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Fright Pub
Friends enjoy their favorite alcoholic beverages (always good) while reviewing horror movies (sometimes good).
This one will really make you nostalgic for the bygone days of taking an uber during the height of covid.
We all got together at Lawrenceville Distilling to have a sit down with some Pittsburgh zombie celebs John Amplas (Martin, Creepshow), Mike Ancas and Dave King to talk about their contributions to various Romero films and their upcoming projects!
We had some tech trouble but we managed to get Glenn in on this through science and/or magic. Real nasty movie too!
Our favorite DMV resident to celebrate us rolling the big 0-0-1!
The very first movie added to the Fright Pub list!
Jason and CJ from the You've Got Males podcast drop by for our late late late Valentine's episode. There's just been too many Friday the 13ths this year!!
CJ from You've Got Males is back for a glimpse at the time between when Frank Darabont was a great film maker and the time he was an OK TV maker.
Happy New Year (belated)!!! We're running behind on episodes but this is a solid new year's horror movie!
Sorry it's still Christmas! We were all sick and couldn't get the Xmas episodes out in time so here it is!
We've all been sick and haven't been able to get together to record so here's a Christmas / New Year's re-release! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
In honor of the great Rob Reiner, we're re-releasing our episode on his classic horror two-hander, MISERY
Jeremiah Ion is back for this 1999 cannibal western that's all about eatin' that man meat!
Another nominee for this year's Chainsaw awards! What even is this? Nick Cage is in it though!
Jason from the You've Got Males podcast is back to talk about this awesome 80s adaptation of Steven King's Werewolf Cycle!
This week's pick is a psychedelic journey through puberty!
Content warning: underage sexual trauma
but hear us out it's still really good!
This week's dive into the Golden Chainsaw Award nominees, a nunsploitation Sydney Sweeney Vehicle!
In preparation for our upcoming all-new Easter special, let's revisit last year's celebration of life and rebirth!
Happy St Patrick's Day once again! Can The Leprechaun's trip to "the hood" possibly top his trip to space???
It's Liam's favorite time of year, Oscar season! And this year a real good horror movie is nominated! Let's check it out!
Jason and CJ from the You've Got Males podcast join us to celebrate Valentines Day with the moodiest lovers in the PNW!
CJ is back to let us in on all the Burgh lore surrounding this George A. Romero less-than classic!
Glenn introduces us to this 80s gem. Like what if Porky's had evil space slugs and Tom Atkins?
What if the thing from Legends of the Hidden Temple caused a monster mayhem that wrecked 40 cop cars???
CJ from You've Got Males is back with us for this 90s nostalgia knock-off. Finally, a horror movie for Dawson's Creek fans!
A true horror classic, or just weird psychedelic music video for some obscure Italian prog rock band?
Back 2 Back with the Dice Witch! Let's take a visit to the 90s and see what's up there!
Dice Witch is back to review the original 1960 Corman classic before it was a hit musical!
This movie has so much potential! Stacked Cast! Solid Premise!
What was Michael Mann doing??
Which cast member did Liam golf with?
Joe joins us to try to explain Frankenhooker! Will Liam kill everyone? Will Shaggy get cancelled? Find OUT!
OG yinzer CJ from You've Got Males drops by to take us through the quintessential Pittsburgh horror movie!
Jeremiah joins us to dissect this bit of swamp scum from the aughts.
We come up with a new theory on how movie breasts change with presidential administrations!
Special guest Abby joins us for this weird ass movie about the dumbest teenagers you've ever seen!
Sorry for the rough audio this week!
Dan and KT from Liam's "other" "better" podcast join us for a crazy night in the fright pub!
Special guest Jessica joins us to talk about this weirdo movie from way back in the early 1990s. Liam lets us all know how much he loves Danny Aiello.
Jason from the You've Got Males podcast joins us for Danzig's unfortunate anthology film.
Is the Leprechaun series starting to get... better??
Happy St Patrick's Day from Fright Pub!
Ghostbuster Joe returns for this Tarantino movie that might have more horror to it than you realize!
CJ and Jason from the You've Got Males podcast stop in for a special Valentines Day crossover ep!
Liam really goes the extra mile to show his hate for this one! Don't worry if you haven't seen it, it doesn't make sense anyway.
The always lovely Sheila joins us to share her recommendation of an awesome old French movie!
Glenn joins us for this highly influential sci fi horror classic!
It's free on youtube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hVUuRAAF_s
Happy New Year! Let's celebrate with this awful mess of a film!
It's here but I don't recommend it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyhgJvYED7o&themeRefresh=1
The other half of You've Got Males joins us for this modern horror masterpiece!
I, for one, absolutely believe Kid Cudi knows how to play Landslide on guitar.
The Kaiju is back again to talk about Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's foot fetish porn!
What even is this? They tried. We all tried.
Anyway it's on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u87IA1WzcsE
This silent film classic massively inspired The Shining! And it's super spooky.
Free on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzOk7hkDUew
KTL alternate score: https://ktl10.bandcamp.com/track/the-phantom-carriage
Certified Ghostbuster Joe joins us again to talk about this often ignored (except in memes) Nick Cage classic!
Sometimes Liam puts movies on the list just to annoy shaggy and then has to own up when the dice actually roll them!
KP joins us once more to share her ballet knowledge and talk about how rad Black Swan is!
Glenn's brought us another classic, a UFO movie from the UHF era. in 3D!
Thanks Glenn!
Sorry for the lack of intro, it's been a week!
An old pal joins us to talk about this weird dutch movie. Does it count as horror just because it's in the bookie-wook?
Our friend Glen joins us once more and this time there aren't any bees, just a feminist film classic!
Danger Close Podcast's Dan Ferlito joins us to indulge in a movie that's great at being terrible.
Long time / first timer Katherine joins us for this wild 90's mess! I love to see lots of great people make a bonkers nonsense movie!
Sorry I didn't upload it on time I was on vacation!
Returning guest and another victim of grey-scale bias, David Loehr joins us to discuss a star studded 50s southern gothic horror
KT from Danger Close Podcast slums it with the weirdos to talk about this 50's horror classic!
Superstar guest Jeremiah is back to talk about this 80s coke orgy of a vampire movie with David Freakin Bowie
There are many movies called "Alone" but this is the one from Thailand in 2007! Conjoined twin craziness!
Happy Valentines Day! There aren't that many Valentine's Day themed horror movies, but this is one of them!
Meet me under the bleachers after school and I'll give you a copy of this awesome movie I dubbed on VHS it's called the crow
Happy Friday the 13th! Instead of milk and cookies, make sure you leave out a plate of random people for Jason to kill for no reason!
This week we try to figure out what is even real and is it possible to create an indictment of toxic masculinity that won't be mistaken for an endorsement?
Dan Ferlito of the Danger Close podcast joins us with his own recommendation for this psychological horror film
The Looming Kaiju strikes again with another one of Kevin Smith's attempts at making a horror movie!
This week guest Jeremiah Ion joins us again to figure out if Fincher's follow up to Se7en is even horror, maybe it's just Dickens?
Is it possible that a bigger budget sequel to the worst movie ever made is also terrible?
FIND OUT!
This week, special guest Jeremiah joins us to discuss the 50's French (!) lesbian (?) murder ghost(?) film Les Diaboliques.
You ever eat a really good chicken wing and just really suck the meat off the bone? mmm
Courtney Cox, a young Ron Swanson, and an ex-SNL castmember all somehow star in this extremely low budget indie movie?
This is the only way you can watch it. Really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxvMGbYg0NU&list=PLNVP9dTDRWUcgoanOkA2UglMtaaMwwzYx
Guest Glenn Peters joins us to discuss the 73 sci-fi(?) horror(?) movie The Creeping Flesh starring one of the old guys from Star Wars and one of the old guys from Lord of the Rings.
This is a profoundly weird movie from the very famous director of the first 3 Pirates of the Carribean movies!
What if a French absurdist playwright made a Lovecraftian horror movie? Let's find out!
This sequel to the Spanish found-footage horror darling is even better than the original!
Is THIS the most influential film in the 2000's torture horror genre? Spoilers abound for this French gore fest.
This week special guest CJ overcomes the dice magic to join us for this classic anthology!
Yes of course there is HEATED DEBATE over whether or not this is actually a horror movie.
Mel Brooks and Leslie Nielsen! 2 Comedy powerhouses that do not work well together at all!
Is it possible for a director to be scarier than his horror movie? Was there actually a time when Justin Long was hot? What is the point of this?
One of the biggest names in 21st century horror, and we finally get so see a ghost movie with actual ghosts in it???
This week, Lauren's birthday pick. A very recent addition and one of 2021's best movies for sure.
Finally a horror film that reminds us that as a country, we should be moving forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling toward freedom.
Happy April Fool's Day! Let's talk about one of the most unsettling comedy specials ever filmed.
That's right I'm the damn guest this week. Eat it!
This week, the movie that makes ice cream taste bad!
What is the baby puppet made of? What does it mean? Why is art?
Find out!
Wouldn't you like to know what gives Wes Craven nightmares? Turns out it's this 1960 Ingmar Bergman film, which went on to inspire Last House on the Left. Check it out!
What does it really mean when horror is "based on true events"? How true do the events need to be? What is real anyway?
This week we take on the oldest film on our list so far, a silent quasi-documentary from 1922 on the topic of witchcraft and satanism
When was the last time we all agreed a something was awesome? Treat yourself to this widely overlooked 2018 isolation horror masterpiece. It's on Netflix!
A remake of the 80s slasher classic, featuring all your mid-00's heart-throbs, with tons of 3D gore coming out of the screen? What's not to love? Happy Valentines Day!
This week we find out what it would be like if someone decided to remake Jaws, but without any actual characters or, like, film-making equipment. We'll drink an ocean of booze anyway!
This week we're joined by a genuine scholar of Shakespeare to discuss 1973's "Theater of Blood", starring Vincent Price as a jilted Shakespearean actor who serial murders his posh critics.
Another special guest this week, to discuss the strange wannabe-auteur-ish werewolf film that is The Wolf of Snow Hollow.
Happy New Year! Let's return to the era of cheap SAW knockoffs, this one taking place at a new years eve party.
So, yeah, a Christmas-High-School-Zombie-Horror-Musical? Is there any way that could work? Let's find out!
Our most prolific guest is back to talk about 1991's Addams Family reboot, featuring MC Hammer! Is it a horror movie? Is Gordon Really Fester? Pour an arsenic lemonade or smoke some girl scout cookie W1zard and find out!
Lots of horror movies are derivative and that can be a good thing, but what happens when you make the derivative version of 2000s moody murder-ghost movies? Why would you name your murder demon after a cured meat and make him look like the guy from Slipknot?
This is a Very Special Bonus Episode, with our guest Crystal Manich, director of Arizona Opera's "The Copper Queen".
The film can be streamed at until the end of 2021, so check it out soon!
https://azopera.org/performances/copper-queen
This week, a French language film about the generational effects of becoming a zombie, and the dangers of bargaining with powers you don't understand. What's more frightening, a supernatural voodoo baron, or colonialism?
This week, is it possible that there was a brilliant feminist horror film, made in the 1960s, by Roman Fucking Polanski? Is that real? Even if it's an accident? What?
CW: Lots of rape in this here movie.
What if you took a blockbuster movie from the same year, re-made it in a similar fashion with D-list actors and made it a ton more bloody and it actually turned out to be a better movie? Find out this week with our review of 2019 horror comedy Ready or Not!
Happy Halloween 2! In our (now) annual tradition of reviewing the Halloween franchise on Halloween, the first sequel! Does it live up to the original? Which Halloween movie has the best boobs?
This week, the venerable Vincent Price is a psychedelic serial killer who presaged Saw and Se7en.
This week an innocent (or not so innocent) vampire romance between two Swedish pre-teens (well, one has been a pre-teen for a long time). Is that weird? Not as weird as what actually happens.
So yeah, a spooky ghost story movie about slavery. It's not fun, but there's lots of interesting stuff to talk about!
This week: Does being a quintessential Halloween movie mean something is truly a horror movie? Does it matter if you're a kid? Does it matter at all? Returning champion guest Ali Keirn helps us figure it out!
Also there was some difficulty with the audio but we did what we could to salvage it. Apologies for being boomers.
Ever see a movie in a theater and love it sooo much and then see it again many years later and realize it wasn't as great as you thought? Welcome to this week's ep.
OK maybe we're not recording 3 of these at a time anymore. At least they didn't eat that baby!
This week we have a special guest, faithful pubcrawler Ali, to discuss 1995's Brad Pitt vehicle and David Fincher classic Seven!
A found footage horror movie from the mid 2000's? Say it ain't so!
This one's originally in Spanish but almost exclusively available in the US with an excruciating English dub so definitely check it out.
Right! It's the Thing that came before the Thing, and it's a really good Thing, too! Also Shaggy misses the dick again.
How much booze would you drink if you just watched your neighbor get sucked into a closet void by a rubber monster? What's the rudest possible way to ask someone to babysit your kid? Find out in this week's quintessential 80s horror film, HOUSE
This week we explore the best horror movie ever made by the director of "When Harry Met Sally"
Liam is messing with the dice because we rolled another Hitchcock. That's 3 in only 40 episodes! Are any of them even horror movies though? Find out!
Ah yes, a horror movie about being paranoid about going outside because you might catch a plague. So scary and unknown. You might even have to wear a mask. shudder
Finally a movie that proves without a doubt that podcasts should not exist.
Thanks to our special guest Lisa Hill Grande!
This week's movie exists on the very very edge of what could be considered a horror movie. Sure there's maybe grisly murder, but that doesn't really count for much these days.
It's a teen girl werewolf movie from the turn of the millennium. How many years has Shaggy been pretending he has already seen it?
This week's movie is the "classic" Amityville Horror, which we're actually somehow all seeing for the first time.
Are all classics considered "classic" for a reason? Or do maybe some not really stand up to the test of time?
Also how handsome is James Brolin?
This week we look at the queer history behind 1932's Old Dark House starring the one and only Boris Karloff
Our first sequel! Let's see how it holds up, both against the original, and against the changing attitudes on racial justice in America 25 years later. It's a wild one.
This week we enjoy some beers themed around a 2007 staple of the found footage horror genre, Paranormal Activity and ruminate on the role of toxic douche bro masculinity in demonic possession.
This week we have our very first guest, accomplished horror author Lawrence C. Connolly, to talk about seeing the world premiere of Creepshow with Stephen King himself! We also find out what birthday cake flavored beer tastes like.
Check out Larry's work at https://lawrencecconnolly.com/
You really don't need to have seen this one to get the gist. A guy gets exposed to (science stuff??) and starts to shrink. The plot follows from there. What's important is what would you do in a similar situation? Resign yourself to death? Invent new ways to please your partner?
Welcome to Fright Pub's filthiest episode! Buckle up.
CW: rape
If you had your wife drugged so she could be impregnated by Satan, would you be able to come up with a convincing cover story? Let's find out on this week's episode!
This week's episode is a largely slept-on but refreshing take on the zombie genre, a movie that might have been better as a radio play, but hey let's go for it!
It can be found here for now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1g447kfqds
This week the gang gets into it over a 70s horror rock opera! Kermit the frog is involved somehow! It gets weird!
Wow. That escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast!
In this episode the crew discusses a really great old horror / sci-fi flick while trying to block out the actual horror of the world outside. It's a good one!
Look. This movie might actually be pretty rad when you view it as a horror film. Tons of gore, demons, dread and apocalyptic visions. Happy Easter, sinners.
Being tied up and having a bunch of birds thrown at you for several days must be what listening to this podcast is like.
Here's a movie that explores the deepest fears of the 1940s American moviegoing public: black folks! And not only that, foreign ones! And they're not even christians! OoooOOoo spooky hand gestures
Happy St Patrick's Day! EDITOR'S NOTE: These people are all delusional this movie rules.
We all heard Snoop Dogg makes his own porno movies but did you know he makes horror movies too?
This week the gang takes up necromancy as we watch legendary director Park Chan-Wook breathe life into a real rotting corpse of a script. Side note, there is actually no necromancy in the film, or vampires, as one might be led to believe. But the discussion is real fun!
Don't you just hate it when your deepest existential fears manifest themselves in reality and haunt you to madness? Sucks when that happens.
End theme: Ulver - "Hour of the Wolf"
Happy Valentine's Day! Let's get murdered in a mine! What's your favorite death in this movie?
This week's pick is 1992's Candyman! Is it a film with a lot of things to say about racism, but, like, in a 1992 kind of way? Or just a fun monster slasher? Let's all dig deep and examine our own racism, or maybe just chomp some popcorn.
What does jazz saxophone have to do with mass murder? Come celebrate the senseless violence of Michael Haneke's 1997 thriller Funny Games (or his 2007 American version if you wanna), and feel real bad about it!
This week we relive our high school traumas with 1976's Carrie, based on the Stephen King classic.
Ugh. Guys will literally travel to the Scandinavian wilderness and get eaten by a monstrous forest god instead of going to therapy.
This week we discuss 2017's netflix monster thriller The Ritual!
LISTENER CHALLENGE: Did Shaggy actually watch this movie? Or is he bullshitting his way through this whole episode?
Also: Is this 1944's most lesbian movie? An LGBT icon way before the Babadook was fashionable? Listen and find out!
How to go from a loser in a coma to a killer supersoldier in just a few days? Find out Killian Murphy's One Weird Trick!
Can anything ever be as good again as it was in 1984? It's tough sometimes to revisit something from your childhood and realize that maybe something was off about it that you could never place at the time. Sometimes a cute fuzzy little creature turns ugly when you spend too much time with it.
Anyway as a special Christmas treat we're watching Gremlins!
Special music is "Christmas Steps" by Mogwai because Chris just couldn't resist tbh.
This week we explore the senseless (literally!) violence of 2016's "Hush" written and directed by the same folks who brought you Netflix's Hill House and Bly Manor. This one has significantly more lingering butt shots in it than either of those, however.
This week we have a very reasoned and thorough discussion of one of the most heavily marketed movies of 2004: The Butterfly Effect!
This is bar none the worst movie we've seen so far. Like by a lot. Boomers aren't allowed to make movies anymore.
Can Jamie Lee Curtis re-create the magic of Halloween using almost the same formula but with a much less talented director and maybe adding in the guy from Police Squad? This movie sucks but this episode is great!
This week is another Very Special Episode for a Very Special Friday the 13th 2020! Things can't get any worse, right?
We dive into one of the most iconic slasher flicks of all time, and almost certainly Kevin Bacon's sexiest role.
You ever been to a party, maybe with an old friend you hadn't seen in a long time, and they have new friends now and you try to have a nice time but things just seem kinda... off? We've been to that party, and now we're inviting you along too. Come on! Don't be glib. Just relax and enjoy. There's nothing unnatural about it, we promise.
On this week's Very Special Episode, it's the 1978 classic Halloween!
Let's all compare the size of our knives and gloat that we can last longer than teenagers in the sack! It's a weird one! I guess they're all weird.
In our 2nd pandemic-era episode, we learn all about the dire consequences of breaking quarantine.
There are probably some other important topics ripe for discussion, such as the importance of listening to competent women, or the intricate class dynamics of a long-haul space ship crew, but we'll probably spend lots of time talking about Sigourney Weaver's improbably small panties instead.
Also, editor's note: We're still figuring out remote recording, so please be patient with the sound quality! Thanks! Can't wait to host everyone at home in the Fright Pub again!
Remember back when we all started sheltering from the global pandemic of 2020? No one knew what the hell was going on in the world and it was pretty much booze o'clock 24/7?
That's about how long this episode has been in the can. This was our first attempt at remote recording and in keeping with those times, there was a lot of booze flowing at the newly socially distant Fright Pub.
However despite the chaos of the world we manage a pretty fun discussion of 1967's Wait Until Dark, starring Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin.
Is this really a horror movie? Why would you wear a costume to trick a blind lady? Can we wrangle a sponsorship from a local distillery? Will Liam have to sleep on the couch again? Find out!
This week we explore the prototype for the modern werewolf movie: An American Werewolf In London. We got takes so spicy they'll give you heartburn!
In the first real episode a bunch of kids from the 90s discuss the biggest horror film of the same decade, Scream.
Is it a classic or a dud? Who hit whom with what phone and are they a dick for doing it? Find out!
Fright Pub's inaugural episode!
We introduce the gang, establish some rules (like any good horror film), knock back a few beers in the bar, and get ready to talk scary movies!