Movie Dumpster

The Dumpster boys headed to the PhilaMOCA for Tapes from the Crypt and Retro Release Video's annual CRYPT VIDEO RENTALS pop-up video store! Offering up a menagerie of tapes, toys, promotional items, and other nostalgic delicacies, Crypt Video Rentals hits that sweet spot for delivering a true video store experience. Headed by an amazing group of people, they are preserving an essential moment in time for any movie lover to experience and enjoy. We had an absolute blast seeing our friends and chatting with all of the great local artists and creators in our community, so join us as we hit that rewind button into the physical media folkways! VHS IS NOT DEAD!

James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy has come to a beautiful and satisfying end. Join us in the Dungeon this week to talk about the Guardians series as a whole, the legacy of James Gunn, and how it changed super hero movies across the board. Hold on to your Zarg-nuts and crank that Zune because we're talkin' Guardians of the freakin' Galaxy Vol. 3!

Television studio executive Gil Hurn (David Margulies) is approached by Mr. Smith (Lenny von Dohlen), a mysterious investor who asks him to complete the final episodes of Max Paradise, a short-run detective series from 1965 that was cancelled before said episodes were aired. Mr. Smith and his mysterious backers are willing to pay any price, specifically gold bars, to see the series finished, complete with bringing the original actor, Van Conway (Darren McGavin), out of retirement. Unknown to the others, Mr. Smith is an alien from a planet that has received TV signals from Earth 20 years after they originally aired, and Max Paradise has become immensely popular on their planet. Directed by Bill Travis with a Story by Andrew Weiner, adapted by Ted Gershuny. Original Air Date: November 17, 1985 Support the show and listen ad free for just $2 a month, including other extras!

Roll initiative, Dumpster Dwellers! We're heading back to Faerûn on the back of a rather corpulent Red Dragon to talk the latest Dungeons & Dragons movie! Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez gather their adventuring party of heroes to get revenge on their former con buddy Hugh Grant, but since its Dungeons and Dragons they also get involved in a world ending plot in the process. Druids, Paladins, and Wizards, OH MY! Grab your hither-thither staff and magic helmet, because we're wildshaping into an Owlbear and searching for Snails in Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves! Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

Out of the pail and into the Video Dungeon! The Garbage Pail Kids have finally come home to mother ship Movie Dumpster for a piss-packed episode featuring the Doom Generation Podcast dames, Tessa and Nicole! Dodger has it rough–working for free in Captain Manzini's antique shop, being terrorized by thirty-year-old bullies, and constantly doused with raw sewage. When Dodger indirectly releases a troupe of ugly children(?) with gross super powers from an old garbage pail, they reluctantly help him make clothes to impress a woman twice his age. With a cosmic shot in the dark and a lot of cocaine, Topps managed to release one of the most notoriously bad movies to grace the silver screen. Grab your bedazzled denim vest and a fresh six-pack of Pepsi as we piss, burp, vomit, and fart our way through The Garbage Pail Kids Movie! Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

Luther Mandrake (Jerry Stiller) is the incredibly rude, arrogant, and mean-spirited host of a late-night radio show known as "The Devil's Advocate", where he unleashes the unbridled hatred he has accumulated through a life full of misery, hardship, and suffering onto callers eagerly seeking advice for the world's problems. One night, while taking some peculiar callers, Luther discovers that his constant anger and cynicism have led him into a deadly position. Written by George A. Romero and directed by Michael Gornick. Original Air Date: November 10, 1985 GET YOUR TICKETS FOR MIDNIGHT MADNESS PRESENTS: SUSPIRIA!

MONKEY!! We're returning to the MDU seminole classic Super Mario Bros. (1993) once more to see how it compares to the novelization based on it by Todd Strasser! Strap your belts on Dumpster Dwellers and join us, as we take a trip with C.B. Smith on the Buch-cannon back to Koopa City 1 and go Book to the Movie™!

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Pete Bancroft (Michael Warren), a musician in a creative slump, buys a revolutionary instrument that can read a person's thoughts and transform them into music. However, the instrument comes with a very high price; a price which Bancroft may not be willing to pay, especially since it leads to his daughter Justine (Lisa Bonet). being kidnapped by Wilson Farber, the man who sold Bancroft the instrument, who is actually a Satanist who uses it to drain her soul in a ploy to gain immortality. Story by Carl Richard Jacobi, adapted by John Harrison. Original Air Date: November 3, 1985 Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER⁠ https://cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

Mr. Killup (Roy Poole) is a grumpy and misanthropic old man who hates Halloween, often spending the 31st of October tormenting trick-or-treaters who come to his door. This year however, he is visited by a sinister goblin who insistently demands candy. When its offer is repeatedly refused, the goblin punishes Mr. Killup by trapping him outside of time with little-to-no food, forcing him to sustain himself on the candy his son gave him to hand out. Written by Michael McDowell, directed by Tom Savini. Original Air Date: October 27, 1985 Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

It's St. Patrick's Day again, Dumpster Dwellers, and the Shamrock Shakes™ are flowing down in the Video Dungeon! Karen is unaware that decades earlier, townspeople banished a bloodthirsty leprechaun to another dimension after a massacre. She accidentally sets the creature free, and has to convince her father to help send it away again. Billy Zane and William Devane are also there for some reason. This week Dustin Elkins from the Flick and Friends Podcast joins us to help weed this one out and pluck a fresh Red Clover! Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

After a 500-pound black bear consumes a significant amount of cocaine  and embarks on a drug-fueled rampage, an eccentric gathering of cops,  criminals, tourists, and teenagers assemble in a Georgia forest. Joining us is Tony from Hack the Movies! Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER  cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

THE MOVIE THAT HAS NO LIMITS OF EVIL! 15 years after a horrible incident  that rendered her mute and mentally frayed, the young and beautiful  Madeline/Frigga (Christina Lindberg) is seduced and lover-boyed by a  sex-trafficking drug dealer. After robbing her of her life, her sight,  and her dignity, Madeline gets the ultimate revenge on her captor and  abusers. Join us in the Video Dungeon while we discuss the queen of all  exploitation films with special guest, Jenna Fryer! Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER  cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

Young couple and landlords Doug and Linda (John Calonius and Donna Bullock) learn that one of their tenants, Mars Gillis (Adolph Caesar), is a practitioner of voodoo. Linda sees Gillis as a burden to their property, especially seeing as how he resides in the building's best room. She attempts to drive him out of the building, but is unable to evict him under the city's rent control laws. She instead hatches a new method to get rid of Mars by blaming him for various mishaps after he supposedly places a voodoo curse on them.  Written by Carole Lucia Satrina and directed by Richard Friedman.  Original Air Date: October 20, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro music cover by MATT CANNON / LAPSES: https://soundcloud.com/lapses Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER  cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

The continued appearance of giant unidentified lifeforms known as  "S-Class Species" has become commonplace in Japan. Conventional weapons  have no effect on them. Having exhausted all other options, the Japanese  Government issued the S-Class Species Suppression Protocol and formed  an enforcement unit, known as the SSSP. The members chosen for the unit  are: Leader Fumio Tamura (played by Hidetoshi Nishijima), Executive  Strategist Shinji Kaminaga (played by Takumi Saitoh), Unparticle  Physicist Taki Akihisa (played by Daiki Arioka), and Universal Biologist  Yume Funaberi (Akari Hayami) As the threat of S-Class Species worsens, a  silver giant appears from beyond Earth's atmosphere. Analyst Hiroko  Asami (played by Masami Nagasawa) is newly appointed to the SSSP to deal  with this giant and is partnered with Shinji Kaminaga. In Hiroko's  report, she writes... "Ultraman (tentative name), identity unknown". Get 10% OFF your CAVITY COLORS order with p

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In a story presented as a mashup of various film genres, Billy Malone (John Heard),  an inventor sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit, tells his  story to a journalist named Adele. According to Billy, after an  earthquake, a strange, metallic ring appeared in his workshop.  Discovering that the ring acted as a gateway to alien planets and  alternate dimensions, he began sending various probes into the ring to  investigate whatever might be on the other side. During his one of his  tests, he accidentally brought back Keena (Penelope Ann Miller),  a woman from another planet who he eventually fell in love with,  leading to the somewhat improbable circumstances leading to his arrest. Based on the short story by John D. MacDonald and written and directed by Ted Gershuny. Original Air Date: October 13, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro music cover by MATT CANNON / LAPSES: https://soundcloud.com/lapses Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order

Chill or be chilled, Dumpster Dwellers! After three gang members show up to a spooky funeral parlor looking to make a drug deal, they are instead witness to four stories surrounding the strange deaths of its occupants told by the funeral home's eccentric owner. Join us as we tour Mr. Simms funeral parlour with Ball, Stack, and Bulldog to explore the horrors of Tales from the Hood! WELCOME TO HELL, MOTHER F***KERS! Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER  cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

Ben Martin (Bill Macy), a workaholic corporate executive with an ailing heart, is given the chance to have a "Lifebomb", a medical device that incases him in a life-preserving cocoon should he suffer a heart attack, installed on his back. It isn't long before Ben begins growing tired of repeatedly being brought back to life, especially after his family leaves him and his health continues to decline.  Written by  Michael P. Kube-McDowell and Directed by Frank DePalma Original air date: October 6th, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro music cover by MATT CANNON / LAPSES: https://soundcloud.com/lapses Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER  cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster

Through a combination of blackmail and boredom with his career, nightclub impressionist Spiffy Remo/"Mr. Personalities" (Chuck McCann) is brought to a secret government facility that houses a stubborn alien known as Hoffgosh. Seeing that Hoffgosh communicates primarily in gestures, Remo is tasked with emulating said gestures with absolute perfection in order to communicate with the alien, who happens to hold the secret to nuclear fusion. Based on the short story "Impersonations" by M. Coleman Easton, adapted by Haskell Barkin and Directed by Armond Mastroianni Original air date: September 29th, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro music cover by MATT CANNON / LAPSES: https://soundcloud.com/lapses Shop CAVITY COLORS and get 10% off your order with promo code MOVIEDUMPSTER  cavitycolors.com/moviedumpster