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Ep 706

TorTR #706 - Santa Nazis Must Die

Episode | 170 min | Feb 6, 2026

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After witnessing his parents' brutal murder on Christmas Eve, Billy transforms into a Killer Santa, delivering a yearly spree of calculated, chilling violence. This year, his blood-soaked mission collides with a guest spot on his favorite podcast, as the hosts challenge him to confront his childhood trauma. On Episode 706 of Trick or Treat Radio our featured film discussion is Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) from director Mike P. Nelson! We also pay tribute to a recently lost comedy legend, talk about the January and February dumping grounds, and check out the trailers for the films; Bone Keeper, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence! So grab your nazi killing axe, try not to drive into a ditch, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: A24, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, JT Mollner, sequels reboots requels remakes, Hook and Pull Gang, Spooky World, dangerous and rough around the edges, Terrifier IV, Mickey Rooney, the dumping grounds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Cherry 2000, Serpent and the Rainbow, The Vanishing, Teenage Zombie House Massacre, House of the Damned, The Great Gazoo, Harvey Korman, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Virtual Porn with Diahann Carroll, Brittany Allen, It Stains the Sands Red, Dead Before Dawn, Stillborn, Underworld, Slaughterhouse Rules, Apostle, Laura Linney, Primal Fear, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Mothman Prophecies, Edward Norton, Richard Gere, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Possessor, Single White Female, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Dick Warlock, Dark Shadows, Ghost Story, Christine, Firestarter, Pumpkinhead, Swamp Thing, HR Geiger, John Carradine, House of Frankenstein, The Sentinel, Spinal Tap, Barry Bostwick, RIP Catherine O’Hara, SCTV, Schitt’s Creek, Beetlejuice, Home Alone, Black Christmas, Cannibal Girls, Ivan Reitman, Eugene Levy, Splash, Nightmare Before Christmas, After Hours, Waiting for Guffman, Jeffrey Tambor, Brendan Gleeson, God’s Hate, AEW, +1, Bryce Remsburg, MZ’s monocle, Criterion Collection, Ran, Akira Kurosawa, Dreams, Brian De Palma, Sisters, The Durning Point, John Rhys-Davies, Bone Keeper, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Daniel Roebuck, David Kochner, John Astin, Eric Roberts, Bill Bixby, TVs Street Hawk, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Eyes Wide Shut, clean and jerk, getting stuck in a snow bank, stuck in a ditch, Summer School, Silent Night Deadly Night, Blinkbuster Video, The Monkey, Ruby Modine, Rohan Campbell, impish and whimsical, passion and a plucky spirit, Weapons, Venom, Tom Hardy, Baby Blood, “the enthusiastic wave”, violence against kids, Advent Calendar, Garbage Day, 1922, We Bury the Dead, Zak Hilditch, Daisy Ridley, A Psycopath with a Consciousness, A Bad Case of the Naughties, Can’t Kill All the Time, The White Power Christmas Massacre, and Razor Kenobi.

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Ep 705

TorTR #705 - Faces of Debt

Episode | 165 min | Jan 30, 2026

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When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she attends a yankee swap of maladies in hopes of swapping one deadly disease for another. She pawns her disease off on a chainsmoking podcaster hoping to win the death pool. On Episode 705 of Trick or Treat Radio our feature presentation is the folk horror flick Mother of Flies from the Adams Family! We also talk about the role belief plays in healing, how inept we feel compared to the creative output of the Adams Family, and we have our coming attraction reaction where we check out the trailers for the films Faces of Death (2026) and Dolly. So grab your sachet of herbs, don’t forget to pack the snake eggs, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Halloween, Robert Englund, Hollywood Walk of Fame, John Carpenter, Tom Savini, The Adams Family, Nipsy Russell, Children of the Damned, Venom, Necromantik, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-A-Rama, Lobsterman from Mars, Children of the Corn, Nemesis, Matinee, American Nightmare, Chupacabra Terror, Deadline, Warm Bodies, Trashsploitation, Heather Graham, Suitable Flesh, The Outer Limits, Marc Singer, Beastmaster, Dark Shadows, Donnie Darko, Poltergeist III, House on Haunted Hill, Warriors, Amityville Groundhog’s Day, Mike Vrabel, WCW, the AI dilemma, Darren Aronofsky, Faces of Death, renting rated R films while you’re in 2nd grade, Traces of Death, Dead Alive Productions, banned in the UK, Dolly, Sean William Scott, old school trailer narrator, Chris Gore, Film Threat, Ethan Suplee, Max the Impaler, Betty Boop, Becky, Sal Buscema, The Incredible Hulk, Spectacular Spider-Man, John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, The Fall of the House of Usher, H6LLB6ND6R, Dust Bunny, The Last Boyscout, tick wrangler, Yankee Swap, the phantom pain gimmick, unearthing cars out of snow, how do you ask for a testicular exam?, Silent Night Deadly Night, Rated R for Death Vaginas, Exam Seeking Behavior, and the Yankee Swap of Maladies.

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Ep 704

TorTR #704 - Bobby “The Brain” He-Man and the Bastards of the Universe

Episode | 159 min | Jan 23, 2026

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A ten-year-old girl asks her podcasting neighbors to kill the monster she believes ate her entire family. To protect her, they'll need to battle an onslaught of listeners and each other while accepting the fact that one of them is an actual monster. On Episode 704 of Trick or Treat Radio our feature presentation is the fantasy horror film Dust Bunny from director Bryan Fuller! We also talk about; the rise of horror during award season, our coming attraction reaction for the new Masters of the Universe trailer, and attempt to determine the difference between fantasy and reality. So grab your covers, pull them up tight, make sure to feed the monster under your bed, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: The Year in Horror, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Bugonia, Frankenstein, Aliens, Misery, Silence of the Lambs, Sinners, Weapons, The Ugly Stepsister, Academy Award Nominations, The Comedy of Terrors, The Thing Without a Face, A Stranger is Watching, Burned at the Stake, The Greasy Strangler, Summer of 84, RKSS, Legion, Charman, Friday the 13th, Saw 2, Feast, Fortitude, Linda Blair, Chained Heat, Red Heat, Carrie, Deep Evil, Hollow Man 2, Beyond Evil, Hysterical, The Lost Empire, After Darkness, Succubus, Bill Bixby, Bad Blood, The Faculty, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Manitou, Donkey Punch, Robert E. Howard, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Mad Love, Phantom Creeps, Peter Jackson, The Muppets meet The Feebles, Dead Alive, Bad Taste, The Man That Laughs, Masters of the Universe, Bobby “The Brain” He-Man, Shelby Oaks, The House on Haunted Grounds, Retro Ridoctopus, Hart Foundation, Tango and Cash, Mockingbird Lane, Fisher Price “My First Horror Film”, Bryan Fuller, Dust Bunny, Mads Mikkelsen, Sophie Sloan, David Dastmalchian, Sigourney Weaver, impish and whimsical, Leon the Professional, City of Lost Children, Tigers Are Not Afraid, Samurai Jack, Hannibal, Delicatessen, The Take That I Took, Christmas on Eternia, The First Depression, Too Many Zoltans, Well Hungarian, My Beard is Shakespeare, and Amuse-Douche.

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Ep 703

TorTR #703 - Flexing Pecs and Cashing Checks

Episode | 167 min | Jan 16, 2026

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A group of friends join a game show in which contestants, allowed to flee anywhere in the world, are pursued by "podcasters" hired to kill them with their brand of off-beat humor. On Episode 703 of Trick or Treat Radio our feature film discussion is The Running Man (2025) from director Edgar Wright! We also revisit MZ’s hatred of Stephen Spielberg, our coming attractions segment has us reacting to the trailers for the films; Undertone, and The Dreadful, and we get a horrifying glimpse into our very near socio-political future. So grab as many costume changes as you can fit in your bag, bury all your new dollars in your backyard, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Remembering Heather O’Rourke, Poltergeist, She Was Here, you can learn from Spielberg without becoming Spielberg, Disclosure Day, Duel, Sugarland Express, E.T., Brian Paulin, Amistad, Treejumpers, Catch Me If You Can, Bela Tarr, The Fatal Hour, Return of the Living Dead II, In Dreams, Virus, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Rats, Vampire Boulevard, Asylum, Butcher House, Ghost Hunters, Army of the Dead, The Book of Eli, Intruders, Ari Aster, Robert Zemeckis, Hostel, Chad Lowe, The Others, Mario Van Peebles, Cape Fear, The Accident, George “Funky” Brown, Andrea Martin, Black Christmas, Cannibal Girls, Richard Franklin, Pet Sematary 2, The Devil’s Daughter, Jaws 2, Dube dube doo he did Jaws 2, Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, The Old Dark House, The Bride of Frankenstein, London After Midnight, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Beau is Afraid, Joaquim the African Dream, RIP T.K. Carter, The Thing, Punky Brewster, RIP Marcus Gilbert, Grateful Dead, RIP Bob Weir, Barry Sobel, The Milwaukee Dream, Slick, Pontypool, Stanley Kubrick, The Dreadful, Onibaba, Undertone, A24, Orson Swells, Katy O’Brian, The Running Man, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Yaphet Kotto, Edgar Wright, Last Night in Soho, sidekick prepper, Baby Driver, Ant-Man, The Cornetto Trilogy, Katy O’Brian, Martin Herlihy, Please Don’t Destroy, William H. Macy, FreeVee, Stephen King, Richard Bachman, Shock Treatment, The Long Walk, Michael Cera, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Sinners, Series 7: The Contenders, Dust Bunny, Mockingbird Lane, American Gods, Hannibal, Bryan Fuller, David Dastmalchian, Late Night With the Devil, Flay or Filet, BMX Bandits, Controlling the Orswellian Narrative, Edgar Played it Wright, Even Satan Has a Podcast.

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Ep 702

TorTR #702 - Planes, Trains, and Slaughtermobiles

Episode | 165 min | Jan 9, 2026

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A man returns to dismantle his family's house, where they were murdered in war, to rebuild it elsewhere. When the killer, a ketamine-fueled weightlifter, tracks him down, a brutal cross-country pursuit begins. On Episode 702 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss the film Sisu: Road to Revenge from director Jalmari Helander! We also talk about the lasting legacy of USA Up All Night, we react to the trailer for the upcoming film They Will Kill You, and argue about the loyalty of dogs and whether or not you should leave an unarmed man alive in an action film. So grab your passport, gas up your tank with extra nitro, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Happy new year, work the palette, dry socket, The Sentinel, The Phantom Creeps, Xtro, Season of the Witch, USA’s Up All Night, Gilbert Gottfried, Rhonda Sheer, Kings of Horror, Hailey Bennet, Lauren Cohen, Tom Harper, Jeremy Renner, 28 Weeks Later, Dahmer, Nicolas Cage, Renfield, Mom and Dad, Mandy, Willy’s Wonderland, David Caruso, Session 9, Erin Gray, Ghouls, Jason Goes to Hell, Steven Williams, It, Velvet Buzzsaw, From a Whisper to a Scream, Dark Shadows, Mighty Joe Young, William Peter Blatty, The Hounds of the Baskervilles, Charles Adams, Alan Napier, The Shark Jumpers, Growing Pains, East Coast Italians, Married With Children, immaculate conception, They Will Kill You, Ready or Not meets The Raid, Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Kirill Sokolov, Pig, The Death of Robin Hood, Hugh Jackman, Avengers Doomsday, Trident, 4 out of 5 dentists recommend it, ketamine or creatine, Jalmari Helander, Jorma Tommila, Stephen Lang, Sisu Road to Revenge, Richard Brake, WWRD - What Would Ravenshadow Do, Operatic Violence, killing nazis and russkies, do dogs get PTSD from riding in tanks, Michael Mann-sisu, Edgar Wright, The Running Man, Glen Powell, sheckles from beyond the grave, Ted Sisu, and the conductor of operatic violence.

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Ep 701

TorTR #701 - Zombies, Tramps & Thieves

Episode | 164 min | Jan 2, 2026

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A group of young friends inadvertently resurrect a seemingly invisible evil. They must battle zombies craving brains during a zombie outbreak at a drag show, putting personal conflicts aside to utilize their distinct inabilities against the undead threat. On Episode 701 of Trick or Treat Radio we wrap up 2025 with our final December Double Feature Cram Jam! We discuss the films Queens of the Dead and The Wailing (2025). We also talk about following in the footsteps of a famous parent, react to trailers for the films Psycho Killer and Kraken, and talk about the always fun topic of generational trauma! So grab your 2026 calendar to mark off all the important dates, make yourself scrumptious, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Final show of 2025, over the hill assholes, the future is looking meh, The Bride, Ready or Not: Here I Come, horror lovers dream, the 2026 dip, Bugonia, The Mastermind, The Brutalist, Leprechaun Back to the Hood, Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader, Caity Lotz, The Alphabet Killer, Buffy, Skinwalkers, The Grudge, The Stepford Wives, The Unborn, Sophie Ward, The Hunger, Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Bad Dreams, The Craft, Kelli Maroney, The Evil Dead, Ellen Sandweiss, Lloyd Kaufman, Troma, Slither, Hatchet II, Superman, Fred Ward, Tremors, Cannibal Girls, Damien, Jack Riley, War of the Gargantuas, Haunting of Hill House, Joe Balogna, Transylvania 6-5000, Amityville Horror, Flatliners, Eyes of a Stranger, The Final Countdown, Nightmare Beach, The Manitou, Psycho, Carmen Diego, Diary of a Madman, the million dollar banana, Smallville, Severance, 8mm, Joaquin Phoenix, Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Younger Frankenstein, Kraken, Psycho Killer, Georgina Campbell, Norwegian monster flicks, Norwegian Wood, Ben DiBanana & Phil McKraken, Leaf Phoenix, Collision Course, Queens of the Dead, Tina Romero, Katy O’Brian, Gaylen Ross, Jack Haven, Margaret Cho, Studio 666, Blitz/Berlin, good tax breaks in Bumf*ck Arkansas, The Wailing, Pedro Martin-Calero, Host, Al Bundy, it’s always cocktober, Top 5 Excuses, confusing days, back off I’m a podcaster, happen in the kraken, Bootality Films, and the slippery slope tight rope.

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TorTR - 2025 Year End Show

Episode | 147 min | Dec 31, 2025

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It is once again time for us to revel in the year of film that was 2025. There were some high highs, some low lows, and a whole lot of quality horror and genre films this year. We saw cunnilingus loving vampires, kids who run in a bizarre fashion, a whole lot of full frontal male nudity, conspiracy theorists, killer monkeys, Robert Pattinson clones, and some freaky ass tales! We now have the unenviable task of making some semblance of sense of it all. We diligently fill out our spreadsheets, scrawl notes on post-its, and some of us even throw our lists away in preparation for our annual tradition of our Top 13 films of the year! We announce our personal top 13 lists and combine them with the Patreon Supporter lists to create one massive master list that is the Trick or Treat Radio Top 13! To find out which film got the coveted top spot on the list, you’ll need to tune in! So grab your neon-drenched drug rug, try not to forget one of your favorite films of the year, and strap on for the world’s most dangerous year end show!

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Ep 700

TorTR #700 - Keeper of the Crooked Keys

Episode | 156 min | Dec 26, 2025

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A romantic anniversary trip to a secluded cabin turns sinister when a dark presence reveals itself, forcing old friends to confront their podcast’s haunting past. On Episode 700 of Trick or Treat Radio we eschew the normal pomp and circumstance of a milestone show for our normal format and continue on with December Double Feature Cram Jam. This week we discuss films from two of our favorite directs; Keeper from Osgood Perkins, and Eddington from Ari Aster! We also get inducted into the 700 Club, react to trailers for the films; Amityvillenado and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and are faced with the ghosts of 2020 all over again. So grab your jar of honey, post an angry rant online, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Fickle horror fans, Hellraiser, dinner scene, smoking without burning your mouth, Trish Stratus, scenes in horror that drive you nuts, gimmick as a personality, the 700 Club, fitness sponsors, snikts and krakadooms, roman chairs and russian fingers, gathering of the Juggalos, fluff it up, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, James Mason, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Scars of Dracula, Christopher Lee, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, The Bone Snatcher, Death Machine, Pulse 3, Solomon Kane, Hazmat, Evil Remains, Estella Warren, Corey Haim, The Lost Boys, Dario Argento’s Trauma, King Kong, John Northpole, Mega Huge Pictures, Amityvillenado, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Nia DeCosta, Danny Boyle, gratuitous gratuity, Bee Gees, Barry Gibb - the handsome one, Keeper, Osgood Perkins, the 700 Club, nefarious, Tatiana Maslany, breaking the cycle of patriarchy, Ready or Not, folk horror, body horror, Guillermo del Toro, subtle satisfaction, films flipping the script, Joaquin Phoenix, Deirdre O’Connell, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler, Ari Aster, Midsommar, Hereditary, Beau is Afraid, Eddington, Christopher Nolan, Odyssey, WWE vs AEW, Ben Affleck, James Gunn’s DCU vs Zack Snyder’s DCEU, Honey Ripple head cream, and Before and Aster.

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Ep 699

TorTR #699 - Air Blood Meets the Paranormal Pukwudgies

Episode | 163 min | Dec 19, 2025

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A man's obsessive search for his missing pack of cigarettes leads him into a terrifying mystery at the hands of an unknown evil. He is assisted by a mystical dog as the duo battle dark forces singularly focused on making their black lungs blacker. On Episode 699 of Trick or Treat Radio we are joined by our good pal Anthony Landry to discuss the films Good Boy from director Ben Leonberg, and Shelby Oaks from director Chris Stuckmann! We also have an oversized Koffin Korner, discuss first person perspective films, and how much humans don’t deserve dogs. So grab your handheld camcorder, don’t be a dick to your dog, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: The VVitch, The Exorcist, Alien, Psycho, Blair Witch Project, The Shining, Screenrant list of best horror, The Greasy Strangler, brother from another mother, The Tell Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe, Monster on the Campus, Godzilla vs The Seamonster, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, King Kong, Jessica Tandy, Jessica Lange, Sweet Dreams, Hatchet 2, Tremors 3, Maniac 3, Ernie Hudson, Gothika, The Moor, Night of the Living Dead, House on Haunted Hill, Erin Gray, RIP Gil Gerard, Buck Rogers, Amityville Santa, Burt Young, Bob Burns, Might Joe Young, RIP Peter Greene, All in the Family, The Ruttles, The Princess Bride, Billy Crystal, Nicollette Sheridan, John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Misery, Gene Hackman, RIP Rob Reiner, love to Casual Noob, Good Boy, Ben Leonberg, Indy the Dog, Larry Fessenden, emotional support dogs, The Mutant, Carnival of Souls, Mike Flanagan, Keith David, Shelby Oaks, Chris Stuckmann, first person perspective films, Paranormal Paranoids, Barbarian, Keeper, Osgood Perkins, Ari Aster, Eddington, Silent Night Deadly Night, Garbage Day, Halloween Ends, Anthony Michael Hall, Noam Chompsky, #catpiss, John Cena’s retirement match, C.M. Punk, Mick Foley, AEW, Dana Carvey, Spooktacular, Horror Nerds Comedy Podcast, and forgetting your own gimmick.

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Ep 698

TorTR #698 - Dude Where’s My Cat

Episode | 172 min | Dec 12, 2025

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Two conspiracy-obsessed middle-aged men kidnap the high-powered producer of a minor podcast, convinced that he is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. On Episode 698 of Trick or Treat Radio we continue our annual December Double Feature Cram Jam tradition! We kick it off with the films from two of our favorite directors; Bugonia from Yorgos Lanthimos, and Caught Stealing from Darren Aronofsky! We also battle our old nemesis Tek Issues, react to trailers for the films Man Finds Tape and Supergirl, and find out what the most horrifying sight in a gym is. So grab your tin foil hat, don’t forget to bring along your cat, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Big Media Mergers, Netflix, WB, Gremlins, Mortal Kombat, The Conjuring, It, Final Destination, corporate takeovers, Michigan J Frog, Nightmare City, OBS vs. XSplit, Malignant, Nikki Sixx, Idle Hands, Pieces, Man Finds Tape, Found Footage, Supergirl, James Gunn, Blondie, Craig Gillespie, Fright Night, I Tonya, Green Room, Anton Yelchin, Lars and the Real Girl, Roman Chairs, Cum Town, working out, swinging and dinging in the gym, Stavros Halkias, Emma Stone, Full Throttle Cooking with Craig, Save the Green Planet, Jesse Plemons, Yorgos Lanthimos, VistaVision, One-Eyed Jacks, Aidan Delbis, Stanley Kubrick, Carol Kane, conspiracy theories, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, Mother!, Regina King, Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead, Quentin Tarantino, Matt Smith, Zoe Kravitz, Clerks, Austin Butler, Charlie Huston, Good Boy, Shelby Oaks, Emma Stone to the Bone, Massachusetts, Bee Gees, laying pipe and swinging dongs, Schneider-Man, and The Cum Town Rub.

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