Episode 60: Bill & Ted Franchise

Take a trip in a time travelling phone booth with us as we look back at the Bill & Ted franchise. These two dunderheaded California surfer dudes with rock star dreams entertained us (and caused all sorts of havoc throughout time and in Hell) in two movies: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.

We talk about the films, our memories of them both, and what sort of impact or spin-offs resulted from their success.

First we discuss what we’ve been watching including a blood-soaked prom night, a dinner party gone wrong, Josh continuing his VHS adventures, and much more!

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Episode 59: Ryan & Megan Nicholson

For episode 59 of GBW we invite two special guests to the show: Ryan and Megan Nicholson.

Ryan’s been in the special effects game since way back in the 1990’s and has worked on such films as Final Destination, The Pledge, and many more. He also has been directing, under the Plotdigger Films banner, a bunch of memorable extreme horror flicks like Live Feed, Gutterballs, and Hanger.

His wife, Megan, is also an effects artist with varied horror and television credits and along with Ryan works on all sorts of genre endeavours.

We sat down with them both to learn about how they got into horror, became interested in make-up effects, and what the future holds for them both. There’s also a lot of laughs along the way and many memorable stories about such people as Jon Voight and Morgan Freeman.

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Episode 58: Home Wreckers

Obsession meets psychosis for the latest episode of GBW where we dive into one of our favourite sub-genres: Home wrecking crazy girls. We’re talking girls who worm their way into the families of their crushes and proceed to destroy them. Teenagers who try to seduce older men. And a little bit of bunny boiling on the side.

First up, we talk about what we’ve been watching including The Autopsy of Jane Doe, another journey on the Train to Busan, some really poor kickboxing adventures, and more of Josh’s descent into his over-stuffed VHS collection. Plus more!

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Episode 57: 2016 Recap

It’s the beginning of a new year and time for our annual recap of the movies of the past year.

We pick our top five favourite films of the year (and argue a bit about it), have some honourable mentions, and list the movies we’re anticipating for 2017 – including a few blockbusters, a lot of indie fare, and even a couple of cannibal flicks!

As always we start off talking about what we’ve watching including Josh’s attempts to watch more 2016 movies, Chris realizing that at one time Steven Seagal was actually pretty bad-ass, a couple of titles from the fine folks at Arrow Video, and the continuing VHS adventures of Josh. Plus more!

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Episode 56: It’s Cold

If you lived in a climate that actually had winter, I’m sure you remember wishing there’d be a snow day on those days the white stuff was falling from the sky. A day of snowball fights, snowmen, and generally non-education related mayhem.

For this episode of GBW, we’re talking all about movies set in the snowy landscape but, in most cases, they’re not exactly ‘fun’. It’s a battle against the elements, against various evil people, and (in same cases) against yourself. Films like The Thing, Cliffhanger, Alive, and much more.

First up, we talk all about what we’ve been watching as we continue our vacation at Sleepaway Camp, have a Killer Party, fly planes with Tom Selleck, and Josh continues his VHS adventure. Plus more!

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Episode 55: Jeffrey Combs / Barbara Crampton

For the first of a new GBW series, we’ve gathered together a duo of actors who we think are worth talking about.

Most known for their work in 1985’s Re-Animator, we look at the careers and highlights of cult actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. We talk about our love of Combs’ ability to own craziness, Chris’ proclamation that Crampton is one of his favourite 80’s “sex symbols”, and how they both managed to work together multiple times and star in many memorable horror and b-movies along the way.

First up, we talk all about what we’ve been watching, as Josh’s VHS adventure takes him to Africa, we head back to Sleepaway Camp, there’s a whole slew of evil kids lurking in a cornfield, Josh finally gets to revisit I, The Jury, and much more!

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Episode 54: The Big House

For this episode we visit ‘The Big House’. That’s right, we head behind bars to talk all about prison movies. We’ve excluded women-in-prison (as that is an episode unto itself) but here we talk all about Alcatraz, a couple of Stephen King adaptations, and that time that Jean-Claude Van Damme went undercover in prison to hunt down a serial killer(?!). There’s many more flicks set in ‘The Joint” that we cover and it would be ‘criminal’ if you don’t listen – I’m done with the silly jokes now.

First off, we talk all about what we’ve been watching as Josh dusts off another relic of his VHS collection, Chris watches a couple of random sequels, and we look at a couple of Blumhouse releases. Plus much more!

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Episode 53: Under the Sea

Plenty of unknown things lurk under the water and for the latest episode of GBW we go diving into the horror genre to bring you some of our favourite (and not so favourite) water based monster movies.

Instead of focusing on sharks, octopi, and other water based animals we’ve decided to only discuss things that aren’t quite of nature. We’re talking Humanoids, mutant monsters galore, and even a creature from the black lagoon. These water dwelling beasts have had enough of humankind invading their homes and will do anything to prove it.

First off, we talk all about what we’ve been watching as Chris binges on a ton of horror for Halloween, Josh continues his VHS adventures, things blow up really good in Hired to Kill, and so much more!

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Episode 52: American Zombies

With the return of “The Walking Dead” upon us, we’ve decided to dive into the flesh-eating sub-genre of zombie flicks placing our focus on the American made entries.

We all know that George A. Romero and Night of the Living Dead is responsible for reinventing zombies in 1968 but what about what came before that? Was it all just voodoo and non-gut munching? And what do we think are worthy movies that followed in Romero’s wake?

Tune in as we talk all about the undead and their cravings for flesh! First we talk about what we’ve been watching including newer fare like The Love Witch and Train to Busan as well as the torture porn-like home invasion of The Collector, a third trip to the world of The Lost Boys, and the first installment of “JOSH’S VHS ADVENTURES” where our brave co-host tries to pare down his VHS collection and starts with a whole lot of Philip Michael Thomas.

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Episode 51: RoboCop Franchise

Nowadays 1987’s RoboCop is considered a sci-fi/action classic. We thought it was time to revisit the entire franchise and learned all about the law of diminishing returns. We also declare that Paul Verhoeven is awesome, Frank Miller needs to stick to writing comics, and Peter Weller is, in fact, the man. (Plus Josh really doesn’t like Nancy Allen in these movies).

First off we talk about what we’ve been watching with us both weighing in on The Final Girls and Blair Witch as well as some Cynthia Rothrock, 80’s comedy spoofing, and cannibalistic westerns. Plus much more!

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