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The Flop House: Episode #47 – The Unborn

Flop House’s annual SHOCKTOBER celebration begins with the only horror movie we can think of featuring a dybbuk: The Unborn. Perhaps writer/director David Goyer should have learned the old vaudeville lesson–words with a K are funny (not scary). Meanwhile Stuart reveals his complete ignorance of celebrity scandals, Elliott shows how he passed the bar in […]

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The Flop House LIVE at the UCB Theater New York

Hey everyone who checks this blog in-between new podcast episodes* and also lives in New York City and also doesn’t mind going to a comedy show at midnight (we realize this is an ever-shrinking segment of our audience) — the Flop House is gonna do a LIVE appearance at the UCB theater in New York […]

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The Flop House: Episode #46 – Obsessed

How can an erotic thriller with horrible racial politics, starring BeyoncĂ© Knowles, be what founding Flop House co-host Simon Fisher would call “a real snore factory?” Who knows, but somehow they managed it. Meanwhile, Stuart reveals a surprising fact about sex in public bathrooms, Elliott explains how BeyoncĂ© is like a Looney Tunes character, and […]

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The Flop House: Episode #45 – Skinwalkers

Sometimes you eat the Skinwalker, and sometimes the Skinwalker eats you. For our first ever five man podcast, we bring in some experts — specifically, the authors of the book The Werewolf’s Guide to Life: A Manual for the Newly-Bitten (available for purchase Tuesday, September 15) Bob Powers and Ritch Duncan. Perhaps they’ll be able […]

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The Flop House Movie Minute #29 – Movie Minute Mailbag

More letters from our loyal listeners. Press the play button above to listen to this episode. Download it here, or paste https://feeds.simplecast.com/EOAFriME into iTunes (or your favorite podcatching software) to have new episodes delivered to you directly as they’re released.

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Episode #44 – Knowing

Combine the number-based thrills of The Number 23 with the Nicholas-Cage-sees-the-future thrills of Next and what do you get? We discuss Knowing. Meanwhile Dan reveals his competing film “Number Quest,” Stuart reveals his knowledge of afterlife mythologies, and Elliott reveals the Egypt-born, Australian-raised Alex Proyas’ surprisingly French accent. 0:00 – 0:33 – Introduction and theme […]

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The Flop House: Episode #43 – Righteous Kill

Robert Deniro. Al Pacino. Co-starring together at last, as the result of an cruel prank, in which they are cast in a terrible, terrible (terrible) movie. We talk about Righteous Kill. Meanwhile Dan lets us in on why he sees everything as the set-up for an erotic cat-and-mouse game, Elliott talks about the most effective […]

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