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Dedicated to celebrating classic, cult, and obscure films featuring commentary from renowned filmmakers, critics, and cinephiles.

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Our podcast @moviesthatmademe.bsky.social is back with another brand-new guest! If I Had Legs I’d Kick You writer/director Mary Bronstein discusses a few of her favorite formative films with host @josholson.bsky.social.

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IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU writer/director Mary Bronstein - The Movies That Made Me | iHeart
Mary Bronstein discusses a few of her favorite films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Merry Day After Christmas! Tune in for TFH Guru John Landis’ trailer commentary on It’s A Wonderful Life, the immortal Frank Capra fairytale about being very careful what you wish for.

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It's A Wonderful Life | Trailers From Hell
Frank Capra was known for such upstanding, optimistic films ("Capra-corn" to the critics) that his lone Christmas-themed film must have come as a real shock to ticket buyers. It's a Wonderful Life has...
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December 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Merry Christmas from me and Gizmo!

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Joe Dante introduces GREMLINS for the Cinenasty series
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December 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Among monster box sets, Glenn Erickson of CineSavant posits that the new collection Law & Order: The Complete Original Series takes the prize: 104 DVD discs, holding the initial 20-year run of the classic show.

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Law & Order  The Complete Original Series - Trailers From Hell
Among monster boxes this one takes the prize: 104 DVD discs, holding twenty years of a series that’s been in constant TV rotation for (cough) 35 years. They’re all here — Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston, ...
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December 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Merry Christmas! Celebrate the holiday with a new Glenn Erickson CineSavant review of the festive horror anthology Dead of Night, as one of the creepiest and most elegant fright films ever made comes to Region A on 4K Ultra HD.

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Dead of Night  Region A - 4K - Trailers From Hell
The StudioCanal restoration of one of the creepiest and most elegant fright films ever made comes to Region A on 4K Ultra HD: five classic horror tales, filmed by four of Ealing Studios’ best director...
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December 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Glenn Erickson of CineSavant asserts that the joyous Spike Lee concert film David Byrne's American Utopia is just as energizing as Stop Making Sense. The movie is now out in a @criterion.bsky.social 4K:

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David Byrne's American Utopia   - 4K - Trailers From Hell
“Maybe we can make some sense.” David Byrne & Spike Lee’s joyous concert film is just as energizing as Stop Making Sense; it offers a theme of peace, inclusivity and social justice, and ponders the pe...
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December 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It’s Christmas Eve! In between eggnog shots and Gremlins rewatches, tune in to Gremlins director and Trailers From Hell Fearless Leader @thejoedante.bsky.social's trailer commentary for the definitive film adaptation of A Christmas Carol:

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A Christmas Carol | Trailers From Hell
Accept no substitutes, 1951's A Christmas Carol stands alone as the definitive film version of Dickens' classic. The sublime Alastair Sim is the heart and soul of the movie as Scrooge, a sour recluse ...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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At the Lyric Hyperion over the weekend, Microplex Cinema team Matt Catanzano & Alyssa Sabo presented a very special screening of my movie Gremlins — just in time for Christmas!

Look at this cosplay work. I was happy to record a special pre-film video message.
December 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
December 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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[Shania Twain voice] let’s go girls
December 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
TFH Fearless Leader @thejoedante.bsky.social visits the @severinfilms.bsky.social cellar and finds some old friends. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are on the menu, so join us, won’t you?

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Joe Dante Enters the Severin Cellar | Trailers From Hell
Joe Dante visits the Severin Cellar and finds some old friends. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are on the menu, so join us, won't you? And here's a handy run-down of the treasures to be found, cour...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Christmastime is here on the Trailers From Hell Roadshow, spreading joy… and murder? Buckle up for our holiday vodcast, Sleigh Bells & Slashers!

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Sleigh Bells & Slashers
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December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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"I hope the skeptics have been satisfied by my 'puppets are uncanny' argument, because now I have to mount my third point and achieve the hat trick that will seal my grand yuletide theory: Kermit the Frog is the only performer to ever truly embody Bob Cratchit."
A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
Only one movie has ever managed to recreate that uniquely Dickens magic, achieving it not so much through adaptation as through transmutation.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
For More Movies You Never Heard Of Week, we give you what Santa probably can’t: more movies about which you were completely oblivious. Blood of the Vines scribe @randyfuller1.bsky.social takes care of the wine pairings.

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December 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
It’s A Wonderful Christmas this week on Trailers From Hell! To kick things off, tune in for Richard Whitley’s trailer commentary for The Bishop’s Wife.

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The Bishop's Wife | Trailers From Hell
In one of the more unusual love triangles in Hollywood history, David Niven plays a bishop so distracted by his charity work he begins to lose interest in his wife, played by Loretta Young. Cary Grant...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Satire, Self-Parody and Loving the Chaos of ‘Gremlins 2: The New Batch’ - a look back at Joe Dante's screwball masterpiece

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December 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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We’ve reached the Top Ten of Terry Morgan’s list cataloguing the 25 best horror movies this century, just in time to provide some horrific holiday cheer.

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The 25 Greatest Horror Films of the Past Quarter Century, Part Four - Trailers From Hell
Here’s the fourth and penultimate installment of my list of the twenty-five greatest horror films from the past quarter century, starting from the bottom and gradually heading to the top by the end of...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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This movie is such chaos. Another one I can thank @josholson.bsky.social & @trailersfromhell.bsky.social for putting on my radar.
December 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Irving Rapper’s 1959 religious epic The Miracle is about a novice nun who spends most of the film on a wild romantic spree — men, dancing, bullfights — before a glorious finale with a show of reverence. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews.

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The Miracle  - 1959 - Trailers From Hell
Advertised like an action spectacle, Irving Rapper’s religious epic is about a novice nun who spends most of the film on a wild romantic spree — men, dancing, bullfights — before a glorious finale wit...
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December 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This week’s The Last Reel with Allan Arkush examines the many forms cinematic femme fatales can take, and why we still love them even though they’re so bad for us.

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The Last Reel: Femme Fatale
This week's The Last Reel examines the many forms cinematic femme fatales can take, and why we still love them even though they're so bad for us.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Celebrate TFH Guru @honeycuttheidi.bsky.social’s birthday with these trailer commentaries!

Conan The Barbarian
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The NeverEnding Story
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3:10 To Yuma
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December 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We’ve got a rare SECOND brand-new trailer commentary for you, to wrap up More Movies You Never Heard Of Week! Today, tune in for TFH Guru David Zeiger’s commentary on the disturbing mystery-thriller The Son:

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The Son | Trailers From Hell
Directed by  Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, The Son is a bundle of dynamite just waiting to go off. Oliver Gourmet is a cold-hearted carpenter and Morgan Marinne is his new apprentice, each ho...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I don’t fangirl much, but I absolutely lose it over Dennis Scott. This man is one of Chicago’s greatest treasures.
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
In Red Planet, cocky astronauts journey to what is supposed to be a partly terraformed Mars, only to experience mission snafus that make survival unlikely. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews the Val Kilmer/Carrie-Anne Moss space adventure:

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Red Planet  - 4K - Trailers From Hell
This decent space adventure might have been a hit, if another Mars-themed movie hadn’t bombed a few months before. Cocky astronauts journey to what is supposed to be a partly terraformed Mars, only to...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A Trailers From Hell Rob Reiner starter kit, for fans who want to revisit his fantastic filmography:

This Is Spinal Tap
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Misery
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The Princess Bride
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December 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM