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TorTR #578 - The Crippling Toll of Emotional Aikido - Trick or Treat Radio

TorTR #578 - The Crippling Toll of Emotional Aikido

Released on 08/25/2023

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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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TorTR #577 - Child A-Busey - Trick or Treat Radio

TorTR #577 - Child A-Busey

Released on 08/18/2023

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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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TorTR #576 - Taste the Rainbow of Death - Trick or Treat Radio

TorTR #576 - Taste the Rainbow of Death

Released on 08/11/2023

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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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TorTR #575 - Reuben Melt Hold the Special Sauce - Trick or Treat Radio

TorTR #575 - Reuben Melt Hold the Special Sauce

Released on 08/04/2023

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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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TorTR #574 - Requiem for a Titty Bucket - Trick or Treat Radio

TorTR #574 - Requiem for a Titty Bucket

Released on 07/28/2023

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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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TorTR #573 - Baa Baa Black Lungs is Afraid - Trick or Treat Radio

TorTR #573 - Baa Baa Black Lungs is Afraid

Released on 07/21/2023

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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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TorTR #572 - Never Go Full Skarsgard - Trick or Treat Radio

TorTR #572 - Never Go Full Skarsgard

Released on 07/14/2023

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Seven Black friends go away for the weekend and end up trapped in a cabin with three straight white podcast hosts. Will the friends’ patience, restraint, and knowledge of horror movies help them survive the night? Probably not. On Episode 572 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss the Horror Comedy flick The Blackening from director Tim Story! We also discuss negative portrayals of race, we play tons of listener messages, and we find out what AI thinks of us! So grab your favorite board game token, make sure you don’t go full Skarsgard, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: The Mall of America, Onionhead’s Revenge, Chicken Pox, Nathan Fillion, G’Nort, favorite Green Lanterns, Guy Gardner, Bill Burr, Superman’s Origin, ChatGPT, Ravenshadow according to AI, Sarah Silverman, Chris Golden, the dangers of AI, content is king, WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, Ravishing Ravenshadow, Daniel Craig, Brad Dourif, Gustaf Skarsgard, Peter Sarsgaard, Boxborough Comic Con, GI Joe, Charlie Hunnam, playing with your action figures, Master Diedrich Bader, The Brave and the Bold, Night of the Living Dead, Demons II, Jim Crow era BS, Juneteenth, The Blackening, Tim Story, Jordan Peele, Sinqua Walls, Friends, Living Single, rounding up to Italian, Tony Atlas, Behind the Bastards, Cracked.com, terrible stereotypes in wrestling, Mizark Henry, internalized misogyny, reevaluating your beliefs, unlearning what you know, Fantastic Four, Ari Aster, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid, Sisu, the theatrical experience, Rick Jones, body swapping with Captain Mar-Vel, Brooklyn 45, We Are Still Here, Ted Geoghegan, Walter Cronchitis, Getting Duked, An Apples to Asses Comparison.

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TorTR #571 - God Tier Weirdos - Trick or Treat Radio

TorTR #571 - God Tier Weirdos

Released on 07/07/2023

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A wearer of a parasitic mask with black magic sheds blood on Halloween. Years later, a killer with the same profile haunts a group of podcast hosts, who then must fight fear, overcome personal struggles and unmask the murderer before someone yucks their yum. On Episode 571 of Trick or Treat Radio we are joined by Rachel from the Zombie Grrlz Podcast to discuss the slasher Bad Girl Boogey from 18 year old filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay! We also pitch our latest film idea- The Expendables of weird actors, we talk about queer and trans themes in film, and you may just find a rare moment of eloquence within! So grab your most stylish cursed mask, get ready to attend the weirdest speed dating event ever, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Jaws, The Kill Room, Insidious, Amityville Prison, upcoming horror films, the Empress, The Zombie Grrlz Podcasting Dynasty, logging in the Bay Area, The Stream Queenz, Dead By Daylight, Nicolas Cage, More Deadly, Jagged Mind, police tape on the front door, plastic cockroaches, Maniac, Eibon Press, Vinegar Syndrome, Rough House Publishing, Black Honey, podcast ENTERtainer, Foof Ighters, Christopher Walken, Crispin “Hellion” Glover, Vincent Schiavelli, Michael Cera, Michael Berryman, Emo Phillips, UHF, Jeff Goldblum, Tommy Wiseau, Elijah Wood, Juliette Lewis, Tim Curry, Professor Triple X, Courtney Love, Valkyrie Mingle, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, Ezra Miller, The Flash, A-List, So Vam, Bad Girl Boogey, Alice Maio Mackay, pride.com, American Hustle, Giallo influence, scalping, gory deaths, LGBTQ+, horror with trans and queer themes, seances, superfluous, manifest destiny, The Mask, Tubiholics Anonymous, The Wachowski Siblings, hateful rhetoric, The Eyes of My Mother, MonsterZero passing out, the sunken place, punk indie horror, El Goro, T Blockers, Preston Fassel, The Blackening, Tim Story, Bad Boy Bubby, Nick Castle, Halloween, the continuation of MZ’s feud with the San Diego Chicken, Moe’s Toyroom, Sinister Creature Con, Bananafingaz, The Baseball Bunch, the Mount Rushmore of Hate, seeing friends family grow, RIP BacaChewy, Baby Nihilism, and A Rare Moment of Eloquence.

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TorTR #570 - Dropping Cornish Acid - Trick or Treat Radio

TorTR #570 - Dropping Cornish Acid

Released on 06/30/2023

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On an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer's daily listen to the world’s most dangerous podcast turns into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the listener to question what is real and what is a nightmare. On Episode 570 of Trick or Treat Radio we are joined by regular guest co-host Arkham Josh to discuss the Cornish film Enys Men from director Mark Jenkin! We also tell our favorite Mel Brooks stories, we talk about our favorite films that begin with the letter ‘P’, and we talk folk horror. So grab your 16mm clockwork camera, go through your daily routine over and over, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Severn Summer Sale, Joe Spinell, Cornish language, folk horror, The Isle of Corny, RIP Julian Sands, Vibes, The Office, Ken Kwapis, Peter Falk, Made, Jon Favreau, PCU, Steve Vai, Crossroads, Porno Holocaust, comparing Julian Sands to Vin Diesel, The Killing Fields, Arachnaphobia, Happy Birthday Mel Brooks, Spaceballs, George Lucas, The Producers, 12 Angry Men, Blood In Blood Out, Golden Girls, Estelle Getty, Bea Arthur, Night of the Demons, Golden Palace, Cheech Marin, Threes a Crowd, David Lynch, Elephant Man, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, Bill by Force, Outside the Cinema, Misfits of Horror, The Beef Barn, Roast Beef and Records, Pimp of Promotions on a Pole, Perrier, Enys Men, Mark Jenkin, Cornwall, filibuster, projecting films, having an appreciation of celluloid, 70s films, Alien Autopsy, Jonathan Frakes, Sprockets, Skinamarink, The Outwaters, Blueprint for Survival, Folk Horror, May Day, Mary Woodvine, A Field in England, Ben Wheatley, The Wicker Man, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Bay, Groundhogs Day, friends giving spoilers, The Spoiler, Bomboleyo Hit the Floor, Animal Kingdom, Sheer Terror, I Spoiler, The Ghost Stories for Christmas, Donald Pleasance, I see lichen people, The Phantom Pooper, and a polite goodbye.

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TorTR #569 - Wake Up and Smell the Landmines - Trick or Treat Radio

TorTR #569 - Wake Up and Smell the Landmines

Released on 06/23/2023

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When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, a group of podcasters attempt to get him to support their Patreon by any means necessary. On Episode 569 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss the film Sisu from director Jalmari Helander! We also discuss bands that look one way and sound another, violent action films, and new friend of the show, Sammy Tix! So grab your best nazi killing weapon, put on some grease paint and tall boots, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Happy Birthday to Bruce Campbell, Phil Collins, Peter Cetera, what is Chicago good for?, Phil Spector, Lana Clarkson, Shannon Tweed, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, Dusty Rhodes, Ace Frehley, Ghost, Sleep Token, Bee Gees, Tom Selleck, Kirstie Alley, Michael Crichton, Silent Night, Deadly Night, The Cannonball Run, Never Too Young to Die, Vanity, Tara Buckman, Incarnate, Radical Comics, The Last Days of American Crime, Molly Hatchet, Lansdowne St in Boston, Jonathan Papelbon, UHF, Sammy Tix, C Thomas Howell, Soul Man, Sisu, Jalmari Helander, Jorma Tommila, Ruggero Deodato, does the dog die?, Quentin Tarantino, Doc Savage, John Wick, Rambo, The Phantom, Charlize Bronson, Folk Horror, Enys Men, The Pixies, Made Out of Hell, A Vehicle for Violence, Silent but Deadly, and the Mount Rushmore of Hate.

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