Video Store Phantoms
Join the hosts as they revisit nostalgic nightmares and review horror movies from the 1990s and 2000s. The show covers classic and forgotten horror films, discussing their scares, legacy, and why they still haunt us today. Expect a mix of fond memories, horror trivia, and fun commentary on the era's spooky cinema.
Episodes
Video Store Phantoms E48: Disturbing Behavior
Wazzup, everyone and their olds. This week, everything's razor as we talk about made-up slang, bad evil plans, and studio interference while we review Disturbing Behavior from 1998.
Video Store Phantoms E47: Leprachaun
This holiday were goin for gold and lucky charms. We talk bad paint jobs, killer pogo sticks and Jennifer Aniston's old nose when we review Leprachaun from 1993
Video Store Phantoms E46: Stir Of Echoes
Boom shakalaka this week we go deeper and deeper into Bacon as we talk useless plot points, unnecessary digging and make 7 Up Yours! When we cover Stir of Echos from 1999.
Video Store Phantoms E45: Jack Frost
We're back from the holidays with some uncomfortable coffee, poison oatmeal and one cool killer chill with us as we thaw out Jack Frost from 1997.
Video Store Phantoms E44: Cast A Deadly Spell
This week gets a little hard-boiled when there's beaver squeezins, magic and world saving child abuse. It's gumshoes and gum chewing while we review Cast a deadly spell from 1991
Video Store Phantoms E43 : Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask
This Halloween put on a brave face, were talking goodreads, bad flirting and the gift of severed heads. Watch us get animated when we review Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask from 1995
Video Store Phantoms E42: Trick R Treat
The rules are so important that we won't tell you what they are just Set it and forget it as we talk hot werewolves, abandoned movies, and rotisserie chicken when we review Trick R Treat from 2007
Video Store Phantoms E41: What Lies Beneath
Its nosey neighbors and soggy ghosts when we talk Fireballs, wannabe hitchcock's and new segment about classic ads, Zoom Zoom and Join us as we talk What Lies Beneath from the year 2000
Video Store Phantoms E40: Meet the Applegates
Drink a bottle of syrup and grab your case of butterfingers because were talking the ultimate Nuke-ular family. With giant bugs, credit card debt and incompetent spies. Join us as we Meet the Applegates from 1990.
Video Store Phantoms E39: Jacob's Ladder
Don't let Santa Claus steal your wallet this week wiggle monsters, ice baths, sudden conspiracies, angelic chiropractors and demonic girlfriends. While we review Jacob's Ladder from 1990
Video Store Phantoms E38: Wes Craven's New Nightmare
That's life on the fault line when we discuss meta earthquakes, leather pants, wooden boys and awkward cameos. It's the attack of the demon fanboy as we talk Wes Craven's New NIghtmare from 1994
Video Store Phantoms E37:Phantom of the Megaplex
Phantom of nostalgia goggles strikes again! Join us as we rip the mask off a children's mystery where things are exactly as they seem and not as good as we remember. We talk phantom anniversaries, fake movie references and JIMINY JILLIKERS as we review Phantom of the Megaplex from the year 2000
Video Store Phantoms E36: Ju-On: The Grudge
This week meowing cat boys and creepy crawly hairy ladies as we go back for more J-horror when we reviewed Ju-on:The Grudge from 2002
Video Store Phantoms E35: Final Destination
Fasten your seatbelts as we talk Rube Goldberg machines, one sided love interests, important plot pooping and one of most paranoia inducing horror series of all time. We rented Final Destination from the year 2000
Video Store Phantoms E34: Ghostwatch
From across the pond a mockumentary that traumatized an entire generation. We're talking mermaids, perfect wet spots, glory holes and fanny packs as we cover Ghostwatch from 1992!
Video Store Phantoms E33: Godzilla
Size does matter especially when it's smaller than expected. This week we're talking Simpsons cameos, petty filmmakers, The Frenchest Frenchman and whatever the heck Gino is. We rented Godzilla from 1998
Video Store Phantoms E32: Anaconda
Get ready for the worst boat ride of your life as we discuss vaguely racist character choices, horny sound engineers, and rusty knife tracheotomies. How could you forget about da wasp? It’s Anaconda from 1997!
Video Store Phantoms E31: Psycho
This week we cover the most remakey remake of all time full of inappropriate touching, awkward montages and vomit colored costumes.
Join us at the peephole as we watch Psycho from 1998
Video Store Phantoms E30: The Host
Did you eat one of the squid legs? Come along as we talk about Soju Molotov cocktails, muscleman sausages, and hilarious grieving scenes; just make sure you grab the right girl’s hand as we watch The Host from 2006!
Video Store Phantoms E29: The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
Objection! Silliness! Courts in session as we cover a courtroom drama disguised as a horror movie and discuss childish lawyers, things coming out of the TV and if bugs count as a full meal. This week we rented "The Exorcism Of Emily Rose" from 2005.
Video Store Phantoms E28: Ghost Ship
Is it cheating if you sleep with a dead girl? See for yourself as we discuss bad soul storage management, botulism and one of the best opening scenes in horror movie history. It’s Ghost Ship, from 2002!
Video Store Phantoms E27: The Relic
What is a hypothalamus, what happens when your bitten by a brown recluse, how do you get custody of a dog? Hope your feeling lucky because we answer these questions and more as we dig up The Relic from 1997.
Video Store Phantoms E26: Urban Legend
There's someone in the back seat! Spiders in your bubble gum and Pepsi in your eyes! This week we learn the shocking truth that some movies aren't as good as you remember when we rented Urban legend from 1998
Video Store Phantoms E25: Cemetery Man
Gnah! Get your shovels and dum dums, ready folks. The undead won't rebury themselves. This week we talk space heater safety, problematic romance and handsome misanthropes as we cover Cemetery Man from 1994
Video Store Phantoms E24: Mosquito
Get that fogger ready, folks. We got a giant mosquitos on our hands! Dust off your chainsaw, roll onto your hotdogs and take off your shirt as we discuss Mosquito from 1995!
Video Store Phantoms E23: Ernest Scared Stupid
Hey Vern it's Halloween so we got an extra something, know what I mean? Gather your Miak and dress shields troll hunters as we look to the great redneck hope in our review of Ernest Scared Stupid from 1991.
Video Store Phantoms E22: Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Soak up the holiday spirit as we dip into some halloween water 20 years later or is it 17? We'll try to make sense of one of the most retconned horror series when we discuss Halloween H20: 20 Years Later from 1998
Video Store Phantoms E21: Congo
Ugly gorillas, go away! This week we watched a movie so wacky that the TALKING GORILLA is somehow not the craziest part of the plot. So grab your Lovies and laser guns, and join us as we talk about Congo from 1995!
Video Store Phantoms E20: I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Buckle up kids, You're in for a confusing ride. We'll try not to hit any jaywalking killer fisherman on the way. All while we review I know what you did last summer from 1997
Video Store Phantoms E19: In The Mouth Of Madness
Do you read Sutter Cane? Join us as we discuss elderly tentacle ladies, hard-boiled insurance investigators and big black crayons in this week's episode on In the Mouth of Madness from 1994.
Video Store Phantoms E18: Hiruko The Goblin
This week we head back to Japan where we discuss tragic photo ops, yokai head spiders and how much guys are willing to go for girls who don't even like them. When we review Hiruko The Goblin from 1991
Video Store Phantoms E17: Deep Blue Sea
This week, my hat is like a shark's fin! As we talk about a bird named “Bird”, whether or not smuggling makes you a good swimmer, and what is probably Samuel L. Jackson’s most iconic on screen death: Deep Blue Sea from 1999!
Video Store Phantoms E16: Perfect Blue
We discuss homage vs rip off and a movie about an actress failing horribly at early internet safety. The week we watched the animated classic "Perfect Blue" from 1997
Video Store Phantoms E15:Psycho Beach Party
This week we catch big waves and psycho killers as we review the film adaption of the hit play Gidget goes psychotic. " Psycho Beach Party" from the year 2000s
Video Store Phantoms E14:Fallen
This week we talk body hopping cereal serial killers and how anyone could fall for Denzel if he shouts at you enough. We cover Fallen from 1998.
Video Store Phantoms E13:The Faculty
It's like The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers joined The Breakfast Club with the meanest most agro teenagers since Sleepaway Camp. This week we checked out The Faculty from 1998.
Video Store Phantoms E12:Serial Mom
This week it's camp, kitsch and pussy willows. Along with the Howie scream and some unsettling parallels to the OJ Simpson trial. Join us as we discuss the John Waters 1994 classic "Serial Mom"
Video Store Phantoms E11: Thir13en Ghosts
Why are you so happy to use a bathroom with see-through walls? This question and many more as we review the other William Castle remake "Thir13en Ghosts" from 2001
Video Store Phantoms E10: Brainscan
Join us as we discuss "The ultimate experience in interactive terror” complete with questionable technology, consensual peeping and Primus. This time we watched Brainscan from 1994.
Video Store Phantoms E09: Popcorn
Its that time on the shock clock where we talk Scary scary movies, Jamaica and William Castle. In our review of Popcorn from 1991
Video Store Phantoms E08: Sleepwalkers
This episode comes with a content warning as many icky things come up when discussing shapeshifting incestious cat monsters. That's right we watched Mick Garris and Stephen King's masterpiece Sleepwalkers from 1992
Video Store Phantoms E07: Event Horizon
It's Hellraiser in space but not that one. This episode we journey back to deep space in our review of the Sci-Fi horror classic Event Horizon from 1997
Video Store Phantoms E06: Man’s Best Friend
He'll bite the hand that feeds him...And then he'll eat the rest. In this adorable killer dog movie Man's Best friend from 1993.
Video Store Phantoms E05: Tales From The Hood
With an individual score per-story we review the classic horror anthology Tales from the Hood from 1995
Video Store Phantoms E04: House On Haunted Hill
This week's retro recap is The House On Haunted Hill from 1997
Video Store Phantoms E03: Dead Space
This week we reviewed Dead Space (no not that one) from 1991. Starring Marc Singer and Bryan Cranston
Video Store Phantoms E02:The Frighteners
We do a deep breakdown of The Frighteners from 1996.
Video Store Phantoms E01: Demonic Toys
In our first episode of our new show we reminisce about video stores and breakdown the 90s classic Demonic Toys
Movie discussion starts at - 14:55
WHWT08: What do the good know except what the bad teach them by their excesses?
After a long hiatus we buzz back into it with tragic true story of Ruthie Mae McCoy
who's bizarre murder inspired major plot points in the 1992 classic Candyman.
Short Cuts
-True Story begins at 00:11:09
- Movie breakdown review at 01:09:08
WHWT07: Sometimes when you get haunted its like stepping on gum.
We go into double time with two story tellers and two true stories, First up is brief but memorable story of the haunted Raggedy Annabelle. Then the peril of the Perron family and their life living with one jealous ghost. This episode covers the first in the franchise power house "The Conjuring" from 2013
Short Cuts
-Annabelle true story starts at 00:5:05
-The Conjuring true story starts at 00:
WHWT06:Only the names have been changed
We sip a jarring cup of tea and look into the case that transformed Texarkana, Texas into "The Town That Dreaded Sundown"
WHWT05: Don't put avocado on the burger.
We kick off this new year with a late Christmas present for you, the dark true story behind the festive 2012 remake "Silent Night"
Additional music this episode by Myuu https://myuu.bandcamp.com/
WHWT04: ChapStick
We're back after some cryptid related technical difficulties. In this episode we discuss statues butts, diseased koalas and the unusual story of Indrid Cold.The actual focus of the 2002 film "The Mothman Prophecies"
WHWT 03: Yes,Sir,You gandered.
From Paris to peacocks we take a bite out of the juicy story that inspired the 2007 horror musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street.
WHWT 02: Here's to swimmin with bowlegged women.
Sea turtles, glomping and Bruce the shark. Join us as we dive deep into the fascinating story of The New Jersey Man Eater, the real-life inspiration for JAWS.
WHWT 01: You're going to eat your own food.
In our first episode we explore the infamous ghost story behind the 79 classic "Amityville Horror" and find out why its always a good idea to carry a fork with you at all times.
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