B-Movie Blitzkrieg Podcast – Bonus Halloween Episode 2025
Hack-O-Lantern (1988)
Sharpen your pitchforks, dust off your pentagram jewelry, and carve yourself a sinister smile...it’s Halloween at the B-Movie Blitzkrieg Podcast, and Duncan & The Baz are summoning up pure Satanic schlock with Hack-O-Lantern (1988).This special bonus spooktacular sees our brave hosts wade knee-deep into a cauldron of cheap satanic rituals, pumpkin masks, heavy metal dream sequences, and more Grandpa-related trauma than any human should endure. Because nothing says “Happy Halloween” like a devil-worshipping family reunion, an electric guitar solo in a cemetery, and a movie that clearly spent its budget on fog machines and eyeliner.Directed by Jag Mundhra (yes, the man who looked at the phrase “Satanic cult slasher” and said, “Needs more nudity”), Hack-O-Lantern follows Tommy, a young man groomed by his spooky granddad (Hy Pyke, in a performance that’s one part Vincent Price and two parts sugar crash) to embrace his demonic destiny. What follows is a delirious mix of 80s sleaze, clunky horror tropes, and metal music videos that seem to have escaped from another dimension.
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In This Episode:* The Baz attempts to decipher the film’s “plot” without invoking dark spirits.* Duncan’s new theory: Hy Pyke was the only person who understood the script.* You got Satan, Murder and Pumpkins...Do we really need incest?* When is a music video actually just a dream sequence?* The eternal question...does Hack-O-Lantern secretly rule, or is it just devilishly dumb?
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Top 5 Rad/Sad & Bad Moments:* Hy Pyke’s unhinged grandpa...a one-man cult of chaos.* The “rock video” sequence: spandex, fire, and zero narrative logic.* Why wasn't this movie just a slasher?* What was the actual plan of the Satanists in this movie?* The final twist…which feels like it was written on a napkin five minutes before shooting.
---Duncan & The Baz dig through the cobwebs, cult chants, and questionable editing to uncover whether Hack-O-Lantern is an underrated Halloween gem or just a pumpkin full of cinematic rot.So light those black candles, crank up your cassette of “Satan’s Theme,” and join us in giving this devilish disaster the full Blitzkrieg treatment. Because on Halloween night, even bad movies deserve a little resurrection.Until next time keep your pumpkins carved, your pentagrams polished, and your VHS heads clean. Here at B-Movie Blitzkrieg… the bizarre meets the brilliant one B-Movie at a time.
---Next Episode Drops Friday, November 7th 2025The boys are back on their usual schedule with Episode 10: Horns, Hoods & Highway Havoc, taking on The Car (1977). Expect demonic driving, desert destruction, and the most menacing horn honks this side of Hades.So buckle up, check your mirrors, and remember... if you hear a honk in the distance… it’s already too late.
---TIMECODE:00:00:00 - THEME SONG00:00:45 - INTRO00:05:24 - PLOT00:09:50 - TOP 5 RAD/SAD/BAD MOMENTS00:18:30 - BEST/WORST LINES00:22:00 - PLOTHOLES00:25:42 - SCORE00:27:12 - CLOSE