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A group of girls head to an elderly aunt’s haunted house for the summer and are quickly consummed by the past. This cult...
09/10/2025

A group of girls head to an elderly aunt’s haunted house for the summer and are quickly consummed by the past. This cult classic is one of the strangest films we’ve covered in the show, full of wild video effects and a guy who turns into a pile of bananas. It rocks.

Starring Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Ai Matubara, Kumiko Oba, Mieko Sato, Eriko Tanaka, Masayo Miyako, and Yōko Minamida. Written by Chiho Katsura. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi

Episode 205 - House / ハウス (1977)
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The new next door neighbor is a vampire who wants your girlfriend. Naturally, the first thing you do is enlist a local t...
03/10/2025

The new next door neighbor is a vampire who wants your girlfriend. Naturally, the first thing you do is enlist a local tv host to fight him. It’s a very meta comedy, a Scream before there was Scream.

Starring Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowell, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Stephen Geoffreys, and Jonathan Stark. Written and directed by Tom Holland.

Episode 204 - Fright Night
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-204-fright-night-1985

We’re subjected to a reboot of the Hellboy franchise, which amps up the Arthurian content–Hellboy doesn’t just battle a ...
26/09/2025

We’re subjected to a reboot of the Hellboy franchise, which amps up the Arthurian content–Hellboy doesn’t just battle a reanimated Vivian/Nimue, the sorceress who traditionally imprisoned Merlin, but it turns out Hellboy is descended of King Arthur and the only person who can wield Excalibur. But if Hellboy does so, he might give over to his demonic nature and initiate the apocalypse.

Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, this movie absolutely sucks. Just a real turd. Flat, dull, and incoherent. So much wasted potential.

Starring David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, and Danie Dae Kim . Written by Andrew Cosby. Directed by Neil Marshall.



This is a preview of the latest episode of our series Hollywood Avalon. To hear the entire episode, join the Mary Versus the Movies patreon for $3/month to hear this and the entire series Hollywood Avalon: https://www.patreon.com/maryvsmovies.

Episode 27 - Hellboy
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/hollywood-avalon-ep-27-hellboy-2019

A movie about a bitter divorce and custody battle might win best picture, but it doesn’t entirely win us over, no matter...
26/09/2025

A movie about a bitter divorce and custody battle might win best picture, but it doesn’t entirely win us over, no matter how good Meryl Streep’s peformance is. A reactionary film that swept the Oscars? Quelle surprise, Hollywood.

Starring Dustin Hoffmann, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, and Jane Alexander. Written and directed by Robert Benton.

Episode 203 - Kramer vs. Kramer
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-203-kramer-vs-kramer-1979

A young prince, with his magic weapon called the Glaive, gathers a bandit army to rescue his princess from a beast from ...
19/09/2025

A young prince, with his magic weapon called the Glaive, gathers a bandit army to rescue his princess from a beast from the stars. Sure, it’s generic 1980s fantasy, but it’s better-looking than most from that era, and who doesn’t want to throw a deadly starfish?

Starring Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis, Alun Armstrong, Liam Neeson and Robbie Coltrane. Written by Stanford Sherman. Directed by Peter Yates.

Episode 202 - Krull
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-202-krull-1983

Molly Ringwald is her own fairy godmother, a Cinderella stuck in a love triangle between her best friend and a wealthy c...
12/09/2025

Molly Ringwald is her own fairy godmother, a Cinderella stuck in a love triangle between her best friend and a wealthy classmate, in this teen dramady from John Hughes. Did we like it? More than we thought, but not without some reservations. But hey, it has a killer soundtrack, a very sleazy James Spader, and Annie Potts in a beehive wig.

Starring Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy, Annie Potts, Harry Dean Stanton, and James Spader. Written by John Hughes. Directed by Howard Deutch.

Episode 201: Pretty in Pink
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-201-pretty-in-pink-1986

It’s our 200th episode! To celebrate, we recorded live in Philadelphia with an audience. In a post-apocalyptic Los Angel...
22/08/2025

It’s our 200th episode! To celebrate, we recorded live in Philadelphia with an audience.

In a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, teenage surf n***s rule the beaches, causing havoc for the city, until one elderly mother, her son murdered by the gang, goes on a campaign of revenge.

Starring Gail Neely, Barry Brenner, Robert Harden, and Tom Demenkoff. Written by Jon Ayre. Directed by Peter George

Thanks again to everyone who came out to the show at Space 1026, and to Bruce Bohri for producing it.

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Episode 200 - Surf N@z*s Must Die
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-200-surf-n***s-must-die-1987-live

A scumbag thief stumbles across a monster, a detective chases a neo-Aztec cult, and New York City is terrorized by a gia...
15/08/2025

A scumbag thief stumbles across a monster, a detective chases a neo-Aztec cult, and New York City is terrorized by a giant naked bird in a surprisingly good and bloody horror movie.

Starring Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carridine, and Richard Roundtree. Written and directed by Larry Cohen.

Episode 199 - Q (the Winged Serpent)
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-199-q-the-winged-serpent-1982

The 1960s fly by, with drag races and bravado giving way to war and suburban malaise in this sequel to George Lucas’s gr...
08/08/2025

The 1960s fly by, with drag races and bravado giving way to war and suburban malaise in this sequel to George Lucas’s groundbreaking American Grafitti. The result is a better, sadder film than the expected cash-grab.

Starring Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Charles Martin Smith, Scott Glenn, and Anna Bjorn. Written and directed by Bill L. Norton.

Episode 198 - More American Graffiti
https://sites.libsyn.com/398906/episode-198-more-american-graffiti-1979

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