Dick Ebert

This week on Shat the Movies, we’re seeing dead people with The Sixth Sense (1999), the supernatural thriller that made M. Night Shyamalan a household name and had audiences questioning everything they just watched. Gene and Big D revisit Bruce Willis playing against type, Haley Joel Osment’s unforgettable performance, the...

When listener John S. commissioned the 1983 cult slasher Sleepaway Camp, Big D had zero expectations. Gene was cautiously optimistic after two disappointing summer camp films. Neither was prepared for what they got. What starts as Meatballs with murder — beehives, boilings, and drownings — escalates into something far darker,...

When a filmmaker gets a second chance at the same idea and decides to just fucking lose his mind, you get Evil Dead 2. Gene and Big D continue their Shat Spooktacular Halloween celebration with Sam Raimi’s 1987 horror-comedy sequel — the film that turned Ash Williams into a legend...

This week on Shat the Movies, we’re heading into the woods with The Evil Dead (1981), where five friends discover that renting an isolated cabin is apparently the fastest route to demonic possession. Gene and Big D break down Bruce Campbell’s early Ash, Sam Raimi’s inventive camera work, buckets of...

The 10th Annual Shat Spooktacular kicks off with a bang. People are melting. A penis is flying through the air. And somebody brought a woodwind. Commissioner John kicks off our first-ever full month of horror by taking us back to 1987 for Street Trash, the cult splatter comedy where a...

This week on Shat the Movies, we’re going rogue with Licence to Kill (1989), the Bond movie where 007 forgets about saving the world and makes things very personal. Timothy Dalton’s Bond quits MI6 and goes after drug lord Franz Sanchez, giving us revenge, exploding tankers, questionable undercover decisions, and...