Austin and Phil look back on the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. They rank the movies and talk about their favorites and least favorite moments of the series.
Rick Whistler and Jarrod Smith make a rare appearance as themselves... until they realize they need to assume their former roles as Phil and Austin Rood if they're going to survive another podcast as they talk about Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Austin and Phil discuss the nightmare that is the 1991 movie Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Austin and Phil talk about 1989's Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
Aus and Phil talk about 1988's Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Aus and Phil discuss the 3rd in the series, 1987's Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Aus and Phil look at the first Nightmare sequel: Freddy's Revenge
Welcome to Nightmare on 34th Street... It's just like The Picture Show, but Aus and Phil are reviewing all of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies starting with the original Wes Craven film, which we cover in this episode.
The 100 year exile is cut short this week as Austin and Phil re-team to take on one of the ancient evils of podcasting: An Anniversary Episode.
The guys take on this challenge by watching a sequel to one of the earliest movies they covered and sat down for the 2025 Netflix-original The Old Guard 2.
They discuss the things they liked about this entry like cinematography and fight choreography.
They discuss the things they don't like such as the wasted potential of Uma Thurman and Charlize Theron's new haircut.
Most importantly, they go off on tangents and rabbit holes and long rambling discussions about anything but the movie.
Austin's Shout-Out: The Worst Time Loop Movie Ever
Phil's Shout Out: Comics People
The Roods talk about the final episode of Midnight Mass and break down its themes of toxic religion and addiction, antiheroes, beautiful deaths, and so much more.
Thank you for spending your Halloween season with us as we enjoyed discussing this masterpiece of a series
Apologies are in order as our audio is not up to par this episode. We (and by "we", I mean "Phil) did not realize that the mic settings were wrong and the audio was only picked up by Phil's laptop mic.
The audio is a little tough to hear and for that, I (Phil) am very sorry. I will try to dot the T's and cross the I's better in the future.
I hope despite the subpar audio, you will enjoy our discussion of Midnight Mass episode 6, entitled The Acts of the Apostles
We talk about monologues(again), alliances, cults, and how satisfying it is to watch Bev get shot.
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The Roods discuss The Gospel According to Riley, Henry Thomas, Biblical parallels, religious fanatics, and so much more as they break down the 5th episode of Midnight Mass: "Gospel"
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This week the guys talk about loss, murder, religious fanaticism, rules for vampires, afterlife monologues and a whole lot more as they break down Midnight Mass Episode 4: Lamentations
The Roods return to Midnight Mass and go through the Stations of the Cross, go to Confession, and complain about Bev... Bev is the WORST!
The Roods continue on with their episode by episode breakdown of the Mike Flanagan masterpiece Midnight Mass
This week the guys are talking about exposition, higher powers in sobriety, cinematography, and Bev... ohhh how we love to hate Bev...
The Roods return from hiatus for the Halloween season by jumping into Mike Flanagan's 2021 masterpiece Midnight Mass. The guys are breaking down the show episode by episode so please watch along with us as we share our thoughts on this unique limited series.
Aus and Phil go dumpster diving for Christmas gifts and came up with something totally unexpected: A movie called Tokyo Godfathers
The guys talk about flawed characters, redemption, A Christmas Carol, and found family. Listen to hear why they champion this movie becoming a part of your family's holiday movie rotation!
Thanks to Nicole Davis for recommending Tokyo Godfathers to us and thanks to our audience for listening. We hope you have a great holiday season and enjoy spending time with your people.
Phil reviews the Friday the 13th series and how it has permanently changed his psyche
Phil watches the Friday the 13th remake tries to separate the greatness of Derek Mears from the perverted madness of the Michael Bay-iverse
It's just like that time Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth went on tour together because they were mad at Eddie Van Halen but they ended up hating each other even more
#TeamHagar #TeamJason