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After this podcast, you will never sleep again. Ron and Hammer take on one of the most famous horror films and franchises of all time. They will take a look at the origins of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Krueger and the inspiration for the storyline. They will go in depth on the casting of the film including Robert Englund and some dude named Johnny Depp. What works in this film? Everything. Take a listen.
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It’s Christmas in February! Ron and Hammer take a look at one of the original slashers, Black Christmas, requested by some listener with the weird name of Little Miss Horror Nerd as she won a Twitter/Facebook contest. They travel back to 1974 to talk about the origins of the slasher film, how the film is still effective today, briefly chat about the remake and talk about the terrible police work this film displays.
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It’s that time of the podcast again…time where Ron and Hammer sew their wild oats. This time their one night stand never to be called again comes in the form of an ancient mythological Christmas creature in a Dutch horror film. Yes, we cover all angles. The 2010 horror movie is known as Saint Nick in the United States and follows the evil Sinterklaas and his minions called Black Petes as they terrorize a city. Ron and Hammer are very confused by the film, but are here to try and explain to you what is going on anyways. That’s called commitment, kids.
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It’s that time on the podcast where we must say our final farewells…this time to the ominous house down the block with demons living inside; to the mirror that makes out worst nightmares come true; and to the dollhouse that creates an alternate dimension of demons out of a fireplace. Join Ron and Little Miss Horror Nerd for a jam packed wrap up show that includes their analysis of the Amityville Horror franchise including but not limited to where the franchise should have stopped, how to have kept better continuity within the franchise and even an attempt at making the entire franchise make sense within the same continuity! Also, we name the winners of the Amityville Survival Kits!
The back half of the show is all about the real life Amityville incident. After a discussion of the alleged real life events with the Lutzes, the DeFeo murders and the media frenzy that happened afterwards, both hosts give their opinion of what they believe to be the final truth. Ron will even talk to world renowned ghost hunter Robb Demarest from SYFY’s Haunting Australia program about his thoughts and experiences on the Amityville horror case!
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**Famous ghost picture taken in the Amityville House while no one was inside**
I have always been a horror fan but never much of a zombie fan. Im more of a vampire kind of girl myself. As a teenager, I devoured Anne Rice and Stephen King novels and spent hours at the video store choosing just the right scary movie. I never left with a zombie film.
These creatures just did not appeal to me. They were excessively violent, clumsy, stupid and grossly unattractive. They had one goal and that was to eat the brains and sometimes the flesh of the living. At least vampires have some fun. They don’t age, only have to drink blood, and can think and speak. In fact vampires tend to be quite clever. Zombies are basically on life support until they decay. How boring!
I finally saw George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead in my 20s. I surprised myself by liking it but to be fair it is an intelligent film. These days zombies are everywhere. It’s a zombie media apocalypse! In the last five to ten years there have been many new incarnations of the zombie. There is a zombie to fit every horror fan’s taste. Fast, funny, productive, romantic, intelligent and in the case of iZombie, the new CW series, downright cute! I guess because I’ve never been a fan of traditional zombies I can appreciate the new fangled sort. I learned of iZombie last year and became intrigued as it reminded me of a book I’d read and enjoyed a few years ago with a similar plot called My Life As A White Trash Zombie. I had hope that iZombie might be a gem in the sea of crap that is called TV these days.
I was not disappointed. I found my gem in the pilot. iZombie was created by Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars) and stars Rose McIver as Liv the Zombie. The show is loosely based on a graphic novel of the same name.
Liv Moore was a medical resident when she attended a party where she and other guests were attacked by zombies. A number of the guests were killed outright but Liv survives and becomes part zombie. She takes a job at the Medical Examiner’s office to avoid killing for brains. Her new position becomes her true calling. Liv discovers she absorbs the memories of the brains she eats which ultimately helps her solve the cases of those that were murdered. I thoroughly enjoyed this fun little show. A horror/comedy/drama hybrid with some brains and blood tossed in it was definitely worth the hour of my time.
Liv is likeable, sweet, cute a badass! I was skeptical because well the CW is home to 90210 and America’s Next Top Model. Even with the limitations of teen TV, iZombie comes out on top. I’ll be watching.
If you watch and like this series pick up a copy of the book I mentioned, My Life As A White Trash Zombie.
You will like that too.
