Shows
Dead City Drive-InGREMLINS 2 COMMENTARYGet more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-09-151h 57
Dead City Drive-InSEX & CAMPYTHE LOVE WITCH | DEATH PROOF | PSYCHO BEACH PARTYWith Guest Programmer KATIE CASTONGUAYForget bonfires, s’mores, and mosquito bites, and plant that severed tongue firmly in your cheek as Dead City Drive-In goes to camp! Join Brandon, Chris and special guest programmer, Katie Castonguay as they turn up the irony to 11 and delve into the campiest trio of movies, guaranteed to make John Waters’ mustache curl. So grab your surfboard and your jar of witch piss, hop into your 1970 Dodge Challenger and prepare for an episode full of swank, sex, and high octane, 'cau...2023-08-252h 29
Dead City Drive-InJAWS-A-THONIn desperate need of a midseason hiatus, Brandon and Chris attempt to flee the Drive-In only to be swallowed whole by a horrifying sea beast! Inside the leviathan’s digestive tract, the duo decide to program a JAWS themed octo-feature– pairing the original classic and its three increasingly absurd sequels with appropriate companion flicks! No piranhas or tentacles or orcas here– we’re steering clear of the obvious and diving deep into some real waterlogged WTF territory! Get your harpoons ready, feed Dennis Quaid a 3D-sized rail of Michael Caine, and prepare to believe that sharks can roar, ‘cause from hell's hea...2023-08-112h 36
Dead City Drive-InPERVERTED PUPPET PLAYTIMEKILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE | MEET THE FEEBLES | GHOULIES 2With Guest Programmer MATTHEW YOVINOSaturday mornings sure aren’t what they used to be! Long gone are the days of waking up early to shove our faces full of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, eyes glued to the glowing screen in front of us, staring into a flickering void of programming featuring adults with their hands shoved up the asses of neon-furred puppets machine gunning each other into felt souffle. Those were the days! So, Brandon and Chris have decided to bring it back to th...2023-06-301h 57
Dead City Drive-InZOMBIE COMMENTARYBrandon and Chris are cozying up in their Plymouth Fury for some gut-munchin’ Italian zombie action in a Special Commentary Episode of Lucio Fulci’s first masterpiece: ZOMBIE (aka Zombi 2 aka Zombie Flesh Eaters aka The Movie Where A Zombie Fights A Damn Tiger Shark for Real)! Watch along as we marvel at exotic, Caribbean locations plagued by the festering undead! Hear us squeal with high-pitched fervor at the sight of a beautiful, green eye being pierced with a splinter of deadly wood! Jam along to the synthy rhythms of Italo-horror-prog! Get ready for some serious spaghetti splatter ‘cause we’re blowi...2023-06-161h 48
Dead City Drive-InARMAGEDDON ARENADEATH RACE 2000 | THE RUNNING MAN | ROBOT JOXWith Guest Programmer MICHAEL MARTZWho loves you and who do you love? Well, if you’re anything like Brandon & Chris, you love gameshows set in a post-apocalyptic America where the winner gets the adoration of the remnants of humanity and the loser gets straight-up crushed by a giant robot! Special Guest Programmer Michael Martz stops by to press his luck with a whammy of a double-feature! Gas up your death-mobiles, make union with your robot exoskeleton, get ready to turn your Sub-Zeros into plain zeroes an...2023-06-022h 43
Dead City Drive-InTERROR TOTSTHE BAD SEED | THE CHILDREN | VILLAGE OF THE DAMNEDWith Guest Programmer VICTORIA TRIBBLESo your daughter just drowned a little boy in the pond, is that really any reason to send ‘em to their room? We’re not talking prison time and electric chairs, are we? Besides, who could kill a child? It’s a warped query in the annals of psychotronic cinema, and luckily Brandon & Chris are joined by Guest Programmer Victoria Tribble to contemplate the unthinkable. We’re giving out lightning powered spankings to some of the worst behaved kids in movie...2023-05-192h 33
Dead City Drive-InDEAD CITY DRIVE-IN'S SICKO DE MAYO ESPECIAL!SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS THE MONSTERS | THE CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN | ALUCARDA | DON’T PANIC | FROM DUSK TILL DAWNThe doors of Dead City Drive-In are officially open for a fourth season of slime-splattered screens and screams! After downing a bottle of irradiated Mezcal, Brandon and Chris decide to program a celebracion of Mexican genre cinema, Dead City style! It’s a south-of-the-border, 5-FILM MARATHON of the best and weirdest psychotronica Mexico has to offer! Luchadors wrestling Frankensteins! Wailing ghosts murdering villagers with vicious dogs! Blood-drenched nude nuns screaming for Satan! Grown men in dino...2023-05-052h 36
Dead City Drive-InCALLING ALL MUTANTS!Attention Dead City Denizens! We’ve officially launched the DEAD CITY DRIVE-IN PATREON!Head over to patreon.com/deadcitydrivein and get ready for whole new levels of Drive-In depravity!What kind of aural assault can your earholes expect to encounter if you become an official patron? Take a listen to this little sound-splat to find out, or just get your mutant ass over to patreon.com/deadcitydrivein right now!All regular episodes of Dead City Drive-In are available to stream here for free, with SEASON 4 premiering 5/5. Bonus episodes follow starting 5/12 an...2023-04-2103 minDead City Drive-InSEASON 4 ANNOUNCEMENT!Surprise! Brandon & Chris take a few minutes to give all you mutants and maniacs a little hint on what's in store for the next season of Dead City Drive-In, including an official release date and a few extra little surprises that just couldn't wait! Mark your calendars-- SEASON 4 is comin' in hot and sooner than you'd think! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-03-1010 min
Dead City Drive-InYEAR IN REVIEW: 1986The Drive-In Gods have called a wrap and Dead City is closing its doors for the season. But before they go, Brandon & Chris have decided to program one last round of drive-in depravity! They’re digging through the cinematic wasteland in search of the best 1986 has to offer. 40 films are up for contention: bimbo-blasting killbots, vomit-spewing Jeff Goldblums and frog-chomping Oscar winners all vie for the top spot in a Season Finale that’ll put the Dick back into your Miller! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...2023-03-031h 59
Dead City Drive-InTHE CELLULOID CATACOMB!David Warner | Donald Pleasence | Dick MillerInspired by graffiti scrawled in the stalls of the Dead City bathroom, Brandon & Chris get the wild idea to introduce their own Hall of Slime– a place for the gone (but not for-rotten) legends of genre cinema to be remembered forever. It’s a special episode that honors and celebrates the roles of some of our very favorite character actors and the rules for inclusion are easy: Inductees must be deceased and must have been in the type of movies that played on slime-splattered drive-in screens everywhere. From ooze merchant to s...2023-02-171h 40
Dead City Drive-InDEAD IN THE WATER!LEVIATHAN | BLOOD VESSEL | DEEP BLUE SEAWith Guest Programmer NIGEL SIKESAhoy, matey! Our anchor’s aweigh and we’ve set sail, full speed ahead for a high seas adventure! Batten down your hatches and join Brandon & Chris as they navigate above and below the raging ocean waves in search of the perfect waterlogged double-feature. Guest Programmer Nigel Sikes climbs aboard to toss his own life preserver into the mix! If you like your ports of call stuffed to the gills with slimy sea creatures, Nazi vampires and genetically modified sharks, then friends, sit right back...2023-02-032h 14
Dead City Drive-InGHOSTBUSTERS II COMMENTARY!I, Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia, the Sorrow of Moldavia, command you… to get ready for another Dead City Drive-In Commentary Special with Brandon & Chris! We’re coating this spooky sequel with our voices like slime blowers to Lady Liberty! Watch along with us as we deep dive into a childhood classic. We’re talking genocidal madmen living inside magic paintings, mood slime with a kink for verbal humiliation, evil electric chair entities and rampaging spirits that are frankly, too hot to handle and too cold to hold! Will there be slime? Um.. is the atomic weight of cobalt 58.9? Zip up...2023-01-201h 58
Dead City Drive-InCREATURE COMFORTS!TREMORS | THEM! | CRITTERSWith Guest Programmer JACK HOLLOWAYSpace hedgehogs with teeth! Irradiated, giant, mutant ants! Underground slugs with snake mouths! It’s a tough life for a horror movie fan, mostly because when it comes to choosing which monster we wanna snuggle up with on our car’s bench seat, we can’t pick just one! Lucky for us, Guest Programmer Jack Holloway is here to sneak his favorite monsters into the Dead City Drive-In– and we’ve got two perfect choices waiting in the wings to join them. Sizzle up some Kevin Bacon, break out y...2023-01-062h 27
Dead City Drive-InNUCLEAR FAMILY MELTDOWN!THE BROOD | XTRO | ALTERED STATESWith Guest Programmer ROBB LEEFamily dynamics can be a bit tricky– especially if Mom’s a crazy New Age nutbag who prefers to lick the afterbirth from freshly hatched brood babies rather than spend time with her familial unit. And where do you go with the conversation after you catch Dad slurping up snake eggs or devolving into a caveman who breaks into zoos to get in touch with his primordial side? Lucky for you, the Dead City Drive-In’s got you covered! Brandon and Chris are joined by Guest...2022-12-232h 10Dead City Drive-InPRIMETIME BITCH: NO MORE MR. NICE GUYPRIMETIME BITCH: A FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES PODCAST is out now everywhere, but you can check out the Premiere Episode right this very here!Brandon Windish and frequent DCDI guest programmer Jack Holloway are diving deep into the weirdest, grossest, surrealist, most insane forgotten anthology series of all time: FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES!New episodes land every other Tuesday, so make sure you subscribe to and share PRIMETIME BITCH anywhere you find podcasts. And if you're feeling particularly generous, you can always rate and review the show! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on...2022-12-201h 50
Dead City Drive-InPHANTASM II COMMENTARY!Hop in! We’re going for a ride in our ‘58 Plymouth Fury for a Drive-In screening of one of our favorite sequels of all time: Don Coscarelli’s PHANTASM II! Watch along as Brandon & Chris talk all over the studio-financed, stealth remake of the original fever-dream masterpiece. It’s 97 minutes of spacegates, chainsaw fights and silver spheres that’ll get you more pumped up than a sawed-off quad-barrelled shotgun blasting grandma-dwarves down a flight of stairs! Don’t be intimidated by the potential wrath of the Tall Man, this is a DCDI Commentary Special and that means talking’s allowed, boooooyyyyy!2022-12-091h 43
Dead City Drive-InPRIMETIME BITCH: A FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES PODCASTDo you love Freddy Krueger? Well, our own, Brandon Windish sure does and, guess what? He has a new show to work out his feelings!DCDI is proud to present our first ever sistercast...PRIMETIME BITCH: A FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES PODCAST!Joined by co-host (and frequent DCDI guest programmer) Jack Holloway, these two lifelong Fred-heads are diving deep into the weirdest, grossest, surrealist, most insane forgotten anthology series of all time: FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES!The first episode of PRIMETIME BITCH drops 12/20, everywhere you find podcasts, but also right here in this very feed!2022-12-0603 min
Dead City Drive-InBAD GIRLS, BIG DREAMS!NASHVILLE GIRL | HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD | HARDCOREWith Guest Programmer WILL ERRICKSONThere’s a bit of wanderlust amblin’ through the Drive-In, so Brandon & Chris enlist the help of guest programmer Will Errickson (co-author of the incredible Paperbacks From Hell and steward of the Too Much Horror Fiction Blog) to travel down those lonesome, dusty roads in hot pursuit of success and stardom. We’re slinging our guitars over our shoulders, hikin’ up our torn Daisy Dukes and thumbin’ a ride into the darkest corners of Tinseltown for a double-feature of hicksploitation and degradation– but at what cost?...2022-11-251h 48
Dead City Drive-InHAMMER SUCKS!HORROR OF DRACULA | LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES | CAPTAIN KRONOS, VAMPIRE HUNTERWith Guest Programmer JAIME GIANGRANDE-HOLCOMThe Dead City Drive-In is officially open for the season and we’re plunging our stakes right into the satanic hearts of the most screen-loved monsters in cinema history: VAMPIRES! But not any of that monochrome monotony! Along with our returning guest programmer, Jaime Giangrande-Holcom, we’re talking blood splatter so vibrant you can feel it spray across the screen, heaving bosoms so lovingly lit, you’ll swear Caroline Munro is rubbing up against you! Pure terror in full c...2022-11-112h 27
Dead City Drive-InTHE DEAD CITY DRIVE-IN HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!Eat your ass out, Paul Lynde! It’s Halloween Season and The Great Blumpkin demands a 24-HOUR MARATHON of horror-movie atrocity to celebrate the spirit of Samhain in appropriately spooky fashion. Brandon & Chris are scooping out 17 of their favorite seasonal flicks for the perfect All Hallow’s Evening! What cinematic heinousness will they unleash? Will there be as many tricks as there are treats? Well, it IS the SEASON 3 PREMIERE, everyone’s entitled to one little… aw, you know the rest. It’s a fun-sized, star-studded, holiday spectacular that’ll make you puke pumpkin spice into your latte with ice!2022-10-282h 19
Dead City Drive-InYEAR IN REVIEW: 1985The Drive-In Gods have called a wrap and Dead City is closing its doors for the season. But before they go, Brandon & Chris have decided to program one last round of drive-in depravity! They’re going back to the gory days of Fango Pull-Out Posters and stop-motion puppets to curate a weekend long marathon of the best genre films 1985 has to offer! Face-ripping werewolves, naked space vampires and enchiladas from hell all vie for the top spot in a Season Finale that’ll put the fuck back in Chfuck Bronson! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! H...2022-01-282h 29
Dead City Drive-In80s CANNON FILMS!THE DELTA FORCE | NINJA III: THE DOMINATION | BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOOwith Guest Programmer: Ben LovettIt’s 2022, and what better way to greet the New Year than by blasting it into oblivion with a beard-operated missile launcher?! Sounds a little excessive? Well, nothing’s more excessive than the seemingly endless output brought to you by indie studio madmen Golan & Globus! Stopping by to help Brandon & Chris program an 80s CANNON FILMS double-feature explodathon is none other than film composer and musician, Ben Lovett (The Night House, The Beta Test)! Grab a can of V8 juice and sharpen your...2022-01-142h 27
Dead City Drive-InMISTLETOE & MAYHEM!DIAL CODE: SANTA CLAUS | GREMLINS | SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHTwith Guest Programmer: Jack HollowaySeason’s Creepings! Whoa, did the Cryptkeeper show up and write this synopsis? No? Oh, you mean it’s been me the whole time? Sorry! Taking up valuable space here, ho ho ho! (Note to self: Santa didn’t show up either to finish that last sentence.) But he DOES show up to the Dead City Drive-In to help Brandon and Chris celebrate the most wonderful time of the year! Also joining the naughty list is special guest Jack Holloway to help spread some h...2021-12-172h 41
Dead City Drive-InUNIVERSAL'S FRANKENSTEIN SERIES RETROSPECTIVE!Happy Halloween! We’re celebrating Dead City Drive-In’s ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY with a special full-series retrospective on the granddaddy of all monsters: FRANKENSTEIN! Are Brandon and Chris up to the task of an 8-film marathon? Doesn’t matter! The Drive-In Gods make a surprise visit and quite literally put the fella’s balls in their court. Whose court? Wait, whose balls? We promise it all makes sense in this very special Halloween episode! We’re talkin’ BRIDES and SONS, GHOSTS and HOUSES, a coupla MEETS and all the classic Universal Monsters you can stuff into Lon Chaney Jr’s flask! Trick o...2021-10-292h 22
Dead City Drive-InTHE BEST OF DEAD CITY DRIVE-IN!On a special episode of Dead City Drive-In, Brandon and Chris share a compilation of some of the best discussions and digressions from the last years worth of shows. From Blair Witch director, Dan Myrick being questioned by the Albany PD about the disappearance of his cast to Arthur C. Clarke getting a phone call from Richard Zanuck to write Jaws 2, to debates about the best cinematic Draculas! Rants abound and foul language flies! It’s a great starting place for newbie mutants, and worth the revisit if you’re a regular Dead City Denizen!2021-10-011h 12
Dead City Drive-InCREEPSHOW COMMENTARY!What better way to celebrate the oncoming spooky season than a warm, steaming cup of meteor shit?! How about some gushing throat roaches? Some celebratory head plop cake? Sounds like a screening of CREEPSHOW is in order! It’s a special full length commentary track for one of the Drive-In’s favorite anthology fright flicks of all time! Get more Dead City Drive-In content on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-09-172h 05
Dead City Drive-InPULPED!REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS | THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION | BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINAwith Guest Programmer: Dino LetoAcid rain has eaten away at the projection room roof, threatening the Drive-In’s very livelihood! Desperate and in need of a fast solution, Brandon mixes torn strips of old paper with Elmer’s glue to temporarily seal the cracks before the next storm comes through. That is, until Chris realizes the makeshift patching is actually rare and valuable golden age adventure magazines! Special guest Dino Leto stops by to help hand-juice the manl...2021-09-032h 31