It’s the first No-Budget Nightmares episode of 2024! And.. it’s March! OOPS! Anyway, we’re back with a long-requested SOV film from auteur Chester Novell Turner (director of NBN classic TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE). This one features a highly religious (and very repressed) woman turning to the dark side after a sexual encounter from a puppet. We’ve…

It’s been a long (long!) time coming but the German superhero parody (with a hint of splatstick) CAPTAIN COSMOTIC has finally arrived on No-Budget Nightmares! Since viewers don’t have easy access to the film (and it’s even harder to find subs), we go DEEP on this weird little number, hence a runtime an hour longer than the film we’re discussing. OO…

HOT DAMN! No-Budget Nightmares returns.. AGAIN?! It feels like only a month ago when NBN returned from its THREE YEAR hiatus to J all over your Bs with meaty podcasting action, and now THE BOYS are back again, this time goofin’ and grinnin’ with the 1990 Buffalo-shot martial arts masterpiece BLOOD AND STEEL, written by, directed by and starring saf…

After three long years we’re free! TIME TO CONQUER EARTH! Yes – improbably – it’s the return of No-Budget Nightmares! Since March, 2020 the podcast has been laying in wait, but we’re back to insert ourselves once again into the overcrowded world of low-budget film podcastery! All your favorites are back: Moe! Doug! Yawning! Creaky chair sounds! Aud…

Miss us? NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES has – as you may have noticed – been taking an extended break during the ongoing end of the world, but we miss all of you SO much so we decided to release something special. A couple of years back the legendary Todd Sheets asked Moe and Doug to provide a commentary for the Blu-Ray release of his horror-comedy CLOWNADO.…

Your no-budget pals Moe and Doug have been at this since 2011, so we figured it’s about time to let our listeners get a word in. On this VERY SPECIAL episode of No-Budget Nightmares we have letters and audio clips from our listeners, who are eager(?) to ask questions, make comments, and to reinforce why it’s probably best to leave this to the profe…

A horrible plague threatening to destroy the earth? Only in the movies! On episode 126 Moe and Doug return to the greatest Argentinian zombie trilogy ever: PLAGA ZOMBIE! This time we’re looking at the most polished of the bunch with PLAGA ZOMBIE: ZONA MUTANTE: REVOLUCION TOXICA (2011), which sees the return of Max Giggs, Bill Johnson and our belove…

On episode 125 of No-Budget Nightmares it’s the apocalypse.. AGAIN! This time the animals have risen up to take out humanity, and we have an intrepid (and very cold looking) trio making their way across Rochester, New York to deliver a cell phone. On the way, there’s rabbit attacks, squirrel attacks, gorilla attacks, turtle attacks and SO MANY MORE…

I WANT YOU FOR.. THE ZOMBIE ARMY! On a brand new episode of No-Budget Nightmares THE LADS take on the 1991 SOV Delaware-lensed zombie classic THE ZOMBIE ARMY. Featuring: TWO head explosions, neck biting, battery acid-fu and some LETHAL LADIES (/w theme song). It’s the best thing going today, and it’s all for you. CHECK IT OUT, MAGGOTS! We’ve recent…

In the arms of an angel! It’s NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES #123, and we’re getting RELIGIOUS with the apocalyptic green-screen sci-fi madness of Fabian Rush’s PANTHEON BLACK. It’s a bit like ALIEN, a bit like EVENT HORIZON and a bit like that dream you had after eating a burrito where nothing made sense and everyone looked a bit fuzzy. But you have MOE and…

This week on No-Budget Nightmares we're chatting about a true obscurity. It's the brand new (actually old) shot-on-video horror film METAL NOIR, originally directed by David R. Williams back in 1990, before immediately falling into obscurity. That was, until shot-on-video writer, creator and historian Tony Masiello unearthed it, polished it, and br…

WALKER! We've got another Patreon request episode, and this one is a DOOZY. 1997's SUDDEN FURY is full of explosions, full-body burns, gore, and incomprehensible accents. It also has the late David Warbeck (from Lucio Fulci's THE BEYOND) in one of his final roles. It's a rare No-Budget Nightmares action movie, and Moe and Doug get positively giddy …

On a BRAND NEW episode of NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES we're watching Jim Haggerty's 2000 slasher film called, uh, THE SLASHER! It has bad acting, sound and dialogue, but what about the plot? That's bad too! But that's ok, since we're going to go through it scene by scene anyway, because what ELSE CAN WE DO? Nothing! CLEAR YOUR SCHEDULE AND LISTEN!…

BULK SMOOSH! As you may have guessed 2012's THE AMAZING BULK is a mockbuster/parody of Ang Lee's THE INCREDIBLE HULK, except made in five days and shot entirely against a green screen using pre-rendered stock footage and computer generated models. It's exactly as good as that would suggest. There are tornado transformations, Stanley Kubrick referen…

HORROR! TERROR! SCARES! On this episode of No-Budget Nightmares we're discussing 1986's TERROR AT TENKILLER, which is so incompetent they forgot to record any audio while making it, so a different crew had to step in and complete the darn thing! Moe and Doug have plenty of fun picking this dull slasher movie apart, and we even bring on the wonderfu…

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And now for something EXTREMELY different. Thanks to a Patreon request from listener Tyler Sharp, we've been blessed with a one-of-a-kind item: a preliminary cut of Matt Farnsworth's IOWA that was later re-edited for DVD release. Unlike most/all No-Budget Nightmares features, this one had a budget, a crew and name talent in front of the camera, but…

We're back! It's a HOLIDAY MIRACLE! After a two month hiatus, No-Budget Nightmares returns with the 1987 Canuxploitation oddity BEYOND THE 7TH DOOR, starring the unforgettable (and unintelligible) Lazar Rockwood! Our hero, joined by a cocktail clad - and much more competent - lady-friend chainsmokes his way through SEVEN DEADLY ROOMS in order to un…

It's another NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES PATREON SPECIAL, and that means something WEIRD! And, in this case, something GERMAN! Thanks to listener LARS for forcing us to watch the 2003 action-satire-gore-comedy OPERATION DANCE SENSATION, which has MASSIVE GUNS, endless NINJAS and an EPIC running time it doesn't quite deserve. But it's plenty violent, and h…

It's a NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES *FIRST*! A SEQUEL! Moe and Doug return to ARGENTINA to check out the mid-point of the beloved PLAGA ZOMBIE trilogy, and they LOVE IT! In fact, there's some discussion about whether this is the BEST NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES FILM EVER! But that's at the end. Before that, you'll have to enjoy hearing THE BOYS wax philosophic ab…

Sgt. Gregory Dapp is a renegade space cop hunting down a deadly creature across the cosmos. The beast, called a PHOBE, makes its way to planet earth with DAPP hot on its trail, but soon comes upon a young high school cheerleader who has unknowingly stolen its egg. Can DAPP protect the young woman AND steal her heart? Can he stop the PHOBE from repr…

Does it get any better than a SOV horror that had a limited international release in the 80s finally getting released in North America 28 years later (thanks to Bleeding Skull)? No, it doesn’t! And CARDS OF DEATH isn’t just some boring obscurity, it’s weird as hell, and introduced the world to “Gunny” Gunther, the dumbest, angriest cop ever! And do…

Look, I'm going to be straight with you. This is a rough episode of No-Budget Nightmares. We didn't like the movie, which is just an unending parade of empty misery, and talking about it was just a tremendous drag. You'll hear how defeated we were by the end. However, if you've ever wanted to hear us be mentally and physically destroyed by a movie,…

YOU ASKED FOR IT! YOU GOT IT! It's a Something Weird (and Moe Porne) favorite, 1969's DRACULA (THE DIRTY OLD MAN), featuring all manners of rubber bats, sexual assault, and a soundtrack full of lame jokes recorded to make up for its unusable original audio! You also get Irving Jackalman, sex through pants, and some of the most uncomfortable dirty t…

Take a splash of THE EVIL DEAD, a pinch of 1977's HOUSE (aka HAUSU), and a whole lot of BODY BUILDING and you have something resembling the Japanese microbudget horror comedy BLOODY MUSCLE BODY BUILDER IN HELL. Filmed on 8mm back in 1995, it wasn't completed until 2009 and didn't get an official release until 2012, and despite all those timeline sh…

Look, we get it. That title is pretty rough. Also, this is a Bill Zebub film, so you know it's likely going to be awful. We at No-Budget Nightmares understand that some will be rightfully put off by such an extreme title, though the film in no way reflects the language of that title. There's no Jesus. There's no rape. Also, an HOUR of the movie is …

Exploding dongs. SO MANY EXPLODING DONGS. 2011's THE TAINT is a bad taste smörgåsbord, gleefully crossing the line at every opportunity with its unique mixture of quirky humor, bodily fluids, shockingly slick FX and a tremendous synth soundtrack. But IS IT ANY GOOD? Let your good friends Moe and Doug decide! Or not! We're not your parents! Also inc…

MOVIE! MOVIE! MOVIE! MOVIE! No-Budget Nightmares is BACK with Uganda's first action movie WHO KILLED CAPTAIN ALEX?, featuring Ugandan Bruce Lee (aka Bruce U!), "Kissed By a Rose", helicopter attacks, and NON-STOP action! Made for only $200, and featuring a feature length "Video Joker" commentary from VJ Emmie, it's an absolute marvel. EXPECT THE UN…

After ANOTHER lengthy sabbatical, NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES RETURNS! For the first episode of 2018, Moe and Doug go deep on a film featuring murder, masturbation, necrophilia and ventriloquism! It's Ron Atkins' nutzo 1997 SOV classic SCHIZOPHRENIAC: THE WHORE MANGLER, featuring one of the most gloriously unhinged performances in microbudget cinema HISTO…

HO HO HO! MERRY NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES CHRISTMAS! This year’s holiday special features Scott Shaw’s immortal SAMURAI VAMPIRE BIKERS FROM HELL, the film that brought the revolutionary concept of ZEN FILM-MAKING to the world, and one that somehow manages to be tedious, incomprehensible AND less than an hour long! Enjoy the opportunity to hear both Moe …

It’s NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES: THE NEXT GENERATION! After crossing the 100th episode threshold, we’re back with 1991’s EXCEEDINGLY GORY SOV possession movie SOUL OF THE DEMON! Despite an interminable 45 minutes of set-up, there’s head slicing, crotch slicing, stomach slicing.. ALL THE SLICING A PERSON CAN HANDLE! Time to BOLDLY GO WHERE NO-ONE HAS GONE…

SIX YEARS. ONE HUNDRED MOVIES. It's been a long, strange, often baffling trip, but No-Budget Nightmares reaches episode ONE HUNDRED in STYLE with FOUR special interviews, a MYSTERY MOVIE for the ages, and a count-down of our very favorite NBN episodes. Did I mention it's almost FIVE HOURS LONG?! Yeah, it's EPIC. So, clean your schedule, send the ki…

THE MARCH TO #100 CONTINUES! On this penultimate episode of NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES we toss our ENTIRE HISTORY in the WOODCHIPPER for a good ol' fashioned WOODCHIPPER MASSACRE! Jon McBride's 1988 black comedy classic features an incredible Casio keyboard soundtrack, wholesome slaughter and TOM, the oldest 12-year-old that has ever existed! THE END OF …

The MARCH TO 100 continues with a return visit to the works of auteur DAVE WASCAVAGE, the director of NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES classics SUBURBAN SASQUATCH, FUNGICIDE and MALEVOLENT ASCENT! This time Moe and Doug delve into the long-awaited TARTARUS and get terrorized by the film’s vision of a CG hell full of TURD TABLES, terrifying OTTOMANS, and more U…

EVERYONE IN YOUR SEATS! On this episode of NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES, Moe and Doug are like school in summertime... NO CLASS! Also, a vicious CHUPACABRA is on the loose thanks to some potent Mexican sorcery. Students at BAXTER U are being dispatched in a variety of messy (off-screen ways), and it's up to a trigger happy lieutenant and a senior class of …

NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES returns with another Canuxploitation classic featuring ALIENS, ZOMBIES, NEW WAVE MUSIC, and LOTS MORE! It's 1982's BIG MEAT EATER and it's as crazy as a sci-fi/horror/comedy/musical gets, and - get this - it's actually pretty GOOD! A brief respite from the pain as we HURTLE DANGEROUSLY towards episode 100. Lots of LAUGHS, a few…

It's the NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES debut of DAVID "ROCK" NELSON! Moe and Doug hop in the wayback machine to check out his epic (2 1/2 hour!) monster classic THE DEVIL ANT featuring Tom Savini, Forrest J. Ackerman, Roger Corman, Svengoolie, Conrad Brooks, John Russo and HILLARY CLINTON! By the end, you'll be going MAD! We're 95 episodes deep and there's …

It's the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE.. IN CANADA! Welcome to the NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES podcast, and we're looking at the first film in Brian Clement's MEAT MARKET trilogy featuring ZOMBIES, BUTTER TARTS, LUCHADORES, VAMPIRES and people dressed like IDIOTS. There's plenty of gore and pitiful acting, but also a big surprise: PORNOGRAPHY! Come for the gore, and …

He is looking for Linda.. AND THAT COULD BE ANYBODY!! It's 1986's SPINE, a SOV horror classic featuring a Hank Williams Jr./Ole Anderson/Barry Gibb lookalike murdering nurses while the cops struggle with their ancient computers! IT BLOWS, but that doesn't stop Moe and Doug from talking about it for NINETY MINUTES because LIFE IS HELL and WHAT ELSE …

YOU CAN'T KILL NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES! Yes, after a TWO MONTH break fans feared it was the END OF THE LINE, but Moe and Doug are back and better(?!) than ever! Not only that, but they've got a ROCKIN' movie to explore with 1989's HEAVY METAL MASSACRE, which features all of the belly-shirts, skull necklaces, VIDEO EFFECTS, chainsaws, wooden pallets an…

Time to drop the kids off at the pool, because on this episode of NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES we're plumbing the depths to bring you 2003's MONSTURD! Moe and Doug are up to their elbows in the brown stuff, and only their quick wit, Pepto Bismol, adult diapers and EARTH'S YELLOW SUN can save them, so grab your foul-mouthed dummy, strap on some toilet rolls…

Look, I'm going to be straight with you.. Ryan Cavalline's SERIAL KILLER kind of sucks. It's dumb, and cheap, and not entertaining. HOWEVER, there are no half measures on NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES so we're going ALL OUT to bring this tale of twisted killers, tied up ladies and a FOOT in a BOX to life! We're going to SQUEEZE some entertainment out of thi…

Time for another No-Budget Nightmares TREAT, and they don't get much bigger than Frank Henenlotter's microbudget bad taste sleaze horror classic BASKET CASE! Start off the new year right with startling sound clips, political commentary, and plenty of hanging dong. Moe and Doug are in depressed loner paradise with this adorable tale of brothers gett…

It's the HOLIDAYS! Almost! And that means it's time for the NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CRAPTACULAR, and what better way to say goodbye to this awful, awful year than with your good buddies DOUG and MOE?! This year our pernicious pair is spending time with Conrad Brook's awful JAN-GEL, THE BEAST FROM THE EAST, and so can you. DELETE ALL O…

It's the RETURN of the BREEN! Because YOU demanded it, we're diving deep into DOUBLE DOWN, and nothing's gonna stop us now! No-Budget Nightmares + Neil Breen = LOVE and DESIRE. We needed this, and you needed this, so let's hide away from the world for a bit and enjoy the solemn story of a hacker, bio-terrorist and king of ALL men as he struggles wi…

It's a No-Budget Nightmares FIRST! Thanks to a kind contribution from Something Weird Video, we're bringing you an AUDIO COMMENTARY for the Andy Milligan vampire classic THE BODY BENEATH! Even better, though you can certainly sync our commentary to your OWN copy of the film, we've also gotten permission to provide the video RIGHT HERE for you to en…

It's October, which means another SPOOOooooooOOOOOky episode of No-Budget Nightmares, featuring Chester Novell Turner's 1987 microbudget anthology film TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE! It's filled with titty cups, corpse theft, SANDWICHES, and faces being mysteriously blown upon by ghost boys. It's fun and fancy free and you're gonna LOVE IT. Start dow…

POLICE AND THIEVES! IN THE STREETS! It's episode 84 of No-Budget Nightmares and we're doing another PATREON SPECIAL (thanks Adam Lounsbery!) featuring Wally Koz's legendary 555. Y'see, there's a hippy killer on the loose and he's butchering couples just for the kicks, and you won't be able to guess who it is until the very.. last.. frame. Fire up t…

Saluto! It's episode 83 of No-Budget Nightmares and this time we're heading to Italy, renowned for its black gloved killers, expensive wines and MY LOVELY BURNT BROTHER AND HIS SQUASHED BRAIN! It's a microbudget John Waters-tinged slasher with lashings of incomprehensible characters, dialogue, and a guy cutting off his junk with garden shears. Sixt…