Tonight! On a very special 99 Cent Rental we take a trip back to 1983 to take in the movie that shocked the 100 million Americans that watched in horror as the world ended in a nuclear fireball before their very eyes. As the 80's ground on and The United States and The Soviet Union were running out of puppet governments and proxy wars to fight the status of nuclear war became less a matter of if and more a matter of when. The ABC network sought to send a sobering message to the people of America who had been convinced that we could win a nuclear war by delivering an uncompromising made-for-TV epic that detailed what would happen after everything had been obliterated.

A stacked cast of excellence paint a picture of a shattered America in the last days of humanity. The sheer scope of our nuclear weapons are put on the screen. We see an entire city in middle America blasted off the face of the Earth forever. We see the survivors of the blast struggling to stay alive in the face of hunger, sickness, and radiation poisoning. Dave is less than impressed with the movie and struggles with the political struggle that informed the possibility of a nuclear holocaust. Bryan's feelings on the movie are much more complicated, having grown up within a few miles of two high priority nuclear targets as all this was going down.

It's our longest episode yet and we have thoughts. There will be no survivors.

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This week we take a step back to 1984 for a movie that couldn't possibly be anymore 80's if it tried. It's Thom Eberhardt's Night of the Comet starring Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney. Through shit luck two Valley Girl sisters miss out on the once-in-a-lifetime passing of a comet what's tail bathes the earth in deadly cosmic radiation, reducing people out in the open to nothing more than a pile of red dust and those who stayed in under less than ideal conditions to monstrous cannibals. A think tank of scientists, hidden in an underground base, are looking for a cure to the condition but at what cost?

It's at one time a fun teen horror comedy and a movie that tries to get a couple of young women to tangle with the reality of being the last living people on earth and while it doesn't always land in one piece, it's a tremendously fun piece of cult. Dave loves this movie tremendously and makes a case for it being an unexpected piece of feminist horror and Bryan, never really taking it too seriously in the past comes out the other side a believer. Together, we both hate the movie's ending with a furious passion. Let us tell you all about it!

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We're coming at you with a bonus episode dedicated to the memory of the late, great, Ozzy Osbourne. Trick or Treat from 1986 is hardly a great movie and was almost forgotten as quickly as it entered theaters but what we find in this movie is a remarkably authentic portrayal of what it was like to be a metal head in the 80's. Satan was lurking everywhere and all of your friends' parents were convinced that people who listened to metal were all drug addict murderers or at least would become drug addict murderers if they kept listening to that Ozzy Osbourne character.

We pay sweet tribute to Ozzy, talk about the satanic panic, and our own experiences growing up metal in the 80's and really get down with this utterly bonkers horror movie. We hope you enjoy.

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