Wake Up Heavy: Recollections of Horror

Mark Begley

WUH is a podcast about my memories of strange horror movies from the 1970s and 1980s. https://www.wakeupheavy.com/

  • 1 hour 13 minutes
    WUH: Weapons (2025)
    The Kid and I watched Weapons (2025) and we LIKED it! Plus a bunch of other cool stuff we watched. Apologies for all the Magnolia clips, I just love that movie!!
    29 September 2025, 4:45 am
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    PS: The Naked Gun (2025)
    We knew it would happen and here it is! Mike, Mark, and Chris discuss the 2025 reboot of The Naked Gun franchise with... The Naked Gun! The film stars Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. and Paul Walter Hauser as Ed Hocken Jr., with Pamela Anderson along as the love interest, Beth Davenport—an author of true crime novels based on fictional stories that she makes up.

    The film reunites the powerhouse trio behind Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)—Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, and Akiva Schaffer—who do a great job channeling the ZAZ flavor of comedy.

    Revisit the entire run of From the Files of Police Squad (In Color) at http://www.policesquadincolor.com
    23 September 2025, 2:10 pm
  • 54 minutes 2 seconds
    WUH: That's hella tight
    Cleo the Kid and I are back at it with our usual round up of Recently (and not-so-recently) Watched movies. Franchises, trilogies, and series abound. Join us won't you?
    30 July 2025, 4:45 am
  • 51 minutes 37 seconds
    WUH: The Monkey, et al
    Cleo and I watched a handful of good movies during her Spring Break and then we talked about them. With particular attention paid to Strange Darling with Kyle Gallner and Willa Fitzgerald and The Monkey by our boy Oz Perkins based on a short story by Stephen King.
    28 April 2025, 4:45 am
  • 49 minutes 48 seconds
    WUH: Follow up to a fall
    Here's a little follow up about my accident and my progress since the last episode. Also, Cleo the Kid has joined me to talk about some fun horror flicks we've watched since the first of the year. Give it a listen, won't ya?
    19 March 2025, 4:45 am
  • 37 minutes 28 seconds
    WUH: Anatomy of a fall
    A look back at the crappy year that was 2024 and some news about the double crappy start to 2025. Plus my movie watches of last year, the highs and lows and things in between. I'm such a lucky boy.

    Me on TPB talking about Radio On (1979): https://www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2024/08/episode-702-radio-on-1979.html
    13 February 2025, 5:45 am
  • 51 minutes 33 seconds
    WUH: Der Fan (1982)
    Please join me for the Third Course of my, "Cannibal Trilogy," started almost exactly one year ago. To round things out I take a stab at the 1982 German film Der Fan, starring Desiree Nosbusch and Bodo Steiger as a young fan and her Pop Star obsession, respectively. 
    14 October 2024, 4:45 am
  • 31 minutes 26 seconds
    WUH: Movies with Dad
    In memory of my dad, Jack Begley 6/29/34-8/12/24.
    23 September 2024, 4:45 am
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    WUH: Longlegs, etc.
    Cleo's back and we are joined by a very special first-time guest of the show! We chat about a decades in the making quadrilogy, a new classic horror film, and other bits and bobs throughout. Give it a listen, won't you?
    5 August 2024, 4:45 am
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    CCCP: Oh! Heavenly Dog (1980)
    WUH is happy to offer the premiere episode of the Chasing Chevy Chase Podcast. Head over to Weirding Way Media or wherever you listen to podcasts to subscribe. 

    "Welcome to the 1980s and the wild world of Chevy Chase. On our official first episode we're discussing Joe Camp and his Benji Empire which includes the film Oh! Heavenly Dog in which Chevy plays a private dick whose killed on a case and gets sent back to Earth not as Warren Beatty but Benji the dog. He tries to solve the case of his own murder and continue wooing Jane Seymour."

    Our Foul Play episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/s7e2-she-was-one-tough-old-mama-foul-play-1978--57411265
    24 April 2024, 7:00 am
  • 56 minutes 25 seconds
    WUH: SCMODS
    Cleo and I talk about Sleepaway Camp (1983) and The Blues Brothers (1980), and a few other movies we've watched. But mostly The Blues Brothers
    3 April 2024, 8:00 am
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