Third Channel Podcast

Candyman: Day of the Dead

You won't know true ecstasy until you have tasted death. Join PJ and Derek as they reach this franchises strangest crossroads in Turi Meyer’s straight-to-video finale, Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999). In this episode the guys debate the film trading gothic urban horror for sunlit Los Angeles streets and Día de los Muertos imagery, reworking the legend into a generational curse, the franchise fatigue that shaped this overlooked entry, and ask whether saying his name one more time was ever going to end any other way. 📺Follow us @thirdchannelpodcast on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, & YouTube and @thirdchannelpod on Bluesky, Twitter, & Letterboxd. You can also see what else the guys are watching @PJtheMummy and @thatdrosenberg on Letterboxd.Theme Song & Audio Engineering by Producer Ty @flyyguy.tyLogo Design by Belle DeVelle Co @belledevellecoEpisode Artwork by Nathan Walkington @nathannyilhttps://linktr.ee/thirdchannelpodcastSend us a textSupport the showThird Channel Podcast delves into the horror franchises you love from the perspectives of a life-long horror hound & a newbie to the genre. 📺

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

I am the writing on the wall, the whisper in the classroom. Join PJ and Derek in The Big Easy as they inspect Bill Condon’s sorrow-soaked sequel to the urban legend that never dies in Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995). In this episode the guys unpack how shifting the setting to New Orleans trades the cold brutality of Chicago for Southern Gothic excess, family curses, and a myth rooted in generational trauma that expands Daniel Robitaille’s backstory, reframing him as both monster and tragic figure. 📺Follow us @thirdchannelpodcast on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, & YouTube and @thirdchannelpod on Bluesky, Twitter, & Letterboxd. You can also see what else the guys are watching @PJtheMummy and @thatdrosenberg on Letterboxd.Theme Song & Audio Engineering by Producer Ty @flyyguy.tyLogo Design by Belle DeVelle Co @belledevellecoEpisode Artwork by Nathan Walkington @nathannyilhttps://linktr.ee/thirdchannelpodcastSend us a textSupport the showThird Channel Podcast delves into the horror franchises you love from the perspectives of a life-long horror hound & a newbie to the genre. 📺

Candyman

You were not content with the stories, so I was obliged to come. Join PJ and Derek as they step up to the mirror to summon Bernard Rose’s Candyman (1992). In this episode the guys discuss Tony Todd’s iconic performance, Philip Glass’s hypnotic score, and the film’s unsettling use of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green as both setting and symbol. Candyman transforms a slasher premise into something far more unsettling: a meditation on belief, violence, race, and the stories societies choose to repeat. 📺Follow us @thirdchannelpodcast on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, & YouTube and @thirdchannelpod on Bluesky, Twitter, & Letterboxd. You can also see what else the guys are watching @PJtheMummy and @thatdrosenberg on Letterboxd.Theme Song & Audio Engineering by Producer Ty @flyyguy.tyLogo Design by Belle DeVelle Co @belledevellecoEpisode Artwork by Nathan Walkington @nathannyilhttps://linktr.ee/thirdchannelpodcastSend us a textSupport the showThird Channel Podcast delves into the horror franchises you love from the perspectives of a life-long horror hound & a newbie to the genre. 📺

Dario Argento’s Inferno

Have you ever heard of The Three Sisters? Join PJ and Derek as they descend into the nightmare of color and sound that is Dario Argento’s Inferno (1980), the second chapter in the Three Mothers trilogy. In this episode the guys wade through flooded ballrooms, cursed apartments, and brutal eruptions of violence to unpack Argento’s uniquely dreamlike approach to horror, where reason dissolves and atmosphere reigns supreme in something that feels less like a movie and more like a curse. 📺Follow us @thirdchannelpodcast on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, & YouTube and @thirdchannelpod on Bluesky, Twitter, & Letterboxd. You can also see what else the guys are watching @PJtheMummy and @thatdrosenberg on Letterboxd.Theme Song & Audio Engineering by Producer Ty @flyyguy.tyLogo Design by Belle DeVelle Co @belledevellecoEpisode Artwork by Nathan Walkington @nathannyilhttps://linktr.ee/thirdchannelpodcastSend us a textSupport the showThird Channel Podcast delves into the horror franchises you love from the perspectives of a life-long horror hound & a newbie to the genre. 📺

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

There are some things that man is not meant to splice. This week PJ and Derek are joined by special guest Charlie as they dive headfirst into the pure cinematic mayhem of Joe Dante’s sequel that gleefully tears up the rulebook in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). In this episode they explore how Dante uses slapstick violence, mutant gremlins, and nonstop parody to mock sequels, media culture, corporate America, and even the audience itself. Whether you think this anything-goes approach makes it brilliant or unbearable, it is certainly one of the strangest studio horror films ever made. 📺The last time we heard from Charlie was for our discussion on A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985).Check out Charlie’s work on his website or his list of Queer Horror films on Letterboxd.Follow us @thirdchannelpodcast on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, & YouTube and @thirdchannelpod on Bluesky, Twitter, & Letterboxd. You can also see what else the guys are watching @PJtheMummy and @thatdrosenberg on Letterboxd.Theme Song & Audio Engineering by Producer Ty @flyyguy.tyLogo Design by Belle DeVelle Co @belledevellecoEpisode Artwork by Nathan Walkington @nathannyilhttps://linktr.ee/thirdchannelpodcastSend us a textSupport the showThird Channel Podcast delves into the horror franchises you love from the perspectives of a life-long horror hound & a newbie to the genre. 📺