Episodes
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All life begins with a single cell.
Aboard an International Space Station the crew eagerly awaits the return of a pod which was sent to Mars. Among the soil samples they find a single cell, dormant but with the proper atmosphere they coax it back and thus life is born. David (Jake Gyllenhaal) can't imagine going back to Earth after being in space for over 1000 days. Rory (Ryan Reynolds) and the rest of the crew get comfortable in their success as Kalvin (the previously single-celled organism) continues to grow. But an accident at the lab puts them, the ship and the whole planet at risk when Kalvin grows beyond the bounds of its pen.
So layer up on Firewalls, breath deep as the oxygen gets thinner and say 'Goodnight moon' as we marvel at the wonders of Life (2017)
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"They're under the ground Burt...they're under the God-damn ground!!"
We did it! At long last we get to one of my all time favourite Creature-Features and I get to share it with Dylan as we watch - Tremors (1990)
Valentine (Kevin Bacon) and Earl are the 'do-it-all' handymen of the middle-of-nowhere town, Perfection. Times have been tough and it all comes to a head when they realise they've hit rock bottom. In a spur of the minute decision they pack up and get ready to make it big in the city. Only problem is they've made the decision just one day too late as something is coming for the town. An accident blocks the only road out and before long it becomes evidently clear that they've got a real puzzler of a problem coming their way.
So be as quiet as you can, go check on the generator and thank the lord they don't fly as we shake, rattle and roll to a series of unstable Tremors (1990)
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Missing episodes?
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"GET BACK YOU EIGHT-LEGGED FREAKS!!!"
Bronwyn is back this week to help me re-live a movie I've not watched in over a decade - Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Chris (David Arquette) is returning to his hometown, his Father having tragically passed away and leaving him the owner of the town's mine. Sam the town's Sheriff, and as a single mother, is working hard at keeping her neighbours and her kids in order - her son of which has made friends with the town outcast. Joshua runs a spider-farm on the outskirts of Prosperity and has made fast friends with the eager Mike (Sam's son) and shares with him the drastic growth of his spiders thanks to some unusually sized crickets from the local lake. Little do they know that toxic waste has spilled into said lake and the spiders are only going to continue to grow until the town itself become the deadly arachnids' hunting grounds.
So get ready....no seriously - Get Ready!, hop on your dirt bikes and keep the taser handy as we peel back the webbed cocoon of Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
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We all need a friend.
We're back in the 80's this week as I get to show JP a movie they've had on their list for a while - Pin (1988)
Leon and Ursula grew up in quite a strict home. Their Mother was obsessed with keeping things clean and their Father, well, they had to earn his love. As such Leon became increasingly lonely, right up until the moment he made friends with his Father's anatomy doll - Pin. Years passed, tragedy ensued and soon Leon had set Pin up with his own room and a place at the dining table. Ursula knows there's something wrong with her brother...but is there? Or is there something more to the Pin doll?
So bring a box of chocolates, ask Pin for help with your calculus and read aloud from your poetry as we learn our anatomy with Pin (1988)
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It's all fun and games until the glowsticks are covered in blood.
Anje joins me again and this time they wanted to show me Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Sophie and her girlfriend Bee are in the beginnings of their relationship when they decide to attend a 'hurricane party' at Sophie's oldest friend's house. Tensions are high right from the get-go as several of her friends never expected Sophie to show never mind to bring a date. Drinks are had, glowsticks are snapped and champagne is opened as the storm rolls in...that's when they decide to play Bodies Bodies Bodies - only it isn't too long before the bodies start hitting the floor.
So let's giggle and slap, rummage through the boardgame cupboard for our hidden stash and cut a slice of zucchini bread as we play Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
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What we wouldn't do to bring back those we've lost
This week a brand new voice joins the Cherry Pop Horror family as Shane tackles a Lovecraftian nightmare with The Void (2016)
The town is going bust, empty streets, abandoned buildings and a hospital that's close to fully burnt down. Sheriff Daniel and his ex-wife Alison broken up after a dire situation turned fatal but now they must work together as Daniel brings in a man covered in blood - but this stranger's ravings are only just the beginning of the madness as people begin the lose their minds and the dead begin to walk again, transformed to horrors most unspeakable.
So try not to go into early labour, read up on your medical procedures and watch out for The Mound Of Beverly as we stare into The Void (2016)
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There's just something about the way the walkway wiggles that makes me uncomfortable.
Sam has come back and despite the fact we couldn't do their first choice we came to a fun and exciting alternative with Underwater (2020)
Nora (Kristen Stewart) is an engineer aboard the drilling rig Kepler, at the base of the Mariana Trench. There's a sudden shake that rattles the station, flooding and destroying most of the facility but she, as well as a few other stranglers she finds along the way, have survived. The only problem now is walking the ocean floor in search of the drill site itself, where escape pods lay in wait...but this is a journey not everyone is going to make.
So cuddle your bunny plush close, go bobbing for Moonpies and check the pressure in your suit as we fully submerge ourselves Underwater (2020)
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Sit down to a plate of barbeque as the Texan heat rolls on in.
Pip returns this week to help me tackle one of the legacy slashers - that's right it's time for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
After several instances of graverobbing Sally & Franklin decide to return to their family home, bringing with them a group of friends to make something of a road-trip out of it. The old beat up house has seen better days, they cross paths with a manic Hitchhiker and the local gas station has even run out of gas. It seems however the neighbours have patrol, at least enough to run some generators, so one by one they make their way over to ask for some assistance - not realizing they're walking into the slaughterhouse until it's too late.
So rev your chainsaws, go for a swim in the dried-up lake and reach 'round back for the meat hook as we duck, weave and dive our way through the brambly woods in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
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We're bundling up with many layers this week as there's a chill on the wind.
Jess D returns this week to take a look at a naughty's low-budget road trip with Wind Chill (2007)
There once was a Guy and a Girl (Emily Blunt) but sadly they didn't have names. Through happenstance they ended up driving together both, supposedly, on their ways to meet up with family for the holidays. But after they're run off the road by a mysterious car they're left in the bitter cold of a snow bank as they try to figure out a way to reach out for help.
So listen out for your favourite song on the radio, think about all those delicious snacks we left behind and rummage the boot for a landline as we plug up the windows for Wind Chill (2007)
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It had such potential.
Kat D returns again and as per the usual we've found a weird and wacky movie to take a look at - Slotherhouse (2023)
Emily wants desperately to be the President of her sorority just like her Mum was. So in a bid to get more Instagram followers and thus surpass the previous President, the very bitchy Briana, Emily buys a sloth from a poacher and convinces the girls to let it stay as their new mascot. Little do they know that this is a sloth with murderous vengeance on its mind.
So its time to hit the showers for a trust exercise, kick back another dozen dirty martinis and take the sports car for a spin as we three-toe tip-toe our way into the Slotherhouse (2023)
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"Are they dead?" "Does it really matter?"
This week we welcome a brand new member to the Cherry Pop Horror family, Alice and this week it was their first time watching - The Addams Family (1991)
The Addams' are a strange bunch - they're 'monsters', 'fiends', 'creatures' but more than anything they're family. Gomez, the father of the house, laments at the falling out he had with his brother a good twenty-five years ago. But as if the Gods themselves heard his prayers Uncle Fester returns home - only he's Gordon now and has a devious plan to steal the Addams' wealth with his loan-shark Mother.
As time passes Gordon gets to know the family - Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsly, Thing and Lurch and soon begins to feel that this may in fact be where he belongs.
So gather the family for this PG comedy gold, remind us how Chinese finger-traps work and dance The Mamushka as we set up our Lemonade Stands for The Addams Family (1991)
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Fisherman don't dive cause it's better to go fast.
Eve has joined me again to check out an Irish horror movie - Sea Fever (2019)
Siobhan is a marine biologist and much prefers her studies to the laborious chore of people but when it's made clear that she'll not pass her course unless she goes on a practical expedition she laments. Agreeing she boards a down-on-its-luck fishing vessel. Due to the hard times one of the crew makes the decision to enter an exclusion zone and it's there the crew is met by a strange and awesome creature. Now it's a battle of survival but strangely it's not against the leviathan that's holding them captive.
So don't drink the water have a Guinness instead, cover up those glorious flaming locks and take your allotted two-hour sleep as we investigate bioluminescence with Sea Fever (2019)
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"Subway - Eat Fresh, am I right ladies."
As per request Dylan joins me this week for our 69th Episode (nice) with their first time watching - X (2022).
We're at the tail end of the 70's and there's a change in the industry, the sex industry to be exact as the invention of the Home-Video meaning that people can enjoy erotic movies in the comfort of their own home. With big ideas Director Wayne sets out to make the hottest porn that has ever been made. His girlfriend Maxine and other talent Bobby-Lynne and Jackson are gonna be stars when the world sees what they can do.
They've booked a boarding house on the farm of an elderly to use as the backdrop to the upcoming sensation of The Farmer's Daughters but soon they realize their elderly hosts have quite the appetite for their line of work.
So lift the camera a little higher, seduce your husband with a sexy little dance and take a dip in the lake as we moan (in pleasure) our way through X (2022)
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So it turns out mouthwash has multiple uses...who knew.
This week we're joined by a brand new guest MacKenzie and we decided to tackle Cabin Fever (2002)
A group of College graduates decide that to celebrate they'll head to a cabin the woods for a short holiday ('cause that's only ever turned out well). Some raunchy sex, a bet on who can last the week drinking only beer and roasting marshmallows over the campfire seems all well and good until they stumble into the local Hermit.
It soon becomes very clear that what's going to ruin their break isn't so much this stranger but rather festering infectious blisters that are covering his body and as he then begins to vomit blood over all their belongings the group realizes that it's only a matter of time until they too come down with a fever.
So let's go 'gay' squirrel hunting, take a long relaxing soak in the tub and become the local 'party dude' as we cough our way through Cabin Fever (2002)
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"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to."
Despite joining at the beginning of Cherry Pop Horror's inception this week was Kat's first CHERRY-PIE episode as it was both their and my first time watching Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Dolores (Kathy Bates) is caught red-handed, standing above her employer, the frail and decrepit Vera Donovan, with a marble rolling pin - ready to strike. This boils over as an old rival returns. Detective Mackey has a grudge to bear against Dolores and is determined to get her locked away, even going so far as to contact Dolores' estranged daughter and get her involved in the budding murder case, convinced that this time he'll get her for this murder and the murder of her long-since passed husband - the previous case from eighteen years before.
So hang the laundry with six pegs not five, swig at a bottle of whiskey and be careful where you step as we bask at the solar eclipse in Dolores Claiborne (1995)
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"The unholy trinity - Satan, the Anti-Christ and the False Profit."
Kaleb has returned this week to tackle another classic - The Omen (1976)
Robert and Katherine are just 'beautiful people'. And bad things don't happen to beautiful people. Sadly the happy couple looses their son in childbirth but a friendly priest offers them the chance to adopt a boy born in the same hospital, a boy whose mother died in childbirth. Robert takes the opportunity, though neglecting to tell Katherine that Damian isn't her child by birth.
It isn't until Damian's 5th birthday that they begin to suspect there may be something wrong with their bouncing baby boy.
So give the best boy rottweilers a pet, snap a selfie for prosperity and avoid the zoo if you can as we say our prayers to The Omen (1976)
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Sometimes everything at the buffet just kinda sucks
Rory returns this week to help me tackle our first anthology movie - V/H/S (2012)
A group of men is hired to break into a house and steal a particular Video Tape, unfortunately they didn't ask for any more details than that. Exploring the house they find many tapes and aren't sure which one it is they need, so they pop a few in to check what they're about. They then become witnesses to a bat-girl hookup at a bar, a video call haunting session, a couple's retreat with a side of stalker, attack of the video glitch and the satanic sacrifice of a young girl at a house party - and all the while the robbers begin to disappear from view, one by one.
So drop a tablet in your beer, skinny dip in the haunted wood's lake and take note of the fortune teller's advice as we be kind and rewind V/H/S (2012)
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Alf is love - Alf is life.
Dylan and I picked this movie based purely of the color of the DVD case - The Loneliest Boy In The World (2022)
Oliver is a strange guy. He's been a shut-in for the majority of his life thanks to his Mother but now she passed away and with the threat of being institutionalized on the line Oliver has to do one very important thing - make a friend. Not an easy task sadly as he's just too inexperienced in the world but that's no problem as a new friend has moved in close by...in the cemetery.
So come play in the Barbie Dreamhouse, don't fight with your Sister - in fact put her head down and don't worry about the goldfish he's just resting as we make friends with The Loneliest Boy In The World (2022)
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Was it the Government, some rich guys sick game or just plain old aliens?
This week we welcome Anje to the Cherry Pop Family with Cube (1997)
Six strangers wake in a room. There's a small crawlspace on each wall that leads to another room with six small crawlspaces on the way - every room is the same design, the only thing that changes is the colour. It's up to these people, who've never met before, to figure out why they're here and, more importantly, how to get out.
So get ready for some mathematics, suck a button for good luck and don't piss off the cop as we calculate our way through Cube (1997)
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There's bad dates and then there's this.
This week Leilani has brought along something fun and Fresh (2022)
Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) has had a string of bad dates - each one a different variety of Chad. She's about ready to give up when she stumbles upon a seemingly wonderful man, Steve (Sebastian Stan). He's cute, he's charming and he likes her. There's nothing she can do but fall head-over-heels for him. When he offers to take her away for the weekend she can't help but say yes, and it's there that the true horrors begin.
So scribble a friendly note in a magazine, take a picture - send it to your bestie and wax philosophy on the ethics of eating long-pig as we wine and dine our way through Fresh (2022)
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