Greetings! This is Adam Frazier and you’re about to shipwreck yourself on Skull-Face Island, the official movie podcast of Geeks of Doom! As always I’m joined by the Damien’s Babysitter, producer Tim “It’s All For You” Grant. David Allen will be absent this week. He seems to have found himself in a pickle of sorts. I have a note here that was delivered to me by a baby pterodactyl earlier today. It reads as follows:

“Hey guys. Sorry I won’t be there this week. I was out and about looking for a Halloween gift for the two of you when it struck me. I’ll kill that damn Pterodactyl that’s always shitting on Tim and I’ll present the skull as a gift for the upcoming holiday. Well, things didn’t work out that well. In my attempt to kill the beast, I slipped on some of its aforementioned shit and was then tackled by the creature. Right now, I’m hovering above the island in the grips of the pterodactyl. Luckily I had a pen and paper and was able to write this note. These little pterodactyls are really nice. One has even promised to deliver this note. So, I’m sure I’ll be down in a bit. Or not, but whatever, I’m just enjoying the ride. Have a good show.”

Godspeed, David! Today on the Show: We’ll discuss Tim Burton‘s stop-motion animated film, Frankenweenie and Stephen Chbosky‘s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Our friendly neighborhood robotic butler MAR-10 will provide us with the latest movie news, including Guillermo Del Toro‘s confirmation that he’s writing a script for his Frankenstein adaptation For Universal.

Hello Geeks and Ghouls, Famous Monster here. Well, it’s finally October and you know what that means? Breast Cancer Awareness 5Ks? Good guess. Pumpkin Spice Lattes? Delicious, but no. Halloween? YES. Horror movies? DOUBLE YES!

Welcome to 31 Days of Horror, where I’ll cover at least two noteworthy horror films a day for the entirety of the month. That’s 31 Days of Horror and 62+ scary movies perfect for a cold, dark October night. Be sure to visit Geeks of Doom every day this month for a double-shot of chills and thrills!

Today’s double-shot of creepy-crawly horror features David Cronenberg‘s 1986 film, The Fly, and Chuck Russell‘s 1988 The Blob – both of which are remakes of 1958 drive-in classics.

Wacky Packages, the hilarious and sharply illustrated trading cards which parody popular American consumer goods, celebrate their 45th year in existence this month. Produced by the Topps Chewing Gum company, best known for their sports card lines, especially the Baseball series, Wacky Packages remains, a popular favorite to this day.

The cards skewer everything from Rice-A-Roni, (dubbed Rice-A-Phony), Cheerio’s (dubbed Cheapio’s), Minute Rice (dubbed Minute Lice), Kool-Aid (dubbed Kook Aid), and even itself (dubbed Wormy Packages). The series also takes on cigarette ads, magazines, fast food, home cleaning products, and everything in between. The original series sets are highly collectible, and the cards remain valuable and nice individual works of art as well. The comedy style applied to the sets are of the Mad Magazine and National Lampoon humor mold and always hilarious and spot on with its uproarious take on the original products.

Kill List
Blu-ray | DVD
Directed by Ben Wheatley
Starring Neil Maskell, MyAnna Burning, Michael Smiley
Rook Films, X Warp, IFC Films, MPI Media Group
Release Date (US): August 14, 2012

Kill List came to the states with a lot hype behind it. The sophomore feature film outing for British director Ben Wheatley is inaccurately described as a horror movie, but it is really a crime movie with a bit of the occult thrown in for flavor.

I had to wait for the home video release of Kill List to see what all the hype was about, but unfortunately, I was still left wondering as the closing credit appeared. Kill List is by no means a bad movie, but there is nothing special about it either.

Frankenweenie, director Tim Burton‘s stop-motion comedic horror spoof, opened to a disappointing $11.4 million last weekend, representing American audiences’ disinterest in a black-and-white animated film about a boy who resurrects his beloved dog. The supposed early financial failure, or rather letdown, underscores an even larger issue in the film community.

Sadly, moviegoers just fail to resonate with material, or at least check out content, that differs from the norm. This edition of Disney In Depth highlights the many issues that have faced Frankenweenie, a satisfactory film mixed with cleverness and heart, but shocked by disinterest.