Gremlins Scares Us! (And We're Back Back Back Again!)

We're reporting to you from the doldrums of winter, even though now it's the beginning of June!  So travel back in time with us to the dark horrible-ness of January and experience the awesome-ness that is my favorite holiday movie ... Gremlins!

My newest touring play! 

Below is the Orson Welles' Macbeth so you can watch Lady M leap from the mountain, hit the side ... and bounce.

And here is the trailer for We Have Always Lived in the Castle!

For Lindsey -- some Carmilla action!!!

And some Vampire Lovers!

A reminder repost of how amazing Lindsey is with these birds.

Gremlins cereal!  Basically Captain Crunch in, what I'm guessing are supposed to be Mogwais.  Mogwum?

Me with my stuffed Gizmo that I wish was the original that I received for Christmas in 1984.  That one is lost to the ages; this one I picked up in Paducah, Kentucky, while I was in grade school.

Mrs. Deagle's death grimace!  I will own this someday.

More Gremlins merchandise!!!  I had most-to-all of this stuff.

Dammit, Shannon!

I feel like this still exists at my parents' house somewhere ... wonder if I could get it to work?  Anyone ... anyone ...?

Henry Thomas and the woman with one finger from Cloak and Dagger ...and I think that's Roman Castavet from Rosemary's Baby!

The Howling!

Belinda Belaski faces a werewolf in The Howling!  "But Mr. Quist, it's Christmas!"

 

Amazing makeup from The Howling:  Eddie Quist, werewolf extraordinaire. 

C'mon ... it looks so real!!!

When does after midnight become before midnight?

Buy this and read it right now.

The hotness that is Zach Galligan.  I guess I had a very specific type when I was a kid.  Observe Charlie from Fright Night ...

... and David from An American Werewolf in London ...

Oh man.  I really did.

The poster for Ted Geoghegan's We Are Still Here!

See, Katya?  See????

Deputy Brent, then and now.

"I need help, Rose!"

Kate's monologue.  Watch it, we'll wait.

The Coreys.

Tiger Beat, just for you.

Lynn Peltzer versus the Gremlins (don't watch this if you ... you know what, just watch it.  Be a grown up.)

And here's something cool ... a few months after we recorded this episode, I picked up this lunchbox at Time Bomb Collectibles in Spokane, Washington -- check 'em out when you're there!  (And here's Gizmo in his famous pink Barbie car!  Supah dupah queer.  Gizmo as a gay pride icon!)

Here's the Gremlins don't drink and drive PSA (featuring Stripe's awesome death):

Original Gizmo ...

...and Gizmo from Gremlins 2!

FRIGHT NIGHT Scares Us!

Our first remotely recorded episode, and I think its sounds effin phenomenal! Focusing on one of my favorite movies of all time, Tom Holland's 1985 classic Fright Night. 

Let's start with vampire Amy, because she's everything.

Oh god, she's drooling.  She's drooling.

Turns out she's also the creepy face in the clouds above the house in the poster:

And the video tape cover, which I have very vivid memories of examining at a creepy video store in Sidney, Montana.

And she shows up on this gum card wrapper for horror movies that I had in the 80s:

 

Ah, William Ragsdale, our hero -- turns out he was not on Riverdale; he was the dad on Netflix's Alex Strangelove last summer.

C'mon ... HE'S SO CUTE!

And today!  Still so cute.

Amanda Bearse as Amy and Stephen Geoffreys as Evil Ed.

Roddy McDowell (RODDY MCDOWELL, jeez!) as Peter Vincent.

Jerry's awesome vampire makeup -- impaled by a phallic pencil.

Jerry's big gay trench coat.

The seduction of Evil Ed.  Grrrrowr.

The amazing Evil Ed makeup.

Rape culture.

I don't know why I think this sweater is so sexy on him, but I do.

Not found in a gas station.

What is Billy?  Zombie?  Vampire-human hybrid?  Totally in love with Jerry?  Yes.

Amy's makeover.

Dinosaur bat.

Amy the vampire from the 2011 remake.  Shit.  Shit.

How can it compare to the original?  C'mon!