Escape The Tapes

Escape The Tapes

Escape The Tapes is your new favorite rewind button! Join best friends Thomas Massey & Brittany Vaughn as they dive headfirst into the dusty, glorious, and occasionally ridiculous world of old films, forgotten VHS gems, scratched-up DVDs, and vintage media madness. Each episode, they crack open a relic from their past and attempt to escape its cinematic clutches. Fair warning: things might get a little off topic, mildly unhinged, and dangerously nostalgic. From cult classics to “how did this get made?” disasters, no tape (or disc) is safe. Pop some popcorn, press play, and embrace the chaos with Escape The Tapes.

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May 9, 2026 98 mins

The man, the myth, the legend who wears many hats and has too many hands in the fire. Eric Miller joins as we talk screenwriting, movies that we'd love to see made, the "I never said it was good, I said I liked it", and every unhinged thing we can legally post in between. 

Find him at:

https://www.ericmillerwrites.com

https://www.instagram.com/ragingeric


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Doing a birthday episode with one of the homies. We talk gelatinous creatures, kinetic energy, the implications of standing the hell up in relationships, and good conquering evil. 

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Just boys being boys in the late 50’s. A heartwarming (and a wee depressing) coming of age inspired by the Stephen King novella “The Body” 

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March 20, 2026 48 mins

In this retrospective, we cover one of the greatest comic book movies of all time, and also Blade II. Spider-Man 2 will forever be in our hearts, loins, and thoughts. 

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March 19, 2026 58 mins

Celebrating a Friday the 13th the only way we legally know how- with Jason Voorhees (and in this one, his vengeful mommy)

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February 21, 2026 77 mins

The franchise that started it all 

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We go fully unhinged for a tragic love tale. Are we human? Or are we partly genomed insect? Join us and find out 

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You know the drill- we go over our top rom-coms via presidential ranking, we go over our honorable mentions, we get silly goofy, and we make you feel the LOVE. 

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February 4, 2026 67 mins

Our first official movie of the year is an Indiana Jones adventure directed by Steven Spielberg. We love action, we love adventure, we love our witty Indy, and we HATE Nazis. 

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January 21, 2026 43 mins

Going over 2025's least favorites, most favorites, and honorable mentions in terms of movies. We discuss our goals for 2026, and we have maybe unhinged thoughts about where we'd like to be. 

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January 16, 2026 44 mins

We love the discourse on if this is a Christmas movie, we love the actors, and we love the Bone Daddy™️. 

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January 3, 2026 56 mins

Going over vampire media and ranking our favorites from the 2010's and 2020's!

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December 27, 2025 41 mins

Throwing it back to the 80’s with some fun vampire picks! We’ve got Fright Night (1985) and The Lost Boys (1987). Once again.. Blade is mentioned 

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December 23, 2025 32 mins

Wishing Casper, the Harvey duo, and those terrible uncles three a happy thirtieth anniversary!

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October 20, 2025 55 mins

Kicking off the official Halloween season with some childhood bloodsucking friends. We have Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (2003) as our first pick and The Little Vampire (2000) following up. 

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Zoinks! It’s the podcasters! And their friend Andrew! This episode, the Mystery Machine definitely found more chaos than masked men in costume. There are laughs, there are songs, and we go over arguably the top 2 Scooby-Doo movies of all time on an incredibly unhinged, beginner horror ride for the ages. 

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September 20, 2025 56 mins

For the 20th anniversary of this movie, we rate our favorite kills, discuss the torture porn aspect of it all; and excitedly cheer on Paris Hilton. We also try to bring logic, meaning, and additional concerns to something that was already set in stone. 

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September 1, 2025 63 mins

Happy two years of the podcast! Join us as we go over the ICONIC Jennifer Check, her girl Needy, the sexualization of Megan Fox, the height of power, bad people making great art, and the implications of homoeroticism once again.

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August 27, 2025 63 mins

We swan dive into the 2003 sequel that took the X-Men to a  blockbuster powerhouse. We’ll talk about Nightcrawler’s unforgettable White House attack, Charles being manipulated by a little boy, Jean Grey’s ominous transformation, and why this movie still holds up as one of the best superhero sequels ever.


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August 15, 2025 38 mins

An entire episode of Brittany's accidental one woman show devoted to the 20th anniversary of this Tim Burton classic.

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