The Grue-Crew catch a pair of VOD horror offerings this week with Mike Mendez’ Don’t Kill It as the feature review and Dan Berk & Robert Olsen’s Stake Land 2: The Stakelander in the What Have You Been Watching segment. What they find, despite both being written by the Berk & Olsen team, is that mileage varies. One of the films lands on the positive side of the draw while the other dips into a less favorable reaction. At least there’s plenty of Dolph Lundgren! Dave sadly shares the Horror News of the Week with the passing of two legendary character actors: RIP Michael Parks and Power Booth. Closing out the show Thomas and Santos participate in a battle of wits with this week’s Stump the Saint!
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Episode 215 — Don’t Kill It (2017) — Stake Land II (2017)
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SHOWNOTES
INTRO [00:00:41]
HORROR NEWS OF THE WEEK [00:03:06]
- RIP Michael Parks
- RIP Powers Boothe
- Jennifer Lawrence puts her heart into the new one sheet for ‘Mother’
- ‘Game of Death’ Starring Daniel Radcliffe from ‘Deathgasm’ Director
- Thom York bringing the music to Suspiria remake
SUPPORT HNR [00:23:15]
FEATURE REVIEW [00:23:40]
- Don’t Kill It (2017)
- Director: Mike Mendez / w. Dan Berk & Robert Olsen
- Cast: Dolph Lundgren (as Jebediah Woodley), Kristina Klebe (as Agent Evelyn Pierce), James Chalke (as Pastor Erikson)
ANNOUNCEMENTS [00:47:59]
- Gruesome Magazine has launched the American Gods Fan Podcast
- Convention and Film Festival Appearances
- Crimson Screen Horror Films Festival (5/19-22 Charleston SC)
- Wizard World Philadelphia (June 1-4 Philadelphia, PA)
- Raleigh Supercon (July 14-16, Raleigh, NC)
- Monster-Mania (Cherry Hill, NJ – Aug 18-20)
- DRAGON CON (Atlanta, GA, September 1 – 4)
- Genre Blast (Winchester, VA, September 8-10)
- Wreak Havoc (Greensboro, NC, Sept 22-23)
- Monsterama (Atlanta, GA, Sept 29-Oct 1)
- Nightmares Horror Film Festival (Columbus, OH, October 19-22)
- Santos will once again be involved with the New York City Horror Film Festival (NYC October, 26-29)
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING [00:52:13]
- Stake Land II: The Stakelander (2017)
- Director: Dan Berk & Robert Olsen / w. Nick Damici
- Cast: Nick Damici, Connor Paolo, Laura Abramsen
STUMP THE SAINT [01:11:53]
FEEDBACK [01:18:24]
- Thanks to Tear Out the Heart and Victory Records for use of the song Undead Anthem for the intro and outro of the HNR podcast
NEXT WEEK
- Alien: Covenant
Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
