For three months grubby little monsters with loud, piercing cries and a huge potential for destruction have infested your homes. Now the nightmare is finally over. Yes, horror fans, its “Back to School” time we’ve got a little something special to help you celebrate. Remember when you were in school yourself and you had to write one of those “What I did on my Summer Vacation” essays? Well, if teachers in tonight’s tale, at least the ones that survive, had to write one of those it would probably give the little kids nightmares.

A group of teachers on their way to a baseball game have some car trouble and stop at a secluded gas station in order to fix it. Unfortunately they have stumbled upon a crazy mass murderer and his unbalanced girlfriend who are at the same service station looking for a car to steal.

Anyone who has seen Eeegah! or any of his other movies would never expect to see the words “Arch Hall Jr.” and “good performance” anyplace near one another. However, he does a great job as the slimy Charles Starkweather type and everyone else does a fine job as well. This flick reminded me a lot of Natural Born Killers, but I actually liked this one a little more. There is plenty of good suspense and things never get boring.

Take advantage of your newly reacquired peace and quiet and set back and enjoy….The Sadist.

Greetings once again.. Fans of murder and mayhem should be pleased with tonight’s selection. Our August of Argento continues with one of the director’s best and well known movies…DEEP RED.

When a psychic who has picked up on the thoughts of a killer during a public demonstration is brutally murdered, her pianist neighbor and a reporter set out to find her killer. As is typical of these kinds of movies, leads turn up and are then dispatched by the killer before thay can be of much help.

As I said, this is one of Argento’s best works. I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing a proper DVD release of this, in widescreen with a restored print, but even the PD print available to me is a great flick. Have fun and enjoy your Friday Night Fright.

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Welcome back to Friday Night Frights. Thank you for spending this Friday the 13th here in the bowels of the public domain vaults. Unfortunately I can’t show you any killer clips from Crystal Lake here. Don’t feel too bad though. We have plenty of bloody murder and knife and axe action for you.

The second week of Argento August finds us in Rome. I famous American author is in the city to promote his latest torrid murder mystery. When somebody starts turning his sensational prose into sanguinary reality, he finds that his has become a suspect and a target of an unknown killer.

I once thought another Argento movie was my favorite, but after having watched all these movies again, I think this one may take the top spot.

So, no Jason or his loving mother, but you can still settle on for a little time with a maniac tonight. Have fun and enjoy your Friday the 13th.

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OK, horror fans, its time to get out your black leather gloves and Goblin CDs. That’s right. It is Argento August here on Friday Night Frights. We’ll be bringing four of the Maestro’s most famous movies (that aren’t Susperia).

We get things rolling this week with Dario’s sophomore effort. It is a bit lighter on the red stuff than a couple of the other ones that you’ll be seeing in the next few weeks, but we still have a good little mystery and you can definitely tell it is an Argento movie.

A blind ex-cop gets involved with a murder case and is aided by a reporter and a little girl who has befriended him. As leads keep turning up dead it soon becomes clear that the three of them may also be targets of the mysterious killer who will stop at nothing to evade capture.

Enjoy.

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Hello again, gore fans. It’s Friday night, so you must be here for your weekly dose of macabre movie madness. We’ll I’ve got a fun little flick for you tonight.

What would happen if H.G. Lewis set out to make one of his 60s splatter flicks, but decided to make the humor intentional? You would probably end up with something a lot like The Undertaker and His Pals.

This evening’s movie is a story of team work and cooperation at its finest. It seems the owners of a small diner are dismembering local ladies and putting their limbs, organs and other body parts on the menu. Not only does this feed their psychotic urges and keep their overhead down, it also helps out their cohort in carnage, un unscrupulous funeral director, drum up business when he sells cut-rate funeral services to the victims’ grieving friends and families.

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Well horror fans, it looks as if we are starting to get some big names around the old public domain movie vault these days. In a few weeks we’ll be hosting an entire month of Dario Argento movies and tonight I offer you a film by the one and only, Godfather of Gore, Lucio Fulci.

Fulci made a lot of movies in his career and covered a lot of genres. If Dollar Movie Drive In was still around I’d be rushing to show you his incredibly effective Western Four of the Apocalypse, but his is best known for his series of extra gooey splatter movies from the late 70s and early 80s. When you sit down to watch a Fulci horror movie, you expect a few things. You expect lots of gore, plots that only sort of make sense but that have a dream like quality about them, ambiguous conclusions and…oh yeah…plenty of maggots.

You’ll be happy to know that tonight’s feature does feature all of those things. There is nothing as great as the intestine puking scene in City of the Living Dead or the eye gouging in Zombie, but this is plenty of mean-spirited mayhem to keep you awake. As far as “weird” plots go, you’ve got a brutal killer lurking around, freaky children, an odd babysitter that may know more than us (of Fulci) about what is going on, a creepy basement, odd townspeople and much more.

There is something lurking in the basement of the old Fruedsterin house, something evil and hungry for flesh. When a new family moves in, can they discover the terrible secret of their New England home before it is too late and they become part of the house’s dark legend.  Found out now in…..HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY.

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The head doctor at a home for the criminally insane is trying out a new program which gives the inmates more personal freedom. His new technique seems to be working well until one of his charges plants an axe in the back of his neck. Shorty after his unscheduled departure, a new nurse that he had hired arrives and must find a way to fit into her new position.

Not a great movie, but a fun little piece of drive-in trash with some blood, lots of weird characters and a pretty good ending.

So, lets line up to take our medication and then settle in for the first reel of Don’t Look in the Basement.

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With the new movie Splice recently in theaters, impressing some and disappoint others, the discussion of genetic engineering has come up on several of the horror podcasts I listen to. Not wanting to be left out of all this morally questionable tom foolery, I figured I’d pull this little science project from the public domain vault and see if it wins any prizes.

This may be a bit disappointing to the usual schlock loving crowd that we get here for Friday Night Frights. With Rock Hudson in the lead, we actually have a name actor and a movie that is actually pretty well done.

I hope you enjoy Embryo. If so, or even if you don’t, please drop me a line at aaron@cadaverlab.com. I’m dying to know if anyone is actually watching this stuff [EDIT: I watch Aaron :), love Mike]. Heck, If I ever get any mails, I could post them on here or read them during the It Came From the Public Domain segment of the podcast.  God knows I need something to prop up my lameness.

OK, enough pandering for feedback. We actually have good movie this week, so let’s get to it.

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The Summer Slash-A-Thon continues to leave a bloody trail across your desktop this week with a little forgotten backwoods romp about a group of friends spending the weekend in upstate New York. What they don’t count on are odd and possibly demented locals and the deadly and definitely demented masked killer that soon begins to thin their numbers. I give you Savage Weekend.

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Ah the Drive-in. Back in the days before every theater had 25 screens and was owned by a huge cooperation, the local drive-in was the perfect outlet for the not-so-mainstream movies of the day. The low budget shockers or import Westerns and Kung-Fu flicks found homes there. The sex comedies and sleazy exploitation pictures were just as welcome. Really all you needed was a cool poster and a name that looked good on a double or triple feature add and you were good. The movies themselves didn’t even have to be that great. Nobody was watching them anyway.

Yes the drive-in, now all but extinct, was once a great place to spend a warm summer evening with that special someone, watching movies under the stars, maybe fooling around a little or a lot and…….being hacked to pieces by a sword wielding maniac.

Welcome to the second week of the FNF Summer Slash-A-Thon. This time I offer you Drive-in Massacre, a cheap little slasher from the 70s. You’ve got quirky characters, bad acting and plenty of bright red b-movie blood. Pop some corn and enjoy. Don’t forget to return the speaker to the post before you drive away.

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