Mike, Shawn, and Pax return to do a "Scary Ghost Stories" holiday episode with special guest Rob Graham.

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club co-host Paxton brandishes his sword and enlists Jaime and Shawn to battle against a crooked cardinal the trio discuss the 1993 swashbuckling action/comedy, The Three Musketeers! All for one and one for all!

In the final episode of Season 5, Pax takes Shawn and Mike through the 1965 Kaiju classic, Invasion of Astro Monster starring Godzilla, Rodan, and King Gidorah.  And maybe a few humans too.

We're celebrating Halloween again on the latest episode of the Cult Film Club and this year we're taking a hard look at the 1987 neo-western horror flick, Near Dark. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring half the cast of Aliens, this vampire flick is a hugely influential cult flick and we're so glad to finally tackle it.

On this week's episode of the Crestwood House, co-host Michael May picks up the daisy chain by choosing another Charles Grodin flick, the 1976 remake of King Kong!

On the seventh episode of season 5 of the Crestwood House, co-host Shawn Robare picks up the daisy chain and follows up from The Fury by picking another movie staring John Cassavetes, the 1968 classic, Rosemary's Baby!

Join us as we discuss the icky husbands, covens, tannis root, and how thankfully the films was a super faithful translation of the book so that we can dismiss the work of the director in favor of the author and actors!

Mike, Shawn, and Pax work their way through an early De Palma thriller, The Fury from 1978, starring John Cassavetes, Kirk Douglas, and Amy Irving.

On the fifth episode of season 5 of the Crestwood House, co-host Michael May picks up the daisy chain and follows up from Theater of Blood by picking a movie with a very similar theme (revenge in the Theater), the 1974 Brian De Palma cult classic, Phantom of the Paradise!

On the fourth episode of season 5 of the Crestwood House, co-host Shawn Robare picks up the daisy chain and follows up from Ten Little Indians by picking a movie starring one of the same cast members, Dennis Price, the 1973 comedy/horror flick Theater of Blood!

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, things get steamy as co-host Jaime drags Paxton and Shawn out to the a strip club for A Night in Heaven, John G. Avildsen's Romantic Drama from 1983.

Mike, Shawn, and Pax continue on their daisy chain journey with a 1965 adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Ten Little Indians.

On the second episode of season 5 of the Crestwood House, co-host Michael May picks up the daisy chain and follows up from The Flesh and the Fiends by picking a movie with a very similar title structure, the 1963 Mario Bava classic, The Whip and the Body!

On the first episode of season 5 of Crestwood House, co-host Shawn Robare kicks off a season of daisy-chained episodes with the lesser known Peter Cushing horror flick The Flesh and the Fiends from 1960!

Crestwood House is back, but before we start the Season 5 proper, we want to take a second and look back at this past season and go over what we covered and what we're hoping to accomplish in this new season. So pop the top on an expired Ecto Cooler, grab some Monster cereal to much on and listen as we discuss Season 4 of the Crestwood House.

Jaime, Shawn, and Pax discuss the infamous Gymkata from 1985 starring gymnast Kurt Thomas!

The Cult Film Club is back after our 100th episode spectacular with one of co-host Shawn's most recent obsessions, the 1980 Al Pachino/William Friedken flick Cruising. Join our hosts as we dissect the film, talk about the rough trade sub culture of early 80s NYC and try and figure out that crazy ending.

On a very special episode, our 100th, Jaime, Pax and Shawn finally tackle a all time favorite film, 1987's Adventures in Babysitting!

Pax takes Jaime and Shawn on a sleigh ride through the Salkinds' Santa Claus the movie starring Dudley Moore and a completely unhinged John Lithgow.

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, co-host Shawn introduces Paxton and Jaime to one of his favorite indie movies from the 90s, the Jim Jarmusch/Forest Whitaker jam Ghost Dog.

On the 2024 season finale of Crestwood House, the gang closes out our silent horror series with arguably the most celebrated early creepy film, the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera!

Since we just covered the 1985 zombie classic Return of the Living Dead on the Cult Film Club, we thought it would be apt to re-release Paxton's I Read Movies episode where he covers the film's novelization written by none other than Night of the Living Dead's John Russo. If you're curious about how the movie might differ from the original script, or how Russo had a darker take on a sequel to NotLD, check out this episode.

On this week's Crestwood House, we're continuing our dive into silent horror as co-host Shawn introduces Pax and Michael to 1921's The Phantom Carriage!

For the 2024 Halloween episode, Pax, Shawn and Jaime decide to watch and discuss the 1985 zombie masterpiece Return of the Living Dead. SEND MORE PODCASTERS!

Pax takes Michael and Shawn along on a Faustian trip of debauchery and redemption with FW Murnau's silent adaptation of Faust.

On the sixth episode of season 4 of The Crestwood House podcast, co-host Michael finishes up our trio of anthology films with the one film that arguably started them all, 1945's Dead of Night. Considered by Martin Scorsese as one of the scariest films of all time, this film follows a group of acquaintances and strangers in a farmhouse as they tell each other scary stories from their lives to try and prove or disprove the existence of the supernatural...

We're breaking into the month of October with the fifth episode of season 4 of the Crestwood House. On this week's episode co-host Shawn regales Michael and Paxton with some Tales From the Crypt, er, at least the 1972 Amicus anthology film.

The guys start a theme of vintage horror anthologies and they start with Amicus' first one, Dr Terror's House of Horrors starring Peter Cushing, Christopher, Lee, Donald Sutherland, and Michael Gough.

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, co-host Jaime takes Shawn and Paxton to a remote desert community to experience some shocking Tremors!

On the third episode of Season 4 of Crestwood House, co-host Michael May finishes up our first trilogy of birthday year movies with a straight banger from 1967, Jack Hills creepy weird classic, Spider Baby. Starring Lon Chaney Jr. & a very young Sid Haig, the film tells the story of the inbred Merrye family and what happens when they're finally found out by the outside world...

On this week's episode of the Crestwood House, co-host Shawn digs back into his birth-year to pull 1977's Japanese weird horror flick House. Toho's supposed answer to Jaws, House is a psychedelic romp through Japanese folklore, post WWII trauma, and what it means to be a modern woman. No really.

Crestwood House returns!  Shawn, Mike, and Pax look back at Season 3 and look forward to Season 4.  Recorded last year.

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, co-host Shawn walks Jaime and Pax through the "Hidden Gem" that is 1987's The Hidden.

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, Jaime takes Paxton and Shawn on a tour of Rooftops, one of the last films by legendary director Robert Wise. It's Capoeira meets West Side Story by way of the 80s, and it's pretty amazing.

On this month's episode of the Cult Film Club, co-host Shawn forces Paxton and Jaime to drive gnarly old trucks full of unstable dynamite across the jungle as we take a deep dive into the 1977 William Friedkin magnum opus Sorcerer.

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, co-host Jaime drops teh zero and gets with the hero as she leads Paxton and Shawn in a discussion of the 1991 disasterpiece, Cool As Ice. Starring Vanilla Ice, this movie is sure to make you cringe with delight.

Shawn, Jaime, and Pax delve into an early comedic role for Tom Hanks, Money Pit, from 1986 co-starring Shelley Long and directed by Richard Benjamin.

On this special Halloween episode of the Cult Film Club, co-host Shawn drags Jaime and Paxton into the world of the Neon Maniacs! This 1986 horror flick is kind of obscure, but has enough fun junk to make it kind of a cult classic. Featuring 12 monstrous killers stalking a handful of local San Francisco teens, the film is full of weird gore, neon goop, and a score and soundtrack right out of a John Tesh concert.

For the final episode of the season, Pax, Mike, and Shawn are joined by Jay from Purple Stuff Podcast to talk about the 1979 Tobe Hooper TV mini-series, Salem's Lot, starring David Soul, James Mason and Bonnie Bedelia.

On this penultimate episode Michael invites comic book artist Brent Schoonover on to talk all about the 1973 art-house horror flick, Messiah of Evil. Featuring the eclectic writing/directing duo of Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz (American Graffiti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Howard the Duck), the film taps into the dark mindset of the nation after the horrific Manson slayings, borrowing from the nihilism of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and the madness of H.P. Lovecraft to create a very eerie and odd film.

Crestwood house is entering the final leg of the 3rd season and for these last three episodes hosts Shawn, Michael and Paxton are inviting guests onto the show to pick some of their favorite classic horror films.

This week Shawn invites his wife and Cult Film Club co-host, Jaime Hood, on to talk all about the 1961 gothic horror flick The Innocents.

Pax takes Mike and Shawn on a tour through The Old Dark House from 1932, starring Boris Karloff, Gloria Stuart, and directed by James Whale.

Michael, Paxton and Shawn are back this week taking a look at another in a series of Old Dark House films. This time Michael leads the conversation on our first silent film, 1926's The Bat.

On the latest episode of the Crestwood House, hosts Shawn, Michael, and Paxton delve into the world of William Castle with his spectral Old Dark House flick 13 Ghosts from 1960.

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, Jaime takes the hosting reins and she leads Shawn and Pax in a discussion of the 60s era throwback beach movie Shag from 1989.

In this episode Mike, Shawn, and Pax work their way through George Romero's third directorial effort, Season of the Witch, from 1972.  Which has a troubled history including being recut into a skin flick called Hungry Wives.

Season Three of the Crestwood House continues as we examine another witchy film this week. Michael May leads the discussion of the 1966 Mario Bava classic, Kill Baby, Kill!

Shawn, Paxton and Michael are back with season 3 of Crestwood House. We're kicking off this season with a tryptic of films centering on witches, and Shawn leads off with the 1967 Russian film Viy.

On this special episode of Crestwood House, hosts Shawn, Paxton and Michael take a look back at season 2, pick some of our favorite films, and talk about how our method of choosing films worked out. We also take some time to discuss our thoughts on how we might tackle the upcoming season 3.

Shawn, Paxton and Jaime are back with another episode of the Cult Film Club. This time Shawn drags the crew out into the open ocean to catch some waves on the North Shore. Headed up by Matt Adler, this 80s surfing flick has a funky soundtrack, great action footage in the waves, and the super rad Nia Peeples.

In this episode hosts Jaime, Shawn and Pax talk about the insane (but insanely awesome) film Electric Dreams from 1984. Boy meets computer. Boy meets girl. Computer meets girl. Love triangle ensues. Your drives will get SO HARD in this love story for the computer age.

This year the Cult Film Club will have dueling Halloween episodes! To play yin to Teen Wolf's yang this month co-host Shawn is stoked to finally talk  about one of his favorite horror film, 1990's oddball horror fantasy flick Nightbreed! Based on a novel by, as well as written and directed by Clive Barker, this flick introduces us to the world of Midian, where the monsters live.

On the final full episode of Crestwood House for season 2, co-host Shawn takes Paxton and Michael to an abandoned farmhouse to discuss the 1968 zombie classic, Night of the Living Dead!

On this episode of Crestwood House Mike, Shawn, and Pax discuss the 1943 Val Louten movie I Walked with a Zombie featuring voodoo zombies!

Crestwood House Season 2 continues this month as Michael follows up the Terrance Fisher directed Hammer flick The Devil Rides Out flick with the similar in theme black magic romp Night of the Demon Starring Dana Andrews!

On the latest Crestwood House episode, Co-Host Shawn takes Paxton and Michael on a perilous journey as they discuss the Hammer black magic classic The Devil Rides Out starring Christopher Lee and Charles Gray.

In this episode Mike, Shawn, and Pax discuss Hammer Studio's version of The Mummy from 1959 starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

In this episode of Cult Film Club, Jaime, Shawn, and Pax explore the 1985 supernatural teen comedy, Teen Wolf, starring Michael J Fox, along with it's sequel, Teen Wolf Too, as well as the spin off Saturday Morning cartoon.

On the fourth episode of Season 2 of Crestwood House, Michael, Shawn and Paxton dust off their ancient scroll to revive Universal Horror's 1932 brooding masterpiece The Mummy. Almost a remake of the previous year's Dracula (and technically a much better film), The Mummy offered a much more verbose role for it's lead. Boris Karloff, and provided a actress Zita Johann with a much more robust and heroic role than was typically given to women at the time.

Continuing the daisy-chain of picks for season 2 of Crestwood House, Episode 3 is all about the 1935 Peter Lorre romantic horror flick Mad Love. Join Shawn, Michael, and Pax as they discuss the flick, it's influence on some modern filmmakers and Peter Lorre's off the wall performance as mad scientist Dr. Gogol.

On the latest episode Jaime, Shawn and Pax celebrate our diamond anniversary with the flick Girls Just Want to Have Fun from 1985. Starring Helen Hunt, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lee Montgomery and Shannan Doherty, the flick was riffing on the Cyndi Lauper hit song, but became a crazy fun dance movie all of its own!

On the first episode of the brand new season of the Crestwood House, host Michael walks co-hosts Paxton and Shawn through the Carnival of Souls! An independent production filmed at the cusp of the modern horror movement, CoS is a masterwork of weird and wonderful ghostly horror and madness.

On the latest episode Shawn, Jaime, and Pax wrap up their summer series with the 1987 insane camping flick, White Water Summer. Staring Kevin Bacon & Sean Astin, this flick tends to fly under the radar of 80s nostalgia freaks and is a qualified gem of a film.

On this episode Shawn, Jaime, and Pax set and spike the 1990 beach volleyball classic Side Out starring C Thomas Howell and Thirty Something's Peter Horton.

Today we’re releasing a special bonus episode, a very special Field Trip excursion that Paxton, Jaime and I took back in December when we packed up our mics and raided the Totally Rad Christmas podcast. After kicking down the door and setting up our equipment we joined TRC host Jerry to discuss the 1984 Charles Band classic, Trancers. Starring Tim Thomerson & Helen Hunt, this Empire Pictures sci-fi cult classic was a staple of mom and pop video stores all over the country. Jerry was kind enough to let us cross-post this episode into our feed, so why not have a little Christmas in May as we chat about the flick. You can find the Totally Rad Christmas podcast on your favorite podcatcher of choice, or visit them at totally rad Christmas.buzzsprout.com to listen to a whole bunch of holiday insanity. And without further to do, let’s get on with the show…

The Cult Film Club is in session again and in honor of the coming summer season we're kicking things off (wokka wokka) with our favorite crossdressing soccer movie Ladybugs from 1992. Staring Jonathan Brandis, Rodney Dangerfield and Jackee, the film is a weird mishmash of genres including the rag tag sports team, drag movie, and racy comedy. Join us as we discuss the film, the soundtrack, and how well (or not so well) the movie has aged in the past 30 years.

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, Shawn, Paxton and Jaime gush over the weirdo cult spy film, Never Too Young to Die starring John Stamos, Vanity, and Gene Simmons (as a hermaphrodite gang leader/singer). STARGROVE!

In this episode Paxton takes a look at the 2nd Superman novelization (following the more adult Part 3) and the first he's dug into in the Scholastic Point series of 80s era junior novelizations! The 1987 novelization was written by B.B. Hiller (who also wrote the Big and first two Karate Kid novelizations) and was part of the 50th anniversary of the character.

For this episode of IRM, I'm closing the loop on my coverage of the Skywalker Saga novelizations with Star Wars the Force Awakens by the original Star Wars novelizer, Alan Dean Foster from 2015.

On this final episode of the first season of Crestwood House, Shawn, Paxton and Michael reflect on the first 9 movies covered, address some listener feedback, and look to the next season and future of the show.

On the final movie-centric episode of the Crestwood House, host Michael May leads Paxton & Shawn into the world of crazy Kaiju! It's science gone mad in the battle of Frankenstein Vs. Baragon from Toho and AIP in 1965!

On this special Cult Film Club Field Trip episode, CFC & Crestwood co-host Shawn joins Paxton & Michael on the Hellbent for Letterbox podcast as they discuss a special Crestwood House/Hellbent crossover. Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula from 1966. If you dig what the guys are doing on Hellbent, check out the show on your podcatcher of choice!

This week we stroll back into the Crestwoood House to talk about another super cult, mad scientist flick, the over the top camp classic The Abominable Dr. Phibes from 1971. Vincent Price at his Price-ist.

On this episode Mike, Shawn, and Pax discuss the 1968 Roger Corman classic, X: The Man with X-ray Eyes starring Ray Milland,  and Don Rickles.

It's that time of year again for the Cult Film Club to decorate the clubhouse with spooky stuff and horror movie posters for the Halloween season. This year we're covering the 1990 Stephen King miniseries IT starring Jonathan Brandis, Seth Green, John Ritter, Tim Curry, Richard Thomas, Harry Anderson, Tim Reid, Annette O'Toole and Dennis Christopher.

This week's episode of Crestwood House brings our Vampire tryptic to a close with Todd Browning's remake of his infamous lost film London After Midnight, 1935's Mark of the Vampire. Join Michael, Paxton and Shawn as they take a look at Bela Lugosi's return to vampirism, and one of cinema's first big twist-ending features.

Welcome to another episode of the Crestwood House (presented by the Cult Film Club). This is episode 5 and the ghost-hosts are back to discuss 1964's, Vincent Price & Richard Matheson masterpiece Last Man on Earth (based on Matheson's famed novella I Am Legend.) Zombie Vampires, Plague Vampires, and Urban Commando Vampires, no matter which way you stake it, it's a fun conversation.

In this episode the guys talk about a late Hammer production about a roaming, vampire hunting swordsman who comes to save a town that believes it has been infested by a vampire.

Welcome back to the Crestwood House podcast presented by the Cult Film Club. On this episode we finish out our Cycle of the Werewolf by taking a look at the 1961 Hammer flick, Curse of the Werewolf starring Oliver Reed.

This month the Cult Film Club tackles the 1980 indie thriller Fade to Black. A film lover's dream, the flick features a star performance by Dennis Christopher as nerdy film geek Eric Binford, a sad sack just trying to share his love of movies with the woman of his dreams.

Welcome back to the Crestwood House (presented by the Cult Film Club). On this second episode of our cycle of the werewolf we're taking a deep dive into the 1957 Michael Landon classic, I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Even if you're never seen the film, you've certainly felt the flick's huge influence on horror and pop culture via homages that range from Stephen King's IT to Michael Jackson's Thriller. So join us as we talk about the film's plot, the cast, the weird musical interludes, and the film's legacy.

In the inaugural episode of the Crestwood House podcast (presented by the Cult Film Club), we discuss Universal Studios' The Wolf Man from 1941 starring Lon Chaney Jr, Claude Rains, and Bela Lugosi.

Welcome to the Crestwood House Podcast, presented by the Cult Film Club!  Listen to learn all about your hosts Shawn, Michael, and Pax, and what we plan on doing with this show!

Just a quick note to update the listener on the state of the podcast and to introduce new shows coming to the Cult Film Club podcast network.

CFC isn't going anywhere, we're just growing!

In this episode Jaime, Shawn, and Pax discuss the two Golan Globus/Cannon Breakin' movies from 1984 starring Shabba Doo, Boogaloo Shrimp, and Lucinda Dickey!

Hot off the heels of our last episode where we covered the 1979 cult classic Rock N Roll High School, we're back this month taking an in depth look at the 1991 straight-to-video sequel, Rock N Roll High School Forever starring Corey Feldman!

Shawn, Jaime and Paxton are back with the latest episode of the Cult Film Club. We've ducked out of chemistry class, snuck past the hall monitors and are waiting in line with Riff Randell for tickets to see the Ramones this month as we scope the legendary Rock N Roll High School flick from 1979!

In this special IRM Appendix episode I look at the differences between the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The Running Man and the Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) novel it was based on.

In this episode Shawn, Jaime, and Pax survive the burning blade, and tame the savage heart, by talking about John Carpenter's "everything but the kitchen sink" 1986 fantasy sci-fi film, Big Trouble in Little China.

In this Concession Stand we present you another episode of Pax's I Read Movies Podcast where he talks all about the Gremlins novelization from 1984.  The book presents lots of extra info and Pax is joined by Shawn for the discussion.

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, Jaime, Shawn and Pax decide that they all want to be the most popular girl while watching the 1989 supernatural romance, Teen Witch. Top That!

On this special bonus episode of the Cult Film Club, regular Co-Host Paxton Holley brings his keen novelization-reading podcast I Read Movies into the club for a bit so that he can talk about the Nightmare on Elm Street 2 novelization by Jeffrey Cooper!

The Cult Film Club is back, closing out the summer with one of their favorite films in the "comfort cult" genre, 1996's Big Night! Starring Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Minnie Driver, Isabella Rossellini, and the incomparable Ian Holm, the film is a slight departure from the style of movie we tend to cover on the show, but it's an obscure pick that is a very high recommend. In the episode we talk about the movie, the slew of character actors, the 90s era independent movie boom, and food. We talk a lot about food. So grab a bottle of your favorite wine, order in some of the best Italian fare you can find on Uber Eats and join us as we dig into the feast that is Big Night.

This month in the Clubhouse Jaime, Shawn, and Pax are discussing the 1985 high school romantic comedy Secret Admirer with C Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin and the late Kelly Preston.

Join hosts Jaime, Paxton and Shawn for the latest episode of the Cult Film Club where we talk about the 1988 Corey/Corey masterpiece, License to Drive. Listen as we discuss the rad soundtrack, Corey Haim's innocent gape-mouthed acting, the snarkiness of Corey Feldman, and the rest of the awesome cast. Get out of our dreams an into our Podcast for another fun episode!

It's the 15th anniversary of the third Star Wars prequel, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith!  So in this episode I break down the novelization to that movie by Matthew Stover.

In this concession stand episode, Pax goes over the differences between the Highlander movie and the novelization written by Garry Kilworth.

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, Shawn, Jaime and Paxton open their trench-coats, pull out their swords and duel to the last as they cover the 1986 Cannon classic, Highlander. Listen as we discuss the film's music video roots, the amazing eye game of Christopher Lambert, the ridiculous but awesome casting of Sean Connery as a 2000 year-old Egyptian metallurgist, and the amazing Queen soundtrack. Don't lose your head before finishing this one!

On this episode of CFC Jaime, Shawn and Pax talk all about the 1992 sci-fi actioneer, Freejack, starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, David Johansson and Sir Anthony Hopkins!

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, Jaime, Shawn and Paxton dig deep into the awkwardly sexy thriller The Crush from 1993. Starring Cary Elwes and introducing Alicia Silverstone, this flick give Lolita a run for its money as one of the most disturbing romances every committed to film. Join us as we talk about the film, the cast, the music and the controversy around the origins of the script.

After a bit of a winter hiatus the Cult Film Club is back with an episode covering the 1982 Jim Henson puppetry cult classic, The Dark Crystal! Join us as we discuss all aspects of the film from the technical achievement to the great voice cast and unconventional story.