Welcome to the first annual Haggy Awards! In today’s show, we look back at the last year of movies we’ve watched for The Night Hags and we’ve got fifteen categories and a ton of positive female reinforcement! Who are the winners? You’ll have to listen to find out!
41: This is Halloween (Halloween Kills and Rob Zombie’s Halloween)
This week we watched Halloween Kills and Rob Zombie’s Halloween. We also talk about Michelle’s Halloween costume (with a reveal!), the many Halloween timelines, objectification of women in Rob Zombie’s movies, his portrayal of villains, Michelle’s feelings about his upcoming Munsters movie, Harvey Weinstein’s connection to the Rob Zombie movie,
40: Spooky Haunted Ghosty Houses (The Night House and The Beyond)
This week we watched The Beyond (1981) and The Night House (2021). We also talked about adulting, New York Comic Con, Korean dramas and Squid Game, the history of The Beyond released as The Seven Doors of Death in 1983, Night Flight, Onondaga Lake and swimming in lakes,
39: Celebrating Spooky Szn (Pumpkinhead and Trick or Treat)
This week on the double feature we watched Pumpkinhead (1988) and Trick or Treat (2007). We also talk about becoming health goths, making coffee, Mike the Night Hog aka Big Beans makes a cameo, the first trip to a Spirit Halloween of the season, finding a band on Craigslist,
38: Cabins in the Woods (Cabin in the Woods and Evil Dead 2013)
This week’s double feature is Cabin in the Woods and 2013’s Evil Dead with this week’s theme being The Woods! Also: Michelle gets a surprise, Fran Kranz’s Mass (2021), the realities of coffee cup bongs, our favorite baddies in the basement, our favorite deaths in Cabin in the Woods,
37: Two Malignants Walk Into a Bar – (Malignant 2021 and Malignant 2013)
This week we watched 2021’s Malignant and 2013’s Malignant. Michelle tested positive for Covid-19 after vaccination and explains what a breakthrough case feels like, the symptoms, discovering the diagnosis, what it’s like to live with a partner who didn’t test positive in a one-bedroom apartment, this episode has possibly the best movie we’ve seen this year and maybe the worst movie we’ve seen ever,
36: Shandyman (2021’s Candyman & Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh/Candyman 2)
This week we watched Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995) and Candyman (2021). Spoiler warning: You do not (and probably should not) have to watch Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh. We also talk about going on a bender as an actual adult, a boat with hot tubs on it,
35: Stephen King B-Sides (Maximum Overdrive and Gerald’s Game)
Animal interruptions with spooky chats, Meg’s pink pink pink office, AC/DC’s lyrics, cocaine, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a bummer, changing swear words on cable TV, Does the Dog Die?, construction equipment/trucks, being a white dude in the 80s was dope, Dr. Sleep, a mid-show attack from Beans,
34: Under-Appreciated Gems (Hell House LLC and The Innkeepers)
This week we watched Hell House LLC (2015) and The Innkeepers (2011). We also talk about the difference between four and five skulls on Shudder, Hell House 2 and 3, visiting bad haunted houses, a Hell House spinoff we’d want to see, haunted hayrides, Halloween in January,
33: Friday the 13th (Jason Takes Manhattan & Jason X)
This week we watched Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) and Jason X (2001). Michelle’s drinking spiked seltzer, aka murder juice, The Muppets take Manhattan, are Friday the 13th scary?, NYC in the 80s and 90s, sailing to Manhattan from Camp Crystal Lake,