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31 Days of Halloween: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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Y oung people in rural Texas are terrorized by a family of cannibals -- one of them with a chainsaw -- in this gritty horror film that has often been imitated, but never been matched. Sean joins us again for our final entry in this year's 31 Days of Halloween series. Happy haunting!

31 Days of Halloween: The Wolf Man

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B ela Lugosi bits Lon Chaney, Jr. and thus passes down the curse of the werewolf! Ashley, Matt and Aaron discuss this 1941 Universal monster classic in our penultimate 31 Days of Halloween episode.

31 Days of Halloween: Digging Up the Marrow

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Gus joins us again to discuss a pseudo-documentary from 2014. Filmmaker Adam Green is contacted by a man who claims that monsters are real, and that he knows where they're at. Green and his assistant follow the man into the woods, and things get strange(r) from there. Just a few more days left in our 31 Days of Halloween series!

31 Days of Halloween: Killer Klowns from Outer Space

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A spaceship full of killer clowns lands in the woods, and the evil aliens wreak havoc on a  nearby small town in this '80s gem.

31 Days of Halloween: Halloween II

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M att, Ashley and Benny talk discuss the follow-up to the 1978 slasher classic, which picks-up on the same Halloween night in Haddonfield, Illinois. Michael Myers, Laurie Strode, and Dr. Loomis are back.

31 Days of Halloween: Hellraiser

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A family is torn apart by infidelity, a small box, and Cenobites. Gus joins us to discuss the Clive Barker classic on today's entry in the 31 Days of Halloween entry series.

31 Days of Halloween: When Michael Calls

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A woman starts receiving threatening phone calls from her 8-year-old nephew who's been dead for many years. Is what's going on truly supernatural, or is it more earthly-bound? Matt & Ashley talk about this 1972 made-for-TV movie in the latest 31 Days of Halloween episode.

31 Days of Halloween: House of Wax

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A group of friends on a way to game take a detour to a small town with a prominent wax museum. Danger is all around them, and terror ensues.

31 Days of Halloween: Tremors

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K evin Bacon, Fred Ward, Reba McEntire, the dad from Family Ties , and several others band together to fight off slug creatures that travel through the ground, and Ashley, Matt and Aaron are here to talk about it.

31 Days of Halloween: Critters

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S mall alien creatures known as Crites escape from a penal colony, land on Earth, and wreak havoc on a rural family and the nearby town. Ashley & Matt talk about this 1986 movie in this 31 Days of Halloween episode.

31 Days of Halloween: The Last House on the Left

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S ean is back with us to discuss Wes Craven's directorial debut. It's a rough (in the truest sense of the world) film about the innocent meeting the depraved, and about pure revenge. 31 Days of Halloween continues here at Mashley at the Movies .

31 Days of Halloween: Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

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I t's pretty simple: there's Dracula, and he rises from the grave and begins terrorizing people. Ashley & Matt discuss this Hammer Horror film from 1968, as 31 Days of Halloween rolls on.

31 Days of Halloween: Body Bags

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A morgue attendant guides the audience through three stories of the macabre and the bizarre, in this made-for-TV movie from 1993.

31 Days of Halloween: Witchboard

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T hings go awry when a woman (Tawny Kitaen) starts using a ouija board and contacts the wrong spirit. Matt & Ashley discuss this spooky thriller.

31 Days of Halloween: Sleepaway Camp

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A tragic boating accident, a summer camp far from home, and murders are all part of the bizarre Sleepaway Camp . Matt, Ashley and Garret have a lot to say about this somewhat controversial 1983 slasher film.

31 Days of Halloween: Bedknobs and Broomsticks

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A ngela Lansbury wants to be a witch in this delightful tale of magic beds and broomsticks, set in England during WWII. Ashley & Matt talk about one of their favorite movies on today's 31 Days of Halloween podcast, which coincides with Angela Lansbury's 95th birthday.

31 Days of Halloween: The Changeling

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A grieving man moves into an old house that holds many secrets. Ashley & Matt discuss this tense, paranormal thriller starring George C. Scott in our latest 31 Days of Halloween podcast.

31 Days of Halloween: Extra Ordinary

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A driving instructor and a widowed father must join together to help save his daughter from ritual sacrifice. Ashley, Matt and Aaron review this new, sweet and gentle story of ghosts and love.

31 Days of Halloween: Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

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I t's not a Friday, but but it is the 13th! Today, Matt & Ashley talk about the fifth film in the Friday the 13th series, and one of Matt's childhood favorites. Does it still hold up after all these years? Listen and find out!

31 Days of Halloween: The Evil of Frankenstein

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T he madness of Dr. Frankenstein knows no bounds in Hammer's version of the monster classic.

31 Days of Halloween: The Gate

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A boy and his friend open up a gate to Hell in his backyard, and they've got to deal with the frightening aftermath. Sean joins us again to discuss this '80s horror gem.

31 Days of Halloween: The People Under the Stairs

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Slumlords are hiding a big secret in their house... under the stairs. Matt & Ashley review this Wes Craven classic.

Unthinkable

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M att & Ashley review a new movie about a med student who cares too much, and whose latest patient leads him on an emotional journey with potentially dangerous undertones.

31 Days of Halloween: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

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E lvira needs money, and her aunt has just died. She travels to a small town for the reading of the will, and hijinks ensue. Ashley & Matt review this fun '80s campy horror movie.

31 Days of Halloween: Madhouse

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A horror film star with a questionable past is lured across the pond to film a UK TV series, and people involved with the production start dying. Ashley & Matt discuss this 1974 Vincent Price thriller as part of our 31 Days of Halloween series.

31 Days of Halloween: Terror Train

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S cream queen Jamie Lee Curtis and magician David Copperfield are on a train with a masked killer in this 1980 horror gem. Ashley, Matt and Garret talk about Terror Train in today's 31 Days of Halloween podcast.

31 Days of Halloween: Mountaintop Motel Massacre

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T his movie does what it says on the tin -- there's a mountaintop, there's a motel, and there's a massacre. Guests check in, but they may not check -out. Matt & Ashley review this '80s diamond-in-the-rough, as 31 Days of Halloween continues.

31 Days of Halloween: Creature from the Black Lagoon

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A group of explorers travel down the Amazon and invade the home of a merman. He doesn't take kindly to it. Ashley, Matt and Aaron talk about the 1954 Universal classic.

31 Days of Halloween: The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

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T he Strangler of Blackmoor Castle is about a strangler... at Blackmoor Castle. It's a German krimi film, made to look like it's set in the UK. Matt & Ashley talk about the movie as part of our 31 Days of Halloween series.

31 Days of Halloween: Silver Bullet

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S ean joins Ashley & Matt to look back at Stephen King's adaption of one of his own short stories, about a small town in the grips of a werewolf. In a month with two full moons, how appropriate that we discuss Silver Bullet !

31 Days of Halloween: Clue

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A shley & Matt discuss the 1985 adaption of the classic board game. There's an old dark house, murder, mayhem and lots of laughs, as 31 Days of Halloween continues.

31 Days of Halloween: April Fool's Day

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A shley & Matt kick-off our annual 31 Days of Halloween spookathon podcast series with a gem from 1986. A group of college friends travel to their friend's island mansion, only to have pranks and murder befall them.