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Today’s film is Strait-Jacket (1964), where Joan Crawford swings axes, radiates vengeance like it’s a fine perfume, and chews scenery like it owes her money. It’s a William Castle special: part murder mystery, part melodrama, and part unhinged theatrical showcase for one woman’s descent into either madness or impeccable dramatic timing. There are decapitations, gaslighting, and more awkward family energy than Thanksgiving dinner with a secret. It’s like Mommy Dearest took a detour through a haunted meat locker.

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Our Film Rankings:

⁠132 - Film Rankings After Strait-Jacket (1962)

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Episode Segments:

1. Welcome
2. Outside The Podcast Discussion
3. Breaking News
4. What Is This Film About? - Synopsis and Themes & Insights (Curated by Sunni)
5. Vital Statistics
6. Things That Happen In The Film
7. Inspirations (Curated by James)
8. Trivia
9. Critical Reception (Including our rankings)
10. Final Thoughts

11. 
    

Music:

Exit The Premises, Loping Stings, Southern Gothic

By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

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Breaking News Intro

By: Luis Humanoide (Via pixabay)

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Today’s film is Cockneys vs. Zombies (2012), the cinematic equivalent of someone yelling “Oi, you!” at the undead and then headbutting them with love. It’s a blood-soaked East End brawl featuring foul-mouthed millennials, a zombie siege on a retirement home, and the most heroic use of a walker since orthopedic devices were invented. Guns? Check. Bickering siblings? Check. An old man outrunning zombies on a mobility scooter? You bet. It’s heartfelt, hilarious, and just barely restrained in its chaos. It's like Snatch and Dawn of the Dead had a baby during a pub fight and raised it on gravy and swear words.

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Our Film Rankings:

131 - Film Rankings After Cockneys Vs. Zombies (2012)

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Episode Segments:

1. Welcome
2. Outside The Podcast Discussion
3. Breaking News
4. What Is This Film About? - Synopsis and Themes & Insights (Curated by Sunni)
5. Vital Statistics
6. Things That Happen In The Film
7. Inspirations (Curated by James)
8. Trivia
9. Critical Reception (Including our rankings)
10. Final Thoughts

11. 
    

Music:

Exit The Premises, Loping Stings, Hustle

By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

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Breaking News Intro

By: Luis Humanoide (Via pixabay)

Chapter Three of our Atomic Monsters and Mutations Deep Dive explores the threshold between global war and global paranoia—the uneasy years between 1945 and 1953, when horror began to shift from gothic castles and madmen to laboratories, testing sites, and Cold War nerves. With the bomb freshly dropped and the world suddenly aware of its own capacity for extinction, cinema entered a transitional phase, one haunted by fallout. Before the atomic age could unleash its giant bugs and radioactive beasts, it had to confront the dread of what science had already done—and what it might do next.

FILMS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

Rocketship X-M (1950), The Man from Planet X (1951), The Thing from Another World (1951), Invasion U.S.A. (1952), Donovan’s Brain (1953), The Magnetic Monster (1953)

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Music:

Waltz Primordial, Galactic Rap, Exit The Premises

By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Today’s film is State of Emergency (2011), a zombie-adjacent outbreak movie where the real infection might be terminal awkwardness. It’s got government conspiracies, suspiciously clean survivors, and just enough monsters to remind you that trust falls are a terrible apocalypse strategy. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if the apocalypse was actually relegated to just one county in Alabama and took place entirely inside a barn and an empty tobacco warehouse, this one’s for you.

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Our Film Rankings:

130 - Film Rankings After State Of Emergency (2011)

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Episode Segments:

1. Welcome
2. Outside The Podcast Discussion
3. Breaking News
4. What Is This Film About? - Synopsis and Themes & Insights (Curated by Sunni)
5. Vital Statistics
6. Things That Happen In The Film
7. Inspirations (Curated by James)
8. Trivia
9. Critical Reception (Including our rankings)
10. Final Thoughts

11. 
    

Music:

Exit The Premises, Loping Stings, Late Night Radio

By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

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Breaking News Intro

By: Luis Humanoide (Via pixabay)

Today’s episode is a Subgenre Spotlight on Isolation Survival Horror, those nerve-shredding stories where characters are cut off, cornered, and forced to fight nature, circumstance, or their own unraveling minds. From icy mountains and open oceans to malfunctioning spacecraft and broken elevators, we explore how horror thrives when help is out of reach and every decision matters. Featuring a wide range of films, from grounded realism to high-concept dread, we break down what makes this subgenre so uniquely tense, relentless, and deeply human.

FILMS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

Lifeboat (1944), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), Dark Star (1974), Alive (1993), Cast Away (2000), Open Water (2003), Christmas on Mars (2008), The Canyon (2009), Moon (2009), Buried (2010), Frozen (2010), The Reef (2010), Thirst (2010), 247°F (2011), Love (2011), Gravity (2013), Scenic Route (2013), Backcountry (2014), The Martian (2015), The Shallows (2016), 12 Feet Deep (2017), 47 Meters Down (2017), Adrift (2018), The Pool (2018), Break (2019), Crawl (2019), Outback (2019), Centigrade (2020), Oxygen (2021), Fall (2022), The Dive (2023), Nowhere (2023)

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Music:

Twisting, Half Mystery, Exit The Premises

By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

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FILM RANKINGS UPDATED AFTER EVERY EPISODE!!!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Today’s film is Jaws (1975), the watershed moment in American cinema that redefined the thriller, birthed the summer blockbuster, and reminded audiences that nature doesn’t care about tourist season. Spielberg’s masterful direction, paired with John Williams’ iconic score and a famously malfunctioning mechanical shark, turned technical limitations into creative triumph. Beneath the suspense and spectacle lies a layered exploration of fear, incompetent authority, and a community unraveling under pressure. It is the proof that great horror isn’t just about what lurks beneath the surface, but what surfaces under stress.

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Our Film Rankings:

⁠⁠⁠⁠129 - Film Rankings After Jaws (1975)⁠

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Episode Segments:

1. Welcome
2. Outside The Podcast Discussion
3. Breaking News
4. What Is This Film About? - Synopsis and Themes & Insights (Curated by Sunni)
5. Vital Statistics
6. Things That Happen In The Film
7. Inspirations (Curated by James)
8. Trivia
9. Critical Reception (Including our rankings)
10. Final Thoughts

11. 
    

Music:

Exit The Premises, Loping Stings, Neon Laser Horizon

By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

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Breaking News Intro

By: Luis Humanoide (Via pixabay)

FILM RANKINGS UPDATED AFTER EVERY EPISODE!!!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Today’s film is Macabre (1958), the one where William Castle was so confident someone might literally die from watching it, he handed out life insurance at the door. Bold move for a movie that feels like it was written in crayon during a thunderstorm. It’s got missing kids, graveyards, melodrama cranked to eleven, and a plot that unfolds like a soap opera having a nervous breakdown. Scary? Debatable. Entertaining? Absolutely—especially if you enjoy being aggressively warned that danger is coming any minute now… seriously… any… minute…

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Our Film Rankings:

⁠⁠⁠128 - Film Rankings After Macabre (1958)

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Episode Segments:

1. Welcome
2. Outside The Podcast Discussion
3. Breaking News
4. What Is This Film About? - Synopsis and Themes &Insights (curated by Sunni)
5. Vital Statistics
6. Things That Happen In The Film
7. Inspirations (Curated by James)
8. Trivia
9. Critical Reception (Including our rankings)
10. Final Thoughts

11. 
    

Music:

Exit The Premises, Loping Stings, Funky One

By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

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Breaking News Intro

By: Luis Humanoide (Via pixabay)

Chapter Two of our Atomic Monsters and Mutations Deep Dive moves into the shadowy world of the 1930s and 1940s, where mad science reigned and monsters were born in laboratories, not radioactive wastelands—at least not yet. This era gave us twisted geniuses, doomed experiments, and the first cinematic warnings that progress without conscience might be the real horror. From Frankenstein to wartime propaganda, we explore how early science-gone-wrong stories laid the psychological and thematic groundwork for the atomic nightmares still to come.

FILMS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

Frankenstein (1931), Island Of Lost Souls (1932) The Invisible Man (1933), Bride Of Frankenstein (1935), Dr. Cyclopse (1940), The Devil Commands (1941), The Ape Man (1943)

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Music:

Waltz Primordial, Galactic Rap, Exit The Premises

By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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