Malcolm McDowell is no stranger to home invasion flicks, but is the Clockwork Orange star able to withstand the tortures awaiting him inside 2012’s straight-to-tape fifth Home Alone entry?  His Holiday Heist is complicated by an anxious 10-year-old gamer who sets traps in a creepy Maine mansion to stop the crook from removing an Edvard Munch painting. Is the place haunted by the ghost of a murdered bootlegger or Macauley Culkin’s previous exploits?  Find out if the hosts need to be as drunk as Ed Asner (Elf) to unwrap this gag gift when you Donate for Silver.

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Rivals Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson are ready to rip each other to pieces, but Kristen Stewart needs both monsters on her side if she’s going to survive Eclipse. Is the alliance between vampires and werewolves strong enough to defeat Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World) and her army of Seattle Newborns?  And will Bella reconsider spending eternity as a Cold One after hanging around the campfire with Jacob and his tribe of shirtless hunks?  Donate Now to hear Jakob, Arnie, and Stuart bite on the third installment of The Twilight Saga.

Almost everything has changed for Bloodrayne now that the daywalking vampire has left her European medieval castle, and traveled to the American frontier town of Deliverance, for a “high midnight” showdown with an undead Billy The Kid. Should gamers continue to feed their quarters into a series saddled with tax cheat Uwe Boll? Or does the much-maligned director prove to be better at shooting Spaghetti Westerns than Tolkien fantasies and zombie raves?  Find out if the Now Playing Podcast Arcade removes the bounty from Boll’s head when you Listen Now!

The Now Playing Podcast Arcade finally has a reason to put down the flamethrower! Hosts Arnie, Stuart, and Justin stumble through the falling ash of Uwe Boll films to arrive at Silent Hill – the rare video game movie to earn box office success. Will stranded mother Radha Mitchell find any Green Arrows while searching the West Virginian ghost town for her missing adoptive daughter Sharon? And is that a pyramid or a dunce cap atop the head of the sword-wielding monster that follows close behind her? Quiet your questioning mind with another podcast review!

Everyone is anxiously awaiting Carrie, the 2013 adaptation of Stephen King’s story starring Chloe Grace Moretz-in theaters this Friday! But Carrie has already been retold in the 21st century-in a 2002 made-for-television movie. Starring Angela Bettis (May), written by Bryan Fuller (Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, and TV’s Hannibal), and directed by David Carsons (Star Trek: Generations) the film has strong genre talent, but has been mostly forgotten. Does this remake deserve a second look? And can any insight into Friday’s release be gleaned by this 11-year-old version? Listen to Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart’s third Carrie review to find out.

Joss Whedon may have directed the biggest movie of 2012, but it wasn’t the only film he released this year. Before Avengers, another Whedon co-written and produced film, Cabin in the Woods, was released and polarized both Whedonites and horror fans. This genre-bending tale of five friends who try to go off the grid but find themselves terrorized by inbred hillbilly zombies seems rote, but who are the puppet masters pulling the strings and for what purpose? Well Now Playing Podcast puppet masters overwhelmingly voted for a review of Cabin in the Woods in our one-off horror review poll, so listen to find out why!