Hello again, friends, and welcome to our special Noirvember episode! We’ve got a double-header for you, starting with Otto Preminger’s 1944 film noir staple starring Vincent Price, Laura. If you haven’t seen Laura, you should really remedy that right now. It’s a classic, a timeless mystery tale: the lovely Laura (Gene Tierney), a woman bewitching t…

Whatever happened to scary movies for kids? In the early 1980s, Disney produced a string of both animated and live-action films that pushed the boundaries of the macabre in family entertainment. Movies like Return to Oz, The Black Cauldron, The Black Hole, and The Watcher in the Woods scared their young audiences alongside entertaining them, and we…

Greetings, friends! As you know, we here at VPL have taken a short summer hiatus, but now we’re back with a film that…well, we criticize a lot. So, on this very special episode, Andrew is bowing out, but we’ve enlisted our pal Monica Torres to help us sort out our feelings. It’s a bit tricky, a bit hexing, or maybe even a bit vexing, but let us pre…

Hello again, monster kids! On this episode of VPL, we’re turning back the clock a bit to 2007, the year that Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino released their cult classic-informed double feature, Grindhouse.Nostalgia is kind of a weird beast, sometimes making us remember things a bit more fondly than they may deserve. It’s also tricky when a m…

Greetings and salutations! Today we are delving into the mind of the prolific-yet-classically underrated director, M. Night Shyamalan. In this episode, we’re discussing his most impressive work-to-date, Split. M. Night gets a lot of grief for his “twist ending” trope, with most of the complaints saying that his movies rely heavily on that twist wit…

Ahoy all ye buccaneers and scalawags! Grab yer grog an’ get yer sealegs on because we’re ’bout to set sail on the haunted high seas! Ahem. I mean, hey guys! On this episode of VPL we are bringing you two ghastly, ghostly maritime tales: 2002’s trip to a haunted oceanliner, Ghost Ship, and 2002’s WWII submarine adventure, Below. At first glance, Gho…

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Hello again, friends! On this episode of VPL we are discussing one of Vincent Price’s most notable works, Witchfinder General. This 1968 film is infamous for being relentlessly graphic and gory, dealing with the dark subject matter of 17th Century witch hunts in England. Most critics shunned the film because of its violent depictions of witch hunti…

Hello again, friends and monster kids! After a short hiatus, Andrew and I have returned to once again bring you our silly little horror movie podcast. We took some much-needed time off, but we’re eager to get the ball rolling again. And so, we begin again with one of our most-anticipated film releases of 2017, Gore Verbinski’s A Cure For Wellness. …

This week we’re going back to the 90s to discuss a film that received poor critical reception, and due to off-base marketing, performed quite poorly at the box office. We’re talking about 1999’s Ravenous. Set during the Mexican-American War, the film recounts the story of an American soldier named Boyd (Guy Pearce) who is promoted to Captain; howev…

Happy Holidays, Monster Creeps! So, you may be thinking: Elbee, this is the Christmas episode of VPL. Why in the Peace-on-Earth-and-Goodwill-Towards-Men are you talking about a most-decidedly un-Christmas movie like Crimson Peak? I’ll tell you! There is a long-standing – however, partially forgotten – tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas…

This week, we’re talking about a couple of short films. We didn’t plan on it when we discussed which ones we should include in this episode, but turns out the ones we chose have a bit of a similar theme. They both have to do with how society perceives the mentally ill. Up first is Fatal Pictures production, Heir. This film has been making its way a…

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“The night no one comes home.” One of the very few references Halloween III has to the already established franchise is a nod to the original 1978 film’s tagline of “The night HE came home.” More than 30 years ago, power trio Tommy Lee Wallace, Debra Hill, and John Carpenter set out to change the game when it came to Halloween movies. They envision…

How’s everyone’s October going? We hope it’s extra spoooooooky! For this episode, we wanted to talk about a couple of our most favorite Halloween specials. No, not the Paul Lynde Halloween Special, but that’s a close third. Friends, this week we are talking about Ghostwatch and the WNUF Halloween Special. GHOSTWATCH (1992) Held as one of the most i…

Lately we’ve been encountering a few lost souls who seem to think the horror genre didn’t start until 1970. An “old” scary movie to them is The Exorcist, or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or Lord have mercy, even Friday the 13th. It’s probably a generational thing, and we understand that when you were born in 1997, a film from 1973 probably seems very…ol…

On this episode, we tackle the Ariel Award-winning Spanish-language film, Kilometro 31! This film showed up on our radar a couple of years after its initial Mexican release. We saw it sometime around 2008 or 2009, and were impressed by its visual style. When we moved to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas last year, we knew this was a film worthy of a r…

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Here we go with another two-fer, folks! The two films discussed in this episode of Vincent Price’s Laugh are remarkably similar, however retaining distinct differences. They’re both “siege” films in their own ways, both involve the confrontation of an unknown entity, and both pose pseudo-philosophical questions about the very nature of good and evi…

What is more dreadful: absolute betrayal by one of your longtime closest friends, or facing insurmountable obstacles while confronting ferocious yet hidden feral humanoids at nearly every turn? What if you had to face both of these dreadful situations at the same time?! 2005’s The Descent features both of those dilemmas. A group of women – friends …