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Smile / The Sadness - Streaming Screams Episode 13: Turn that Frown Upside Down

As the year draws to a close and night seems to surround us, it’s often a good time to reflect. To look inside yourself and see how you’re doing. To take a deep dive into your emotions. This month we examine two movies that really sum up how people feel around the holiday season:
Smile
The Sadness
First we take a hit of that jump-scare adrenaline and hallucinatory uncertainty with Smile, before exploring the absolute depths of human depravity with The Sadness.
Along the way we’ll talk about how not to hold an intervention, older folks and creepy dudes bothering you when you’re just trying to read a book, the value of human live vs. the value of animal life in horror, and we’ll laugh at Glenn as his inability to pronounce people’s names hits an all time low. We also take a moment show a little love to the great Tony Todd.
You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll scream! You’ll… stream? It’s all part of the roller-coaster of emotions that is this month’s episode of Streaming Screams!

As Above, So Below / The Taking of Deborah Logan - Streaming Screams Episode 12: From the Bowels of Hell to the Terrors of the Mind

From the Bowels of Hell to the Terrors of the Mind
As we return to our normal monthly schedule we explore the Inferno and ask, is it age and Alzheime’rs, or is it something, somehow more sinister? Join us as we strap on the camera with two found footage flicks:
As Above, So Below
The Taking of Deborah Logan
We’ll explore the allegory of the parisian catacombs, dive into the unexplored family drama of child sacrifices and queer daughters, look for a physical way out of Hell with a wannabe Last Crusade-era Indiana Jones, and deal with way too many snakes. 
Along the way we’ll tackle some of the big, important life topics, like growing up catholic, being a bad student, why you shouldn’t kill rattlesnakes if you see them, motion sickness, Hummel and Precious Moments figures, energy drinks and shady HVAC contractors.
So get on your belly and abandon all hope with this first person episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!

Halloween - Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular Finale

The End is the Beginning
Alas, all parties must come to an end and trick or treating can only go on for so long. The neighbors are turning out their lights, so open up your bag for the last fun-sized episode of our Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular with  John Carpenter's most seminal work, the original classic, the immortal, the iconic
Halloween
We travel all the way back to 1978, with a quick detour to 1963, to see the Michael Myers legacy take shape (See what we did there?). One thing that’s going to be interesting about this journey is that we watched two different versions of the movie. Glenn watched the version that we all know and love, while Jess watched the extended version involving scenes added years later. 
Along the way, we’ll touch on some important subjects like why teens bang in their parents bed (and maybe why they shouldn’t), whether artists can be trusted to tell you the meaning of their own art, whether you can be a goody two-shoes and still smoke weed, and what the heck is a slasher anyway?
As we say goodbye to spooky season and return to our monthly schedule, we want to thank you for joining us for our first Halloween event. May your costumes be awesome, your parties raucous, your Samhain fires warm, your tricks scary and your treats delightful! 
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular trailer

Trailer for our first ever, Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular! It's a Halloween celebration as we hand out four fun sized episodes featuring the Halloween 2018 trilogy as well as the original Halloween!

Halloween Ends - Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular Part 3

Not Dead Enough
The Halloween party continues with another fun-sized episode where we get into the most divisive and controversial film of this whole timeline
Halloween Ends
As the sequel trilogy winds down and the focus shifts to a new character, we follow Haddonfield into the depths of societal and generational trauma. Along the way we’ll examine how we, as individuals and society, relate to, and are reflected by, this dark, decaying town, the wisdom of doing 3 Halloween movies in 3 different genres, Romeo and Juliet romances, people’s need for someone to blame and whether this movie is secretly a remake of Christine or not. It’s time to burn it down with the penultimate fun sized episode of our Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular! 

Halloween Kills - Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular Part 2

It’s a Hunter’s Moon
Open up your bag because here comes the second fun-sized episode of our Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular! 
Do you remember when you were a kid, when you’d get home from trick or treating, and you’d excitedly pull a random candy out from your bag and pop it into your mouth only to realize someone gave you a cough drop? That’s right! It’s time for
Halloween Kills
We continue our journey through Haddonfield as the warmth of the Samhain fire gives way to a raging inferno! This time we get to catch up with Tommy Doyle and literally anyone else they could get from the 78 movie. I bet they’re all doing great!
Along the way, we find out what it truly means to be close to your family, EVIL DIES TONIGHT, question the morality of lies of omission, EVIL DIES TONIGHT, what happens when you give a motive to the motiveless, EVIL DIES TONIGHT, the logic of erasing all previous sequels and then repeating a bunch of the same mistakes they made, and finally, EVIL DIES TONIGHT!

Halloween 2018 - Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular Part 1

Trick or Treat! Smell my feet! Give me some PTSD!
The most wonderful time of the year has finally arrived! Spooky Season is finally here and it’s time to celebrate with our first ever Spooky Season Super Scary Screamtacular! This week we drop the first of 4 weekly, fun-sized episodes into your bag, starting with
Halloween (2018)
We return to Haddonfield 40 years after that fateful Halloween to see what Laurie has been up to and how life has treated her since her encounter with Michael Myers. I’m sure she’s doing great!
Along the way we’ll touch on The Legend of Zelda, figure out if Tubi is a good service, ponder whether JJ Abrams is a hack and figure out whether gummies or micheladas make for the best edibles/drinkables.

The Mortuary Collection / Terrified - Streaming Screams Episode 07: On the Road

On the Road
This month, our ghoulish hosts head down to LA to see one of their favorite bands, Ghost, at the Kia Forum for one of the shows filmed for Rite Here Rite Now. Along the way they explore the spooky, wynorrific town of Raven’s End and a morbidly grisly haunted neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina with two unique and visionary flicks:
The Mortuary Collection
Terrified
We’ll touch on the manipulative and deceptive tactics of the guys you shouldn’t date, the heartbreak of euthanasia and invalid care, original music made for movies, exploding genitals, housing structures in Argentina, anthology-like narrative structure, Rob Zombie’s Halloween, and Glenn, AGAIN,  talks about his appreciation of penises in horror movies. It’s a good time!

Prince of Darkness / House of 1000 Corpses - Streaming Screams Episode 06: Freaks on Parade

Freaks on Parade
IT'S TIME TO ROCK!
In preparation for the Freaks on Parade Tour, featuring Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper (as well as Ministry and Filter), we recorded this somewhat special episode of Streaming Screams! We start today's discussion with a John Carpenter cult classic featuring Alice Cooper, and end with Rob Zombie's first film:
Prince of Darkness
House of 1000 CorpsesWe dive deep into the possible coding of Walter from Prince of Darkness, discuss Rob Zombie's methodology, anime-hipsterdom, and even step in a big steaming pile of controversy!
It's time to hide your mirrors, do some neck stretches and get ready to play air drums with your fried chicken on this hard rockin' episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!

X / Pearl / Bonus: Maxxxine Trailer - Streaming Screams Episode 05: The Farmer's Daughter

The Farmer's Daughter
Gators and smut films and senior citizens, OH MY!
With Maxxxine having its major release just days away, we thought we’d revisit the first two parts of Ti West’s sexploration of cinema:
X
Pearl
Featuring absolute powerhouse performances by today’s #1 scream queen, Mia Goth, and explorations of age, sexuality, lust,  love, film-making and how we are shaped both by our environment and the movies we love; this trilogy looks to be shaping up to be one of the best in horror history. 
If you’re planning on seeing Maxxxine, and need a very fun refresher on the first two movies, this one's for you! Along the way we’ll touch on such subjects as monogamy vs polyamory, swimming in unvetted waters, the importance of consent and honesty in more than just intercourse, underwear with the day of the week on it, the use of elderly nudity in horror, Glenn’s adoration of Chelsea Wolfe and the truest horrors in life: Costco on a Saturday (and their sub-par pizza.). One thing we will NOT be discussing is whether it’s better to find a man or a bear in the woods! 
We’ll even include a bonus mini-segment with our reaction to:
the Maxxxine trailer! 
It’s time to go over the rainbow and under the clothes in this month’s glamorously sleazy episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!