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THE DUMPSTER DUDES ARE READY!! Tony from Hack the Movies joins us in the Video Dungeon on one of the hottest days of the year to break down one of the greatest sci-fi action movie sequels of all-time! The MDU floodgates are blasted open by Voodoo Magic as Danny Glover battles the alien City Hunter across Los Angeles, while also dealing with a brutal gang war that's tearing the city apart and the nefarious Uncle Gary Busey. So grab your Combistick and some candy, then get ready to Hack the Movie Dumpster with Predator 2! Get your tickets for our 'Magick, Mayhem, and Little Rubber Monsters' LIVE show now! https://thecolonialtheatre.com/events/guest-presentations/magick-mayhem-and-little-rubber-monsters/

Joe and Sean are back in the Video Dungeon and they've brought a hidden gem with them! An old man falls ill after pricking his finger on an exotic flower and is rushed to the hospital, where he births an insect from his mouth that then grows to gigantic proportions. It's kind of a big bug! Officer Duane Barry teams up with Doctor Klingon and that cop from the Super Mario Bros Movie getting a heel massage, to put an end to the creature and its mate before their eggs hatch and they are totally overrun. You know, like in Aliens... but not really! So grab your medical grade laser 'cause we're talking Blue Monkey (aka Insect)! Get your tickets for our 'Magick, Mayhem, and Little Rubber Monsters' LIVE show now! https://thecolonialtheatre.com/events/guest-presentations/magick-mayhem-and-little-rubber-monsters/

Excelsior, Dumpster Dwellers! Joe and Sean are traveling through the MDU's Multiverse of Madness to bring you a Ripe Review of the 1978 made-for-TV Dr. Strange! Starring Peter Hooten of Orca fame and Arrested Development's matriarch Jessica Walter, we're breaking down this recent limited run blu-ray release by Shout! Factory and chatting about Marvel's latest take on the super hero in the MCU.

This week on Movie Dumpster, we're taking over Hack The Movies! Special guest Klayton Fioriti of Dragoncurve joins us to talk about one of the most infamous dinosaur movies to come out the 90s. Exterminate all rational thought and watch a contractually obligated Whoopi Goldberg team up with an anthropomorphic T-Rex to save the world from a CGI rocket induced ice age. Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the Theodore Rex!

Real estate developer Carl Gropper (Vince Edwards) discovers that  laundromat owner Chow Ting (James Hong) is purportedly able to wash away  the sin of his clients. With this in mind, Carl pays Ting for his  special service, then goes onto engage in various increasingly  mean-spirited actions to move up in the world, believing that his guilt  will be washed away.  Written by Harvey Jacobs.  Original air date: May 26, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro music cover by MATT CANNON / LAPSES: https://soundcloud.com/lapses

College student Frank (Brad Cowgill), accompanied by his friend Ernie  (Anthony Thompkins), goads The Great Kharma (Joe Turkel), a once-famous  magician, into performing his greatest feat: wireless levitation. When  Kharma relents and finally manages to perform the trick on Frank, the  results are disastrous. Based on a short story by Joseph Payne Brennan and adapted by David  Gerrold. Original air date: May 19th, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro music cover by MATT CANNON / LAPSES: https://soundcloud.com/lapses

This week on Movie Dumpster, there's a full moon in the Video Dungeon! After an unauthorized experiment to create the ultimate soldier with werewolf blood goes awry, colonel Barry Bostwick puts his furry friend on ice. 20 years later he learns of an experiment creating artificial human skin with harder-than-steel side effects, and hatches a scheme to utilize his lycanthropic popsicle.  Is this the best Resident Evil movie ever made? Why hasn't Barry Bostwick played more bad guys? Who would win in a Metalbeast vs Uber Jason battle royal? As a truly forgotten gem of 90s werewolf movies, Project Metalbeast is sure to get your blood pumping while you howl with b-movie delight!

Smarmy politician Bo Gumbs (Dick Shawn) checks into a hotel to prepare for a speech. After he tells the hotel waitstaff his philosophy that politics is solely about entertaining people, they help him to get ready by dressing him up as the clown that he truly is.  Co-Written by Armand Mastoianni and David Gerrold, directed by Mastroianni.  Original air date: May 12th, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro cover by Matt Cannon/Lapses https://soundcloud.com/lapses Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

Welcome  to the replay of our March 2022 Wrap-Up! Make sure to head over to our  Twitch channel to watch and chat live with us at the end of every month! MOVIE DUMPSTER TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/moviedumpster Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

Cathy and Edward Osbourne (Therese Pare and Stuart Whitman), along  with their attorney Michael Fox (Nick Benedict), discover through  communication with a spirit known as Ben that their house contains a  boarded up room that causes anyone that steps inside it to go insane.  Cathy and Michael, who are lovers, plot to scare Edward to death in the  supposedly cursed "Madness Room" so they can abscond with his fortune.  Written by Thomas Epperson. Original Air Date: May 5th, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro cover by Matt Cannon/Lapses https://soundcloud.com/lapses Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

Prudence (Jessica Harper), a young woman who suffers from clinical depression, meets Ambrose Cavender (Victor Garber), a peculiar therapist who collects the tears of his patients, insisting they are for a purpose. It isn't long before Prudence wonders if Cavender is merely pretending to help her and is actually exploiting her constant crying fits to gather more tears. Written by Geoffrey Loftus and John Drimmer. Original Air Date: February 24, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro cover by Matt Cannon/Lapses https://soundcloud.com/lapses Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

This week on Movie Dumpster, the Video Dungeon is being invaded by alien bozos with an appetite for close encounters! Rudy from  Lucky Duck Entertainment joins us to show us some magic tricks, balloon art, and share the love for this B-movie cult classic! Grab some popcorn, snuggle up in your cotton candy cocoons, and get ready for some grease painted sci-fi shenanigans under the big top with Killer Klowns from Outer Space! Visit Love is Love Coffee Company and use promo code DUMPSTER at checkout!  https://www.loveislovecoffee.com/ Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

Ripe Reviews returns to the Video Dungeon this week on Movie Dumpster! The mutants of Tromaville forced us to watch killer whales defecating on cancel culture activists, big pharma bigwigs ingesting mutation-inducing drugs, wheelchair-bound-crack-addicted sex workers doing musical numbers, horrible freaks of nature fornicating with "upstanding members" of society in moments of poetic justice... AND WE LOVED IT! Climb aboard because good ol' Uncle Lloyd is steering this ship right into the brown eye of #ShakespearesShitstorm! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

Joan Matlin (Jean Marsh), an aspiring actress who has moved to New York in the hopes of finding work, is driven to near insanity by a telephone in the next apartment that rings constantly. She attempts to complain to the tenants inside, but finds that the apartment has been vacant for some time. She tries to have the phone disconnected, but it is revealed that the phone has a life of its own. Written by Michael McDowell. Original Air Date: February 17, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro cover by Matt Cannon/Lapses https://soundcloud.com/lapses Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

Welcome to the replay of our March 2022 Wrap-Up! Make sure to head over to our Twitch channel to watch and chat live with us at the end of every month! MOVIE DUMPSTER TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/moviedumpster Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster) 

Abe North (Bud Cort), a put-upon math professor who studies the dark arts, quits his job, confident that his magic is about to help him win the lottery. Unfortunately, Abe finds out that he has lost by one number to hairdresser Anne MacColl (Carol Kane). When he comes to confront her, Abe discovers that she too studies the dark arts... and that she is more skilled, bitter, and unhinged than he is. Written by Howard Smith and Tom Allan. Original Air Date: February 10, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro cover by Matt Cannon/Lapses https://soundcloud.com/lapses Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

This week in the Video Dungeon we are getting festive for St. Patrick's Day on Movie Dumpster! King Kevin and his leprechaun kin have dropped by to spread their mischievous malady upon Grant Cramer for destroying their home to make way for his IRELAND LAND theme park. Can grandpa Mike convince his family the wee folk exist and save their home on Fairy Hill before he's locked away in a rubber room? We're going back to the shelf for another magical pull from the Moonbeam library, as we try to reinvigorate our imagination and believe in those Leapin' Leprechauns!  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

Elderly couple Henry and Elinor Colander (Mario Roccuzzo and Alice Ghostley) take in Sybil (Fredrica Duke), a drifter escaping from her boyfriend, just in time for their 25th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately for Sybil, the couple plan on serving a very specific—and revolting—dish for the occasion. Story by D.J. Pass, adapted by James Houghton. Original Air Date: February 3, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro cover by Matt Cannon/Lapses https://soundcloud.com/lapses Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

Flushed away and forgotten, left to feed on discarded lab animals in the sewers of Chicago 50 feet below the surface, a 36 foot, 2,000 pound force of genetically-transformed terror known only as Ramón is about to break loose! This week, he's found his way into the Video Dungeon looking for a snack–and it just might just end up being the Movie Dumpster boys! Robert Forster, Robert Forster's hair plugs, and Robin Riker star in the cult classic eco-horror creature feature, Alligator (1980)! Buy the new 3-Disc Special Edition 4K Blu-ray of 'Alligator' from  Shout! Factory ( https://bit.ly/3MCbdDo)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

Catherine (Dorothy Lyman) is a tarot reader who attracts business by only giving out good predictions. One day, she soon finds herself stuck with a new deck of tarot cards, and this new deck is cursed to make terrible predictions come true, with Catherine forced to peer into these horrific futures against her will. Written and directed by Ted Gershuny. Original Air Date: January 27, 1985 Talks from the Darkside intro cover by Matt Cannon/Lapses https://soundcloud.com/lapses Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)