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Jarrod Hornbeck & Steve Guntli host the internet’s definitive podcast on the work of Charles Band: Full Moon Features, Empire Pictures, and beyond!
Check out our latest episode!
Episode 132: Pulse Pounders (1988)
Rachel Reeves of the Halloweenies podcast (any lots of other rad stuff) joins us to discuss this unfinished Empire curiosity. Combs! Crampton! Thomerson! Hunt! Gale! Warner! Moll! They’re (almost) all here!
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I know, this is such a sad poster. I’m actually pretty excited for this. I love that original movie.
24.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 131: Talisman (1998) w/ Meredith Borders of @fangoria.bsky.social !
Check it out, wherever you get your podcasts!
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🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 130: The Resonator: Miskatonic U (complete series) w/ @fullmoonfeatures.bsky.social stalwart Topher Hansson! Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! Don’t forget to rate & review!
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🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 129: Evil Bong 2: King Bong/ Evil Bong 3: The Wrath of Bong 3D (2009/2011)
Welp. Here we are. We weren’t looking forward to heading back to the Bong-iverse but at least we have the wonderful Corinne Halbert (ACID NUN) with us for the journey!
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No, thank YOU, Scott! Always a pleasure!
07.09.2025 12:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 128 is OUT NOW!
The wonderful Gena Radcliffe of the terrific Kill By Kill podcast joins us to discuss Metalstorm 3D: The Destruction of Jared-Syn! Check it out wherever you get your podcasts and don’t forget to rate and review!
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🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 126: Denice Duff Vampire Extravaganza!
Denice joins Jarrod and Steve to talk about the oft-maligned 1998 entry SUBSPECIES 4: BLOODSTORM, 2023's SUPSPECIES V: BLOOD RISE, and 2003's VAMPIRE RESURRECTION! Check us out, wherever you get your pods!
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🚨New Episodes! 🚨
(Sort of)
Episode 124: Jigsaw (2002)
Episode 125: Crash! (1976) w/ Edward Douglas
I am two weeks behind promoting on here. Check these out!
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🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 123: Prison of the Dead (2000)
This week on the show, author Nathan Tolle joins us to discuss this oft-overlooked Dave DeCoteau joint that is very, very much rooted in the year 2000. Check it out, wherever you get your podcasts! Rate and review!
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🚨Bonus Episode!🚨
Episode 122: Robot Jox 2.0 (an interview with Joe Haldeman and Mary Gay Haldeman)
John Torrani returns to help moderate an interview with Joe Haldeman, the legendary sci-fi author of THE FOREVER WAR and the screenwriter of Stuart Gordon's ROBOT JOX!
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🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 121: Transformations (1988)
Author Clay McLeod Chapman joins Jarrod and Steve this week for an absolutely bizarre sci-fi thriller, TRANSFORMATIONS! Check it out, wherever you get your podcasts! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe!
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🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 120: Josh Kirby…Time Warrior (Planet of the Dino Knights/ The Human Pets) (1995)
Jarrod and Steve go guestless to discuss the first two chapters in Full Moon Features’ pre-teen adventure series “Josh Kirby…Time Warrior!” Check it out, rate, review!
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🚨 New Episode!🚨
Episode 119: Demon in the Bottle
A group of curious kids accidentally unleash an ancient demon from Middle Eastern mythology in the fun effects-driven Moonbeam film DEMON IN THE BOTTLE! Cameron Chaney (Library Macabre) joins us for a great chat! Check it!
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1/2 of PM/CF will be here and it will be a star-studded event as usual!
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There's an all-new edition of Final Exam Horror Trivia happening at 2PM this Sunday, July 13th, at Rockbar! Join us for five rounds of expert level trivia, celebrity surprises, drink specials, tons of killer prizes, and the best community the horror scene has to offer! Mark your calendars now, NYC!
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🚨Bonus Episode!🚨
Episode 118: A Conversation with Richard Band
Just like it sounds, and it’s a good one! Check it out! Don’t forget to rate and review!
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🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 117: Cutter’s Club (2005)
Tony Todd was the man, and it’s very cool that we get see him in another deliciously over-the-top performance, as well as another Mac Ahlberg shot, JCB creature effect Full Moon joint. Check it out! Also rate and review!
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Glad you found the show! We’re more active on IG than on here, truthfully, but yeah we’ve got 116 eps in the back catalogue and we’re not stopping any time soon!
30.06.2025 11:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 116: Hell Asylum (2002)
We're committing ourselves to discussing HELL ASYLUM, a 2002 reality TV ghost flick! A surprisingly gory, effectively shot micro budget gem, HELL ASYLUM hearkens back to the brief craze of haunted reality shows like MTV’s “FEAR.” With Jerry J. Sampson.
🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 115: Voodoo Academy/ 2: Voodoo Academy
Enroll this semester in the VOODOO ACADEMY, David DeCoteau's quietly groundbreaking queer softcore opus. We’re joined by filmmaker-urban mystic Sarah Lyons to talk about the film and its long-delayed sequel!
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Before you get our new ep tomorrow, check out our most recent release on @puppetmasters_castlefreaks !
Episode 114: The Haunted Casino (2007) featuring Katie Hettenbach of @katieafraidy !
Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!
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🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 113: Ravenwolf Towers (2016)
We're checking in to the RAVENWOLF TOWERS from 2016! This bizarre flick was repurposed from a Full Moon streaming series, that unfortunately was cancelled in the middle of it's season, just as it was setting itself as Kushner-Locke era AVENGERS.
Boy oh boy have I been bad at promoting on Bluesky…well, here we go.
🚨Recent Episodes!🚨
Episode 111: An Interview with Tiffany Shepis
Episode 112: Savage Island/ Savage Streets w/ Sean O’Connor of @macabredaily !
Before you check out today’s new one, give these two bangers a listen!
🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 110: Sideshow (2000)
Step right up! This week we're stepping into the SIDESHOW, Fred Olen Ray's loving homage to Tod Browning's FREAKS! Filmmaker Frank Sabatella joins us on our tour through the horrors of this carnival treat.
Check it out!
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🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 109: Curse of the Puppet Master / Retro Puppet Master
PM scholar and expert @natbrehmer.bsky.social returns to the show to discuss these two much maligned entries in the enduring @fullmoonfeatures.bsky.social franchise! Check it out! Rate and review!
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I’m always a day late here promoting the show, but I’m so glad Nat posted this!! We’re glad he got to talk about these ones. We could tell he was excited!
17.05.2025 11:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 108:
Seedpeople (1992) and Shrieker (1998)
The amazing Jed Shepard (HOST, Dashcam) joins us for one of our most unorthodox double Full Moon Features!
Check it out, wherever you get your podcasts!
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🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 107: Laserblast (1978)
Pew pew! This week, friend of the show Adam Torkel returns to talk about one of Band's earliest hits, the sci-fi thriller LASERBLAST! This film not only looms large in Band's pre-Full Moon catalogue, it also inspired one of the best MST3Ks of all time!
🚨New Episode!🚨
Episode 106: AImee: The Visitor (2023)
This week we're talking about AIMEE: THE VISITOR! Director Aimee Mayumi Kuge (CANNIBAL MUKBANG) joins us for one of Full Moon's most recent entries, a film that introduces cinema's first AI-generated femme fatale!
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