Channel 37's Midnight Movie Show

It's our annual animation episode! The unholy melding of 1980s pop and Canadian animation provide a timeless tale of good v evil, but evil is brought to us by Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, so we're okay with it, in 1983's Rock and Rule! Then, one of our intrepid band will rock the earth to its very foundations as we cover the 1968 classic Yellow Submarine!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Ancient colossi from beyond the dawn of time do battle for the very soul of humanity. Also, can we just pick up our shit, please, in 1971's Godzilla v the Smog Monster. After that, Kevin Bacon, Earth's Greatest Hero, is all that stands between us and certain death by shai-hulud in 1990's Tremors. How many ways can four people pronounce Hedorah? The answer will amaze you!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

While we would never want to accuse anyone of wrapping themselves in religion to justify acts of violence and terror, Hammer Films and Tigon Pictures were not as circumspect as we. However, it does give us the opportunity to see Christopher Lee go full Batman villain in 1966's Rasputin the Mad Monk. After that, Vincent Price actually manages not to go full Batman villain in 1968's Witchfinder General.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

If you liked a movie, you'll love the same thing again, only bigger and more of it! It's a theory we test with 1982's Grease 2! After that, no one is impressed with Dan right now after watching 1984's Surf 2!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

It's our favorite time of year again! We've got two movies that ostensibly feature a countdown to tragedy on Halloween night, but really we're mostly here to talk up Salem tourism with 1993's Hocus Pocus. After that, it's glorious whatthefuckery that only Cannon can bring you with 1990's Rockula, and we wonder where this movie has been all our lives.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

The 1990s were the center of a new and exciting film movement, one where the major studios didn't have sole discretion as to which movies made it to the public; they all had pretend boutique sub-companies buying independent films from the festival circuit for that. This week, we look at two of those that rode the Sundance gauntlet to a tiny art house theater near you: 1998's Smoke Signals and 1995's Living in Oblivion! Redford tested, Miramax approved!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

William Castle always new that the hoopla surrounding a movie was as big a part of the experience as the movie itself. This time around, we take a look at 1959's The Tingler, a film that introduced the world to the wonders of Percepto that had the added bonus of Vincent Price absolutely dripping with ham. Then, 1993's Matinee! is a loving callback to a simpler time when the looming threat of thermonuclear annihilation could be staved off with monster movies presented by a carnival showman.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

We're hopping in our George Pal-approved wayback machine to a time when people made movies that looked and felt an awful lot like older movies. We could just go watch the older movies, but meh. Anyway. First up, we got our Hammer on with 2015's The Love Witch! After that, we stuck around for an 80s post-apocalypse by way of Tom and Jerry cartoons with 2015's Turbo Kid!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

The Midnight Mystery Show returns to kick off season four, and sadly we found ourselves paying tribute to Val Kilmer, to whom we said goodbye earlier this year. We opened with 1985's Real Genius, an excellent showcase for Kilmer's considerable comedic skills, and then paid tribute to his vaunted ability to walk away with a movie by covering the single greatest example of this: 1993's Tombstone.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

In preparation for the new season of The Midnight Movie Show, our intrepid heroes ask the question that has puzzled humankind from the beginning of time: What if The Maltese Falcon, but worse? Join us as we investigate 1987's Alien Private Eye!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Every career has to start somewhere, and Academy Award winners have to pay their dues like anyone else. Sometimes you kick things off punching a stuntman through a glass wall, and sometimes you start out chasing a character actor behind a high school gymnasium. The third season of The Movie Show comes to a close by looking at the beginnings of some Best Actress award winners: namely, Michelle Yeoh (in 1985's Yes, Madam!), Sandra Bullock (1989's The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman: Bionic Showdown), and Renee Zellweger (1995's Empire Records)!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

No one ever lost any money by licensing a popular song and building a whole movie around it. Gold, Jerry! In that vein, we open things up with the 1985 ode to Helen Hunt and her ability to accessorize that is Girls Just Want to Have Fun! After that, if you listen carefully, you can hear our hearts break in real time while we try to explain a generation's affection for 1986's Pretty in Pink.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

The holidays are known for three things: peace on Earth, good will toward men, and werecats. In that vein, the Borg Queen, Glenn Shadix, and Clovis the Very Good Cat combine to distract you from the extremely icky center of the Tootsie Pop that is 1992's Stephen King's Sleepwalkers. After that, we revisit the golden days of RKO Radio Pictures with quite possibly the very worst person ever presented to moviegoing audiences as a sympathetic protagonist, but at least it looks pretty good. That's 1942's Cat People!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

We have another example of The Krull Exemption as 1993's Super Mario Bros.: The Movie proves that you can throw all the money in the world at something and it's still going to end up on basic cable after CSI reruns. Afterwards, we keep the Nintendo train rolling with 2007's The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

As everyone knows, rock and / or roll is the Devil's music, and, as a public service, we here at the WHXN home office watched two movies to really get to grips with the Satanic panic overwhelming our nation's soul. First, we were utterly bewildered and kind of confused by 1988's Hack-O-Lantern. Then, the goofy best friend from Family Ties both messed up his stereo and also summoned a hellbeast by playing his record backwards, just like Tipper Gore always told us he would. It's 1986's Trick or Treat!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Sometimes Hollywood screws up real good. When that happens, in times of direst need, podcasters will come together to teach the major studios the error of their ways by paying homage to the edited versions of these films they got us to buy a second time. We kick things of with 1990's Nightbreed: The Director's Cut, and wash that down with 1982's Blade Runner: The Final Cut. We sure showed them!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Have you ever said to yourself, "You know, I really liked Indiana Jones. I wonder if there's anything out there that's like that, but with no budget, a wildly varying tone, and just... so much racism? Like, a lot of racism." Wonder no longer! We venture into the heart of the Cannon Films archive to bring you 1985's King Solomon's Mines!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Ah, high school. The learning, the growing, the unrelenting PTSD. This week we recover some repressed memories with 1989's Heathers. Then, we watch the same movie, but with more 90s and Rose McGowan just being awesome, with 1999's Jawbreaker.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Christian is here, and with him comes our annual animation discussion. Once upon a time, someone watched Fantasia, thought to themselves, "You know, this could be weirder," and thus sprang 1977's Allegro non troppo. Afterwards, everyone takes a deep breath, puts on their Ralph Bakshi pants, and delves into 1977's Wizards.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Donovan enters the octagon that is the Channel 37 Home Office to class up the place with two-fisted kickpunchery! We don't want to oversell things, but we may have seen the greatest thing in the history of things with 1974's Black Belt Jones. Then, we were worried that film was too buttoned-down and sensible, so we loosened up with 1976's Master of the Flying Guillotine.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

For the first time in nearly a century, we wake up in the morning to a world without Roger Corman in it. In addition to reshaping the face of American cinema for generations, he also directed a few movies. We spend as much time as we can discussing 1963's X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes and 1959's A Bucket of Blood before we can hold back no longer and gush about how awesome Dick Miller is. Kirby, WHXN's Executive Vice President of Wanting You to Throw the Ball, Please, chimes in with his own thoughts.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

The New and Improved British Invasion is well and truly underway, as Ian stops by the Channel 37 Home Office to remind everyone of the clear and present danger we are all in from that guy in the car next to us. Especially those two in the camper, as evinced by 2012's Sightseers. After that, we're reminded of a uniquely American sort of vehicular homicide, brought to us by some rookie director whose name we've already forgotten. Anyway, here's 1972's Duel.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Speculative fiction has long been a means of answering some of life's greatest questions. What happens when we die? What are we going to do with all these dead guys' brains lying around? Can Denise Richards have implied sex with a robot dinosaur in a way that doesn't trample her character's sense of agency? All this and more, as we study 1931's Frankenstein and 1994's Tam(nn)my and the (Teenage) T-Rex!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

What do you get when you cross three directors, two scripts, a hand puppet, a pirate were-cat, a Founding Father's estate, an exploding Grim Reaper, flatulence golems, and Duke the Horny Ghost? We're not 100% certain either, but we got a little closer when we watched 1986's Spookies.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Season three of Channel 37's Midnight Movie Show is almost upon you! Come smell the excitement!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

We're taking a quick break from our quick break to wish everyone a merry merry and also to scratch that completionist itch. With that, we wrap up the most important trilogy of the 21st century with 2017's A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby! (We're super hyped for the prequels.) With that dragon finally slain, we see out 2023 with a Christmas zombie romantic comedy musical and I'm already exhausted just trying to take all of that on board and anyway it's 2017's Anna and the Apocalypse!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

We're at the end of Season Two, and there are still a bunch of musicals on the shelf. What better way to clear some of them out than picking a bunch at random? In so doing, we took a deep dive into the summer of 1984 with Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (don't worry, we'll catch you up with the first one so you don't get lost) and Streets of Fire, starring Willem Dafoe in rubber overalls and a Wolverine haircut! Finally, we close things up with 2001's cinematic adaptation of Hedwig and the Angry Inch! Listen in and help us save the orphanage!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Self-care is important. When life seems like a lot, it's important to slow down, appreciate the beauty of nature, and take refuge in the arts. So slow down, take some you time, and wrap yourself in a warm, soothing embrace of exploding inflatable dolls, razor frisbees, and radioactive poison toilet-snakes. Also boobs. It's 1987's Hard Ticket to Hawaii!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

There's one episode to go before we wrap up Season Two, and we're gonna spend it making fun of a movie the internet as a whole forgot about two years ago. Join a panel of musical theatre experts, and also Dan is there, as we puzzle our way through 2019's Cats. Free the Butthole Cut!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and we're jumping into the festivities with a pair of highly influential movies that start from a similar place but go in wildly different directions: 2013's The WNUF Halloween Special and 1992's Ghostwatch! Don't worry, you can get back to that special where Garfield gets threatened by an old man when you're done. You ever see that? That cartoon is fucked up!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Sometimes two movies with very different vibes turn out to have a lot in common. Like a plot. And general goofiness. Kicking things off is a certified classic of science fiction, This Island Earth from 1955! Then, we're gonna gaze wistfully at an uncertain future in the stars while we ponder how much Star Wars we still had in us by 1984. Turns out a lot. It's The Last Starfighter!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Animation can free the imagination and give full, colorful voice to worlds full of wonder and inspiration. We discuss this with Rankin-Bass' 1977 (under 90-minute) adaptation of The Hobbit! After that, we can remember what it's like to wonder what it'll be like to have sex someday, along with 1981's Heavy Metal!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

The journey from fresh-faced, innocent newcomer to crumpled-up has-been is a fixture of song and story from time immemorial. The library's copy of the Edda was checked out, though, so instead we focused on two ends of the music industry: 2001's Josie and The Pussycats, and 1984's This is Spinal Tap. One was way better than anyone remembered. The other was exactly as good as everyone remembers.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

There's nothing we enjoy more than taking a deep dive into the WWE's long and storied history of self-mythologization. Remember when Hulk Hogan tried to act? Find it as adorable as we did as we tackle 1989's No Holds Barred! After that, we're gonna see if this Florence Pugh person might be someone to keep an eye on with 2019's Fighting with My Family!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

We recently lost character actor Treat Williams, pulp villain and WB-dad par excellence. To pay tribute, we look at two of his many contributions to midnight movie culture: the zombie buddy cop horror comedy Dead Heat from 1988 and 1998's Indiana Jones and the Luxury Ocean Liner Full of Tentacle Monsters, or Deep Rising!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

What theatrical form gives you the opportunity to express your emotions, delve into philosophy, and achieve classic status more effectively than the rock opera? Asking for a friend. While you ponder that, give a listen as we go over a couple of tentpoles of the genre with 2008's Repo! The Genetic Opera alongside Ken Russell's 1975 adaptation of The Who's Tommy!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Don't let all that sunshine and not being in school get you down! We're here to ask Santa for a podcast sponsorship and a baby brother, but in lieu of that, we're going to say hello to some old favorites while we criticize their outfits, the way the holidays should be! Come a-wassailing with us while we discuss 2018's A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding - The Legend of Curly's Gold!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

The comic book movie boom of the 1990s was responsible for some classics, probably, but here we're looking at the best in cardboard spaceships and Lori Petty turned up to 11. Settle in for 1994's unreleased Roger Corman masterwork The Fantastic Four! We're following that up with basically a Mad Max remake except it's a Jim Carrey movie. It's 1995's Tank Girl! Let loose the Bjork Army! ('90s!)Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

On your way to a remote village with unknowable secrets whispered about only in rumor? Spend your poorly planned trip with us as we dive into 1973's The Wicker Man, then follow that up with 2019's Midsommar! (After that, we just needed to be alone for a while.)Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Sometimes something sounds like it's gonna be an absolute riot before you actually have to do it. Anyway, Here's 2015's Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre. Before you ask, no, there's no women's prison. Or a massacre.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Memorial Day Weekend! A perfect time for picnics, cookouts, and watching 30-year-old teenagers hold surfboards without ever getting in the water! We’re kicking off summer 2023 by heading back to summer 1965 and sneaking into a twin bill of Beach Blanket Bingo and The Beach Girls and the Monster!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

We see a Full Moon rising! We're gonna explore the early days of Charles Band's empire with 1985's Trancers (yes, we know, that one's technically Empire, shut up) and 1989's Puppet Master, all while trying to figure out how a company that started out consistently entertaining ended up making Barbie and Kendra Storm Area 51 or whatever.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

From the depths of the nightmare plane they return! One is previously underappreciated and currently receiving a modern re-evaluation. The other is super goofy and has the Wings lady in it. Get your Jolt Cola and stay awake for 1985's A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and 1987's Slumber Party Massacre II!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Both of this week's movies probably had a plot, but we couldn't bother following them. One of them had a lawyer, we think? Doesn't matter. We're here to sing the fiery, kick-punchy, bullet-riddled praises of this year's nominees in the category for Greatest Movies Called Above the Law, Not Starring Steven Seagal Division: 1989's Action USA and 1986's Righting Wrongs!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Richard Elfman and the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo brought their musical theatrical arthouse cabaret thing to the big screen with 1980's Forbidden Zone! Four decades later, Elfman made a movie where his son poops an obelisk after having sex with his stepmom! It's 2019's Aliens, Clowns and Geeks! We don't get paid for this!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

The Midnight Movie Show is back and roughly the same as ever! We're kicking off Season Two with the 1964 film that changed pop culture forever: A Hard Day's Night! (We're here to shine a light on obscure cinema.) After that, the Monkees smash that theatrical self-destruct button with 1968's Head! Fab! Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

Season 2 of Channel 37's Midnight Movie Show is coming soon!

Everyone at the Channel 37 Home Office is still on a beach somewhere, but that doesn't mean we aren't still watching goofy shit. The gang comes together to present 1966's Rat Pfink A Boo Boo, winner of the Cannes Etoile de platine award for Outstanding Achievement in Not Being a Typographical Error!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

We're all about getting that educational content in under the wire as we take a look at the UK's Video Nasty era! We open with 2021's Censor, a film set during the height of the controversy. Then, we look at two of the films directly affected by the censorship laws of the day: 1968's Night of the Living Dead and 1972's The Last House on the Left.Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37

From all of us at WHXN 37 to all of you, happy holidays! We're celebrating with some of the finest examples of blessings and tidings and cheer and all that, starting with 2000's A Diva's Christmas Carol! After that, we will hear nothing against 2017's A Christmas Prince!Email: [email protected]: @WHXN37