Episode 85: White Zombie Privilege

 

Jeff, Scott, and Mrs. C. enjoy the mother of all zombie movies. 

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Episode 60: US Meets CAPTAIN MARVEL

Jeff and Scott chat about the peculiar way the new Joker trailer made them feel, then they debate the merits and demerits of Jordan Peele's Us and ultimately decide it's the best Easter Bunny movie since the Rankin-Bass holiday classic Here Comes Peter Cottontail.

Jeff remembers his mom's love of horror movies, while Scott recalls his Dickensian childhood reading crappy screenplays in a Victorian blacking factory, then they join hands and keep the lagomorph theme alive by plunging down a bottomless rabbit hole as they celebrate the joys and sorrows of dallying at the dollar theater. Finally, the entire New Movie Crew triumphantly returns to talk Captain Marvel, with many helpful tips on the care and feeding of Flerken.

Now put on your anti-alien cat eye protection and let's hit PLAY!

Episode 59: Harlequin (1980)

Jim Donahue, writer for the Daily Grindhouse joins Scott and Jeff for an all Unknown Movie Challenge show. This time, it's the 1980 Australian oddity Harlequin (AKA Dark Forces), starring Jesus of Nazareth as Rasputin, and David Hemmings from Blow-Up as a British dude pretending to be an Australian dude pretending to be an American confused about his nationality. Basically, it's Tropic Thunder gadding about in David Bowie's old Ziggy Stardust costume.

Maids melt, birds die, clowns float. You will never be the same...

Slumgullion Episode 57: Old Dark Glass Houses

Scott and Jeff try to agree about Star Trek Discovery but keep getting distracted, then agree to disagree about Glass, which made Scott extremely grumpy. Then horror novelist Steve Van Samson (Bone Eater King) joins them for the Unknown Movie Challenge and makes them watch The Old Dark House, which turns out to be the cure for grumpiness.

Have a potato.

The Dead Talk Back: Mike & Ike Report Live From 1931

As we count down to our Christmas Day spectacle, here's a flashback to 1931, as immortal stoner film critics Mike & Ike report live from what many consider to be the greatest year for horror films ever. Spoiler: they kinda liked that German one.

It's Like a Lifetime TV Movie with Muff

Jeff and Scott watch The Predator and The House With a Clock in Its Walls. and try to decide if this much "meh!" is the byproduct of an industrial accident, or whether it's cooked up deliberately in mobile Meh! Labs by renegade high school chemistry teachers.

Then they tackle the Unknown Movie Challenge -- Strip Nude For Your Killer -- and are forced to turn in their Man Cards and burn their Italian bun-huggers, much like women incinerated their brassieres during the height of Second Wave Feminism.

Episode 49: Areolas of the Undead!

Angry Star Wars fans want to remake The Last Jedi, so Jeff and Scott accommodate them by doing a dramatic reading of the Angry Fans' manifesto, then hastily remaking a bunch of classic films, using modern tropes, techniques, and technologies (Lawrence of Arabia moves a lot faster when everyone's riding around the desert in those Landmasters from Damnation Alley). Finally, it's a quick detour to Jurassic World enroute to our final destination, The Playgirls and the Vampire, a 1960 Italian import that supplied mid-Century America with it's Minimum Daily Adult Requirement of imported nipples.

Here's the trailer:

And here's the new episode. Enjoy!

Slumgullion Special: The Damian Maffei Interview

Jeff has been locked outside in the snow. Nevertheless, he and Scott sit down for a conversation with Jeff's old Internet pal, Damian Maffei, the "Man in the Mask" from the new horror film The Strangers: Prey at Night (check local listings for a theater near you).

GrITs!

Finally, The Slumgullion Returns! With Mrs. C! Star Wars! Firefly! Running Gags! Two non Stephen King fans talking about a Stephen King movie!


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Alien Meets Charlie Chan!

Season 2, Episode 9

Scott and Jeff engage in a spirited debate about ALIEN: COVENANT - Is it the best thing since sliced bread? Or the worst thing since loose wheat excreted by a Tribble?

For the Unknown Movie Challenge, we pull back the shoji screen to reveal a shocking ménage à trois of stereotypes as three Fake Asian (or "Fasian") detectives of the 1930s compete for the title of Miss Most Racist! Join Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto, Mr. Wong, and Special Guest Star the Xenomorph.

{Note: Thanks to slight technical difficulties, the episode ends rather abruptly, with a Newsies joke. Our apologies to Mr. Wong, who gets short shrift.]

Anyone Can Be Gene Shalit

It's an Unknown Movie Challenge special!

In a heaping helping of happiness, Jeff and Scott break schedule intentionally with a special minisode. 

Jeff has seen Beauty and the Beast, Scott has seen the musical Finding Neverland, and both of them have seen Get Out. 

(Hint:  the one with the probable smallest budget is the best.)

"Remember After The Licking Scene...?"

Starring Scott Clevenger, Jeff Holland, and Mary Clevenger. With Special Guest Hank Parmer

What starts out as white-hot hatred for Francis Ford Coppola somehow turns into a spoiler filled, non-spoiler review of the new M. Night Shyamalan film, Split.

After Jeff and Mrs. C discuss their bi-weekly Boner, Scott and Jeff and joined by World O' Crap writer Hank Parmer for an in depth analysis of the metaphorical cannibal western horror comedy Ravenous, featuring performances that range from the inexcusable to the tripolar (and one that's actually good)

The Slumgullion Episode 19 “Gargoyles (1972)”

Special Guest Hank Parmer

World O' Crap staff writer and spiritual Godfather to Frogs: The Musical, Hank Parmer joins in for a LIVE PREMIERE of another song from Frogs, plus the usual pop culture potpourri. The Unknown Movie Challenge this week is the 1972 Made for TV movie Gargoyles.

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The Slumgullion Episode 15: Fiend Without a Face

Songs by Bleachers

In this surprisingly happy episode, Jeff gets some fun news about Frogs: The Musical and celebrates by offering one heck of a deal for one heck of a film, as well as by singing high praise for the new movie The Mind’s Eye, starring friend of the show Graham Skipper. 

There is also some Ben Hur hurt. 

The Unknown Movie Challenge is Fiend Without a Face from 1958, featuring the deadliest of brains and the whitest of actors.

The Slumgullion Episode 14 “Pearl Drops do NOT Help the Eyes”

Music from Scooby Doo and My Little Pony

Part the First:  In which our heroes discuss Luke Cage, Star Trek and Jeff defends a mildly controversial Suicide Squad opinion.

Part the Second:  In which all notions of time, space, and reality are thrown into the crapper as our heroes take a listeners' challenge and discover the painful, confounding, life and soul draining universe of Earl Owensby.

Prepare yourself for The Wolfman (1979).

The Slumgullion Episode 2 “It’s Not the Title”

Starring Jeff Holland and Scott Clevenger

The title will make perfect once sense once the episode is listened to.

We take you back in time, to an era pre-last episode, as Jeff and Scott eagerly await the opening of Deadpool. They also discuss the return of the X-Files, a variety of movie trailers, Jeff offers his theory du jour about Rey’s parentage, and someone actually remembers Willie Aames.

Finally, Jeff and Scott discuss Darr @ the Mall, an Indian haunted mall film.

Next Episode: Another film neither of them have seen before: Equilibrium starring Christian Bale.