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Sssssss (1973)
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Sean conducts unethical medical experiments and tries to turn Holly into a snake with Sssssss (1973), in which crazy herpetologist Strother Martin tries to do just that to his unwitting lab assistant. Freak Show wall-of-famer Reb Brown co-stars as a football meathead who ends up confronting a Black Mamba in the shower. Listen as we relate tales of our real-life snake encounters and imagine better solutions to a global energy crisis than turning people into King Cobras on this week's exciting episode!
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01:19:46|Michaela trains to become a cyberhacker on a night when all crime is legal with The Purge: Anarchy (2014), a sequel that takes the action out onto the mean streets of Los Angeles during the annual dystopian holiday. Listen as try to survive the night with action star Frank Grillo providing defense, all the while dreaming up scenarios for future Purge movies and TV shows, like Seinfeld Purge, Pirate Purge, Day After the Purge, and more on this week's exciting episode!Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
01:22:51|Holly wanders into an underworld just as real as ours, but not as brightly lit with Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990). The spiritual third Creepshow movie boasts stories by George Romero, Stephen King, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and includes mummies, cats from hell, and lovetorn gargoyles. Listen as we tally off screen cat deaths, eat the rich, and get our brains pulled out through our noses on this week's exciting episode!Sleepy Hollow (1999)
01:14:19|Sean tries not to lose his head while visiting the haunted hamlet of Sleepy Hollow (1999), which recasts schoolteacher Ichabod Crane as a police inspector investigating murders committed by a headless horseman. Listen as we delve into the big screen version of America's first ghost story, witness Christopher Walken's first on-screen kiss, and visit a bog witch on this week's exciting episode!The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
01:21:38|Colin dances with the body-and-wife-swappin' Devil in The Mephisto Waltz (1971), in which Alan Alda plays a pianist who's body is taken over by a dying Satanist and his wife doesn't care who's in that body - she just wants more! Listen as we talk horny housewives, suburban black magic, Shakespearean dog acting, aging backwards, and blue goo on this week's exciting episode!Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
01:17:57|Michaela says 'Do your thing, cuz!' and cheers on her cannibal cousin Leatherface with Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's horror classic which finds statuesque Alexandria Daddario inheriting a plantation manor with a chainsaw-wielding psychopath hidden in the basement. Listen as we imagine Clint Eastwood beaming with pride at son Scott's first major role, and learn we can't get around the Good Book on this week's exciting episode!Psycho II (1983)
01:27:29|Holly thinks we all go a little mad sometimes with Psycho II (1983), a belated sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic shocker that brings Anthony Perkins back to the Bates Motel, supposedly cured... but is he? Listen as we talk the path from Psycho to Halloween to Psycho II, honoring a horror classic, and overbearing mothers on this week's exciting episode!Body Parts (1991)
01:21:16|Sean goes on a limb-from-limb ripping rampage to get back the Body Parts (1991) that were stolen from him in an unethical medical experiment! Jeff Fahey is the unlucky recipient of one appendage after losing an arm in a horrifying car wreck; he soon begins experiencing the dreams and nightmares of a serial killer. Listen as try to determine the physical location of evil, talk about haunted arms, and survive and improbable car chases on this week's exciting episode!