coverage of the Peter Jackson horror comedy from Episode 142!

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Flesh-eating Zombies in Peter Jackson's DEAD ALIVE (aka BRAINDEAD) Jul 20, 2026

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We wrap up our TOO HOT TO ROT triple feature with Peter Jackson's gooey gonzo gorefest. Moms are nitpicking, priests are ass-kicking, and one love-struck mama's boy just brought a lawnmower to a zombie fight as we visit the Wellington Zoo to meet its newest addition: a deadly Rat Zombie and its pustulating zombie horde in DEAD ALIVE.

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Count Orlok in Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU (w/ Chris Cooney) Jul 06, 2026

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We continue our "Too Hot to Rot" triple feature with Robert Eggers' 2024 Nosferatu, joined by returning guest Chris Cooney of Dead Noise Media. We dig into Bill Skarsgård's Count Orlok (the voice training, the prosthetics, the hat debate) and compare this version to the 1922 original and Bram Stoker's Dracula.

In this episode:

Why this Nosferatu shares so much DNA with Bram Stoker's Dracula, the 1922 original, and Shadow of the Vampire
Robert Eggers' practical-effects obsession: 2,000 real trained rats, real wolves, and potato-flakes for snow
Bill Skarsgård's transformation into Count Orlok: an opera coach, a lowered vocal register, and 4-6 hours in prosthetics designed by David White
The mustache and hat debate: why Orlok looks so different from past versions
The Lost Boys on Broadway

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Zombie Julie in Brian Yuzna's RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 (w/ The Nightmare Trials) Jun 22, 2026

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Episode 158: Return of the Living Dead 3 — We're kicking off our "Too Hot to Rot" triple feature with Brian Yuzna's gory, surprisingly romantic zombie classic. Joined by special guest Steven from The Nightmare Trials podcast, we dig into the practical effects work of Steve Johnson, the franchise's tonal shift from satire to tragic love story, and why these unkillable, conscious zombies are some of the most genuinely unsettling in the genre.

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Captain Peytraud in Wes Craven's THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW Jun 08, 2026

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We wrap up our IT'S VOODOO, BABY triple feature with Wes Craven’s voodoo-doomed descent into near-death delirium. Zombies are real, the dead still feel, and we're traveling to Haiti at the height of the regime-ending anti-Duvalier protests to meet the soul-snatching bokor Captain Peytraud in THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW.

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