Death was supposed to end Sammi Curr's career. Nobody bothered telling Sammi. The Blind Rage Podcast celebrates Halloween with TRICK OR TREAT (1986), the gloriously deranged heavy metal horror flick that turns satanic panic into a full-blown publicity stunt. Marc Price stars as Eddie Weinbauer, a bullied teenage outcast whose favorite rock idol dies in a mysterious fire. Armed with an unreleased Sammi Curr recording, Eddie discovers that playing the music backwards allows him to communicate with his deceased hero. What begins as supernatural revenge against his tormentors escalates into a murderous Halloween comeback, with Sammi determined to make his final performance one hell of a show. Featuring Gene Simmons as a radio DJ and Ozzy Osbourne as a self-righteous televangelist, this outrageous slice of '80s horror proves that rock music really can be hazardous to your health.

For The Blind Rage Podcast, higher education has officially become hazardous with GIRLS SCHOOL SCREAMERS (1986). Seven students from a Catholic college are dispatched to the sprawling Welles mansion to catalog its inherited art collection, only to uncover a diary, a disturbing portrait with an uncanny resemblance to one of their own, and evidence that the family history should probably have remained buried. A séance further poisons the weekend, while an unseen killer starts thinning the enrollment in increasingly gruesome fashion. Shot in the Philadelphia area before Troma acquired it and added extra gore, this low-budget collision of slasher mayhem and supernatural melodrama has enough Catholic guilt to make confession seem like the safer extracurricular activity.

The Puttermans wanted better television reception. Instead, The Blind Rage Podcast finds them receiving a man-eating alien in TERRORVISION (1986), Ted Nicolaou's wonderfully tacky collision of monster horror with science fiction lunacy. A botched extraterrestrial disposal operation sends a mutated Hungry Beast hurtling through space until the Puttermans' new satellite system gives it an unexpected route into their home. Young Sherman discovers that something ravenous can crawl directly through the television, while the adults around him remain spectacularly unequipped to appreciate the problem. Before long, the creature is gobbling up unsuspecting victims and developing a particularly nasty talent for impersonating whatever it has eaten. Gerrit Graham and Mary Woronov preside over the Puttermans with magnificent commitment to the absurd, while Diane Franklin's Suzy seems to have raided an entire '80s shopping mall before arriving on camera. Jennifer Richards adds another layer of beautiful nonsense as horror hostess Medusa. Meanwhile, the Hungry Beast itself is a wonderfully disgusting creation that appears completely at home amid the Puttermans' aggressively questionable decor. TERRORVISION has little interest in restraint. Its comedy is broad, its creature effects are proudly revolting, and Ted Nicolaou pushes the movie's warped personality as far as he can without letting the whole thing escape the television set.