S4E4: Poltergeist (1982)

Things get nuts as Dan Marcha Madness brings James Wan's "Malignant" to the show!! The Dead Boys brainstorm all the references in the film including giallo movies, 90's serial killer thrillers, and John Wick. Also, what was Wan smoking when he wrote this film?? Plus, Halloween hangovers and reminiscing about this year's adventures, Horror Video Game Awards in the News, and RyanRossLIVE's Horror in the Wild covers East Coast horror conventions!!

It's heeere!! A stone cold classic from Tobe Hooper (and Steven Spielberg) is 1982's "Poltergeist", and it's the first time RyanRossLIVE has ever seen it!! Will it melt his mind (and face) or has it not aged well enough for his young brain? And did he find it as scary as Sir Ian Dangerous and Dan Marcha Madness did when they were kids?? Plus, a packed show with more "Resident Evil" Fright Court, "The Cycle" in the Marcha Minute, Fangoria's Chainsaw Awards and Curry Barker's next project in the News, and a brand new Moment of Feminine Rage destroys Halloween 3!!

Things come unglued as Sir Ian Dangerous makes the Dead Boys celebrate Samhain with the red-headed stepchild of the Michael Myers franchise: "Halloween 3: Season of the Witch"...which features zero Michael Myers and all of the weird robots, spooky irish wizards, and misogyny that no one asked for! Ryan Ross Live loses his mind, Dan Marcha Madness wishes he was elsewhere, and everyone gets dragged to Fright Court! Plus, the Resident Evil debate rages on, Clayface and the new Hellraiser game in the news, and more Horror In The Wild!!

It's spooky season on This Is Why You Died as Dan Marcha Madness insists on bringing the holiday classic "Trick 'r Treat" to the show!! Serial killer high school principals, hot werewolves, and Brian Cox dressed up like John Carpenter, plus the cutest little holiday demon since Damian! So...why isn't Ryan Ross Live having a good time? Plus, Resident Evil and fun horror in the Marcha Minute, and Saw sequels and ScareScore in the news!!

Season 4 is underway with the controversial horror-western "Bone Tomahawk" and the Dead Boys are ready to tackle troglodytes, Matthew Fox, and Kurt Russell's facial hair!! Plus, the debut of two new segments, news about "Trick 'r Treat" getting the red carpet treatment, and the Marcha Minute says bring back childhood trauma?? Also, announcements about new merch and new opportunities to interact with the show!!

It's time for another blowout Finale episode as Season 3 comes to a close...and this time the gloves come off!! The Terror Triumvirate recap, rehash, and re-litigate the previous season's ups, downs, deaths, and dumb opinions, and introduce the brand new Fright Court!! Also, the best kills, the best movies, the characters we were happiest to see get offed, and of course, the setup for Season 4 with all the Powers being restored and the new Evil Urge Prompts being drawn from the refilled Buckets of the Beast. Join us for a party episode of epic proportions!!

What do a young Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi have to do to get rid of these pesky snake cults? Find out on this episode, when the Dead Boys attack Ken Russell's whimsical 1988 bizarro film "Lair of the White Worm"! Overacting butlers, naked blue Adam Ant girlfriends, royalty in cheap undies, and broadswords that are too heavy all get a turn, and of course we have to talk about that dream sequence and the happy little pen...plus A24 goes after the SCP universe in the news, and the Marcha Minute goes after parents who are mad at the new movie "Buddy"!!

Is it possible to be a horror movie when you're a taut Korean revenge cop drama? The Dead Boys say an emphatic yes on this episode when they check out the brutal "I Saw The Devil" from 2010! In this cat and mouse game, anything goes...and no one can even tell who the worst person is in this movie: the sadistic serial killer played by "Oldboy"'s Choi Min-Sik or the morally questionable cop played by Lee Byung-Hun! Plus, RIP Tim Curry and Tom Savini's house, and Dan Marcha Madness shouts out a non-horror classic in the making in the Marcha Minute!!

This week the Dead Boys take a nice family trip to M. Night Shyamalan's family chiller "The Visit", and it turns into one of the most explosive and expletive-laden episodes yet!! Precocious teens, Millennial dialogue, and really bad rapping can't stop RyanRossLIVE and Dan Marcha Madness from finding the bright spots, but Sir Ian Dangerous has a bone to pick and an axe to grind! Will even Catherine Hahn be enough to save this movie? Plus, "Ice Cream Man" takes shots in the Marcha Minute and sequel fever strikes again in the News!!

It's a deep cut monster movie this week as RyanRossLIVE mandates the Dead Boys watch "Island Zero" from 2018, a low-budget movie about murderous fish critters in Maine!! Why do the critters always kill someone in a different way? What is the reason they're invisible to the naked eye? Why do they look like evil black sperm? And who in the world wrote this dialogue?? All this plus unfounded internet movie critiques in the Marcha Minute and a Nightmare on Elm Street arms race in the News!!