Death Race 2000 (1975)

Death Race 2000 (1975)

Author: Geekscape December 4, 2025 Duration: 33:22
Did you wake up today think the HMN boys were going to watch a 50-year-old dystopian scifi movie starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone that’s creepily prescient of what 2025 would look like? Neither did we, but here we are discussing DEATH RACE 2000 (1975). In a future America, the President is a worthless politician spending his days in Moscow, is more of a TV personality than statesman, and has created a gladiator-style race where the drivers kayfabe their way across the country running people over for points. Oh almost forgot, a huge part of the country is apparently Nazi lovers. Sound familiar? Listen to us enumerate how depressingly accurate these predictions really are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Phantom of the Megaplex (2000) (f/Evan Fonseca) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:15
In celebration of Geekscape’s newest podcast, The Phantom of the Podpera, we invite Kyle’s cohost Evan Fonseca on to discuss the anniversary of Disney Channel’s take on the mischievous masked man, 2000’s THE PHANTOM OF T…
Phenomena (1985) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:16
We are finally back to a Giallo movie with one of the least offensive (but still plenty of trashiness here) classic Phenomena! This movie didn't BUG us but it's pacing did CREEP up on us. Learn more about your ad choices…
Fright Night (1985) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:19
We’ve talked the remake, we’ve talked the sequel, but tonight, it’s time to talk about the start of it all, the one and only FRIGHT NIGHT (1985). Recorded in person at Creature Feature Weekend 2025, we went back to the b…
Bruiser (2000) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:45
A later entry into the legendary George Romero’s filmography? There is no way this could be anything less than a masterpiece… This week, Kyle subjected us to 2000’s head-scratchingly-titled BRUISER, in which a meek magaz…
Ghoulies (1985) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:37
We love tiny terrors so much on this show that we could barely wait to discuss another classic, 1985’s GHOULIES! While perhaps slightly less bombastic as the sequel, the original entry in the Ghoulies franchise is still…
Darkman (1990) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:51
We've passed 500 episodes so we decide to do another round of "Does This Count As a Horror Movie?" Thanks to the popularity of Evil Dead 2, Sam Raimi was able to follow it up with this original Superhero film inspired by…
Matt's Vintage George Hardy Interview [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:28
Back in 2010 when I first started podcasting I had a short lived show called "The Saint Mort Show". Most of this content is long gone because it was poorly made BUT it was the place where I first cut my teeth as a podcas…
Phantom of the Podpera Is Here! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:03
Kyle from Horror Movie Night has a new podcast out with his friend Evan where they deep dive into every adaptation of the Phantom of the Opera. If you're even a little curious about the history of this novella, turned mo…
Troll 2 (1990) (f/Robert Bacon) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:13
FIVE HUNDRED EPISODES? How, you ask? Well, we don’t have a good answer but we DO have a good guest along with us as we travel to the ill-fated town of Nilbog on a house-swapping (?) adventure: Robert Bacon! For our 500th…