From the set of Outpost Doom in Aurora, NE: The usual suspects (and some random folk milling about) chat about their favorite 1990s genre films and review Jack Hill's forgotten proto-TCM classic, Spider Baby, from 1968.

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This week, we read through some listener submitted dissertations of our show, review a new low-budget suckfest called Chronicles of an Exorcism, begin a new segment where we discuss the best horror films of each decade and then give the people what they’ve been waiting for: the naming of the Deadlantern mascot (?)

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The people demanded it and now they've got it. Drunk Deejay returns.

And it isn't pretty.

This week we review a bunch of short screeners we received but its mainly just Deejay's whirlpool of drunkeness.

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A very happy birthday to Ms. Quigley who has now graced us with half a century on this earth! She’s older than our moms!

In this episode we happily invite Splattercast listener Paul in as a co-host for winning the Splatterpiece Theatre segment. Like the ungracious hosts we are, we talk so much that he barely gets a word in edgewise. Sorry Paul! We also pimp our listener Stuart’s band Black Helium and play his latest single “Consumed With Doom”, click the link to check em out! After that, we delve into the oeuvre of Linnea Quigley with reviews of Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama and Jack-O while Deejay magically appears about half-way through the cast to tell us what he’d like to do to a 50 year old woman.

Once again, thanks to Paul for putting up with our unprepared shenanigans and for the kind words about TGH, it was fun!

Deejay hosts this week as we talk about the first weekend of shooting “Outpost Doom”, review Rob Zombie’s garbage filmography, and talk about the new Indiana Jones flick.

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This week, we review Jeff and I revisit the French flick “Inside” and I give some thoughts on the indie flick “Teeth”. This episode also brings about the return of Splatterpiece Theatre. If you can guess which film the scene we recreate is from, you win a guest co-host spot on an upcoming Splattercast. No Googling! And as always, we go off on some tangents about comic books and give you the DVD releases for tomorrow. That and Deejay laments constipation.

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Much like Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby, this episode needed to be euthanized for the good of everyone involved. We talk about… um… I don’t even remember what we talk about in this episode. I remember having a good time making it, though, so I hope you will have a good time listening.

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We used up all of our focus on last week’s Hellraiser episode so this one is very loose. Each of us casually review some horror movies that we watched over the weekend and Deejay reveals a soft spot for the Robin Williams tour de force, Bicentennial Man. Shout outs to Mail Order Zombie and Dried Blood Podcast for sending in the clips that bookend this episode.

This week, we open the puzzlebox and review every single Hellraiser movie.

Larry Cohen's "It's Alive" trilogy and a discussion on nostalgia

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The Ruins

Every once in a while, a podcast has an off day. Technical difficulties throw everyone off their game, a lack of structure causes long awkward pauses, and every joke just falls flat. Unfortunately, that seems to happen to us every week. This week was especially bad, but luckily, it’s only 50 minutes long so you won’t have to suffer through it as long as you normally do. This week, we review the original April Fool’s Day as well as the recent re-gurgitation. To fill time, we read lots of DVD releases. And uh…that’s about it.

Episode # 71 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008

After playing some Funny Games during the Day of the Dead, I closed the Shutter in order to watch Jumper. I then fell into a Spiral of suck that I could not escape.

This week is all about reviews: Funny Games, Day of the Dead (remake), Shutter, Jumper, and Spiral. Deejay gives us the "facts" of how Popeye's Chicken always pops up in low-income neighborhoods and we respond to a listener who e-mailed us about having sex with an alien that has morphed into a Playboy Playmate. Enjoy.

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Yet another train wreck this week (they seem to be happening with increasing regularity) as Deejay and Steve set the agenda. It’s all Critters all the time. There’s really not much else to say about this episode other than we apologize to any of our Roman Catholic listeners for Deejay’s drunken offensive comments. Take solace in the fact that Deejay is the Splattercast equivalent of Jeremiah Wright, only more lovable and slightly less Anti-American

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We’ve been endorsed by Eliot Spitzer as this week is all about lesbian erotic vampire horror films. We review a plethora of stuff, including a couple Jess Franco flicks as well as Tony Scott’s first film, The Hunger. We also discuss a bit about why we think people enjoy these films. Is it just to see some nudity or is there something deeper? Oh yeah, and we go off on a tangent about pizza. Deejay doesn’t seem to have lost any of his crass form from last week. After apologizing to Brady, he then goes on to insult all of our handicapped listeners. Intro and outro music is from the latest Nine Inch Nails album, Ghosts. It’s good.

The Train Wreck Episode: MaT loses control of Deejay and Steve

That sound you hear is the Splattercast Express crashing. Drunk with power, Deejay decides to call out a missing Brady and everybody takes the opportunity to rag on Jeff. Is there any horror in this episode? Well, Deejay describes many frightening things and Steve tries to explain why he hates good movies. We also get a swell tune about Bruce Campbell from a listener's band and Deejay waxes philosophical. We'll be better next week. Hopefully.

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This week, Deejay calls in from a random family in Phoenix’s living room, we chat a bit about the upcoming Splatcademy Awards, we review Fido, The Girl Next Door, and The Orphanage, and probably get some poor Chinese listener arrested as we give some comments on China’s banning of horror films, and almost certainly the Splattercast. In fact, I am hereby declaring that we are the first horror podcast banned in China! Sure…I don’t have any evidence of this…but we here at the cast like ghosts and goblins, and I can guarantee you, unlike all the other horror podcasts, we were made right here in the good ole US of A. Ain’t no lead paint on us, bitches!

This week, a couple foul mouthed hicks from Tennessee who call themselves the Sleepy Boys guest host. Since guests, no matter how disagreeable we may find them, are subject to the ancient Greek principle of Guest/Host hospitality, and since we really don’t want to piss off Zeus, we allow them to select the films for this week. Their choices? H.G. Lewis’s The Wizard of Gore and Frank Hennenlotter’s Basket Case. After our reviews, the cast then devolves into a discussion on feces (size, shape, consistency, etc.) before we wrap up with the DVD releases.

The Howling franchise: Vote "no" on werewolf amnesty!

We make a lot of jokes about watching crappy movies so you don't have to, but this time we're dead serious: the Howling movies suck. Aside from the first one, which is moderately good, the franchise is total garbage and should be avoided. In this episode we review all seven films in the series and ponder how these movies kept getting made back in the 1980s and early 90s.

Badass machine guns!

We venture into non-horror territory to review both the first and the last Rambo films. We all agree that the original First Blood is a great movie, while opinions on the 2008 version are varied, to say the least. Hopefully this episode won't cause anyone to have a psycho Nam flashback.

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Holy crap! We managed to do a Splattercast under an hour (albeit by only 2 minutes). This week we all review the monster flick Cloverfield and discuss what we like and don't like about the trend of shaky hand-held cameras in film. Also, back by popular demand (and when I say popular, I mean me) is a new installment of Splatterpiece Theatre, complete with Masterpiece Theatre theme music! Enjoy!

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The above picture represents the portion of our female fanbase who have requested sexual favors of Steve. Since he couldn't thank them all individually on the cast, we threw up a pic of them instead. This week it's all about the fans in an episode dedicated to listener e-mail, shoutouts, thank you's, and a bunch of nice voice mail messages we've received. You'll also get to find out why Tennessee is in dire need of some federal education dollars
We honestly thank all of you for listening to the show and helping us become one of the top horror casts on the net (all 187,000 of you!
). We'll bring the horror rock next week, today, it's all about you!

This is our massively long, 94 minute Frankenstein themed episode. We ended up watching and reviewing so many Frankenstein films that we had to skip all of the discussion topics we had planned because the episode was just running way too long. Highlights include reviews of almost every Universal Frank flick, a couple choice Hammer selections, Deejay’s usual insane selections, and a contentious group debate over Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh. I watched way too many movies, so I apologize for the length of the episode, but hopefully you’ll learn a lot of information in between laughing a lot. In honor of Frankenstein, this episode just will not die. It keeps going…and going…and going…

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We spend a lazy New Year's Eve afternoon reviewing first-time director Adam Green's fun slasher flick Hatchet. Deejay shares a little bit about getting locked up in county and we wonder where we should take Dead Lantern in the new year.

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I’m truly sorry, but I screwed up the recording session for this episode and a lot of the episode is badly distorted. It goes back and forth from being perfectly clear to having a nasty buzz on it. I considered not posting it at all due to the poor quality, but Mat and Steve spent their time on Christmas Day making this episode and I wanted to have something to show for it.

If you can’t stand to listen to the fuzzy audio, here’s a quick summary of the episode: The new Aliens vs Predator flick is a big disappointment.

Thanks for your understanding!

Mat, Jeff and a totally hammered Deejay run through a handful of Christmas-themed horror movies including Silent Night Deadly Night, Christmas Evil, Santa's Slay and Black Christmas. We also give the Fresh Prince a big 'ol lump of coal for his disappointing new flick I Am Legend. Merry Christmas from your pals at Dead Lantern!

Splattercast #56 is an unusual episode. Originally, we were going to review Dog Soldiers and talk about werewolf flicks. Sadly, due to a family tragedy, we were unable to get the whole gang together. So, Jeff, Steve, myself and Deejay (who shows up half way through the damn episode) decide to do a completely ad libbed episode. There's little horror involved, other than listen to us struggle through discussions about Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey, Evil Knieval, and football. On the other hand, Jeff and I absolutely gush over the new Coen Brothers flick "No Country for Old Men", which has one of the most amazing villains ever to grace the movie screen.

So sit back and enjoy a special grab bag episode of the Splattercast. Everything is fair game. We'll be back next week with a special Christmas themed horror episode. Until then, you'll have to settle with ramblings of unprepared podcasters!

Zombies have attacked the Splattercast and they are here to eat our Braaaaaaiiiiinnnnnnssssss!

We've got a super sized theme episode this week that is all about zombies! We review a ton of crappy low-budget zombie movies, give an overview of zombie cinematic history, and delve into all kinds of topics about zombies. So take some time from eating brains to listen to everything you ever wanted to know about zombies!

Get pissed about The Mist

The fellas give some updates on the continuing saga of The Grand Horror and review The Mist, then they talk a bit about their favorite Stephen King movies and run down the week's DVD releases. Plus, Deejay's there in person this time! Bonus!

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Corey Feldman joins the lamest frat ever.

For this pre-Thanksgiving episode of the Splattercast, Steve chose the worst-rated movie he could find: the 1995 Corey Feldman vehicle Voodoo. The crew ends up with some conflicting opinions and, ironically, our conferencing software kicks Steve off the call so he wasn't able to share his thoughts on the film. Has someone put a voodoo curse on Steve? We then discuss online movie renting versus traditional brick-and-mortar rental stores, Mat reads chapter 6 of our original fiction series and we run down the week's DVD releases. Download this episode and play it in the background at your family's Thanksgiving dinner.

What's so funny about The Mummy?

Get the giggles with your pals at Dead Lantern as we watch the 1959 Hammer remake of The Mummy starring genre greats Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. We also talk a little about the Hollywood writers' strike and Mat administers a quiz on the ten basic building blocks of a successful friendship (we all fail). Listen to this episode or we'll import a cursed mummy from Egypt and send him over to break your windows!

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All aboard the Finke express, choo choo!

Prepare yourselves for what is probably the most offensive Splattercast ever. Things start off innocently enough with reviews of recent theatrical releases 30 Days of Night and Saw IV, followed by a review of the controversial new video game Manhunt 2. Then the show spirals out of control as the crew discusses Mat's new pen pal, Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke. Finke has been taking cheap shots at horror fans and the Dead Lantern crew isn't going to take it lying down. We're not afraid to pick on a girl!

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Uwe Boll grants us a great interview as we celebrate our 50th episode.

Our milestone 50th episode is our longest show ever, clocking it at almost two huge hours. Mat does a very interesting interview with German director Uwe Boll. We review several of Boll's movies, including House of the Dead, BloodRayne and Alone in the Dark and discuss whether they really are as bad as we'd been led to believe. We wrap it up with some very nice listener e-mail and give away some chintzy prizes. Can you make it through this Bollstravaganza in one sitting?

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A crummy new movie and a boring old movie, it's a double helping of horror disappointment!

The crew reviews Resident Evil 3, a film that somehow manages to make Milla Jovovich unappealing. Also reviewed is The Ghoul, a film that somehow manages to make Boris Karloff unappealing. The show isn't a total bummer, however, as several interesting upcoming horror movies are discussed.

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