80s Flick Flashback

Leave your flashlights behind, double bolt your coastal windows, and listen closely to the radio tower. In this spooky season episode, we’re heading to Antonio Bay for The Fog (1980), John Carpenter’s eerie, low-budget ghost story about undead pirates, a glowing vengeful cloud, and a town celebrating its centennial at exactly the wrong time. It’s the m...

Long before algorithms decided what we buy and saturation marketing invaded every corner of our lives, one horror master looked at 1980s consumerism and asked a wild question: what if the ruling class were actually blue-faced alien ghouls hiding in plain sight? In this episode, we dive into They Live (1988), John Carpenter's subversive sci-fi action cl...

Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe made "drop viewers into a world already in motion" a household strategy, one wildly weird 1984 cult classic did it first — and audiences had no idea what hit them. In this episode, we dive into The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, the pulp-comic-come-to-life that bombed in theaters, then ...