The Head, The Tail, The Whole Damn Thing

Feb 02 2025 12 ep. 113 mins 45

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Hosts Mike D McCarty and James Knight are brothers with decades of experience in the entertainment and film industry. This film review podcast covers the Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres. Listen along to their unique insider take and witty back and forth as they review both old classics and new releases.

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HTWDT - Episode 12: The Lost Boys (1987) and Nosferatu (2024)

Feb 02 2025 124 mins

Hey everyone, It's exciting to say this is our twelfth episode! And it's a doozy. For our first feature, It's a classic Joel Schumacher film starring the Coreys and Kiefer Sutherland, The Lost Boys (1987), and everyone has been talking about Robert Eggers new Nosferatu. Now its our turn for our second film. It's a fantastic little Bloodsucking double feature of fun for ya. We have

HTWDT - Episode 11: The Host (2006) and Godzilla Minus One (2024)

Jan 19 2025 138 mins

Hey everyone! We have a special guest in the studio! A few months back, we were on comedian Dana Gould's podcast, The Dana Gould Hour, during his Halloween episode, so we invited him to join us here and asked him what he would like to review. Dana chose last year's Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One, and we paired it with The Host, a Korean monster movie from 2006, which we all thoug

HTWDT - Episode 10: Species (1995) and Cuckoo (2024)

Jan 05 2025 115 mins

Hey, it's our tenth episode and our first of 2025! Also our first little milestone! We think these two movies oddly enough go pretty well together. There are lots of behind-the-scenes tidbits in this episode regarding (1995) Species. We also discuss Michael Madsen turned up to 11, What's in the Species hot tub? Why this movie's special effects were innovative. In the second half, w

HTWDT - Episode 9: The Omen (1976) and The First Omen (2024)

Dec 22 2024 129 mins

Happy Holidays! There's a little bit more in the stocking this year, as this episode clocks in as the longest yet (Mom, you'll have to split it into two LOL). It's the original Omen, with all kinds of how'd they do that, and special spooky stuff about "The Curse of the Omen." Our second feature is the new 2024 prequel to the original Omen, The First Omen. Directed by Arkasha Steven

HTWDT - Episode 8: Videodrome (1983) and The Substance (2024)

Dec 08 2024 108 mins

The long-awaited Videodrome/Substance episode is here! If you are looking for body horror, you've found it. Everyone has been talking about the Substance and now the boys finally get to share their notes. This episode was actually supposed to be on before, but got shifted around when we did the Thanksgiving special. So here it is...On this one Mike gets into some great behind-the-s

HTWDT - Episode 7: Our Thanksgiving special, User submitted reviews and The Happening (2008)

Nov 24 2024 114 mins

Here's our first collaborative show! A handful of you listeners sent in reviews of bad movies, and we read them out. Tyler, our announcer, is live in the studio for the whole show as we do an in-depth and hopefully hilarious deep dive on M Night Shyamalan's, The Happening (2008), Mark Wahlberg impersonations abound, as well as plenty of movie sound clips. It's fun for the whole fam

HTWDT - Episode 6: Leprechaun (1993) and Oddity (2024)

Nov 10 2024 108 mins

Honestly, this may not sound like a good review pairing, at least not Leprechaun...but this may be our funniest one yet. Listen along as we explore such topics as General Mills refusal to support Leprechaun with Lucky Charms, hear some fun makeup and set stories, learn how Mike's not a stalker, but will reach out to famous directors he doesn't know on the internet, and... we read o

HTWDT - Episode 5: Halloween 3 Season of the Witch (1982) and Late Night with the Devil (2023)

Oct 27 2024 111 mins

Welcome to our Halloween Episode where we decided to review one of the lesser-known Halloween movies the (1982) classic Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, it's nuts!! and pair it with the Cairnes Brothers' (2023) hit, Late Night with The Devil. We laugh about other stuff, Sammy Davis Jr and the church of Satan, Dick Warlock wipes it on the curtains, being on location in a hotel and

HTWDT - Episode 4: Manhunter (1986) and LongLegs (2024)

Oct 13 2024 106 mins

On this one we chat about the (1985) classic FBI procedural Manhunter featuring the first instance of Hannibal Lecture, and pair it with Osgood Perkins much talked about (2024) Longlegs. We also talk about coffee, Beastmaster, and John Amos (oddly enough we recorded this a week prior to his passing) R.I.P. We also continue our one side feud with Gene Siskel (titan of the Industry.)

HTWDT- Episode 3: Alien and Alien Romulus

Sep 29 2024 108 mins

For your listening pleasure, we give you: The absolute classic, Alien (1979) and Fede Alvarez' Alien Romulus (2024). We do a related Quiz at the beginning that's fun, and the result of that quiz is discussed at the end of the episode and will be Patreon-only punishment coming very soon! As always to help us out, please like, comment and review. Send any fan or hate mail to thewhole