  We're back with a spooky Schlocktober edition of JFDTV. Each of your boys picks a handful of spooky Halloween-themed music videos to chat about and dance around the studio while watching. All that, plus Nerd News, DVDs, Full Moon Chat, Dexter Chat, Kyle from Kentucky, Junk Mails and so much goddamn more. direct donloyd

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JFD539: JFDTV 2: Scary Concerts

Schlocktober rolls right along the week on JFD as we honor the ghost of Dom DeLuise by handing our picks over to our $10-a-month Patreon donors and they deliver us some tricks and some treats! Up first, we check out a Halloween made-for-TV movie that has lived on thanks to its rabid fan base, Dark Night of the Scarecrow from 1981, in which a mentally challenged man (Larry Drake) is murdered my an angry lynch mob when they mistakenly think he has harmed a local girl. However, after his death each member of the mob is haunted by a mysterious scarecrow and begin meeting untimely demises themselves.Then, also from 1981 we check out a Taiwanese/Hong Kong supernatural thriller about a witch who can turn her victims into oozing sacks of worms and snakes if they don't play their cards right in The Devil.Finally, we examine an atmospheric independent German film about a woman who may be possessed by a demon in Luz from 2018.All this plus why Parker isn't feeling too Halloweeny this year, Goblin Talk, classic monster movies, Junk Mail, Van Halen tributes, Price is Right News, blu-rays to play at your Halloween party and so much more.LISTEN NOW:MP3 Direct DonloydAlso, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We will find our inner-Halloween goblin with your love and support.

JFD538: Dark Night of the Scarecrow, The Devil, Luz

Ever feel like ya wanna escape the walking hellscape we currently inhabit in modern times in the western world, but it's still Schlocktober and ya gotta get Halloween-y? Good news, beleaguered Junk Food Junkies! You can take a trip with us to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: East Asia, circa 1980 through 2001! It's our SPOOKY ASIA theme show! First up, we follow up the fun we had way back when with Mr. Vampire (1985) by digging even deeper into the Chinese Hopping Vampire well by watching the trend-setting early Hong Kong horror/comedy, Encounters of the Spooky Kind (aka Spooky Encounters), from 1980! Everybody's favorite, fattest dragon, Sammo Hung wages war against hopping vampires and marital infidelities in this prototypical Jiangshi flick, but what's the the situation with the optically printed special effects? Are they plentiful?Next up! Y'all remember taking vacations, and what that was like? Well, hopefully none of your vacations involved getting on the bad side of an evil wizard from Thailand, or else your life might resemble the plot of The Eternal Evil of Asia, from 1995! Your first indication might be that your head has turned into a penis, as is common with these sort of enchantments. However, will ONE of your charming hosts decide this film is TOO PROBLEMATIC for 2020?! Maybe/sorta. It was a different time/continent.Finally! It's a third movie! But is it a half-Freado?! Just exactly how much spookiness and how much Asia is there to be seen in the well-regarded J-Horror flick from way back 'round the turn of the century, if most of it is just people talking about the internet or looking at muddy pixels? Will one of us call this movie 'Lynchian?' All these questions answered and more, this week only, in our exclusive and 100% free-to-donloyd review of Pulse (aka Kairo, from 2001)!All this plus suntory whiskey, the first cinematic universe in cinema history, is moleman a pejorative?, 遇见甲虫, the profundity of mashed potatoes, disneymongering, alien parties versus familytime, the last cinematic year in cinematic history?, topsy turvy top ten tabulation, wizard sleeves a-gogo, overlong international excursions into the general area of musicality, do they even shoot pictures anymore?, all of the promised Garfield/CAT-III jokes landed on the cutting room floor, safety tips from the scary police, 'wow', the time Sammo Hung fought David Arquette in Parker Bowman's living room in the future, some special Halloween sacks and scraps of cloth, our weekly news plus blu-ray picks and even more! Direct Donloyd HereGot a movie suggestion for the show, or better yet an opinion on next week's movies? Drop us a line at JFDPodcast@gmail.com. Or leave us a voicemail: 347-746-JUNK (5865). Add it to your telephone now! JOIN THE CONVERSATION!Also, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We'll tape down our wizard sleeves for your love and support. With picks like these, you GOTTA #DonloydNow and listen in! 

JFD537: Encounters of the Spooky Kind, The Eternal Evil of Asia, Pulse

  We're joined by Zach from Are You Morbid? to discuss all things Lovecraft this week! First up, preppy college kids from Miskatonic explore a spooky house that may be the home of something indescribably scary in "The Unnamable." Next, subway workers unearth a strange burial site that may be early humans or maybe aliens in "Quatermass and the Pit." Finally, Wil Wheaton's farm gets hit by a meteor that unleashes very little color, but it does make a lot of bugs appear in "The Curse." All this plus drive-in chat, extreme lovecraft deep dives, wishes coming true, feral cat chat, nerd news, dvds, junk mails and so much more. Direct Donloyd

JFD536: The Unnamable, Quatermass and the Pit, The Curse

 As we continue our countdown to Halloween, we let the fur fly with an episode dedicated to those cursed souls, the werewolves and we take a look at three very different wolf-themed flicks! Up first, infamous b-movie schlockmeister Sam Katzman attempts to revamp the werewolf movie for the 1950's drive-in audience with The Werewolf from 1956, about a man injected with a radioactive serum that turns him into a wolf man wreaking havoc on Big Bear, CA.Next, we switch gears with an Italian tale of lycanthropy, this time concerning a woman who turns into a beast any time she is confronted with sexuality as result of being raped in The Legend of the Wolf Woman (AKA Werewolf Woman) from 1976.And finally, a group of character actors (Peter Riegert, William Hickey, Lawrence Tierney, Chris Young, Alexander Godunov) all get together to figure out how a Norse beast demon got to New York City and how to stop it in The Runestone from 1991.All this plus old people singing "Dragula", Parker's thoughts on The Babysitter 2, Nerd News, The Oscars being The Oscars, this week's blu-ray releases and so much more!LISTEN NOW:MP3 Direct DonloydAlso, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We will shake this werewolf curse with your love and support.

JFD535: The Werewolf, The Legend of the Wolf Woman, The Runestone

What's even spookier than your favorite podcast reviewing three Halloween-y short films to celebrate two months of Schlocktober? Well, what if we told you one of them might be a 'Freado Pick'?! The only way to be sure (and to be safe), is to #DonloydNow and listen in! First up, take a trip down memory lane, if you happen to be a Halloween-obsessed Canadian grampa, with 1978's Witch's Night Out. This bizarrely-animated holiday TV special concerns some trick or treaters from the Great White North with subpar costuming choices and a flair for monochrome biology. Starring the vocal talents of Gilda Radner and Catherine O'Hara! Watch the whole thing here, for free!Next up! Y'all got any psychobilly friends? They might've already hipped you to 2007's Cannibal Flesh Riot, a low-budget backyardish production from visual artist Gris Grimly in which he gets to pay loving homage to the classic cinematic achievements of the early Universal Horror pioneers, and also tentacle rape. Watch a short clip here, also for free!Finally! It's a third short, although it's one of those shorts that has inspired several multiple-hours-long thesis statement videos, deconstructing it frame by frame, as all good cinema is intended to be experienced. We're talking about, of course, This House Has People In It (2016), from the hot 'n spicy young director Alan Resnick. Watch all them people in that house right here, also for free!All this plus to live and die in california, do kids still hackey their sacks?, Kevin Moss is nothing if not a sucker for theming, Frankensteins at Lowe's, two million disc lovers can't be wrong, Parker's Perfect Postman, pose me up Scotty, Halloween safety bags, Tremors is hardly hard sci-fi, showtime faces, Slash Fact or Slash Fiction?, Kevin gets stuck in the floor, our weekly news plus blu-ray picks and even more! Direct Donloyd HereGot a movie suggestion for the show, or better yet an opinion on next week's movies? Drop us a line at JFDPodcast@gmail.com. Or leave us a voicemail: 347-746-JUNK (5865). Add it to your telephone now! JOIN THE CONVERSATION!Also, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We'll shamelessly steal camera angles from Sam Raimi for your love and support. Please avoid checking out this embarrassing merchandise.

JFD534: Witch's Night Out, Cannibal Flesh Riot, This House Has People in It

  Schlocktober has come early this year, Junkies! We try to forget all about COVID, wildfires and the world's ills by binging 3 movies picked by our friends on Patreon. First, vacationing snow bunnies are stalked by a madman in the early '80s proto-slasher, Satan's Blade. Next, journalists look for a scummy snuff film's origins in "Evil Dead Trap." Finally, a boring detective investigates the strange case of Charles Dexter Ward in "The Resurrected." All this plus Nerd News, anti-Star Trek rants, pro Dr. Who rants, fire side chats, DVDs, the best movies of the 80s and so much more! Donloyd Here

JFD533: Satan's Blade, Evil Dead Trap, The Resurrected

The listeners demanded it, so here we boldly go where no podcast has gone before, into The Summer of Spock! To celebrate the festivities, we beam up director Jackson Stewart (Beyond the Gates) to discuss the 3 most (in)famous Star Trek flicks!Up first, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan from 1982, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) has to face off against an old foe (Ricardo Montalban) but pays the ultimate price when Dr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) parishes in the battle.Then, as it turns out maybe Spock isn't dead after all. Maybe he has regenerated as a rapidly aging boy on a distant planet. Maybe if Captain Kirk and crew can steal a ship and find him and get him to Vulcan he can live again.That is, if a group of Klingons (lead by Christopher Lloyd) don't show up and fuck things up in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock from 1984.And finally, the crew of the Starship Enterprise has to travel back to the late 20th century to steal some humpback whales that can communicate with an alien probe that's threatening to blow up Earth in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home from 1986. Yes, this is the one where Spock does the Vulcan nerve pinch on the punk rocker on the bus.All this plus our history with The Trek, tales from the drive-in, Wilford Brimley's secret history, sad Nerd News, this week's blu-ray releases and so much more!LISTEN NOW:MP3 Direct DonloydAlso, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We will find Spock with your love and support.

JFD532: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Slap on your swim trunks, grab your favorite gum, and get ready to celebrate Summah with Howard Kremer and your Junk Food Dinner pals! We're talking Austin Stories and more with Dragon Boy Suede himself, and then we'll review a couple short films, too! First up, it's the aforementioned Austin Stories, from 1997! Three young comics (Howard Kremer, Chip Pope, and Laura House) wrote and starred in this Texas-set take on Seinfeld meets Slacker, which aired twelve episodes on MTV. Howard chats with us about making the show, playing Asteroids with Richard Linklater, and the prospect of performing stand-up for cars instead of people. It's a wild one! If you like what you hear, buy the show on DVD here!Next up! Sure, you love seeing monsters on screen, but have you ever tried to cast one? If so, you've probably called The United Monster Talent Agency, the premiere source for your monster casting needs (and also the name of a short film, directed by famed special effects creator Greg Nicotero, that we reviewed on the show). It's real short and real fun, and it's got those classic Universal monsters, so why not check it out here? Finally! It's an Oscar-nominated, heart-wrenchingly emotional Pixar short about old-timey, old-westy cowboys. It's the one with the blammo. Borrowed Time (2015) is guaranteed to get your eyeballs damp, and guaranteed to be reviewed on this episode of the show. Watch along here, it's only seven minutes!All this plus to live and die in visalia, burning for kevin, hatin' on drive-in posers, parker in seventy mil, sean's operatic regrets, parker makes a classic lucio fulci joke, kevin's safety concerns, sean's crankin' bonnie rait again, you talkin' fandome to me?, who is the fakest looking batman of all the batmen?, our weekly news plus blu-ray picks and even more! Direct Donloyd HereGot a movie suggestion for the show, or better yet an opinion on next week's movies? Drop us a line at JFDPodcast@gmail.com. Or leave us a voicemail: 347-746-JUNK (5865). Add it to your telephone now! JOIN THE CONVERSATION!Also, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We'll have a summah for your love and support. Please avoid checking out this embarrassing merchandise.

JFD531: Austin Stories, The United Monster Talent Agency, Borrowed Time

 We're back with three more flicks picked by our Patreon buddies! First up, Sean Connery is a rocketman living near Jupiter. When mysterious deaths break out at the mining colony, 007 has to solve the case in "Outland." Next, blood turns a statue into a living creature ... or something ... in the Shaw Brothers' "Portrait in Crystal." Finally, LA punks deal with boomer rednecks, reasonable cops and a society that doesn't care about them in "Suburbia." All this, plus wet ass pussy, nerd news, the fallen one, junk mails and so much more! Direct Donloyd

JFD530: Outland, Portrait in Crystal, Suburbia (1983)

  Hey, I heard you missed us, we're back! I brought my pencil! Gimme something to write on, man. This week JFD decides to skip the grossness of Ghoul Summer and instead focuses on the charms of education on film as we celebrate School Summer instead!Up first, we enroll at Hooter University and follow the antics of an all-female rock group who help a struggling sorority in a series of sporting competitions in order to save their house, all while trying to book gigs and launch their careers in Splitz from 1982.Then, we jump right into the third installment in the wacky supernatural Chinese comedy series Happy Ghost to find a young female ghost trying to get reincarnated but also getting accidentally thwarted by a bumbling music teacher in Happy Ghost III from 1986.And finally, two horror nerds must defend their high school from a plague of zombified members of the swim team, all while plugging the shit out of Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling for some reason, in 1990's Ghoul School.All this plus stories from grade school, open sores, an update on Parker's fear of being seen pooping, Nerd News, this week's most notable blu-rays and so much more!LISTEN NOW:MP3 Direct DonloydAlso, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We will finally graduate with your love and support.

JFD529: Splitz, Happy Ghost III, Ghoul School

Slap on your swim trunks, grab your case of Coors, and get ready to fly this helicopter over some Mayan pyramids outside Acapulco! We're traveling all corners of the globe this week with a trio of old men who just can't stop partying, age appropriateness be damned!Hey, kids! You like shirtless grandpa character actors, you say? How's your tolerance for endless martinis and small talk about high society? We've got the film for you! It's The Swimmer, from 1968! Directed by Frank "Last Summer" Perry! Watched by William "The Refrigerator" Perry! And starring Burt "Not a Perry" Lancaster! Next up! It's everyone's favorite early-70's, French-produced, Mexican-set comedic spy caper / dramedy / romance film, Le Magnifique aka The Man from Acapulco, aka How to Destroy the Reputation of the Greatest Secret Agent, from 1973. One of several collaborations between director Philippe de Broca and star Jean-Paul Belmondo, this one's notable for also featuring Jacqueline Bisset and scenes set in a really bitchin' living room.Finally! It's a third film: Smokey and the Bandit (1977), a trucker / TransAm'er classic that you probably remember from those afternoons your dad spent in front of the TV, tapping toes along to the tunes of Jerry "Snowman" Reed. It's got Burt Reynolds and the beers and the Paul Williams and the Jackie Gleason and the Sally Field and the hijinks too! You know it.All this plus shirtless Burts, finding fun in a pandemic, curbside Ding Dongs in your hand, racial insensitivities, drive-in seating preferences, Sweetman's Safety Tips, Sean regrets having no regrets, rocking and rolling to the Public Broadcasting System, the hottest new secret YouTube channel starring Kevin Moose, a drop that makes ya say what the heck, Kevin's on doctor's orders, how much foot play is too much foot play?, a very long telephone cord makes an appearance, our weekly news plus Blu-ray Picks and even more! Direct Donloyd HereGot a movie suggestion for the show, or better yet an opinion on next week's movies? Drop us a line at JFDPodcast@gmail.com. Or leave us a voicemail: 347-746-JUNK (5865). Add it to your telephone now! JOIN THE CONVERSATION!Also, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We'll spread them toes for your love and support. Please avoid checking out this embarrassing merchandise.

JFD528: The Swimmer, Le Magnifique, Smokey & The Bandit

We're back with three films in which we get lost in New York, lost in television and lost in 1970s sexuality! First up, TV's Allen Funt asks the audience, "What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?" This candid camera movie catches a variety of '70s people in awkward situations. Next, Martin Scorsese takes us back to the streets of New York as an unfulfilled yuppie gets stranded in SoHo in an increasingly bizarre adventure in "After Hours." Next, a kid has to save his little sister from a color wizard that lives in a haunted VHS tape in "Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure." All this plus Nerd News, Junk Mails, the Fallen One, Sex show fact checking, Boris Karloff's sexy voice and so much more! Donloyd Here Thanks for listening! Tell a friend! Join us on Patreon!

JFD527: What do you Say to a Naked Lady? After Hours, Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure

Yo, Junkies! JFD is back with another round of Dom DeLuise Patreon Donor picks this episode. There will me psycho killers, demon zombies and retro swinger orgies! What more could you ask for?Up first, Lucio Fulci takes his unique brand of Italian giallo to the grimy streets of early-80's NYC in The New York Ripper from 1982 (picked by Eddie) about a serial slasher who targets young women and talks like a duck on the phone. Then, a group of horror cliches go to visit a remote farmhouse where one of the kids' grandparents had been murdered, only to find the site is still haunted and overrun with zombies in 1990's Demon Wind (picked by Evan).And finally, Anna Biller writes, directs, does set design, costumes and stars in Viva from 2007 (picked by Matt M), a wonderfully retro and kitschy tale about a woman bored with the trappings of early 70's homemaking and sets off on an adventure to awaken her sexuality. All this plus a recap of the crap we've been watching in quarantine, chicken pot pie chat, Parker's thoughts on Cats, Nerd News, this week's most notable blu-rays and so much more! LISTEN NOW: MP3 Direct DonloydAlso, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We will find our sexual awakening with your love and support.

JFD526: The New York Ripper, Demon Wind, Viva

In our continuing attempts to address the shortening attention spans of our young listener base (all hyped up on zima malt beverages and rock & roll musics), it's another Short Films week here at Junk Food Dinner! And these are three of the shortest and filmiest things we've ever reviewed! Donloyd & listen now to hear our unprofessional opinions on...The Haunted House, a 1921 Buster Keaton short where the poor guy has to deal not only with bank robbers & ghosts, but also a very sticky jar of glue. It's a comedy classic! But can Parker stay awake for the 21 minute runtime? Watch along here! Meshes of the Afternoon, a 1943 Maya Deren short where the poor lady has to deal not only with mysterious keys and shattering mirrors, but a severe case of sofa-bound narcolepsy. It's a surrealist sensation! But can Parker stay awake for the 14 minute runtime? Watch along here! Elvis Meets the Beatles, a 2000 John Michael McCarthy short where the titular characters perform the titular action. It's a third film! Or was it all a dream? Watch along here! All this plus a red dead redemption reappraisal, a sega bass fishing retrospective, Kevin's regrets on display, eurosexcrimes, a Kontroversy from Kentucky, the Church of Scientology does another murder, our weekly news plus Blu-ray Picks and even more! Direct Donloyd HereGot a movie suggestion for the show, or better yet an opinion on next week's movies? Drop us a line at JFDPodcast@gmail.com. Or leave us a voicemail: 347-746-JUNK (5865). Add it to your telephone now! JOIN THE CONVERSATION!Also, if you like the show, please take a minute and subscribe and/or comment on us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry or Podfeed.net. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! We'd love to see some of your love on Patreon - it's super easy and fun to sign up for the extra bonus content. We'll slide all the way down that giant staircase for your love and support. Please avoid checking out this embarrassing merchandise.

JFD525: The Haunted House, Meshes of the Afternoon, Elvis Meets The Beatles

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