Monster Movie Happy Hour

The crew dive into 1967's "Night Fright" - not 1985's "Fright Night", with Roddy McDowell - and literally have trouble seeing the Hairy Gator Monster and B-movie stalwart John Agar, who is truly the best part of this underexposed, underwritten dreck . . . Yikes. The "Mutated Alligator" cocktail 2.5 tbsp lemon concentrate 2 oz. rum, preferably pineapple or coconut. 12 oz. Lone Star Beer (or a light lager) Start with cold/chilled ingredients. Lemonade concentrate sh...

Scott, Mary and Dave strap on their spelunking gear, knock back a few Challman strength cocktails and fall, screaming, into Neil Marshall's 2005 horror film, "The Descent". "The Cave Crawler" 2 oz. whiskey (preferably bourbon!) 3/4 lemon juice 1/2 oz. Aperol 2 dash Angostura bitters 1 1/3 oz. tonic water Combine the whiskey, lemon juice, Aperol, and Angostura bitters in a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake until very cold, and strain into an cocktail...

The crew deal with noisy and unruly neighbors in this episode . . . all while chatting about Prog Rock and 2024's splatter horror comedy, "Destroy All Neighbors". The "William Brown" cocktail Ingredients: 1 oz vodka 1 oz butterscotch schnapps ½ oz blue curaçao 3 oz cherry cola or cola ½ oz grenadine Instructions: 1. Shake everything except cherry cola and grenadine in a cocktail shaker. 2. Pour into Collins glass & fill with cola. 3. Top with grenadine&nbs...

Our dear friend, the film critic, blogger, broadcaster, quizmaster and collector of colourful plastic things, Marshall Julius, joins us for our chat about 1956's "Forbidden Planet" and we had damned fine time! We sipped Bourbon and Scotch, so there were no cocktails this time around. Note - Marshall is the co-author (with veteran special makeup effects king Howard Berger) of the book "Making Monsters", the follow-up to their fantastic "Masters of Make-up Effects", both of which you can ...

For Dave's belated birthday episode we gathered around the swirling tube of liquid evil and watched John Carpenter's 1987, "The Prince of Darkness". Our cocktail was tasty enough, though it COULD have looked SO much cooler . . . "Sweet Sleeper" cocktail 1 part white rum 1 part pineapple juice 1/2 part simple syrup 1/4 part green crème de menthe Dash of orange bitters Orange slice for garnish Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into martini glass. Garnish and drink! Note – the 1...