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Halloween is here, and Johnny Spoiler has a survival plan for grown-ups: cheap wine, pizza, questionable romantic decisions, and scary movies until sunrise. Forget poisoned Halloween candy. You're an adult now. You buy your own candy and make your own bad decisions. Welcome to the Halloween edition of Binge-Watchers Podcast, where we're diving headfirst into NIGHTWISH (1989), a forgotten sci-fi horror fever dream packed with alien abductions, demonic entities, haunted houses, experimental dream technology, and enough glowing green ectoplasm to make the Ghostbusters file for overtime. Directed by Bruce R. Cook, NIGHTWISH follows a professor and four graduate students conducting experiments with dreams, death, and alternate dimensions. Naturally, everything goes horribly wrong. What begins as a scientific investigation turns into a surreal nightmare where nobody knows what's real, who's dreaming, or why the professor is such a complete lunatic. And that's before a giant ectoplasm worm starts swallowing people. This Week on Binge-Watchers Podcast: 🎃 NIGHTWISH (1989) Review & Reaction Johnny breaks down this bizarre late-'80s horror oddity, featuring early practical effects work from KNB EFX, the legendary makeup effects team that would go on to work on The Walking Dead. We're talking sensory deprivation tanks, neon-soaked dream sequences, topless college students, supernatural green energy, alien encounters, and a dream-within-a-dream ending that raises more questions than it answers. Is NIGHTWISH an overlooked Halloween gem or a great concept trapped inside a confused B-movie? Johnny delivers his verdict: BINGE LATER. Better idea than execution, but still worth considering for a cozy Halloween horror marathon. 📰 HOME VIDEO HEADLINES Hollywood never sleeps, even when the dead are restless. We reflect on the life and legacy of Sir Patrick Stewart, the legendary actor behind Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Professor Charles Xavier. Plus, SMILE 3 is moving forward with director David Bruckner and screenwriter Nick Antosca, while Diane Morgan returns as the hilariously clueless Philomena Cunk in CUNK ON CINEMA. 🐺 FAN SERVICE: WEREWOLVES AND HIDDEN HORROR GEMS An Instagram listener celebrates our recommendations for overlooked werewolf movies. Johnny revisits LATE PHASES, THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW, and WEREWOLVES WITHIN for anyone building the ultimate Halloween watchlist. 🔪 STAFF PICKS: CHILD'S PLAY (1988) Sometimes the best therapy is a killer doll on a giant movie screen. After a personally difficult year, Johnny finds some unexpected comfort at his hometown theater, where free Halloween screenings bring him face-to-face with the original CHILD'S PLAY. Chucky is back, and watching that little plastic psychopath terrorize audiences on the big screen is a reminder of why we fell in love with horror movies in the first place. 🎬 9 NIGHTS OF SPOILAWEEN: THE HALLOWEEN FINALE We've survived nine nights of cult horror, forgotten monsters, radioactive mutants, alien nightmares, and cinematic insanity. From C.H.U.D. and THE TERROR WITHIN to LIFE FORCE and SATURN 3, Johnny celebrates another season of SPOILAWEEN before turning the lights back on. And coming next? We're trading Halloween nightmares for holiday comfort movies with STOCKING STUFFERS! More Movies. More Monsters. More Johnny Spoiler. Whether you're a lifelong horror fanatic, a collector of forgotten VHS nightmares, or someone who just enjoys watching terrible things happen to fictional people, you've stumbled into some kind of show. Listen to Binge-Watchers Podcast for horror movie reviews, cult cinema discoveries, movie news, comedy, and the occasional questionable life advice. 💿 Stock up on physical media through our GRUV affiliate: https://tr.ee/GRUVBW Binge Now. Binge Later. Binge Never. #Nightwish1989 #JohnnySpoiler #BingeWatchersPodcast #HorrorMovies #CultHorror #80sHorror #SciFiHorror #HalloweenMovies #Spoilaween #MovieReviews

Two movies. One underground nightmare. Zero respect for the laws of monster biology. Welcome to SPOILAWEEN! 🎃 Johnny Spoiler crawls into the radioactive ruins of Roger Corman's post-apocalyptic creature features The Terror Within (1989) and The Terror Within II (1991). Humanity is hiding underground, mutant Gargoyles are running wild in the Mojave Desert, and apparently the greatest threat to civilization is a monster that looks like a Sleestak from Land of the Lost on steroids. DRINK JOLT SODA with our Amazon affiliate link: https://tr.ee/JoltCreamSodaBW These bargain-bin Alien knockoffs have everything: mutant monster babies, rubber-suit wrestlers, suspiciously familiar blowtorches, and creatures that can survive lasers but somehow lose fights with ceiling fans. Johnny digs into the bizarre Hollywood connections behind these cult horror sequels, including Andrew Stevens' surprisingly massive producing career, his legendary mother Stella Stevens, and R. Lee Ermey's refreshingly practical reason for appearing in the sequel: he needed to pay for his house. PLUS — HOME VIDEO HEADLINES! 🎬 Remembering Tom Skerritt: A tribute to the legendary actor behind Alien, Top Gun, MASH*, and Picket Fences. 😱 Remain Calm: Pauly Shore, Nick Swardson, and Doug Jones star in a viral horror-comedy short where showing fear could get you killed. Smile through the nightmare! 🚗 Harold & Kumar 4: John Cho and Kal Penn are preparing to reunite. Is the world ready for another ridiculous road trip? FAN SERVICE: Our growing clips channel celebrates 1 million views and 1,000 new subscribers, while one viewer delivers an unexpectedly vicious attack on legendary cartoon voice actor Jim Cummings. STAFF PICKS: Johnny revisits Land of the Lost (2009), the Will Ferrell and Danny McBride sci-fi comedy that turned a surprisingly sophisticated 1970s television classic into a $100 million prehistoric fever dream. Sleestaks, dinosaurs, and one seriously underrated piece of science-fiction history. THE VERDICT: Are The Terror Within and its sequel forgotten B-movie treasures, or radioactive garbage best left buried underground? Johnny delivers his BINGE NOW, BINGE LATER, or BINGE NEVER verdict. It's Halloween with Johnny Spoiler. It's SPOILAWEEN. Binge later, partner. #BingeWatchersPodcast #JohnnySpoiler #Spoilaween #TheTerrorWithin #RogerCorman #CultHorror #MonsterMovies #SciFiHorror #BHorror #HalloweenMovies

Say Johnny Spoiler three times, and I'll pop up to spoil your movie! I'm BACK, all you ghouls, goblins, fiends, and fiendettes! Welcome to SPOILAWEEN, where we're digging up cult horror classics, disturbing movie news, and creatures that probably should've stayed buried. This week on Binge-Watchers Podcast with Johnny Spoiler, we're heading beneath the streets of New York City for C.H.U.D. (1984), the radioactive sewer monster movie that asks one very important question: What's really living underneath our cities, and why does the government keep dumping things down there? Starring John Heard and Daniel Stern, C.H.U.D. delivers cannibalistic underground mutants, glowing monster eyes, toxic government secrets, and one of John Goodman's earliest movie appearances. Here's the surprise: I've never watched the original C.H.U.D. until now! I've seen the ridiculous horror-comedy sequel, but the first movie is a completely different beast. The actors take the absurd premise seriously, the fully formed monsters look fantastic, and a few unexpected moments actually caught me off guard. My verdict? BINGE NOW. A very mild Binge Now. Barely. But those sewer-dwelling monsters earned it! HOMEVIDEO HEADLINES: Parker Posey Returns to Horror! Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are teaming up for Sleepover, a new horror film arriving in 2027. Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant! A bizarre New Zealand body-horror comedy about an extraterrestrial pregnancy, dysfunctional families, and grotesque practical effects. Lucio Fulci's The Beyond Is Getting Remade! The 1981 Italian horror classic about a Louisiana hotel sitting on a gateway to hell is getting another shot at terrifying audiences. MOVIE OF THE WEEK: C.H.U.D (1984) Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers! We're talking radioactive mutations, disappearing homeless people, government cover-ups, and some surprisingly effective creature designs. Plus, did you know C.H.U.D. helped inspire Jordan Peele's Us? Or that John Heard and Daniel Stern would eventually reunite in the Home Alone franchise, although they never shared a scene? We'll also dig into the bizarre history of C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D., including its connection to Return of the Living Dead and a Robert Englund cameo. FAN SERVICE: STREET FIGHTER TRAILER REACTIONS The Street Fighter trailer comments are getting wild! Fans are mostly excited, but some are worried the movie looks like AI. We're diving into the reactions, the skepticism, and the internet's latest cinematic panic. STAFF PICKS: MERMAID (2026) What happens when a down-on-his-luck Florida man finds a grotesque, injured mermaid, brings her home, and keeps her in his bathtub? You get Mermaid, Tyler Cornack's bizarre dark comedy starring Johnny Pemberton, Robert Patrick, Kevin Nealon, and Tom Arnold. It's weird, violent, disturbing, and exactly the kind of movie that belongs on Binge-Watchers. BONUS: CARRIE RETURNS Stephen King's Carrie gets a modern update with viral bullying, social media cruelty, and the terrifying awakening of telekinetic powers. Watch Carrie on Prime Video and check out a free trial with my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/4zvWqBR Whether you love forgotten VHS horror, underground monsters, weird indie movies, or Hollywood news that makes you question reality, we've got something to spoil for you. Binge Now. Binge Later. Binge Never. Binge-Watchers Podcast with Johnny Spoiler https://www.bwpodcast.com Happy Spoilaween, and remember: Some movies belong underground. Others crawl out and become cult classics. #CHUD #HorrorMovies #JohnnySpoiler #BingeWatchersPodcast #Spoilaween #CultHorror #80sHorror #MermaidMovie

A movie about two Scottish weirdos who eat seagulls, fear the ocean, and think an iPhone is witchcraft? Yeah, this might be the best movie I've seen all year. Johnny Spoiler is back with another episode of Binge-Watchers Podcast, and Weird Movie Month is delivering one hell of a surprise. Try MEATZY https://tr.ee/GetMeatzyJohnny Get JOLT MODERN SODA https://tr.ee/JoltCreamSodaBW This week, we're reviewing The Incomer (2026), the bizarre Scottish fantasy comedy starring Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Grant O'Rourke, and John Hannah. Two isolated siblings have spent 30 years living on a remote island, surviving on oysters, seagulls, and their father's number-one rule: NO INCOMERS. Then an awkward government official shows up to relocate them, and all hell breaks loose. We're talking mythical seal-men, seagull ceremonies, a vegan trying to survive on an island full of carnivores, and possibly the greatest use of an iPhone in a fantasy movie. It's weird, it's hilarious, and it has a surprising amount of heart. Johnny doesn't hand out many BINGE NOW ratings, but this one might just deserve it. But first, the Home Video Headlines! John Goblikon, the internet's favorite heavy-metal goblin, has a bloody new horror-comedy web series called No One Survives. Meanwhile, Don't Breathe 3 is in development, with Jane Levy and Stephen Lang set to return. And Jamie Foxx is heading to Amazon Prime Video with Deadlocked, a courthouse hostage thriller that sounds like Die Hard with jury duty. Plus, this week's Fan Service and Staff Picks: A listener wants to know which is better: the original Alien Nation movie with James Caan and Mandy Patinkin or the cult-classic television series. Johnny revisits both, including the alien biology, buddy-cop action, and the surprising differences between the two versions. And for this week's Staff Pick, we're revisiting Seth Rogen's gloriously uncomfortable 2009 dark comedy Observe and Report. Forget Paul Blart. This mall cop has some serious problems. Finally, fall is here, Halloween is creeping closer, and Johnny is getting ready for 9 Nights of Spoilaween, complete with werewolf movies, horror recommendations, and more cinematic weirdness. Subscribe, grab your favorite questionable snack, and join Johnny Spoiler for movie news, cult classics, strange cinema, and the occasional movie that's actually worth watching. BINGE NOW. BINGE LATER. BINGE NEVER. Listen and watch at BWPODCAST.COM.

What happens when you lose your girlfriend, your job, your apartment—and then fall for someone who eats human hair? Johnny Spoiler dives into Are We Not Cats, Xander Robin’s bizarre body-horror romance about two damaged people who discover they share one seriously disturbing habit. There’s hair pulling, hair eating, a guy living in a box truck, ketchup soup, and eventually a hairball situation that absolutely nobody asked for. Binge Now, Binge Later, or Binge Never? Johnny decides whether this strange little indie deserves a spot on your watchlist. Try MEATZY https://tr.ee/GetMeatzyJohnny Get JOLT MODERN SODA https://tr.ee/JoltCreamSodaBW But first, Home Video Headlines gets weird: Darkwing Duck is back! Disney+ is bringing the terror that flaps in the night back with Mark Hamill as Darkwing Duck and Seth Rogen as Launchpad McQuack. Weird Al has officially gone cosmic. There is now an asteroid named after Weird Al Yankovic. Queens of the Stone Age ask, “Where the Goth Girls At?” Johnny checks out the new single ahead of Perfecth. Netflix resurrects Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka voice with AI for Wonka’s The Golden Ticket—and people have some very strong feelings about it. Plus, fans are losing their minds over the upcoming Street Fighter movie, and Johnny’s Staff Pick is The Weight, the gritty Depression-era crime thriller starring Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe, and Julia Jones. Come for the movie recommendations. Stay for the giant stomach hairball. Binge Now. Binge Later. Binge Never. Binge-Watchers Podcast with Johnny Spoiler