Beer and a Movie

Horror anthologies have been terrifying audiences for decades, packing multiple tales of terror into a single film. From supernatural folklore and gothic nightmares to comic-book carnage, sometimes one monster just isn't enough.

Joe and Dave welcome Josh DeLeon for a discussion of three very different entries in the anthology conversation: Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan (1964), and George A. Romero's Creepshow (1982).

For our Oktoberfest offering, we're pouring Shiner Festbier from Spoetzl Brewery, a traditional German-style lager brewed for the season. And to honor the ghost ships of Kwaidan, we're cracking open Ghost Ship Gose from Galveston Bay Brewing. Two beers, three films, and plenty of horror history to unpack.

Welcome to the second special episode of All Horror October!

WE’RE BACK, BABY!

We said we were done. Then All Horror October happened, and apparently, that was enough to drag us back into the studio for a surprise four-episode series! All horror every Wednesday this October. 

BaaM OG co-host Carlos Cooper joins us for a trip back to 1960 and two films that helped lay the groundwork for the modern slasher flick: Peeping Tom (1960) and Eyes Without a Face (1960).

We’ll dig into these two wildly different horror classics, their influence, their unsettling approach to horror, and why both deserve a place in the conversation about the movies that helped shape what horror would become.

And because Oktoberfests are an All Horror October tradition, we're keeping that part alive, too! This episode features Live Oak Brewing's Oaktoberfest and a very special 2022 St. Arnold Brewing Pumpkinator.

Four surprise episodes. Classic horror. Great beer. Old friends back around the microphones.

After 8 years, 900 beers, and more movie debates than we can possibly count…this is it — the final episode of Beer and a Movie.

Our last film — the one we could not end without reviewing — is The Legend of Billie Jean: the definitive film review of this underrated masterpiece and our love letter to Corpus Christi, the city where BaaM was created. The takes on Billie Jean get surprisingly heated

For the beers, we keep it meaningful. We start with Martin House Brewing’s Peace Be the Journey — a toast to the 8-year journey we’ve all been on together. Then Joe pulls out something truly special: Barreled Souls Brewing's Honey Pot, a gift from Dave over a decade ago, saved for exactly the right moment.

And because it’s the last one, we lean into it. We talk about what Beer and a Movie might’ve looked like if COVID hadn’t changed everything, shout out the many recurring guests who became part of the fabric of the show, and take time to say a genuine thank you to everyone who listened, supported, and shared a beer with us along the way.

Carlos is here to help send us off the right way, and in a perfect bit of full-circle timing, Joe’s long-dreamed-of guest finally makes an appearance: Dave’s wife, Errin, with a surprise pop-in that feels like it was always meant to happen.

It’s the end — so we let it be. One last conversation, one last round, and the only way we knew how to go out.

PS: Fair is fair.

It's our 400th (and penultimate) episode!! So we floor it into the chaos with a full-blown In The Cage episode—the sacred, unhinged tradition where every pick is pure, uncut Nicolas Cage energy. And for a moment this big, you bring back family: Carlos Cooper returns—our one-time permanent co-host turned every-50-episode chaos agent—to ride shotgun one more time before the finale.

Three hosts. Three Cage movies. No brakes.

Joe comes in hot with Gone in 60 Seconds—chrome, speed, and that mythical Eleanor gliding through traffic like a fever dream. Carlos zag-picks with Joe—gritty, stripped down, and proof that Cage can burn just as slow as he explodes. And Dave…Dave chooses violence with USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage—a war story soaked in sweat, sharks, and sheer Cage intensity.

The beers match the moment: we kick things off with Martin House Brewing Company’s Roadhouse Coffee, roll into the heavy artillery with Firestone Walker Brewing Company’s Firestone XXI Anniversary Ale, and finish like kings with the Bourbon County Reserve Brand Blanton’s Stout (2021)—because if you’re going to do #400, you go big, bold, and a little unhinged.

It’s loud. It’s loose. It’s everything BaaM has been for 400 episodes—movies, beer, and just enough chaos to keep it dangerous.

One episode left. Let’s burn it down.

Only 3 BaaM episodes left, and now it’s getting classy…dangerous classy.

Local film enthusiast and cheerleader Heidi Hovda finally pulls up and programs a double feature straight outta the early-40s screwball playbook: The Philadelphia Story and Ball of Fire.

We start things proper—popping champagne alongside The Philadelphia Story like we’ve got Cary Grant money—and then slide into a 2024 Bourbon County Vanilla Rye Brand Stout in an attempt to compete with the heat of Ball of Fire.

Expect rapid-fire 40s slang, high society burns, and enough verbal gymnastics to make Jimmy Stewart stutter and Gary Cooper lean back and nod.

And make no mistake—Heidi brings the Barbara Stanwyck energy.

The real question: can Joe and Dave keep up? Or are they about to get left at the train station holding the luggage while Heidi runs the whole picture?

Three episodes left. No fillers. All killers.