What do you get when you combine an alcoholic firefighter, a mysterious serial killer, ancient demonic creatures, and cannibal gerbils? Apparently, you get In the Woods (1999). 🎃 This Halloween, Found on Shelf ventures back into the forest for another obscure horror movie that probably should have stayed buried. Dustin…
This Halloween, Found on Shelf ventures into the woods with returning guest Bitter Karella, author of Moonflow and the new queer folk horror novel Quaint Folk, to tackle the cult horror-comedy There's Nothing Out There (1991)! Before Scream made self-aware horror cool, director Rolf Kanefsky unleashed a low-budget creature feature…
Got Resident Evil fever? Take a wrong turn into Silent Hill. This week on Found on Shelf, guest host Casey joins the crew for “Hobo-MurderMaxxing,” a spoiler-filled Return to Silent Hill review featuring an intervention for Gimcrack, an exorcism that backfires, and some deeply questionable attempts to help a friend.…
The Jackalope is back—and apparently therapy has taught them absolutely nothing. This week on Found on Shelf, Specc joins us for Dragonheart: Vengeance, the fifth movie in the Dragonheart franchise and the 2020 direct-to-video fantasy sequel nobody realized they were missing. A young man sets out to avenge his murdered…
Somehow, Dustin made it nearly 20 years without watching Twilight. Kalynn has come to correct that mistake. This week on Found on Shelf, we revisit the 2008 vampire romance starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and ask the important questions: Is Edward Cullen romantic or just an extremely sparkly stalker?…
Patrick promised Gabe they could watch a Dragon Ball movie. Unfortunately, Dustin picked the Dragon Ball movie. This week, Found on Shelf tackles Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins, the bizarre 1991 live-action adaptation that somehow manages to be a cheap knockoff, a surprisingly competent martial-arts movie, and occasionally a better…
Patrick is back from the dead, Dustin is skipping through time, and somehow the safest thing inside the cursed video store is the sushi. In “We’re Just Bad People,” Found on Shelf takes on Dead Sushi, Noboru Iguchi’s gloriously unhinged Japanese horror-comedy featuring flying killer sushi, martial arts, zombie rice,…
Due to some....complications we need to take a short break. Have no fear, Dustin and Patrick will be resurre....I mean they will return shortly. Wait, if they are gone then who am I? Maybe I can finally use this space to write the next great American Novel. Hmmm, but there's…
The Skidooch has arrived… and he’s riding a jet ski straight through a luxury cruise ship. This week, the Found on Shelf crew dives headfirst into Deep Rising—a late-90s fever dream where mercenaries, billionaires, pickpockets, and an extremely hungry sea nightmare all collide in the middle of the ocean. Joined…
This week on Found on Shelf, we descend into one of the strangest films ever unearthed: The Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle — a surreal, low-budget fever dream involving aristocratic blue apes, pirate crocodiles, toxic flower gas, and a duck named Mr. Quack Quack. Returning guest Bitter Karella joins…
We’re joined by author and internet chaos agent Robert Brockway to talk about his new novel “I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200”—a dark, funny, and unexpectedly emotional dive into childhood, loneliness, and the terrifying things that live in our heads (and maybe on YouTube). Then, after we politely…
This week on Found on Shelf, we dive headfirst into the flaming chaos of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance—a sequel so unhinged it feels like it was filmed during a caffeine-fueled exorcism. Join us as we break down Nicolas Cage at peak Cage energy, from demonic transformations to the infamous…
Dustin wanted to pick the movie this week. Unfortunately, the Jackalope had other plans. After challenging the mysterious creature that controls the show’s movie selection, the Jackalope locks the studio doors and forces the hosts to endure the entire Feeders trilogy, the cult shot-on-video alien horror series created by legendary…
Any similarity between this podcast and real life just happens to be the way things are. This week on Found on Shelf, we descend into the cursed VHS void and accidentally summon the 1990 Canadian cult dystopian satire Terminal City Ricochet… and it summons us right back. What we expected:…
Our hosts discuss what they would change in the movie Despiser.
It's Christmas!! Gabe and Casey pop in for our annual tortur....I mean holiday funn! The Santa slasher returns to Christmas, California to turn loved ones into evil garden gnomes and do his bidding. Grab your gnomies and check out our latest episode!
It's Christmas time!!! Time for spiked egg nog and obscure movies. On our latest episode we're checking out Mandao Returns, the sequel to the Mandao of the Dead. Christmas is in the air as Jay Mandao astral projects back in time to prevent the death of a B-movie star. However,…
A murdering jazz musician in a cult town run by the mob gets a job at a butcher shop that has septic tank underneath it mixing with nuclear waste which causes a byproduct that toy robot aliens wish to use to fuel their spaceships. This is actually an accurate summary…
We're kicking off our musical month with some Jet Rock-n-Roll!! It's Japanese greaser band Guitar Wolf vs toy robot aliens with an army of zombies in the 1999 comedy horror movie "Wild Zero"
It's a Scarabjam Halloween Special! We're watching the 1995 horror movie Rumpelstiltskin! We're all dressed up and ready to party.
Halloween continues with Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi: The Most Terrifying Movie in History. It's part 6 in the series of films, but don't worry Patrick is here to explain everything while Dustin goes to make some popcorn. Enjoy! Special thanks to Shiraclub, be sure to go check out their Patreon…
Halloween season has begun. what does the Jackalope have in store for us today? There's a dude with steampunk goggles and a giant bear trap for a mouth hanging out with Warwick Davis as "Plates" and you'll never guess what his special weapon is! It's time for Skinned Deep!
They made a Christian Mingle movie....and we watched it. I don't think there's anything else that needs to be said. Guests Specc and Gabe show up to help us try to regain some sanity, but I guess the wheels were never meant to be on in the first place.
