MM43 - Punks & Bad Boys
Greetings Horror Sickos,
Listener, please light a circle of candles and begin to scrawl out the ancient sigils in salt, and begin the accursed chant … “Let’s All Go to the Lobby, Let’s All Go to the Lobby, and Grab Ourselves a Snack”
That’s right! Spooky season is upon us and to inaugurate another edition of Ghoulvie Screamset Horrortober, Will Massacre and Hexa Deni are back with a selection of abominable and morally ruinous films.
First up, in Return of the Living Dead (O’Bannon, 1985) an assortment of punks, working stiffs and slobs accidentally expose themselves to zombie gas and help bring out the nuclear bombing of Louisville, Kentucky in this documentary about a real thing that actually happened. This hilarious and goofball horror film asks two existentially terrifying questions: What if you could feel every second of being dead? And, do you want to PARRRR-TAY!!!
Then in The Blob (Russell, 1988), a sci fi classic gets a grisly and unforgettable remake that features Kevin Dillon playing an motorcycle riding bad boy who smokes cigs, wears a leather jacket and has to save the small town that rejects him for being too cool from a giant blob that digests and dissolves everything in its path.
This episode is free, but the rest of Ghoulvie Screamset Season 3 will be paywalled!
Comments (82)
just give hesse the third mic already!
Period.
Favorite Shawnee Smith. Movie has gotta be Who’s Harry Crumb?
will wanting to be able to say periodt like hesse is so cute
Donovan Leitch was also in the 90s band Nancy Boy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Boy_%28album%29?wprov=sfla1
It’s kind of wild that with the whole thing of Ernie being a former Nazi that his current job is running a crematorium oven. Stick to what you know, I guess.
Tarsem Singh was in fact inspired by Damien Hirst for the whole horse part of The Cell 🐴 Hesse—thanks for all the 80s Zombie casting, helped me paint a mental picture 🎦
Classic small town activity—hitting a vagrant with your huge car
It’s impressive how little you have to say about these movies that I love, outside of a half baked plot summary. Stick to reading the news and describing the plots of right wing movies no one wants to see.
Hey man, you’re leaving out all the recited IMDb trivia
Anyone else think that they completely got the whole ‘Brains!’ thing from the Misfits song, ‘Brain Eaters’? Another reason there should be a statue of that band in Lodi, NJ (across the street from The Bing of course)
Anyone have a good suggestion for dvd finds online? Local didn't have these where I checked.
Sometimes your local library? Though these movies are super old.
That's gooped up yo
Return of the Living Dead anticipated Integrated Information Theory.
in the pre-graveyard scene doesn't the kid who's never seen one justify by being like "I've never known somebody who's died" lol
🎷🎺 BEWARE OF THE BLOB 🎷🎺
This is great and all but where is the Lynch episode I will not rest until there is justice. (Also amazing they used the og blob theme)
Y’all know I’m cranking that 50’s era Blob theme at a Halloween party this year
Not even exaggerating that Ghoulvie Screamset is one of my favorite parts of October and I have started looking forward to it throughout the year, to the point where I come back to the episodes multiple times when I'm doing chores or working around the property. Just wanted to say thanks to you two for giving me all the chills and spills every year!
I don't know if I should be surprised or not surprised that the actor who played Scuz (Brian Peck) was not mentioned at all this episode. I get it if for not giving him an ounce of attention due to his heinous crimes but it's one of those things that is in the forefront of my mind when I think about this movie
Pretty sure one of the ROTLD punks has an eraserhead pin on his jacket so counting that as two jack nance appearances for this episode
That blob really is a fucker
Did he return the ratchet set?
Am I the only one who thinks you can hear the Taco Bell "dong" in Return of The Living Dead's main theme?
Had the exact same thought!! I assumed it was Will/Hesse fucking with me, lol.
I noticed that the premise of Return of the Living Dead is pretty much Resident Evil 1 and 2. Airborne chemical infection, and the city is nuked at the end.
Perioddddd
You think this is a costume? This is a way of life.
Clu Gulager's last role is in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he's the bookseller in the brief scene where Sharon Tate picks up a copy of Tess of the d'Urbervilles as a gift for Roman Polanski. He says something like "Now that's a book", it's really sweet seeing him.
I love these so much. My favorite part of October.
Wasn't Del Close also the guy who invented all the improvisatory-method bullshit that became Second City and UCB?
Frank Collison looks like half of Eric Roberts's chromosomes
Ok yall are killing me- how do you not at least mention Return 2?! The sequel where they literally bring back Clu and the other actor - Freddy and Frank- as different characters doing the same routine but this time as graverobbers. And the scene where his girlfriend does give up her brains this time- it’s great! Not as good - but I can’t think of another movie where the sequel brings back 2 of the same actors but as different characters inside the same universe. It’s nuts. Maybe we will get a whole episode on that one at some point.
I do love it when series pull a Road warrior / thunderdome where the same actor plays 2 different characters that are basically the same, but aren't, in two different movies.
everything but the hole is actually one of my favourite 90s electro pop groups
Del Close. My God the casual way you just gloss over the guru of improv, the guy who — along with Elaine May — gave us “yes, and.” The man who introduced John Belushi and Chris Farley to heroin. Taught Bill Murray “wear a character lightly, like a raincoat.” Shame.
Wow I had no idea! Thanks for sharing this- I thought I knew him from some other aspect/world
College and beyond in LA in 2004-2007ish I had a friend whose roommate had a 70 inch flatscreen and an insane DVD collection. He wrote a coffee table book on Halloween (the movie). During the spooky season they would have 6 or 7 gays over for a movie night every Wednesday. It was the realest social routine I had as a young city gay. This is one (RotLD) of the few standouts we watched. It taught me so much about how things in movies were ridiculous or campy on purpose. The tone/perspective of this movie was so novel for a dumb young OC-raised twink like me. Great ep!
im not understanding this well.. When it says the rest of the episodes are paywalled, does that include to those who have signed for the 5$ month subscription to Chapo or will we have access? Or is that an extra purchase that must be made?
if you pay for Chapo on patreon you will get everything that's released unless it's explicitly stated that it won't be part of the feed, which is insanely rare
Yes Hexa! It’s literally one of the most horrific concepts ever- you can’t die, you feel everything. Fucking awful!
Everybody go look Up an amazing band please- Zombies!Organize!! “Trioxin” It’s literally the whole plot of the movie and it’s soooooooooooooo good. Great band overall, if you’re into electronic cute girl voice but trash rap/punk. It’s great.
Thank you so much for sharing that!
Wishmaster mentioned! I wish they'd cover that movie next October...
Karl Pilkington reference! Clu Gulager probably best in The Killers with Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes and Ronald Reagan, who already looks like a corpse warmed up in 1964. Gulager also made an acclaimed and extremely fucked up short horror movie of his own, called A Day With the Boys - seems to have been his only outing as a director. Only 18 minutes, well worth checking out this sweaty autumn.
To live or to die, the answer is more brain
i love movie mindset! peeeerrioooddd!!
Gotta mention Candy Clark shows up in Twin Peaks The Return, still cast by Johanna Rey, as Robert Forster's angry and unhinged wife - another character screaming into the void and being completely ignored or dismissed.
I saw The Blob for the first time earlier this year and was honestly kind of blown away by it. The effects are incredible and the mean-spiritedness of it really caught me off-guard. The nicest people in the movie suffer the most!
You may also know the government guy in The Blob that tells Meadows it's growing at a geometric rate as Terry Bruge-Hiplo of Tim and Eric fame
As a Louisville resident, I support the ending of Return of the Living Dead. And RLM did a Re:View of the Blob (1989) a couple years ago which would make a good companion to any rewatch.
Love this movie so much. Blew my 13 year old mind. Classic soundtrack. Return of the living dead, repo man, and burst city. 3 best punxsploitation films. Highly recommend Burst city. Features one of Japan's best 70s / 80s punk bands ... the Stalin.
Don't hate these but I don't think Hesse really adds anything. Don't get the appeal. Just a second Will calling everything so sick. Co-host needs to be someone who knows something about the technical side of movies or at least can talk about character and dramatic structure or whatever.
Wah wah, unsubscribe about it
Big day for people who enjoy when Hesse says “Okay.”
I never noticed that line about Indian skeletons, and I have no clue if it was any kind of treaty, but my mom physical anthropology and confirmed that most skeletons at that time did in fact come from India lol
Oh hell ya Ghoulvie Screamset back
pretty sure these chapo fuckers are just copying my hooptober list at this point
VICTORY!!!!
Do links work in these comments? Ernst Karlenbrunner was a lesser-known but still ultra-evil Nazi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Kaltenbrunner
(not) fun fact - the character "scuz" in ROTLD is played by brian peck, a notorious child-molester who was a big part of that Quiet on Set documentary from last year and was a good pal of bryan singer.
The Blob remake is so so good and I'm always amazed at how it often does not get discussed with the greats of practical effects cinema. That and From Beyond both should be taught in elementary school
Starts episode, straight away goes to lobby (my kitchen) to get myself a treat (cinnamon roll)
you can really tell will is straight - physiologically banned from saying "purriod"
Haven’t listened yet but I’ve got a feeling it’s giving Rodney Dangerfield?
I have reason to believe we'll all get ourselves a treat in the lobby
Haven't felt this excited since the DuckTales release for Nintendo
This episode better meet Hegseth physical requirements
If you want a real horror story, go peek a looksie at our,,, politicians; lmao! When will those Beltway fatcats ever learn. lol??
Sorry, I just miss the schlocky Beltway Garage intros.
Hype as fuck. Love this series.
Return of the living Dead is the GOAT, sorry Romero
Return of the Living Dead, one of those movies I saw when I was way too young because I had an older brother and it only got better when I grew up
The only thing scarier than seeing a skeleton is seeing a skeleton and he’s also flipping off the camera.
GHOULVIE SCREAMSET SEASON
I think I heard one or two of the ROTLD sequels is pretty good, can anyone confirm? chat?
3 is fascinating, directed by Brian Yuzna. I've only ever watched rotld 2 with the sound off from VHS, I'm not sure itt was as compelling as the others
Eating good on the Chapo premium feed lately.
DELICIOUS THINGS TO EAT 🗣️🍿🍫🍬
Will is the delicious thing to eat if you know what I'm saying
I'm running to the Lobby and gettin my self a treat