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Trick or Treat Radio

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  • 758 Episodes
  • Since 2012

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Ep 582

TorTR #582 - Straight Outta Carfax Abbey

Episode | 156 min | Sep 22, 2023

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This week we set sail for the city of London aboard a totally safe vessel with absolutely no harmful cargo on board. On Episode 582 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss The Last Voyage of The Demeter from director Andre Ovredal! We also discuss our favorite portrayals of Dracula, all the what-could-have-beens, and we leave absolutely no coffin left unturned as it comes to vampires! So grab your SPF 500 suntan lotion, ask Renfield to fetch you for snorkel and your floaties, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: RIP Skowhegan Drive-In, Long Dong Silver, that’s a story you could tell other people’s grandchildren, Demons, Geretta Geretta, the celebrities that got away, the what could have beens, Robocop, Dr. Peter Weller, Robodoc, Summer School, gifting Hostel 2 to a 9 year old, favorite portrayal of Dracula, Bloodsucking Freaks, Dr. Acula, cornucopia of bullshit, Steven Van Samson, Derek Rook, Batman Day, STArt on the Street, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Trollhunter, Andre Ovredal, turning a chapter into an entire film, Dog Soldiers, Night of the Living Dead meets Alien 3, fan fiction, The Usual Suspects, no coffin left unturned, Canadian Tuxedo, Carfax Abbey, what good is a reward if you’re not alive to spend it, Nosferatu, cinematic violence against children, They Boys, Homelander, Cobweb, Perpetrator, what does LLC mean, no guest November, Dracula is Wackula, and sleeping off a blood hangover. 

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Ep 581

TorTR #581 - Paranoid Perpetrators of Persistence

Episode | 162 min | Sep 15, 2023

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Johnny, a wild and impulsive podcast producer is living precariously on the edge of completely losing control of his tech, and he’s forced to dig deep to unlock the resolve he needs to survive. On Episode 581 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss the Shudder Exclusive film Perpetrator from director Jennifer Reeder! We also discuss the exploitation of others, that time Beetlejuice punched Double J in the dick, and vengeful Whoopie Pies! So grab your dad’s ultimate set of tools to fix any issues that may arise, prepare your blood pool floaties, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Friday the 13th, Energy Drinks, Hack and Slash, podcast upgrades, Buttcracks for sale, going steady with Spotify, Mark Harmon, Summer School, Walking Without Rhythm, Wes Anderson movies, Hootie and the Blow, yayo, Penny Marshall, A League of Their Own, Big, Dennis Rodman, Ween, nitrous balloons, Metalocalypse, live unboxing, Vinegar Syndrome, missing cats, killer whoopie pies, peanut allergies, Howard Stern, Saw X, Nicole Kidman’s AMC commercial, Artie Lange, Liza Minelli, Anal Ring Toss, WCW, Martin Short, Chris Jericho, Eric Bischoff, Richard Kind, Christopher Lowell, Alicia Silverstone, Tony Todd, Perpetrator, Shudder, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Michael Shannon, Jennifer Reeder, Saw, Body Horror, living in a patriarchal society, Jim Ross, Clueless, Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yorgos Lanthimos, tech issues, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs, internalized misogyny, Val Kilmer, MacGruber, the exploitation of women, bloody body horror, David Cronenberg, Ron Perlman, Apple Music, Metalocalypse, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Andre Ovredal, Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, and The Wanton Whoopie Pie.

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Ep 580

TorTR #580 - Artificial Insinuation

Episode | 155 min | Sep 8, 2023

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An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the psyche of a daring group of podcasters spirals into chaos when a malevolent video tutorial of smoking a joint threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for their sanity. On Episode 580 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss Meg 2: The Trench from director Ben Wheatley! We also discuss all the Meg’s we know, we find out who is on the Mount Rushmore of the Five Star Stud Club, and we somehow talk a lot about Val Kilmer! So grab your futuristic underwater super suit, attenuate your attitude, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Thanksgiving, Eli Roth, Patrick Dempsey, attenuate, CM Punk, TonyZero, stroking out on air, defrag your brain, MEGadeth, MEG Ryan, MEG Tilly, MEGatron, MEGaforce Records, Rolling Stones, Kids in the Hall, Val Kilmer, Top Secret!, Real Genius, Top Gun, The Doors, Oliver Stone, Peter Cushing, Mel Brooks, The Salton Sea, Danny Trejo, R. Lee Ermey, Jan-Michael Vincent, Vincent Schiavelli, Better Off Dead, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Jibber Johnson, the Mount Rushmore of Five Star Stud Club, Don Knots, Paul Reubens, Larry Fine, Heart of Darkness, a collapsed whoopie cushion, VOID, going Septic, Ben Wheatley, Meg 2: The Trench, Jason Statham, John Turtletaub, Cool Runnings, 3 Ninjas, A Field in England, In the Earth, Free Fire, Stephen Scarlata, getting killed by a Megalodon, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Sky Captain, Crank, The Transporter Films, Freddy vs. Jason Statham, action sack, Jet Ski, trigger warnings, Day of the Animal, Jurassic Park, Perpetrator, shenanigans, A-Listers, the Brothers’ Warner, A.I.-Lister, smelling burnt toast, Sounds of Buttstuff, MediaShame, What We Do in the Shadows, Summer School, Nation of Attenuation, These are the Megs I Know, Avoid the Void, and Jason Statham Takes Manhattan.

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Ep 579

TorTR #579 - Play With It Again Sam

Episode | 201 min | Sep 1, 2023

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A recovering Mama Juana addict takes a job to interview three subjects who claim to be real life podcasters just to find they’ve been scamming their listener base for years. On Episode 579 of Trick or Treat Radio we are joined by old friend Double D for our August Patreon Takeover! Double D has selected the films The Monster Project from director Victor Mathieu and Down a Dark Hall from director Rodrigo Cortes. We also talk about sitcoms, our favorite Price is Right games, and other problematic 80s films. So light up a Yeabro Light, imagine Humphrey Bogart doing the truffle shuffle, and strap on a GoPro for the world’s most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Halloween, HBO Max, Freeform, Mrs. Doubtfire, Friday the 13th, Cabin in the Woods, medical problems, Humphrey Bogart doing the truffle shuffle, One Eyed Willy, Goonies, Just One of the Guys, Soul Man, C. Thomas Howell, Stu Charno, Dream On, Not Necessarily the News, First and Ten, Snigglets, Dr. Giggles, Arachnophobia, Six Degrees of Sitcoms, The Boy Who Cried Bitch, Vinny and Bobby, Father Dowling Mysteries, Top of the Heap, Alan Thicke, Joey Lauren Adams, Christina Applegate, Jesse, Ed O’Neill, Gene Hackman, French Connection, Deliverance, Christopher McDonald, Richard Kiel, Morbius, Black Knight, Louise Lasser, Frankenhooker, Blood Rage, Julie Carmen, Fred Willard, DC Follies, Yeabro Lights, Belly Button Soup, The Price is Right, Rolling Rock, The Monster Project, Skinwalkers, Demons, Vampires, Subject, Victor Mathieu, Found Footage, The Blair Witch Project, Trollhunter, film vs digital, Big Papi, Pedro Martinez, aggressive credits, Baron  Zima, Deadstream, Ben Wheatley, The Faculty, one for them one for me, Robert Rodriguez, Madman, Mike Allred, Lois Duncan, Summer of Fear, Wes Craven, Leonard Nimoy, In Search Of…, Nova Scotia, Uma Thurman, Suspiria, Melbourne International Film Festival, Asteroid City, The Barker Beauties, RIP Bob Barker, support indie filmmakers, In All the Jizz Joints in the World…, Thurman and Fuhrman, Burned Chaffed and Chapped, and A Vulgar Display of Credits.

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Ep 578

TorTR #578 - The Crippling Toll of Emotional Aikido

Episode | 150 min | Aug 25, 2023

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On his way to prison, a man gets intercepted by a secretive government agency who tasks him with monitoring the world’s most dangerous podcast in exchange for commuting his sentence. On Episode 578 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss the Screambox Original film Subject from director Tristan Barr! We also talk about filmmakers doing a lot with very little, glorified fencing, and we may finally get some closure to the crazy caper of the missing Casablanca DVD! So grab your Funk U t-shirt, double your RAM, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: NECA, Puppet Master, F Mother Nature, Patreon Takeover, build the hype, Screambox, double your RAM, RIP Terry Funk, RIP Windham Rotunda aka Bray Wyatt, Stranglemania, Cactus Jack, Wrestlemania 13, Beyond the Mat, World Class Championship Wrestling, Jimmy Jack Funk, Dory Funk Jr, Raven, Dr. D David Schultz, Isaac Hayes, Lord Alfred Hayes, Ultimo Dragon, Mick Foley, Undertaker, Tom Savini, Firefly Funhouse, WWE, Brodie Lee, the Todd Bridges of the group, she’s a padme, glorified fencing, the crazy caper of the missing Casablanca DVD, Peter Jackson, Lord of the Rings, holding directors sacred, Meet the Feebles, Takashi Miike, Gozu, Jack Knight Starman, Subject, Tristan Barr, Oz, Black Mirror, Bloody Disgusting, Oldboy, Audition, Robodoc, Peter Weller, Holy Shit!, MZ goes under the knife, triple ball-pass, a little lop off the top, The Ravenhorror Picture Show, The Three Mothers, Emo Funk, Cornucopia of Content, Good Morning Cell Block Six!

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Ep 577

TorTR #577 - Child A-Busey

Episode | 156 min | Aug 18, 2023

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An eight-year-old boy tries to investigate the mysterious voices coming from inside the walls of his house. What he finds is a profane podcast his sinister parents have kept hidden from him. On Episode 577 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss Cobweb, from director Samuel Bodin! We also talk about the Mount Rushmore of offbeat superheroes, modern horror that shares DNA with classic horror, and bad sitcoms based on good films. So grab your utility belt with extra spider repellent, get into some aggressive Jack-O-Lanterning, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Chucky Season 3, sleepover at Big Papi’s house, “Ass-Soaker”, Chef’s French Kiss, Street Trash, King Missile, Detachable Penis, Black Sabbath, invasive pigs, The Toxic Avenger, Lloyd Kaufman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Troma, Orgazmo, Super Fuzz, the Three True Superhero Films, Zapped!, Lion-Girl, Frankie Freako, Conor Sweeney, Reverse Hulk, Ghoulies Go to College, Gremlins, Megapiss, Astron-6, Psycho Goreman, Make Your Own Damn Movie, McFarlane scale, Police Academy, George Burns, Matt McCoy, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Charlie Schlatter, Jennifer Aniston, Ethan Suplee, Joe Begos, Abraham Benrubi, Terence Stamp, Cobweb, Antony Starr, Lizzy Caplan, Cleopatra Coleman, Gary Busey, Luke Busey, Teeth David, Castle Rock, The Conjuring, Impulse, Malignant, The Black Phone, ambiguous endings, dark Martha and Jonathan Kent, Edgar Allan Poe, Brothers Grimm, Axel Foley, Karl Urban, Jerk and Clean, Willy Wompa and the Icicle Factory, and Don’t Hate the Busey Hate the Game.

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Ep 576

TorTR #576 - Taste the Rainbow of Death

Episode | 162 min | Aug 11, 2023

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Two years after escaping a harrowing episode of their own doing, old podcast friends must defend themselves against a sentient technological being hellbent on destroying their fun. On Episode 576 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss The Wrath of Becky, from directors Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote! We also talk about the cult classic Street Trash and other classic films we’d like to remake, the rise of white supremacists in the US and how gratifying it is to see them die horribly in films, and who the George Washington of Hip-Hop is. So grab your favorite cult classic on VHS, lace your yellow laces up tight, and strap on for the world’s most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: William Friedkin, The Exorcist, Sorceress, Denise Dax, Grand Guignol, vacationing at the safe house, lit keyboards, tech issues, old fogey, high tech nerd rooms, Ray Bradbury, Ryan Kruger, Fried Barry, Street Trash, Viper, Cult Classics, films that don’t need to be remade, Body Melt, Class of Nuke ‘em High, Eamon’s Road, Dave’s Not Here, Lightning Video, James Lorinz, nutthuggers, Weird Science, Neon Maniacs, movies we’d like to remake, Sir Mix-A-Lot, The George Washington of Hip Hop, The Wrath of Becky, Courtney Gaines, Seann William Scott, Lulu Wilson, Mia Goth, Samara Weaving, The Taking of Deborah Logan, Shutter Island, Kevin James, Robert Maillet, Joel McHale, Noble Men, Green Room, Sisu, fuck around and find out films, Dick Grayson, Nightwing, taking joy in the pain of neo-nazi scumbags, Linda Hamilton, Sisu, Marianne, Samuel Bodin, Let Me In, Let The Right One In, Sympathy for the Devil, Nicolas Cage, Joel Kinnaman, laces theory, SHARP, Cobweb, Antony Star, Lizzy Caplan, cosmic treadmill, Kojak, Safe Word for the Safe House, The Sixteen Year Old Samurai, Don’t Hate the Player Hate the Gaines, and The Origin of a Future Badass. 

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Ep 575

TorTR #575 - Reuben Melt Hold the Special Sauce

Episode | 173 min | Aug 4, 2023

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After being forced to listen to the world’s most dangerous podcast by a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems. On Episode 575 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss Sympathy for the Devil, from director Yuval Adler! We also pay tribute to the late great Paul Reubens, talk about how virtual sound stages are changing cinema, and how the bar for getting canceled has changed over the years. So grab your tuna melt with cheddar not mozzarella, make sure your underwear aren’t too tight, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Metalocalypse, Dethklok, Brendan Small, the Underground Lair of Lost Swag, long intros, Iron Chef, Samurai Jack, Most Xtreme Elimination Challenge, Takeshi’s Castle, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Invader Zim, Jackass, CKY, Primal, Genndy Tartakovsky, RIP Paul Reubens, Pee Wee Herman, The Tony Atlas of Testicles, Tommy Hil-FIGH-ger, Beau is Afraid, the origin of Rufus and Renaldo, ball reduction surgery, The Belvedere of Balls, Cheech and Chong, Midnight Madness, Phil Hartman, The Gong Show, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Howard Dean, getting canceled, Cobweb, Talk to Me, overdraft charges, Barbie, Ryan Gosling, Blackout Tapes, Rolling Stones, Joel Kinnaman, Sympathy for the Devil, Martin Freeman, Black Panther, Shooter, Nicolas Cage, Stagecraft, Yuval Adler, Luke Paradise, The Hitcher, Locke, Tom Hardy, Collateral, Tom Cruise, Tuna Melts, Hitch-Hike, Vince Vaughn, Swingers, Altered Carbon, Children of Men, Jason Mamoa, Liam Neeson, Keanu Reeves, My Own Private Idaho, hair helmet, Werewolf Women of the SS, Reservoir Dogs, Wrath of Becky, Wrath of Becky, BSO at the B-House, sitcom couples sleeping in the same bed, Stephen Scarlata, Sharksploitation, Elio’s Pizza, “I Am A Real Italian”, how do you make butter, butter flavored topping, Weird Science Table Read, Zombie Grrlz Podcast, Six Degrees of Sitcoms, Olive Garden breadsticks, Dementia is a Hell of a Drug, and Mr. Ballvedere.

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Ep 574

TorTR #574 - Requiem for a Titty Bucket

Episode | 280 min | Jul 28, 2023

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Three podcasting nerds use a computer program to literally create the perfect episode, which promptly turns their lives upside-down. On Episode 574 of Trick or Treat Radio we celebrate our Eleven Year Anniversary with friends, games, classic films, and sharks. First we catch up with old friend Stephen Scarlata to hear all about his new documentary, Sharksploitation! Then we are joined by Rocky to do a table read of select scenes from the film, Weird Science! We wrap it all up with a game of Six Degrees of Sitcoms with the Zombie Grrlz! So grab your double-headed party favor, put a bra on your head, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Stephen Scarlata, Sharksploitation, Best Movies Never Made, Josh Miller, Jaws 3 People 0, Rob Shrab, The Meg, The Neon Maniacs of Podcasting, sharks in cinema, Jaws, Peter Benchley, the history of sharks in film, Monstrum, how a documentary takes shape during filming, Cruel Jaws, Sharknado, Jodorowsky’s Dune, Asylum Films, Larry Fine, Cocaine Shark, Mark Polonia, Noah’s Shark, Tied In, Jim Kunz, Patrick Huber, Ben Wheatley, Jason Statham, Year of the Stath, Tied In Film, Spaceballs: The Book Report, Weird Science, Table Read, EC Comics, Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton, wearing a bra on your head, Rep Man, Ronaldo’s Choice, Super7, ReAction Figures, Peter Package, Stephen Segal, put your potatoes in, Zombies Grrlz Podcast, Foreign Exchange Testicle, pacing while you podcast, The Exorcist, Roller Boogie, Max Von Sydow, Strange Brew, George Clooney, The Facts of Life, Todd Bridges, Firehouse, the orgy attic, Dr. Chris, Radio of Horror, The Vampire Minute, Rick Jones, Outside the Cinema, Quentin Tarantino, Women in Prison film, Snapper Carr, if you ain’t first you’re last in a Human Centipede, Bill By Force, Big Beautiful Curls, The Professor X of Podcasting, No Sleep til Monday, The Flash, Sympathy for the Devil, Let the Chum Hit the Floor, One Ball to Rule Them All, The Six Degrees of Wopat, First Track on the Left, and Mission Difficult.

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Ep 573

TorTR #573 - Baa Baa Black Lungs is Afraid

Episode | 177 min | Jul 21, 2023

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Prior to the events of their upcoming milestone, a group of mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden men confront their darkest fears as they embark on an epic auditory odyssey back home. On Episode 573 of Trick or Treat Radio, therapy is in session as we discuss Beau is Afraid, the latest tour de force from director Ari Aster! We also talk about complex emotional trauma, the long-reaching effects of the current WGA/SAG strike, head trauma. All the head trauma. So grab your meds of choice, try not to lose your head, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: German Expressionist Horror, NECA, Nosferatu, SDCC, London After Midnight, Mama Juana, the butt bottle, drinking cigarettes out of beer cans, Caddyshack, getting chokeslammed on the kitchen floor, Riddler mask, Santa at Petsmart, The Human Torch, SAG-AFTRA & WGA Strike, Ron Perlman, John Cusack, Napster, Steel Panther, merch sales for bands, the difficulty making money as a band these days, 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!, Stephen Scarlata, Jaws, Sharksploitation, Shudder, Greatest Movie Never Made, Josh Miller, Jodorowsky’s Dune, Sea Thomas Howell, doing lines, Table Read, Weird Science, Anthony Michael Hall, John Hughes, Sitcoms from the 70s 80s and 90s, Zombie Grrlz, More Deadly, getting put over by other podcasts, Six Degrees of Sitcoms, Bill Hader, Hereditary, Midsommar, Ari Aster, Beau is Afraid, Robert Eggers, David Lynch, Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Father’s Day, Astron-6, Yellowstone, dealing with anxiety, Gotham City, Chekhov’s Spider, MZ’s balls as stand-ins, Birthday Boy Stab Man, complex emotional trauma, mommy issues, Affluenza, Dingo Dane, head trauma, Parker Posey, Richard Kind, Mother, fucked up Forrest Gump, Sally Field, The Blackening, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, The Thing, Leviathan, Jason Takes Manhattan, Deep Star Six, Night of the Demons, Kelly Jo Minter, Scream 2, bed on the bar, and sending the wrong message since ‘76.

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