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Half Price Horror

A deep dive into the half-price horror rack of the local used bookstore, coming away with classics, cult treasures, and the strangest stories the genre has to offer.

tv & film film history

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00:55:04

Halloween Ends (2022)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/04/09

Yes, we've heard it before. Yes, the slasher in a slasher franchise can never truly die. Yes, Michael Myers has been blown up, decapitated, shot more times than any reasonable human being can keep track of, and beaten to death with a length of pipe. But in a series that reboots instead of explaining, nobody's invulnerable forever, and it's time to go back to Haddonfield one "final" time as 'Halloween Ends'.

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00:44:32

X (2022)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/04/02

What do you get when you cross 'Boogie Nights' with 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'? You get a blood-soaked slasher full of porn stars trying to love free and make money and getting killed for their troubles, that's what! Join HPH for a trip into the Golden Age of Pornography as we examine Ti West's complex, controversial slasher 'X'!

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00:40:33

Halloween Kills (2021)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/03/26

It's still Halloween night in 2018, and Michael's legacy has left deep and serious psychic scars on the town called Haddonfield--no, wait, it's Halloween night in 2018 and Michael's about to unleash the raddest rampage on the sleepy little town of Haddonfield ever! They'll have to band together to stop him... um, in a serious exploration of the true cost of mob violence... and he's going to come home at last. In a melancholy way, of course. That's right, it's time to

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00:56:10

Day of the Dead (1985)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/03/19

It's time to conclude George A Romero's classic trilogy with this, the darkest day of horror the world has ever known! We discuss the nuclear bunker mentality, toxic masculinity, and where to find the limestone caverns under Florida (hint: nowhere) in this episode on Romero's bleak, unflinching look into the darkness of the human spirit and the zombies that reflect it back at us.

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00:52:18

Halloween (2018)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/03/12

Guess who's back? Back again! Michael's back! Tell a friend! Yup, it's been forty years now since that legendary Halloween night where Michael Myers attempted to kill Laurie Strode, and this time he's... been in Smith's Grove all forty of those years. But thanks to a pair of obnoxious podcasters (hey....) he's out and back in fighting trim, as we dive into 2018's 'Halloween' requel, 'Halloween'!

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00:38:28

Lifeforce (1985)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/03/05

What happens when you give one of the most critically acclaimed horror directors of all time a blank check, a promise of total creative freedom, and a stack of pulpy old science fiction novels? You get Tobe Hooper's 'Lifeforce', an American home to Hammer Horror that changes directions every twenty minutes and features a sprawling cast, a big-budget plague of space vampires, and a completely nude villain. And if that sounds wild to you... believe me, it's weirder than you think it is.

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00:49:40

Halloween II (2009)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/02/26

And so another timeline closes in the Halloween franchise, this time with a very different Laurie Strode coping with her own PTSD and survivor's guilt after shooting Michael Myers in the head. But as you might have guessed, he's not dead, and he's coming back to Haddonfield to deal with his baby sister once and for all in this controversial anti-slasher I cannot wait to talk about!

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00:35:37

Sledge Hammer (1983)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/02/19

Hoo boy. I'd like to say you can blame Job Bob Briggs for letting the world know about this obscure little shot-on-camcorder horror movie, I'd like to tell you it's my roommate's fault for gifting this to me for Christmas in the sure and certain knowledge I would do it on the podcast. But the truth is, I like 'Sledge Hammer', faults and all, and I can't wait to tell you about it in every weird and quirky detail!

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00:53:08

Halloween (2007)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/02/12

Time to go back to the beginning, as the spiritual dead end of 2002's 'Halloween: Resurrection' led Dimension Films to remake the original under the creative guidance of... Rob Zombie?! Yes, it's a look at one of the most controversial installments of the franchise, swearing, ultraviolence and all.

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00:31:30

Kairo (aka Pulse) (2001)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/02/05

Time to dig into a little J-horror, as HPH dives deep into legendary Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and what many believe to be a masterpiece of the genre. It's a heavy film with some heavy topics, including self-harm and suicide, but if you feel like you can handle it there's also a lot of beauty to this movie.

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00:46:52

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/01/29

It's time to say goodbye to Jamie Lee Curtis for the second time, and say hello to... Busta Rhymes?!? Yes, it's _that_ installment of the long-running Halloween franchise, the one that ditches the family angle to satirize reality TV and finishes off the story H20 started. Let's talk about killer sharks in baggy-ass overalls, Katee Sackhoff, and possibly the most controversial installment in Michael's story, 'Halloween: Resurrection'!

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00:28:28

Horror Express (1972)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/01/22

ALL ABOARD! Time to take a little trip with those icons of Hammer horror, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, in a Spanish production that mimics Hammer's Victorian aesthetic and adds a lot of production value with repurposed sets, reused models, and the great Telly Savalas to turn John Campbell's classic short story "Who Goes There?" into a thriller set on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

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00:36:56

Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/01/15

Has it been twenty years already? Oh wow. Luckily, Laurie Strode's been busy during that time, establishing a new life and a new identity on the West Coast. But Michael's been busy too... and as we'll discuss, he's ready to finish up old business with his little sister once and for all!

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00:31:49

The Being (1983)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/01/08

What happens when the Atomic Age optimism of the 50s becomes the worn-out, polluted wasteland of the puritanical Reagan era? You get the debut feature of cult director Jackie Kong, that's what! Join us for a discussion of 80s politics, 'Alien' homages, and of all people Ruth Buzzi appearing in a horror movie as we discuss 1983's THE BEING!

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00:44:57

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Half Price Horror ·

2023/01/01

Sometimes when you're in a hole, the only thing you can do is dig deeper. And 'Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers' certainly decided to dig in deeper, on the Man in Black and the mysterious runic tattoo and the whole weird mess of a mythos that 'Halloween 5' saddled us with. So join us as we dig as well, into this troubled production and everything that made it the wonderful mess it became!

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01:01:32

The Thing (1982)

Half Price Horror ·

2022/12/25

It's my 75th episode, and what better way to celebrate than with John Carpenter's masterpiece of taut, paranoid body horror! Join us for a discussion of what is widely considered to be one of the very best horror movies ever made, and everything that made it the brilliant piece of cinema it is.

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00:49:57

Halloween 5 (1989)

Half Price Horror ·

2022/12/18

It's been a year since Michael's last blood-soaked rampage through the streets of Haddonfield, and you won't believe what he's been up to in that time! No, literally, you will have a very hard time believing it, and that's not the only problem with the troubled fifth installment in the Halloween series. Join us for a discussion of the very big swerves this movie takes as we cover Dominique Othenin-Girard's Halloween 5!

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00:28:18

Chompy & the Girls (2021)

Half Price Horror ·

2022/12/11

Sometimes "horror" can be a loose term, and perhaps this particular feature would be better suited to a podcast called 'Half Price Quirky Indie Sci-Fi Horror Comedy Relationship Drama Party Movies With Just a Tiny Amount of Found-Family Trauma Bonding Thrown In'. But until that podcast comes along, it's our job to discuss the quirky indie sci-fi horror comedy... well, you get the idea. Join us!

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00:43:45

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Half Price Horror ·

2022/12/04

It's only been a couple weeks for us, but Michael Myers has spent a decade away from Haddonfield. And when he returns, it's a whole new series as we move into the Thorn trilogy! So let's put on a dodgy-looking mask, hunt some children, and enjoy HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS!

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00:43:28

Resident Evil: Return to Raccoon City (2021)

Half Price Horror ·

2022/11/27

Remember how awesome the 90s were? Remember hacky sack, and flip phones, and lava lamps making a weird comeback? Remember how great it was to be there when survival horror was born as a video game genre? Well, if you like taking a trip down memory lane, let's talk about 2021's 'Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City', and its attempt to evoke the spirit of the 90s in a very modern way!

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