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E56 – Tales From The PodCavern 2: Deeper, Demonic Tales

AHHHH! Just in time for the scariest day of the year, The Improv Punch Up releases a JUMP SCARE surprise episode! Live from DEEP within the Podcavern, Leslie SCAREpy, Tuong AHHH!, and FANGUS MacDonald punch up the ultimate showdown of horror giants! This time with a werewolf geography teacher! It’s a legitimately HELLISH assignment so terrifying that it begs the question….. Please won’t you be our neighbor?

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Halloween

Just in time for Halloween, this episode explores one of the most iconic and influential movies of all time: Halloween! Discover how an old Captain Kirk mask transforms a sleepy Illinois suburb into a portrait of pure evil. One of the first entries to carve its way into the Slasher genre, follow original Final Girl, Laurie Strode, as she battles her on-again-off-again brother through the decades.

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Paranormal Activity

Did… did that door just move? 

Paranormal Activity did the unthinkable: made just about everyone afraid of their own homes. In a stroke of genius, the series strips the haunted house story to its core and makes it relatable.  Everybody knows the feeling of hearing footsteps at night, or maybe seeing some lights flickering, or portals that transport you to the early 1990s– wait, what? The Paranormal Activity series starts firmly planted on a tripod but quickly eschews that for secret covens and time travelling camcorders. Yep.

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Tremors

Imagine the shark from JAWS and the aliens from A Quiet Place had a baby. That basically explains the giant sand-worms from Tremors. So grab Kevin Bacon and some sticks of dynamite because these suckers are hungry! From Perfection, Nevada to the South Pacific in Tremors: Shrieker Island, learn all about legendary battles with the Graboids, Shriekers, Dirt Dragons and Ass-Blasters.

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96 – Top 5 Cryptids

Squatchin’ for the truth!

The world is full of mysterious creatures and humankind has done a bang up job discovering a lot of them. However, there are so many creatures yet to be found, that have been shrouded in a shade of mystery, and eluding us at every turn. That’s right, we are talking about Cryptids! This week join Tuong La and Sasquatch’s Cousins Spencer Dunn, Cas Knihnisky, and Kate Ethier as they uncover the missing link that is Top 5 Cryptids!

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Child’s Play

“Hi, I’m Chucky, and I’m your friend ’till the end! Hidey-ho, ha-ha-ha!”

Holster your video game controllers and pick up your LEGO because this year’s hottest toy is the Good Guy™ doll from Play Pals! And with friends like these, who needs enemies?

For a limited time only, listeners get two-for-the-price-of-one: the original Child’s Play (1988), modeled after lifestyle influencer Charles Lee Ray, and the brand new A.I. from Child’s Play (2019)!!

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Ep 48 – Hocus Pocus (1993) with Kristine Shadid

PodCavern’s Spookening continues with Week 3!

This week on Talkin’ Tuong, The Queen of Spookstober herself – Kristine Shadid – casts a spell on all of us as we get talkin’ about 1993’s Halloween Classic….Hocus Pocus!

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Saw

John ‘The Jigsaw Killer’ Kramer has done the unthinkable: somehow made the Saw movies the most popular horror franchise of the mid-00s. Swapping a coherent plot for buckets of blood and gore, the Saw series leans on its shock value to distract from its overly convoluted and under-written continuity. “Want to play a game?” No. Now take your pig mask and get out of here.

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DD11 – The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

For the sixth and final installment in our streak of Disney packaged films, Walt paired up everyone’s favourite headless horseman with everyone’s favourite anthropomorphic toad and called it a day. Limp across the finish line with the Dummies as we dissect The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

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