Trace Thurman

Butch knows best… After concluding May with discussions of the disaster “slasher” The Poseidon Adventure (listen) and Michael Biehn’s demon twink in the messy-but-watchable The Fan (listen), we’re heading back to the ’70s to discuss our very first Vincent Price film in Douglas Hickox‘s horror comedy Theater of Blood (1973). In Theater of Blood, Vincent Price stars as Edward Lionheart, a disgraced Shakespearean actor who begins targeting the critics who shamed him. The gimmick?

“M-m-m-m-m-m-m-my Linda!” After kicking off May with the Robin Williams-starring character study One Hour Photo (listen) and the forgotten Leopold and Loeb-style thriller Like Minds (listen), we’re heading overseas to check in with the survivors of Irwin Allen‘s production of Ronald Neame‘s seminal disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure (1972)! Or, a slasher movie where the slasher is mother nature, as Trace puts it.

Why you eyein’ my lemon drink? After kicking off April at the local Deer Cheer festival in James Gunn’s horror comedy Slither (listen) and checking in with Boris Karloff in The Mummy (listen), we’re headed to the weird and wacky world of M. Night Shyamalan to discuss his much-maligned B-movie The Happening. In The Happening, a science teacher (Mark Wahlberg), his wife (Zooey Deschanel), and a young girl (Ashlyn Sanchez) struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to die by suicide.