Movie Meltdown - Episode 106.2

Gather around the electric heater kids as we continue part 2 of Movie Meltdown's FUCK ME SANTA HOLIDAY SPECIAL! In our usual cheery holiday spirits we discuss this week's Sofa Theater feature: Terry Zwigoff's BAD SANTA! It's loaded with all the boozing, sex and obscenities that you can cram into a heartwarming Christmas tale. But we find if you hose off some of the filth, you find an somber character study. An unconventional movie, from an unconventional director.

Plus feedback from the other side of the world and holiday wishes from the gang.

WARNING: Spoiler alert for "Bad Santa", so if you haven't dampened your holiday mood with this movie yet, please do.  

"Thank you...for our bloody pickle"

(Note to Lauren Graham: Again I say...the title card for this episode was made in good fun as a loving [literally] tribute. Please don't be creeped out. Happy Holidays!)

 Movie Meltdown - Episode 106.1

Get your chestnuts a’roasting and join us for part one of Movie Meltdown's FUCK ME SANTA HOLIDAY SPECIAL! Delve into our tidings of winter complaints, trying to record while freezing to death, new holiday music, geeky activities, a “Marlena Moment“ triple feature, a discussion of the short film “Treevenge” plus we wrap up with a special audio gift for you!! Hope you enjoy it…

All that plus holiday cookies, candy and goofy Winter hats, Holy Mountain, East Bound and Down, Killing Ross’s monkey, Grandma’s Boy, Zodiac, where’s my good job and handsome British gentlemen?, Mary and Max, Punch-Drunk Love, MindWarp, The Doom Generation, if one Corey’s dead the other is too, Screamers, Harvie Krumpet, Kenny Mother Fuckin‘ Powers, The In-Betweeners, lap dances, jackassy Leonard Nimoy, It’s a Wonderful Life, Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Deathly Hallows, MallRats, Isla Fisher vs. Amy Adams, Space coats, Adam Elliott, The Foot Fist Way, A book report on “The Voyage Home”, TV shows that take a left turn, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jason Lee, post-apocalyptic Bruce Campbell, and buying eight sweaters.

(Note to Lauren Graham: the title card for this episode was made in good fun as a loving [literally] tribute. Please don't be creeped out. Happy Holidays!)

Movie Meltdown - Episode 105

Sit in with this week's special guest co-host Joe Bob Briggs as we discuss our Sofa Theater feature: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

All that plus…a Chattanooga boy, where’s Osama hiding?, being attacked by feminists, The Bone Room, trying to collect every movie ever made, the French like weird things, Tobe Hooper, the scary family in the woods, left-wing hippy movies, horrifying and funny simultaneously, nobody over 30 is to be trusted, Hansel and Gretel, making a Fellini movie in Texas?, Daniel Pearl, getting the Mafia to distribute your movie, counter-culture hippy movies, demonizing the patriarchy, narcing on Peter, Paul and Mary, Northwest Connecticut rednecks, agonizingly uneven, the ultimate perversion of Thanksgiving dinner, The Museum of Modern Art, the least influential horror movie, Matthew McConaughey, the most boring job in the world, working on the two greatest cannibal movies, the new-school bone collectors and one of the greatest shots in cinema history!

Plus check out everything from Joe Bob at his website: http://joebobbriggs.com/

WARNING: Spoiler alert for Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but if you haven’t seen it yet...can you truly call yourself a horror fan?

Movie Meltdown - Episode 104

Join us for our Thanksgiving "Special" which includes unleashing the Thanksgiving dinner known as...TURKZILLA! Plus this week's Sofa Theater feature: ThanksKilling. Eventually our minds begin to get groggy…maybe it was all the tryptophan?

But before we nod off in front of the television, we mention…trying to track down the Sta-Puf pin-up girl, The Wild Angels, another threat towards Gwyneth Paltrow, the Feldman look-a-like legend continues, another rant about When Harry Met Sally, Thai drive-ins?, hatin’ on Uwe Boll,the time of the month marathon, DemiUrge Emesis, the first autistic superhero, needing to be friends with a midget, what member of the cast is getting a sex change?, Danny Elfman, The Good, The Bad and the Weird, pissing off mules, The C-Team, American Pickers, going to the theater with George Takei, Cee Lo, Marlena’s secret TV show, United Monster Talent Agency, Night of the Living Trekkies, BloodRayne 3: The Third Reich, sleeping through an MST3K marathon, just the right amount of ridiculous, being stranded in Bloomington, reading 11 books, The Indiana Theater, Survivors, a pop-up book club, more Frozen complaints, Blubberella, Night of the Punks, The Light Before Christmas, kicking ass in Chocolate, casual Feldman, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and an old guy that looked like E.T.

Movie Meltdown - Episode 103

Join us as we embark on another epic roadtrip as we head to HorrorHound in Cincinnati. Where we interview Dean Cameron (Summer School's CHAINSAW!) and we also feature a Sofa Theater segment which can only be titled: When Bryan Met Danielle. Quite possibly because it features our special guest co-host Danielle Harris sitting in to discuss a movie that may frighten many listeners more than any movie we've even discussed before. Be afraid, be very afraid.

All that plus we meet up with our own beloved Randy, hang out with some of the crew from NOTLP, and finally put actual faces to the icons of our Twitter and Palavr friends. Plus field trips to Jungle Jim's International Market (imagine if you cross a Whole Foods with a Chuck E. Cheese!) and La Rosa's Pizzeria.

And if that wasn't enough...Remember the Daze, playing SkeeBall, a lady with a mustache, Jonathan Breck and Jeepers Creepers 3, buying a stun guy, In the Mouth of Madness, trying to escape the movie, Coreyoke, a giant block of cheese, Amber Heard, Hayden Christensen is your paperboy, setting up all your plastic army men, ya damned chalkies, Whip It, what to do if Mark Harmon has a thing for you, a barrel pickel, sharping his machetes outside of our hotel room, Steel Panther, a map of beer and wine, Frozen, Cholos, an anti Meg Ryan/Chick Flick rant, being obsessed with The Poseidon Adventure, don’t ever stay at the Cloud Nine, a giant evil can of soup, Hatchet 2, PuppetMaster, Jesus Camp, being the new Spicoli, passive agressive corn, ice cream that makes you fit, leaving your mom on Beale Street, mechanical Elvis Bear?, Danielle stun gunning Bryan, that’s what you get for going skiing, Nigerian Spam Scam Scam, going to Memphis, and last but not least...hookers in the snow.

"Have you been to a HorrorHound? It's wall-to-wall people, and a lot of them are moist."

Movie Meltdown - Episode 102

Join us for our road trip to ScareFest as we discuss our usual array of geeky topics, as well as interviews with George Kosana, John Amplas, George "The Animal" Steele and co-creator of Night of the Living Dead - John Russo! Plus a special threatening message from Danny Trejo! Load up the car, here we go...

And along the way… REC, Amy Sedaris, Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus, not taking Leslie Nielsen seriously, a beat up Chevy truck in Elizabeth Pennsylvania, the Harry Potter movies, Machete, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, dreaming of Luke Wilson, Creepshow, an accidental smorgasbord, the ghost of Steve Irwin, the very first nickelodeon, Akira, Baz Luhrmann, a pro wrestler with a master’s degree, cutting the fangs off some vampire teeth, a very “special” movie experience, Timothy Olyphant might need an enima, David Sedaris, The Walking Dead, Paranormal State, Sometimes They Come Back, Dracula, Yo Gabba Gabba, getting your pong read, making Night of the Living Dead, an official ghost hunting vest, angry letters from stingrays, writing Return of the Living Dead, Zac Efron, Jeff Dunham, Harry and the Potters, pot-smokin’ mothers, The Crazies and why does every movie these days have to have either Leonardo Dicaprio or Scarlett Johansen - or both!

“Night of the Living Dead is sort of like Stagecoach with zombies instead of Indians.”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 101

This episode Bryan is joined by special guest comedian and movie fan Don Reese. Together they talk about comedy, monsters, Hammer babes and all the orange goo that comes with this week's Sofa Theater feature: Tremors.

All that, plus they get sidetracked on…giving the gift of permanent disfigurement, a one-legged priest, Iron Man, Bill Cosby, avoiding adulthood, Bowfinger, ripping a guy’s stomach open, labor pains, the definition of “hip”, Candace Hilligoss, dad hatin’ on comics, They Live, movies with taco sauce on them, Van Helsing, Ed Harris, Mad Max, The Graduate 2, Richard E. Cunha, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Adam Sandler, Dawn of the Dead, crushin’ on Caroline Munro, bean counters throwing buzz words into a hat, Romero movies, Bat-nipples, Lake Placid, WWF, The Atomic Submarine, Used Cars, comedy in stadiums, The Monster Bash, The Mummy movies, CGI, The Monster Squad, 12-year-olds in business suits, shaving your head, The Big Picture, Bradford Dillman could do it all, SNL, Carnival of Souls, over-kill with villians, Escape from L.A., The Wolfman, the lost art of the comedy film, Land of the Dead, John Carpenter and post-apocalyptic Kevin Costner.

Don is a great guy and even better he has great taste in movies! So check out his schedule and go see him perform live - http://www.donreese.com/

Movie Meltdown - Episode 100.2

Our epic 100th episode/I Got A Rock Halloween Special continues with this week's Sofa Theater feature: Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. Including a series explanation from Tom Atkins!

Plus we try to figure out how many ways we can shove Halloween candy into our faces. Why pulpy orange juice and electronics don‘t mix. The secret joy of smelling your new Halloween costumes. All that plus the confusion that can only be brought on by microchips and rock dust.

“Well hell, if I knew that’s all it was gonna take to disintegrate kid’s faces I would have done this a long time ago.”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 100.1 

Join us for this year's "I Got a Rock" Halloween special, where the tradition of getting hopped up on Halloween candy continues as well as discussions of awesome Ben Cooper costumes and actually seeing creepy Cryptids!

 All that, plus the HORROR of...Gwyneth Paltrow’s face, manbearpig, not dropping your favorite cousin, depressing a baby with Ziggy, sitting in traffic, directing Superman, Mike Myers, even more Top Gun, F-The Family Circus, tearing down out theaters, Pokey Lafarge and Misty’s best friend Ryan, pickles, bees as a vibrator, balls coming at your face in 3D, no means no - even in cartoons, The Brothers Bloom, Eddy of Th’ Empires, getting attacked by a little girl in an alley, re-location of The Duke boys.., dancing Thriller, Shiver, Devil, House of 1000 Corpses, Angelina Jolie, The Muppets, Pepe le Pew, traumatizing kids through The Lion King, Cat Power with accordions, lookin’ like Heath Ledger, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, choose-your-own-philosophy, getting hugged by a random kid, mozzarella sticks, The Mystery of Irma Vep, scuttlebutt, sleeping through Guffman, pizza, Cleopatra, being mad about Michelle Williams, NOT pummeling small children, a hot dog, Dark Dark Dark, Gunnar Hansen, funnel cake and he touched it with his suck.

“Crack or candy corn - same thing."

Movie Meltdown - Episode 99

With this week's Sofa Theater feature we delve into childish humor and childhood trauma as we take a look at DERRICK comedy's first feature film - Mystery Team. Not only do we discover a great movie with an infectious sense of humor, but along the way we find an impressive script, amazing performances and we may just stumble across a little more truth in this movie than we are comfortable with.

Plus we also feature an interesting and informative interview with the film's director - Dan Eckman.

WARNING: Spoiler alert for some key moments, so if you haven't seen it yet...go get yourself a copy!   http://mysteryteam-movie.com/

“How much can we laugh at these characters? Because there’s part of me that‘s always gonna be that 7-year old little kid.”