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Killing Oscar! How The Academy Snubs The Horror Genre

February 23, 20192GTAllYouCanEat, 2GuysTalkingHorror - TV & Movie Horror Review & Why You Love Them, The 2GuysTalking Podcast Series - All of Our 2GuysTalking Pop Culture-based Content in One Feed2GuysTalkingHorror, A Nightmare On Elm Street, A Quiet Place, An American Werewolf In London, Anna and the Apocalypse, Bela Lugosi, Black Swan, boris karloff, Cary Elwes, Claude Rains, Curious Goods Podcast, Cut The Crap Movie Review, Danny Glover, Donald Pleasence, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Fredric March, Get Out, halloween, Heather Langenkamp, Hereditary, horror, horror podcast, James Wan, james whale, Jamie Lee Curtis, jaws, Kathy Bates, Leigh Whannell, Mandy, Misery, Nicolas Cage, Rick Baker, robert englund, Robert Wise, Saw, Svengoolie, The Body Snatcher, The Exorcist, The Haunting, The Invisible Man, The Silence of the Lambs, The Sixth Sense, Tobin Bell, Toni Collette, val lewtonNick Hearne

The Academy Awards. Oscar. The oldest and most respected Entertainment Award ceremony out there. Often referred to as “The Super Bowl of the Movie Industry”. Some of the greatest films ever made have been recognized by Hollywood’s highest honor across all types of genres: Drama, Comedy, War Films, Biopics, Musicals, Westerns and Historical epics to … Continue reading Killing Oscar! How The Academy Snubs The Horror Genre →

Cycle Of The Werewolf (The Novella) Versus Silver Bullet (The Film)

October 31, 2018Versus Machine - A Comparison of Great Things10-year-old boy, 1983, 1985, Arnie Westrum, Bernie Wrightson, comic-book artist, Corey Haim, cult status, Cycle of the Werewolf, Everett McGill, fictional small town, full moon, Gary Busey, halloween, horror, horror podcast, illustrations, James Gammon, Kent Broadhurst, Land of Enchantment, limited-edition hardcover, Maine, Marty Coslaw, Megan Follows, novella, podcast, Reverend Lowe, screenplay, short horror novel, Signet, silver, Silver Bullet, stephen king, Tarker's Mills, Terry O'Quinn, trade paperback, werewolf, wheelchairNick Hearne

Stephen King has a body of work that is ripe for adaptation. Over the decades many of his short stories and novels have been adapted into everything from feature films, television miniseries and even comic books. Depending on their faithfulness to the source material, those adaptations run the gauntlet of being surprisingly good to painfully … Continue reading Cycle Of The Werewolf (The Novella) Versus Silver Bullet (The Film) →

Cut The Crap Movie Review – Halloween (2018)

October 25, 20182GTAllYouCanEat, 2GuysTalkingHorror - TV & Movie Horror Review & Why You Love Them, The 2GuysTalking Podcast Series - All of Our 2GuysTalking Pop Culture-based Content in One Feed1978, 40 years, American horror franchise, American slasher film, Andi Matichak, comic books, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Debra Hill, direct sequel, Dr Sam Loomis, eleven films, Haddonfield, halloween, Halloween film series, Halloween night, holiday of Halloween, Illinois, James Jude Courtney, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeff Fradley, john carpenter, Judith Myers, Judy Greer, killing spree, Laurie Strode, merchandise, Michael Myers, murder, Nick Castle, novels, previous sequels, psychiatrist, respectively, retconning continuity, sanitarium, serial killer, stuntman, video game, Virginia Gardner, Will PattonNick Hearne

In the age of reboots, remakes and reimaginings, a very crucial piece of storytelling is, most of the time, overlooked…Legacy. When writers and filmmakers ignore the legacy of the horror property they intend to “refresh”, the end product usually ends up a rehash of an old story with updated effects. That’s NOT what fans want! … Continue reading Cut The Crap Movie Review – Halloween (2018) →

Lethal Listings: 7 Halloween TV Specials You Might Have Forgotten

February 9, 20182GTAllYouCanEat, 2GuysTalkingHorror - TV & Movie Horror Review & Why You Love Them, The 2GuysTalking Podcast Series - All of Our 2GuysTalking Pop Culture-based Content in One Feed1974, A Disney Halloween, Agatha Cackle, Allen Swift, animated, Baron Boris von Frankenstein, beautiful assistant Francesca, book, boris karloff, Canadian, Caribbean Sea, Carlton and Eloise Davis, Catherine O'Hara, classic Disney short cartoons, Corwin and Aurie, Count Dracula, daughter Jennifer, Disney's Greatest Villains, Disney's Halloween Treat, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Eugene Levy, Felix Flanken, Fiona Reid, foggy graveyard, fortune teller, Frankenstein's Monster, Gale Garnett, Gilda Radner, Hal Douglas, halloween, Isle of Evil, jack-o'-lantern, Karen Kondazain, Lucifer Falls, Mad Monster Party, Madeleinska, Mildred Hubble, Mill Creek Entertainment, Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, monsters, Mr. Boogedy, New England, nightmare, notorious twin evil sister, Phyllis Diller, puppet, school of magic, special, statue of Boogedy, strange glowing key, television, the Boogedy Man, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Invisible Man, the Monster's more intelligent mate, the Mummy, the Werewolf, The Worldwide Organization of Monsters, the Worst Witch, Tom Lynch, Witch's Night Out, younger sonsNick Hearne

Remember when The Wizard Of Oz would air on television once a year and if you missed it, you were shit out of luck? It was the same with the Christmas specials. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and A Charlie Brown Christmas. If you and your family didn’t tune in, you had … Continue reading Lethal Listings: 7 Halloween TV Specials You Might Have Forgotten →

Lethal Listings – 13 Worst Horror Remakes

December 20, 20172GTAllYouCanEat, 2GuysTalkingHorror - TV & Movie Horror Review & Why You Love Them, The 2GuysTalking Podcast Series - All of Our 2GuysTalking Pop Culture-based Content in One Feedalien, aliens, blood, creature, creatures, demon, demons, freddy kruger, george a. remero, ghost, ghostbusters, ghosts, graveyard, halloween, monster, monsters, psycho, robert englund, scream, screams, supernatural, vampire, vampires, werewolf, werewolves, wes craven, zombie, zombiesNick Hearne

Nothing is sacred! Everything old is new again! Hollywood has raped my childhood! Whenever we here any of these statements uttered by our family, friends or co-workers, it can only mean one thing…REMAKES! Sadly, Horror seems to be the genre studios gravitate towards to make some fast cash. And while SOME remakes range from great to nearly … Continue reading Lethal Listings – 13 Worst Horror Remakes →