Tentacle Difficulties

Tentacle Difficulties

A celebration of horror, genre, & "low-brow" cinema. Hosted by Jeremy and Aubrie Van Zandt.

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May 27, 2024 84 mins

This month, Jeremy and Aubrie watched all 4 Prom Night movies from the original run of films! Aaannd also that  remake/reboot/requel/whatever from 2008. 

Join us as we discuss the good, the bad, and all the silliness in between! 


Intro music courtesy of: Trauma Czars
Outro music courtesy of: our stupid faces.

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As the snow finally starts to melt away around us this spring, we had an ooey-gooey good time treating ourselves to a double-scoop of The Stuff and washing it down with a stiff swig of Tenafly Viper. That's right, this month we're talking about Larry Cohen's "The Stuff" from 1985, and J. Michael Muro's "Street Trash" from 1987. 


How/where did we watch these? We bought the discs!...

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In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, we dive head first into the ENTIRE Leprechaun film franchise! That's right, we watched all 8 of these things and ummm... that was definitely a decision. 

How do we really feel about all of them? Listen now to find out!!!


(Into and outro music courtesy of Trauma Czars.)

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Jeremy and Aubrie try to find a little love within horror movies and (briefly) discuss some other Valentine's Day related classics too.

The 3 main movies covered this month are:

Unmasked Part 25 (1989 dir. Anders Palm)

Psychos in Love (1987 dir. Gorman Bechard)

Cemetery Man (1994 dir. Michele Soavi)


***Want to know a good way to watch these movies?

BUY THEM BELOW!!...

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January 30, 2024 77 mins

It's the very first episode of the Tentacle Difficulties Podcast!

For this introductory episode, we take a deep dive into the beloved Italian sub-genre known as "Giallo". And by deep-dive, I just mean that we ramble on about 30 or so of these movies and desperately try not to sound TOO stupid in the process... 

Did we succeed? Probably not. But we're brand new to this and had fun anyway. Maybe ...

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