“Welcome to Starlight Hotel. Your room is reserved…Check-in…But never check out!” Well, they better have free breakfast and wi-fi. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – and as they check out the dwindling number of lodgers at the cut-rate hotel in Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive (1976). […]

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Eaten Alive (1976) – Episode 136 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“They come here, they have a pretty nurse, then they can do a little something, bing-bang, then they study the liquid and tell you if you have a hereditary disease or if your gun’s jammed.” Doesn’t he mean “bada-bing, bada-boom?”  Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, and […]

THE CAT O’ NINE TAILS (1971) – Episode 149 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“I am ready to return, but understand, I shall use undreamed-of measures, to conquer the evil.” If by “undreamed-of measures” the Judge means a BF sword, he ain’t wrong. No one dreamed of it. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, and Jeff Mohr – as they claw […]

THE BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW (1971) – Episode 148 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“They will dissect you! And they will kill you! In that order!” Well, that doesn’t sound good. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they do their best not to get dissected or killed on their journey Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970). Decades […]

BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970) – Episode 147 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“Don’t be afraid. I’m an ugly old man, but I’m harmless.” Yeah, right. A likely story. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they try to figure out exactly what is going on in Messiah of Evil (1973). Decades of Horror 1970sEpisode 146 – Messiah […]

MESSIAH OF EVIL (1973) – Episode 146 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“I think I should warn you that the police are watching our house right this very minute, Mr. Hallet.” You know, keeping an eye out for creepy dudes like you, Mr. Hallett.  Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they wonder at Jodie Foster’s performance […]

THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE (1976) – Episode 145 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“Jill, this is Sergeant Sacker. Listen to me. We’ve traced the call… it’s coming from inside the house.” You’ve all run into that situation, right? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they revisit an urban legend as depicted in When a Stranger Calls (1979). […]

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (1979) – Episode 144 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“For a few coins I will hypnotize you and I will read your future in your sleepy eyes.” Sleepy eyes? Might there be a translation problem? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they fight off the alien invasion with Count Waldemar Daninsky and the […]

ASSIGNMENT TERROR (1970) – Episode 143 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“This will go far beyond every STRETCH of the imagination.” What if you don’t want your imagination STRETCHED in that direction? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr, along with guest host Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff from the Classic Era – as they, maybe foolishly, push through the ordeal […]

BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (1976) – Episode 142 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“Oh man, you’re weird.” That ain’t the half of it! Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr, along with guest host Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff from the Classic Era – as they check out Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, and Lilli Palmer in The Boys from Brazil (1978). […]

THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978) – Episode 141 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“Dead? Not dead. Look at me. Look at me! I am the one who is dead. All safe and dead. All safe and dead.” You certainly wouldn’t have to worry about being killed if that’s what you mean by being safe. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff […]

The Haunting of Julia (1977) – Episode 140 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“In the future, you’ll have my life of vice on your conscience and when I lay some delicious pig, I’ll think that I’m laying the blame on your shoulders, buster, and that’ll be my revenge, that’s what.” So there! Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – […]

Demon Witch Child (1975) – Episode 139 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“Let me make it very clear to you, Mrs. Jacquard. I am boss cocky in this hospital.” Hmm. Is boss cocky an Australian thing? At any rate, join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they attempt to determine how the title character’s powers work in […]

Patrick (1978) – Episode 138 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“Death is the keeper of secrets.” In other words, three can keep a secret if two are dead? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out exactly how many secrets are kept in Torso (1973), Sergio Martino’s giallo all’italiana. Decades of Horror 1970sEpisode […]

Torso (1973) – Episode 137 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“No! The Beast has no brother! Don’t call me your brother!” What a mean thing to say to your brother! … er, cousin. … er, the antichrist? On second thought, maybe it’s not that mean. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they catch up […]

Damien: Omen II (1978) – Episode 135 – Decades of Horror 1970s