This week Zane and McKenna drive to Forks to review the "classic" franchise. They also announce their hiatus, marking the end of season one of the MYSTIC FRIGHTCAST. Then they review the movies. This is a short description because I got places to be.

24 - WE WATCHED ALL THE TWILIGHT MOVIES

This week we're taking a break from horror to watch the new Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and talk about Charles Manson and his lovely little family. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the ninth film from famed writer/director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), following Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight. Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie star as washed up western actor Rick Dalton, his stuntman/gopher Cliff Booth and actor Sharon Tate. The film follows them over the course of the summer of 1969 as they navigate failing film careers, movie premieres and one fateful run-in with the Manson Family. To prep for the movie, Zane and McKenna go over the timeline of the actual Manson family and his strange connections to hippie culture and surf-rock legends The Beach Boys.   Mystic Frightcast is a weekly podcast about horror movies and other scary stories hosted by Zane DeYoung and McKenna Lynch. They've tackled classics like The Haunting and Poltergeist, overlooked masterpieces such as Veronica and brand-new releases like Child's Play and Midsommar.   Follow us on Instagram: @frightcast  

23 - ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD & THE MANSON FAMILY

This week Zane and McKenna were going to talk about the 2009 documentary Cropsey, but then they saw The Art of Self Defense and decided to talk about that one too. They're both good movies. Woops. Probably shouldn't have let the cat out of the bag in the description. Oh well. Enjoy!

22 - GRAB BAG #1

This week Zane and McKenna take some time to write their very own script for a brand new Wicker Man movie with the help of McKenna's old and illbalanced dog Kate. Then they talk about the 1973 Robin Hardy version and 2006 Nicolas Cage version. One of them is excellent and one of them is horrible. You probably know which is which.

21 - WE WATCHED BOTH VERSIONS OF THE WICKER MAN AND NOW NIC CAGE HAS MY BEAR SUIT

Zane and McKenna make a cult and review the movie Midsommar. I'll write more later but I gotta blast rn.

20 - WE WATCHED MIDSOMMAR AND MADE OUR CULT

In this very special MIDWEEK FRIGHTCAST, Zane and McKenna take a hazy trip down memory lane to last week and review Child's Play (1988 and 2019). They also take the ULTIMATE Chucky quiz, despite having only seen 1 out of 7 Chucky movies (spoiler alert they do pretty good, you can answer most of lifes questions through context). In Child's Play 2019, Mark Hamill is the voice of the evil "smartdoll" Chucky, who goes on a killing spree after winding up in the home of single mom Aubrey Plaza and her tweenage socially awkward son. A fun if not entirely successful reinterpreting of the original, Child's Play light tone and grossout humor is enough to pull it away from the morass of dull and joyless modern horror. In Child's Play 1988, Brad Dourif is the voice of Chucky, a doll possessed by the soul of murderer Charles Lee Ray. After single mother Catherine Hicks buys the doll from a homeless gentleman, he begins terrifying her and her young son Andy before heading out to fulfill his mission of murdering those who wronged him as a human. A well written, engaging and occasionally quite creepy movie, Child's Play benefits from strong writing and performances and an atmospherically filmed Chicago. Despite being thirty years old, it holds up extremely well in practically every sense including special effects. A rare 80's movie that Zane LOVED! Huzahh!

19  - WE WATCHED BOTH CHILD'S PLAYS AND NOW MY SMART DOLL WANTS TO KILL MY MOM!

WE'RE BACK BABYYY. After losing their Child's Play review, Zane and McKenna are back with another timely and politically charged episode of Mystic Frightcast. This week we're talking about all things Annabelle, from the Annabelle doll in "real" life to ALL THREE FUCKING MOVIES. We started with 2014's Annabelle which is not a good one, moved on to Annebelle: Creation which is also not a good one and finish with 2019's Annabelle Comes Home. McKenna also discovers the joys of podcasting from bed like a true millennial and Zane drinks wine and reads Michael Crichton books. Cheers folks. 

18 - WE WATCHED ALL THREE ANNABELLE MOVIES AND NOW A DEMON HAS MY SOUL

This week Zane and McKenna watch the LGBTQ+ defining movie The Babadook and talk about childhood trauma. Specifically all the movies that they watched that scarred them for life. Such as the family classic The Princess Bride. And Harry Potter. And Fantasia (seriously wtf is up with fantasia?) Then they review the 2014 movie The Babadook and can't decide on it. There is no catharsis. One does not sway the other. Such drama. What a great time. 

17 - IS THE BABADOOK BABABAD OR BABAGOOD?

This week McKenna and Zane do a (not so) quick roundup of the spooky movies that have come out this year. It's Zane's birthday (Happy Birthday Zane!) and they went to the zoo. Woohoo. Aren't we all happy for them. They discuss how some movies have aged well, some have aged poorly and some they still haven't seen. What a wild ride. Anyway, keyword keyword keyword. Trump wall dumb poopyhead. What's even going on anymore? Does anyone really want to do another election? The last one really took it out of me. I know we need to so we can get the big poopoodoodoohead out of the white house, but holy fucking shit does it get tiring to keep doing these. Peace and love to your mother and happy papa day.

16 - A LOOSE & FREEWHEELIN' MIDYEAR ROUNDUP

This week Zane and Kenna talk about CRAZY TRIPS YO and the best movie twists of all time. And the Netflix movie The Perfection. I'm on my break at work so I can't make this longer so I'm just gonna throw in some hot SEO keywords rul quick. Trump wall Mexico tariff apocalypse zombies Game of Thrones Chernobyl HBO Marvel Avengers Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker AOC. Thanks bye.

15 - IS THE PERFECTION...PERFECTION??

This week McKenna and Zane go on a journey to lovely Ohio talk about 2019's movie MA, directed by Tate Taylor and starring Octavia Spencer. McKenna talks about why you should never meet your neighbors, never eat or work at Subway and never have a phone. Basically it's because men are psychopathic stalkers. Zane talks about a famous John Doe case that may (or may not) have involved someone fucking their vacuum cleaner and may (or may not) be the ACTUAL ZODIAC KILLER. Yeah. We solved the Zodiac killer. Boom. Lastly we get to the new movie Ma, starring Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer (Shape of Water, The Help, Hidden Figures). It's not that good. (Spoiler alert).

14 - MA IS MEH

This week our intrepid hosts waltz on over to Kansas to talk Superman and the new move Brightburn, directed by David Yarovesky and produced by James Gunn. McKenna informs us about real life superheroes, including Seattle's own Phoenix Jones (who Zane casually knows) and the Petoskey Batman. Zane goes in depth on all the times Superman was a huge prick (mostly to Lois Lane). Finally they get to reviewing the brand new horror movie Brightburn in collaboration with NVDReviews on Instagram. 

13 - Superman's a WEIRD FRATBOY ASSHOLE and BRIGHTBURN (2019) REVIEW

This week, McKenna and Zane tackle the classic movie The Haunting, adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. This is also the first episode they ever recorded way back when, so get ready. Boy oh boy. Here we go.

12 - The Haunting is the First Movie We Ever Reviewed

This week Zane and McKenna are talking all SORTS of whack shit. McKenna educates us about people who have woken up in morgues (classic) and Zane does a SPOT ON Tom Cruise impression. They also talk about the one convicted with in Virginian history and how there's a holiday in her honor. They also review the 2016 movie The Autopsy of Jane Doe, which is some dank shit. 

11 - 5 PEOPLE WHO WOKE UP IN MORGUES AND THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE IS GREAT

This week Zane and McKenna get into the confusing sexuality of Greek mythology's OG badboy Pan. They talk about his dope flute and how his goat screams led to the coinage of the word PANic. They also talk about literal human monster Francisco Franco and how his regime was responsible for the kidnapping of up to 300,000 children. Thanks Catholicism! Finally they get into Guillermo del Toro's 2006 masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth. Which might be the best movie of 2000's. Also the most depressing. Yet beautiful? Look it's complicated.

10- PAN'S LABYRINTH IS PERFECT

This week Zane and McKenna talk about the mythology and history behind last weeks flaming turd The Curse of La Llorona. They also pitch a couple MUCH better ideas for the movie and go on a lot of rants. That's pretty much it guys.     

09 - THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA IS TERRIBLE

This week Zane and McKenna uncover the strange history of the Ouija Board. They wish Tim Curry a hippy happy birthday and said goodbye to the legendary Lorraine Warren. They both think they might be haunted, although disagree on the source. We talk about how the Ouija board is maybe just a lil' misunderstood in modern times and McKenna doesn't care because it's legit horrifying. Zane doesn't know where Idaho is and never learned basic geography. McKenna also talks about the true story behind the movie Veronica, which is arguably more frightening than the movie (it's not, but it comes pretty close). They can't decide how to pronounce Spanish words and Zane has some funky ideas about grammar. Finally, they talk about how Veronica might be the scariest movie either of them has seen and how pretty much flawless it is on a whole.   Weekly Question: Would you be interested in branching out into other genres such as fantasy, science fiction and true crime?

08 - YIKES THE OUIJA BOARD NAMED ITSELF and Veronica (2017) Review

This week Zane and McKenna travel to communist Russia to learn about the "barefoot scientist" himself: Tomasin Lysenko. They come to the conclusion that he was a crazy man who indirectly killed close to 40 million people with his completely fictional form of biology. McKenna talks about hybridrising.com and how we're all human/alien hybrids. Zane has some questions. And lastly but not leastly we get into BOTH Village of the Damned movies and talk about which one is better (the original) which one is more 90's (the remake) and which one has more slaps (or slaps more?). Mystic Frightcast is a weekly podcast about horror movies and other scary stories. Hosted by a couple of queer dorks.

07 - The Hybrids are Coming! The Hybrids are Coming! and Village of the Damned

In this weeks episode McKenna and Zane get folklore on your ass and talk about the Wendigo and its deep roots in Native American mythology. But then Stephen King happened and his version is probably the one you know about. We discuss how wasps are turning our #spiders into #zombies just because you haven't been having enough nightmares lately and how zombie frogs have sexier voices than regular frogs. Zane discovers that the company Bioquark is quietly trying to bring the dead back to life and everyone's pretty freaked out because there's, like, ZERO press coverage about this GIANT pharmaceutical company LITERALLY trying to make ZOMBIES. Lastly, we do get to the new Pet Sematary movie and how it's better (or worse) than the original. (spoiler alert it's worse). Mystic Frightcast is a weekly podcast about horror movies and other scary stories like a GIANT PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY CONDUCTING ZOMBIE RESEARCH IN SOUTH AMERICA WHERE THERE IS LITTLE TO NO GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT hosted by a couple of queer dorks. Find us at mysticfrightcast.com or on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

06 - Zombie Spiders, Bioquark's Quest to Reanimate the Dead and Pet Sematary (2019 Review)

This week your favorite (...right?) hosts uncover the true identity of the antichrist and take a waltz into Ye Olde Salem to review Rob Zombie's nonclassic Lords of Salem. Zane talks about their diarrhea and forgets what year his dad was born in (it was 1954). McKenna is mad about rehearsal and has strong feelings about her birthday. Mystic Frightcast is a weekly podcast about horror movies and other scary stories.

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