The Reel '96 Podcast

And here's the capper! We finish off JINGLE ALL THE WAY with a happy ending and a Merry Christmas to all. You haven't lived until you've survived four hours of movie talk with Mike, Bob & Jeff. The dream team of The Reel '96 Podcast to be sure! Happy Holidays everyone!

This is the one you've all been waiting for! Part one of an epic, insane, unhinged, very NSFW 4-hour descent into madness! We tackle the batshit crazy Christmas movie from 1996, the one and only Jingle All the Way. Schwarzennegger at his finest, y'all. Strap in for some tasty tangents and off-the-wall movie talk from filmmakers Jeff Frumess (Romeo's Distress), Mike Lombardo (I'm Dreaming of a White Doomsday), and Bob Rose (The Transformations of the Transformations of the Drs. Jenkins). It must be heard to be fully believed.

The big finale of our week-long binge of 1996 horror movies for Halloween is here! We summoned filmmaker and actor Rakefet Abergel (Boo, Jax in Love) as well as horror author Summer Feaker (the Haven Manor Trilogy) for a super in-depth look at The Craft. Does it stand on a pedestal as high as Scream or Clueless? Is it faux feminism? An ad for Lilith Fair? An excuse to sell soundtracks? All of the above? Is she wearing a wig? Dive in and join us as we answer all of these questions and more!

Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS is now a cult classic 25 years later and these three sweet boys - filmmakers Jeff Frumess, Bob Rose, and Mike Lombardo - tear down a path of unconditional love and wild tangents to bring us one of the funniest and most energetic episodes of Reel '96 yet. Prepare yourself and get ready to feel the unfiltered force of three unabashed movie lovers in their final forms!

Werewolf movies! You love 'em but they're still not as popular as vampire and zombie movies. Why's that? Not sexy enough? We disagree! Come back with us to November 1st, 1996 as we sit front row in an empty theater for the opening night of BAD MOON - an underrated 90s werewolf flick with gnarly gore FX and a killer werewolf suit. Don't take this paragraph's word for it, jump in and listen as fest programmer Chad Farmer and filmmaker John Hale (The Conduit, Worst Laid Plans) take to the furry streets and let us know why this movie is near and dear to their hairy hearts. Awooooo!

Hot off the heel of Demon Knight comes... Bordello of Blood??? Yep, this crass Dennis Miller versus vampiric ladies of the night flick came and went in the night in the late days of summer 1996. How does it fare 2.5 decades later? We put filmmaker Tim Troemner (Pale Creatures of the Night, The Pickman Method) on the case to see how it all plays out in the 21st century.

A whole week of Halloween episodes of Reel '96 kicks off today as we summon the otherworldly knowledge of director and makeup fx artist Mike Lombardo (I'm Dreaming of a White Doomsday) to help us become cenobite aficionados  as we exhume the body of Hellraiser IV: Bloodline. It's a film with a troubled production history close to the heights of Alien3 (but not quite) and has an ambitious centuries-spanning narrative from Revolutionary France to present day (1996 y'all) to futuristic deep space. Does it live on as the last good Hellraiser movie? Let's find out! Movies mentioned: Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, Hellraiser V: Inferno, Bordello of Blood, The Thing, Midnight Meat Train, Books of Blood, Lord of Illusions, Nightbreed, Rawhead Rex, Dread, Hellraiser: Revelations, Hellraiser: Hellworld, The Stepfather, Wishmaster, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, and so much more!

(whispering) Mary Reilly... Spooked yet? Prepare yourself for our deep dive into this relic of 1996, an odd Jekyll & Hyde flick starring Julia Roberts and John Malkovich. Their chemistry mixes like oil and water and it shows up right there on the silver screen! Le Monkey House proprietor and GenreBlast marketing manager Raygan Ketterer stops in to see what all the creepy fuss is about. Does it hold up twenty-five years later? Jump in and find out! Movies mentioned: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Seven, Scream, and so much more!

This is an EPIC ninety minute plunge into John Dahl's worst movie by far. Director Josh Stifter (Greywood's Plot) tags along to plumb the depths of this mid-90s oddity. Part thriller, part noir, part horror? It's like Crank meets Inception without any of the fun of either one! Movies mentioned: American Movie, No Escape, Turbulence and so much more!

There's nothing like 90s action cinema and John Woo brings us one of the four pillars of action moviemaking of that decade with BROKEN ARROW! Join us as we revisit this somewhat underappreciated masterpiece of blow-em-up, shoot-em-up goodness with out guest, director and cinematographer extraordinaire Zane Hershberger (Treaters, Force to Fear). Movies mentioned: Mission: Impossible 2, Face/Off, The Rock, Con Air, Hard Target, Paycheck, Bullet in the Head, A Better Tomorrow, Windtalkers, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Nightbreed, Lord of Illusions, Pump Up the Volume, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Get Shorty, Michael, Executive Decision, Last Man Standing, Chain Reaction, Fled, Assassins, Desperado, and so much more!