Movie City Maniacs

Episode 211 – Touch of Evil (1958)

[https://moviecitymaniacs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Episode_211_Touch_of_Evil.jpg] Welcome to the Movie City Maniacs! On tonight’s episode our third annual Noirvember series concludes as we investigate a car bomb at the U.S./Mexico border that puts us in the path of a corrupt Captain in Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil (1958). If dirty cops, drugged women, and car explosions aren’t your thing we also chat about: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Men at Work (1990), So Dark the Night (1946), Sisu (2022), Muscles and Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators (2023), A Trip to the Moon (1902), They Won’t Believe Me (1947), Hard Eight (1996), On the Bowery (1956), and 99 River Street (1953). Thanks for listening and stay scared!

Episode 210 – Nightmare Alley (1947)

[https://moviecitymaniacs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Episode_210_Nightmare_Alley.jpg] Welcome to the Movie City Maniacs! On tonight’s episode our third annual Noirvember series continues as use our mentalist act to rise from a seedy carnival to expensive night clubs in Nightmare Alley (1947). If geeks eating live chickens, shotgun weddings, and double crosses aren’t your thing we also chat about: Dutch (1991), The Killer (2023), Detour (1945), Fatal Beauty (1987), Burglar (1987), Rafifi (1955), The Nice Guys (2016), M (1931), Underworld U.S.A. (1961), Green for Danger (1946), and Poker Face (2023). Thanks for listening and stay scared!

Episode 209 – The Killers (1946)

[https://moviecitymaniacs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Episode_209_The_Killers.jpg] Welcome to the Movie City Maniacs! On tonight’s episode our third annual Noirvember series continues as we investigate the unresistant murder of a former boxer by professional hitmen, an infamous heist and a beautiful woman who may have been behind it all in The Killers (1946). If contract killers, femme fatales, and double-crosses aren’t your thing we also chat about: Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four (2015), I Like Movies (2023), Cloak and Dagger (1984), The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Following (1998), and Reservation Dogs S3 (2023). Thanks for listening and stay scared!

Episode 208 – The Maltese Falcon (1941)

[https://moviecitymaniacs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Episode_208_The_Maltese_Falcon.jpg] Welcome to the Movie City Maniacs! On tonight’s episode our third annual Noirvember series begins as we become entangled in a dangerous web of crime and intrigue involving a priceless statuette in The Maltese Falcon (1941). If eccentric criminals, femme fatales, and a hard-boiled detective aren’t your thing we also chat about: Green for Danger (1946), V for Vendetta (2005), Modern Times (1936), One Week (1920), Seven Chances (1925), The Bear S1 (2022), Only Murders in the Building S3 (2023), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), and D.O.A. (1949). SPOILERS: 1:06:43-1:10:56 Thanks for listening and stay scared!

Episode 207 – Shocktober 2023 Vol. V

[https://moviecitymaniacs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Episode_207_Shocktober_2023_Vol_V.jpg] Welcome trick or treaters! On tonight’s episode our seventh annual Shocktober series comes to a close, as we cover everything we’ve watched from October 26th to the 31st. We also finally bestow the crown upon the King of Halloween! Will Adam “Man of the Hour” Bentley sneak into the top spot with his reign of classic horror? Will Kyle continue to complain about the rules of the competition, or make the necessary sacrifices to stay in the lead? And will Matty, who has already accepted his last place finish, make a hilarious but very inappropriate joke to lighten the mood and avoid fisticuffs thrown? Tune in to find out! Movies / TV covered include: Community S2 – Epidemiology (2010), Community S3 – Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps (2011), Community S4 – Paranormal Parentage (2013), What We Do in the Shadows S5 – Hybrid Creatures (2023), The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1958), Bob’s Burgers S13 – Apple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory) (2022), Shock (1946), Beast from Haunted Cave (1959), What We Do in the Shadows S4 – The Grand Opening (2022), What We Do in the Shadows S4 – The Night Market (2022), What We Do in the Shadows S5 – The Roast (2023), Revolt of the Zombies (1936), Revenge of the Zombies (1943), What We Do in the Shadows S4 – Private School + The Wedding (2022), Devil Story (1986), What We Do in the Shadows S4 – Pine Barrens (2022), Toy Story of Terror! (2013), Blippi’s Spooky Spells Halloween (2021), Satan’s Menagerie (2001), V/H/S/85 (2023), The Boogeyman (2023), Host (2020), Spookies (1986), Grimm S5 – Bad Night (2016), Invisible Ghost (1941), Haunted Gold (1932), Tales from the Darkside S2 – Halloween Candy (1985), Tales from the Darkside S1 – Trick or Treat (1983), Blade (1998), The Phantom Speaks (1945), Climate of the Hunter (2019), Against the Dark (2009), Spooks Run Wild (1941), Maniac (1934), What We Do in the Shadows S4 – Go Flip Yourself (2022), The Bat (1959), Dr. Renault’s Secret (1942), What We Do in the Shadows S5 – A Weekend at Morrigan Manor (2023), What We Do in the Shadows S5 – Exit Interview (2023), The Ape Man (1943), Blacula (1972), The Unholy Three (1930), Calling Dr. Death (1943), Weird Woman (1944), The Ghost Walks (1934), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Dead Man’s Eyes (1944), Garfield’s Halloween Adventure (1985), Strangler of the Swamp (1946), The Frozen Ghost (1945), The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942), It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), Strange Confession (1945), The Devil Commands (1941), Pillow of Death (1945), Home Improvement S8 – Bewitched (1998), Jessabelle (2014), Halloween Wars S13 – Terrifying Nursery Rhymes (2023), Cobweb (2023), Grimm S5 – Beginning of the End Part 1 (2016), Killing Spree (1987), She-Wolf of London (1946), The Ape (1940), Angst (1983), The Pact (2012), Corner Gas Animated S4 – The Haunt for Dread October (2021), What We Do in the Shadows S4 – Freddie + Sunrise, Sunset (2022), The Flying Serpent (1946), The Devil’s Candy (2015), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Grimm S5 – Beginning of the End Part 2 (2016), Burnt Offerings (1973), Fresh Off the Boat S3 – Louisween (2016), Gravity Falls S1 – Summerween (2012), The Haunted Mansion (2003), Murder By Television (1935), 10/31 (2017), The Cat Creeps (1946), Black Dragons (1942), Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973), A Shriek in the Night (1933), Night of the Demons (1988), The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020), Trilogy of Terror (1975), Fog Island (1945), Face Behind the Mask (1941), Creepshow (1982), Witching and Bitching (2013), The Gate (1987), What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Jack-O (1995), Big City Greens S3 – Squashed! (2021), Are You Afraid of the Dark S1 – The Tale of the Twisted Claw (1990), Goosebumps S2 – Attack of the Jack-O’-Lanterns (1996), and The Simpsons S34 – Treehouse of Horror XXXIII (2022). Thanks for listening and Happy Halloween!