40: Spooky Haunted Ghosty Houses (The Night House and The Beyond)

42: The 2021 Haggy Awards

Welcome to the first annual Haggy Awards! In today’s show, we look back at the last year of movies we’ve watched for The Night Hags and we’ve got fifteen categories and a ton of positive female reinforcement! Who are the winners? You’ll have to listen to find out! Best Beach Kill: Zombie 2 – Shark and Zombie Fight The Fog – Fisherman Kills Stupidest Way to Die: Nightmare Beach – Electrocuted Spring Breaker on a Motorcycle Scare Me – Falling Down the Stairs and Getting Stabbed Best Portal to Hell: The Sentinel – An Attic Apartment in Brooklyn The Beyond – Dry Crusty Dick Hell Best Sequel/Reboot: It: Chapter One Fright Night Most Brutal Kill Scene: Evil Dead 2013 – The Bathroom Scene Hereditary – Piano String Self Beheading Terrified – The Bathtub Scene Worst Boyfriend/Romantic Partner: Gerald’s Game – Gerald (CATEGORY SWEEP!) Coolest Monster: Shin Godzilla by Takayuki Takeya and Mahiro Maeda The Thing – Rob Bottin & Stan Winston’s The Kennel Crab Dog Alien Best Transformation: The Exorcist – Regan MacNeil Malignant – Maddison Mitchell Into Gabriel Best Space Kill: Sputnik – Alien in the Throat Kill Jason X – Frozen Head Smash Kill Best Murderous Rednecks: Misery – Annie Wilkes Cabin in the Woods – Zombie Rednecks Best Halloween 3 Tie-In: Halloween Kills My Bloody Valentine / My Bloody Valentine 3D – Thomas Berman and Tom Atkins Best Gratuitous Boobs: Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker – Aunt Cheryl Slumber Party Massacre – Luscious Boobs Before the Title Credits are Over Most Fucked Up Film: Violation (CATEGORY SWEEP!) The Worst of Year One: 2013 Malignant Leprechaun 2 The Best of Year One: The Thing Scream

41: This is Halloween (Halloween Kills and Rob Zombie’s Halloween)

This week we watched Halloween Kills and Rob Zombie’s Halloween. We also talk about Michelle’s Halloween costume (with a reveal!), the many Halloween timelines, objectification of women in Rob Zombie’s movies, his portrayal of villains, Michelle’s feelings about his upcoming Munsters movie, Harvey Weinstein’s connection to the Rob Zombie movie, and more Rob Zombie’s Halloween in Five Words (or Less): Michelle: How about hard fucking pass Meg: Pretty brutal, terrible acting Halloween Kills in Five Words (or Less): Meg: Great homage to the franchise Michelle: Halloween: The Purge edition

40: Spooky Haunted Ghosty Houses (The Night House and The Beyond)

This week we watched The Beyond (1981) and The Night House (2021). We also talked about adulting, New York Comic Con, Korean dramas and Squid Game, the history of The Beyond released as The Seven Doors of Death in 1983, Night Flight, Onondaga Lake and swimming in lakes, gaslighting ghosts, soup szn, and more. The Beyond in Five Words (or Less): Meg: Watch out for Muppet spiders Michelle: Head holes help plot holes  The Night House in Five Words (or Less): Meg: Terrifying PS I love you Michelle: Super spooky ghosty maze

39: Celebrating Spooky Szn (Pumpkinhead and Trick or Treat)

This week on the double feature we watched Pumpkinhead (1988) and Trick or Treat (2007). We also talk about becoming health goths, making coffee, Mike the Night Hog aka Big Beans makes a cameo, the first trip to a Spirit Halloween of the season, finding a band on Craigslist, Dick Warlock, where Trick or Treat falls on Michelle’s Werewolf Scale (7 out of 10), haunted houses, the future of Trick or Treat sequels, and more. Pumpkinhead in Five Words (or Less): Michelle: Haggis the Witch as goals Meg: The O.G. Night Hag Trick or Treat in Five Words (or Less): Michelle: Rhonda is me at parties Meg: Cute murderous pumpkin face

38: Cabins in the Woods (Cabin in the Woods and Evil Dead 2013)

This week’s double feature is Cabin in the Woods and 2013’s Evil Dead with this week’s theme being The Woods! Also: Michelle gets a surprise, Fran Kranz’s Mass (2021), the realities of coffee cup bongs, our favorite baddies in the basement, our favorite deaths in Cabin in the Woods, a combined love of Bruce Campbell, the reverse Weird Al, and more. Cabin in the woods in Five Words (or Less): Michelle: Always trust the stoner Meg: The stoner sees all Evil Dead 2013 in Five Words (or Less): Michelle: How to do a remake Meg: Reverse Weird Al Evil Dead