GET TRAPPED WITH US ON THIS WEEK’S DIA DOUBLE FEATURE!

This Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels, John McDevitt will join Bill and me to show two awesome movies!

Up first, we’re going back for another Michele Soavi movie with The Church! You can watch it on Tubi and YouTube.

Every week, we watch two movies, discuss them, take a look at their ad campaigns and have two themed cocktails. Here’s the first drink.

Father Gus (based on this recipe)

  • 2 oz. Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey
  • 1 oz. Chambord
  • ,5 oz. Frangelico
  1. Pour all ingredients in a glass with ice.
  2. Stir and savor.

The second movie is the Canadian strangeness known as Beyond the Seventh Door. You can watch it on Tubi and YouTube.

Here’s the next recipe.

Beyond the Seven and Seven Door

  • 1.5 oz. Absolut Citron
  • 6 oz. 7-Up
  • Lemon and lime slices
  1. Slice lemons and limes and place over crushed ice.
  2. Pour ingredients together and stir.

See you Saturday.

HAVE SOME VALLEY NIGHTMARES THIS WEEK ON THE DIA DOUBLE FEATURE

This Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels, Roger Braden from Valley Nightmares will join Bill and me.

Up first — Fright Night II, which you can find on YouTube.

Each week, we watch movies, discuss them, look at their ads and make a drink for each one.

Here’s the first recipe:

Regine

  • .5 oz. gin
  • .5 oz. white rum
  • .5 oz. tequila
  • .5 oz. vodka
  • .5 oz. Cointreau
  • .75 oz. Midori
  • .5 oz. lime juice
  • .25 oz. simple syrup
  • 2 oz. Mountain Dew
  1. Pour all ingredients except Mountain Dew in a shaker with ice.
  2. Shake it up, then pour in a glass. Top with Mountain Dew.

Our second movie is The Power, which you can find on Tubi.

Here’s the second recipe.

Destacatyl

  • 1 oz. tequila
  • 1 oz. 99 Bananas
  • 3 oz. orange juice
  • .5 oz. lime juice
  1. Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice.
  2. Shake it up and pour over a pyramid of crushed ice.

See you on Saturday.

Watch this week’s DIA Double Feature with guest host Dianna Koch

This past Saturday, Dianna Koch from Giallo of the Month Club joined us for Stagefright and Bad Dreams.

Now you can watch the episode and don’t even need to stay up late!

While you’re at it, check out the latest episode of Giallo of the Month Club, as Dianna and Liam O’Donnell from Cinepunx talk about White of the Eye. You can listen to it right here.

JOIN DIANNA KOCH AS OUR GUEST ON THE DRIVE-IN ASYLUM DOUBLE FEATURE!

This Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels, Dianna from Giallo of the Month Club will join us to check out two wild movies.

The first movie is Stagefright, which is a near-perfect slasher. You can watch it on Tubi.

Each week, we watch two movies, discuss them, look at the ad campaigns and make drinks for each movie. Here’s the first one.

Mask of the Owl

  • 1.5 oz. tequila
  • 1 oz. blue curacao
  • .5 oz. orgeat or almond syrup
  • 6 oz. limeonade (I make mine with the juice of a lime, .5 oz. simple syrup and 5 oz. water)
  1. Pour all the ingredients in a glass filled with ice.
  2. Don’t drop the key and mix this up instead.

The second movie is Bad Dreams, which is Freddy without Freddy yet also completely awesome at being its own movie too. You can watch it on the Internet Archive.

Here’s the second recipe.

Unity Fields

  • 1.5 oz. Fireball
  • 1.5 oz. Sour Apple Pucker
  • 3 oz. pineapple juice
  1. Add everything to your shaker with ice and shake it up.
  2. Don’t set yourself on fire and drink this instead.

See you Saturday!

INDEPENDENT-INTERNATIONAL WEEK ON THE DRIVE-IN ASYLUM DOUBLE FEATURE!

This Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels, Bill and I will be recreating a double feature that played drive-ins all over the country.

The first movie is Horror of the Zombies, which is also The Blind Dead 3, Horror of the Zombies, Ship of Zombies, The Ghost Ship of the Swimming Corpses, The Ghost Ship of the Blind Dead and The Ghost Galleon. You can watch it on YouTube and Tubi.

Every week, we watch two movies, discuss them, look at the ad campaigns and make two themed cocktails.

Here’s the first one.

Spanish Zombie

  • 1 oz. Midori
  • 1 oz. Malibu rum
  • 1 oz. spiced rum
  • .5 oz. apricot brandy
  • .5 oz. Cointreau
  • 3 oz. orange juice
  • 2 oz. pineapple juice
  • .5 oz. lime juice
  • Mint
  1. Shake all ingredients like you’re on a boat surrounded by fog and the waves have grown larger.
  2. Pour over crushed ice and top with mint.

The next movie is a Paul Naschy werewolf film that is listed as Night of the Howling Beast. It’s also known as The Curse of the Beast, The Werewolf and the Yeti and Hall of the Mountain King. You can watch it on Tubi.

Here’s the second recipe.

Werewolf In Tibet

  • .5 oz. 99 Bananas
  • 1.5 oz. cherry brandy
  • .75 oz. lemon juice
  • 2 oz. iced tea
  • .5 oz. orgeat or almond syrup
  1. Shake all ingredients in a shaker with ice as if you’re battling a yeti in an ice cave.
  2. Pour it out, savor it and dream of Paul Naschy’s lustrous hair.

See you Saturday!

WATCH MOVIES WHILE THE WORLD BURNS ON THE DIA DOUBLE FEATURE!

This Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels, Bill and I will be joined by Peter Podgursky and Bryan Keithley from NPRmageddon.

Up first, there are no wars, there are just RoboJox. You can watch this on Tubi.

Each episode, we share links for you to watch the movies but before and after, we talk about them, show their ad campaigns and have a themed drink. Here’s one for the first movie.

Achilles (based on the Difford’s Guide recipe)

  • 2 oz. vodka
  • .5 oz. Chambord
  • .5 oz. peach schnapps
  • 3 oz. apple juice
  • ,5 oz. lemon juice
  1. Shake all ingredients in a shaker with ice in your rocket fist.
  2. Pour over crushed ice in your glass, then drink up.

The second movie is Warriors of the Wasteland, which I feel is one of the best Mad Max ripoffs ever. You can watch it on Tubi.

Here’s the second drink, which…wow. Yeah, get ready.

Scorpion

  • 3 oz. passion fruit juice
  • 3 oz. pineapple juice
  • 3 oz. orange juice
  • 2 oz. lemon juice
  • .5 oz. dark rum
  • .5 oz. Malibu rum
  • .5 oz. high proof rum (151 or Hurricane Proof)
  • .5 oz. Passoa
  • .5 oz. gin
  • .25 oz. maraschino cherry juice
  • Maraschino cherries
  • Frozen pineapple chunks
  • Orange slices
  1. Pour all the ingredients, other than the fruit, in a large glass filled with crushed ice.
  2. Stir, add in fruit and beware the Templars.

See you Saturday!

BEARS AND BEASTS ON THE DIA DOUBLE FEATURE!

This week, we’re heading into the woods and wilds to meet a mutant bear and a SYNthesized GENetic ORgansism. Join Bill and me at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels.

Up first…Prophecy which you can watch on YouTube and the Internet Archive.

Every week, we talk about the movies, share the ad campaigns and have two drinks. Here’s the first recipe:

Gummy Katahdin

  • 1.5 oz. pineapple vodka
  • 1 oz. rum
  • 2 oz. pineapple juice
  • 4 oz. Hawaiian Punch
  • Prepped gummy bears

Day before…

Take a plastic container and line it with 20 or more gummy bears. Pour 3 ounces of pineapple vodka over them and let soak for a day.

Drink…

  1. Combine all ingredients in a shaker with crushed ice and several uncrushed agitator ice cubes. Shake up like you’re a bear destroying an oil industry worker.
  2. Pour in a glass, then drop in those drunken gummy bears. Roar loudly.

Up next is the slasher with a killer that might not be human known as Scared to Death. You can watch it on YouTube and Tubi.

Here’s the second drink.

Spinal Fluid

  • 1.5 oz. pineapple vodka
  • 1 oz. sour apple schnapps
  • 2 oz. pineapple juice
  • .5 oz. lime juice
  • 4 oz. Mountain Dew
  1. Shake all ingredients except Mountain Dew in a shaker filled with ice.
  2. Pour over crushed ice, then top with Mountain Dew.

See you Saturday night!

ANDREW PRINE GOES TWICE AS HARD AT THE DIA DOUBLE FEATURE!

Join Jennifer Upton, Bill and me this Saturday at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels.

Up first, it’s Terror Circus AKA Barn of the Naked Dead, which you can find on Daily Motion.

Every week, we watch two movies, discuss them, show the ad campaigns and have a drink for each movie. Here’s the first recipe.

Barn Door of the Naked Dead

  • 1.5 oz. vodka
  • 5 oz. pineapple juice
  • .5 oz. cranberry juice
  1. Pour the vodka into a glass filled with crushed ice.
  2. Top with pineapple juice and float cranberry juice to complete.

The second movie is The Evil which you can find on YouTube and Tubi.

Get ready for the next recipe.

Dr. Arnold

  • 1.5 oz. Absolut Citron
  • .25 oz. triple sec
  • 4 oz. lemonade
  • 4 oz. iced tea
  1. Fill your glass with ice and alcohol.
  2. Add equal amounts of lemonade and tea, stir and take your medicine.

See you Saturday!

THE CAR IS COMING TO THE DIA LATE MOVIE!

This Saturday at 11 PM EST, join Bill and me for one of our favorite movies ever, The Car. Be part of the most fun chat room around in the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels and watch the movie, then come back and discuss it with us.

Every week, we watch a movie, talk about it and have a drink. Here’s the week’s cocktail.

Black Lincoln Continental 

  • 1 oz. whiskey
  • 1 oz. Jägermeister
  • 5 oz. cola
  1. Add ice to a glass. Pour in whiskey, then cola.
  2. Top with Jägermeister and hide in a cemetery.

See you Saturday!