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Movie nerds Brandon Windish & Chris Holcom have somehow landed jobs as the heads of programming at the Dead City Drive-In. Held prisoner by their bosses, the Drive-In Gods, they are tasked with programming a specially-themed double-feature for the ravenous hordes of mutants and madmen outside their projection room door. Each episode, Brandon, Chris and a special guest-programmer plumb the depths of psychotronic cinema. Killer Robots! Satanic Terror! Hideous Freaks! Creepy Crawlies! No sub-ge ...
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THE LOVE WITCH | DEATH PROOF | PSYCHO BEACH PARTY With Guest Programmer KATIE CASTONGUAY Forget bonfires, s’mores, and mosquito bites, and plant that severed tongue firmly in your cheek as Dead City Drive-In goes to camp! Join Brandon, Chris and special guest programmer, Katie Castonguay as they turn up the irony to 11 and delve into the campiest t…
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In desperate need of a midseason hiatus, Brandon and Chris attempt to flee the Drive-In only to be swallowed whole by a horrifying sea beast! Inside the leviathan’s digestive tract, the duo decide to program a JAWS themed octo-feature– pairing the original classic and its three increasingly absurd sequels with appropriate companion flicks! No piran…
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KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE | MEET THE FEEBLES | GHOULIES 2 With Guest Programmer MATTHEW YOVINO Saturday mornings sure aren’t what they used to be! Long gone are the days of waking up early to shove our faces full of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, eyes glued to the glowing screen in front of us, staring into a flickering void of programming fea…
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Brandon and Chris are cozying up in their Plymouth Fury for some gut-munchin’ Italian zombie action in a Special Commentary Episode of Lucio Fulci’s first masterpiece: ZOMBIE (aka Zombi 2 aka Zombie Flesh Eaters aka The Movie Where A Zombie Fights A Damn Tiger Shark for Real)! Watch along as we marvel at exotic, Caribbean locations plagued by the f…
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DEATH RACE 2000 | THE RUNNING MAN | ROBOT JOX With Guest Programmer MICHAEL MARTZ Who loves you and who do you love? Well, if you’re anything like Brandon & Chris, you love gameshows set in a post-apocalyptic America where the winner gets the adoration of the remnants of humanity and the loser gets straight-up crushed by a giant robot! Special Gues…
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THE BAD SEED | THE CHILDREN | VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED With Guest Programmer VICTORIA TRIBBLE So your daughter just drowned a little boy in the pond, is that really any reason to send ‘em to their room? We’re not talking prison time and electric chairs, are we? Besides, who could kill a child? It’s a warped query in the annals of psychotronic cinema, …
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SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS THE MONSTERS | THE CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN | ALUCARDA | DON’T PANIC | FROM DUSK TILL DAWN The doors of Dead City Drive-In are officially open for a fourth season of slime-splattered screens and screams! After downing a bottle of irradiated Mezcal, Brandon and Chris decide to program a celebracion of Mexican genre cinema, D…
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Attention Dead City Denizens! We’ve officially launched the DEAD CITY DRIVE-IN PATREON! Head over to patreon.com/deadcitydrivein and get ready for whole new levels of Drive-In depravity! What kind of aural assault can your earholes expect to encounter if you become an official patron? Take a listen to this little sound-splat to find out, or just ge…
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Surprise! Brandon & Chris take a few minutes to give all you mutants and maniacs a little hint on what's in store for the next season of Dead City Drive-In, including an official release date and a few extra little surprises that just couldn't wait! Mark your calendars-- SEASON 4 is comin' in hot and sooner than you'd think! Get more Dead City Driv…
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The Drive-In Gods have called a wrap and Dead City is closing its doors for the season. But before they go, Brandon & Chris have decided to program one last round of drive-in depravity! They’re digging through the cinematic wasteland in search of the best 1986 has to offer. 40 films are up for contention: bimbo-blasting killbots, vomit-spewing Jeff…
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David Warner | Donald Pleasence | Dick Miller Inspired by graffiti scrawled in the stalls of the Dead City bathroom, Brandon & Chris get the wild idea to introduce their own Hall of Slime– a place for the gone (but not for-rotten) legends of genre cinema to be remembered forever. It’s a special episode that honors and celebrates the roles of some o…
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LEVIATHAN | BLOOD VESSEL | DEEP BLUE SEA With Guest Programmer NIGEL SIKES Ahoy, matey! Our anchor’s aweigh and we’ve set sail, full speed ahead for a high seas adventure! Batten down your hatches and join Brandon & Chris as they navigate above and below the raging ocean waves in search of the perfect waterlogged double-feature. Guest Programmer Ni…
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I, Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia, the Sorrow of Moldavia, command you… to get ready for another Dead City Drive-In Commentary Special with Brandon & Chris! We’re coating this spooky sequel with our voices like slime blowers to Lady Liberty! Watch along with us as we deep dive into a childhood classic. We’re talking genocidal madmen living inside m…
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TREMORS | THEM! | CRITTERS With Guest Programmer JACK HOLLOWAY Space hedgehogs with teeth! Irradiated, giant, mutant ants! Underground slugs with snake mouths! It’s a tough life for a horror movie fan, mostly because when it comes to choosing which monster we wanna snuggle up with on our car’s bench seat, we can’t pick just one! Lucky for us, Guest…
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THE BROOD | XTRO | ALTERED STATES With Guest Programmer ROBB LEE Family dynamics can be a bit tricky– especially if Mom’s a crazy New Age nutbag who prefers to lick the afterbirth from freshly hatched brood babies rather than spend time with her familial unit. And where do you go with the conversation after you catch Dad slurping up snake eggs or d…
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PRIMETIME BITCH: A FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES PODCAST is out now everywhere, but you can check out the Premiere Episode right this very here! Brandon Windish and frequent DCDI guest programmer Jack Holloway are diving deep into the weirdest, grossest, surrealist, most insane forgotten anthology series of all time: FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES! New episodes land ev…
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Hop in! We’re going for a ride in our ‘58 Plymouth Fury for a Drive-In screening of one of our favorite sequels of all time: Don Coscarelli’s PHANTASM II! Watch along as Brandon & Chris talk all over the studio-financed, stealth remake of the original fever-dream masterpiece. It’s 97 minutes of spacegates, chainsaw fights and silver spheres that’ll…
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Do you love Freddy Krueger? Well, our own, Brandon Windish sure does and, guess what? He has a new show to work out his feelings! DCDI is proud to present our first ever sistercast... PRIMETIME BITCH: A FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES PODCAST! Joined by co-host (and frequent DCDI guest programmer) Jack Holloway, these two lifelong Fred-heads are diving deep in…
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NASHVILLE GIRL | HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD | HARDCORE With Guest Programmer WILL ERRICKSON There’s a bit of wanderlust amblin’ through the Drive-In, so Brandon & Chris enlist the help of guest programmer Will Errickson (co-author of the incredible Paperbacks From Hell and steward of the Too Much Horror Fiction Blog) to travel down those lonesome, dusty r…
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HORROR OF DRACULA | LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES | CAPTAIN KRONOS, VAMPIRE HUNTER With Guest Programmer JAIME GIANGRANDE-HOLCOM The Dead City Drive-In is officially open for the season and we’re plunging our stakes right into the satanic hearts of the most screen-loved monsters in cinema history: VAMPIRES! But not any of that monochrome monotony…
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Eat your ass out, Paul Lynde! It’s Halloween Season and The Great Blumpkin demands a 24-HOUR MARATHON of horror-movie atrocity to celebrate the spirit of Samhain in appropriately spooky fashion. Brandon & Chris are scooping out 17 of their favorite seasonal flicks for the perfect All Hallow’s Evening! What cinematic heinousness will they unleash? W…
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The Drive-In Gods have called a wrap and Dead City is closing its doors for the season. But before they go, Brandon & Chris have decided to program one last round of drive-in depravity! They’re going back to the gory days of Fango Pull-Out Posters and stop-motion puppets to curate a weekend long marathon of the best genre films 1985 has to offer! F…
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THE DELTA FORCE | NINJA III: THE DOMINATION | BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO with Guest Programmer: Ben Lovett It’s 2022, and what better way to greet the New Year than by blasting it into oblivion with a beard-operated missile launcher?! Sounds a little excessive? Well, nothing’s more excessive than the seemingly endless output brought to you by in…
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DIAL CODE: SANTA CLAUS | GREMLINS | SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT with Guest Programmer: Jack Holloway Season’s Creepings! Whoa, did the Cryptkeeper show up and write this synopsis? No? Oh, you mean it’s been me the whole time? Sorry! Taking up valuable space here, ho ho ho! (Note to self: Santa didn’t show up either to finish that last sentence.) But…
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Happy Halloween! We’re celebrating Dead City Drive-In’s ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY with a special full-series retrospective on the granddaddy of all monsters: FRANKENSTEIN! Are Brandon and Chris up to the task of an 8-film marathon? Doesn’t matter! The Drive-In Gods make a surprise visit and quite literally put the fella’s balls in their court. Whose cou…
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What better way to celebrate the oncoming spooky season than a warm, steaming cup of meteor shit?! How about some gushing throat roaches? Some celebratory head plop cake? Sounds like a screening of CREEPSHOW is in order! It’s a special full length commentary track for one of the Drive-In’s favorite anthology fright flicks of all time! Get more Dead…
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REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS | THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION | BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA with Guest Programmer: Dino Leto Acid rain has eaten away at the projection room roof, threatening the Drive-In’s very livelihood! Desperate and in need of a fast solution, Brandon mixes torn strips of old paper with Elmer’…
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN | WARLOCK | GHOULIES with Guest Programmer: Jack Holloway Get out your Grimoires, bitches! There’s about to be a Spell War at the Dead City Drive-In! After unwittingly conjuring an insolent wizard to help keep things tidy in the concession stand, Brandon and Chris find themselves on the wrong end of a particularly wicked scepter…
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LITTLE MONSTERS | THE MONSTER SQUAD | THE GATE with Guest Programmer: Alex Challoner aka The Bookubus When a mysterious doom metal album shows up alongside a nasty letter accusing the Dead City Drive-In of traumatizing impressionable young minds with horror, Brandon and Chris attempt to set the record straight… straight into the Hellmouth! Special …
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PUMPKINHEAD | THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK | THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN with Guest Programmer: Dan Myrick There’s nothing like a hot, summer night in a small, southern town that’ll bring out one’s inner goth! Brandon and Chris are joined by director Dan Myrick (The Blair Witch Project, Black Veil) to program a double-feature of southern gothic grot…
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Brandon and Chris get cozy in their '58 Plymouth Fury for a special screening of Toho's 1963 kaiju classic, KING KONG VS GODZILLA! It's a Dead City Drive-In first-- a full length commentary track that you can listen to alongside your own copy of the film! It's the closest thing to actually sitting in a car with us and watching men in suits deep thr…
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It’s Intermission Time! Take a trip to the refreshment stand with Brandon, Chris & Special Guest, Jack Holloway as they follow-up their picks for a Dino Damage double-feature with some of the other Killer Dinosaur flicks that didn’t quite make it in with the prime cuts. We’re talking table scraps in this between-seasons bonus episode! Get more Dead…
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Brandon and Chris are taking a break from programming for the Drive-In Gods to wrap up the decade in true nerd fashion: by naming their favorite genre flicks of the last 10 years! Plus, the fellas read your reviews and talk about the spaced-out Jaws sequel that never made it past development! Digressions, disagreements and dismemberments abound in …
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HARDWARE | THE WORLD'S END | CHOPPING MALL with Guest Programmer: Jamie Jones No disassemble! Humanity has run its course and the ro-buts have decided to take back what’s rightfully theirs-- starting with the Dead City Drive-In! Sparks fly as Brandon, Chris and special guest, Jamie Jones attempt to program a KILLBOT double-feature without getting t…
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THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT | JURASSIC PARK | THE VALLEY OF GWANGI with Guest Programmer: Jack Holloway Ravenous thunder lizards are loose and causing some major DINO DAMAGE to the grounds of Dead City Drive-In! Brandon, Chris and returning special guest Jack Holloway cope with the cold-blooded carnage by injecting a bit of dino-DNA into their double…
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FREAKED | FREAKS | THE FUNHOUSE with Guest Programmer: Jaime Giangrande-Holcom Step right up and join Brandon, Chris & their special guest, Jaime Giangrande-Holcom as they get positively FREEKED while debating the most astounding two-headed double-feature ever to be shown on the splatter screen! They’re talking Hideous Mutant Freaks and the movies …
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It’s INTERMISSION Time! Take a trip to the refreshment stand with Brandon & Chris as they follow-up their picks for a Creepy Crawly double-feature with some of the other Killer Bug flicks that didn’t quite make it in with the prime cuts. We’re talking table scraps in the first ever DCDI between-features MINISODE! It’s short, sweet and bad for your …
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AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION | CHILD'S PLAY | THE EXORCIST with Guest Programmer: Jack Holloway The Devil made me do it! Sounds like an overall refusal to accept responsibility if you ask us, but sometimes, Satan isn't always to blame when it comes to being straight-up POSSESSED! In their debut episode, Brandon & Chris are joined by special guest …
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PHASE IV | ARACHNOPHOBIA | SQUIRM with Guest Programmer: Robb Lee Get out those extra large mosquito coils, ‘cause killer bugs have invaded Dead City Drive-In! Join Brandon, Chris and their special guest, Robb Lee, as they dig up the dirt and uncover the slimiest of CREEPY CRAWLY double-features! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Host…
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The first two episodes of Dead City Drive-In drop next Friday, 10/30, on this feed! Each episode, Brandon, Chris and a special guest plumb the depths of psychotronic cinema. Killer Robots! Satanic Terror! Hideous Freaks! Creepy Crawlies! No sub-genre will be left unearthed! Three flicks get thrown into the ring, but only two can make it to the slim…
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