The Media Gloryhole Podcast

The Media Gloryhole Podcast

We started off with a thought years ago: We sit in the garage and talk about music, movies and everything else media-related, maybe we should start a podcast. So, we came up with a plan, and now we talk about everything we watch and listen to, read and play, and we bring you our honest opinions and hopefully make you laugh along the way.Parental advisory: We curse and say funny things, and we make jokes along the way. We are not for the faint of heart. But we're fun. This should cover our ASSets.MediaGloryholePodcast@gmail.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/MGP850

  1. 21h ago

    EP 94 — Hope Core, Doom Core & Six Centimeters

    Send us Fan Mail Friday the 13th brings horror news, Drama Month keeps finding new ways to hurt everybody, anime destroys hope in under an hour, Green Book restores a little faith in humanity, and Collider responds with two of the bleakest lists imaginable. 00:01:00 — The Most Professional Thing We Do The intro may be the most polished part of the operation. Naturally, the conversation immediately turns to Skynet and Friday the 13th trying to shut down air travel. HORROR NEWS 00:02:17 — A Nightmare on Elm Street Lives Again Warner Bros.’ attempt apparently dies, Paramount picks it up, and the new version is supposed to return to Wes Craven’s original screenplay. If Robert Englund can’t physically play Freddy anymore, at least get him in there somewhere. 00:03:17 — Friday the 13th — 2027 Jason is coming back, and Steve Miner — director of Part 2 and Part III — is attached. Nobody is pretending every Friday movie is high art. Sometimes you just want Jason, a machete and teenagers making terrible choices. 00:05:43 — James Gunn Is Out at DC The reported DC shake-up sets off the rant of the week. The real frustration isn’t even whether Gunn got everything right — it’s DC apparently resetting itself again. 00:07:00 — “F**k Your Meemaw and Peepaw.” Family-friendly corporate strategy does not receive a warm reception. ANIME HAS DECLARED WAR 00:09:55 — Can Anime End Happy for Once? The request is simple: an adult anime with a happy f*****g ending. Apparently this is impossible. 00:10:33 — Welcome to Jollywood Japan needs its own Hollywood. “Jollywood” wins mostly because every other suggestion sounds like an international incident. 00:11:20 — 5 Centimeters per Second — 4/5 A quiet, gorgeous Makoto Shinkai story about two people who connect young, drift apart and spend years carrying the memory of each other. It barely raises its voice and still emotionally beats the shit out of you. Tony understands that sometimes moving on is the resolution. Tony would still like them to hug. 00:16:08 — “I Need a Happy F*****g Ending.” The official mission statement for the rest of Drama Month. 00:19:27 — Final Verdict: 4/5 Beautiful, subtle, heartfelt and extremely good. Also f**k this movie. 00:20:27 — Six Centimeters A heartfelt anime discussion somehow becomes a micromanagement problem. 00:21:05 — Ghost Stories Needs a Rewatch The greatest anime ever made under the current emotional criteria because all it does is make everybody laugh. The English dub remains filthy, ridiculous and completely unhinged. 00:22:30 — Hope Core vs. Doom Core Hope Core: things that make life seem worthwhile. Doom Core: everything else we’ve been watching. DRAMA MONTH 00:23:37 — Green Book — 5/5 Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali carry a true-story road movie about Tony Lip driving concert pianist Dr. Don Shirley through the segregated American South. It tackles race, class, friendship and identity without turning every scene into a lecture, and underneath everything ugly happening around them, it stays hopeful. 00:30:10 — That Christmas Ending Shirley goes home alone, changes his mind, and shows up at the family Christmas. Everybody gets a plate. There may have been a tear. 00:37:05 — Green Book Gets the 5/5 And Tony immediately starts inventing Green Book Parts 2, 3 and 4 in his head. 00:37:47 — The Imitation Game — 4.5/5 Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing as the team at Bletchley Park tries to crack Germany’s Enigma machine during World War II. Great cast, fascinating history and enough thriller energy to keep the code-breaking from ever feeling like homework. Also featuring Benedict Ben Bendy Cumbersnatch, apparently. 00:43:09 — Oppenheimer — 5/5 Christopher Nolan’s three-hour movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer finally gets watched. The bomb isn’t really the entire point. The movie is about the people, politics, ambition, ego and consequences surrounding the creation of something that permanently changed humanity. Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon and the entire cast get major praise. 00:47:02 — Oppenheimer Gets the 5/5 The Imitation Game lands at 4.5. Oppenheimer joins Green Book at the top of the week. STACY KEACH — RIP 00:54:24 — Remembering Stacy Keach Mike Hammer, Titus, decades of film and television work — a hell of a career. 00:55:13 — Road Games — 3.5/5 Stacy Keach plays an American truck driver crossing Australia who becomes convinced another driver is a serial killer. Jamie Lee Curtis eventually joins the ride, and it turns into a strange road-thriller cat-and-mouse game. ROBIN HOOD, ROCKY & MEN PUNCHING THEIR FEELINGS ~01:00 — The Death of Robin Hood — HBO Max Jason gets to it after Tony’s 5/5 recommendation from last episode. The discussion lands on what the title actually means: not simply Robin physically dying, but the death of the violent man he had been. 01:08:18 — What “The Death of Robin Hood” Really Means The legend doesn’t die. The old Robin does. 01:09:22 — Road Games Final Score: 3.5/5 01:09:35 — Creed — 4.5/5 Adonis Creed goes looking for Rocky to train him, but the movie eventually becomes less about another boxing underdog and more about the relationship developing between the two men. The first half feels like a solid three-to-three-and-a-half. Then the second half kicks it up to 4.5/5. 01:14:44 — Just One Minute of Creed II It’s 1:30 in the morning. There is work in the morning. Drago appears. Self-control barely survives. 01:16:06 — Warrior — 5/5 Tom Hardy. Joel Edgerton. Nick Nolte. Two estranged brothers enter the same massive MMA tournament while carrying years of family damage, resentment and unfinished business. The fighting is great. The family drama is what makes the movie. THE LISTS 01:21:43 — Collider Ranks the Friday the 13th Movies Because it’s Friday the 13th, a Jason ranking seems mandatory. Then Collider puts Jason X at #12 and the relationship immediately becomes hostile. By #5, the website launches an ad takeover and kills the segment. 01:24:15 — “Deleted. I’m Done.” Collider’s full-screen ad wins. The Friday list does not survive. 01:24:52 — Collider: 10 Most Hopeless Movie Endings of All Time https://collider.com/most-hopeless-movie-endings-of-all-time-ranked/ #10 — Dr. Strangelove #9 — Come and See #8 — Ran #7 — Requiem for a Dream #6 — Dancer in the Dark #5 — The Godfather Part II #4 — The Mist #3 — Das Boot #2 — Grave of the Fireflies #1 — Threads 01:28:51 — Threads Wins Congratulations. Nobody feels better. 01:29:19 — Doom Core Is Born This isn’t hopeless. It’s Doom Core. 01:29:58 — Collider: 10 Darkest Drama Movies, Ranked https://collider.com/drama-movies-darkest-ranked/ The second list starts with M, Tokyo Story, A Woman Under the Influence, The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now. Somebody apparently decided Love Songs Month needed revenge. AVENGERS & WHAT’S NEXT ~01:37 — Avengers Gets More Scenes Discussion turns to the new Avengers material and why those movies still work when they hit the right emotional beats. “On your left.” Cap lifting Mjolnir. “I love you 3000.” Stupid superhero movies can still produce genuine movie-magic moments. 01:40:10 — The End of Oak Street That one is absolutely going on the watch list. Drama Month will continue. Probably. Unless dinosaurs happen. MGP MOMENTS 00:01:05 — The Intro Is the Most Professional Thing We Do 00:03:52 — “The Boobs and the Kills.” 00:07:00 — F**k Your Meemaw and Peepaw 00:10:33 — Jollywood Is Born 00:15:03 — The Train Moves and Hope Dies 00:16:08 — “I Need a Happy F*****g Ending.” 00:20:27 — Six Centimeters and Micromanagement 00:21:05 — Ghost Stories Is the Greatest Anime Ever 00:22:30 — Hope Core 00:30:30 — Green Book Gets Tony Choked Up 00:37:05 — Green Book: 5/5 00:38:14 — Be Careful Saying Enigma 00:47:02 — Oppenheimer: 5/5 00:54:32 — Jason Forgot Stacy Keach Died 01:08:18 — The Real Death of Robin Hood 01:11:39 — Creed Jumps to 4.5/5 01:16:06 — Warrior: 5/5 01:22:19 — Collider Puts Jason X Last 01:24:15 — Collider Gets Deleted 01:28:41 — “Is This Sadism.com?” 01:29:19 — Doom Core 01:40:37 — “Don’t Forget… I Don’t Know, Just Don’t Forget.” Movies Music Mayhem If you want to get ahold of us drop us an Email at: MediaGloryholePodcast@gmail.com Check out the Playlists we create on our Music Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/user/31sj245qbnur6m4hrst5qsmuvbku?si=cc413ce13e894bb2 Getting Professional Check out our Link Tree. https://linktr.ee/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show

    EP 94 — Hope Core, Doom Core & Six Centimeters

  2. 6d ago

    EP 93 — Godzilla, Rocky & No More Feelings

    Send us Fan Mail Drama Month starts by immediately proving it wants everyone emotionally compromised. Godzilla wrecks Tokyo and our feelings, Robin Hood earns a perfect score, Rocky gets a four-movie marathon, anime makes things worse, and Collider drags us through 35 dramas like we didn’t already suffer enough. 00:01:01 — What an Intro Drama Month plus Love Songs Month sounded fine on paper. Then the intro played and everybody realized this was going to be a rough emotional month. 00:02:14 — Godzilla Minus Zero — In Theaters The sequel to Godzilla Minus One picks up two years later and somehow manages to be just as much a war drama about grief, trauma and survival as it is a giant-monster movie. King Ghidorah enters the picture, Godzilla’s role changes, the action gets huge, and the emotional damage gets worse. The verdict: another excellent movie, and absolutely worth seeing on the big screen. 00:09:38 — “Have a Safe Trip” The ending hits hard enough that this phrase may now qualify as a threat. 00:12:17 — Hollywood Should Be Ashamed A movie that looks this good on a reported budget under $20 million leads to questions about what the hell everybody else is spending money on. 00:15:22 — Foreign Movies Keep Winning After foreign-film month, thriller month and a pile of international horror, the argument keeps coming back: some of the best stuff they’ve watched this year came from outside Hollywood. 00:18:25 — Watch Minus One First The spoiler-light recommendation is simple: watch Minus One at home, then go see Minus Zero while it’s still in theaters. And don’t let subtitles scare you off. 00:21:01 — Godzilla Minus One — Netflix A rewatch before seeing the sequel confirms it: still excellent, still emotional, still one of the strongest Godzilla movies ever made. DRAMA MONTH 00:21:13 — The Green Knight — Hulu Dev Patel’s Arthurian fantasy gets a solid 3/5. Beautiful, strange, deliberately paced and almost structured like separate chapters of a journey. The ending works, but Tony still wanted just a little more closure. 00:23:42 — The Death of Robin Hood — HBO Max Hugh Jackman plays a worn-down, violent Robin Hood looking back at the legend everyone else built around him. This is not Prince of Thieves. This is not Men in Tights. It’s brutal, slow when it needs to be and focused on what a lifetime of violence actually does to a person. Tony: 5/5. 00:27:13 — Godzilla Somehow Becomes Logan The Minus movies get compared to Logan: technically genre movies, but the superhero/monster part is really just the framework for a much more human story. 00:30:05 — “Robin Is a Hood” The title finally makes sense. ROCKY MARATHON 00:31:27 — Rocky — Prime Video The original still plays a little dated, but the underdog story absolutely works. Rocky doesn’t even need to win. He just needs to prove he belongs in the ring with Apollo Creed. 00:34:19 — Rocky’s Karate Kid Moment Rocky is battered, Apollo thinks he’s finished, and then Rocky waves him back in. It’s the crane-kick moment of the movie without a crane kick. 00:34:55 — Rocky II — Prime Video Basically the first movie’s emotional sequel: Apollo needs the rematch, Rocky has to decide if he can do this again, and this time he actually wins. 00:35:48 — Rocky III — Prime Video Mr. T arrives as Clubber Lang, Mickey dies, Apollo becomes Rocky’s trainer, Eye of the Tiger kicks in, and the franchise enters full montage mode. 00:37:09 — “Prediction? Pain.” Mr. T delivers one of the greatest sports-movie lines ever and Rocky III basically never looks back. 00:37:36 — Rocky IV — Prime Video Ivan Drago. Apollo Creed. James Brown. Siberia. Mountains. Tractor tires. Possibly the greatest training montage ever put on film. 00:38:24 — Apollo’s Boxing Shorts A touching friendship between Rocky and Apollo is briefly derailed by the realization that Rocky is apparently wearing another man’s sweaty, ball-hugging boxing trunks. 00:41:10 — The Rocky IV Montage Problem Dragging tractor tires, chopping wood, lifting his entire torso off a table and literally running up a mountain. Completely ridiculous. Completely perfect. 00:42:03 — Rocky V Gets Mentioned and Immediately Loses Probably still the least favorite. 00:42:48 — I Play Rocky Is Now Mandatory After the marathon, the upcoming movie about Stallone getting Rocky made is no longer optional. ANIME 00:43:53 — A Silent Voice — Crunchyroll Jason finally watches it. Excellent movie. Beautifully made. Emotionally vicious. The movie deals with bullying, guilt, isolation, consequences and trying to repair damage that cannot simply be erased because somebody finally learned a lesson. 00:45:23 — A Silent Voice Is Not a Gateway Anime It may be excellent enough to convince someone animation can tell serious adult stories. It may also emotionally destroy them so badly they never watch anime again. 00:47:57 — “I Don’t Like Drama Month” We are one week in. 00:48:52 — The Promised Neverland — Season 1 — Crunchyroll A possible gateway-anime recommendation until the first episode reveals that the loving orphanage is actually raising highly intelligent children as premium demon food. Season 1 gets strong praise for the hook, tension, planning and psychological cat-and-mouse game. ~00:56 — The Promised Neverland Season 2 Has a Reputation Season 1 is the recommendation. Season 2 is discussed mostly as the part people warn you about. 01:01:23 — A Story of Derry — HBO Max The Halloween special goes back into the Native American history surrounding Pennywise and the origins of the weapon connected to him. Only about half an hour long, but a cool piece of Derry mythology. 01:02:35 — Big World Goes on the Watchlist A Korean drama about a young man with cerebral palsy trying to find his place in the world looks excellent. Nobody currently has the emotional strength for it. TRAILERS 01:06:05 — Kiroshi — Trailer One of the trailers before Godzilla Minus Zero catches both hosts immediately. 01:06:36 — Look Back — Live-Action Trailer Yes, they’re making a live-action version. Yes, live-action anime adaptations are dangerous territory. And yes, it actually looks really good. 01:09:41 — Media Glory Hole Acting Academy Can’t act? Neither can half of Hollywood. Courses include crying on command, dramatic window staring, slapping someone in slow motion and advanced whispering while looking constipated. 01:10:33 — Slayground — Trailer Jeremy Saulnier’s new horror movie follows a haunt actor trying to figure out what happened after the people he worked with at a haunted attraction are killed. The trailer looks damn good. THE LIST 01:05:24 — Collider: 35 Best Drama Movies of All Time, Ranked https://collider.com/best-drama-movies-all-time-ranked/ Collider apparently came prepared with film-school homework. The list runs through Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Whiplash, The Red Shoes, Wild Strawberries, The Father, Magnolia, Titanic, There Will Be Blood, Do the Right Thing, Goodfellas, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and plenty more. 01:15:39 — Collider Top 10 #10 — Schindler’s List #9 — Bicycle Thieves #8 — Raging Bull #7 — Lawrence of Arabia #6 — The Shawshank Redemption #5 — Tokyo Story #4 — Casablanca #3 — 12 Angry Men #2 — The Godfather #1 — Citizen Kane The general complaint: apparently dramas stopped being made sometime around 1997. 01:17:05 — Harper’s Bazaar Enters the Fight A second drama list gets pulled up because apparently one list wasn’t enough punishment. MGP MOMENTS 00:01:13 — “We Are Not Doing Well Emotionally Today.” 00:03:00 — Godzilla Breaks Your Heart and Then Stomps on It 00:08:55 — King Ghidorah Is Ivan Drago 00:09:53 — “Have a Safe Trip” Is Now a Threat 00:12:17 — Hollywood Should Be Ashamed 00:23:55 — The Death of Robin Hood Gets a 5/5 00:30:05 — “Robin Is a Hood” 00:34:19 — Rocky’s Karate Kid Moment 00:37:09 — “Prediction? Pain.” 00:38:24 — Apollo Creed’s Sweaty Boxing Shorts 00:41:10 — Greatest Training Montage Ever 00:43:53 — Jason Finally Watches A Silent Voice 00:47:57 — Drama Month Is Already a Mistake 00:50:15 — The Promised Neverland Reveals the Farm 01:04:37 — Movies That Make You Never Want to Watch Movies Again 01:06:58 — “You Already Bought Tickets.” 01:09:59 — “What’s My Motivation?” “Your Student Loans!” 01:16:56 — Citizen Kane Wins Again Movies Music Mayhem If you want to get ahold of us drop us an Email at: MediaGloryholePodcast@gmail.com Check out the Playlists we create on our Music Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/user/31sj245qbnur6m4hrst5qsmuvbku?si=cc413ce13e894bb2 Getting Professional Check out our Link Tree. https://linktr.ee/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show

    EP 93 — Godzilla, Rocky & No More Feelings

  3. Oct 31

    EP 92 — Horror Month Dies Screaming

    Send us Fan Mail Horror Month reaches the finish line with Lucio Fulci, David Cronenberg, Halloween favorites, bizarre anime, Jason’s attempt to fix the Top 50 and one last trip through the gates of hell before November ruins everything with love songs and drama. 00:01:17 — A Rough Week for Star Trek Fans Walter Koenig and Sir Patrick Stewart lead into a much more emotional opening than usual. 00:02:16 — RIP Sir Patrick Stewart Captain Picard. Professor X. Shakespeare. Dune. Green Room. American Dad. The poop emoji. A career so ridiculously varied that even people who were never massive Star Trek fans still grew up with the guy everywhere. The conversation turns into the strange kind of grief that comes when someone you never knew personally has still somehow been part of your life for decades. 00:06:26 — Somebody Check on Ian McKellen Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen’s decades-long friendship leads into a much more personal discussion about losing close friends and why those relationships hit differently. 00:10:06 — Patrick Stewart Was the Poop Emoji A Shakespearean actor, Jean-Luc Picard, Professor X…and yes, eventually the voice of poop. Range. 00:16:38 — I Play Rocky The upcoming Stallone biopic about getting Rocky made looks fantastic, largely because the entire movie revolves around Stallone refusing increasingly large piles of money unless he gets to play Rocky himself. 00:19:27 — Godzilla Minus Zero Early buzz has both hosts ready to make this one a theatrical trip, especially after regretting missing Minus One on the big screen. ANIME 00:21:30 — Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood — Crunchyroll Six episodes in and it’s already landing. The main complaint: stop turning everybody into goofy little chibi drawings every five minutes when the rest of the story is actually getting interesting. The warning from across the table: keep the tissues nearby. 00:25:22 — Rooster Fighter — Hulu Jason finally watched the first three episodes. The verdict is basically: Tony was not exaggerating. It somehow manages to be a serious revenge anime with good fights, giant demons, actual character backstories…and an alarming amount of rooster sex. Nobody knows why it works. It just does. 00:27:00 — “There’s a Lot of Rooster Sex Going On.” This becomes considerably harder to dispute once both hosts have actually seen it. 00:30:40 — Why You Don’t Watch Rooster Fighter With the Kids There are some conversations a father simply doesn’t need to have. 00:32:46 — Media Glory Hole Halloween Costumes Werewolf with male-pattern baldness. Sexy tax auditor. Zombie construction worker who only shows up on payday. And the Invisible Man costume: an empty box for $79.99. FINAL ITALIAN HORROR CHALLENGE 00:34:10 — The Beyond (1981) — Tubi The final Italian Horror Challenge finally gives Tony a Lucio Fulci movie that really lands. A Louisiana hotel sits on a gateway to hell, logic occasionally goes out the window, zombies show up and Fulci throws enough gore and nightmare imagery at the screen that eventually you just stop asking questions. Tony’s verdict is immediate: this one was good. 00:36:08 — An Italian Movie That Actually Makes Sense The bar has apparently been lowered to “I understood what happened.” ~00:42 — Fulci Gets Weird Eye trauma, acid, spiders and the kind of practical gore that makes you understand exactly why Fulci has his reputation. 00:49:32 — Italian Horror Ends on a High Note After Deep Red, Torso, Pieces, Suspiria and The Beyond, the experiment ends with Fulci probably being the better fit for Tony than Argento. 00:50:05 — Media Glory Hole Haunted Rentals 00:51:08 — The Haunted Fleshlight Problem The commercial says flashlight. Nobody hears flashlight. CLASSICS WEEK 00:52:27 — The Brood (1979) — Tubi David Cronenberg’s body-horror meditation on generational trauma gets respect more than love. Well made. Interesting. Good movie. But after a month of chainsaws, demons, gore and Italian lunacy, this one lands more as average for Tony than a new favorite. 00:53:58 — We Finally Diagnose Tony’s Horror Taste Highbrow psychological horror: “Yeah, that was pretty good.” Some lunatic covered in oatmeal gets nailed to a wall: “NOW WE’RE F*****G TALKING.” 01:00:22 — The Brood Verdict Probably the least favorite of the challenge movies, but not a miss. Just average. 01:01:55 — Trick ’r Treat — HBO Max Not much left to say after talking about it all month. Excellent Halloween movie. Watch it on Halloween. End of discussion. 01:02:19 — Ready or Not — Netflix Samara Weaving gets hunted by her new in-laws in a movie that remembers horror can be bloody, tense and really damn fun at the same time. Tony loved it. 01:03:41 — Ready or Not 2 Goes on the List The sequel apparently starts almost immediately after the original. So naturally there’s now another movie Tony has to watch. 01:12:09 — The Lost Boys — AMC+ Part nostalgia, part personal connection and part because it’s still just a fantastic vampire movie. One of Matt’s favorites and one of Tony’s favorites. Top-tier vampire flick, period. 01:12:19 — The Return of the Living Dead — AMC+ The annual rewatch. Talking zombies, Tar Man, punk soundtrack, “send more cops” and a movie that has only gotten better with age. Tony’s case: it may simply be the best zombie movie ever made. 01:14:30 — The Innkeepers — Prime Video Ti West goes low-key with two amateur ghost hunters working the final days of a closing hotel. Quiet, creepy, comfortable and then considerably less comfortable by the ending. 01:15:32 — The House of the Devil — Prime Video Another Ti West movie, this time going full late-’70s/early-’80s atmosphere. A babysitting job during an eclipse turns into something much darker. 01:17:47 — The Cycle — Shudder A brand-new Deborah Ann Woll horror movie that is almost impossible to discuss without ruining what makes it work. Best advice: go in blind. Something starts as a murder mystery and eventually becomes a very different kind of movie. 01:21:38 — Oddity — Hulu An Irish supernatural mystery about a murdered woman, her psychic twin and a deeply unsettling wooden figure. Slow, creepy, practical effects and the kind of horror that gets under your skin rather than beating you over the head. Tony puts it near the top of recent Irish horror. JASON’S TOP 50 HORROR MOVIES 01:24:11 — Jason Tries to Fix the Top 50 After last week’s Time Out list caused psychological damage, Jason builds his own 50. This one is Jason’s personal list, so there isn’t an outside list address to include. It starts with: #50 — The House of the Devil #49 — The Collector #48 — The Loved Ones #47 — It Follows #46 — The Ring #45 — Barbarian #44 — 30 Days of Night …and keeps getting increasingly personal as the rankings climb. THE TOP 10 #10 — Oddity #9 — The Lost Boys #8 — Session 9 #7 — The Blob (1988) #6 — Re-Animator #5 — A Nightmare on Elm Street #4 — The Return of the Living Dead #3 — The Exorcist #2 — Trick ’r Treat #1 — Halloween 01:34:07 — The Babadook Threat For one horrifying moment it looks like Jason might destroy the entire list with a joke. He wisely chooses life. THE HAT HAS SPOKEN — NOVEMBER 01:37:35 — Music: Love Songs Of all the months to draw Love Songs, naturally it happens in November instead of February. 01:38:26 — Movies: Drama Tony immediately realizes this means he can watch Rocky. Suddenly Drama Month doesn’t sound so bad. COMING SOON 01:40:04 — November Streaming Preview Among the stuff on the radar: Motor City — AMC+ Alan Ritchson and Detroit. That’s enough to get attention. Carolina Caroline — Netflix Crime movie plus Samara Weaving. The Odyssey — VOD One both hosts expect to eventually watch. Ice Cream Man — Shudder — Nov. 20 Immediate yes. The Mosquito Bowl — Netflix — Nov. 25 Football and war, which sounds like something Drama Month can absorb without a problem. LIONS TALK ~01:54 — Detroit Lions Rant Football inevitably takes over the ending. The upcoming matchup, the defense, questionable officiating against Green Bay and years of being on the wrong side of bad calls all get thrown into the pile. The official position: after decades of getting screwed, nobody wants to hear complaints now. MGP MOMENTS 00:02:36 — “I’m Done With the Podcast of Life.” 00:07:47 — The Immortality List 00:10:06 — Patrick Stewart Was the Poop Emoji 00:11:32 — Thespianism 00:16:45 — I Play Rocky 00:19:09 — Zombie Rocky 00:24:26 — “Dedicate Your Heart.” 00:27:00 — There Is a Lot of Rooster Sex Going On 00:30:40 — Explaining Rooster Sex to the Kids 00:33:30 — The $79.99 Invisible Man Costume 00:36:08 — An Italian Movie Made Sense 00:51:08 — Haunted Fleshlight 00:53:58 — Tony’s Horror Taste Is Diagnosed 01:02:19 — Ready or Not Was Just F*****g Fun 01:12:21 — Best Zombie Movie Ever? 01:20:08 — “Silence Support the show

    EP 92 — Horror Month Dies Screaming

  4. Oct 25

    EP 91 — Sadness, Snow Nazis & Rooster Fighter

    Send us Fan Mail Zombie Week brings Korean heartbreak, Canadian word viruses, Nazi zombies, British reality-show carnage and enough fake blood to bankrupt a corn syrup factory. Before that, anime gets weird and the Italian Horror Challenge takes another hit. 00:01:18 — Clearance Snacks The episode begins where all serious criticism should: discounted s’mores supplies and caramel shooting directly down somebody’s throat. 00:02:48 — RIP John Anderson Country singer John Anderson gets remembered through Seminole Wind, Straight Tequila Night and a career that turns out to be a lot bigger than one host realized. 00:04:22 — RIP Tom Skerritt — 75 A salute to the Top Gun, Picket Fences and Alien veteran and a career approaching 200 acting credits. 00:05:25 — Ridley Scott & Alien More Alien may be coming from Ridley Scott, assuming Ridley Scott ever actually decides to stop working. 00:07:23 — The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil Remake James Wan is reportedly circling an American remake with Keanu Reeves and original star Ma Dong-seok. Nobody thinks the original needs remaking, but that lineup is at least interesting. ANIME 00:09:14 — The Summer Hikaru Died — Netflix Three episodes into a horror anime about a boy realizing the friend who returned from the mountains is absolutely not his friend anymore. The replacement admits it almost immediately, then basically asks if they can keep hanging out because being human is fun and murdering him would be inconvenient. Creepy, strange and interesting enough to keep watching. 00:11:19 — Rooster Fighter — Hulu A wandering rooster battles giant demons, hooks up with hens and somehow plays like a completely sincere battle anime. The first episode alone creates several moments of “what the hell am I watching?” followed immediately by “I guess I have to watch another one.” 00:19:21 — Media Glory Hole Donuts Glazed and Confused. Critically Unqualified Crullers. Probably not FDA approved. SPOOKY TIME 00:20:51 — Crystal Lake — Peacock The full season gets finished, and the verdict is positive. It’s less “naked teenagers get killed at camp” and more Pamela and Jason Voorhees backstory, conspiracies and family mythology — but the kills are still there. Not necessarily the greatest television ever made, but a damn good watch for a Friday the 13th fan. 00:22:42 — Why Does Friday the 13th Still Work? Kills, final girls, Tom Savini, cheap budgets and the fact that these movies were never pretending to be high art. 00:25:01 — Jason X Defense Continues No Jason X slander will be tolerated. ITALIAN HORROR CHALLENGE — WEEK 4 00:28:00 — Suspiria (1977) — Tubi The Dario Argento classic finally gets its turn. Verdict: better than Deep Red, better than some of the earlier challenge movies, visually impressive…and still not really Tony’s thing. The colors are gorgeous. The practical effects are impressive. The maggots are disgusting. The atmosphere is respected. But respect and love are not the same thing. 00:29:25 — Anime Boy With a Rock vs. Suspiria Apparently Tony will watch a kid learn about friendship from a rock but draws the line at too much red lighting. 00:30:12 — The Maggot Scene One host discusses maggots. The other remembers he needs to eat rice later. 00:31:28 — Suspiria Verdict Not bad. Not hated. Just not his cup of tea. 00:34:21 — Final Italian Challenge: The Beyond — Tubi The last Italian Horror Challenge is Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond. Less colorful than Suspiria, more supernatural, plenty of mood and at least one legendary exploding head. 00:35:45 — Media Glory Hole Hardware Long screws. Heavy-duty fasteners. Oversized bits. Plenty of caulk. Absolutely nothing suggestive going on here. ZOMBIE / INFECTED WEEK 00:36:58 — The Sadness — Shudder The weekly challenge wastes no time establishing itself as an all-out assault. This is the “somebody bought every gallon of fake blood in Taiwan” branch of horror: brutal, mean, exhausting and very effective. It ends up among the strongest challenge movies of the month even if watching it feels like being beaten with the movie itself. 00:47:29 — The Challenge Rankings REC 1 and 2 are now officially considered one giant movie by the podcast. Then When Evil Lurks, The Sadness and Them all fight for position behind it. NEXT WEEK — CLASSICS 00:50:18 — Classic Halloween Week Next week drops the narrow theme. Watch whatever old-school Halloween movie feels right. 00:50:38 — Challenge Option #1: The Brood — Tubi David Cronenberg, creepy children and a much more “serious film” option. 00:51:15 — Challenge Option #2: Tourist Trap — Tubi The other choice: stranded teenagers, a roadside attraction and deeply unsettling mannequins. ZOMBIE MOVIES 00:52:47 — Train to Busan — Peacock Both hosts watched it, and both land in basically the same place: this movie is fantastic. Great characters, fast zombies, relentless pacing and emotional beats that somehow make the action hit harder instead of slowing it down. The ending remains devastating. 01:02:37 — Pontypool — Philo A completely different zombie movie. A Canadian radio host sits inside a station while an outbreak spreads through language itself. Certain English words essentially infect people. Minimal locations, minimal gore and one of the strangest outbreak concepts of the week. Not for everyone, but definitely different. 01:06:47 — Dead Snow — Shudder Medical students in Norway accidentally disturb Nazi treasure and wake up the Nazi zombies who still want their stuff. Snowmobiles, machine guns, severed limbs and absolutely no concern for realism. Exactly the kind of movie it should be. 01:08:57 — Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead — Tubi The sequel decides the first movie wasn’t ridiculous enough and escalates accordingly. More blood, more zombies, bigger set pieces and essentially World War II zombie reenactment insanity. 01:10:07 — Dead Set — Prime Video Five short episodes that basically play like one two-and-a-half-hour zombie movie set around the British Big Brother house. Fast zombies, reality-show contestants, nasty violence and an ending so cheerful that Train to Busan somehow becomes the feel-good movie of Zombie Week. 01:13:48 — Shaun of the Dead — Peacock The required emotional detox after The Sadness. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost remain one of those pairings where even a zombie apocalypse somehow feels like two guys stumbling through an especially bad Tuesday. 01:16:34 — Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula — Peacock Four years later, the sequel turns the zombie apocalypse into something much closer to Tokyo Drift crossed with Mad Max. Different characters, bigger action, weaponized zombie hordes and much less of the emotional weight of the original. Fun if you stop expecting another Train to Busan. Rating: 3.5/5. HALLOWEEN CLASSICS TALK 01:23:54 — Trick ’r Treat Is Mandatory There are movies you watch in October, and then there are movies that basically are October. Halloween and Trick ’r Treat land firmly in the second category. 01:29:54 — Somehow It’s Already Week 5 Seven days until Halloween, which means everyone confidently announces they won’t watch anything next week. This has worked out extremely well every previous time. LIST 01:31:01 — Time Out: 50 Best Halloween Movies of All Time https://www.timeout.com/film/best-halloween-movies-of-all-time The list starts out pretty strong and then becomes increasingly confusing. There’s plenty to like — The Funhouse, X, classics, newer stuff and a good spread across decades — but putting Final Destination Bloodlines at #5 while Halloween and Trick ’r Treat sit much lower causes an extended philosophical crisis. 01:54:52 — #1: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Perfectly defensible. The road getting there? Much stranger. 01:56:15 — Final Destination Bloodlines at #5 Breaks the Room A Halloween list placing an actual movie named Halloween below Final Destination Bloodlines becomes difficult to process. 01:59:24 — Fixing the Categories Ourselves Best found footage? REC. Best anthology? Trick ’r Treat. Best ghost story? Debate begins. Best cult slasher? Now we’re fighting again. 02:01:19 — The List Is Somehow Good and Bad at the Same Time Unlike lists that are just terrible, this one is frustrating because most of it is actually solid. Then it does something completely insane and ruins everyone’s confidence again. MGP MOMENTS 00:01:58 — Caramel Shoots Straight Down the Throat 00:10:03 — “I Really Don’t Want to Slaughter You.” 00:12:05 — Rooster Fighter Immediately Establishes What Kind of Show It Is 00:15:19 — “This Is Dumb. Why Can I Not Stop Watching?” 00:18:37 — The Isekai Nobody Asked For 00:22:03 — Jason Was a Childhood Hero, Explanation Goes Badly 00:25:01 — No Jason X Slander 00:29:25 — The Boy Who Talks to a Rock 00:30:12 — Maggots vs. Rice 00:34:12 — Recommendations vs. Jerking Yourself Off 00:35:45 — Media Glory Hole Hardware 00:38: Support the show

    EP 91 — Sadness, Snow Nazis & Rooster Fighter

  5. Oct 16

    EP 90A — Pieces of a Very Bad Idea

    Send us Fan Mail Horror Month rolls into Week 3 with trailers, weird new releases, anime, haunted hotels, Italian insanity and a movie called Pieces that absolutely lives up to its reputation. 00:02:08 — RIP RJ Mitte A sad start with the passing of Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte, his disability advocacy, reactions from his former castmates and the reminder that 34 is way too damn young. 00:07:23 — River Trailer Jane Levy heads into a backwoods survival/slasher setup involving siblings, their father’s ashes, a busted boat and a creepy bastard swimming toward them from shore. Trailer verdict: this looks pretty damn good. 00:08:25 — The Misadventures of Cliff Booth Brad Pitt’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood character gets his own movie, with David Fincher directing. That combination alone is enough to earn attention. 00:10:27 — Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew The new Narnia trailer looks promising, although casting Meryl Streep as Aslan leads to the important question: how exactly is that voice going to work? 00:11:53 — The Rescue Cowboy. Kidnapped daughter. Angry father going after the people who took her. Sometimes you really don’t need much more than that. LISTS 00:13:27 — 8 New Horror Movies Released This Week — Bloody Disgusting The weekly horror-release list brings us everything from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence to Last Chance Motel, Vampire Carnival, Other Mommy, an R.L. Stine project and somehow a horror movie called Flush about a guy getting his head stuck in a toilet. 00:15:12 — Old Horror Website Beef Returns Mentioning Bloody Disgusting resurrects some old Horror Club-era rivalry involving Dread Central, Arrow in the Head and Bloody Disgusting. Apparently grudges age beautifully. 00:19:12 — Pan’s Labyrinth Returns to Theaters The 20th-anniversary rerelease sparks some Guillermo del Toro appreciation and memories of seeing it theatrically the first time around. 00:20:33 — Glorious A guy trapped in a rest-stop bathroom with an eldritch being on the other side of a glory hole still sounds like a terrible pitch — and somehow became a genuinely funny, creepy and emotional movie. Also, this predates the Media Gloryhole Podcast name. Probably. 00:22:00 — Bubba Ho-Tep Elvis and JFK fighting a soul-sucking mummy in a nursing home is another perfect example of a synopsis that sounds completely idiotic until somebody actually makes a damn good movie out of it. 00:24:01 — Media Glory Hole Funeral Homes Buy one burial, get one half off. Conveniently located next to Glory Hole Donuts. Come for the coffee, stay forever. OT 00:26:12 — Welcome to OT The off-topic segment accidentally gets an official name, which probably means it’s now legally binding. 00:26:59 — Hokum — Hulu Adam Scott plays a damaged, obnoxious author who heads to Ireland and gets tangled up with a haunted hotel and a witch. Creepy, solid and worth watching, but not quite an instant classic. Rating: 3/5 00:28:37 — Crystal Lake The Friday the 13th series goes into Jason and Pamela Voorhees’ backstory. It’s bloody, well-made and much stranger than expected, including some government-experiment mythology that somehow hasn’t completely pissed anybody off yet. 00:33:03 — Berserk — Crunchyroll Restarting from the Golden Age material clears up the backstory and immediately sends the series way up the anime rankings. War story, Griffith, Guts, horrifying violence, the Eclipse and a hard reminder that this is absolutely not for children. ITALIAN HORROR CHALLENGE — WEEK 3 00:43:58 — Pieces (1983) — Tubi The third Italian Horror Challenge delivers one of the month’s most gloriously stupid experiences: chainsaws, severed body parts, inexplicable kung-fu attacks, bizarre dialogue, ridiculous characters and an ending that somehow manages to get even dumber after the killer is already dealt with. 00:50:20 — Surprise Kung-Fu Attack A completely unrelated Bruce Lee knockoff wanders into Pieces, attacks an undercover cop, gets hit in the balls and then wanders back out of the movie. Cinema. 00:52:52 — The Pieces Ending A corpse made from stitched-together body parts suddenly grabs a guy by the crotch, and then the movie freeze-frames. Because apparently ending normally was never an option. 01:06:10 — Pieces Verdict Trashy? Absolutely. Stupid? Without question. Entertaining the entire time? Pretty much. Rating: 3.5/5 NEXT ITALIAN HORROR CHALLENGE 01:09:58 — Suspiria — Tubi Next week goes back to Dario Argento with the original Suspiria. Witches, Goblin soundtrack and two more weeks of Tony wondering how much Italian horror one human being is expected to endure. MGP MOMENTS 00:10:00 — Everybody Survives. Happy Ending. Just rewrite depressing movies in your head. 00:15:14 — Bloody Disgusting Beef Old grudges die harder than horror villains. 00:18:56 — Cheese Grater Review Scale A new benchmark for bad cinema. 00:21:35 — The Glory Hole Origin Story Maybe Glorious planted a seed. 00:24:17 — Glory Hole Funeral Homes 00:30:03 — Make It Make Sense The unofficial third MGP tagline. 00:43:01 — Invisible Man Costume An empty box for $79.99. 00:50:20 — Random Kung-Fu Attack 00:52:52 — Pieces Goes for the Crotch 01:10:52 — “I Don’t Know How Much More Italian Shit I Get.” Movies Music Mayhem If you want to get ahold of us drop us an Email at: MediaGloryholePodcast@gmail.com Check out the Playlists we create on our Music Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/user/31sj245qbnur6m4hrst5qsmuvbku?si=cc413ce13e894bb2 Getting Professional Check out our Link Tree. https://linktr.ee/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show

    EP 90A — Pieces of a Very Bad Idea

  6. Oct 16

    EP 90B — REC, Raccoons & Rage

    Send us Fan Mail Found Footage Week starts with two phenomenal Spanish horror movies, gets quietly creepy with Lake Mungo, then eventually turns into a prolonged argument with a Bigfoot movie and possibly the entire internet. FOUND FOOTAGE WEEK 01:13:56 — Found Footage Week Begins Week 3 officially starts after the Haunted Rentals break. Cameras shake, people make terrible decisions and somehow nobody ever thinks to stop recording. 01:14:31 — [REC] — Tubi The challenge movie absolutely delivers. Fast, nasty, claustrophobic and one of those found-footage movies where the camera actually has a reason to keep running. What starts looking like an infected/zombie movie slowly turns into something much darker, and the night-vision finale is exactly the kind of image that sticks with you. 01:25:47 — [REC] 2 — Tubi The sequel starts almost immediately after the first movie and pushes the mythology much harder. Same building, same nightmare, more explanation and somehow even more chaos. The two films feel so tightly connected that the question becomes whether they basically shot one giant movie and cut it in half. ~01:39 — V/H/S Mixtape — Shudder The latest V/H/S outing does not go well. A few decent ideas and plenty of talent involved, but the wraparound and most of the segments land flat. Rating: 1/5 — DO NOT WANT 01:42:54 — Lake Mungo — Tubi The complete opposite of [REC]. Quiet, documentary-like and almost entirely built on atmosphere instead of blood, action or jump scares. The whole movie just sits there making you uncomfortable, and that slow-burn unease turns out to be exactly why it works. 01:53:35 — Home Movie — Tubi Twin children acting increasingly wrong, a father recording family life and a story that slowly shifts from “these kids are creepy” into something unmistakably supernatural. Rating: 4/5 01:57:24 — Willow Creek — Tubi And here we go. One host remembers liking Bobcat Goldthwait’s Bigfoot movie. The other spends the next ten minutes explaining why a long tent scene, vague noises in the woods and an ending that could just as easily involve a mountain lion or pissed-off raccoon do not constitute a satisfying Bigfoot movie. 02:04:54 — The 45-Minute Cut of Willow Creek Suggested alternate version: Shut it off the second they set up the tent. Congratulations. The movie is fixed. 02:08:17 — Final Prayer / The Borderlands A Vatican investigation team checks out a supposed miracle in an old church, and things eventually head underground in a direction nobody should ever willingly crawl toward. A much better example of low-budget found footage using its limitations instead of fighting them. 02:16:23 — Never Crawl Lower Builder advice and horror advice finally become the same thing: If the only escape route requires crawling farther down into an ancient church basement, accept your fate upstairs. NEXT WEEK — ZOMBIE / INFECTED 02:18:37 — Zombie / Infected Week Found Footage Week ends and attention turns to zombies, rage viruses and whatever technical argument we feel like having about the difference. 02:20:15 — Challenge: The Sadness — Shudder Next week’s challenge is The Sadness: extremely violent, extremely nasty and chosen largely to see what kind of reaction it causes. Train to Busan is also firmly on the agenda. LISTS 02:27:29 — 18 Best Zombie Movies Ever Made — Esquire The list immediately becomes questionable when Train to Busan lands at #17 and Return of the Living Dead at #16. This is not received calmly. 02:37:19 — 24 Best Zombie Movies Ever Made — IndieWire A second list attempt includes Warm Bodies, Return of the Living Dead, Dead Alive, Zombieland, Dawn of the Dead, Train to Busan, Shaun of the Dead, Zombie, [REC], Re-Animator and Romero’s Dawn of the Dead at #1. The placement of Return of the Living Dead remains unacceptable. MGP MOMENTS 01:20:22 — Don’t Chase the Little Girl 01:23:36 — “Shut Up and Listen to the Tape.” 01:26:38 — REC 2 Starts About 30 Minutes Later 01:41:43 — V/H/S Mixtape Gets a 1/5 01:44:38 — 90 Minutes of Unease 01:55:15 — Having Kids Is Already Found Footage 01:58:02 — The Willow Creek Tent Scene 02:01:33 — “It’s the Babadook All Over Again.” 02:04:58 — Shut Willow Creek Off at 45 Minutes 02:16:23 — Never Crawl Lower 02:26:58 — “F**k Willow Creek.” 02:29:01 — Willow Creek Somehow Gets Added to the Zombie List 02:41:14 — Willow Creek 2: The Creekening 02:43:01 — Wrap-Up Found Footage Week somehow became the favorite week so far, despite one extremely angry exception. Zombie Week is next. Movies Music Mayhem If you want to get ahold of us drop us an Email at: MediaGloryholePodcast@gmail.com Check out the Playlists we create on our Music Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/user/31sj245qbnur6m4hrst5qsmuvbku?si=cc413ce13e894bb2 Getting Professional Check out our Link Tree. https://linktr.ee/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show

    EP 90B — REC, Raccoons & Rage

  7. Oct 11

    EP 89 — France Talk & Flying Mannequins

    Send us Fan Mail Foreign Horror Week delivers homicidal children, Korean monsters, Australian psychopaths and enough Italian sleaze to make Deep Red look restrained. 00:02:39 — News & RIP Mike Ditka A rough little news week starts with the passing of Mike Ditka and turns into a pretty great appreciation of the kind of old-school, no-b******t personality that probably doesn’t get manufactured anymore. 00:07:09 — Hurricane Easy E Nobody can pronounce the hurricane’s real name, so the internet does what it does and turns it into Hurricane Easy E. 00:08:05 — Exorcist: Martyrs Trailer The new Exorcist movie looks interesting, especially with the detective angle, even if nobody knows yet whether that means it’ll actually be good. 00:09:06 — Saw & Paranormal Activity Are Still Alive Both franchises are moving forward again. At this point, if you’re still here, you already know exactly what you signed up for. 00:10:32 — Friday the 13th Rant Jason X slander will not be tolerated. Neither will pretending the 2009 remake deserves the beating it gets. 00:14:32 — Ted Lasso Season 4 Finale — Apple TV A very good, very emotional season finale and another reminder that once you buy into characters, TV can kick you in the chest just as hard as anything else. ITALIAN HORROR CHALLENGE — WEEK 2 00:23:29 — Torso (1973) — Tubi Italian Horror Challenge Week 2 gets significantly sleazier. The easiest explanation: it sometimes feels like somebody tried to shoot porn, couldn’t get the permit, and pivoted to a horror movie instead. Somehow that is also part of the charm. Compared with Deep Red, this one lands much better: shorter, nastier, easier to watch and way less interested in pretending it isn’t exploitation. 00:28:12 — The Flying Mannequin One of the great unintentional comedy moments of Horror Month: a dramatic childhood flashback ends with someone very obviously launching a dummy off a cliff. 00:31:17 — Finish Carpenter Reviews European Doors Skeleton keys, enormous door gaps and a brief professional assessment of why Tony would be unemployed if he installed doors like that. 00:48:59 — Media Glory Hole Meat Market Plenty of sausage. Apparently absolutely no shame. FOREIGN HORROR WEEK 00:50:16 — Foreign Horror Begins 00:51:21 — Them (Ils) — Shudder / AMC+ The Week 2 challenge is the French home-invasion movie Them. Creepy, stripped down, short and mean without going full Martyrs. The movie especially sticks the landing once the story heads underground and the truth about the attackers becomes clear. Two weeks of challenge movies, two wins. 01:10:26 — The Host — Prime Video Bong Joon Ho’s monster movie finally gets watched. Funny, political, sad and just weird enough to feel unmistakably Korean. The verdict: very good, but that ending hurts. 3.5/5. 01:23:08 — Wolf Creek — Tubi Australian outback horror built around one of the nastier screen psychopaths in Mick Taylor. Isolation, torture and the uncomfortable realization that Australia is a terrible place to have car trouble. 01:23:08 — Wolf Creek 2 — Tubi The sequel leans even harder into Mick, and may actually be the stronger movie simply because it gives him more room to be completely insane. 01:32:58 — Carrie — Prime Video Mike Flanagan’s new eight-episode Carrie series gets binged immediately. The reaction is mixed: very well made and interesting, but some of the added mythology and Dark Tower connective tissue feels like it’s fighting with the original story. NEXT WEEK — FOUND FOOTAGE 01:41:39 — Week 3: Found Footage Challenge: REC — Tubi The Spanish classic is next. Bonus Challenge: REC 2 — Tubi Not technically required, but strongly encouraged. Both are short, and Part 2 might somehow be even crazier. ITALIAN HORROR CHALLENGE — WEEK 3 01:42:50 — Pieces (1983) — Tubi Less traditional giallo, more completely unhinged Italian horror. It was controversial, sleazy as hell and apparently the next logical step after Torso. LISTS 01:46:13 — 10 Found Footage Horror Movies That Were Almost Perfect — Collider https://collider.com/found-footage-horror-movies-almost-perfect/ ~01:55 — 20 Best Found Footage Horror Movies — ScreenRant https://screenrant.com/best-found-footage-horror-movies/ 02:01:34 — 10 of the Scariest Found Footage Movies Streaming on Tubi — Dread Central https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/427049/10-of-the-scariest-found-footage-movies-streaming-on-tubi/ 02:07:15 — The Horror Club’s Best of Found Footage An old personal Horror Club list comes out of retirement with Blair Witch, Lake Mungo, Noroi, REC, Troll Hunter, The Poughkeepsie Tapes and plenty more. MGP MOMENTS 00:07:15 — Hurricane Easy E Weather reporting finally reaches its proper hip-hop form. 00:10:40 — “I Hope a House Drops on You” The official response to anyone claiming Jason X is the worst Friday the 13th movie. 00:12:56 — Friday the 13th Budget Meeting “Twenty bucks, a pack of bubble gum and a hockey mask. Let’s do this.” 00:16:38 — Tony Is Already Ready to Rewatch Attack on Titan Absolutely no recovery period whatsoever. 00:23:20 — Pants Down During the Commercial Break The bumper returns and immediately creates another HR violation. 00:25:00 — Torso Was Supposed to Be Porn Not proven. Still an alarmingly believable theory. 00:28:12 — Giuseppe Launches the Dummy Italian tragedy meets low-budget physics. 00:31:17 — Professional Door Inspection The finish carpenter cannot let the giant skeleton-key door gap go unchallenged. 00:49:47 — Media Glory Hole Beanie Weenie The Meat Market immediately loses whatever dignity it had left. 00:51:51 — “France Talk” The preferred technical term for French. 01:07:44 — Close the Bus Door After Them, nobody is stopping for a bunch of creepy kids coming out of the woods. 01:16:53 — The Host Gets 3.5/5 Good monster movie. Brutal ending. South Korea once again refuses to let anyone leave happy. 01:26:21 — Wolf Creek 2 Might Be Better More Mick Taylor apparently solves a surprising number of sequel problems. 01:43:42 — “Why Do We Need This Podcast Anymore?” A fair question. Immediately rejected. 01:57:34 — ScreenRant Declares War The website’s ad system becomes the real horror movie of the episode. 02:11:19 — Found Footage Is More Than Blair Witch A whole pile of recommendations proves there’s a lot more to the genre than the two or three titles everybody already knows. Movies Music Mayhem If you want to get ahold of us drop us an Email at: MediaGloryholePodcast@gmail.com Check out the Playlists we create on our Music Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/user/31sj245qbnur6m4hrst5qsmuvbku?si=cc413ce13e894bb2 Getting Professional Check out our Link Tree. https://linktr.ee/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show

    EP 89 — France Talk & Flying Mannequins

  8. Oct 6

    EP 88 — Horror Month Comes Out Swinging

    Send us Fan Mail Horror Month is officially underway: new anime, bad-movie memories, demon possession, classic Hellraiser, Deep Red, and the first real round of October challenges. 00:03:07 — RIP Kronos A quick remembrance of Kronos, lead singer of Venom, and a little love for one of the bands that helped shape extreme metal. 00:04:54 — Godzilla Minus Zero Trailer The final trailer drops, early word sounds extremely strong, and plans start forming to get a group together for the theater. 00:06:08 — Fast & Furious TV Series Peacock apparently decided the Fast & Furious universe still has miles left on it. The reaction is… less than enthusiastic. 00:07:37 — Bad Movies at a Memorial A memorial service turns into the perfect excuse to revisit some gloriously terrible movies, including The Apple and Creatures from the Abyss — aka Plankton. The old bad-movie-club energy comes right back. ANIME 00:12:01 — Overgeared — Crunchyroll Jason finds a brand-new anime first for once. A struggling gamer gets knocked back to level zero but gains the ability to craft god-tier equipment, which is enough to make the first episode worth following. 00:15:30 — Berserk Three episodes in and already getting introduced to Guts, extreme violence, emotional damage, and the fact that the anime community apparently takes forgetting the title personally. 00:16:55 — Ghost Stories — Prime Video The October secret anime project is finally revealed. The English dub is the whole point: chaotic, offensive, completely unrestrained and somehow brilliant. 00:23:11 — Weekly Question of the Week What are we actually hoping to get out of 31 Days of Horror? Mostly: find something great we haven’t seen before and see how the challenge movies land. 00:27:17 — Media Glory Hole Haunted Rentals The first Halloween commercial break arrives with cursed VHS tapes, possessed dolls, suspicious cabinets and a flashlight guaranteed to fail when you need it. And somehow “flashlight” immediately becomes “fleshlight.” HORROR MONTH — WEEK 1 00:30:18 — Backrooms — HBO Max A feature-length trip into the liminal nightmare. The movie takes the internet concept and turns it into a creepy psychological story with enough bizarre imagery to actually get under the skin. 00:37:10 — The Furious (2025) — Hulu The transcript identifies this as the Indonesian action movie. A mute father goes after the traffickers who took his daughter, and the movie eventually turns into a full-on stunt and martial-arts showcase. 00:57:47 — The Pope’s Exorcist — Hulu Russell Crowe rides into demon territory on a Vespa and somehow makes it work. Better than expected, fun as hell, and rated 4/5 in the discussion. 01:05:45 — Hellraiser — Prime Video Back to Clive Barker, Doug Bradley and the Cenobites. Still grimy, sexual, ugly, mythic and one of the stronger demon movies ever made. 01:05:45 — Hellbound: Hellraiser II — Prime Video Watched as part of the same double feature. The mythology expands, Hell opens up, and the first two movies remain the high point of the series. 01:12:14 — The Exorcist — Blu-ray The director’s-cut Blu-ray gets another spin, and the verdict hasn’t changed much: fifty years later, it still belongs in the conversation for greatest horror film ever made. 01:23:22 — When Evil Lurks — Shudder The Week 1 challenge lands hard. Modern possession horror, brutal atmosphere, and one of those movies that earns an immediate trip online afterward just to see how everybody else reacted. ITALIAN HORROR CHALLENGE 01:26:20 — Deep Red — Shudder The first real stop in the Italian horror challenge and a crash course in giallo. Beautifully shot, historically important, wildly stylized…and not exactly Tony’s favorite. The big issue: at over two hours, the movie keeps building momentum and then wandering off somewhere else. The craft gets respect; the pacing does not. HORROR MONTH — WEEK 2 01:39:37 — Foreign Horror Week Week 2 opens the door to anything outside American horror: different folklore, different filmmaking styles, different cultural rules, and hopefully some new nightmares. Challenge Movie: Them (Ils) — AMC+/Shudder A French home-invasion movie from the New French Extremity era. The warning is simple: don’t read anything about it first. Italian Horror Challenge: Torso — Tubi A nastier, seedier Italian horror pick that may land better after Deep Red. LISTS 01:50:23 — 47 Best Italian Horror Movies of All Time — Rotten Tomatoes https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-italian-horror-movies-of-all-time/ 01:59:07 — 10 Most Underrated European Horror Movies, Ranked — Collider https://collider.com/underrated-european-horror-movies-ranked/ 02:05:13 — 16 Best International Horror Movies of All Time — ScreenRant https://screenrant.com/best-international-horror-movies-of-all-time/ MGP MOMENTS 00:04:06 — Irish vs. Italian Horror Heritage Apparently Giallo Month means Tony is legally required to embrace the Italian side. 00:07:07 — Fast & Furious Should Have Ended Too One of the more merciless reactions to the TV-series news. 00:09:43 — The Real Star of Creatures from the Abyss The infamous lamp makes its triumphant return. 00:11:32 — The Room Almost Killed the Podcast Bad movies are supposed to be fun. The Room remains evidence that sometimes they are simply punishment. 00:15:18 — Jason Finally Wins Anime A genuinely historic moment: Jason watched a new anime before Tony. 00:20:01 — Ghost Stories Can’t Be Quoted Safely Every episode has about twenty lines worth repeating and almost none of them should be repeated in polite company. 00:28:23 — Haunted Fleshlight Rentals One misunderstood word immediately destroys the commercial break. 00:30:02 — Backdoor Burglars Word retrieval briefly fails spectacularly before Backrooms is remembered. 00:39:08 — The Furious Is Exhausting in the Best Way The stunt work gets so relentless that watching it starts to feel physically tiring. 01:14:31 — Horror Mount Rushmore The argument that The Exorcist doesn’t just belong among the greats — it might be the top of the mountain. 01:25:12 — “We Are the Tool” Media Glory Hole Hardware probably should not be trusted with actual construction materials. 01:28:17 — Deep Red Verdict “I didn’t like this movie.” Well. That gets the Italian Horror Challenge started cleanly enough. 01:37:22 — Deep Red Is Edging Me A remarkably accurate complaint about a movie repeatedly building momentum and then stopping dead. 01:49:42 — Already in Progress The bumper lands perfectly and immediately creates an imaginary conversation nobody heard. 02:04:25 — Collider Actually Did Good A European horror list gets the rare official seal of approval. Movies Music Mayhem If you want to get ahold of us drop us an Email at: MediaGloryholePodcast@gmail.com Check out the Playlists we create on our Music Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/user/31sj245qbnur6m4hrst5qsmuvbku?si=cc413ce13e894bb2 Getting Professional Check out our Link Tree. https://linktr.ee/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mediagloryholepodcast Support the show

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