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An undying love. A forbidden curse. Some weirdo just hanging out in a college clocktower, negging you in class. That’s right - we’re combining our Vampire series with After Dark to bring you a cornerstone of the “I’m a teen star who wants to be taken seriously” genre in 1995’s EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE!! Here to take us to school about this pinnacle of blouse-shedding cinema is writer, co-host of This Ends At Prom, and now Returning Champion BJ Colangelo!! After Patrick apologizes for never being able to pronounce anyone’s last name, we dig into what makes these characters tick: horniness! That’s it. That’s the character trait. Along the way, we talk Red Fang Diaries, awkward neck bites, Draculau Ballet, Jennifer Tilly worship, introduce #GetAnhkd, and dumb nerds who need to make it weird!! All this, plus a net-enhanced version of Choose Your Own Deathventure, and we get another character who is telegraphed as sexy via beret!!

The thumb might be out, but don’t take that as approval! We watched the pilot episode of HBO’s The Hitchhiker and get taken for a real ride as we talk old-world curses, modern hair helmets, Dune grandmothers, un-sexy step-sister fantasies, and just openly thirst after Bruce Greenwood and his visible dong (look for it)!! All this, plus we bask in the afterglow of post-funeral sex, play a smashingly good game of Choose Your Own Deathventure, and warn against participating in sexy times near talking birds!! Hop in if you dare!!

Hear ye, hear ye - sex court is now in session!! The (not quite so) honorable Kill By Kill After Dark presides over a movie that could only legally happen in 1993's BODY OF EVIDENCE!! Here to help us prosecute this case is TV writer and author of the Kat Kelly Mystery series, Tess Rafferty!! As evidence, we present arguments against the idea of berets being sexy, caucasian acupuncturists, nipple clamp confusion, spiking your Afrin, and the best/worst line of the movie, “Have you ever watched animals make love, Frank?” All this, plus BDSM for Beginners, a sensual version of Choose Your Own Deathventure, and the worst court gallery ever gathered on film!! The candlewax is hot and… gosh, we wish the rest of this movie was.

Love is in the air, and revenge is ready to catch a ride as we talk HBO’s “Twilight Zone with boobs” - The Hitchhiker! This particular episode of the series was brought to us by the director of the Salem Horror Fest (and Returning Champion), Kay Lynch because it does the impossible: make anyone care about a character in this paper-thin anthology series!! Along the way, we dig into why this TV episode from 1983 has a more nuanced examination of the trans experience than we’ve seen from a lot of media in the last 40 years as we cringe at bra slicing, examine Robert Vaughn’s toupee, crossover with Mission Impossible, worship at the alter of Sybil Danning, and  take up the scalpel with the liquor shakes!! All this, plus we visit exotic Airport Bar, cut up our usual Choose Your Own Deathventure game, and change how you’ll look at pizza for a while!! It’s a real “laugh until you cry” situation for this episode of Kill By Kill: After Dark!!

It’s time to crank up the tunes… and FEAR as we bring you the mechanical mayhem that ruined childhoods and explained way too much about one of the biggest bands of the 70s!! You wanted the best, but what you got is KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK!! Here to help make sense of this rock n roll nightmare are two old friends and Returning Champions, Dennis Satterfield and Scot Burklin (the Inside The Idiot Box podcast)!! Along the way, we talk bad evil plans, assemble a human pyramid riot, ride the Giant Flicking Tongue, consult the film’s very explanatory tie-in novelization, jump on the robot barbershop quartet trend of 1978, and meet the Schmooniversal Schmonsters!! All this, plus we struggle to understand all the KISS band members' power sets and accents, play a robotic version of Choose Your Own Deathventure, and karate fight albino ape robots!! That’s what you thought this movie was about, right? Karate fights with albino ape robots - cause it is.

Kill The Rock Star is back, crawling into your podcast feed like a multi-legged insect through a bathroom window… a real lyrical allusion this song makes in connection to horniness that takes every ounce of our intellectual powers to untangle!! That's right - we're talking Rebbie Jackson's Centipede, and here to help us make sense of it all is Returning Champion Megan Sunday!! Along the way, we talk awkward tour guide spiels, erect cobras, loose tigers, matching cummerbunds, erotic rictus, lightning fingers, and Michael Jackson dedicating this song to “all my mannequin friends,” among many, many other bewildering details!! This Top 25 hit is a little discussed but truly confounding pop artifact that will have you laughing as much as scratching your head and shooting lightning bolts out of your fingertips, so join us, won’t you?

Start the clock - you’ve got exactly 30 seconds to remember if you’ve ever heard of 1981’s GRADUATION DAY!! Chances are you might not be familiar with this track and field and roller boogie-obsessed slasher, but after this episode, you’ll be racing to watch it!! Join Patrick and Gena as they welcome comedian Shawn Carter (his album Boston to Bristol is out now!) to help them blow the whistle on the many, many ethics violations the students, teachers, and staff commit as easily as breathing… until they stop! Along the way, we chart Patrick’s personal connection to yet another slasher movie, overload on red herrings, check out some visible erections, see through a girl's locker room window, get defenestrated by a dead body, and witness the rock & roll glory that is "Felony"!! All this, plus some innovative #GetBunked kills, an educational edition of Choose Your Own Deathventure, and we meet our new favorite character: Football Sword!! Don your cap and gown for a truly bonkers motion picture with us today, people!!

To celebrate 2024, we're unlocking one of our favorite 2023 bonus episodes from our Patreon feed covering the little-seen, little-understood karate-sploitation flick, ALLEY CAT!! Never heard of it? Well, neither had we until this rock 'em sock 'em lady judo'd her way into our hearts and groins last year, and talking about it was such a good time we want you to join in!! Now *CW the film has many attempts at SA, but absolutely no one gets away with any crime when our girl Billie is taking her own brand of justice to the streets!! Along the way, we talk street gang economics, rookie cops with multiple make-out pads, friends who work at Arby's, guys who meet while jogging, and the most dangerous man in all of Los Angeles... Phil. Cower in his presence!! Check the movie out before or after - it's a good time, regardless!! NOTE: Next week we're back with an all-new episode covering 1981's Graduation Day! We wish you all a Happy Holidays and a bright New Year!!

It’s the MOST haunted time of the YEAR!! That’s right! The reason for the season is back, and it brings us great joy to present Amityville For Xmas vol 2!! In the stocking this year is an illuminating TV Terror turned hand-mauling home video sequel, AMITYVILLE 4: THE EVIL ESCAPES!! See lamps lash out, witness electrical cords go full Popeye, experience reduced fly budgets, go beyond the beige Mr. T, grab a little hot Old Priest/Young Priest action, and shudder at the maximum withholding of familial love from a Grandmother!! All this, plus an ectoplasmic edition of Choose Your Own Deathventure, we get introduced to ghost spooning, and we return to the House of the Dirty Peanut!! Get out - with this episode downloaded onto your device so you can listen today… and we’ll talk again in 2024!! NOTE: We will return with all-new episodes starting Jan 12th with 1981's Graduation Day! We wish you all a Happy Holidays and a bright New Year!!

You don’t have to wait any longer for that love vibration because we’re back talking about a new wave sensation and a Master of Horror apocalyptic freakout! That’s right, we’re talking about Billy Idol’s Dancing With Myself music video directed by Tobi Hooper - and we can’t talk Hoop without Returning Champion - the one and the only Patrick Bromley!! Along the way, we dig into all the details: crying Omega Men, Oscar the Grouch, 3rd-floor serial killers, Shrek inserts, living room dojos, and a few Don Knots impressions! Let the shockwaves rock you over the edge for this week’s edition of Kill The Rock Star!! #ReleaseTheDongCut

Listen to us… the podcast of the night… what beautiful nonsense we make!! That’s right, we’re sinking our teeth into the movie that we can honestly say started it all - the 1931 Universal Studios classic, DRACULA!! Along the way, we stake our claim on uneven Bela Lugosi impersonations, connect the dots with the Brides and an infamous Ghostbusters BJ, unpack Bram Stoker’s repressed personal history for juicy clues, and Patrick offloads every weird piece of history he learned as a Universal Studios Backlot tour guide about this film!! All that, plus the Van Helsing and Van Halen crossover you’ve always wanted, we expose the beta duck that is Jonathan Harker and play the immortal game Choose Your Own Deathventure!! We never drink… wine, but you’ll want to guzzle down every drop of this week’s Kill By Kill!!

It's chemistry, heavy metal, and shaggy werewolves. This week, we experiment on Kill The Rock Star with Ozzy Osbourne and his 1983 solo smash, Bark at the Moon!! Along the way, we talk over-enthusiastic microscopy, explore why this one music video believes women, return to our favorite British sanitarium and open several poltergeist doorways. All this plus goth funerals, melting skeletons, and an extended conversation on how the reboot of the Scream franchise is getting absolutely screwed over by its lousy producers!! We tell the moon where it can stick it this week on Kill By Kill!!