Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik

Midnight Cinema with Art and Erik

Where cult classics, horror gems, and genre oddities get the deep dive they deserve. Hosts Art Hennessey and Erik Rodenhiser bring sharp insight, offbeat humor, and just the right amount of nerdy enthusiasm to every review. Expect hot takes, bad decisions (mostly by the filmmakers), and the occasional philosophical debate over exploding heads. If you love your movies strange and your commentary hilarious, welcome to your new favorite podcast.

Episodes

August 6, 2025 184 mins

Welcome, boils and ghouls... to the sleaziest siege movie ever blessed by the Crypt Keeper.

This week on Midnight Cinema, Art Hennessey and Erik Rodenhiser are heading to Wormwood, New Mexico to check into the world’s creepiest halfway house for a deep dive into 

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Stick to the road, stay off the Moors and most of all... beware the moon!  We're headed to the Slaughtered Lamb pub in East Proctor, England! 

Art Hennessey and Erik Rodenhiser make a meat loaf out John Landis's classic 1981 horror comedy, An American Werewolf in London. 

We dive into:

  • The werewolf transformation that changed movie makeup forever
  • The terri...
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July 23, 2025 132 mins

Slug trails, tentacles, hive minds, humor and way too much meat - we're heading to to Wheelsy! 🐛💥

This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik get good and gooey with James Gunn’s 2006 cult classic Slither. It’s got everything: alien parasites, grotesq...

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July 16, 2025 112 mins

Bring your Thunderbolt rocket, pack your Sacrifyx records, and meet us at the hole in the backyard—because Midnight Cinema is unlocking The Gate!

In this episode, Art and Erik dive headfirst into the swirling vortex of suburban horror that is The Gate (...

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July 9, 2025 235 mins

Grab your jack o'lantern, your rusty axe, and your 18th-century trauma—Midnight Cinema is heading to Sleepy Hollow!

This week, Art and Erik gallop into Tim Burton’s gloriously gothic 1999 film Sleepy Hollow, where heads roll, conspiracies twist, and Joh...

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July 2, 2025 214 mins

Grab your 7 Demon Bag, rally the Chang Sing, and hop on the Pork Chop Express—because we’re heading straight into the neon-lit chaos of Chinatown!

This week, Art and Erik throw on their tank tops and dive fists-first into John Carpenter’s 1986 cult classic Big Trouble in Little China. It’s...

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June 25, 2025 164 mins

Grab your driftwood, light the campfire and keep your radio tuned to 1340 WKAB because Midnight Cinema is rolling into Antonio Bay!

This week, Art and Erik sail straight into John Carpenter’s ghostly chiller The Fog (1980) It's a tale of seaside curses, ancestral conspirators, and some of the best spooky atmosphere ever committ...

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June 18, 2025 144 mins

Lace up those ballet slippers and keep one eye on the irises—Midnight Cinema is pirouetting straight into the Magic Triangle. 

This week, Art Hennessey and Erik Rodenhiser enroll at the mysterious and blood-soaked Helena Markos Dance Academy to unravel the dreamlike terror of Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977). It’s part Grimm’s Fairy Tale, part technicolor slasher, and all witchy madness.

We’re ta...

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June 11, 2025 165 mins

Fire up the Iron Mole and hold onto your umbrellas because we’re heading to the center of the Earth, baby!

This week, Art and Erik descend into the molten madness of At the Earth’s Core (1976), where Victorian adventurers drill their way into a lava-lit land of psychic bird overlords, and...

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June 4, 2025 173 mins

You're cordially invited to a midnight showing at the Waxwork! Just don’t step over the rope… and watch out for that evil baby.

This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik risk waxy death to revisit Waxwork (1988), the horror-comedy where walking into a muse...

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May 28, 2025 193 mins

REDRUM! It’s time for a trip to The Overlook.

In this chilling episode of Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik check in to Stanley Kubrick’s icy nightmare hotel. That's right, it's our deep dive into Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining.

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May 21, 2025 130 mins

Throw your jacket over the clown and tune your TV to the right channel—it's time to talk Poltergeist.

This week, Art Hennessey and Erik Rodenhiser dive headfirst into the haunted heart of suburbia with the 1982 classic that made us all afraid of static, closets, and bac...

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May 14, 2025 139 mins

Get your fishing gear, and get in losers — we’re heading to Noyo!

This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik wade waist-deep into the gooey, gory madness of Humanoids from the Deep (1980). It’s mutant fish monsters meets small-town s...

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May 7, 2025 143 mins

Get your massive Stetson Hat on! We're heading to Snowfield Colorado with Lawrence of Arabia! 

This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik dissect Dean R. Koontz's Phantoms, the 1998 sci-fi-horror-thriller-mystery-goo-creature-feature where Ben Affleck plays a sheriff (?!), Peter O’Toole delivers deep lore like he’s in Hamlet, and the villain is... a sentient oil slick with a library card.

They unpack the film’s baffling character c...

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April 30, 2025 121 mins

We're heading back to the mall, everybody! 

This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik rip into Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead (2004)—the zombie flick with sprinting corpses, mall carnage, chainsaws madness and, yes… a zombie baby. Plus, indie queen Sarah Polley somehow finds herself in the middle of it all!

They dig into why this remake still rips, how it hol...

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April 23, 2025 111 mins

Grab Your Shopping Carts!

Art and Erik are shambling their way through George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, where the dead walk, the living bicker, and the mall is somehow both sanctuary and nightmare.

They chat all things zombie: f...

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April 16, 2025 143 mins

Sometimes a mass ritual sacrifice is necessary to keep up office morale! 

In this episode of Midnight Cinema, Art Hennessey and Erik Rodenhiser head into Cabin in the Woods—where the monsters are terrifying, but middle management might be worse. 

We’re talking zombie redneck torture families, Latin no one should be reading, and a betting pool more intense than ...

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April 9, 2025 84 mins

Get ready to grab this fantastic beast by the horn!   

This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik saddle up for a wild ride through the 2025 horror-comedy Death of a Unicorn starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega.

We dive deep into its crazy mix of family drama, greed, gore and mythical creatures. 

Is it a cautionary tale wrapped in sparkles and gore—or just a unico...

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April 2, 2025 94 mins

Was that a meteor that just landed? Break out your flash powder and Halloween masks! In this episode of Midnight Cinema, Art Hennessey and Erik Rodenhiser take a spoiler-filled deep dive (or maybe a panicked stumble) into the slimy, tentacle-filled world of The Deadly Spawn! This 1983 indie horror gem proves that all you need to make a cult classic is a basement, a few buckets of monster goop, a LOT of blood and absolutely zero reg...

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March 26, 2025 89 mins

Check on your babies, gas up your dune buggies and get ready for a wild ride as Midnight Cinema dives into the bizarre, hilarious, and surprisingly action-packed world of Rumpelstiltskin (1995)! Hosts Art Hennessey and Erik Rodenhiser break down this horror-comedy gem, tackling its creepy moments, unhinged action, and just how much menace a tiny, rhyming goblin can really bring.

From budget constraints to bonkers police chases, fro...

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