Binge-Watchers Podcast

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I'm BACK, all you ghouls, goblins, fiends, and fiendettes! Welcome to SPOILAWEEN, where we're digging up cult horror classics, disturbing movie news, and creatures that probably should've stayed buried.
This week on Binge-Watchers Podcast with Johnny Spoiler, we're heading beneath the streets of New York City for C.H.U.D. (1984), the radioactive sewer monster movie that asks one very important question: What's really living underneath our cities, and why does the government keep dumping things down there?
Starring John Heard and Daniel Stern, C.H.U.D. delivers cannibalistic underground mutants, glowing monster eyes, toxic government secrets, and one of John Goodman's earliest movie appearances.
Here's the surprise: I've never watched the original C.H.U.D. until now! I've seen the ridiculous horror-comedy sequel, but the first movie is a completely different beast. The actors take the absurd premise seriously, the fully formed monsters look fantastic, and a few unexpected moments actually caught me off guard.
My verdict? BINGE NOW. A very mild Binge Now. Barely. But those sewer-dwelling monsters earned it!
HOMEVIDEO HEADLINES:
Parker Posey Returns to Horror! Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are teaming up for Sleepover, a new horror film arriving in 2027.

Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant! A bizarre New Zealand body-horror comedy about an extraterrestrial pregnancy, dysfunctional families, and grotesque practical effects.

Lucio Fulci's The Beyond Is Getting Remade! The 1981 Italian horror classic about a Louisiana hotel sitting on a gateway to hell is getting another shot at terrifying audiences.

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: C.H.U.D (1984)
Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers!
We're talking radioactive mutations, disappearing homeless people, government cover-ups, and some surprisingly effective creature designs.
Plus, did you know C.H.U.D. helped inspire Jordan Peele's Us? Or that John Heard and Daniel Stern would eventually reunite in the Home Alone franchise, although they never shared a scene?
We'll also dig into the bizarre history of C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D., including its connection to Return of the Living Dead and a Robert Englund cameo.
FAN SERVICE: STREET FIGHTER TRAILER REACTIONS
The Street Fighter trailer comments are getting wild! Fans are mostly excited, but some are worried the movie looks like AI. We're diving into the reactions, the skepticism, and the internet's latest cinematic panic.
STAFF PICKS: MERMAID (2026)
What happens when a down-on-his-luck Florida man finds a grotesque, injured mermaid, brings her home, and keeps her in his bathtub?
You get Mermaid, Tyler Cornack's bizarre dark comedy starring Johnny Pemberton, Robert Patrick, Kevin Nealon, and Tom Arnold.
It's weird, violent, disturbing, and exactly the kind of movie that belongs on Binge-Watchers.
BONUS: CARRIE RETURNS
Stephen King's Carrie gets a modern update with viral bullying, social media cruelty, and the terrifying awakening of telekinetic powers.
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Whether you love forgotten VHS horror, underground monsters, weird indie movies, or Hollywood news that makes you question reality, we've got something to spoil for you.
Binge Now. Binge Later. Binge Never.
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Happy Spoilaween, and remember: Some movies belong underground. Others crawl out and become cult classics.
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A movie about two Scottish weirdos who eat seagulls, fear the ocean, and think an iPhone is witchcraft? Yeah, this might be the best movie I've seen all year.
Johnny Spoiler is back with another episode of Binge-Watchers Podcast, and Weird Movie Month is delivering one hell of a surprise.
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This week, we're reviewing The Incomer (2026), the bizarre Scottish fantasy comedy starring Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Grant O'Rourke, and John Hannah. Two isolated siblings have spent 30 years living on a remote island, surviving on oysters, seagulls, and their father's number-one rule: NO INCOMERS. Then an awkward government official shows up to relocate them, and all hell breaks loose.
We're talking mythical seal-men, seagull ceremonies, a vegan trying to survive on an island full of carnivores, and possibly the greatest use of an iPhone in a fantasy movie. It's weird, it's hilarious, and it has a surprising amount of heart. Johnny doesn't hand out many BINGE NOW ratings, but this one might just deserve it.
But first, the Home Video Headlines!
John Goblikon, the internet's favorite heavy-metal goblin, has a bloody new horror-comedy web series called No One Survives. Meanwhile, Don't Breathe 3 is in development, with Jane Levy and Stephen Lang set to return. And Jamie Foxx is heading to Amazon Prime Video with Deadlocked, a courthouse hostage thriller that sounds like Die Hard with jury duty.
Plus, this week's Fan Service and Staff Picks:
A listener wants to know which is better: the original Alien Nation movie with James Caan and Mandy Patinkin or the cult-classic television series. Johnny revisits both, including the alien biology, buddy-cop action, and the surprising differences between the two versions.
And for this week's Staff Pick, we're revisiting Seth Rogen's gloriously uncomfortable 2009 dark comedy Observe and Report. Forget Paul Blart. This mall cop has some serious problems.
Finally, fall is here, Halloween is creeping closer, and Johnny is getting ready for 9 Nights of Spoilaween, complete with werewolf movies, horror recommendations, and more cinematic weirdness.
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BINGE NOW. BINGE LATER. BINGE NEVER.
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What happens when you lose your girlfriend, your job, your apartment—and then fall for someone who eats human hair?
Johnny Spoiler dives into Are We Not Cats, Xander Robin’s bizarre body-horror romance about two damaged people who discover they share one seriously disturbing habit. There’s hair pulling, hair eating, a guy living in a box truck, ketchup soup, and eventually a hairball situation that absolutely nobody asked for.
Binge Now, Binge Later, or Binge Never? Johnny decides whether this strange little indie deserves a spot on your watchlist.
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But first, Home Video Headlines gets weird:
 Darkwing Duck is back! Disney+ is bringing the terror that flaps in the night back with Mark Hamill as Darkwing Duck and Seth Rogen as Launchpad McQuack.
 Weird Al has officially gone cosmic. There is now an asteroid named after Weird Al Yankovic.
 Queens of the Stone Age ask, “Where the Goth Girls At?” Johnny checks out the new single ahead of Perfecth.
 Netflix resurrects Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka voice with AI for Wonka’s The Golden Ticket—and people have some very strong feelings about it.
Plus, fans are losing their minds over the upcoming Street Fighter movie, and Johnny’s Staff Pick is The Weight, the gritty Depression-era crime thriller starring Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe, and Julia Jones.
Come for the movie recommendations. Stay for the giant stomach hairball.
Binge Now. Binge Later. Binge Never.
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An alien lands in New York City…and decides Italians are delicious. Not Italian FOOD. Italians.
Johnny Spoiler is back to audit somebody else’s life for a change, and this week we’re digging up one of the strangest forgotten movies of the ’80s: EAT AND RUN, the 1986 sci-fi horror-comedy about a 400-pound alien named Murray who develops an appetite for the residents of Little Italy.
Yes. This movie actually exists.
Detective Mickey McSorely is trying to convince everyone that a giant alien is literally eating New Yorkers while Murray gets arrested, wins a court case, gets released on bail, dates a judge, and continues his culinary tour of Little Italy. Somehow, Mickey eventually winds up in more legal trouble than the extraterrestrial cannibal.
We get into the movie’s bizarre history, its New World Pictures connection, Ron Silver playing the whole thing surprisingly straight, Pat “R. L.” Ryan’s connection to Street Trash, the off-screen kills, the Pavarotti gag, and why an 85-minute movie this insane still managed to lose Johnny before the final act.
 HOME VIDEO HEADLINES: Nick Nolte and Milo Gibson head into full-moon horror territory with Vested, Mikayla Matthews explains her exit from Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and Johnny takes a detour through Utah involving Yellowstone locations, questionable steak sides, and the Blue Sapphire.
 We also preview The Musical, the dark comedy starring Will Brill, Gillian Jacobs and Rob Lowe that sounds suspiciously like somebody stole a movie idea directly out of Johnny Spoiler’s brain.
 STAFF PICK: Music and Lyrics — Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, fake ’80s pop music, and songs catchy enough to make you wonder why more fake movie bands don't release real albums.
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Johnny is digging through Prime Video for the good stuff, the weird stuff, the horror movies, and the movies somebody probably should have stopped from being made.
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BINGE NOW. BINGE LATER. NEVER BINGE ALONE.
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ALI G IS BACK. Booyakasha!
Sacha Baron Cohen is officially bringing Ali G back to the big screen in Ali G: Who Iz I? — a new secretly filmed mockumentary arriving in theaters October 23, 2026. But more than 20 years after Ali G became a pop-culture phenomenon, there’s a much bigger question:
Can Ali G still work in 2026?
Johnny Spoiler breaks down the Ali G comeback, what we know about Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie, the return of his undercover mockumentary style, and the growing debate over whether Ali G remains brilliant satire or a character whose comedy belongs to another era.
Then somehow things get even stranger.
 HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN
“Rowdy” Roddy Piper plays one of the last fertile men alive after nuclear war destroys civilization. His mission? Enter a city controlled by mutant frog people, rescue fertile women and help save the human race.
Oh, and the government straps an EXPLOSIVE CODPIECE to him to make sure he cooperates.
Welcome to Hell Comes to Frogtown.
Johnny revisits the insane 1988 cult sci-fi comedy, its incredible practical frog makeup, bizarre production history, reduced budget, abandoned casting possibilities and the sequels somebody apparently decided the world needed.
BINGE NOW, BINGE LATER OR BINGE NEVER?
Dangerous Dave has been trying to get Johnny to watch Hell Comes to Frogtown for roughly 20 YEARS.
The verdict?
 BINGE LATER.
PLUS:
 Hulu September Streaming Update — Jennifer’s Body, Coraline, ParaNorman, Inglourious Basterds, Moneyball, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 and more hit streaming.
 They're making a Hooters movie. Yes. A movie about the origin of Hooters. Hollywood has officially found the next cinematic universe.
 21 Jump Street vs. 22 Jump Street — why Johnny thinks the first movie is still better, why Johnny Depp returning as Tom Hanson matters, and why Jillian Bell almost walks away with the entire sequel.
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listener feedback on Violence Jack, and more wonderfully questionable movie recommendations.
Binge-Watchers Podcast with Johnny Spoiler — cult movies, horror, movie news and the forgotten films your algorithm is too afraid to recommend.