Low Stakes Horror

     This week- a classic gothic horror from England and a, uh, different type of classic for a very dedicated type of audience.
     In 1885, self proclaimed librarian Jonathan Harker arrives take charge of some books at a lonely castle. Mr. Harker didn't tell anyone that his real job is vampire hunter and the noble whose books he used as cover is named Dracula. Things don't work out as planned and soon Dr. Van Helsing goes to find Harker while Dracula goes to find Harker's friends in England. Hammer's first entry in it's take on Bram Stoker's fangy fiend, Dracula (aka Horror of Dracula).
     In 1995, a shlub whose barely holding on to his job taking family portraits finds himself being called to be a hero. When he and five others are trapped inside a building by a mischievous spirit from the distant past. Will our shutterbug step up or will the sun rise on the building only inhabited by the dead? The middle entry in Donald G Jackson's puppet trilogy starring Joe Estevez and Conrad Brooks, Baby Ghost.
     All that and... three of us fall into unrelenting cinematic despair while Craig cackles from his hidden fortress's throne room. Join us, won't you?

    Episode 357- Low Stakes Horror

Milicent and Other Universal Monsters

     This week- children of the night, voyeurism as meet cute, a wedding interrupted by vigilantism, and a 68-year old wrong.
     A nobleman, from a dilapidated castle in Southeastern Europe, buys a dilapidated building in London, which once housed monks, next to the worst run asylum of its time. The nobleman soon makes a small splash with the neighbors and both young women at the asylum begin to take up his unusual habit of vampirism to differing degrees. Ah, the precode children of the night, what beautiful music they make.... Dracula.
     A different nobleman, this time from Germany, tried to hide away in a lonely location to finish the work he is obsessed with. This location is an easy and short walk from the town he and everyone he has ever known lives. Tragically, he hires an assistant of questionable competency with a cruel streak, allows himself to be distracted from the proper care and maintenance of his scientific endeavor, and keeps delegating important tasks to incompetents. His monster running loose in the hills is really the fault of... Frankenstein.
     A third nobleman, this one just returned home to Wales after nearly two decades in California, uses his father's new telescope to check out women from the village. After some light creeping, he badgers an engaged retail clerk to go with him to see the fortuneteller, Bela. The clerk wisely decides to bring a friend along on her forced trip. Unfortunately, the friend is killed by a wolf, a cursed wolf. If only our entitled perv listened to the rhyme everyone in town is happy to recite at a moments notice. A poem about... The Wolf Man.
     Doctor David dreams of lungfish. When his mentor uncovers a fossilized hand that shows a direct link between land and sea animals, David, his girlfriend of 6 months, and their boss go to help recover the rest of the artifact. Following the river to the most logical place to find the missing pieces. Before long, they will find their quarry might have a still very active... Creature from the Black Lagoon.
     Join us, won't we?
   Episode 281- Milicent and Other Universal Monsters