Charlie’s (Avenging) Angels

Rohan Campbell goes from ending the Halloween franchise to taking an axe to Christmas in the 2025 reboot of Silent Night, Deadly Night. Is the traumatized orphan crazy for wanting to wear a Santa suit and murder festive folks in small-town America? Or is that gruff voice in his head only interested in The Naughty - child snatchers, heartless foster moms, wife murderers, and a White Power rally found kissing under mistletoe and swastikas? Learn if this holiday horror series has taken a wrong turn under Mike P Nelson’s direction when you Listen Now!

Where A Kid Can Be A Corpse

Josh Hutcherson plays different hunger games at a second pizzeria that has child abduction and possessed animatronics on the menu in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Are Chica, Foxy, Bonnie, and Freddy Fazzbear even more lethal now that they’re controlled by The Marionette, a forgotten telepathic mascot out to make neglectful parents pay? And will crabby teacher Wayne Knight (Seinfeld) give an “F” to heroine Abby (Piper Rubio) for entering her ghostly friends from the first film as a science fair project? Listen Now to find out what’s inside the podcasters’ heads.

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Grindhouse Day

Five friends stranded at a sunken mining town must survive Until Dawn if they hope to escape a fatal time warp created by head shrinker Peter Stormare (Fargo). Does director David F. Sandberg (Annabelle Creation) help his horror movie feel more like a video game by hitting the reset button every time his cast is violently killed off, giving the characters another chance to go back and make different choices (yet always wind up on the sharp end of a scythe)? Or has the sand run out of the hourglass for PlayStation Studios? Listen Now and become a part of it!

Father Knows Beast

Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy) fulfills his dream to bring Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel Frankenstein to life as a 2025 Netflix creation. Does Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight) play God just to get back at bad dad Charles Dance (Golden Child), or to impress failed nun Mia Goth (X), or because Christoph Waltz (Spectre) has funded the perfect mad scientist lab to fry up bits of fallen soldiers and executed prisoners? And can any experiment be rated a success when it leaves Kissing Booth hunk Jacob Elordi looking like that!? Throw the switch to Listen Now!

America’s Got Tumult

Glen Powell (Twisters) follows in the footsteps of Arnold Schwarzenegger by continuing the weird flex he began on a lethal reality show called The Running Man. Will TV producer Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame) cancel his star contestant before he sparks a political uprising with prepper Michael Cera (Arrested Development)? And does Stephen King’s downer dystopian novel from 1982 still reward audiences in 2025 when re-told by playful writer/director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead)? Listen Now to hear the podcasters’ final words on this remake.

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Get to da Yowcha!

The Predator has left behind his typical prey on Earth to hunt a new trophy in the Badlands of the deadliest planet in the universe. But after eight movies, is the masked alien at last ready to be the hero of his own franchise, and beat a band of Weyland-Yutani robots to a massive, unkillable monster? And are Elle Fanning (Super 8) and a spitting space monkey the tools needed to navigate all the poisonous flora and fauna on this road to redemption? Listen Now to learn if Prey and Killer of Killers director Dan Trachtenberg can bring it home a third time!

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The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Motherf*ckers

Before the Predator conducts his 2025 theatrical hunt in the Badlands, his animated counterparts are hosting a contest on Hulu where the winner is proclaimed Killer of Killers. How much competition will a Viking mother, an exiled Japanese brother, and an aspiring WWII pilot be for the homicidal aliens once they’re ripped away from historical battles and transported to a space arena? And can the trio overcome their thirst for vengeance and find a way to get back to Earth collaboratively? If it streams, we can kill it in a podcast review available now!

What If…. Stan Lee was replaced by George Romero?

Now Playing Podcast has been overrun by Marvel Zombies just in time for Halloween, and somehow it’s all up to Jersey brat Kamala Khan (aka Ms Marvel) to save the day. Can she transmit an S.O.S. to allies in space before Shang-Chi, Red Guardian, Spider-Man, Thor, Riri “Ironheart” Williams, and dozens of other Avengers are overtaken by an undead horde commanded by Scarlet Witch? And why is Blade choosing to trick-or-treat in Moon Knight cosplay? Learn if Arnie, Justin, and Stuart find any Braaains in this 2025 animated miniseries when you Listen Now.