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Not since the days of presuming that the director of “The Harder They Come” was white have we had egg on our faces like this but I think it’s an honest mistake. It’s been HAMMER HORROR HUMPDAYS every Wednesday all October long and our last selection, HORROR EXPRESS from 1972 starring Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing, looked like a Hammer film if there ever was one. Turns out it isn’t but without the influence of Hammer Horror surely this movie wouldn’t exist. It’s a wild ride as a being has risen in the form of ancient remains and it...

WE’RE IN THE THROES OF HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4’S FINAL WEEK and we have one more TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY to share with you and this strange piece of folk horror has got audiences split like a Green Man's hand. Must be the big ‘ol pussies. We’re talking about Alex Garland’s 2022 film “MEN”. Jessie Buckley’s character has gone to a private retreat in the wake of a tragedy involving her shitty husband but men are shitty everywhere, right? They’re even shitty in this cottage countryside and they all…look the same. Maybe that’s normal for rural England but something...

We’re in our final stretch for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 and our final Monster Movie Monday selection and, sure, this isn’t the only day for monsters. There’s monsters all month long but Mondays are for the big boys and this one is very inspired by the legend we talked about on our first Monday. Godzilla may come back in the future but this big monster we’re discussing is trashing Manhattan seven years after 9/11. Why? Nobody knows actually. The only question is, can Rob get across town to save a girl he hooked up with once without getting all of h...

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It’s an Exorcist overload every Friday for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 and we made a last minute decision to merge the next two Exorcist films into one conversation for our first ever DOUBLE FEATURE because, as it turns out from the weird backstory we tell in the episode, EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING and DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST are kind of sort of pretty much the same movie with some casting and storyline differences. The former is directed by Renny Harlin and the latter is actually the film that was initially made by Paul Schrader. The studio brought in Renny after te...

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 keeps on chuggin’ with plenty more to go and we got our most BRUTAL selection for our THRILLER THURSDAYS WITH VINCENT PRICE. Up to now, the Master of the Macabre has set us up melodramatically for climactic shock moments but in this film loosely based on the real life atrocities committed by Matthew Hopkins in 17th century England, we get shock after shock in this pretty hardcore movie for it’s time. Vincent’s portrayal of Hopkins is so vile that you may revel in what eventually comes to him but you’ll never be the same again. T...

Every Wednesday for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 we offer up some of our favorite horror camp with HAMMER HORROR HUMPDAYS. It’s practically a Projectors tradition so today we got a wild one with some strange plotting and some shockingly ineffective characters with the exception of one though he isn’t quite so clutch when it really counts. We’re talking the awesomeley titled THE DEVIL RIDES OUT from 1968. It stars our boy Christopher Lee and it’s actually a strange coincidence that he can suddenly put to use all of his counter-occult knowledge when he stumbles upon his nephew in the thra...

The thing about TRANSFORMATION TUESDAYS is that things can get quite tragic and this iconic Cronenberg re-make of a 1950s horror rivals any cinematic tragedy in the history of film. What else could we be discussing but the 1986 body horror classic THE FLY from 1986? Seth Brundle has invented teleportation but a drunken accident resulted in his genes merging with a common house insect. It’s no thrill watching him fall apart into a hideous final form but the emotions feel very real. It’s just too bad about that baboon’s brother. If you haven’t seen this 80s hit then...

It’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST ONCE AGAIN and in the classic style so each weekday is a fun-ass theme and this 3rd week of HERE THERE BE MONSTER MONDAYS is actually fun-ass. It evokes a myriad of emotions, actually, and it does so very impressively. Makes sense since this monster movie is directed by Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho. We’re talking his crossover Korean hit “THE HOST” from 2006. The hubris of man strikes again as military scientists dump chemicals into the Han river, four years later something is crawling out of it, eating people and kidnapping children. This bumbling family m...

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We’re getting whiplash when it comes to quality for FRANCHISE FREAK FRIDAYS but that’s just how it goes when you horrorload for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST. It’s just gotta be done. After the Exorcist’s sequel, which should only be consumed by the most loyal Fangoria subscribers, got universally panned it took thirteen years to get another one. William Peter Blatty really wanted to save that film legacy the best he could so they let him adapt his own book this time and brought in General Patton himself, George C. Scott and a young Brad Dourif to bring the cree...

THRILLER THURSDAYS WITH VINCENT PRICE CONTINUES for five straight weeks in October. It’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST season and it feels so good. But you know what doesn’t feel good? Being the last human being on planet Earth. That last man makes his way, stabbing vampires/zombies/ghouls, burning their bodies, crying over his dead wife and salting meats. He had to really salt a lot of meat. The first adaptation of Richard Matheson’s “I Am Legend” is this 1964 sci-fi horror  ‘THE LAST MAN ON EARTH” and when all the humans are gone, what are the monsters that are left behind...

We’re rolling over our second hump for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4. Our second hump for HAMMER HORROR HUMPDAYS every Wednesday in October and today’s selection is all about the cost of immortality. Though everything would have been fine if Dr. Ludwig had maybe let him know that he had a stroke before hand. Can the intensley melodramatic Dr. Bonner find someone to do his surgery so he can make it to 114 years old? What will he do to cheat death? That’s why the movie is called THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH from 1959 and it’s by prolific Hammer a...

I can’t believe we went through this whole weird and wild movie and forgot to mention the best part…the Monica Belluci breast to mountain scene transition. Of course a French guy would come up with that. It ruled so add a half a point to the final score. That said WELCOME TO HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 and every Monday we’re talkin’ creatures of varying proportions of “big” and this one may be our smallest monster but no less dangerous and probably the most mysterious. Today’s HERE THERE BE MONSTER MONDAYS episode features creatures, babes, a naturalist Knight, an Iroquois ni...

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THE EXORCIST is our pick for our HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 Franchised Freak Fridays and this sequel might be as notorious as its predecessor but for all the wrong reasons. This is our first time viewing EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC and we were warned but somehow that wasn’t enough. All that money spent on what is arguably the most derided sequel in all of horror. IN HORROR! A genre with a ridiculous amount of terrible movies! So let’s ignore the point of essential scenes in the first movie and create some brain syncing device and drag out a young woma...

Every Thriller Thursday all October long belongs to VINCENT PRICE because it is HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST ONCE AGAIN! For this Vincent piece we hit up a showcase in classic horror tension that has somewhat the same plot as “House on Haunted Hill” except it’s further in the past & a generation removed from the antics of the Spanish Inquisition. Yeah, dawg. It’s “THE PIT & THE PENDULUM” from 1961. You don’t want to get rid of the blood stained and well worn torture equipment. Those things could be collector’s items! This is one of Price’s prolific Poe adaptations and it’s been way...

Every weekday during HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 represents its own horror sub-theme and each Wednesday we’re going to visit films from that movie studio across the pond, Hammer. Their prolific horror varieties to be exact. Because this isn’t our first HAMMER HORROR HUMPDAY celebration. Hammer Horror during Halloween Humpfest has become a Projectors tradition from back when our show name was exceptionally stupid. Today’s Hammer selection can actually be found on YouTube through our links below. This is a brighter Hammer than we’re used to as it occurs mostly on a snow capped mountain. We’re talking THE ABOMIN...

Let’s keep this first full week of HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 rolling hard with an introduction to our Tuesday Horror sub-theme. It’s all about change and becoming something else and we’re tackling the subject from a variety of tragic angles. We’re starting off TRANSFORMATION TUESDAYS with a drive-in smash hit that you can find easily on YouTube (link below). It’s called ”I Was A Teenage Werewolf” from 1957 and it stars a young Michael Landon, a guy who got our grandmothers horny. It’s plenty campy and those teeth could have been better but at those drive-ins they were making...

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST IS BACK and we’re in the fourth year! “HUMPFEST” derives from when we were called “MOVIEHUMPERS” and this theme, along with “Movies Are Gay” is our most consistent. We’re doing the whole month classic style which means each day of the weekday covers a Horror sub-genre and Mondays are devoted the kaiju type. Mondays are called HERE THERE BE MONSTER MONDAYS and our first Monday in October kicks off with a discussion on the greatest of all the city destroying beast, the King of the Monsters, the original Kaiju. Of course we’re talkin’ GODZILLA, specifically the 195...

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Every Friday for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 is devoted to the freaks with a franchise. Yes, we’re going over a whole series of movies and boy golly talk about peaks and valleys in this year’s franchise choice. You might get whiplash but at least we start off killer. THE EXORCIST is every Friday and today breaks it in with the original EXORCIST film from 1973. One of the most talked about movies of all time. A real game changer. We don’t split hairs as much as talk about our favorite moments, give some crazy facts behind the scenes and reflec...

YEAR FOUR OF HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST BEGINS! We’re kicking this monthlong cavalcade of daily themed horror just right with a guy we’ve taken too long to get to. The horror queen…er, King himself…VINCENT PRICE. In our youth, Vincent Price was a narrative voice more than anything but now we finally sit down with five of his films, each Thursday this month, and what a good time at the movies that turned out to be. We’ll encompass three decades of the Master of the Macabre starting with this hit horror classic from 1958, “HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL”. This is an ear...

CELEBRITY SHAME SPIRAL 2 - CELEBRITY BANDS collects Documenteers Shorty episode #’s 14, 15 & 16. These recordings are from around 2018.

LINKS

Corey Feldman & The Angels perform “Go 4 It” on the Today Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZX7UJSXCiU

Corey Feldman Returns to Today to Defend “Go For It”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZMcDmF3M-s

Billy Bob Thornton Blow Up on QTV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qToHS07HoGw

“I’ll Give You a Ring” by The Boxmasters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sPUYwxSU1o&list=RD7sPUYwxSU1o&sta...

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Finally, we wrap up New Jersey for our AINT THAT AMERICA series and things got shuffled around a little bit before we decided last minute to switch to this oddball ass movie. We scrapped “Jersey Girl” and then “Paterson” for a little less North Jersey representation but truth be told the geography is haywire in the 1991 Dan Aykroyd film ‘NOTHING BUT TROUBLE” starring him, Chevy Chase, Demi Moore and John Candy. If you’ve ever seen this movie then you may never forget it but not for all the right reasons. It’s hard to explain. Go see it and then hear us...

We’re at our penultimate New Jersey selection for our AINT THAT AMERICA series and surely we can get sadder, right? We’re heading to Asbury Park and all over Jersey from Rahway down to Wilmington, Delaware. The best city to die in bar none. As far as we can tell the 2008 film “The Wrestler” starring Mickey Rourke is Darren Aronofsky’s best movie but we’re far from experts. But pro-wrestling? That’s in the wheelhouse, brother. I gig for this shit. I put it over. So hear us talk about the saddest Jersey movie and stay to the end to hea...

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We’re in our last batch of New Jersey flicks for our AIN’T THAT AMERICA series and it might seem like a given that we would discuss this notorious Zach Braff debut film from 2004. It is named for the state’s nickname after all. Yeah, dude. GARDEN STATE. A movie often cited as a prime example of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl movie trope. We revisit the sneakily humorous if not overwritten hit movie that had a whole generation about that Shins song. Did Zach Braff kill the Shins? Maybe. Back when we first watched this 22 years ago we pro...

OUR FIRST ROAD MOVIE for our AIN’T THAT AMERICA SERIES and it takes place entirely in New Jersey. We’re finally getting to a stoner comedy with this comedy classic from 2004, “HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE” the breakout roles fro John Cho & Cal Penn. A wilder odyssey than Christopher Nolan could execute as we cut diagonally through the state from Hoboken to Cherry Hill. We actually map out what we believe their route is. There’s actually a map link below. So hear us all unfold it as we get deep into the geography from Taylor Ham to Pork Ro...

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FINALLY! We’re back to the 3rd state in our union for our state series “Ain’t That America”. Our first half of New Jersey at the Movies was months ago but now obligations are fulfilled and we’re finally here again for movies about the Garden State. For this discussion we’re going to the west end of the George Washington Bridge where a sad bag NYPD wannabe Sheriff gets to kid glove a town whose residents are an entire Police precinct. WHADDAYAKNOW they’re corrupt! Were talkin’ an early outing from James Mangold with a stellar cast, COP LAND from 19...

This is the last selection for “YOU’RE NEVER OUT”, our heist block for our LIVES OF CRIME series. Want a heist movie? Well, how about the movie called “HEIST” from 2001 starring Mean Gene Hackman. It’s our second David Mamet involved selection for “YOU’RE NEVER OUT” and this one he directed and wrote and boy did he wrote this thing. He dripped all over it. He fucked this thing into a cocked hat. Mamet co-wrote “Ronin” too and so we’ve recently discussed two movies with the phrase “fucked into a cocked hat”. Do you know what a cocked hat is? It’s not a...

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This block of heist films we’re doing for our LIVES OF CRIME series is called “YOU’RE NEVER OUT” and no flick in this block encapsulates that title more than this debut from Jonathan Glazer. Of course we’re talking about “SEXY BEAST” which came out 26 years ago. Hard to say why we never watched it until now, perhaps then it looked a little like too much of the Tarantino/Guy Ritchie inspired stuff but we did our past selves a disservice because this film backs up it’s style with rich characters that are far more layered than many we saw...

“YOU’RE NEVER OUT” is the heist series of our rotating theme LIVES OF CRIME and today we’re hitting up our first John Frankenheimer flick for the show. So let’s go to France and meet “Sam” (Robert De Niro) a former CIA agent that is in on a plan to steal a case of great value but  can people be trusted with this job? Of course not. A stellar cast which includes an actor we’ve discussed more than any other for the show. This movie is known for its car chases and rightfully so. Do you like ice skating...

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Our next LIVES OF CRIME block is all about heists and the big personalities behind them. We’re calling it “YOU’RE NEVER OUT” and we’re long overdue to get to this seminal hit film from the 1970s that won Best Picture and more at the Academy Awards. We’re talkin’ THE STING from 1973. It’s hijinks and capers and rag time as Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford, RIP) and Henry Gondorf (Paul Newman, RIP) team up with a surprising amount of people to score big time off of the gangster boss Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw, RIP). Misdirects and danger aplenty b...

We may have bitten off more than we can chew for what we hoped to complete by the end of the year but we’re finally back to a rotating theme that will likely encompass 2027 as well. Once again it’s time for our “LIVES OF CRIME” series and we’ve been hankerin’ since we did the James Cagney block and are finally able to get back into it. For this chunk’s crime theme we’re gonna need a few decent heavies. Preferably ones we can trust, which are non existent. We’re talking about HEIST MOVIES for this LIVES OF CRIM...