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Dearest listeners, we have missed you! We come to you today from B-Fest 2025, a long-running annual 24-hour movie marathon of B movies, run on campus at Northwestern University in Chicago. Melissa is joined live on the ground by Kelvin Hatle and Noel Thingvall for all manner of travails and gloriously weird cinema.
Please pardon the sound quality of this episode. We were recording in environments with lots of background noise.
Movies discussed:
Sheba, Baby
The Thing That Couldn’t Die
Shack Out on 101
Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness
The Wizard of Speed and Time
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Night of the Comet
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?
Death Wheelers (aka Psychomania)
Killer Workout
Shake, Rattle, and Rock
Transformers: The Movie
Six-String Samurai
Double Team
College Girl Murders
The Curse of the Demon
Today, dear listeners, Melissa is joined by Noel Thingvall and Kelvin Hatle for tales from B-Fest 2024! Terrible movies! Bad jokes! Paper plates!
Dear listeners, this week Melissa brings you to the wilds of Evanston, Illinois for the 40th anniversary of B-Fest, a 24-hour film festival of bad movies, cult movies, and other mayhem. Killer children! Aliens resurrecting the dead! Space Camp!

