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Curse of the October Boys
Oct 25, 2025
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The October Boys V: no edits, no escape
Oct 30, 2024
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Revenge of The October Boys
Oct 30, 2023
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Oct 31, 2022
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Oct 27, 2021
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/25/25 | Curse of the October Boys✨ | fatherhoodHalloween+4 | — | WackoFull Moon High | — | Halloween80s horror+6 | — | 53m 12s | |
| 10/30/24 | The October Boys V: no edits, no escape✨ | horror moviesCGI effects+3 | — | frozen apple juice concentrateThe October Boys | — | horrorCGI+3 | — | 1h 04m 33s | |
| 10/30/23 | Revenge of The October Boys✨ | animehorror+4 | — | Universal classics | — | animehorror+5 | — | 1h 13m 34s | |
| 10/31/22 | October Boys III: Season of the Witch✨ | Autumnharvest+3 | — | October Boys III: Season of the Witch | — | October BoysAutumn+3 | — | 1h 21m 27s | |
| 10/27/21 | Return of the October Boys✨ | Octoberseasonal+1 | — | — | — | Octobercelebration+3 | — | 1h 06m 39s | |
| 10/28/20 | The October Boys✨ | final episodeCinematic Oblivion+3 | — | — | — | Cinematic Oblivionfinal episode+3 | — | 1h 09m 37s | |
| 4/30/20 | grab bag: Quarantine 2020✨ | quarantine entertainmentfilm analysis+3 | — | Deadbeat at DawnMy Winnipeg+2 | Twin Peaks | quarantinefilm+5 | — | 1h 14m 27s | |
| 2/18/20 | outings: Noir City 2020✨ | Noir filmsFilm festivals+3 | — | — | Castro theater | Noir Cityfilm festival+3 | — | 55m 00s | |
| 1/16/20 | Top Ten of the Twenty-Teens✨ | top tenfilm+3 | — | — | — | top tenfilms+3 | — | 1h 18m 03s | |
| 10/31/19 | grab bag: Halloween 2019✨ | horror moviesHalloween specials+3 | — | HalloweenGiallo+1 | — | Halloweenhorror movies+3 | — | 48m 50s | |
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| 10/30/19 | Barker's Books of Blood | Sweets for the sweet, it's our official Halloween special. Listen as we discuss horror fantasy's finest imaginer, Clive Barker, and his brief career in film, as well as the trademarks of his work, including sadomasochistic inter-dimensional travelers, queer zombies, and ghosts of urban segregation. prologue: I have seen the future of horror (1:43) Chapter 1: Now we can begin (14:30) Chapter 2: Casting Cronenberg (47:35) Chapter 3: Be My Victim (1:05:55) epilogue: Darkplace (1:19:25) | — | ||||||
| 10/20/19 | Profecy of the Black Spider | The Earth shall tremble. Graves shall open. They shall come among the living as messengers of death and there shall be the "nigths" of terror. Continuing our October horror rituals, we examine the ineffable minimalism of Andrea Bianchi's zombie shadow play Burial Ground, a film that achieves unique style and effectiveness completely by accident. | — | ||||||
| 10/12/19 | Furankenshutain tai Baragon | We turn our October attention to one of the least conventional iterations of the Frankenstein monster all in the interest of discussing Nick's favorite and most expensive toy. | — | ||||||
| 10/3/19 | Dude Bros at the Balboa: an interview with Michael Rousselet | The Dude Bros are coming to the Balboa Theater here in San Francisco on October 23rd for a Rewind Wednesday VHS screening of Cinematic Oblivion's favorite slasher comedy Dude Bro Party Massacre III! Two of the directors, Tomm Jacobsen and Michael Rousselet, will be in attendance, the latter of whom chats with Nick in this episode. Listen as they discuss the early comedy of USC's public access channel "Trojan Vision," the "Golden Age" of Five Second Films, the writing, scoring, and acting of Dude Bro Party Massacre III, and the town in the belly of the whale. And make sure you join us at the Balboa Theater on October 23rd to drink beer, eat popcorn, and bro out! | — | ||||||
| 9/30/19 | snippet: Remembering Sid Haig | R.I.P. Sid Haig 1939-2019 | — | ||||||
| 4/28/19 | Soviet Sci-Fi part 3: post-Tarkovsky | The third part of our three-part history and analysis of Soviet Science Fiction films. In this episode we focus on the science fiction films of the USSR's final years including grey, colorful, and silver tones all in the wake of Andrei Tarkovsky's influence. Chapter One: Grey Chapter Two: Color Chapter Three: Silver | — | ||||||
| 3/11/19 | outings: Unnamed Footage Festival 2019 | Our report from an oblivionated weekend at the historic Balboa theater under the curation of the Overlook Hour. We briefly review the history of found-footage and then discuss such diverse representatives of the subgenre as The Midnight Swim, La Llorona Investigation, The Moosehead on the Mantel, Hound Footage, and the film that may have killed us both; Antrum. | — | ||||||
| 2/20/19 | outings: Noir City 2019 | We briefly review and analyze such classics as Pickup on South Street (1952) and Kiss Me Deadly (1955) from our recent outing to Noir City at the Castro Theater, during which we discovered that we are total amateurs at this whole "liking movies" thing. | — | ||||||
| 1/28/19 | Soviet Sci-Fi part 2: Tarkovsky | The second part of our three-part history and analysis of Soviet Science Fiction films. In this episode we focus on the two science fiction contributions of Soviet auteur Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris (1971) and Stalker (1979), and discuss how his contributions forever changed the landscape of Eastern genre cinema and film in general. Chapter 1: The Ocean (3:35) Chapter 2: The Zone (43:30) | — | ||||||
| 1/13/19 | grab bag: Midori Sour | A sickly sweet cocktail of various ingredients, Harry and Nick reunite after two weeks apart to discuss the 90's films of Brian De Palma, the video art of Jan Svankmajer, Ryan Trecartin, Alan Resnick, and the "wayward circus child" sub-genre, particularly Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay (1988) and Hiroshi Harada's Midori (1992). | — | ||||||
| 12/9/18 | Soviet Sci-Fi part 1: pre-Tarkovsky | The first part of our three-part history and analysis of Soviet Science Fiction films. In this episode we begin in the silent era with Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) and Cosmic Voyage (1935) and then blast off into the space race with Road to the Stars (1957), The Silent Star (1960), Planet of Storms (1962), and Ikarie XB-1 (1963) These films shine with the hope of a united communist Earth, where no matter what side of the iron curtain you call home we are all joined under the glory of the sky's call. Chapter 1: Soviet Silents (2:05) Chapter 2: Escape Velocity (14:45) Chapter 3: Venus (30:50) | — | ||||||
| 11/29/18 | spotlight: Make Out With Violence and the Early Days of Netflix Streaming | The first installment in a new series of mini episodes called spotlight, wherein Nick and/or Harry take a look at a particular theme (film/director/genre/etc.) that wouldn't otherwise be featured in a regular episode. In this inaugural episode Harry takes a look at the 2009 indie horror comedy Make Out With Violence, while also reflecting on the days when Netflix offered a bevvy of bizarre low budget indie films available to stream. | — | ||||||
| 10/29/18 | Tales from the Crypt | Happy Halloween kiddies! We celebrate the season by paying tribute to EC comics, a horror brand as notorious as it was influential. We follow the brand's legacy from Amicus pictures, to Stephen King, to HBO. Come down into the Crypt of Terror with us. The morgue the merrier! Chapter 1: Low Culture (3:18) Chapter 2: Amicus (25:55) Chapter 3: King and Romero (49:30) Chapter 4: Little House on the Scary (1:16:45) | — | ||||||
| 10/29/18 | grab bag: Halloween 2018 | In this special Halloween episode of Grab Bag we discuss Ruby (1977), Pin (1988), Don't Look Up (1996), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and the long awaited Terrifier (2017). We also discuss the rise and fall of J horror, the myriad Frankenstein adaptations and the complete lack of a great clown horror masterpiece. | — | ||||||
| 9/17/18 | Animated Tolkien | In this episode we go back to some of the earliest adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world and explore the evolving world of 1970's American animation. Chapter 1: There and Back Again (10:00) Chapter 2: Bakshi's Big Trip (37:00) Chapter 3: A Tale of the Hobbits (1:07:17) | — | ||||||
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