Dead City Drive-In

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THE LOVE WITCH | DEATH PROOF | PSYCHO BEACH PARTYWith Guest Programmer KATIE CASTONGUAYForget bonfires, s'mores, and mosquito bites, and plant that severed tongue firmly in your cheek as Dead City Drive-In goes to camp! Join Brandon, Chris and special guest programmer, Katie Castonguay as they turn up the irony to 11 and delve into the campiest trio of movies, guaranteed to make John Waters' mustache curl. So grab your surfboard and your jar of witch piss, hop into your 1970 Dodge Challenger and prepare for an episode full of swank, sex, and high octane, 'cause we smell SEX & CAMPY, yeah! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In desperate need of a midseason hiatus, Brandon and Chris attempt to flee the Drive-In only to be swallowed whole by a horrifying sea beast! Inside the leviathan's digestive tract, the duo decide to program a JAWS themed octo-feature– pairing the original classic and its three increasingly absurd sequels with appropriate companion flicks! No piranhas or tentacles or orcas here– we're steering clear of the obvious and diving deep into some real waterlogged WTF territory! Get your harpoons ready, feed Dennis Quaid a 3D-sized rail of Michael Caine, and prepare to believe that sharks can roar, ‘cause from hell's heart we're stabbing at thee with a Dead City Drive-In JAWS-A-THON SPECIAL EPISODE! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE | MEET THE FEEBLES | GHOULIES 2With Guest Programmer MATTHEW YOVINOSaturday mornings sure aren't what they used to be! Long gone are the days of waking up early to shove our faces full of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, eyes glued to the glowing screen in front of us, staring into a flickering void of programming featuring adults with their hands shoved up the asses of neon-furred puppets machine gunning each other into felt souffle. Those were the days! So, Brandon and Chris have decided to bring it back to the glory years, when puppets were perverts and klowns were killer! Guest Programmer Matthew Yovino stops by to spoon feed us a second bowl of Saturday morning sleaze. We're talkin' cotton candy cocoons, fluid-flinging furries and goo-gushing Ghoulies! Put the kids down for an afternoon nap, because it's PERVERTED PUPPET PLAYTIME! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brandon and Chris are cozying up in their Plymouth Fury for some gut-munchin' Italian zombie action in a Special Commentary Episode of Lucio Fulci's first masterpiece: ZOMBIE (aka Zombi 2 aka Zombie Flesh Eaters aka The Movie Where A Zombie Fights A Damn Tiger Shark for Real)! Watch along as we marvel at exotic, Caribbean locations plagued by the festering undead! Hear us squeal with high-pitched fervor at the sight of a beautiful, green eye being pierced with a splinter of deadly wood! Jam along to the synthy rhythms of Italo-horror-prog! Get ready for some serious spaghetti splatter ‘cause we're blowing chunks all over one of the best zombie flicks of all time! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DEATH RACE 2000 | THE RUNNING MAN | ROBOT JOXWith Guest Programmer MICHAEL MARTZWho loves you and who do you love? Well, if you're anything like Brandon & Chris, you love gameshows set in a post-apocalyptic America where the winner gets the adoration of the remnants of humanity and the loser gets straight-up crushed by a giant robot! Special Guest Programmer Michael Martz stops by to press his luck with a whammy of a double-feature! Gas up your death-mobiles, make union with your robot exoskeleton, get ready to turn your Sub-Zeros into plain zeroes and come on down! You're the next contestant at the ARMAGEDDON ARENA! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

THE BAD SEED | THE CHILDREN | VILLAGE OF THE DAMNEDWith Guest Programmer VICTORIA TRIBBLESo your daughter just drowned a little boy in the pond, is that really any reason to send ‘em to their room? We're not talking prison time and electric chairs, are we? Besides, who could kill a child? It's a warped query in the annals of psychotronic cinema, and luckily Brandon & Chris are joined by Guest Programmer Victoria Tribble to contemplate the unthinkable. We're giving out lightning powered spankings to some of the worst behaved kids in movie history. Sometimes, parenting isn't always to blame… you never know when toxic clouds'll poison a school bus of adorable moppets or aliens decide to impregnate all the women in a sleepy village! One thing's for certain, you'll need plenty of red sauce if you wanna have something to dip these TERROR TOTS in! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS THE MONSTERS | THE CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN | ALUCARDA | DON'T PANIC | FROM DUSK TILL DAWNThe doors of Dead City Drive-In are officially open for a fourth season of slime-splattered screens and screams! After downing a bottle of irradiated Mezcal, Brandon and Chris decide to program a celebracion of Mexican genre cinema, Dead City style! It's a south-of-the-border, 5-FILM MARATHON of the best and weirdest psychotronica Mexico has to offer! Luchadors wrestling Frankensteins! Wailing ghosts murdering villagers with vicious dogs! Blood-drenched nude nuns screaming for Satan! Grown men in dinosaur jammies dream-battling yuck-faced demons! And of course, a strip club full of exploding vampires! So, grab yourself a couple swigs of tequila, mind the worm and get ready for Dead City Drive-In's SICKO DE MAYO ESPECIAL! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Attention Dead City Denizens! We've officially launched the DEAD CITY DRIVE-IN PATREON!Head over to patreon.com/deadcitydrivein and get ready for whole new levels of Drive-In depravity!What kind of aural assault can your earholes expect to encounter if you become an official patron? Take a listen to this little sound-splat to find out, or just get your mutant ass over to patreon.com/deadcitydrivein right now!All regular episodes of Dead City Drive-In are available to stream here for free, with SEASON 4 premiering 5/5. Bonus episodes follow starting 5/12 and drop twice a month! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Surprise! Brandon & Chris take a few minutes to give all you mutants and maniacs a little hint on what's in store for the next season of Dead City Drive-In, including an official release date and a few extra little surprises that just couldn't wait! Mark your calendars-- SEASON 4 is comin' in hot and sooner than you'd think!

The Drive-In Gods have called a wrap and Dead City is closing its doors for the season. But before they go, Brandon & Chris have decided to program one last round of drive-in depravity! They're digging through the cinematic wasteland in search of the best 1986 has to offer. 40 films are up for contention: bimbo-blasting killbots, vomit-spewing Jeff Goldblums and frog-chomping Oscar winners all vie for the top spot in a Season Finale that'll put the Dick back into your Miller!

David Warner | Donald Pleasence | Dick MillerInspired by graffiti scrawled in the stalls of the Dead City bathroom, Brandon & Chris get the wild idea to introduce their own Hall of Slime– a place for the gone (but not for-rotten) legends of genre cinema to be remembered forever. It's a special episode that honors and celebrates the roles of some of our very favorite character actors and the rules for inclusion are easy: Inductees must be deceased and must have been in the type of movies that played on slime-splattered drive-in screens everywhere. From ooze merchant to scarred-faced arch-nemeses, beat poet murdering sculptors to machine-gun wielding future presidents, we're dusting the cobwebs and uncovering roles deep in our inductees filmographies and welcoming this first terror triumvirate to the loving forever-home of the Dead City CELLULOID CATACOMB.

LEVIATHAN | BLOOD VESSEL | DEEP BLUE SEAWith Guest Programmer NIGEL SIKESAhoy, matey! Our anchor's aweigh and we've set sail, full speed ahead for a high seas adventure! Batten down your hatches and join Brandon & Chris as they navigate above and below the raging ocean waves in search of the perfect waterlogged double-feature. Guest Programmer Nigel Sikes climbs aboard to toss his own life preserver into the mix! If you like your ports of call stuffed to the gills with slimy sea creatures, Nazi vampires and genetically modified sharks, then friends, sit right back and you'll hear a tale! Loose lips sink ships, baby and these nautical nasties are sure to leave you DEAD IN THE WATER!

I, Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia, the Sorrow of Moldavia, command you… to get ready for another Dead City Drive-In Commentary Special with Brandon & Chris! We're coating this spooky sequel with our voices like slime blowers to Lady Liberty! Watch along with us as we deep dive into a childhood classic. We're talking genocidal madmen living inside magic paintings, mood slime with a kink for verbal humiliation, evil electric chair entities and rampaging spirits that are frankly, too hot to handle and too cold to hold! Will there be slime? Um.. is the atomic weight of cobalt 58.9? Zip up your flight suit, heat up those proton packs, and crank the Jackie Wilson, we're gonna be drippings with goo along with GHOSTBUSTERS 2!

TREMORS | THEM! | CRITTERSWith Guest Programmer JACK HOLLOWAYSpace hedgehogs with teeth! Irradiated, giant, mutant ants! Underground slugs with snake mouths! It's a tough life for a horror movie fan, mostly because when it comes to choosing which monster we wanna snuggle up with on our car's bench seat, we can't pick just one! Lucky for us, Guest Programmer Jack Holloway is here to sneak his favorite monsters into the Dead City Drive-In–  and we've got two perfect choices waiting in the wings to join them. Sizzle up some Kevin Bacon, break out your ant farm and cozy up with your favorite critter, because if there's anything better than watching monsters on a big screen, it's having a few favorite CREATURE COMFORTS to go along with!

THE BROOD | XTRO | ALTERED STATESWith Guest Programmer ROBB LEEFamily dynamics can be a bit tricky– especially if Mom's a crazy New Age nutbag who prefers to lick the afterbirth from freshly hatched brood babies rather than spend time with her familial unit. And where do you go with the conversation after you catch Dad slurping up snake eggs or devolving into a caveman who breaks into zoos to get in touch with his primordial side? Lucky for you, the Dead City Drive-In's got you covered! Brandon and Chris are joined by Guest Programmer Robb Lee to delve deep into childhood trauma with a double feature of dysfunctional family dynamics! Lay down on the couch, pop a couple hits of acid and get ready for some intense psychotherapy… we can't guarantee a breakthrough, but you will have a complete NUCLEAR FAMILY MELTDOWN!

PRIMETIME BITCH: A FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES PODCAST is out now everywhere, but you can check out the Premiere Episode right this very here!Brandon Windish and frequent DCDI guest programmer Jack Holloway are diving deep into the weirdest, grossest, surrealist, most insane forgotten anthology series of all time: FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES!New episodes land every other Tuesday, so make sure you subscribe to and share PRIMETIME BITCH anywhere you find podcasts. And if you're feeling particularly generous, you can always rate and review the show!

Hop in! We're going for a ride in our ‘58 Plymouth Fury for a Drive-In screening of one of our favorite sequels of all time: Don Coscarelli's PHANTASM II! Watch along as Brandon & Chris talk all over the studio-financed, stealth remake of the original fever-dream masterpiece. It's 97 minutes of spacegates, chainsaw fights and silver spheres that'll get you more pumped up than a sawed-off quad-barrelled shotgun blasting grandma-dwarves down a flight of stairs! Don't be intimidated by the potential wrath of the Tall Man, this is a DCDI Commentary Special and that means talking's allowed, boooooyyyyy!

Do you love Freddy Krueger? Well, our own, Brandon Windish sure does and, guess what? He has a new show to work out his feelings!DCDI is proud to present our first ever sistercast...PRIMETIME BITCH: A FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES PODCAST!Joined by co-host (and frequent DCDI guest programmer) Jack Holloway, these two lifelong Fred-heads are diving deep into the weirdest, grossest, surrealist, most insane forgotten anthology series of all time: FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES!The first episode of PRIMETIME BITCH drops 12/20, everywhere you find podcasts, but also right here in this very feed!New episodes land every other Tuesday, so make sure you subscribe to and share PRIMETIME BITCH! And if you're feeling particularly generous, you can always rate and review the show!For now, here's a little teaser to prime your palates! In the words of Freddy K, "Bon appétit, bitch!"

NASHVILLE GIRL | HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD | HARDCOREWith Guest Programmer WILL ERRICKSONThere's a bit of wanderlust amblin' through the Drive-In, so Brandon & Chris enlist the help of guest programmer Will Errickson (co-author of the incredible Paperbacks From Hell and steward of the Too Much Horror Fiction Blog) to travel down those lonesome, dusty roads in hot pursuit of success and stardom. We're slinging our guitars over our shoulders, hikin' up our torn Daisy Dukes and thumbin' a ride into the darkest corners of Tinseltown for a double-feature of hicksploitation and degradation– but at what cost?

HORROR OF DRACULA | LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES | CAPTAIN KRONOS, VAMPIRE HUNTERWith Guest Programmer JAIME GIANGRANDE-HOLCOMThe Dead City Drive-In is officially open for the season and we're plunging our stakes right into the satanic hearts of the most screen-loved monsters in cinema history: VAMPIRES! But not any of that monochrome monotony! Along with our returning guest programmer, Jaime Giangrande-Holcom, we're talking blood splatter so vibrant you can feel it spray across the screen, heaving bosoms so lovingly lit, you'll swear Caroline Munro is rubbing up against you! Pure terror in full color– it's Hammer Time! You're gonna need an extra pair of parachute pants if you wanna make it through a double-feature of the most terrifying bloodshot eyes in history!

Eat your ass out, Paul Lynde! It's Halloween Season and The Great Blumpkin demands a 24-HOUR MARATHON of horror-movie atrocity to celebrate the spirit of Samhain in appropriately spooky fashion. Brandon & Chris are scooping out 17 of their favorite seasonal flicks for the perfect All Hallow's Evening! What cinematic heinousness will they unleash? Will there be as many tricks as there are treats? Well, it IS the SEASON 3 PREMIERE, everyone's entitled to one little… aw, you know the rest. It's a fun-sized, star-studded, holiday spectacular that'll make you puke pumpkin spice into your latte with ice!

The Drive-In Gods have called a wrap and Dead City is closing its doors for the season. But before they go, Brandon & Chris have decided to program one last round of drive-in depravity! They're going back to the gory days of Fango Pull-Out Posters and stop-motion puppets to curate a weekend long marathon of the best genre films 1985 has to offer! Face-ripping werewolves, naked space vampires and enchiladas from hell all vie for the top spot in a Season Finale that'll put the fuck back in Chfuck Bronson! 

It's 2022, and what better way to greet the New Year than by blasting it into oblivion with a beard-operated missile launcher?! Sounds a little excessive? Well, nothing's more excessive than the seemingly endless output brought to you by indie studio madmen Golan & Globus! Stopping by to help Brandon & Chris program an 80s CANNON FILMS double-feature explodathon is none other than film composer and musician, Ben Lovett (The Night House, The Beta Test)! Grab a can of V8 juice and sharpen your shurikens, ‘cause we're talking Ninjas, Norris and Electric Boogaloos at the Dead City Drive-In!

Season's Creepings! Whoa, did the Cryptkeeper show up and write this synopsis? No? Oh, you mean it's been me the whole time? Sorry! Taking up valuable space here, ho ho ho! (Note to self: Santa didn't show up either to finish that last sentence.) But he DOES show up to the Dead City Drive-In to help Brandon and Chris celebrate the most wonderful time of the year! Also joining the naughty list is special guest Jack Holloway to help spread some holiday fear! You better watch out! ‘Cause we're programming a holiday-themed double feature filled to the brim with MISTLETOE & MAYHEM! Yule Love It! (Okay, that last sentence was Santa's).

Happy Halloween! We're celebrating Dead City Drive-In's ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY with a special full-series retrospective on the granddaddy of all monsters: FRANKENSTEIN! Are Brandon and Chris up to the task of an 8-film marathon? Doesn't matter! The Drive-In Gods make a surprise visit and quite literally put the fella's balls in their court. Whose court? Wait, whose balls? We promise it all makes sense in this very special Halloween episode! We're talkin' BRIDES and SONS, GHOSTS and HOUSES, a coupla MEETS and all the classic Universal Monsters you can stuff into Lon Chaney Jr's flask! Trick or treat, you mutants, you!

On a special episode of Dead City Drive-In, Brandon and Chris share a compilation of some of the best discussions and digressions from the last years worth of shows. From Blair Witch director, Dan Myrick being questioned by the Albany PD about the disappearance of his cast to Arthur C. Clarke getting a phone call from Richard Zanuck to write Jaws 2, to debates about the best cinematic Draculas! Rants abound and foul language flies! It's a great starting place for newbie mutants, and worth the revisit if you're a regular Dead City Denizen!

What better way to celebrate the oncoming spooky season than a warm, steaming cup of meteor shit?! How about some gushing throat roaches? Some celebratory head plop cake? Sounds like a screening of CREEPSHOW is in order! It's a special full length commentary track for one of the Drive-In's favorite anthology fright flicks of all time! 

Acid rain has eaten away at the projection room roof, threatening the Drive-In's very livelihood! Desperate and in need of a fast solution, Brandon mixes torn strips of old paper with Elmer's glue to temporarily seal the cracks before the next storm comes through. That is, until Chris realizes the makeshift patching is actually rare and valuable golden age adventure magazines! Special guest Dino Leto stops by to help hand-juice the manly britches of Doc Savage, The Shadow and Buck Rogers for inspiration to program a new-wave double-bill of PULP HEROES!

Happy Friday the 13th! What better way to celebrate the unluckiest day of the year than a little bonus episode counter-programming?! Brandon and Chris get cozy in the Dead City Screening Room for a special full length commentary track of the oft-maligned 1985 sleeper, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE! So pop some Sta-Awake, pour yourself a bowl of Fu Man Chews and settle in for an evening of exploding parakeets, blatant disregard for established mythos and the scariest damn Freddy of the entire Krueger-verse!

Get out your Grimoires, bitches! There's about to be a Spell War at the Dead City Drive-In! After unwittingly conjuring an insolent wizard to help keep things tidy in the concession stand, Brandon and Chris find themselves on the wrong end of a particularly wicked scepter. Special guest, Jack Holloway returns to help program a WIZARDS & WARLOCKS themed double-feature that'll make Dumbledore dookie in his denims!

When a mysterious doom metal album shows up alongside a nasty letter accusing the Dead City Drive-In of traumatizing impressionable young minds with horror, Brandon and Chris attempt to set the record straight… straight into the Hellmouth! Special guest Alex Challoner (aka The Bookubus) joins the programming panel to pick the perfect pairing of kid-friendly fright flicks! If watching scary movies is a rite of passage, these little tykes are on an express trip directly into the GATEWAY of HORROR!

There's nothing like a hot, summer night in a small, southern town that'll bring out one's inner goth! Brandon and Chris are joined by director Dan Myrick (The Blair Witch Project, Black Veil) to program a double-feature of southern gothic grotesqueries! Drape some spanish moss over your shoulders, deep fry your favorite Cure album and try not to catch any swamp monsters in your fishnet stockings. We're going upriver to find us some SOUTHERN SCREAMS!

Brandon and Chris get cozy in their '58 Plymouth Fury for a special screening of Toho's 1963 kaiju classic, KING KONG VS GODZILLA! It's a Dead City Drive-In first-- a full length commentary track that you can listen to alongside your own copy of the film! It's the closest thing to actually sitting in a car with us and watching men in suits deep throat tree trunks and toss rocks back and forth on top of a miniature Mount Fuji!

It’s Intermission Time! Take a trip to the refreshment stand with Brandon, Chris & Special Guest, Jack Holloway as they follow-up their picks for a Dino Damage double-feature with some of the other Killer Dinosaur flicks that didn’t quite make it in with the prime cuts. We’re talking table scraps in this between-seasons bonus episode!

Brandon and Chris are taking a break from programming for the Drive-In Gods to wrap up the decade in true nerd fashion: by naming their favorite genre flicks of the last 10 years! Plus, the fellas read your reviews and talk about the spaced-out Jaws sequel that never made it past development! Digressions, disagreements and dismemberments abound in a Season Finale that’ll put nards on a Wolfcop!

No disassemble! Humanity has run its course and the ro-buts have decided to take back what’s rightfully theirs-- starting with the Dead City Drive-In! Sparks fly as Brandon, Chris and special guest, Jamie Jones attempt to program a KILLBOT double-feature without getting their wires crossed!

Ravenous thunder lizards are loose and causing some major DINO DAMAGE to the grounds of Dead City Drive-In! Brandon, Chris and returning special guest Jack Holloway cope with the cold-blooded carnage by injecting a bit of dino-DNA into their double-feature-debate! It’s a Bronto-Burger sized episode of prehysterical proportions!

Step right up and join Brandon, Chris & their special guest, Jaime Giangrande-Holcom as they get positively FREEKED while debating the most astounding two-headed double-feature ever to be shown on the splatter screen! They’re talking Hideous Mutant Freaks and the movies that exploit them best!

It’s INTERMISSION Time! Take a trip to the refreshment stand with Brandon & Chris as they follow-up their picks for a Creepy Crawly double-feature with some of the other Killer Bug flicks that didn’t quite make it in with the prime cuts. We’re talking table scraps in the first ever DCDI between-features MINISODE! It’s short, sweet and bad for your teeth, but it should hold you over until the next screening.

Get out those extra large mosquito coils, ‘cause killer bugs have invaded Dead City Drive-In! Join Brandon, Chris and their special guest, Robb Lee, as they dig up the dirt and uncover the slimiest of CREEPY CRAWLY double-features!

The Devil made me do it! Sounds like an overall refusal to accept responsibility if you ask us, but sometimes, Satan isn't always to blame when it comes to being straight-up POSSESSED! In their debut episode, Brandon & Chris are joined by special guest Jack Holloway to pick the perfect possession-themed double feature!

The first two episodes of Dead City Drive-In drop next Friday, 10/30, on this feed!Each episode, Brandon, Chris and a special guest plumb the depths of psychotronic cinema. Killer Robots! Satanic Terror! Hideous Freaks! Creepy Crawlies! No sub-genre will be left unearthed! Three flicks get thrown into the ring, but only two can make it to the slime-splattered screens of the Dead City Drive-In!Subscribe here for new episodes every other Friday!