Podcasting After Dark - Cult Movies and TV Shows
Podcasting After Dark is a deep-dive into the world of cult horror, sci-fi, and action movies from the 70's, 80's, and early 90's. Each episode, Corey Stevenson and Zak Shaffer breakdown and review a different late-night flick from their youth. These are the movies your parents didn’t want you to watch growing up!
Episodes
The Toxic Avenger (2025) synopsis: “A horrible toxic accident transforms downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze into a new evolution of hero: The Toxic Avenger.”
Starring: Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood, and Luisa Guerreiro
Director: Macon Blair
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) synopsis: “A remake of the 1984 cult classic.”
Starring: Rohan Campbell, Ruby Modine, Dean Sims, and Mark Acheson
Director: Mike P. Nelson
Merry Christmas! On t...
Silent Night (2012) synopsis: “The police force of a remote Midwestern town search for a killer Santa Claus who is picking off citizens on Christmas Eve.”
Starring: Jaime King, Ellen Wong, Donal Logue, and Malcolm McDowell
Director: Steven C. Miller
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991) synopsis: “An elderly toy maker and his son make killer toys designed to kill their customers' children.”
Starring: Jane Higginson, Tracy Fraim, Brian Bremer, and Mickey Rooney
Director: Martin Kitrosser
This month on 80s Kids Unite, Zak and Corey are joined by Wayne of the Flip City Podcast to discuss their favorite school dance memories! The boys do have to stretch their timeline into the 90s because one of them didn’t really go to any until high school, and there’s some trauma thrown in just for fun. It wouldn’t be an episode of 80s Kids Unite without it!
On this episode we celebrate Tremors with the director, Ron Underwood (Tremors, City Slickers, Heart & Souls) and the narrator of the audio novelization, Beneath Perfection, Zoran Gvojic!
Ron reminisces shooting the now cult classic, as well as other projects like Capricorn One! Zoran ...
Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990) synopsis: “A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season.”
Starrin...
Where you know her from: The Toxic Avenger (1984), Street Trash (1987), The Ambulance (1990)
This week on Interviews After Dark we talk to Emmy award winning make-up designer, Jennifer Aspinall!
Not only is Jennifer a ...
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989) synopsis: “The comatose Ricky Caldwell reawakens and begins to stalk a blind woman, who he shares a psychic connection with.”
Starring: Samantha Scully, Eric DaRe, Laura Harring, and Bill Moseley
Director: Monte ...
The Toxic Avenger (1984) synopsis: “Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.”
Starring: Andree Maranda, Jennifer Babtist, Cindy Manion, and Mitch Cohen
Direct...
This week on Podcasting After Dark, Zak, Corey, and Diallo discuss their favorite alternative Christmas movies! These can be movies that came out during the holidays, take place on Christmas, or just reminds them of simpler times. It’s a grab bag of (sort of) holiday films!
Also, it might ...
Akira (1988) synopsis: “A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a teenage biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by his best friend.”
Starring: Cam Clarke, Jan Rabson, Lara Cody, and Tony Pope
Director: Katsu...
This month on 80s Kids Unite, Zak, Corey, and Diallo are joined by John Toma, aka That_80s_Dude on Instagram, to reminisce about their favorite childhood field trips! From Washington D.C. museums to Detroit botanical gardens, the boys unpack lots of nostalgic memories from growing up in the 1980s!
Predator: Badlands (2025) synopsis: “A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary."
Starring: Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, Michael Homik, and Cameron Brown
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures Vol 1 (2023) synopsis: “Discover four “lost episodes” from the original 1980s cartoon the follows in the radical, two-toed footsteps of the classic animated series.”
This month on the Podcasting After Dark presents TV Obscura,...
Army of Darkness (1992) synopsis: “When Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, and Patricia Tallman
Director...
Angel (1984) synopsis: “Molly "Angel" Stewart is an honor student by day and a Hollywood hooker by night, and with a killer on the loose.”
Starring: Donna Wilkes, Rory Calhoun, Dick Shawn, and John Diehl
Director: Robert Vincent O'Neil
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Welcome to the first episode our new spinoff show, Paranormal After Dark! Here Corey sits down and talks to Zak and his family about their various paranormal stories. Each person shares one encounter: Zak and Corey share possible Sasquatch or Dogman sightings, Bodhi has a possible ghost sighting, and Kristen might have had a Sasquatch bang on the walls of a ca...
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) synopsis: “Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.”
Starring: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, and John Vernon
Director: Stephen Chiodo
Evil Dead II (1987) synopsis: “Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack."
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Denise Bixler, and Ted Raimi
D...
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