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Trick or Treat Radio

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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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Ep 398

TorTR #398 - Netflix and Self-Quarantine

Episode | 131 min | Mar 13, 2020

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A charismatic Bostonian Podcaster always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Ravenshadow must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win. On Episode 398 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss Uncut Gems, the latest film from The Safdie Brothers, starring Adam Sandler. We also talk about our upcoming quarantine plans, what WWE can do if Wrestlemania is canceled and our favorite cults! So grab your $90 Lysol, batten down the hatches, and strap on for the world's most contagious podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Quarantine, SARS Masks, clorox wipes, walk is as good as a base hit, take four balls, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Tremors, Remo Williams, Fred Ward, MZs bathroom escapades, Scare-A-Con, President Cockwork Orange, Wrestlemania, how to wash your hands, stinky or sticky?, AEW, martyr-on-a-pole, Devin Townsend, Artie Lange, Doug Bradley, Cannonbun Run, price gouging the apocalypse, Saudimania, Lysol, don’t freeze your dick off, castration, Inside of  You with Michael Rosenbaum, Canollivirus, Tom Welling, Uncut Gems, Adam Sandler, The Safdie Brothers, Good Time, Robert Pattinson, Howard Stern, addiction, excess, gambling, Morris Day and The Time, Kevin Garnett, Boston Celtics, “the rock”, Talk Radio, intricate simple plot, The Weekend, Lando shirt, full immersion filmmaking, Takashi Miike, First Love, After Midnight, Color Out of Space, Hausu, MZs CVS, Patreon prize pack, blowing smoke on a package, and COVID-69.

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Ep 397

TorTR #397 - Richard Stanley’s Clubhouse

Episode | 161 min | Mar 6, 2020

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Four podcast hosts move to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color. To their horror, they discover this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches-- including them. On Episode 397 of Trick or Treat Radio we get into some cosmic horror as we discuss Color Out of Space. After a 25 year layoff, Richard Stanley returns to direct this H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, starring Nicolas Cage! We also find out the true meaning of CVS, we talk about some of our favorite Lovecraft adaptations, and learn about cultural bias from Ravenshadow?! So grab your copy of the Necronomicon, drink some old rotten Orange Juice, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Ravenshadow Gets His Groove Back, remarkably caucasian, sensitivity training, two truths and a lie, cultural bias, Jaco Pastorius, Frank Bello, Famous Italian Bass Players, MZ’s health issues, rotten oranges, cyclical vomiting syndrome, wince and bear it, orange juice, MZ’s demonstration, medical journals, coronavirus, This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner, Artie Lange, The Aquabats, Christian Jacobs, Lucille Ball, Lily Tomlin, Larry Fine, zig and zerg, Batmobile, Psycho Goreman, Robert Pattinson, Batman Metal, Michael Rosenbaum, Throne, Dagon, Re-Animator, H.P. Lovecraft, Color Out of Space, Providence RI, Richard Stanley, Cast a Deadly Spell, Fred Ward, tentacles, hentai, Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Lost Soul, Hardware, Cheech and Chuckles, Dust Devil, Spectrevision, meteorites, Creepshow, Meteor Man, the wheel is technology, Tommy Chong, played for chuckles, derivative horror, no whiskey, National Treasure, Jack Nicolas Cage, channeling the douchebag, Wiccan, the rule of three, Madeleine Arthur, The Dunwich Horror, Good Time, The Safdie Brothers, Uncut Gems, Soskas and Safdies, Delorean, VFW, siege films, flossing, and Cagesploitation.

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Ep 396

TorTR #396 - Hungry Hungry Hypothesis

Episode | 146 min | Feb 28, 2020

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When their listeners suddenly disappear upon being insulted, the hosts’ comfortable life and sanity begin to crack. Then, from the woods surrounding their castle, something terrible starts trying to break in. On Episode 396 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss After Midnight, the latest film from Jeremy Gardner and Christian Stella, the team that brought us, The Battery! We kick things off by offending our listeners, we follow that up with some discussion of upcoming films and series’ we’re excited about, and MZ goes deep with his encyclopedic knowledge of 70s and 80s actors in a potential new segment! So grab the nearest tarp, sing your favorite karaoke song and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: THESE listeners, wall of death, what is Ravenshadow bad at?, tahp or a blanket, the Criss Angel of Podcasting, Podfreak, none more black, Cobra Commander Style, Candyman, Jordan Peele, The Lost Boys, Tim Cappello, Tony Todd, is the book better than the movie?, Jojo Rabbit, Taiki Waititi, Sam Rockwell, The Auteur, Time Bandits, David  Warner, Terry Gilliam, reboot, Flash Gordon, a nugget of gold, Matt Murdoch Radio, We’re Wolves, Battlestar Galactica, Fisher Price’s My First Boner, Legion of  Doom, Pepperation H, Hummus, a handle a day keep the virus away, MZs Deep Cuts, After Midnight, Ravenshadow - A Friend to the Drink, Babadook, Lisa Loeb, Jeremy Gardner, Christian Stella, Brea Grant, Justin Benson, elevated horror, Color Out of Space, Richard Stanley, H.P. Lovecraft, Wesley Willis, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, James Mangold, Robert Rodriguez, Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy, Tetrajet, Mac and Me, don’t taze me bro, Kenny Omega vs Pac Iron Man Match, and It Tastes Like Going Blind.

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Ep 395

TorTR #395 - Kimono Wanna Lay Down

Episode | 157 min | Feb 21, 2020

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A group of podcast veterans must defend their studio and an innocent teen against a deranged drug dealer and his relentless army of punk mutants. On Episode 395 of  Trick or Treat Radio, we discuss one of our most anticipated films of 2020, VFW from director Joe Begos and Fangoria! We also find out just what Ravenshadow was doing right before the start of the show, MZ gushes about a surreal 70s Japanese classic, and we talk about the impact of Coffin Joe. So grab a fistful of hype, just rest your eyes and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!

Stuff we talk about: Sleeping Beauty, dissension in the ranks, belated Valentine’s Day, Ravenshadow in a robe, “are you dead?”, just resting your eyes, MonsterRoker, Coffin Joe RIP, big ups Brazil, painting boats, Titanic, Billy Zane, Three O’Clock High, Richard Tyson, Yeardley Smith, Shocker, Irish stalking cap, kimono, Trick or Treat Radio death pool, Father-in-Law of War, screw skiers, M. Night Shyamalan, The Visit, behind the scenes of how they filmed The Mandalorian, Begotten, E. Elias Merhige, Salvador Dali, Le ballon rouge, Hausu, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, Monocle Mondays, Chowboys, Police Academy 3, VFW, Joe Begos, Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York, Fangoria, drug vial on a pole match, John Carpenter, Steve Moore, Zombi, Brainscan, David Patrick Kelly, Stephen Lang, Cheers, Fred “The Hammer” Williamson, William Sadler, Martin Kove, Koala Kai, Karate Kid, siege films, Superman II, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, José Mojica Marins, Bliss, The Mind’s Eye, At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul, and Rip Van Ravenshadow.

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