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Trick or Treat Radio

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Ep 408

TorTR #408 - Droogie Howser, M.D.

Episode | 170 min | May 22, 2020

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When four co-hosts at the local podcast studio in a small Christian town discover a mysterious old recording hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education...written in blood. On Episode 408 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss Porno--no, not the genre, but the horror comedy from Fangoria Films! We also talk about the 40th Anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, Dark Side of the Ring, and we hear all about MZ’s unlikely field trip! So grab your favorite vice, party like it’s Zion and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: IDM syndrome, The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, Walking Dead Season 3, the skunk virus, party like it's Zion, Salacious B. Crumb, 40th Anniversary of Empire Strikes Back, practical effects, The Phantom Menace, Star Wars, downbeat endings, THE Olyphant, What We Do in the Shadows, CW’s Stargirl, Jack Knight, Cosmic Rod, Dark Side of the Ring, Owen Hart, Blue Blazer, Jeff Jarrett, The Big Big Show, WWE Studios, Mick Foley, Jaleel White, MZ at the shooting range, Red Dead DC-10, Troma’s War, One Cut of the Dead, From the Canopy’s 100th Episode, Blackout Tapes, urine hand sanitizer, Lance Storm, Orgazmo, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Porno, Keola Racela, Cinestate, S. Craig Zahler, how every movie should start, Schindler’s List, Encino Man, A League of Their Own, Droogie Howser MD, ultra-violence, a bit of the ol’ in-out, the soccer story, Parallax, praying for natural disasters before work, Popcorn, working in a theater, The Hanover Theater, No Fear shirts, Brendan Fraser, Theory of Evolution, where the Mormons live, Paulie Shore, Italians in Utah, Christian Slater, addiction, Bob Saget, Half Baked, Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made, Cannibal Holocaust, Ruggero Deodato, scrotum trauma, Ghostbusters, Night of the Living Dead, Metropol, Demons, Carpenter Brut, Blood Machines, Blood Quantum, Shudder, religious repression, the Lair of Lost Swag is an essential business, and Can I Get a Succubus, please?

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Ep 407

TorTR #407 - The Southern Vampire’s Guide to Slaying Book Clubs

Episode | 167 min | May 15, 2020

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A glorified grip is snowed in with his co-hosts at an isolated podcast lair. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place. On Episode 407 of Trick or Treat Radio we are joined by old friend of the show, Grady Hendrix to talk all about his new novel, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires and his new podcast, Super Scary Haunted Home School! For our film discussion this week, we talk about The Lodge, from directors Severin Fiala, and Veronika Franz, the team behind Goodnight Mommy! There is some Paperbacks From Hell talk, plenty of information about Dracula’s wang, and Grady gives us some deep cuts from Asian cinema! So grab your favorite vampire slaying weapon, isolate yourself in a vacation home and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Podcasting, New York Times Best Selling Authors, Stage Fright, Paperbacks from Hell, book clubs, vampire novels, vampires who work out, pitching books to publishers, When Darkness Loves Us, Elizabeth Engstrom, writing female protagonists, Horrorstor, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls, Satanic Panic, Chelsea Stardust, Subway Cinema, New York Asian Film Festival, Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks, Mercenaries from Hong Kong, Demon of the Lute, The Seventh Curse, Men from the Gutter, Eternal Evil of Asia, Boxer’s Omen, Super Scary Haunted Home School Podcast, Dance of the Glampires, Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, Bazaar of Bad Dreams, The Great Stephen King Re-Read, independent bookstores, bookshop.org, Brain Damage, Deep Red, The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, is the drive-in making a comeback?, Edgemere Drive-In, Grease and Deep Impact, erotic Ravenshadow, Zardoz, The S&M Ranchero, Art Bradish, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Alicia Silverstone, religious cults, Riley Keough, Deerskin, Butt Boy, Why Don’t You Just Die!, Richard Armitage, douche chills, mixed metaphors, Ravenshadow’s Mom, VFW, Porno, Fangoria, The Mind’s Eye, and Draculas that grab you by your beards.

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Ep 406

TorTR #406 - Don’t Flush Members Only Jackets Down the Toilet

Episode | 160 min | May 8, 2020

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A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum podcast studio in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn to crime. On Episode 406 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss Deerskin, the latest film from surrealist filmmaker Quentin Dupieux! To help us make sense of this one, we call in our heavy hitter and good friend of the show Professor Jay for the duration of the episode! We also discuss Turkish cinema, the impact of the pandemic on Film Festivals, and the dark alternate ending to Mac and Me! So grab your favorite jacket, avoid homicidal car tires and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast! 

Stuff we talk about: Brady Bunch, Hollywood Squares, 70s Spider-Man, Das Boot, Ravenshadow’s Blackout Party, Turkish Star Wars, Cuneyt Arkin, Turkish E.T., Turkish Rambo, Remake Remix Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema, Turkish Rocky, Friday the 13th, Mondo Macabro, Taika Waititi, overstuffed ravioli, Star Wars, Robert Rodriguez, The Clone Wars, Doctor Sleep, The Golden Glove, Uncrustables, Bruce Banner weed, Deerskin, Quentin Dupieux, surrealistic films, Rubber, Reality, subconscious images, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Kid Cash, Johnny Cash, Masculinity in Cinema, Holy Motors, Ravenshadow making good points!, peacocking, Greasy Strangler, worshipping at the altar of Dupieux, Mr. Ouzo, tepid treat of weirdness, The Lodge, Riley Keough, Mandible, Goodnight Mommy, The House That Jack Built, Lars von Trier, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Elvis Presley, MonsterFest Film Festival, Spaceship Earth, The Misogynists, Dylan Baker, Trick R Treat, Catfight, Summer of Blood, virtual film festivals, Wake in Fright, and , the international ending to Mac and Me.

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Ep 405

TorTR #405 - Murdering People is Hard

Episode | 147 min | May 1, 2020

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Ravenshadow, a podcaster and the world's worst at making lists, brings together a terrible group of people in his studio: his resentful best god friend, an angry producer, and a cheated one time contributor. Each one of them has a reason to want revenge…. On Episode 405 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss Why Don't You Just Die! the brutal Russian action comedy from director Kirill Sokolov! We also discuss somewhat forgotten cartoons, mostly remembered game shows, and MZ eats a near entire four course meal during the episode! So grab your lotion, take care of yourself, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast! 

Stuff we talk about: Pajama pants or boxer briefs, Rufus and Renaldo, Wayne Gretzky, Bo Jackson, ProStars, Kid Video, Karate Kid, Michael Jordan, Static Shock, G.I. Joe, Rorschach or Borscht, Thundercats, May the 4th, Up All Night with Rhonda Shear, Chopping Mall, The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, Bloodsucking Freaks, Chris Jericho, Barbara Crampton, Killbots vs. Johnny Five, Kelli Maroney, Joel M. Reed, Ralphus, James Balsamo, Jim Wynorski, Shudder, Let My Puppets Come, Seamus O’Brien, taking care of yourself with lotion, The Incredible Torture Show, Hollywood Squares, Jim J. Bullock, Charo, Vincent Price, Game Show Network, fall asleep watching the Family Feud, Richard Dawson, Nipsey Russell, Wildcats, a case of dillas, Superman: Red Son, Tetris, Roman Hands and Russian Fingers, Knives Out, Russian Michael Chiklas, Ukrainian Marc Maron, Russian Peter Jackson via Quentin Tarantino, Arrow Video, Giants Don’t Die, Why Don’t You Just Die!, Ravenshadow’s Top 13 Things He’s Thankful For, bucket of friends, directing… with Flair, Wilhelm Scream, Sawzall, musical chairs, lightsabers, Green Lantern Ring, Savage Opress, Alfred Hitchcock, murdering people is hard, Rubber, Deerskin, Quentin Dupieux, Professor Jay, Tom and Jerry, The Other Lamb, religious cults, Transformers: The Movie, Gaspar Noe, and The COVID Commander.

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Ep 404

TorTR #404 - The San Diego Synth Cult

Episode | 140 min | Apr 24, 2020

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A boy born into an all-synth cult led by a San Diego man begins to question his teachings and his own reality. On Episode 404 of Trick or Treat Radio we connect up with old friend of the show, Jim Smith from Teeel to talk about his upcoming compilation release for charity, Waves of Hope! Jim also gives us an update on his new album and talks about quarantine life in sunny California! We also discuss the religious cult flick, The Other Lamb from director Malgorzata Szumowska and IFC Midnight. So grab the key, find the rings and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Bob Bao, Cannibal Holocaust Video Game, Barry Horowitz, TARDIS, Keep the Squash Hot, loving the apocalypse, eBay, king of procrastination, encounters in a social distancing world, Force Insensitive, Knowman, live streaming, Twitch, Sonic the Hedgehog, find the rings, Jim Smith, Teeel, Raventato, Synth Records, Waves of Hope, IFC Midnight, Professor Jay, religious cult films, Michiel Huisman, Malgorzata Szumowska, Raffey Cassidy, Ed Skrein, Charles Manson, Allison Mack, Heaven’s Gate, Jonestown, Michael Rosenbaum, Smallville, what it’s like to live as woman in the world, Survival of the Film Freaks, Cult Cinema, Jim Jones, Queensryche, The Cult, Twitch Amazon Prime Watch Parties, What We Do in the Shadows, “what’s up dog?”, Transformers animated film, Why Don’t You Just Die!, and giving off Jeebus Vibes.

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Ep 403

TorTR #403 - I Like Butt Boy and I Cannot Lie

Episode | 163 min | Apr 17, 2020

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Detective Ravenshadow loves work and alcohol. After going to AA, his sponsor, MZ, becomes the main suspect in his investigation of a missing kid. Ravenshadow also starts to believe that people are disappearing up MZ's butt. On Episode 403 of Trick or Treat Radio we are joined by old friend, Professor Jay to discuss Butt Boy, the unique feature film from Director/Writer/Composer/Star Tyler Cornack! We also talk about the best ways to support local theaters and independent film distributors, we talk about the best films with foods in the title, and we learn about the Blackout Confession Tapes! So grab your favorite hot sauce, introduce yourself to Butt Boy and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Lonely in the time of a global pandemic, trotting to the bathroom, giving up walking, Trolls: World Tour, Wonder Woman 84, streaming premier films, the lasting effects of COVID-19, can Ravenshadow get fat?, the economic council, Vince McMahon, Dana White, Shang Tsung, Mortal Kombat, our new continuity, Rocky’s live stream, private conversations with Ravenshadow, Bobby Drake, #RavenshadowAfterMidnight, Children of the Cone, stimulus checks, old continuity, supporting artists during lean times, Devin Townsend, riveting New England storms, Professor Jay, Butt Boy, Marc Maron, Butte Boy, monocle buddies, AKurosawa, Charlotte Film Society, VisArt Video, Udo Kier, Bacurau, supporting small distributors, Tyler Cornack, Vaccine on a Pole Match, The Lighthouse, Zodiac, The Greasy Strangler, Innerspace, Mick Foley, Chunk, who is Butt Boy?, Miami Connection, Troma, Extra Ordinary, genre film festivals, anal Casablanca, Buttcrack, The Other Lamb, IFC Midnight, Guns Akimbo, balls like cloven hooves, Underdog, Hamburger: The Motion Picture, What We Do in the Shadows, Magneto Jones, The Stuff, Popcorn, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Don’t Torture a Duckling, Films with food in the title, The Tubi, Leigh McCloskey, Home Fries, Drew Barrymore, Jake Busey, Cannibal Holocaust, Soylent Green, The Corndog Man, Kentucky Fried Movie, Lunchmeat, the Anal Tesseract, and The Blackout Confession Tapes.

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Ep 402

TorTR #402 - The Extra Ordinary Quirky McGurkey

Episode | 157 min | Apr 10, 2020

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A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a podcaster looking to use her for Satanic purposes. On Episode 402 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss the Irish Horror Comedy Extra Ordinary from first time feature film directors Mike Ahearn and Enda Loughman! We also talk a little wrestling, a little Star Wars and pose the age old question of: would you rather wear a Limp Bizkit or Kid Rock t-shirt? So grab your Hit Parader Magazine, collect seven jars of ectoplasm and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Protective wear, Skinny Grimace, what to wear in a Pandemic?, 9 ½ Weeks, Guns Akimbo, A-List, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, Felicity, Keri Russell, retcon, R.A. Salvatore kills Chewbacca, Who’s Line is it Anyway, The Mandalorian, Wrestlemania, Walker Texas Taker, American Badass, Limp Bizkit or Kid Rock, Locked and Loaded, phallic symbols on T-Shirts, Hit Parader Magazine, Galleria Mall, the Silver Ball Arcade, Wes Borland, quantity over quality, Dark Side of the Ring, Brawl for All, Vince Russo, Dr. Death Steve Williams, The Godfather, New Jack, Mass Transit, Chris Benoit Jr., Edge, Extra Ordinary, force choking our listeners, exorcist, 70s title cards, eating lasagna with your pants off, Mort Drucker RIP, Will Forte, Fatty Drives the Bus, “Cosmic Woman”, The Exorcist, Ghostbusters, Bravefart, Doom Eternal, Deathgasm, Jason Lei Howden, Student Bodies, 80s Sex Comedies, Hamburger: The Motion Picture, movies named after foods, Tootsie, Popcorn, Coffy, Peanuts The Movie, Just One of the Guys, Hunters, Al Pacino, Suicide Squad, The Blackout, and Dirty Young Affleck.

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Ep 401

TorTR #401 - Ridged for His Pleasure

Episode | 162 min | Apr 3, 2020

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An ordinary guy suddenly finds himself forced to fight a gladiator-like battle for a dark website that streams the violence for viewers. Ravenshadow must fight heavily armed technology and also save his kidnapped 30 Rack! On Episode 401 of Trick or Treat Radio we settle back into our normal routine after our big 400th Episode celebration by discussing Guns Akimbo, from Deathgasm director, Jason Lei Howden and starring Daniel Radcliffe and Samara Weaving! Since we didn't have time last week, MZ will also give his Top 13 Best Scenes Before a Kill in the Friday the 13th Film Series, we talk about whether or not it’s fun to make films and Ravenshadow is relied upon to do IT?! So grab your face mask, troll your favorite internet haunts and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Oz, solitary confinement, social distancing, toga, Caligula, Malcolm McDowell, chafing, COVID-19, getting laid off in the parking lot, MZ’s title, Captain Marbles, Transform and Roll Out, alphabetizing Blu Rays, making a schedule, unemployment, home is where the Raven Chateau is, Zoom parties, evacuating Hoth, Ravenshadow doing IT, Wrestlemania, Broken Matt, WWE taking a break?, AEW, support artists, Negan, Fermin IV, Trick or Treat Radio Real World, Benjamin Franklin, cooties, working from home, Amazon Fresh, provisions, Nauga-ply toilet paper, Guns Akimbo, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Deathgasm, PBR, Samara Weaving, Daniel Radcliffe, those Harry Potter films, Series 7: The Contenders, Running Man, King of the Trolls, Tiger King, Skizm, OJ Simpson, Carole Baskin, Joe Exotic, Total Recall, Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights, Rhys Darby, Citrus Hill, is it fun to make movies?, Top 13 scenes before a kill in the Friday the 13th Film Series, “yeah yeah yeah, baby”, and Cheeks Akimbo.

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Ep 400

TorTR #400 - The Best Podcast Never Made

Episode | 255 min | Mar 27, 2020

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Long time friends get together every week for 400 consecutive weeks to laugh, yell, argue and make a ton of new friends. For Trick or Treat Radio’s milestone 400th episode, we put aside the film discussion and hang out with a bunch of our friends! We first catch up with Bill By Force to talk about his latest crowdfunding project, Don’t Forget to Leave. Then we connect up with long time friend of the show, Stephen Scarlata to discuss his amazing podcast, Best Movie Never Made and his other upcoming projects. Not only that, but we have a veritable ton of voice messages from our friends and listeners. There is lost movie discussion, there is the struggle of artists in a pandemic, and we reminisce about the late, great Stuart Gordon. So grab your Great White poster, pull up to the closest theater for your curbside popcorn pickup and strap on for the world’s most contagious podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Coronavirus bros, Ravenshadow’s provisions, MZ’s handicapped cribs, technical issues, Don’t Forget to Leave, Survival of the Film Freaks, Bill Fulkerson, Outside the Cinema, Tim Landers, Saves the Day, Opioids, Transit, Cold Collective, drugs are bad, Home Alone 2, Safer Spaces, Shawna Potter, War on Women, stageit.com, feminism, how the pandemic affects us, Madball, Stuart Gordon, Color Out of Space, Re-Animator, Murder She Wrote, From Beyond, Stuck, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Peter Scolari, Fortress, Robot Jox, Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things, The Pit and the Pendulum, Stephen Scarlata, Best Movie Never Made, Joe Begos, Shock Waves, movie clubs, Femme Fatales, Empire Strikes Back, Fred Dekker, Johnny Quest, David Bruckner, Friday the 13th, Spider-Man, Tobe Hooper, Commando 2, Godzilla, Jurassic Park IV, William Malone, Deadstar, H.R. Giger, Mick Garris, The Hills Have Eyes III, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Airport ‘82 UFO, Tarantino’s Halloween, Last House on the Left 2, Cannibals, Son of El Topo, Marilyn Manson, Messiah of Evil, Wes Craven’s Nightmare 3 script, Full Moon Films, Charles Band’s Decapitron, Brigitte Nielsen as She-Hulk, Joe Zito, Albert Pyun’s Captain America, The Punisher, Street Hawk, Rex Smith, 80s X-Men movie, Total Recall 2, Barb Wire, Casablanca, Johnny Mnemonic, Val Kilmer, Henry Rollins, The Chase, Adam Rifkin, Planet of the Apes, The Dark Backward, Remo Williams, Fred Ward, Masters of the Universe 2, Cyborg, Edward Furlong, The Predator, Dog Soldiers 2, Neil Marshall, Return of the Thing, Josh Miller, James Bond: Warhead, Fly 3: Flies, Dinosaurs Attack!, Spy Hunter with The Rock directed by John Woo, Revenge of the Old Queen, Tied In - The Movie Novelization Documentary, Jim Kunz, Rambo novelization, Nightshadows, E.T., Dune, Great White, Neon Maniacs, Contagion, 28 Days Later, World War Z, Doom Eternal, Curbside Popcorn, Retro Retro Retro, Talk Without Rhythm, Raiders of Atlantis, Serpico, Maniac Driver, Kurando Mitsutake, The Girl on the Third Floor, C.M. Punk, VFW, Smallville is Ravenshadow’s happy place, Corona Rhapsody, Stanley Kubrick, Doctor Sleep, The Shining, and the 72 hour Blackout.

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Ep 399

TorTR #399 - Ecoli Volkoff is Batting .399

Episode | 131 min | Mar 20, 2020

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A young podcaster and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night quarantined in the Lair of Lost Swag! On Episode 399 of Trick or Treat Radio we dip our toes back into the extensive filmography of Takashi Miike, by discussing his film, First Love! We also talk about the benefits of social distancing, we find out just how much Ravenshadow loves Dick (Grayson) and MZ drops a tease about what he’s working on for Episode 400! So grab your toilet paper, avoid eating bats and make sure not to lick any microphones, then strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Coronavirus, quarantine, social distancing, Episode 400, Top 13 Best Scenes Before a Kill in Friday the 13th, COVID-19, Max Von Sydow, The Exorcist, Flash Gordon, Strange Brew, another reboot, Master Controller, contingency plans, curbside pickup, zombie apocalypse, Contagion, eating bats, licking microphones, venus flytrap, The Happening, pricks cause a lot of problems, a dark Pixar film, Tom Brady, toilet paper hoarders, water pressure shaming, home lockdown, raiding the doctor, Disorderlies, The New Quarantine Titans, Grandalf, watching society crumble, Takashi Miike, Imprint, Ecoli Volkoff, 13 Assassins, Ichi the Killer, Gozu, The Quiet Family, cough in your arm, Dub and Dubber, Taint Misbehaving, Morphine, The Road to 400, Wrestlemania, AEW, Photon, Laser Tag, DDP Yogurt, smart bulbs, what color means stop, Jason Lee, Matt Hardy, and Tin Hat Theories.

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