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Cult movies, beer, and unruly genre arguments.
Blood and Black Rum Podcast pairs cult-movie criticism with casual beer talk and a lot of sideways banter. Ryan and Martin move from slashers, blaxploitation, killer rabbits, anime crime capers, and holiday curios into plot gripes, series context, and old TV detours.
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Blood and Black Rum Podcast is a cult-film review show that runs on horror knowledge, beer notes, and the pleasure of getting sidetracked. Ryan and Martin talk like longtime genre fans sorting through a movie in real time. The show rarely rushes straight to the verdict. A typical episode can begin with a seasonal hook, an old franchise memory, a reposted favorite, or a reminder of some previous pick that one of them still has not forgiven. Then the movie arrives. The coverage ranges from Friday the 13th, Scream 7, and Blacula to Critters 2, Night of the Lepus, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Christmas With the Kranks, and Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy. That spread says a lot. This is not a pristine canon show. It is more interested in the strange middle shelves of genre culture, where killer rabbits, horror parodies, holiday programming, anime crossovers, and blaxploitation Dracula variations can all sit close together. The criticism has bite. Weak comedy, late-arriving monsters, lazy small-town setups, flimsy science, and tonal confusion all get called out plainly. The banter keeps it from turning clinical. One tangent can move from a beer's citrus profile to the Grateful Dead, Detective Conan, 1990s sitcoms, or the logistics of doing a separate Party of Five podcast. Beer is a recurring co-star rather than a garnish. Tastings get real airtime, with drinkability, seasonality, tall boys, pricing, and brewery habits folded into the episode before the film discussion resumes. The show also builds its year around occasions: Easter-adjacent creature features, Halloween parody blocks, Festivus runs, and February blaxploitation coverage. Its appeal is the combination of informed genre memory and informal argument. It can be chaotic. It can be very funny. It also cares enough about the movies to spend time on context, franchise lineage, effects, themes, and why a bad choice on screen feels bad. For cult-film listeners who prefer a recorded hangout over polished criticism, Blood and Black Rum Podcast has the texture of two friends turning a movie night into an archive.
Made for: Best for cult-film and horror fans who enjoy casual, opinionated criticism with franchise tangents, seasonal theme runs, and beer talk. It especially suits listeners comfortable with loose structure and blunt jokes.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating beer reviews, genre history, holiday programming, and messy movie-night banter as one continuous conversation. Its reviews feel less like polished essays and more like knowledgeable fans arguing their way toward a verdict.
We're two guys covering all kinds of cult films from horror to action and everything in between. We try to bring funny and engaging content with our unique personalities, and we also review beer in each episode as well. Some of our past and present coverage includes Halloween specials, series retrospectives, Difficult Films month, Red Hot '80s Action Summer, '90s remakes, and a lot more. It's a pretty eclectic mix here, but if you're into cult films and beer, this is the place to be.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ryan and Martin pair scene-specific cult-film criticism with comic disagreement, personal detours, and a recurring beer discussion.
Ryan and Martin turn cult-film reviews into lively arguments about why a movie works, where it loses them, and how its strangest choices landed.
A Hallmark breakup so polite it infuriates Ryan; your inner heckler has found company.
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A relaxed Lupin chat that winds through beer, bad picks, and Detective Conan before settling in.
Blood and Black Rum comes back from a short break after a Critters 2 repost and turns toward Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy in the show's usual loose, conversational mode.
A candid Critters 2 rewind with some affection, some detours, and plenty of cheese.
Critters 2: The Main Course gets a candid rewind, with Ryan and his co-host treating the sequel as fun in spots but deeply cheesy. They spend time on the late arrival of the bounty hunters, the long wait for the critters to hatch, and an opening stretch packed with small-town…
A loose Easter hook leads to a funny, easygoing look at giant rabbits and shaky B-movie science.
The Blood and Black Rum Podcast turns a deliberately loose Easter hook into a lively pass at a giant-rabbit movie, its ecological premise, and its proudly B-movie science.
A loose Blacula discussion finds uneasy history inside the film's stark Dracula premise.
The Blood and Black Rum Podcast turns to Blacula for February's Black History Month focus on blaxploitation, with Ryan and Martin reading the film through Dracula's racism and the grim origin given to its title character.
Hallmark sweetness meets a skeptical conversation about anger, artificial conflict, and holiday-movie logic.
Haul Out the Holly gives Blood and Black Rum a holiday target in a Hallmark movie, using its return-home setup to push Ryan and Mart into the strange calm of a world where ordinary conflict barely seems to exist.
Ryan and Martin turn Christmas spending panic into an easygoing, funny conversation about ornaments, family habits, and holiday movies.
Christmas with the Cranks gives Ryan and Martin a tidy way into holiday spending panic, starting with Luther's desktop-calculator moment and that $6,000 Christmas bill.
Three friends recap Daredevil, Fallout, and new releases scene by scene, in Spanish.
Slasher talk with sharp teeth.
["Blood and Black Rum Podcast's \"Haul Out the Holly\" episode launches the \"Chabering Gifts\" Hallmark run and keeps circling Lacey Chabert's Christmas-movie lane.", "Ryan from ColtsPetition.com and Mart compare the movie to \"Christmas in Rome,\" bring up Kevin Sorbo, James Woods, Johnny Mathis, and the Glee cast, and use \"We Need a Little Christmas\" as a tonal reference point.", "They also review Brewery Ommegang's \"Everything Naughty,\" a 9.5 percent white chocolate imperial blonde stout that they compare to \"Everything Nice\" and Crystal Pepsi.", "Their recap focuses on Emily's Utah HOA cul-de-sac, Steven Tobolowsky's overworked neighborhood energy, and a romance with Wes Brown that they say has zero chemistry."]
Ryan and Martin conclude their Festivus series by reviewing the 2004 film Christmas with the Cranks.
The hosts discuss how movies like the 2025 I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel seem to appear in theaters without much buildup.
Ryan and Martin celebrate the 300th episode of the Blood of Micron podcast, reflecting on their 10-year journey.
Ryan and Martin kick off their 'Red Hot '90s Action Summer' series by discussing the 1998 action comedy 'Rush Hour'.
Blood and Black Rum's "Bobbing for Barker" series reaches the 2009 film Book of Blood, directed by John Harrison and adapted from the framing story of Clive Barker's Books of Blood.
The hosts return from a break to discuss the anime film Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy, recommended by Martin.
The hosts of Blood and Micron Podcast introduce a re-released episode from 2022 reviewing the cheesy horror-comedy film Critters 2: The Main Course, timed for Easter.
The hosts of the Blood and Black Rum Podcast introduce a rare Easter-themed episode discussing the cult film Night of the Lepus.
Ryan and Martin discuss their upcoming episode on Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and banter about past episodes.
The hosts of the Blown Black Crime Podcast discuss the Scream 7 trailer and review Mortal Kombat 1, focusing on Roger L.
Ryan and Martin place "Blackula" in the early-1970s Blaxploitation cycle, after earlier episodes on "Black Caesar," "The Spook Who Sat by the Door," and "Shaft." They also connect the film to American International Pictures, William Crane, and the 1972 release window that came before "Coffee" and "Foxy Brown." The central discussion turns on Mamuwalde being renamed "Blackula," Dracula's racist language, and whether the film's slavery allegory is actually supported on screen.
Ryan and Martin introduce their HaHaHalloween season, focusing on horror parodies like Tucker and Dale vs Evil.
Ryan and Martin wrap up their Festivus series by discussing the movies they covered, including Netflix's Hot Frosty and Christmas with the Kranks, and reflect on the shortened Christmas season.