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Horrortoberfest ’25 – Day 30: The Sand (2015)

October 30, 2025by systemmastery Leave a comment

On this All Hallows Eve eve, I harken back to the humble beginnings of Horrortoberfest 13 years ago when I was just watching whatever crap Netflix had available to stream. […]

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Movie Mastery – Outlaw Prophet (2001)

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Movie Mastery – Outlaw Prophet (2001) A sci-fi movie that is incomprehensibly religious and religiously incomprehensible.

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Movie Mastery – Runaway Nightmare (1982)

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Movie Mastery – Runaway Nightmare (1982) This 70’s movie that took so long to edit that it came out in the 80’s has no redeeming factors. A comedy without humor. […]

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Movie Mastery – Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter CottonHell (2014)

October 17, 2024by systemmastery Leave a comment

Movie Mastery – Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter CottonHell (2014) This is a movie that almost certainly stemmed from finding a weird rabbit marionette and then “writing” a “script” to […]

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Movie Mastery – Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

May 16, 2024by systemmastery Leave a comment

Movie Mastery – Death Bed: The Bed That Eats A 70’s horror film that was mostly forgotten because even with a premise that seems like it should be wildly memorable, […]

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Movie Mastery – Hard Rock Zombies (1984)

April 24, 2024by systemmastery Leave a comment

Movie Mastery – Hard Rock Zombies (1984) A literal afterthought of a movie that manages to survive mostly on being so weird that you can almost ignore how bad and […]

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Movie Mastery – Curse 2: The Bite

January 20, 2023by systemmastery Leave a comment

Curse 2: The Bite The old random number generator has really been punishing us the past few episodes and the hits just keep on comin. At least it isn’t Baby […]

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Movie Mastery – Baby Ghost (1995)

December 22, 2022by systemmastery Leave a comment

Movie Mastery – Baby Ghost (1995) Martin Sheen has a little brother and he apparently was cursed by a witch to never be able to turn down a movie. And […]

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Movie Mastery – Barbarian Queen (1985)

September 15, 2022by systemmastery Leave a comment

Part of the larger “Roger Corman goes to Argentina” Cinematic Universe. Just be aware, this one has a lot of rape in it and is deeply uncomfortable to watch.

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Movie Mastery – A Wrestling Christmas Miracle (2020)

December 23, 2021by systemmastery Leave a comment

Whoever it was that decided this should be on our list both understands exactly what this show is about and also is a terrible person. Hitting some surprising new lows […]

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Movie Mastery – Monsturd (2003)

June 25, 2020by systemmastery Leave a comment

I’ll spare you a description riddled with poop jokes since that’s pretty much all going to happen in the podcast. It’s a low budget horror movie about a poop monster, […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 20 – The Midnight Matinee (2017)

October 20, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

  This is going to conclude anthology week and I could not be happier. The premise of the movie being that all these are being showed at a movie theater […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 14 – Heidi (2017)

October 14, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

Ending the creepy doll week with a movie that is also in the found footage style. If it weren’t for this holiday tradition, I don’t think there is any way […]

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Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 13 – Mandy the Haunted Doll

October 13, 2019by systemmastery 1 Comment

Since I gave myself a little treat with yesterday’s movie being an actual horror movie with a budget and for real actors, I shall now punish myself with the self-flagellation […]

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Horrortoberfest ’18 Day 28 – Charlie Charlie (2016)

October 29, 2018by systemmastery Leave a comment

Like pretty much every internet “challenge” the whole “Charlie, Charlie” thing had a super brief period of popularity, some news coverage, and then faded into memory. Someone out there decided […]

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Horrortoberfest Day 20 – Stalled (2013)

October 20, 2015by jonmastery Leave a comment

The zombie movie has been done so often that you have to have a gimmick for your zombie movie now to make it even remotely interesting. For Stalled¸ the gimmick […]

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