When you’re banging through usually pretty meh movie after movie for a podcast, coming across a 77 minute film is a welcome respite. Even better is when that 77 minute film is actually a good movie, like 2018’s ‘The Witch in the Window’, the film that JR has been praising for the past 300+ episodes. Give it a watch, give us a listen, because, as we all know, there’s no quittin’ on Mitton.
Episode 352 - No Quittin' on Mitton 1: YellowBrickRoad (2010)
Did you know the furthest you can be from a road in New Hampshire is 4.4 miles? Nobody tell that to the cosmic entity in 2010’s ‘YellowBrickRoad’, the first in our series of Andy Mitton related films. That’s right, the thing JR has been talking about for the past 9 years is finally happening, because, as we all know, there’s no quittin’ on Mitton.
Episode 351 - The Shout (1978)
You can shout in three different ways: by letting it all out, by kicking your heels up, or by watching 1978’s ‘The Shout’. We’ve been hearing about this one for years, but like so many movies these days it’s a real pain in the ass to find a decent copy, so we settled for a pretty meh quality stream. The lack of movie availability in this foul year of our lord 2025 makes me so mad that I want to… complain loudly.
Episode 350 - Dead Mail (2024)
Finally, a movie about how great the Post Office USED to be! Have you ever gone to the Post Office and found that there is only one person working, and there are 38 people in line in front of you, and all of them have a dozen random packages that need a variety of tapes and weights and forms that are inevitably wrong? 2024’s ‘Dead Mail’ is better than that, but how much better will vary on your love of low budget 70’s films, but at least you won’t be waiting in line for an hour.
Episode 349 - Live from Massachusetts, August 2025, it's a Roundup! Part 2
MORE MOVIES WATCHED AFTER BEING DRAWN AT RANDOM! DANGEROUS ANIMALS! DARK HARVEST! THE RULE OF JENNY PENN! LOVELY DARK AND DEEP! MONSTER ISLAND! MAYBE A SECRET MYSTERY FILM! RETROSPECTION ON PREVIOUSLY WATCH MOVIES! EGREGIOUS USE OF CAPS LOCK!
Episode 348 - Live from Massachusetts, August 2025, it's a Roundup! Part 1
The boys are live from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and surprise surprise, instead of having meaningful conversation to grow their friendship, all they do is watch more movies. They watch Tumbbad (2018), History of the Occult (2020), Weapons (2025), Equinox (1970), and Chompy & the Girls (2021). This is peak male friendship in 2025.
Episode 347 - Lonely Ladies 2: No One Will Save You (2023)
Rambutan is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family Sapindaceae, and also refers to the edible fruit produced by this tree. A native to Southeast Asia, it is closely related to several other edible tropical fruits, including the lychee, longan, pulasan, and quenepa. Also, maybe an alien will shove one down your throat to possess or make an evil copy of you? That, plus a lonely lady, is 2023’s “No One Will Save You” in a nutshell. Rambutan shell.
Episode 346 - Lonely Ladies 1: May (2002)
Director Lucky McKee’s best film (to anyone with taste) is obviously 2011’s “The Woman”, but nine years before that he directed a movie about another woman. Yessir, May’s her name (as well as the name of the film) and watching creepy dolls and making friends from human body parts is her game. If you want Zooey Deschanel’s character in “New Girl” to be less whimsical and more of an addled creep, this is for you.
Episode 345 - Sardonicus, Part 2
Wipe that grin off your face, part 2 of Ray Russell’s “Sardonicus” is here, and it’s taking a turn for the grim. A turn, if you will, like a smile dropping into a frown. We promise it’s better than the mouth prosthetics in the 1961 “Sardonicus” film at least, even if it does lack the “punishment pole” gimmick. William Castle was nuts y’all.
Episode 344 - Sardonicus, Part 1
Long before Parker Finn made creepy smiling a thing, there was Ray Russell’s 1961 story ‘Sardonicus’. You may have seen images of a dude with a really bad prosthetic mouth from the film adaptation ‘Mr. Sardonicus’, but the story does a much better version of this because you only see images from reading IN YOUR MIND. Also, “Mr.” Sardonicus was my father, please call me Marek.
Episode 343 - Better Horror Remakes 2: Fright Night (2011)
2011’s “Fright Night” is, of course, a remake of the 1964 classic Spanish film “Noche de Miedo” starring Carlos Larrañaga, Rafael Guerrero, and Aurora Bautista. Not only that, it’s one of the rare remake exceptions where a good movie is remade into a movie that is equally good. Is that even legal? Oh damn, are we going to get disappeared to a foreign prison now? Never forget us listeners….
Episode 342 - Better Horror Remakes 1: The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
We all know the GOOD horror movie remakes; The Thing, The Fly, The Blob, etc, but what about the remakes that are a little more underappreciated? Everyone now is foolishly remaking good movies into meh/garbage films, but what about taking a solidly meh movie to begin with and giving it a loving touchup? Wes Craven’s 1977 ‘The Hills Have Eyes” is a bland version of the Sawney Bean legend, but what if that was jazzed up a bit into, say, a 2006 retelling focusing on the dangers of nuclear testing in the American Southwest? Well say what if no longer, because that’s what we’re covering today.
Episode 341 - Kandisha (2020)
When watching ‘Candyman’, have you ever thought, “You know, this ain’t bad, but mon dieu, not French enough for my liking!” The 2020 film ‘Kandisha’ doesn’t exactly have you covered, but it doesn’t exactly not have you covered either. Rib cage full of bees, legs of a goat or camel, same difference when it comes to supernatural entities you summon by saying their name multiple times in a mirror. Don’t even get me started on Bloody Mary. Also, some timely Predator talk, and JR gives advice on what not to do in an interview.
Episode 340 - Revenge (2017)
Did you like ‘The Substance’ but didn’t feel like it had enough SA/Revenge? Well luckily for you, director Coralie Fargeat made another movie in 2017 about just that! Sure, it’s only titled “Revenge”, but that’s a much smarter choice marketing-wise. Also a smart marketing choice, casting the most callipygian leads for all the ass men and women out there.
Episode 339 - Red Rooms (2023)
Are you looking for a movie about dark web child snuff films that you can show your Meemaw? Assuming she hasn’t already watched it, we recommend the 2023 Quebecois feature “Les Chambres Rouges”, or “Red Rooms” if you don’t speak French. Remember how we’re doing a whole French language horror thing? The theme continues un petit peu.
Episode 338 - MadS (2024)
Mon dieu! The boys are diving into un peu de cinéma français with 2024’s MadS. Don’t let the misleading description fool you, this is every zombie movie you’ve seen, but with a bit of a stylistic twist, and we’re not talking just the “S” in the title being capitalized. Don’t worry, there are a lot fewer Mads Mikkelsen jokes than you would expect.
Episode 337 - Ian Rogers Returns!
Nine years and 324 episodes later, author Ian Rogers returns to the podcast! We predicted back then that he’d be going places, and as his tales of wide book releases and consulting on Sam Raimi adaptations of them suggest, he is on his way to the moon. How do YOU get Sam Raimi to adapt something of yours? Lend Ian your ear and maybe you’ll find out…
Episode 336 - Horror Roundup, February 2025
The boys return, only kind of forgetting how podcasts work as JR’s babysitter clangs away for 20 minutes, but after that it’s all chiller, no filler. And the reviews, oh the reviews! We got Beau is Afraid, The Leopard Man, Nosferatu, The Wolf Man, Wolf Man, The Seventh Victim, Companion, Horror’s Greatest, and a little Dan Simmons duo of Song of Kali and Summer of Night. Seems like they also forgot to make a short episode as well…
Episode 335 - Oddity (2024)
Merry Christmas everyone, and as such here is our annual Christmas themed episode covering, er… the 2024 holiday classic “Oddity”. Alright, you got us, this is just something we wanted to watch because of the golem thing, nothing Christmas related, although if we are to believe this is a golem we could get a little of that Jewish mysticism in there. Do you love the scripts of Giallo films but dislike the colors and other distinctive nonsense of one? This here is a present for you then.
Episode 334 - Out of Darkness (2022)
If you watched the opening of the first X-Files movie and said, "I need me more of that cave man horror!", 2022's 'Out of Darkness' is not that. What is it? Well, certainly not a film anyone who knew how to market a cave man based drama was involved in. Derek spouts some Neanderthal conspiracy nonsense, and JR seems to think people in movies are real. Another classic episode.