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This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM check out the new Jason Statham movie and decide to pair it with some Gerard Butler. A Working Man is more boring than it has any right to be, but Plane hits the ground running and keeps up the pace. Tune in to hear the Count spoil something for DM, and stay to hear the Count get a horror trivia question wrong. 

 This week, DM is away so it's just Count Vardulon and Rob Rector on the horn talking about body horror outings Ugly Stepsister and Grafted. Tune in for a surprising movie recommendation, and stay for a too-long conversation about an old TV show. 

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to watch the hell out of Sinners and From Dusk till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money. Turns out, the Dusk till Dawn sequel isn't any good. Sinners, of course, is amazing. Tune in to find out what the Count is watching, and stay for a non-recommendation from Rob. 

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to talk about Until Dawn. It's fun, but not overly great. Tune in for an X-Files check-in and stay for a heavily edited quiz.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM watch a couple of movies about ghosts. 825 Forest Road ends before the story is finished being told. The Black Phone, on the other hand, is a complete story very well told. Tune in to find out what DM is (re)watching, and stay for a highly edited round of horror trivia. 

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to discuss two horror movies set in Appalachia. The Devil Below is hampered by the stupidity of its backstory. Hellboy: The Crooked Man looks and sounds great but it sparks a debate about witches. Tune in for some complaining about  modern filmmaking, and stay for more complaining about a new TV show.

 This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM accidentally watch two horror movies that are kinda similar. Get Away is a lot of fun and much grosser than you're expecting, and Bloody Axe Wound raises way too many questions about the economics about the world in which it's set. Tune in for music recommendation, and stay for a highbrow discussion about film criticism. 

 This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM wrap up mockumentary March with the third instalment in the Horror in the High Desert series. It does not disappoint. They also watch Curse of the Blair Witch, which is really good. Tune in to find out what DM watched while on holiday, and stay for an amazing guess at trivia. 

 This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM enjoy two more horror mocumentaries. Horror in the High Desert 2 has some good stuff going on, but will not answer any of the questions posed in the first movie. Butterfly Kisses is a great deconstruction of the mocumentary and found footage genre. Tune in for a TV recommendation, and stay to hear a prediction. 

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM watch two fake documentaries, both of which are really good. Noroi: The Curse does a great job making the viewer believe in its world, and Horror in the High Desert is a master class in pacing. Tune in for an embarrassing correction, and stay for a twist on horror trivia.

 This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM watch two wintry movies with the same name: Snow Beast. Snow Beast 2011 isn't great but also isn't terrible, and your hosts are confused about who Jason London plays in the movie. Snow Beast 1977 is surprisingly good for a Jaws rip-off. Tune in for a video game recommendation, and stay to hear DM talk about what's going on outside her window.  

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to talk all about the brand new in-theatres Valentine's slasher movie, Heart Eyes. It's a fun idea, but doesn't quite stick the landing. Tune in for an impromptu rant about 28 Years Later, and stay for a non-recommendation. 

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to watch the two Becky movies. The first one has some tonal problems, and the second appears to have addressed the tone but can't maintain it. Tune in for a movie review and stay for a horror trivia stumper. 

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to discuss two more buzzy films that came out in 2024. In a Violent Nature is a good idea but less good in execution. MADs, on the other hand, is all round pretty great. Tune in for some musings on video games, and stay for a book report. 

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to visit a couple of big titles from last year. Both are longer than is strictly necessary, but Monkey Man is a good revenge action movie, and The Substance is really great and really gross. Tune in for a discussion about time travel and Terminators, and stay for mini review of Wolf Man. Click here to see Rob on TV, and DM wrote a book.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM begin 2025 by watching a couple of movies that came out in 2024. Heretic could have been great, and Hugh Grant is awesome all day, but it's ultimately kind of pointless. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is lots of fun even if it has a lots of problems. Tune in for a too-long video game recommendation, and stay for a bad joke. Also, DM wrote a book and you should buy it and read it. 

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM wrap up the Xmas season and barrel into the new year with one big budget movie and one small budget movie, neither of which are any good. Red One is a bit of a meandering mess, and Terror Train 2 is exactly like the first one, only boring. Tune in for too much random crap, and stay for a twist on a quiz question. 

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to talk about of a couple Christmas Eve movies, one older and one brand new. The Day of the Beast is totally nuts and weirdly funny really, really good. Carry-On is longer than it needs to be and kinda dumb at times, but a fun ride nonetheless. Tune in for a too-long conversation about the Alien franchise, and stay for a movie "recommendation."

 This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM watch a couple of low-budget monstrous Santa movies. Santastein really went for it, even if they shoulda maybe taken another run at the script, and Werewolf Santa was a fun idea. Tune in for a video game recommendation, and stay for a rundown of what DM watched while sick.

 This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to ring in the holiday season. Christmas Curfew is doesn't have enough story to fill its 90 minute run-time, and Secret Santa thinks it's funnier than it is. Tune in for an unlikely video game recommendation, and stay for a mini movie review.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to round out their month of watching movies from the 1990s with one more Anthony Hickox movie, and an anthology because why the hell not. Full Eclipse is a halfway decent werewolf movie, and Campfire Tales is mostly pretty good. Tune in for a TV recommendation and stay for a mini movie review.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to indulge in more 90s genre film nostalgia. Rapid Fire is another great showcase for Brandon Lee, and Waxwork 2 is a love letter to a bunch of other movies. Tune in for a book report, and stay for one of DM and the Count's rare-but-legendary fights.

 This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM celebrate the 1990s by watching another Brandon Lee movie, and a movie that was made in 1989. Sundown the Vampire in Retreat is kinda ridiculous and pretty fun. Showdown in Little Tokyo could stand to be a little longer, if only for more fight action. Tune into hear how bad DM sounds because of a cold, and stay to find out what DM watched while she was sick.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM really scrape the bottom of the barrel with one of their Halloween picks. 1962 Halloween Massacre is a very boring, very bloodless slasher movie. The other movie they watched this week is The Crow, and they can't say enough good things about it. Tune in for a video game recommendation, and stay to hear DM get really excited reading trivia questions.

 This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM continue their Halloween movie month with two Canadian films that pretend their not Canadian. Berkshire County is pretty solid, if only barely Halloween-themed. Terror Train posits that magic might actually be real, but that's not the point of the movie. Tune in for some complaining about about cereal, and stay to find out what DM's been watching.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to ring in the spooky season with a newish movie and an older one. Spirit Halloween is an okay entry-level horror movie for tweens, and Trick or Treat is not really a Halloween movie at all. Tune in for a take down of the redo of Until Dawn, and stay for a movie review.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to wrap up their month-long celebration of Julian Sands with the Warlock movies, but not the third one because he's not in it and therefore not worth watching. Tune in for a video game recommendation, and stay to find out what DM's been watching.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are again joined by Rob Rector to continue their deep dive into the Julian Sands catalogue. The Phantom of the Opera is objectively bad for a lot of reasons, and the less said about it the better. Arachnophobia, on the other hand, is very nearly perfect and tragically underseen and underappreciated. Tune in for a too-long conversation about a ten-year-old video game, and stay for an anime recommendation.

 This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are again joined by Rob Rector for a second week of celebrating Julian Sands. In case you missed it, the three-part TV movie Rose Red, was a thing that happened. It's too long and too confusing, but no one really cares because Julian Sands. Tune in for not one, but two mini movie reviews, and stay for a rousing round of horror trivia.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to begin their month-long retrospective on Julian Sands. The Piper had some good stuff, but squanders its potential. The Last Breath would be a much better movie without the sharks. Tune in to find out what DM is watching these days, and stay for a movie recommendation.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM round out a month of elevator movies with two very different films. Rising Wolf is a weird movie that may or may not have something to say, and ultimately doesn't make sense. Free Fall has very little free fall in it but a whole lot of DB Sweeney. Tune in to listen to the Count wax poetical about obsolete tech, and stay for a book report. Click here to waste your time!

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM dig up a couple of elevator movies you've probably never heard of. Entrapped tries and fails to leverage a real-world event, and the Count and DM spend a lot of time not talking about the movie. Elevator (2011) proves to be a frustrating watch for a number of reasons. Tune in to find out what DM's been watching, and stay to hear the two of them plan out the next few months of movies.

Count Vardulon is on holiday, so it's up to DM and Rob Rector to pick up the slack and they do so with two more elevator movies. Down could've been good if it weren't so determined to retread old ground, and Hellevator is just weird. Tune in to find out what Rob thinks of Trap, and stay for surprisingly decent list from an unexpected source.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to discuss evil elevators. The Elevator Game leaves you with more questions than answers, and Down (aka The Shaft) will leave you wondering how you've lived your life this long without knowing about it. Tune in for a couple of movie recommendations and stay for a winning round of horror trivia.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to wrap up this year's shark month with two wildly different movies. There's Something in the Water has little to say about anything, including how to avoid getting shark attacked, while The Black Demon has way too much to say about everything and not enough shark. Tune in for a gambling video game recommendation, and stay to find out why DM thinks she watched a movie written by AI.

Not pictured: what actually happens in the movie.  This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to help them digest two low-budget shark movies. Shark Encounters of the Third Kind is terrible in the most confusing and unnecessary way, and Raiders of the Lost Shark appears to have forgotten what it's supposed to be about halfway through. Tune in for a depressing video game review, and stay for an off-brand TV recommendation.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are again joined by Rob Rector to continue plumbing the depths of shark-centric horror. Shark Bait is actually kind of boring, but Bait is fun take on the whole don't-go-in-the-water-because-sharks thing. Tune in to find out what game the Count is playing (and why), and stay for another documentary recommendation.

 This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to ring in shark month with two movies about sharks in a river. Mississippi River Sharks is charmingly bad, and Under Paris has some fun shark attack action. Tune in for a documentary recommendation, and stay to find out which TV show DM has been bingeing. 

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to gush over Furiosa. Seriously, it's so good! Tune in to hear what DM watched while in the air, and stay for an embarrassing result in horror trivia. If you're in the Delaware area, check this out!

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to discuss Road House and Road House. Opinions are split on the remake and DM finds herself in the minority. Tune in for a mini movie review and stay for a mild TV rant.

This week, your friends Count Varduon and DM are again joined by Rob Rector to work through their feelings about Late Night with the Devil. Everyone really wants to like this movie, but all are agreed that it falls a bit short of the mark. Tune in for a video game recommendation and stay to hear DM take over the quiz section of the show.

This week on TheAvod, your friends Count Vardulon and DM are joined by Rob Rector to talk a lot about Dune parts 1 and 2. Tune in for a movie recommendation and stay for a second one.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM wrap up their "month" of Lovecraft with a TV anthology installment and a Lovecraft anthology movie. Tune in for a very positive video game review, and stay to find out what movies DM watched while she was flying back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM watch two more Lovecrafty movies. There's some good stuff buried in The Unnamable and The Unnamable 2. Tune in for a video game review, and stay to hear DM fail to count to six. Twice.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM watch a couple of Lovecraft adaptations. Suitable Flesh isn't bad but is very, very, gratuitously sexual. Color Out of Space is a pretty good effort to adapt what is often thought to be an unfilmable story. Tune in to hear DM thoroughly embarrass herself, and stay for discussion about "Lovecraftian" means.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM return to their favourite horror sub-genre with a couple of found footage movies. Deadstream does a great job making you dislike its main character, and Hell House LLC Origins does a bad job expanding the Hell House mythos. Tune in for a documentary recommendation and stay for a tangential self-promotion for a video made nearly a decade ago. 

 NB: Apologies for the poor(er) sound quality this week.This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM wrap up their month of catching up with Stephen King by watching a couple of King sequels. Doctor Sleep is really quite good, and everyone is surprised by how much they enjoyed The Rage: Carrie 2, even if its title is backwards. Tune in for a too-long discussion about a pirate video game, and stay for a very specific and specialized list.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM watch the original Pet Sematary and it's sequel, Pet Sematary 2. The first one takes too long to get going, but when it does it's pretty wild. The sequel is just kinda bonkers right from the start. Tune for a movie recommendation, and stay for the easiest horror trivia question ever.

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM watch a couple of Stephen King adaptations. Pet Semetary Bloodlines isn't actually and adaptation, but whatever. It's not great and should have been a prequel instead of a sequel to a remake. The Boogeyman had some good stuff, but the final moments ruin the movie. Tune in for a book report, and stay to hear DM win at trivia.

This week your friends Count Vardulon and DM watch two sequels about mercenaries and work really hard to pronounce the movie titles as they are written. Expendables 4 is a real let-down, but Extraction 2 totally delivers on all of the action. Tune in to find out what DM is watching, and stay for a surprise guest!

This week, your friends Count Vardulon and DM ring in the new year by watching two movies about retired operatives. The Bricklayer is way too long and not very good. The Beekeeper, on the other hand, is loads of fun. Tune in for a video game recommendation, and stay to find out what DM watched while she was flying across the country.