Friday was All Saint’s Day, so we thought: Why not celebrate the greatest saint of all? Join the Losers below as they remain in Castle Rock post-Gwendy’s Button Box to discuss Lewis Teague‘s 1983 Stephen King adaptation, Cujo. Starring Dee Wallace, the film is world renown for being the de facto killer dog movie. But, […]
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“You know who I am, Angel. Now, repeat after me: I love you, Mommy.” In all of horror, few characters remain so beloved as Laurie Strode. Originated by Jamie Lee Curtis in John Carpenter’s Halloween, this intrepid babysitter anchors one of the genre’s greatest films while helping to create an iconic trope that has changed […]
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Fact: E.T. is a Halloween movie. Make no mistake about that. The landmark Steven Spielberg blockbuster primarily takes place in October with the most iconic sequence — that being the moon-tinted bike ride, which has become the literal logo for Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment — goes down on All Hallow’s Eve. So, consider this episode a […]
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Peoples Without The Apostrophe After spending the month of October discussing Ed Gein and the various cinematic adaptations of his crimes, including The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (listen here) and House of 1000 Corpses (listen here), Jenn and I are broadening our perspectives for November. On the Main […]
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To celebrate Halloween, join Bloody FM’s The Horror Show as they cover Idle Hands with director Rodman Flender. Sean and Joe are joined by Rodman Flender in this special Halloween episode of The Horror Show. Flender speaks of the movies that inspired him as a child and discusses being an undergrad in film at Harvard. […]
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Following on the success of his work on Bloody FM’s The Dead, Jeff Whitehead is returning to Bloody FM having created a world in which audiences can experience the works of renowned author, Edgar Allan Poe, in a unique and innovative format, from the lips of Poe himself. Far from just a recanting Poe’s stories […]
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This week on Bloody FM’s The Horror Show, Sean and Joe cover their final entry in the franchise, Halloween II. They discuss the mythos surrounding the polarizing sequel including lawsuits, never-ending rewrites, hundreds of planes flying by that made filming virtually impossible, and Dr. Loomis’s obsession with dental records. The guys walk through each scene of the […]
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Weirdo Angela Our run of Gay Icons and Anniversaries continues. After kicking off October with discussions of David Fincher’s Gone Girl (listen), Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (listen), and Bob Clark‘s Black Christmas (listen), we’re celebrating Halloween early with Kevin S. Tenney‘s Night of the Demons (1988). In the film, Judy (Cathy Podewell) is […]
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This week on The Horror Show, Sean and Joe finally sit down and talk about the movie that every other podcast in the world has covered. Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about Halloween (1978), the guys delve into the making of, the personalities on set, and other lesser-known trivia for […]
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The Losers turn the clock back half a century and return to Castle Rock for Stephen King and Richard Chizmar ‘s 2017 collaboration Gwendy’s Button Box . Together, they discuss the timeline of the book, the implications of the titular box, and the ways it may or may not dovetail with what we know of […]
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“I get this ache… And I, I thought it was for sex, but it’s to tear everything to fucking pieces.” We blame the curse of womanhood on Eve. The Bible tells us the first woman was tempted by a serpent to eat fruit from the tree of knowledge, thus dooming all of womankind with the […]
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Here’s a special spooky treat, trick or treaters: Earlier this week, We Hate Movies co-hosts Andrew Jupin and Eric Szyszka joined fellow Halloweenies co-hosts Dan Caffrey and Michael Roffman in Haddonfield to talk all things Michael Myers and the Halloween franchise. From the all-time highs that got them into the genre to the deep, dark […]
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Month Two Take-Aways. It’s been a month filled with bangers on Bloody FM’s Murder Made Fiction Podcast. Joe and I have spent spooky season digging into films that have little in common to the naked eye, but they’re all based on the life of a quietly disturbed and dangerous man from rural Wisconsin. Ed Gein’s […]
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“The teachers are tough … but their exams are murder.” It’s tough to be a teacher these days. Not only must they deal with overcrowded classrooms, tough administrators, crusading school boards, and budget cuts, but the actual job of educating youth is much more challenging than most can imagine. And that’s with students who aren’t […]
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The Halloweenies continue a new October tradition! Last year, co-hosts Michael Roffman and Dan Caffrey ventured to the Haddonfield Public Library to read Curtis Richards‘ excellent 1979 screen-to-page adaptation of John Carpenter‘s Halloween. Fortunately for them, for us, for you, there are several more novelizations, and they’re going through ’em all. This year sees the […]
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