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Patrick Whalen(The Movie Buff) and Nick Karner(The Cinephile) discuss movies inside and out. More info available at www.nickkarner.com

Nick Karner


    • Apr 24, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Tales from the Crypt Rankings #70: Showdown

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 3:40


    Alright ya buncha cattle rustlin' cowpokes! Time ta peddle yer potions cause it's backdoor pilot time! S04E08

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings #71: Top Billing

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 5:49


    John Astin might not be very (snap snap) creepy, but he's definitely (snap snap) kooky.  S03E05

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings #72: Revenge is the Nuts

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025 4:39


    I'm sure Anthony Zerbe dreamed of one day becoming a dashing matinee idol, but with a malevolent visage like that, he appears to have been bred in a secret laboratory to make his onscreen partner's lives miserable. S06E05

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings #73: For Cryin' Out Loud

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2025 4:59


    If Sound of Metal starred an asshole... S02E08

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings #74: Mute Witness to Murder

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 4:12


    John-Boy! How could you??? S02E15

    HalloweeNoire: J.D.'s Revenge (1976)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 5:37


    31 Days of Horror: Halloween Revenge is so very, very sweet, especially if you're the restless soul of a swaggering, razor blade wieldin', tough as nails 1940s hustler with a golden tongue and a diamond dick (allegedly). https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Tales From The Hood (1995)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 4:34


    31 Days of Horror: Day 30 So, how'd you like getting bent and twisted like a gotdamn multi-tool, David Alan Grier? (BIG SNAPS) HATED IT! https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Candyman: Day Of The Dead (1999)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 3:54


    31 Days of Horror: Day 29 Now that we've seen his work, it's clear based on his paintings that Daniel Robitaille was a pioneer in the field of Glamour Shots. https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2024 4:29


    31 Days of Horror: Day 28 I imagine Candyman sitting in traffic, sweating and stewing under that heavy coat while listening to The Kingfish implore him to “chill” and “have some gumbo,” just aching to find the nearest pay phone, frantically dial with his good hand, and proclaim across the airwaves: YOU ARE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!!! https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Candyman (1992)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2024 4:54


    31 Days of Horror: Day 27 Of all the toughs Bernard Rose could've picked, he went with Ted Raimi. I guess being from across the pond, the motorcycle riding, leather jacket-wearing bad boys he's used to are of the shrimpy variety. https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Def by Temptation (1990)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2024 4:52


    31 Days of Horror: Day 26 “She's bad news. I ain't no punk or nothin', I'm 100% man, but hey. That bitch scares the shit outta me.” https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Ganja & Hess (1973)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2024 3:32


    31 Days of Horror: Day 25 She's really serious about that grape jelly. https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Sugar Hill (1974)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 2:15


    31 Days of Horror: Day 24 Not too many blaxploitation zombie flicks out there, so I'll take it. https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: The People Under the Stairs (1991)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 3:05


    31 Days of Horror: Day 23 Did Sean Whalen even NEED makeup to look emaciated? Dude's been looking haggard since that ‘Got Milk' commercial.  https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Tales from the QuaDead Zone (1987)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024 2:48


    31 Days of Horror: Day 22 Keefe, Keefe, Keefe. You're gonna burst a blood vessel laughing that much! https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    tales keefe quadead zone
    HalloweeNoire: Voodoo Black Exorcist (1974)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2024 5:11


    31 Days of Horror: Day 21 The real horror is the cabin sizes, am I right??? https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2024 4:11


    31 Days of Horror: Day 20 Those Amazonians sure channeled Wayne Brady when Bill initially abstained from imbibing that mysterious liquid. “If you do not drink this, then we have a problem.” https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Alabama's Ghost (1973)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 4:20


    31 Days of Horror: Day 19 Hmmph! Some King of the Cosmos... He didn't even remember the vampires moved into the city AFTER prohibition! DUH!  https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Petey Wheatstraw (1977)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 3:46


    31 Days of Horror: Day 18 This ho is so ugly, she can scare a hungry bulldog off the back of a meat truck! https://www.nickkarner.com/blog

    HalloweeNoire: The House on Skull Mountain (1974)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 3:18


    31 Days of Horror: Day 17  “Your death will please me very much.” Getting to the end of this boring movie will please ME very much.  https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    skull mountain
    HalloweeNoire: Black Devil Doll from Hell (1984)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 5:17


    31 Days of Horror: Day 16 A one-of-a-kind SOV horror that's jaw-dropping in its ineptitude, but extraordinary for its boldness. https://www.nickkarner.com/blog

    hell sov black devil doll
    HalloweeNoire: Antebellum (2020)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 4:44


    31 Days of Horror: Day 15 An often thrilling, bleak exploration of slavery for the modern era that I doubt will hold up to repeat viewings.  https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Son of Ingagi (1940)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2024 3:16


    31 Days of Horror: Day 14 I don't condone animal cruelty, whether literal or figurative, but that gal must be mighty rich to have “enough money to burn up a wet mule.” That bitch RICH! https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    rich ingagi
    HalloweeNoire: Ragdoll (1999)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2024 5:38


    31 Days of Horror: Day 13 A bit of that ol' black magic about vicious, yowling little doll with a taste for gangster flunkies and hip hop hype men.  https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Never Let Go (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2024 3:52


    31 Days of Horror: Day 12 Just so you know: If it came down to the life of a dog vs. an evil force tearing me apart, I'd choose the dog every goddamn time. Fuck my life, just so long as the dog is OK.   https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Bones (2001)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 3:57


    31 Days of Horror: Day 11 “I got a supernatural high.” Oh Snoop, you're not fooling anyone.  https://www.nickkarner.com/blog

    HalloweeNoire: Vamp (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2024 3:57


    31 Days of Horror: Day 10 Richard Wenk's Vamp is an offbeat, bouncily quirky romp with self-aware dialogue and frighteningly authentic monster makeup. In other words, one wacky night. https://www.nickkarner.com/blog

    vamp richard wenk
    HalloweeNoire: Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil (2002)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2024 4:46


    31 Days of Horror: Day 9 “Bed, Bath, and Beyond the Grave!” Ugh.  https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 4:37


    31 Days of Horror: Day 8 Black, Hyde tries to have it both ways by including the usual karatesized action, goofy slapstick, and social commentary that made the genre so popular in the first place. Yet it also takes the time to relate themes of tragedy, strife, and frustrations within the worlds of sex work and medical experimentation. https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Blackenstein (1973)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 4:39


    31 Days of Horror: Day 7 It would be easy to compare the lifeless performances in Blackenstein to the inanimate corpses the original Dr. F. exhumed from freshly dug earth and sewed together to create a fearsome and tragic monster. Fun, too. https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2024 3:54


    31 Days of Horror: Day 6 They should've called that horde of zombie kids LORD OF THE DIES.  https://www.nickkarner.com/blog

    HalloweeNoire: Killjoy (2000)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2024 6:06


    31 Days of Horror: Day 5 “Damn! This muthafucka got some big ass feet!” Most nights I lie awake, tossing and turning, sweating through my jammies, wondering whether I too, am a buster...whatever that means.  https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    HalloweeNoire: Night of the Cobra Woman (1972)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 5:09


    31 Days of Horror: Day 4 Ahhh...don't we all stress eat Cheerios and get faintly horny after being scared shitless by a deformed simpleton who fucked a cobra lady while his mom was forced to do her bidding? No? Shit, you people need to get out more. https://www.nickkarner.com/blog 

    shit cheerios cobra woman
    HalloweeNoire: Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2024 6:56


    31 Days of Horror: Day 3 Ahoy Motherfucker! An awkward mix of comedy and horror that's never uninvolving, but far from a riotous or ghoulishly fun time. https://www.nickkarner.com/blog  

    HalloweeNoire: Scream Blacula Scream (1973)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2024 3:27


    31 Days of Horror: Day 2 When you take your girl to a party and William Marshall's there, that's not your girl. That's Bill Marshall's girl.  https://www.nickkarner.com/blog  

    HalloweeNoire: Blacula (1972)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2024 5:29


    31 Days of Horror: Day 1 It's an Afro-Themed Spooktacular this month! Let's get Funky and start off with the OG Blaxploitation Horror! https://www.nickkarner.com/blog

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings: #75 Loved To Death

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2024 2:19


    I think the reason David Hemmings never leaves his room is because he's still scared of that puppet from Deep Red. S03E01

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings #76: Doctor of Horror

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2024 2:46


    You're never gonna win Ben Stein's money that way! S06E12

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings #77: In The Groove

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2024 2:57


    You're gonna replace Miguel Ferrer with SLASH?! ...I'm listening. S06E10

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings: #78 The Trap

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2024 2:50


    Hmmm...We've got James Tolkan. What part should he play? A Hardass! Move on!    S03E03

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings: #79 This'll Kill Ya

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2024 2:06


    If I don't get my insulin, nobody gets to binge watch The Practice! S04E02

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings #80: Surprise Party

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 3:58


      It's just like that bit in Forrest Gump: If you see Jake Busey at a party, just run, OK? Just run away!  ...that's how it goes, right? S06E11

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings #81: Beauty Rest

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2024 3:39


    YOU ARE THE BALL BUSTER GIRL!!! S04E05

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings #82: Report from the Grave

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2024 3:09


    If he'd just turned that dial a few notches to the left, he'd find an old broadcast of a swell BBC radio play. S07E08

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings: #83 Spoiled

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2024 4:14


    I don't know how they spoke this horny ass dialogue with a straight face.  S03E13

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings: #84 Werewolf Concerto

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2023 3:33


    We'll never know if Agatha Christie's voluminous work might've been improved by the inclusion of werewolves and vampires. S04E13

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings: #85 Ear Today...Gone Tomorrow

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2023 3:13


    If it weren't for the extra lives, I think cat's eye contacts would be a decent alternative to elaborate surgery. S07E12

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings: #86 Smoke Wrings

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2023 2:23


    Advertising can be a killer, especially when you're baby James Bond. S07E09

    Tales from the Crypt Rankings: #87 Operation Friendship

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2023 3:03


    If Tate Donovan can use them fancy new internets to find a Chinese restaurant, you think he can find a better script? S06E04

    31 Days of Horror: From Beyond (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2023 3:42


    EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!  Day 31, Halloween  “It's changing us, doc. All of us. And not for the better.” Capping off our month of Empire pics with one of the wildest, most extreme Lovecraft adaptations ever committed to film!

    31 Days of Horror: Castle Freak (1995)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2023 3:12


    EMPIRE STRIKES BACK! (In Spirit) - Day 29  Empire might've been obsolete, but the gang was still around to make us squirm. I just wish we learned HOW Combs lost his college gig. History has shown that letting Jeffrey Combs loose on a college campus doesn't end well.

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