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Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Every Monday is “Universal Monster Monday” all October for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and today we discuss probably the coolest looking one when you see a picture of all the monsters lined up. We’re talking about Gill-Man and he’s only defending his territory that humans have unfairly encroached on. You can’t just enter the Black Lagoon without presenting Gill-Man a gift of a human woman and if you’re not willing to come off it then he’s gonna maim your doctor and take her for himself. One half of Jack Arnold’s 1954 hit “CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON” is typical 50s sci-fi horror. The other half is stunning underwater technique with stunt sequences unlike anything seen prior to this point. A fish man has to swim and they captured that feat as good as you possibly could. If only Gill-Man killed them all and took his fleshy bride once and for all. I guess you can watch that Del Toro movie that won the awards if you really want to “pearl dive” while watching interspecies love scenes. Get your Gill Man right here: https://archive.org/details/creature-from-the-black-lagoon
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The Howling (1981)

Every Friday during Halloween Humpfest is devoted to those Friday Night Fiends. Iconic creatures and monsters who give us the chills and today is the second of three werewolf flicks for the month. Dee Wallace plays “Karen” a TV news anchor who is being stalked by a predatory serial killer. She, quite bravely, attempts to entrap her stalker in the back of a porn store where police barely arrive in time to save her. She’s traumatized into amnesia and this dude is in her dreams, day and night, so her psychiatrist decides to send her and her husband to a retreat with a lot of folksy music. Ok, so it’s inhabited by a commune of werewolf swingers. Sure, they don’t say or show too much swinger stuff but you can tell what’s going on here. It’s kind of a sexy movie. That one lady is in heat. We’re talking Joe Dante’s reverential werewolf horror from 1981, “THE HOWLING” also starring Patrick Macnee, Christopher Stone & Slim Pickens. Yes, Slim Pickens. Imagine him in a werewolf orgy. Maybe he wanted to throw himself on that fire because he couldn’t participate in the werewolf orgy anymore? Happens to the best of us. Here’s a link: https://archive.org/details/thehowling1981_202002
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST continues and we’re discussing our second “True Threat Thursday” selection! Every Thursday this month is horror based on true events and we hit up an early slasher film by “Legend of Boggy Creek” director Charles B. Pierce. In 1946 a masked man killed 5 people in Texarkana and seized the mid-size town in fear. Maybe if you removed the cop comedy and the trombone scene then Charles Pierce’s 1976 true crime thriller “THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN” might hit a little better.  Controversial in the area after only 30 years of the crimes, now they watch this movie in Texarkana every year. I wonder if the crowd does a specific thing when they see the cameraman on the train like they might do during viewings of the Rocky Horror Picture show? This movie stars Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine & Dawn Wells. Of course some there are some changes made from fact. Like the part where the police almost get him after the killer takes a daytime stroll in the woods with his mask on. If it wasn’t for that damn train. This movie oughta be free and here it is: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8rbh2u
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Night Creatures (1962)

For HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST, our loaded celebration of horror, we will always make room for the thrills and chills of Hammer movies. Each Wednesday in October is “Hammer Horror Humpdays” and we’re tracking some Oliver Reed films. Today’s discussion is like a mystery/adventure/horror hybrid. Horror in a more classical sense as we go back to the late 18th century in the wake of the death of a notorious pirate. The township prospers but nobody goes to the marsh at night because it is haunted by skeletal phantoms that have scared at least one man to death. Seems strange so the British navy has come to investigate what they suspect is war-time bootlegging by the town Priest and his co-horts. Unfortunately for the Priest, these officers have brought a ghost from the past in tow. We’re talking “NIGHT CREATURES” (or “Captain Clegg” if you’re nasty) from 1962 directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring the great Peter Cushing, Oliver Reed, Patrick Allen & Milton Reid. An enjoyable, if troubling, movie in some ways but we got our own spin on what went on with the story before the story. Peter Cushing is pretty great in this and is, underhandedly, the biggest villain. They’re all villains, truly. Here’s a link: https://archive.org/details/night-creatures
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The Fog (1980)

Every weekday during HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST represents a different horror them and we’re happy to kick off the first of four JOHN CARPENTUESDAY selections. Every Tuesday we discuss a John Carpenter film that we’ve been long overdue to watch and today is his follow up to his and Debra Hill’s smash hit “Halloween” that sees the return of Jamie Lee Curtis and Nancy Loomis. We’re discussing the salty 1980 horror “THE FOG” also starring Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh & Hal Holbrook. A legacy of horror envelopes the town of Antonio Bay as strange things begin to happen on its 100th anniversary. A lot going on but Carpenter manages to execute this eerily serene horror in interesting ways. Seriously, we about fell asleep looking at these coastal landscapes and guilty whisperings of the village priest. Not a complaint. Why is this era of Carpenter so soothing? Here’s a link we found: https://archive.org/details/the.-fog.-1980.720p.-blu-ray.x-264.-yify
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The Mummy (1932)

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST HAS RETURNED! That means a horror movie discussion every weekday all October long and we often like to do classic film selections on Mondays. For Halloween this month, each weekday has a particular theme and every Monday is UNIVERSAL MONSTER MONDAYS! The iconic Universal Monster characters that have been the face of a studio for generations. Today we hit the strange romantic horror of the 1932 film “THE MUMMY” directed by Karl Freund and starring the legendary Boris Karloff and Zita Johann. Some thieves from the British Museum are excavating in Egypt when they happen upon a scroll that resurrects an ancient sorcerer named Imhotep who was wrapped and buried alive over three thousand years ago. Ten years later Imhotep is a dusty player in the ancient artifacts business and there’s a slinky, half Egyptian hottie with uneven plucked eyebrows walking around that really reminds him of his old girlfriend. Will love conquer across time or will the British Empire cockblock what is fated to be? Who knew Egyptians were such mystical people? This is a very informative documentary. Here’s a link: https://vimeo.com/660594850
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

All month long is HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and that means a horror movie discussion every weekday for October. Each weekday represents its own horror sub-category and every Friday is “FRIDAY NIGHT FIENDS”. The creatures, the creeps, the monsters and the fiends get the spotlight at the end of every workweek and today we got an infamous monster that bucked the slow, quiet trend of slashers to get inside our heads and have a little fun. You know him. You love him until you’re reminded that he’s a a pedophile then you have mixed feelings but goddamn if he’s not entertaining. Michael Jackson and Freddy Krueger got a lot in common. Yes, we are discussing the 1984 classic by Wes Craven, “A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET” starring Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon and a baby Johnny Depp. Why is a child serial murderer with knife fingers invading the dreams of the adolescents on Elm street and what do the parents know about it? All killer and no filler in one of the most creative slashers of all time. Always worth a revisit.
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Fire in the Sky (1993)

Every weekday during HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST represents a different theme and today is our first discussion for Thursdays’ theme we’re calling TRUE THREAT THURSDAYS. Scary and chilling movies that are based upon true stories. Some selections are understandably more speculative than others and for our first “true threat” talk we’re delving into an adaptation of an allegedly true alien abduction whose alien experimentation scene catapults what might have been a forgettable film into a certain level of notorious cult status. People around our age might know exactly what we’re talking about when we reference THAT alien abduction scene. Thank goodness the director Robert Lieberman, as well as the writers and producers, opted to embellish Travis Walton’s abduction details. Otherwise we wouldn’t have gotten what is maybe the best alien abduction scene in film history. That’s right, we’re talking about the 1993 adaptation of the Travis Walton UFO incident called “FIRE IN THE SKY” starring Robert Patrick, James Garner & DB Sweeney. The actual story is controversial, even amongst UFO buffs, but either it’s impressively real or almost equally impressively faked. We discuss this cult classic with the one legendary scene and compare it to the actual accounts at the end of the episode and give our thoughts on the matter. Bob kind of rambles like a conspiracy theorist.
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The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST has officially begun and last year we tackled some Hammer Horror starring ( mostly) Christopher Lee. This year, every Wednesday, we’re rocking even more Hammer Horror movies with another actor that will (mostly) appear. We’re talking about Mr. Funtimes himself, Oliver Reed. Today we discuss an emotional Oliver Reed performance in the 1961 film “THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF” directed by the prolific Terence Fisher and also starring Clifford Evans, Yvonne Roman & Catherine Feller. A young boy, whose conception is from a sexual assault, is born on Christmas Day. Apparently anybody who is born on this day, that isn’t Jesus, is cursed. If that’s not sad enough his mother dies after going through labor. A kind man and his housekeeper raise the boy as his own. A good kid is given a chance but fate says “fuck them kids” because the man’s feral curse is bigger than any kindness. Actual wolves are easier to tame than this poor Werewolf who becomes a serial killer every full moon by no fault of the man inside. Our first of three werewolf features this month and they’re all pretty much tragedies. We found a link to this one right here: https://archive.org/details/the-curse-of-the-werewolf
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George Romero's Dead: Movie Review 6-Pack

We are back for that most magical time of the year. Spooky season. Autumn. October. Halloween. HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 2! Every weekday all October we discuss a different horror movie discussion and we will have even more horror to discuss than last year because we’re bookending the month with TWO movie review 6-Pack episodes in which we discuss 6 movies within a franchise or genre within a specific time limit for each movie. It’s often where our lowest rated movies rear their heads and while that is no exception in today’s episode, the good well outweighs the bad because we’re discussing zombie fare from the master of the zombie movie, George A. Romero. A beloved horror icon and we have no less respect for the man because he invented a modern horror trope in such a way that no matter what you do  if you decide to make your own zombie movie, you’re always going to be ripping off George at least a little bit. A classic zombie gorefest? Commentaries on race, consumerism and class? Black lead actors surviving in horror? Funny zombie movies? George did it all and we discuss four decades of Romero zombie horror with the inventive “NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD” from 1968, the iconic “DAWN OF THE DEAD” from 1978, the brutal “DAY OF THE DEAD” from 1985, the zombie revolution of “LAND OF THE DEAD” from 2005, the wobbly “DIARY OF THE DEAD” from 2007 and the baffling “SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD” from 2009. We only got six minutes to discuss each one and you better believe we ignore that limitation well into the episode. We had fun. One thing that George Romero will always give you is a gory good time. HAPPY HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST!
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