Brothers Blair and Drew Hicks, proprietors of Planet X Cinema, take your suggestions for movie titles and turn them into fully fleshed out films
These are no fortunate sons, just a gaggle of boys fighting the man in black pajamas in Vietnam. When their commando run goes horribly wrong, they’re set upon by fearsome feline beast people. Can the heroes find the artifact that will seal away the monsters and make it home in time? Or are they about to climb Hamburger … er, Fancy Feast Hill?
He found the lost city of Mu. He climb the steeps of Mt. Fuji. He delved into the tombs of the emperors. But when the Indian government calls upon Gold Ridgeback to stop a madwoman bent on stealing the secrets of mythical Shangri-La, can he live up to his own legend? OF COURSE HE CAN HE’S GOLD MOTHER F***ING RIDGEBACK!
It’s the age of heroes, but not everyone is so thrilled about killing. Ajax the Lesser just wants to work on his book, while his buddy Hubris is down for whatever. But when a visitor calls all able warriors to a rescue mission at Atlantis, they’ve got no choice but to start HITCHIKING TO …. ATLANTIS!Cast: John Mulaney, Jason Mantzoukis, Jon Gabrus, Kate Micucci, Paul F. Tompkins, Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Patton Oswald, Leslie Jones, David Letterman, Harry Hamlin, Lou Ferigno
A former SAS agent is happy to retire to his New York studio and focus on his art. A freak accident outside his studio draws his attention to a strange man who may be killing all over town. Without the help of the cops, he takes to the streets to track down a psycho who gets off on crushing his victims. He may just survive, if he doesn't get squeezed first.
Bad Karma? No Karma? No Problem! Clark Maddox is a total jerk that everyone wishes was dead … until he is! Now he’s revisiting those he has wrong and trying to fix their problems with deadly ghost hijinks. Will Clark be redeemed? Probably not, but at least he’s happy he’s dead!
Dad chooses TV before his family, until the LITERAL DEVIL sells him 666 channels of non-stop entertainment that really sucks him in! With Mom & Dad trapped in TV hell, they have just 24 hours to survive or they’ll be condemned forever. TV has never been so hellishly fun.
The Old Country. Long ago. The crops are all dying and no wheat means no bread. No bread means all … dead. The local cult is sure they have the answer when a snake-oil salesman rolls into town with the cure. When he fails to produce results, the old gods are contacted and suddenly John Barleycorn is very much not dead. Don’t panic!
Aww dang! Aliens went and took over Earth and wouldn't you know it? They're totally lame and hate the environment! I guess it's up to some teens to Robin Hood up the apocalypse and save the planet. WOOOOHOOOO!
Officer Santiago is used to tracking down psychics who go rogue, but when famed psy-criminals Stone and Corsair go after the same score, the game changes. Hot on the trail of two mind-benders, it’s up to one cop to to stop the bad guys and bring them in for … M I N D C R I M E S!
For our December screening, we’re rolling out a trio of Christmas specials that never should have been made but are so bizarre, so strange and so tone-deaf that we kind love them. Learn about the barn yard animal that saved Jesus’ life, the time Rudolph the Timelord defended reality itself from an immortal Vulture, and how four mutants in Manhattan spend the holidays.
Blair and Drew meet to look back over the first year of the podcast, open some gifts and give out the year's awards. Merry Planet XMas!
In the future, everything is taken care of: there is no war, no poverty and no need … beyond the need for love! With all of civilization is built on romance, what’s an unlucky in love radio advice host to do? There’ll be no more more striking out when she decides to Build-A-Husband!
Danny Edwards, co-host of the excellent Notice Me Senpai! podcast joins us to tell a tale of apes, evolution and a property legally distinct from Planet of the Apes. Can Rilko save the kingdom? Will Umu be avenged? Will the evil Cult of Rozr reing supreme. And when will get these f***ing action figures??? It’s NEW HEGEMON: A GRAND APE ORDER!Cast: Ivana Baquero, Rose Leslie, Dax Shepard, Edward James Olmos, James Earl Jones, Paul Giamatti
High kicks, counter splits and Pacino-ing so hard it hurts - Time Cop has everything. In this episode we talk about why we’re screening this JCVD classic, why we love it and get into a whole buncha trivia and back story.
Hardboiled gumshoe Gary Langhorn is on the case of a missing girl, and all signs point to acid-dropping teens. But when a legendary monster is revealed to be the killer, it’s up to Langhorn to hunt it down and kill it before it destroys his town. There’s only one problem: he’s the only one who can see it. Is there really a monster on the loose, or is Langhorn loosing his mind?
Things heat up in the Caribbean when a mad mogul reveals a massive mountaintop super weapon! There’s only one Super Soldier who can take him down, but she’ll need help if she’s going to stop this HEAT LINE!
It’s the swinging 60s and London’s hottest club has all the Faces and Ducks dancing. But something about the beautiful dancing gals doesn’t seem right. If only they’d listened to the crazy old man who warned them of the ancient evil they were about to face, these kids could’ve avoided the Go Go Ghouls!
Lovecraftian kaiju cover the landscape, but two brave couriers stay on the move. When their path collides with an evil scientist bent on enslaving the monsters for her nefarious purposes, the chase is on to save their skins ... and the world!
When four lawmen come to town … they fail, only to be brought back to life as Frank Steiner, the fastest, grittiest, undead-est sheriff in the Wild West. A Witch and a Reanimator conspire with the Sheriff to take out a Vampire haunting the landscape. In the end, one will rule the town while the other will lose their head.
When a government researcher begins to transform into a dino-powered killing machine, she becomes the target of an elite squad of government spooks! There’s sex, there’s intrigue, there’s a heapin’ helpin’ of pseudo-science - it’s DINO-SORES!
This week we tell the story of a hard-nosed greaser kid from The City who has to fight his way back home to deal with a hometown rival. Jocks fight beats, hot rodders meet Amazons and everything revolves around a car named Cleopatra. Rev up for JULIUS GREASER!
James is a robot looking for a family, and may just find it with a local meteorologist if the secret government program doesn't recapture him first! Did we mention he can control the weather?
Beefy wrestler bros with cyber limbs have to take out Nazi scientists in this 80s action extravaganza!
We’re heading back to the beach in this here podcast. A down-on-its-luck town needs saving, but who is up to the task? A shellshocked surfer? His stoner buddy? The jerk who owns the bar in town? NO! This is a job for Crunchy the Surfer Dog!
A late-90s comedy/horror that would make Ron Underwood proud. Read the signs because EMPLOYEES MUST WASH HANDS!
We show Righteous Trash cinema, and that means sometimes these films say and do things that are offensive. Sometimes, we can look past those things, sometimes we can't. We talk about in this mini, special episode.
When a rock 'n roll band's neighborhood is threatened with bulldozes, they're sure things can't get any worse. Until some seriously gnarly Aztec mummies roll into town. CRYPT CRUSHERS!
This week we construct an irreverent 80s action flick with an undercover cop posing as a priest and a wander serial killer than might be more than he appears.
Each week on our podcast we take a hypothetical righteous movie title suggestion and turn it into a fully fleshed out movie. This week we take you back to 1993’s Hallowieners, a tale of a helpful janitor, a scrappy lil’ girl, and a small town that transforms into monsters after eating irradiated hotdogs.Cast: Thora Birch, Gary Busey, Jason Alexander, Katherine O’Hara, Edward Herrmann