The Cycle - Ep 56: The Night Shift

This week, we're talking about the new Shudder original that is generating a whole bunch of buzz: THE CYCLE We sat down to watch They Cycle and see if it lives up to the hype. We'll talk about practical effects, sound design and a bunch of other stuff we're not going to put in the description here because it'll just be spoilers. Along the way we'll talk about lizards, cats, arthritis, Burn Notice and 00s police procedural TV shows.

Finally! The day arrives! HALLOWEEN IS UPON US! And you know what THAT means! Parties! Candy! Booze! Scary costumes! Sexy costumes! That one guy in the banana suit who just hasn't realized that it stopped being funny like 20 years ago! And of course, the final chapter of this year's Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular! This year we finish strong with HALLOWARRIOR This post-apocalyptic, Halloween home-invasion movie is unique and ambitious. Will it be a Halloween treat? Or another dirty spooky season trick?

Halloween draws ever closer... and our Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular continues with V/H/S/HALLOWEEN Last year's entry into the franchise sees shorts exploring the season from a variety of angles from the disturbing, to the absurd, to the barely connected. We'll talk about costumes, AI usage in film, shoehorning segments into themes, haunted houses, awkward teen phases and we'll even accidentally review the Scream franchise. Is this entry in the franchise a trick or a treat? Come find out on this weeks episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!

The most wonderful time of the year has arrived! The days are growing shorter. The leaves are beginning to turn. The shadows lengthen and cries of "Trick or treat!" will soon fill the air! It's Spooky Season is here and Halloween rapidly approaches! This year we kick off our celebration with a very interesting movie, an obscure horror comedy from 1991 that aims to be one part Halloween and one part Animal House: HAUNTEDWEEN We'll talk about the creativity of combining horror with 80s college sex comedy, rack to runtime ratios, relationship complications in horror, weird voices, and refusing to let kids work in the haunted house! Along the way we'll talk about costumes, positive entertainment, Haute and Freddy and college sex comedy tropes. So, is this movie a spooky season treat, or a wicked trick?

The days finally begin to shorten and cool off a bit as summer begins to give way to fall. And so, too, our Summertime Madness series comes to a close. We're ending on a strong note with the kinda gross, very funny, classic horror comedy of the early 00s: CABIN FEVER Join us as we plunge into the fetid water of AI usage in film, how times have changed since 02, paranoia, casual homophobia, horror fonts, cringe wordplay, the biggest jerk in a group being the one who is right and, of course, PANCAKES! in this the final chapter of Streaming Screams' SUMMERTIME MADNESS!

A bizarre thing has happened in the world of The X-Files recently, Chris Carter has released a brand new cut of I Want to Believe, the divisive and often maligned movie that came out years after the series had ended. He created this cut with the intention of re-focusing the movie on the horror story as opposed to the relationship. Both of us watched the show (and honestly, Glenn was one of those kinda weird X-Files people), so when we found out about this movie, we knew that we wanted to watch it right away. So here we go with this bonus episode where we discuss The X-Files, I Want to Believe - Vrach Frankenshteyn We'll talk about the changes that were made, the feel of the movie, the philosophical attempt to draw a parallel between Scully as a doctor and the villainous doctor by correlating them to Frankenstein. We talk about conspiracy theories and how they relate to pop culture,our own experiences with the X-Files, our opinions on conspiracy episodes vs monster-of-the-week episodes, romance vs horror, questions of faith vs science in the world of The X-Files, Along the way we'll talk about accidentally copying art, how the Illuminati overtook the Freemasons as the prominent conspiracy theorist boogeyman, and the structure of Wu-Tang Clan. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE, so grab your pitchforks and let's go find it together in this fun and rather chaotic BONUS episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!

Alright alright alright! Summer is winding down, finally! For the penultimate part of our Summertime Madness series, we're closing out the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre series: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION We talk about the evolution of Matthew McConaughey, Rene the evolution of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, the evolution of Leatherface, Renée Zellweger playing a character that is constantly called ugly, continuity errors, attempts to bring back the craziness of the original, and how the movie stacks up in it's lofty goal of being the next successor to the wildly disjointed series. We'll also talk about the Illuminati and Freemasons, aliens, conspiracy theories, eggs and sneezing in a cat's face.

A cult, a bear carcass, a month of nearly endless daytime, and the worst breakup ever. This week, we bask in warm, controversial rays of northern as we continue with our Summertime Madness series! MIDSOMMAR Midsommar and it's director, Ari Aster have become a divisive lightning rod for arguments in the horror community. So, in this episode, we'll ask tough questions like"Is this a 'good for her' movie?" and "is it acceptable to diagnose mental conditions for fictional characters, or people you don't know?" and "Is college for everyone" and "is it wrong to break up with someone during a tragedy, holiday, or other inconvenient times?" We'll talk about character writing and creating multiple ways to look at someone, pissing on the ancestral trees and other inappropriate places, hallucinogens, "elevated horror," psychology students, paganism and religion, and folk horror being compared to Wicker Man. Love it or hate it, this movie brings a lot of interesting discussion points to the table! So join us as we venture into the nearly endless sunlight of Midsommar!

It's time for more SUMMERTIME MADNESS! This week, we're keeping to that Texas heat with LEATHERFACE: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III We talk the evolution of the titular Leatherface up to this point, the expectations set by the trailer vs the reality of the movie, the behind the scenes chaos, the second drastic tonal shift of the series, and the baffling continuity of the series including the retcons first introduced in this movie. Along the way we'll discuss depression and mental health, metal hands, the strange continuity of the series (or lack thereof), Kane Hoder, and our general experiences with this movie throughout our lives.  So join us as we continue our trek through summer in this latest episode of Summertime Madness from STREAMING SCREAMS!

We ventured out to the theater recently to see the new Evil Dead movie. But  we didn't go to just any showing; we went to 4DX showing! So how is EVIL DEAD BURN? How does it stack up to the rest of this iconic series? What's the 4DX experience like and is it worth the extra money to see Evil Dead Burn in that kind of showing?  Join us for this special bonus episode and find out!