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http://www.earth-2.net/images/front/c37mms_03.jpg We've got a smile on our face and a song in our heart! You will too, once you start your weekend right with 1974's Phantom of the Paradise, the best glam rock opera featuring a guy in a bird suit ever made! Then, Professor PJ Soles cultures your ass with 1979's Rock 'n' Roll High School! Gabba Gabba Hey! [ 1:33:52 ] [ download ][b]To listen, click here:[/b] [media]{url}[/media]

This week on the show, Desmond and Duane get extreme again as they take in the Taiwanese Shudder original The Sadness. Then Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Rage Virus Things (including a very special surprise). Songs included: "Sadness Comes Home" by Converge, "Depravity Favours the Bold" by Anaal Nathrakh, "Aesthetics of Hate" by Machine Head, "We All Rage in Blood" by Neurosis. [ 58:24 || 28.2 MB ] [ download ]

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom take a look at two HBO TV movies from the 90s that were supposed to be a franchise. First up, the charming and fun Cast a Deadly Spell. Then, the puzzling and misguided Witch Hunt. Songs included: "Reality Spiral" by Greg Puciato, "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" by The Mountain Goats, "Witch Hunt" by Machine Head, and "Restless and Wicked" by Municipal Waste. [ 1:04:04 || 31.0 MB ] [ download ]

After enduring the multi-story but mostly mediocre package films, Part of Your World not only returns to single-story narratives, but also enters the 1950s and Disney’s Silver Age. This time, Christian and both Pandy and Kelly Wilson survey Cinderella - the ultimate underdog story, and the movie that reversed Disney’s fortunes forever. Plus, feedback can now be submitted at disney@earth-2.net, and the synopsis gets briefly derailed by some misplaced jewelry. [ 1:36:09 ]

http://www.earth-2.net/images/front/c37mms_02.jpg Donald G Jackson: misunderstood visionary cinephile, or not that? Decide for yourself after tonight's double feature of Jackson-directed masterpieces! First up is the 1986 postapocalyptic nunsploitation oddity Roller Blade! After that, stick around while Rowdy Roddy Piper repopulates the human race despite frog monsters getting up in his fries, in 1987's Hell Comes to Frogtown! [ 1:05:53 ] [ download ][b]To listen, click here:[/b] [media]{url}[/media]

This week on Dread Media, we present a double feature of Mexican extreme horror cinema. First up, Desmond and Tom review the 2014 anthology film Mexico Barbaro. Then, Desmond and Duane grin and bear the 2015 extreme horror found footage "classic" Atroz. Fair warning: these films feature horrible people doing the most horrible things that you can imagine to other people, so this episode features some discussion of those things. This is a rough episode. As such, some rough music is needed: "Matando Gueros 97" by Brujeria, "The Devil in Mexico" by Murder By Death, "Mi Odio y Mi Rabia" by Acidez, and "Merkurius Gilded" by Imperial Triumphant featuring Max Gorelick and his dad, Kenny G. Seriously. [ 1:21:08 || 39.2 MB ] [ download ]

This week on the show, our old friend Greg Lamberson stops by to chat about this year's feature film lineup for the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival (www.buffalodreamsfantasticfilmfestival.com), but not before I do a spoiler-free micro-review of Jordan Peele's Nope. Tunes included: "I Live Behind the Clouds" by Monster Magnet, "Beyond Electric Dreams" by Bad Religion, and "Buffalo Run" by Orville Peck. [ 59:14 || 28.7 MB ]

The Doctor discovers she's not who she thinks she is ("Fugitive of the Judoon"), and the use of plastic is killing us all ("Praxeus"). Note: This episode was recorded before the casting of Ncuti Gatwa. [ 45:42 || 24.8 MB ]

Geordi fucks up by bringing holodeck Professor Moriarty to life ("Elementary Dear Data"), and bum-ass Han Solo fucks his away around the ship ("The Outrageous Okona"). The guys get bored talking about the second episode and turn the show into a Quantum Leap podcast. [ 51:29 || 25.2 MB ]

With Melody Time and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Christian, Emma, and first-time guest host Tom Hemmings bid adieu to the package era of Disney films. Is this forgotten period underrated or justly overlooked, and did it end with a bang or a whimper? Find out as this month-long leg of the podcast ends with the usual sibling squabbling and titanic tangents, along with discussions about religious propaganda, the male gaze, and unheroic protagonists. Plus: between reviews, The Honore Siblings discuss the teaser trailer for what currently is the last film the podcast will cover: Strange World! [ 2:25:55 ]

Christian and Ian face slave-owning protagonists, aged-up princesses, winter sports, and the sinister specter of Mel Gibson as they discuss historical portrayals throughout pop culture. [ 3:14:10 || 94.7 MB ]

Welcome to the season premiere of Channel 37's Midnight Movie Show! We're kicking off your weekend with tales of vengeance, beginning with 1984's iconic video store mainstay Angel! Then, only Squiggy and the American Werewolf stand between a cyborg assassin and her prey in 1991's Steel and Lace! [ 1:44:42 ]

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane take in a viewing of Phil Tippett's stop-motion animation masterpiece, Mad God. Then, there's a Dread Media Top 5 Stop Motion Animation-Heavy Films. Songs included: "Disciple" by Slayer, "Descent into Inferno" by Entombed, "Bring Me His Head" by Lucifer, and "Ex Oblivion" by Tombs. [ 54:57 || 26.6 MB ]

Cult films. Midnight movies. B-pictures. Channel 37's Midnight Movie Show celebrates the history of late-night double features of all manner of slightly disreputable schedule fillers. [ 00:30 ]

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Tom look at the wild Hammer Horror film Vampire Circus. Then, Desmond goes solo on a review of The Black Phone, and the television show Monsterland. Songs included: "When Talking Fails, It's Time for Violence!" by Wormrot, "(Circus~) Hearts Will Bleed" by MD.45, "Telephone the Dead" by Deadbolt, and "Cronus" by White Ward. [ 59:27 || 28.8 MB ]

Musical legends, creepy puppets, and more swearing than usual dominate the discussion as Christian and his companions cover the middle two (of six )1940s Disney package films. First, he and Emma measure the merits and minuses of Make Mine Music, the only entry in the Disney animated canon not on yet on Disney Plus. Then, Ian comes back to facilitate facing Fun and Fancy Free, which also marks the return of both Mickey Mouse and Jiminy Cricket. [ 2:02:21 || 60.3 MB ]

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane take a look at what may be Alejandro Jodorowsky's most accessible film, the completely bonkers Santa Sangre. Then Desmond goes solo on a review of Paula D Ashe's short fiction collection We Are Here to Hurt Each Other. There's also some TV talk, mostly Star Trek-related. Songs included: "Rites of Cruelty" by Misery Index, "Acid Revenge" by Simon Boswell, "Hurt You" by Spiritbox, and "Compost Grave-Song" by Kardashev. [ 1:02:56 || 30.4 MB ]

Get your Pop Rocks and soda ready, because Des and Tom are celebrating episode 775 with a rundown of quite possibly the most mediocre horror franchise ever: Urban Legend! In this episode of movies that will probably make you shrug are great reviews of Urban Legend, Urban Legends: Final Cut, and Urban Legends: Bloody Mary. Tunes included: "Better by You, Better Than Me" by Judas Priest, "Crop Circle" by Monster Magnet, Stabbing in the Dark (acoustic)" by Ice Nine Kills (feat. Matt Heafy), "Bloody Mary" by GWAR, and "Possum Kingdom" by The Toadies [ 1:46:23 || 51.3 MB ]

A new but brief era dawns for the podcast as Christian and Emma dive into the first two of the six package-films Disney released between Bambi and Cinderella. This time, it's a Latin American double feature of Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros. Discover which sibling has spent more time in Latin America, which one hates Donald Duck, and whether either of these forgotten films is a lost treasure or is better left buried. [ 1:48:56 || 53.8 MB ]

Bald, muscular, known for his action chops, but that's enough about Pandy. This episode focuses on the recently retired blockbuster star Bruce Willis! In doing so, The Brothers Wilson explore his explosive breakout role in Die Hard, his high-profile thriller film The Sixth Sense, and more recent sci-fi action film Looper. Also: what is the new voice of Email Bot? What is the host of ghosts and death? And why, oh, why has Ian got Stunt Dogs on the brain? [ 2:59:06 || 86.3 MB ]

This week on Dread Media, it's a classic hodgepodge episode. First up, Tom Deja and Desmond take a look at Ghosts of the Ozarks, a movie neither of them like very much, but they have a great conversation about it. Then, Desmond comes back for a short review of the cosmic horror novella Dirty Heads by Aaron Dries before talking about some TV he's watched lately, including the latest seasons of Barry and Hacks, and the entirety of NOS4A2. Songs included: "Behind These Walls" by King Diamond, "Under the Pines" by Jonathan Coulton, "Rewind" by Leprous, and "Nosferatu" by Witchery. [ 55:26 || 26.8 MB ]

This week on Dread Media, Desmond and Duane take a look at what might be patient zero of the New Wave of French Extreme Cinema movement, Trouble Every Day. Then, Desmond goes solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Unconventional Vampire Films. Songs included: "With Teeth" by Melvins, "Trouble" by Danzig, "Tainted Blood" by Blue Oyster Cult, and "Damn These Vampires" by The Mountain Goats. [ 1:02:10 || 30.1 MB ]

Christian and Emma examine the beautiful yet bleak Bambi a few months shy of the movie's 80th anniversary, as well as its source material's centennial. Do the film's story, characters, and songs hit the bullseye or miss the mark? Does Christian's synopsis of the film contain more sex and violence than the actual film has? And thanks to this film, what's Emma's new favorite bird? [ 1:53:50 || 56.2 MB ]

It's an obscure foreign double feature week on Dread Media! This week, the films that Desmond and Tom review are the Argentinian The Power of Darkness, and the British Doctor Sleep (aka Close Your Eyes). And, of course, there's music: "Blind Leading the Blind" by Trivium, "Blind Bleeding the Blind" by Carcass, "Mass Hypnosis" by Sepultura, and "Keep on Breathing" by Cancer Bats. [ 57:39 || 27.9 MB ]

You want to get nuts? Let's get nuts! This week Tom and I dip our eyeballs back into Ken Russell's filmography with a look at the bizarre Lair of the White Worm. Then I go solo on a Dread Media Top 5 Movies That Are Just Weird. Weird songs ahoy: "Hex, Curse & Conjuration" by Temple of Void, "The D'Ampton Worm Song" by The Tossers, "Bastard Samurai" by High on Fire, and "The Weird Revolution" by Butthole Surfers. [ 59:03 || 28.6 MB ]