It's time for another visit to the Universal Classic Monsters (excuse me, the Dark Universe), as we check in on Gill-man's one and only threequel, 1956's The Creature Walks Among Us. It's a sweaty Tennessee Williams melodrama about an abusive marriage and a toxic love triangle that just happens to feature a fish man living in the backyard. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Podcast Part 3 is back, rising like a phoenix from the ashes to talk about, um, crows. Specifically (and lamentably) 2000's The Crow: Salvation, a direct-to-video threequel so dull not even Walton Goggins can save it. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Shriek-quel Threequel season continues with Podcast Part 3's first visit to the shaky, spooky world of found footage with Paranormal Activity 3! As the low-budget, bajillion-dollar making demon possession saga takes us back to 1988, Will and Sam delve into the horror-heavy genre of found footage, pondering why it's so easy to make these movies but insanely difficult to make one that's actually good. Something about how it's hard to make a good movie look like a bad movie while still being a good movie at its core. It's complicated. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's October and Shriek-quel Threequel season is upon us once again! Sharpen up your Daggers of Megiddo because we're taking on the Antichrist himself in Omen III: The Final Conflict. Damien Thorn is Sam Neill now, and he's hellbent (har har) on destroying that pesky Jesus once and for all. While Damien recruits every evil little British boy he can find, Sam and Will compare this take on the Devil to The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby and the original Omen (unfair), wonder why Satan is always vastly better prepared than God in these movies (fair) and lament that Jesus and the Antichrist don't have a John Wick-style fight to settle things (very fair). Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's Problematic Director Days here at Podcast Part 3 as Will and Sam continue their foray in to the dear departed X-Men franchise with X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Apocalypse, two threequels jockeying for worst superhero movie of all time. Thrill as the Phoenix Saga is woefully botched twice in one franchise, and marvel as Oscar Isaac and Jennifer Lawrence compete to see who can look the most bored! Also Sam nobly attempts to derail the episode by talking about Furiosa. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

This week on Podcast Part 3, we don't got a podcast... we got a family. But only slightly, because this is The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the Season of the Witch of the Fast franchise! Join not-quite-Paul Walker as he traverses the mean streets of Tokyo in this threequel that's also canonically the seventh movie in the franchise. Did you know that this franchise that's basically the MCU with muscle cars had a sequel that was actually about racing?! We were just as surprised as you! Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

The most consistently good franchise in movie history is back and grimmer than ever with 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes! As the saga of Caesar draws to a close, Will and Sam discuss whether this is the rare trilogy where the third movie is the best one, how a campy big-budget Twilight Zone episode managed to yield an 80% great series of sci-fi movies, and why the hell Steve Zahn isn't getting more work in Hollywood. (Bad Ape!) Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Get ready for 1.21 Gigawatts of fun (and respectful film discourse) as Will and Sam revisit Back to the Future Part III, aka the one in the Old West, aka the one with the random ZZ Top cameo, aka the one with Mary Steenburgen on the poster. There's no Johnny B. Goode and very little hoverboard as Marty and Doc embark on a passable Western comedy that happens to feature time travel. It's still a Back to the Future movie though, so expect some warm Amblin fuzzies from our two Millennial hosts... even if the movie itself is, like your average McFly, kind of a slacker. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)