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The Bear Cave of Terror

Spinning off from the Comic Book Bears Podcast: your hairy, heavy, homo host, Steve Mowry, welcomes a different horror fanatic as guest host each week as they both dig their claws into a much-loved scary movie pulled from a variety of sub-genres and franchises - from classic to trashy, spooky to gory, commercial to obscure, and more. Together, they slash into each frightful film to expose its beating heart and delicious marrow, often from a queer perspective, to entice the listener to make it their

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CBB Presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 17 - Night...

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2025/11/16

Craig Lantz is back in the cave this week to talk about one of the most influential horror classics of the 20th century, 1968's Night of the Living Dead, directed by George A. Romero. A true classic in every sense of the word, this low-budget independent film, shot in black and white with friends and local talent has endured to become one of the most recognized examples of American horror, and inspired an entire sub-genre of horror across all types of media for decades since its release - movies, TV

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CBB Presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 16 - A...

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2025/11/09

Mike Lovins joins Steve in the Bear Cave of Terror again this week to discuss the third Nightmare on Elm St. A classic 80s horror/slasher film, and often placed as the best in the franchise, 1987's Nightmare on Elm St 3: Dream Warriors, shines with a fun and dedicated cast with some fresh new faces and returning faves, incredibly creative practical effects, and a desire to redefine the series and still play by the "rules" of Wes Craven's original entry. Mike and Steve look at what makes this film

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CBB Presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 15 -...

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2025/11/02

We've talked about the gothic horror coming out of the UK from Hammer Studios, but what was the US answer to those colorful, gripping tales of terror? Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe cycle of films from American International Pictures, of course! In this episode of the Bear Cave of Terror, we're joined by Rob Staeger, who brings with him Corman's 1964 masterpiece, The Masque of the Red Death, starring none other than the macabre talents and eyebrows of Vincent Price himself! We look at the colorful,

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CBB Presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 14 - A...

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2025/10/26

Back in 1984, a little indie horror film unleashed the face, knife hand, and lore of Freddy Krueger on an unsuspecting audience, and was such a hit, New Line had to bring the sequel out as soon as possible. And that sequel, A Nightmare on Elm St 2 - Freddy's Revenge, directed by Jack Sholder, is what the public, hungry for more Freddy Kreuger, got to see just after Halloween, 1985. This film returns us to Elm St and Nancy Thompson's former house where new teen Jesse is about to experience the

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CBB Presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 13 -...

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2025/10/19

What two names bring to mind horror in the 80s? If you said Stephen King and George Romero, you're probably familiar with this episode's subject, their 1982 film collaboration, CREEPSHOW! Bringing the cinematic team-up of director Romero and writer King with him into the cave isnone other than Ken Creamer ,of Sixty Seconds of Stephen. We talk about how the anthology film harkens back to the old EC Comics, like Tales from the Crypt and the Vault of Horror, that inspired it, with dark humor and

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CBB Presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 12 -...

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2025/10/12

In the second Halloween (the movie)-themed episode for Spooky Season, Jay Yospa heads back to the bear cave to talk Halloween III: Season of the Witch, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. This 1982 sequel. and some would say "black sheep", of the Halloween franchise, was a controversial entry in that it contained no Michael Myers! An attempt to decouple the Halloween series from The Shape and the slasher genre and branch out to more of an anthology film series around the concept of the holiday, this

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CBB Presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 11 -...

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2025/10/05

In this episode, the Bear Cave of Terror kicks off Spooky Season with a little independent film that broke records, launched careers, and started a franchise featuring one of the most recognizable modern movie monsters: 1978's Halloween, directed by John Carpenter! Because this is such an important horror movie, we have TWO guest hosts with us to discuss it - Bill Zanowitz of the Comic Book Bears, and Jay Yospa of the LOTSL podcast. With even the actors pitching in to make the movie, and a

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CBB presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 10 - A...

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2025/09/28

In this episode of The Bear Cave of Terror, returning guest host Mike Lovins of the Reel Gay Move Show joins Steve with one his favorite 80s classics: A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Wes Craven from 1984, the film that launched the long-running franchise, and introduced the world to the terrifying, and undeniably campy, Freddy Krueger! One of the most recognizable modern film monsters, Freddy and his knife glove slashed his way through his first set of teens - and into our morbid hearts -

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CBB presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 9 - Curse...

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2025/09/21

In our second Franken-Episode, Craig Lantz joins Steve in the Bear Cave to talk about the Hammer Studios classic: 1957's The Curse of Frankenstein! Starring Peter Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein and Christopher Lee as the Creature in their first starring roles with Hammer, and directed by Terence Fisher, this established the Hammer legacy, with vibrant color, flowery dialogue, and lavish sets that put Hammer horror films apart from the pack, coming just one year before their equally successful

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CBB presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 8 -...

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2025/09/14

In this episode of the Bear Cave of Terror, guest host Tito Gutierrez introduces Steve to the trashy exploitation horror classic, Frankenhooker, directed by Frank Henenlotter and released to unsuspecting moviegoers in 1990. This wild and hilarious send-up of Frankenstein and Re-Animator from the creator of the Basket Case franchise and Brain Damage is filled with exploding sex workers and johns, jacked pimps, Super-Crack, and a garage freezer filled with mutant mistakes that could have been extras

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CBB presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 7 -...

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2025/09/07

In this week's episode, Stephen King expert and superfan Ken Creamer, of Sixty Seconds of Stephen, joins Steve in the Bear Cave to talk about 1984's Children of the Corn, an adaptation of a short story from King's 1978 collection Night Shift that has gone on to spawn numerous sequels and a couple remakes. We talk about the studio's decision to reject King's script and go another direction, prompting the author's ire, the idea of a cult like this allowing to thrive in the movie's world, the explosion

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CBB presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 6 - John...

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2025/08/31

On this week's episode of the Bear Cave of Terror, Steve invites one of the Movie Bear Podcast's hosts and horror fan, Will Lindus, to discuss one of his favorite fright films, John Carpenter's The Thing, from 1982! A big-budget remake of The Thing From Another World, released 30 years earlier, Will and Steve talk about the history of the making of the film, the creativity and impressive work put into those shocking and splattery scenes of the "thing" transforming and absorbing the people (and dogs)

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CBB presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 5 - Sleepy...

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2025/08/24

Autumn is just around the corner, and what's better than a gothic horror fantasy to put you in the mood? Steve is joined in the Bear Cave by bear extraordinaire Jon Runyan aka JonOn(Van)Demand) of A Comic Book Look and Comics by Night to chat about Tim Burton's 1999 turn-of-the-century classic, Sleepy Hollow. Referencing Hammer Studios classic horror, Mario Bava's Black Sunday, and even the Disney cartoon, Burton presents a late-18th century supernatural mystery with gorgeous costumes, a stellar

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CBB presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 4 - Black...

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2025/08/17

It's never too early for holiday horror, and in this episode, Steve is joined in the Bear Cave by horror fan Jay Yospa of the Life on the Shit List (LOSTL) podcast, who brings one of his favorites, the seminal 70s slasher, Black Christmas (1974), directed by Bob Clark. In this film, Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, and Andrea Martin are among the sorority sisters terrorized by an unseen murderer with a penchant for disturbing crank calls. John Saxon brings his woofy self to the mix as a concerned

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CBB presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 3 - Horror...

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2025/08/10

In this episode, Steve is joined in the Bear Cave by horror fan Craig Lantz of Southern Fried Geekery, who introduces him to one of Hammer Studios' finest, 1958's Dracula (aka Horror of Dracula), directed by Terence Fisher. In this film, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing face off as Dracula and Dr Van Helsing for the first time in this British horror classic, that rewrites the standard Dracula plot and story by swapping Victorian London for 1800s Karlstadt, along with the relationships of the

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CBB presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 2 - The...

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2025/08/04

In this episode, Steve invites guest Mike Lovins from the Reel Gay Movie Show to talk about one of his favorite horror flicks, 1987's The Lost Boys, directed by Joel Schumacher, and starring a fantastic cast of 80s who's who, including Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Jamie Gertz, and the Coreys Feldman and Haim! They cover the make-up effects, inspiring soundtrack, and lasting legacy (including two different musical spin-offs), plus a few of their favorite scares.Additional resources for this

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CBB presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 1 - JAWS

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2025/07/27

Spinning off from the Comic Book Bears Podcast, regular hosts Bill Zanowitz and Steve Mowry talk about the blockbuster classic JAWS, celebrating its 50th anniversary in the summer of 2025. After some introduction to the concept of a "backdoor pilot", and some background on Steve's introduction to horror films from a young age, thanks to cool babysitters, Saturday Matinee on the local indie station, and USA Up All Night, Steve also gets into what to expect with this new podcast series, and his hopes

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