Episode Details

Coming Attractions for October 31, 2026: Trick or Treat Projection Booth. 7 pieces (songs and theme tunes, vintage commercials and promos): Halloween - Evil Theme, Halloween III Silver Shamrock, Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Time Warp and more, with Ray Starling.

In this episode:

1. 0:00 Coming Attractions opens: Ray Starling welcomes you
2. 1:10 Halloween - Evil Theme — Halloween is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill and stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows Michael Myers, an escaped mental patient who was committed after murdering his teenage sister on Halloween in the fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield. Fifteen years later, Myers returns to Haddonfield to stalk teenage babysitter Laurie Strode while his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis pursues him.
3. 2:52 Halloween III Silver Shamrock (commercial, 1982) — Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a 1982 science fiction horror film written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace in his feature-length directorial debut, starring Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, and Dan O'Herlihy. The film follows a physician who becomes involved in a mystery about a mask-making company after one of his patients is murdered, uncovering a sinister plot to use Halloween masks to kill millions of children. It is the only entry in the Halloween series that does not feature the main antagonist Michael Myers, though series creators John Carpenter and Debra Hill return as producers.
4. 4:28 Coming Attractions on Stupid Potato
5. 4:39 Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Time Warp
6. 7:49 April Fool's Day (trailer, 1986) — April Fool's Day is a 1986 American black comedy mystery slasher film directed by Fred Walton and produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., featuring Thomas F. Wilson, Deborah Foreman, Griffin O'Neal, Amy Steel, Ken Olandt, Deborah Goodrich, and Leah Pinsent. The film's plot centers on a group of college students who are vacationing on an island estate during April Fool's Day weekend when an unknown assailant infiltrates the property.
7. 8:22 Halloween Bash - Pumpky the Pumpkin
8. 10:57 Coming Attractions on Stupid Potato
9. 11:09 Sorority House Massacre (trailer, 1986) — Sorority House Massacre is a 1986 American slasher film written and directed by Carol Frank that stars Angela O'Neill, Wendy Martel, Pamela Ross, and Nicole Rio. The film follows a sorority pledge who has déjà vu experiences in the sorority house while a murderer kills residents over Memorial Day weekend. It is the first film in the Sorority House Massacre trilogy, which is a spin-off of The Slumber Party Massacre trilogy and the second film trilogy in the Massacre franchise, and like its predecessor, it was written and directed by a woman.
10. 12:38 Brad Fiedel - Fright Night End Titles
11. 16:30 Ray Starling signs off

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