13 O'Clock Podcast

It’s Tom’s birthday! Have some drinks and celebrate with us as we chat about random stuff.

It’s the first installment of Giallo July! On today’s review, Jenny is discussing a 2015 neo-giallo written and directed by Argentinian brothers Luciano and Nicolas Onetti, which was lovingly crafted to look almost exactly like a classic giallo from the 1970s. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video … Continue reading Flickers of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: Francesca (2015)

Tom and Jenny discuss Kenneth Branagh’s stagy and overwrought but still entertaining and faithful Frankenstein adaptation, starring Kenneth Branagh as Victor Frankenstein, Robert DeNiro as the monster, and also featuring Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce, John Cleese, and Ian Holm. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: … Continue reading Movie Retrospective: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)

Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, a new belief system that would come to be known as Spiritualism would sweep across the English-speaking world. Jump-started by the infamous Fox sisters and their supposed contact with spirits, the movement posited that certain people known as mediums had the ability to communicate with loved ones who had passed … Continue reading Episode 306 LIVE: Spiritualism and Séances

Jenny discusses Gore Verbinski’s gothic, psychological horror about an arrogant executive sent to a weird Swiss health spa in order to retrieve an errant colleague. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: A Cure for Wellness (2016)

Tom and Jenny talk about a 2018 post-apocalyptic drama/scifi film starring Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: I Think We’re Alone Now (2018)

Tom and Jenny discuss the 2012 adaptation of Lee Child’s 2005 novel One Shot, starring Tom Cruise as the beloved Jack Reacher character. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: Jack Reacher (2012)

Tom and Jenny talk about the iconic 1984 classic that started it all. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: The Karate Kid (1984)

Jenny discusses an excellent 2020 horror novel about a woman who flees her abusive boyfriend and ends up at the creepy and secluded bed and breakfast run by her estranged grandmother. Find this book and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to … Continue reading Tomes Of Terror – Jenny’s Horror Book Reviews: The Rotting Within by Matt Kurtz

Join Tom and Jenny as they talk about food, kitties, 80s music, John Hughes movies, and more! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, and some board and card games designed … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Strawberry Daiquiri Edition

Jenny discusses a creepy supernatural mystery directed by David Bruckner and starring Rebecca Hall. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: The Night House (2021)

Tom and Jenny discuss the cult classic psychological horror film from 1962, which starred Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as sisters and aging Hollywood stars, one of whom mercilessly torments the other. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe … Continue reading Movie Retrospective: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

In Edinburgh, Scotland, in the first half of the 19th century, great progress was being made in the field of anatomy. Only problem was, medical researchers needed cadavers for their studies, and since the law was very strict about which corpses could legally be dissected, there was something of a shortage of materials for doctors … Continue reading Episode 305 LIVE: Burke and Hare

Jenny talks about Ti West’s latest film, a fun, gory, throwback slasher in the vein of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: X (2022)

Tom and Jenny discuss Phil Tippett’s long-awaited stop-motion horror film, which he started working on back in the 1980s and finished recently through Kickstarter. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: Mad God (2022)

Tom and Jenny discuss Ridley Scott’s 2021 historical film, based on a true 14th century incident. The film stars Jodie Comer, Matt Damon, Adam Driver, and Ben Affleck. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: The Last Duel (2021)

Jenny discusses a fun, scary, and gleefully gory 2020 novel about a group of South Carolina women in the late 1980s who must contend with a charming yet VERY evil vampire in their midst. Find this book and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget … Continue reading Tomes Of Terror: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, and some board and card games designed by Jenny at Giallo Games! Visit Jenny's Amazon author page! And check out our awesome cookbook! THANK YOU TO ALL … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Saturday Night Goth, Bond, and Video Games Edition

Jenny finally gets around to discussing Jennifer Kent’s iconic feature film debut, about a frazzled mother and her challenging son who are seemingly tormented by a creepy monster from a children’s book. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: The Babadook (2014)

Jenny discusses a 1974 exploitation flick that was shot in the Philippines about a group of women kidnapped by a blood-drinking cult of some kind. Sadly, the movie is FAR less interesting than that premise sounds. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! … Continue reading Movie Retrospective: The Thirsty Dead (1974)

One of the most important aspects of any battle is being able to communicate information to your allies without that same information falling into the hands of your enemies. In the United States, during both World Wars, one way this was accomplished was through the use of people known as code talkers. A code talker … Continue reading Episode 304 LIVE: Native American Code Talkers

Jenny discusses a neo-noir horror thriller about a video archivist in 1999 Chicago who becomes convinced that creepy signal intrusions on a local TV station are linked to a series of disappearances. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021)

Tom and Jenny talk about the latest body horror film from the legendary David Cronenberg. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, and some board and card games designed by Jenny … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: Crimes of the Future (2022)

Tom and Jenny discuss the newest iteration of the beloved DC character, the Matt Reeves-directed The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: The Batman (2022)

Tom and Jenny discuss the wildly successful 2021 MCU film that featured multiverse Spider-Men, Doctor Strange, and the return of Green Goblin and Doc Ock, among others. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Jenny talks about a bestselling 2020 horror novel about a group of four Native American men who fall into the crosshairs of a supernatural creature bent on revenge. Find this book and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like … Continue reading Tomes Of Terror – Jenny’s Horror Book Reviews: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, and some board and card games designed by Jenny at Giallo Games! Visit Jenny's Amazon author page! And check out our awesome cookbook! THANK YOU TO ALL … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Another Friday Open Lines Edition

Jenny talks about a Welsh-language film (also known as Gwledd) about a mysterious woman hired to serve the guests of an obnoxious rich family’s dinner party. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: The Feast (2021)

Tom and Jenny talk about the very loose adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to … Continue reading Movie Retrospective: Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Even today, more than a century after her execution, the name Mata Hari conjures up images of the ultimate femme fatale, an exotic dancer and courtesan who allegedly used her feminine wiles to spy for the Germans during World War I. She has been the subject of numerous films, musicals, songs, and even a recent … Continue reading Episode 303 LIVE: Mata Hari

Jenny discusses the newest horror film from Ben Wheatley, a folk horror freakout about a scientist and a park ranger who encounter something strange in a remote stretch of woods. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: In the Earth (2021)

Tom and Jenny talk about a somewhat obscure 1991 TV movie based on the supposedly real haunting of the Smurl family, which involved Ed and Lorraine Warren and occurred over a 15-year period in West Pittston, Pennsylvania. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: The Haunted (1991)

Tom and Jenny talk about the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s classic novel I Am Legend, the 2007 film starring Will Smith that was actually pretty decent, although the alternate ending was much better than the theatrical one (still not like the book ending though). Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: I Am Legend (2007)

Tom and Jenny revisit the 1971 film The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston. It is the second, and probably least faithful, adaptation of Richard Matheson’s classic novel I Am Legend. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: The Omega Man (1971)

Jenny discusses Scott Smith’s classic 1993 dark thriller (made into a 1998 film directed by Sam Raimi) in which three men find a plane full of money and proceed down a path of utter carnage. Find this book and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't … Continue reading Tomes Of Terror – Jenny’s Horror Book Reviews: A Simple Plan by Scott Smith

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, and some board and card games designed by Jenny at Giallo Games! Visit Jenny's Amazon author page! And check out our awesome cookbook! THANK YOU TO ALL … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Pregaming & Food Edition

Jenny discusses an awesome psychological horror about a prim woman working for the British Board of Film Censors in the 1980s who delves into the mystery of her sister’s disappearance after watching a video nasty. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: Censor (2021)

Tom and Jenny discuss the 1976 Eurosleaze film directed by Jess Franco, which stars Klaus Kinski and has pretty much nothing whatsoever to do with the actual Jack the Ripper murders, but instead seems to be a Victorian-era riff on Franco’s own 1962 movie The Awful Dr. Orloff. Find this movie and more at the … Continue reading Movie Retrospective: Jack the Ripper (1976)

It’s a paranormal extravaganza on this spooky installment of 13 O’Clock! First up, we’ll be discussing the mysterious Houska Castle, a 13th-century Gothic structure in the Czech Republic which was supposedly built over an actual gateway to Hell. Then we’ll return to the fascinating case of Doris Bither, who was the real woman behind the … Continue reading Episode 302 LIVE: Houska Castle and the Doris Bither Entity Haunting

Jenny discusses an eerie, nightmarish Canadian film, directed by Anthony Scott Burns, in which a runaway teenage girl takes part in a sleep study that seems to unleash something sinister into her psyche. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: Come True (2020)

Tom and Jenny talk about the 1964 adaptation of Richard Matheson’s classic novel I Am Legend. It stars Vincent Price, and remains the most faithful adaptation of the book out of all the screen versions. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: The Last Man on Earth (1964)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, and some board and card games designed by Jenny at Giallo Games! Visit Jenny's Amazon author page! And check out our awesome cookbook! THANK YOU TO ALL … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Memorial Day Supplemental Edition

Tom and Jenny discuss one of the greatest American films ever made, Francis Ford Coppola’s Mafia epic The Godfather, based on the blockbuster novel by Mario Puzo and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, and Diane Keaton. Thanks Louie for sending us the movie! … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: The Godfather (1972)

Jenny discusses a 2022 novel about a grieving man who goes on a hike in the Adirondacks and ends up confronting a horrific experience in the all-encompassing darkness. Find this book and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like … Continue reading Tomes Of Terror – Jenny’s Horror Book Reviews: The Adirondack Witch by Patrick Reuman

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, and some board and card games designed by Jenny at Giallo Games! Visit Jenny's Amazon author page! And check out our awesome cookbook! THANK YOU TO ALL … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Endless Eggplants Edition

Jenny discusses the debut feature film of writer/director Keith Thomas, who helmed the Firestarter remake in 2022. The Vigil tells the tale of a young man who recently left his Orthodox Jewish community, but agrees to act as a shomer—someone who sits vigil over a dead body—for one night. As you can imagine, things get … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: The Vigil (2019)

Tom and Jenny discuss a Satanic horror from 1975, featuring an all-star cast that includes William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, Keenan Wynn and John Travolta in his film debut in a minor role. Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, acted as technical advisor on the film and appears … Continue reading Movie Retrospective: The Devil’s Rain (1975)

In the annals of American crime, and certainly during the gangster era of the 1930s, there were few couples as notorious and romanticized as Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, along with their gang, traveled throughout the United States from 1931 to 1934, robbing banks, shops, and funeral homes, and killing nine police … Continue reading Episode 301 LIVE: Bonnie and Clyde

Jenny discusses a grotesque French/Belgian body horror drama directed by Julia Ducournau that won the Palme d’Or at Cannes the year of its release. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow … Continue reading Flickers Of Fear – Jenny’s Horror Movie Reviews: Titane (2021)

Tom and Jenny talk about Sam Raimi’s fun, gross-out 2009 horror film about a young loan officer who gets cursed by a creepy old Roma woman after denying her a mortgage extension. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: Drag Me To Hell (2009)

Tom and Jenny talk about the 1993 adaptation of Stephen King’s 1991 novel, which stars Ed Harris, Max von Sydow, Bonnie Bedelia, Amanda Plummer, and J. T. Walsh. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: Needful Things (1993)