The pendulum of Rocky Horror month has swung to the horror side as we watch the film that invented the genre, the 1960 Hitchcock thriller Psycho. It's pretty spooky! 

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RiaW 4.40 - Psycho (1960) - RockyHorrorMonth

We can never decide between TheRocktober and Spooktober on the show, so this year we're combining them into a horror / The Rock combo we're calling The Rocky Horror Podcast Show. First we kick things off with the newest movie that The Rock is badly cast in, Disney's Jungle Cruise.

RiaW 4.39 - Jungle Cruise - RockyHorrorMonth

Alex is in Portland this week recording his debut comedy album (Saturday Oct. 2nd at Mississippi Studios) so the boys talked about what it takes to make a hit and keep the band together with Thomas The Hank Engine's directorial debut about a group of one-hit one-ders.

RiaW 4.38 - That Thing You Do (1996)

In our final installment of our series on the Universal Monsterverse, we dig up the one real gem in mummy movie history, the one with Abbott and Costello. It's so completely weird and bonkers that I think I love it? I might love it? Who knows. My brain has been removed through my nose with a straw at this point. Do you know of a franchise that needs saving? A universe that needs creating? A mummy that needs meeting? Email us. nd next week we're talking about That Thing You Do to celebrate Alex recording his debut comedy album in Portland on October 2nd.

RiaW 4.37 - Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy (1955) Dark Universe 5 of 3

It's a bonus episode in our continued search for a good answer to the Universal Monsters Universe problem. We went all the way back to 1999 when Brendan Fraser and battled the mummy and everybody (but Alex) seemed to like it.

RiaW 4.36 - The Mummy (1999) Dark Universe 4 of 3

To round out the three most recent attempts at a Universal Monsterverse, we watched the 2020 low-budget Horror Film The Invisible Man. It's the best of the series so far but doesn't fit well into any universe. So we try again to fix it!

RiaW 4.35 - The Invisible Man (2020) Dark Universe 3 of 3

As part of our continued excevation of the corpse of the Dark Universe, we re-watched Alex Kurtzman's 2017 Mummy remake starring the Cruise missile as a sexless action puppet.

RiaW 4.34 - The Mummy (2017) Dark Universe 2 of 3

We set out to fix the Dark Universe, the cinematic universe that universe-name-having Universal Pictures failed at three separate times. First up, the dreary, boring revival of Dracula that deserved to remain untold.

RiaW 4.33 - Dracula Untold (2014) Dark Universe 1 of 3

The thrilling conclusion to our Paul Verhoeven mini-series. Take a quick co-ed shower and then let's go to space!

RiaW 4.32 - Starship Troopers (1997) Verhoeven 3 of 3

Arnold goes to Mars. OR DOES HE?!? If you're in California, please vote in the recall election!

RiaW 4.31 - Total Recall (1990) Verhoeven 2 of 3

It's a horrible dystopian future that's somehow less bad than the present. But at least the murder robots work!

RiaW 4.30 - Robocop (1987)

Space Jam is back and they've replaced Michael Jordan with LeBron James and the alien villians with a new, more sinistar evil to contend with: Warner Brothers themselves. That's right, it's a weird choice for WB to make themselves the villian but they're absolutely right, they did BAD.

RiaW 4.29 - Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

 We're back for the second half of our TNG discussion as Alex wrestles with all the enemies he made last week. This time we watched: S04 E01 - The Best of Both Worlds Part 2 S04 E21 - The Drumhead S05 E18 - Cause and Effect S06 E15 - Tapestry 

RiaW 4.28 - Star Trek TNG Part 2

It's part one of a two episode series in which I watch Star Trek for the very first time (not counting that porn parody you forced me to watch a few years back). Specifically we watched S02 E09 "Measure of a Man", S02 E16 "Q Who", S03 E16 "The Offspring", and S03 E26 "The Best of Both Worlds Part 1". We'll be back next week with four more TNG episodes!

RiaW 4.27 - Star Trek: The Next Generation

We talk about the David Lynch show Twin Peaks, specifically season 1 and season 2 episodes 1 through 9.

4.26 Twin Peaks

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