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We're braving the summer heat and heading to Camp Blackfoot to talk about one of the greatest slasher movies ever made! After an accident leaves the camp's groundkeeper Cropsy horribly burned, he returns 5 years later with nothing but his garden shears and revenge on his mind! Can our latest group of horror movie teenagers survive the Cropsy maniac, or, will George Costanza, Fisher Stevens, and the rest of our campers be turned into ground meat by him and sent down stream? Don't look, he'll see you! Don't breathe, he'll hear you! Don't move, YOU'RE DEAD!!

Get ready to have a little mahogany, Dumpster Dwellers! We're back in the car with Daniel Baldwin and James Woods to hunt down some blood-sucking vampires, but this time we've got C.B. Smith with us to tell us all the differences from the book. What did John Carpenter keep for his adaptation and what did he change from John Steakley's 1990 novel, Vampire$? And why exactly is the book named Vampire Dollar Sign anyway?! Find all that and more, as we go Book to the Movie™!

16,000 feet below the ocean's surface, geologist Peter Weller is the court appointed captain of a ragtag group of precious metal miners. After Daniel Stern uncovers a safe inside of a nearby ship wreck, all hell breaks loose as a vodka-borne bio experiment starts infecting the crew, turning them into hideously deformed mutant fish monsters. Premiering the same year as James Cameron's The Abyss, this flick was unfortunately very poorly received as just some ripoff of Alien and The Thing underwater. Tony from  @HackTheMovies  joins us to reclaim this sunken treasure and bring this star-studded special effects feast to the surface! Strip down to your undies and slide into your compression suit because we are going toe to toe with the ultimate deep sea terror in LEVIATHAN.

Twice the Problem, twice the Child?! In one of the funniest comedy sequels ever made, John Ritter and Michael Oliver return for more over the top hijinks and even more Problem Children! Junior's reign of terror continues when dear ol' Dad decides to get back on the dating scene and the richest woman in town, LaWanda DuMore, sets her eyes on him. Now Junior must team up with his bitter rival Trixie to stop his Dad's wedding and get him to marry Amy Yasbeck instead, before it's too late and LaWanda sends him packing to boarding school!

It's Stepfathers Day and Terry O'Quinn has been working in the Wizards garden... again! After escaping Puget Sound Psychiatric Hospital for a second time, Terry O'Quinn surgically changes his appearance into another actor and then resumes his hunt for the perfect family. Now it's up to his Stepson (psychosomatically wheelchair bound Andy) to stop Daddy Dearest's latest nightmare, before he can dispose of Andy and his mother Christine in the grinder! Cruikshank, Munchie, and the entire MDU Avengers are here to help us finally put an end to The Winter Stepfather™ and the entire Stepfather trilogy once and for all!

A little girl named Susie (Jamie Ohar) blames her birthday present, a stuffed bear named Teddy, for various incidents around the house. Her parents, who don't remember purchasing Teddy in the first place, do not believe her... until Susie's mother (Marilyn Jones) discovers giant claw marks on the walls and overhears lumbering sounds at night. In the end, the mother destroys Teddy, but then has to deal with Teddy's mother: a bearskin rug in the attic. Written and directed by Ted Gershuny, based on a story by John Sladek. Original Air Date: December 1, 1985 Shop CAVITY COLORS and use promo code MOVIEDUMPSTERPODCAST at checkout for 10% off! https://cavitycolors.com/moviedumpsterpodcast Talks from the Darkside intro music cover by MATT CANNON / LAPSES: https://soundcloud.com/lapses CHRIS' LINKS

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We're finally taking the Dungeon back to Japan with a movie that Joe and Sean have been itching to talk about for years! When The Prowler and his brother Hideki find a new hunting grounds in an abandoned Japanese Umbrella factory, late night host Nami and her news team become their latest victims. It's only a matter of time until Nami is left as the final girl and forced to confront our Giallo killer that can create fireballs out of thin air or something. Klaatu Barada... Ballgag? No, not THAT Evil Dead! We're talking Evil Dead Trap aka Trap of The Dead Spirits! Shop CAVITY COLORS and use promo code MOVIEDUMPSTERPODCAST at checkout for 10% off! https://cavitycolors.com/moviedumpsterpodcast

In a comedic parody of The Exorcist, inept occult practitioners Nora and Jack Mills (Phyllis Diller and Lawrence Tierney) are offered $50,000 to perform an exorcism on Mary Jane, a young girl possessed by a demonic seductress known as Aisha Candisha. Things go from bad to worse when the incompetent couple end up summoning another demon, a commander known as Gad, to get rid of Aisha, only for both demons to end up possessing Mary Jane. Directed by T.J. Castronovo and written by Edithe Swensen Original Air Date: November 24, 1985 Shop CAVITY COLORS and use promo code MOVIEDUMPSTERPODCAST at checkout for 10% off your order! https://cavitycolors.com/moviedumpsterpodcast GET YOUR TICKETS FOR MIDNIGHT MADNESS PRESENTS: TROLL-A-THON (TROLL & TROLL 2 DOUBLE FEATURE!)

The Dumpster boys headed to the PhilaMOCA for Tapes from the Crypt and Retro Release Video's annual CRYPT VIDEO RENTALS pop-up video store! Offering up a menagerie of tapes, toys, promotional items, and other nostalgic delicacies, Crypt Video Rentals hits that sweet spot for delivering a true video store experience. Headed by an amazing group of people, they are preserving an essential moment in time for any movie lover to experience and enjoy. We had an absolute blast seeing our friends and chatting with all of the great local artists and creators in our community, so join us as we hit that rewind button into the physical media folkways! VHS IS NOT DEAD!

James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy has come to a beautiful and satisfying end. Join us in the Dungeon this week to talk about the Guardians series as a whole, the legacy of James Gunn, and how it changed super hero movies across the board. Hold on to your Zarg-nuts and crank that Zune because we're talkin' Guardians of the freakin' Galaxy Vol. 3!

Television studio executive Gil Hurn (David Margulies) is approached by Mr. Smith (Lenny von Dohlen), a mysterious investor who asks him to complete the final episodes of Max Paradise, a short-run detective series from 1965 that was cancelled before said episodes were aired. Mr. Smith and his mysterious backers are willing to pay any price, specifically gold bars, to see the series finished, complete with bringing the original actor, Van Conway (Darren McGavin), out of retirement. Unknown to the others, Mr. Smith is an alien from a planet that has received TV signals from Earth 20 years after they originally aired, and Max Paradise has become immensely popular on their planet. Directed by Bill Travis with a Story by Andrew Weiner, adapted by Ted Gershuny. Original Air Date: November 17, 1985 Support the show and listen ad free for just $2 a month, including other extras!

Roll initiative, Dumpster Dwellers! We're heading back to Faerûn on the back of a rather corpulent Red Dragon to talk the latest Dungeons & Dragons movie! Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez gather their adventuring party of heroes to get revenge on their former con buddy Hugh Grant, but since its Dungeons and Dragons they also get involved in a world ending plot in the process. Druids, Paladins, and Wizards, OH MY! Grab your hither-thither staff and magic helmet, because we're wildshaping into an Owlbear and searching for Snails in Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves! Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

Out of the pail and into the Video Dungeon! The Garbage Pail Kids have finally come home to mother ship Movie Dumpster for a piss-packed episode featuring the Doom Generation Podcast dames, Tessa and Nicole! Dodger has it rough–working for free in Captain Manzini's antique shop, being terrorized by thirty-year-old bullies, and constantly doused with raw sewage. When Dodger indirectly releases a troupe of ugly children(?) with gross super powers from an old garbage pail, they reluctantly help him make clothes to impress a woman twice his age. With a cosmic shot in the dark and a lot of cocaine, Topps managed to release one of the most notoriously bad movies to grace the silver screen. Grab your bedazzled denim vest and a fresh six-pack of Pepsi as we piss, burp, vomit, and fart our way through The Garbage Pail Kids Movie! Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

Luther Mandrake (Jerry Stiller) is the incredibly rude, arrogant, and mean-spirited host of a late-night radio show known as "The Devil's Advocate", where he unleashes the unbridled hatred he has accumulated through a life full of misery, hardship, and suffering onto callers eagerly seeking advice for the world's problems. One night, while taking some peculiar callers, Luther discovers that his constant anger and cynicism have led him into a deadly position. Written by George A. Romero and directed by Michael Gornick. Original Air Date: November 10, 1985 GET YOUR TICKETS FOR MIDNIGHT MADNESS PRESENTS: SUSPIRIA!

MONKEY!! We're returning to the MDU seminole classic Super Mario Bros. (1993) once more to see how it compares to the novelization based on it by Todd Strasser! Strap your belts on Dumpster Dwellers and join us, as we take a trip with C.B. Smith on the Buch-cannon back to Koopa City 1 and go Book to the Movie™!

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Pete Bancroft (Michael Warren), a musician in a creative slump, buys a revolutionary instrument that can read a person's thoughts and transform them into music. However, the instrument comes with a very high price; a price which Bancroft may not be willing to pay, especially since it leads to his daughter Justine (Lisa Bonet). being kidnapped by Wilson Farber, the man who sold Bancroft the instrument, who is actually a Satanist who uses it to drain her soul in a ploy to gain immortality. Story by Carl Richard Jacobi, adapted by John Harrison. Original Air Date: November 3, 1985 Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER⁠ https://cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

Mr. Killup (Roy Poole) is a grumpy and misanthropic old man who hates Halloween, often spending the 31st of October tormenting trick-or-treaters who come to his door. This year however, he is visited by a sinister goblin who insistently demands candy. When its offer is repeatedly refused, the goblin punishes Mr. Killup by trapping him outside of time with little-to-no food, forcing him to sustain himself on the candy his son gave him to hand out. Written by Michael McDowell, directed by Tom Savini. Original Air Date: October 27, 1985 Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

It's St. Patrick's Day again, Dumpster Dwellers, and the Shamrock Shakes™ are flowing down in the Video Dungeon! Karen is unaware that decades earlier, townspeople banished a bloodthirsty leprechaun to another dimension after a massacre. She accidentally sets the creature free, and has to convince her father to help send it away again. Billy Zane and William Devane are also there for some reason. This week Dustin Elkins from the Flick and Friends Podcast joins us to help weed this one out and pluck a fresh Red Clover! Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster