We wrap up our discussion ranking the iconic horror movie villains — and the winner may surprise you!

We’re currently on the road for our L.A. live shows, so the notes for this Shocktober week are a little abbreviated — we watched Friday the 13th, Part VIII — Jason Takes Manhattan!

Stuart leads Dan and Elliott in a discussion ranking the iconic horror movie villains — and the conversation was so fruitful, we decided to split it in two parts, with the second to come later this Shocktober!

Well, they said they’d get us in the end, and I guess they were right! We couldn’t avoid those little beasties anymore, and decided to kick off our 80’s flashback Shocktober with the oft-mentioned, but never fully discussed tiny creature feature Ghoulies!

We welcome singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton and Paul Sabourin of Paul and Storm to talk about cruise ship movies, in honor of their annual seagoing nerdfest, the JoCo Cruise!

We’re having an absolutely legendary Smalltember. First we covered The Legend of the Titanic, and now we’re looking into The Legend of the Roller Blade Seven. Apparently they’re legendary, but forgive us for being unfamiliar until now. It was made using a system RB7 star/co-writer/producer Scott Shaw dubbed “Zen Filmmaking.” According to his wiki, this is a “style of filmmaking where no screenplay and scripts are used in the creation of a movie.” We’ll see if getting zen delivers a good movie, or whether it’s better to… y’know… write things out and plan them ahead of time.

Elliott quizzes Dan and Stu on cinematic treasures.

Due to the ongoing WGA – SAG/AFTRA strikes, we’re hitting pause on current releases, and focusing on some films 90’s kids will remember. And while we doubt most Smalltember(vember?) movies are union signatories, we decided to keep the train a rollin’ anyway and make this a 90s flashback Smalltember! We kick it off with 1999’s Italian-Korean-American co-production The Legend of the Titanic — a bizarre attempt to cash in on James Cameron 1997 mega-blockbuster Titanic, in the form of an animated film featuring a similar star-crossed romance, but with a lot more talking animals.