Yipee-Ki-Yay Mr Falcon

WOLFMAN'S GOT NARDS!!!! There are two kinds of people who grew up in the late 1980s and 90s: Goonies people, and Monster Squad people. Dave and Tom are most definitely Monster Squad people. 
This movie started off as a reboot of the classic Universal monsters: Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Wolfman, The Gillman (The Creature from the Black Lagoon), and the Mummy, in classic monster-meet-up fashion. Universal didn't come through, so instead, we got The Monster Squad (1987) with new interpretations of those OG nightmare fuel baddies from Rick Baker packaged in the ultimate adventure movie for tween boys.
The squad has nothing but each other, an ancient amulet, Abraham Van Helsing's journal, and a scary German guy to go up against Dracula and the forces of darkness! So grab you stakes and your bow, your silver bullets and your "virgin" older sister, and listen now! ROCK UNTIL YOU DROP! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Director: Fred DekkerStarring: Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan, Andre Gower, Jon Gries

If you know, you know. If you don't, then when you get the THAT scene in Bone Tomahawk (2015), you're gonna know. But this flick isn't all about that one scene. The horror is wrapped in an extremely solid Western deftly acted by a tremendous cast. It's also absolutely insane and will have you peeking through the gap in your fingers more than once.
Take any movie about a posse heading out of town to rescue one of their own, mix it with a good dose of The Hills Have Eyes, and throw in a generous pinch of body horror and you're in for a horror movie marathon gem that nobody will see coming. 
 
Cast includes: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, and Lili Simmons. 

Monster Movies! They're the cornerstone of any nutritious Halloween season breakfast. What's your favorite "monster movie"? Dave and Tom throw up their picks and then move on to a couple of super niche werewolf movies from the 1980s: Wolfen (1983) and Silver Bullet (1985).
One features Albert Finney, his tremendous flowing mane, his impeccable fashion sense, going up against a pack of super smart wolf creatures prowling a decaying New York City with Gregory Hines as his sidekick.
The other stars a Jim Beam-swilling Gary Busey, a way-before-Lost-Boys Corey Haim, and a werewolf that's basically just a dude in a bear suit with a badly taxidermied head. But Dave loves this Stephen King adaptation anyway — for very specific reasons. HAPPY HALLOWEEN MR. FALCONERS! #halloween #monstermovies #horrorpodcast #podcast #moviepodcast #ykymrfalcon
*With Original Tunes by Tom!

Ah slasher movies  — a gem of a horror subgenre born of the exploitation flicks of the 1970s and then the sequel crazy home video horror machine of the 1980s. There's a lot to laugh about, and a lot to make fun of, but these characters have stuck around through decades, endless sequels, remakes, and reboots — and they just won't die! We take a look at why and we pick our favorites! 

Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Wolf Man (1941), The Mummy (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) — while Universal Studios certainly had more monsters in its catalog back in the 1940s and 1950s, that was the core group that changed cinema and created horror cinema — with sound.
These classics followed a path blazed by early silent movies like Nosferatu and Phantom of the Opera. When the films had begun to grow moldy, they were revived on TV for a new generation of viewers in the 1960s with Shock Theater.
These characters have endured, and so have these original, fantastic films. Find out why we make these Universal Studios Classic Monsters a part of our Halloween movie marathons every year. 

Since Saving Private Ryan premiered in 1998, two actors with small parts have been causing confusion among audiences. The German soldier affectionately known as Steamboat Willie whom Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) sets free after being capture by the squad is often though to be the same soldier who brutally stabs Mellish (Adam Goldberg) in the movie's final battle. But it just ain't so. 

Is End of Watch (2012) one of the most underrated buddy-cop movies of all time? Tom gave it a watch — a movie he admits he would probably have never watched on his own — and is back with a first-viewing reaction of this excellent flick from writer and director David Ayer starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena as two LAPD street cops who get way in over their heads when Mexican cartels link up with local gangbangers. And yeah, we talked about that freakin' ending. 

Which is more of a comedy classic, Wayne's World (1992), or The Hangover (2009)? Which is more iconic, There's Something About Mary (1998), or Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)? Which holds up better, American Pie (1999) and Encino Man (1992), or Superbad (2007) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)? We dig through the funniest, gun splitting flicks of the 1990s and the 2000s and see which decade left us with more comedy gold.