Folks, episode 79 comes out this Saturday! 1983s Deathstalker, with Candor Pastry Stout, generously provided by @courtavebrew. Check out Boris Vallejo's cover art. It's so cool. Back in the 80s, pre internet, this was click bait. You saw this at the video rental store and thought, Wow, this must be awesome. Then you rent it, watch it, and that scene never happens. This Conan wannabe built a following, but not for the reasons the filmmakers thought. It's a total hoot, and fun discussion....

 Episode 78 this Saturday, Trouble Man, with Manhattan Beach Hazy IPA, which was kindly provided by our pals at @culturebrewingco_la. Mr. T is a neighborhood fixer. He's cool, smooth, dresses like a champ and takes no crap from nobody. When a couple of gangsters try to set him up, you can imagine how that goes for them. It also rocks a fantastic film score from Marvin Gaye, so you know this one doesn't miss. We paired it up with a local beer teeming with fruity flavor, which only made sense,...

This Saturday episode 77 crashes onto the podcast. 1948's He Walked by Night, with Tag Grapefruit Wheat from @lionbridgebrew. Is this a film noir, or a police procedural? We have our opinions about this gritty picture based on a true story. Richard Basehart is a nogoodnik cruising the streets of Los Angeles, burgling and killing, while the police use state of the art methods to track him. Joe Friday himself, Jack Webb, was so inspired by his participation in this one that it led to the...

Stuart Gordon's over the top Lovecraft adaptation Re-Animator, with the delicious Black Lager, which was kindly provided by the friendly folks at @clockhousebrewing. What can we say that hasn't been said about this one. Herbert West is a slightly disturbed young medical student with one goal: bring the dead back from the point of no return. Nothing could possibly go wrong, right? Jeffrey Combs owns this character. He carries a brilliant combination of confidence, arrogance and deeply...

Folks, episode 75 is a fun one. 1981's Dead and Buried, with Lights Out Black IPA, which our friends at @farfieldbeer in Lawndale gave us. A zombie/Lovecraftian picture set in the fictional Northeast town of Potters Bluff, it stars James Farentino as the local sheriff investigating some mysterious deaths. There's all manner of weirdness in this little town, and director Gary Sherman creates an atmosphere of dread throughout. Special effects legend is set loose to do some really fun stuff,...

Episode 74 is headed your way, pedal to the metal. 1982's The Junkman, with a couple beers generously provided by our Midwest friends at @potosibrewingco. H.B. Halicki, the action auteur who never met a car he didn't crash, basically plays himself, and gets hounded all over Central California by assassins in cars and planes. It's thin on plot, but who cares, it's all about crashing cars and fun stunts. Paired with this are two beers: River Rocker Funday IPA and Cave Ale Amber. Dial us in this...

New episode this Saturday! 1946's eerie psychological horror picture The Beast With Five Fingers, paired up with a flight of three beers from the generous folks at @bhbc. Robert Alda, Andrea King and Peter Lorre star in this one about a piano maestro who dies, and the return of his severed hand for revenge from the grave. Or is it? It keeps you guessing right up until the end. We have a Standard Ale, blonde Ale and Strawberry Daze, a blonde ale with strawberries. It's atmospheric horror from...

Episode 71 drops this Saturday! 1971's The Blood on Satan's Claw, with a trio of beers provided by our friends at @portbrewing. It's 18th century rural England, and something monstrous has been tilled up in a field. Now, the local children have become a murderous band, collecting bodies and samples of Satan's Skin for their master. To pair with this lighthearted romp, we Wipeout and High Tide, two IPAs, and Mongo double IPA from a fun excursion to San Marcos. Be sure to join us for another...

Billy Jack, episode 71, with The 4 Year Beer, from @foursilosbrewery. Tom Laughlin starred, directed and wrote, along with his wife Delores the story of Billy, a Vietnam vet who retreats back to his desert roots, trying to leave society behind, but drawn to protect a school for troubled youths. Billy's not much for diplomacy, preferring to let his feet do the talking. It's early 70s message movie paired with a crushable session IPA celebrating a four year anniversary from Four Silos, out of...

Episode 70 blasts off! Beyond the Time Barrier, with Vice Apricot Peach Berliner Weisse @wildbarrelbrewing kindly provided. This 1960 scifi adventure tells the story of a pilot who accidentally finds himself 64 years in the future, to 2024. Earth is a barren wasteland due to nuclear testing that destroyed the protective layer around the planet, allowing cosmic radiation to bombard the surface. Most of the population fled for Mars, and the rest moved underground. We paired it with this tart,...

This week we're swinging into swashbuckling territory, with 1954's The Saracen Blade, and Toasted Coconut Porter that @jubeck_brewing generously provided. Episode 69 gives us Ricardo Montalban as Pietro, the swaggering hero, born a common man, who seeks nothing but revenge against those who've wronged him. Director William Castle, known more for gimmicky Sci fi/horror, helms this attempt to cash in on the sweeping epics of the time, and we're pairing it with a sweet, roasty porter that goes...

This Saturday, episode 68 drops, and it's a fun one. Q: The Winged Serpent, Larry Cohen's 1982 monster picture/police procedural, with Q barrel aged Stout, kindly provided by @ogopogobrewing. There's a monster flying around New York eating folks, and the only person who knows where it lives is a small time crook with less than zero scruples. Michael Moriarty, David Carradine and Richard Roundtree are all in fine form, and so is this Stout, which is aged for 11 months in Woodford Reserve and...

This week we wrap up October with another horror movie, 1978's weird, freaky Blue Sunshine, with Landlocked Blues Sour, a collaboration from @backpocketbrewing and @morebrewing, which the fine folks at @backpocketdbq were kind enough to provide. People are suddenly losing their hair and freaking out. And by freaking out, they savagely attack and murder other people. After being wrongly accused of murdering three women, Jerry Zipkin goes on the run to prove he's innocent. This leads him to Ed...

It's zombies, zombies, zombies! Episode 66 is a new special episode, Zombies, with a trio of tasty beers provided by our friends at @potosibrewingco. Zombie movies have been around forever, and like most of you, we're huge fans. Slow walkers or runners, supernatural or created by science, we're trying to cover as much as we can, with the help of Lux Premium Lager, Steamboat Shandy and Snake Hollow IPA. Zombies, Beer and October, what could be better? Join us Saturday.  Thanks for...

Our new episode, The Dunwich Horror, with NoHo BoHo Czech Style Pilsner, kindly given to us by North Hollywood's @lawlessbeer drops this Saturday. H.P. Lovecraft's insane story gets the Roger Corman/AIP treatment in this 1970 horror picture that kicks off shOctober. Dean Stockwell is Wilbur Whateley, the shunned weirdo of the shunned Whateley clan of Dunwich. And honestly, he should be shunned. He wants to open a portal to bring "The Old Ones" into our dimension, which ain't gonna be good for...

1965's dark neo noir Who Killed Teddy Bear, with four tasty beers @prbrewing, from Decorah, IA gave us. Sal Mineo is a disturbed young man peeping and making vulgar phone calls to his coworker. The menace escalates, a lot of topics that were taboo at the time are examined, and the ending is definitely not happy. Fortunately, we have four beers to ease us along: B.T.O. Amber Bock, Plomme Saison, Catchin' a Buzz Kölsch and Upper Iowa Common. Tune in Saturday. Thanks for listening! Check out...

We're back in the comforting waters of AIP this Saturday, with episode 63, The Brain Eaters, with Peach Dreams Milkshake IPA from our good friends at @textilebrews. A mysterious cone pops up outside the quiet town of Riverdale, IL, and at the same time animals are turning up dead, citizens go missing, then return acting very strange, and the government sends epic blowhard Walter K. Powers to suss out the doings. It's the Red Scare era, so the subtext of Communist Russia hangs over everything....

We're doing another "nature run amok" film this Saturday, with episode 62, 1980s Alligator, with Crack That Wit, from @whittierbrewingco. A little girl has a pet alligator that her grump of a father flushes down the toilet. Flash forward 10 years, and that little rascal has been feasting on animals pumped full of weird chemicals from the Slade corporation. And it's over 30 long and angry. Angry. It's up to Det. David Madison to save the day. It's smart, funny, with nice scares. John Sayles...

We are back this Saturday with episode 61, 1977's Kingdom of the Spiders, with Tarantula Hill IPA, generously provided by @tarantulahillbrewingco, from Thousand Oaks. Part of the "nature runs amok" sub-genre of the 1970s, spiders up their game after humans have killed most of their natural prey with pesticides. So, they descend on peaceful Verde Valley and start taking down larger animals: like full grown bulls. You can tell by the poster you're in for some epic William Shatner acting. We...

Herschell Gordon Lewis's 1967 picture Something Weird, with Saturday Night Pants wheat ale and 1923 kölsch generously provided by our friends at Millstream Brewing in the Amana Colonies. A Faustian bargain is made, a serial killer is tracked in Wisconsin, and there's even a ghost haunting a church. It's Herschell Gordon Lewis, so it's cheap and weird, but the beer is great! Join us. Thanks for listening! Check out our website SUBSCRIBE: to the show on Apple Podcast  or Google Play. You can...

This Saturday, 1988's The Undertaker, with X-Ray Specs, from @strandbrewingco. Joe Spinell, in his final role, stars as Roscoe, the truly unnerving killer in this lost, never finished film. Roscoe's motives are never really clear, but the body count keeps growing. We paired this with a creamy stout, brewed with coconut and cocoa nibs, that Strand generously provided for the episode. It's a trip, and one we hope you take Thanks for listening! Check out our website SUBSCRIBE: to the show...

This Saturday, episode 58, The City of the Dead drops, with Weekend Escape West Coast IPA from @smogcitybeer and @topatopabrewingco. A witch is burned at the stake in 1692, and curses the villagers that did it. Flash forward to 1960, and Christopher Lee directs one of his students to Whitewood, Mass to continue her studies. Bummer for her that the village is populated by a coven of Witches. It's eerie, creepy stuff, paired with a light, easy drinking west coast IPA Smog City generously...

This Saturday, 1944's The Uninvited, with Castle Dangerous from @yorkshiresquarebrewery. A beautifully shot haunted house tale with dark family history thrown in, paired with a rich, deep, dark stout generously provided by Yorkshire Square, out of Torrance, we're going to the shores of Cornwall and a very troubled house. Join us. Thanks for listening! Check out our website SUBSCRIBE: to the show on Apple Podcast  or Google Play. You can also find us on Audible, Stitcher, Spotify,...

Wild in the Streets is up next. Episode 56, this Saturday, paired with Confuzzled Wild Ale with Mango, Guava and Pineapple, from @cellador_ales. Max Frost is a powerful, groovy young singer and entrepreneur, with a bold idea. Lower the voting age to 14, make 30 mandatory retirement and ship everyone off to camps to be dosed with LSD at 35. The hippie utopia takes a really bizarre turn in this 1968 counterculture musical, and we paired it up with a bright, flavorful beer kindly provided by...

Boy, oh boy, do we have a fun one this Saturday. Episode 55, and it's 1978's Starcrash, with Unlikely Couple DIPA, a collaboration from @tortugobrewing and @amarokbrewing. This unabashed ripoff of Star Wars has Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, and David Hasselhoff. The beer, generously provided by the fine folks at Tortugo, is a smooth, fruity west coast double that matches up with the silly fun of watching the actors deliver some truly odd lines with straight faces. Christopher Plummer,...