HubrisWeen: Recent Episodes
Sean and Tim @ Megaphonic FM
Tim and Sean (of Fiasco Family Movie Night) review 26 horror movies in alphabetical order from October 6th through Halloween.
Is there a word for indescribable horror? We’d like to suggest Zeder. (Also known as Revenge of the Dead).
The Fiasco Family would like to think that medical services have advanced significantly in the time since X-Ray.
The Fiasco Family would not like to confront their own capacity for sliding into below subsistence living, as happens in Wake in Fright.
The Fiasco Family would rather go to therapy than believe their flaws are the fault of a Vampire’s Kiss.
The Fiasco Family likes space movies, but the thing about deep sea movies is that it’s just as unforgiving an environment—just Underwater.
The Fiasco Family likes a spooky old manor that may or may not be haunted, but they do request that the filmmakers have some idea of which way they’re leaning, unlike in The Turning.
The Fiasco Family believes in scientific advancement, but advises against trying to market psychic phenomena like The Stone Tape.
The Fiasco Family would like to review Seizure (1974) by its alternate title Queen of Evil because it’s a much cooler name and it’s getting harder to find movies that start with Q.
The Fiasco Family urges people to show kindness to those who’ve fled the infection zone and advises not seeking riches in the evacuated Peninsula.
The Fiasco Family would like to state for the record that they are not aware of any vampire dumping ground in Detroit, Michigan, despite what you may have seen in Only Lovers Left Alive.
The Fiasco Family invites you to a fake seance, with real ghosts, in Ed Wood Jr’s Night of the Ghouls.
The Fiasco Family has its skeletons, but they’re pretty sure they don’t have any vampires. Not even a borderline one like Martin.
The Fiasco Family dislodged a four-leaf clover from a box in their new basement, but the previous owner swore they didn’t leave behind a Leprechaun.
The Fiasco Family admits that they have a taste for style-over-coherence vampire movies, and feel that Kill, Baby…Kill! does the job quite nicely.
The Fiasco Family advises that bands looking for a break do not attempt human sacrifice. It’s messy and causes a lot of complications for Jennifer’s Body.
The Fiasco Family recommends conducting research on unpopulated islands, lest you cause trouble for the locals, as exampled in Island of Terror.
The Fiasco Family might not seem very skilled, but they believe that the collective effort demonstrated in The Host is what can defeat the monster of bickering.
The Fiasco Family loves North America’s only venomous lizard, so they’re pretty okay with Gila!
The Fiasco Family asks that as you take in the side show you respect the humanity of the performers in 1932’s Freaks.
The Fiasco Family likes a good ghost story, and The Eye adds a dash of Cassandra complex to the mix!
The Fiasco Family wonder why there are so many films about scarecrows and why Dark Night of the Scarecrow is pretty good.
The Fiasco Family loves malls! They love robots! They love robots killing people in malls! They’re mostly okay with the existence of Chopping Mall.
The Fiasco Family advises you to go home for the holidays. Students remaining on campus may experience some discomfort during Black Christmas.
The Fiasco Family cordially invites you to an autopsy that turns out to be a vivisection, with the medical examiner horror The Autopsy of Jane Doe.
The Fiasco Family brings this year’s HubrisWeen celebration to a close with Pakistan’s first horror movie, Zinda Laash.
The Fiasco Family just want to exploit an undeveloped island, but Yog: Monster from Space wants to exploit the whole dang planet!
The Fiasco Family visits some old classmates and… look, X Game is a movie about physical and psychological torture over childhood bullying. We really can’t make a funny here.
By not counting the number at the start of the title, The Fiasco Family got to watch both 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later in the same lineup.
The Fiasco Family managed to watch both versions of this movie, so technically Varan the Unbelievable is twice the value!
The Fiasco Family would like to know why you’d take a perfectly good panther and turn it into a human being. Truly, Panther is fine, but Terror is a Man.
...Look, sometimes we just want to let a weird slasher flick wash over us like so much Santa Sangre.
The Fiasco Family thought their last visit to the House on Haunted Hill went alright, so they decided to Return to House on Haunted Hill again.
The Family Family want to research psychic phenomena but don’t have any funding, so they decide to join up with The Quiet Ones.
The Fiasco Family celebrate New Year’s Eve and take the last ride of the year in The Phantom Carriage.
The Fiasco Family acquires a haunted artifact and revisits their horrifying past, in Oculus.
The Fiasco Family tries therapy again, and they get set up for a murder charge and run off to join the Nightbreed.
The Fiasco Family goes bobbing for boiling hot dogs in the holiday kill-fest My Bloody Valentine.
The Fiasco Family would like to tell you what happened in The Living Skeleton, but they can’t really remember how everything fits together—in a good way.
The Fiasco Family would like to apologize for this one, but they do think that the giant robot Kronos is kind of neat.
The Fiasco Family tries to take an island vacation but lands in the middle of a long-standing feud between the Brody and Great White Shark clans, in the franchise-ending Jaws: The Revenge.
The Fiasco Family tries out mid-century therapy, which turns out to be more regressive than anticipated, in I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
The Fiasco Family attend a birthday party in familiar surroundings. They’re pretty sure they’re revisiting old ground at the House on Haunted Hill.
The Fiasco Family is invited to an auction, and when they see what’s for sale all they want to do is to Get Out.
The Fiasco Family thought they’d left the evil behind them, but they had yet to face Forever Evil!
The Fiasco Family agreed to help a therapist remodel a haunted house as an institution, and they’re having second thoughts when The Evil makes its presence known.
The Fiasco Family wake up in a hospital and try to figure out why they’re in Britain and why everybody’s so very enraged, in 28 Days Later….
The Fiasco Family drops by a local make-out joint and sits awkwardly while a drug dealer talks about things he couldn’t have seen—namely the Confessions of a Psycho Cat.
The Fiasco Family pops down to the local beatnik dive for some coffee, atmosphere, and murder, in A Bucket of Blood.
The joke is on The Fiasco Family when they start HubrisWeen with the prank-filled horror-comedy April Fool’s Day.
SHOW NOTES.
April Fool’s Day (1986).
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The Fiasco Family goes back to the Zombieland well and discover that life in the zombie apocalypse remains pretty much the same, in Zombieland: Double Tap.
The Fiasco Family steps into the world of Canadian-Italian horror, and we’re so sorry. Sarah, Adam, you can have Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century.
The Fiasco Family falls down a conspiracy hole onto an ancient strain of black oil, and… look, it’s The X-Files.
The Fiasco Family ventures into the swamps of Florida, where they hear some strange goings-on have been happening. Not strange like Zaat, but strange like The Witchmaker.
The Fiasco Family answers the ages-old question: what was that vampire movie with Grace Jones? (It’s Vamp.)
The Fiasco Family seeks the help of Dr. Charles Conway, who claims to be making astonishing progress in the field of additional glands! Is he mad, or is he The Unearthly?
The Fiasco Family goes on a yacht trip with Melissa George and are doomed to continually watch Triangle.
The Fiasco Family checks in on Prince Mamuwalde to see how things are going, and with a title like Scream Blacula Scream you know he’s not having a good time of it.
It’s been a long time since the Fiasco Family went to high school, but they still remember their friends, faculty, murder victims, flashbacks to other people’s nightmares… Hold up, no. That’s just Return to Horror High.
The Fiasco Family is looking after young Jamie today, so we’ll be visiting his imaginary friends that he found in The Pit.
Show Notes.
A Part of Our Scare-itage 27. The Pit.
The Fiasco Family journeys to the Warring States era of Japan to witness people being pretty much awful in horrific circumstances. Then the Onibaba comes!
The good is that the Fiasco Family is here. The bad news is that they’re dead! Prepare to dance with slug zombies in Fred Dekker’s Night of the Creeps.
The Fiasco Family regrets to inform the public that a killer is on the loose! Be on the look-out for a Maniac Cop!
The Fiasco Family investigates a local Scottish legend. Surely nothing unseemly could happen with Hugh Grant around!
The Fiasco Family would like to say that they swear better films than Just Before Dawn are coming.
The Fiasco Family would just like to say that it was impossible to resist the title I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle.
The Fiasco Family returns to college, only to die every night and come back to try again. It’s a spoiler-rich microsode for the recent horror film Happy Death Day(2017).
So some heirs are brought to the mansion of their weird dead relative... This isn’t The Cat and the Canary, it just really wants to cash in on it. It’s The Ghoul (1933), and it’s a pleasant little rip-off.
There’s been a death in the Fiasco Family, and someone has taken the deceased’s skull! Oh, wait. It’s all just a part of The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959).
The Fiasco Family visit a lovely seaside village, where the men are boys and the women are… taking care of them. It’s all part of natural Evolution (2015).
The Fiasco Family crashes a swinging hippie pad to hear Robert Quarry preach the Vampire Gospels. It’s not Count Yorga, it’s Deathmaster (1972).
The Fiasco Family could receive a large inheritance if they can hold on to their sanity. Whelp, at least they still get to watch The Cat and the Canary (1927).
The Fiasco Family loves vampires, and we especially love actors that are classier than their productions. Exhibit B is William Marshall in Blacula (1972).
The Fiasco Family give a good hard look at The Astro-Zombies, directed by Ted V. Mikels.
Nine previous missions failed, so the Fiascos strap in to be the tenth to watch this off-brand kaiju movie.
The Fiascos buy a house (didn’t they do that already this month?) and learn that it comes with guests.
The Fiascos attend a demonstration of the future of law enforcement, and things get a bit political.
The Fiascos get a flat tire and pull into a gas station to catch a fairly unique monster.
The Fiascos discover that their plans are being used by aliens in this film adaptation of the second Quatermass series.
The Fiascos sleep in and awaken to the meta-textural horror of a franchise that becomes self-aware.
The Fiascos go the supermarket just as things get weird as they discuss the bleak Stephen King adaptation.
The Fiascos come back from a long absence with a chimpanzee, who they’ll make watch killer primate movies.
The Fiascos trek into the backwoods for some old time religion in this horror of conscience and fate.
Tim and Sean begin to suspect that something’s wrong as they recuperate with Charles Laughton.
The Fiasco Siblings fall under the spell of silent era special effects as they watch the sensationalist documentary Häxan.
Sean subjects Tim to an endurance trial as teens fail to do much of anything for an hour and change. Technically, there is a ghost.
Tim and Sean set the fly-strips and bug zappers out to talk about the original version of The Fly.
Tim and Sean experience déjà vu as they discuss an anthology horror movie about encounters with the supernatural.
The year’s alphabet comes to an end with The Reptile, The Silent Scream, Train to Busan, The Uncanny, Vampire Circus, The Woman in Black, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Yongary, Monster from the Deep, and Zombie.
The alphabet returns, with The Johnson, Kill List, Lights Out, Mom and Dad, Night of the Living Deb, The Old Dark House (Karloff), The Plague of Zombies, and The Quatermass Xperiment.
Tim and Sean being going through the alphabet by looking at Anaconda, Big Ass Spider!, Cast a Deadly Spell, Don’t Look Now, Earth vs the Spider, From Hell It Came, Grabbers, House on Haunted Hill and I Sell the Dead.