Semi respected scientist and fascinating bastard, Edward Jessup (William Hurt) embarks on a study into schizophrenia using isolation tanks and eventually psychedelics with the help of his cohorts Drs, Rosenberg (Bob Balaban) and Parrish (Charles Haid). His studies are put on the back burner when he meets anthropologist, Emily (Blair Brown). They eventually marry, have a couple kids, and decide to split. Eddie takes the opportunity to go trip balls with the Hinchi tribe in Mexico with his guide, Eccheverria (Thaao Penghlis) and decides that if he uses the drugs and the tanks in conjunction he can break through the barrier to discover the original self. Things get weird when his hallucinations begin to materialize in the physical world and Jessup begins to lose his grip on reality and achieves Altered States, this week on Doom Generation. 

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It was a different time but not THAT different when Richard Elfman decided to bring the wild things he saw on stage with his equally terrifying brother, Danny Elfman's band, The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo and marry their showmanship with the racist cartoons of the past to create the Forbidden Zone!

The story of the family Hercules (Ugh-Fudge Banana, Phil Gordon, Hyman Diamond and Virginia Rose, the only one with a SAG card) and their daughter Frenchie (Marie-Pascale Elfman) who live in a house that happens to have a doorway into the 6th dimension. When neighborhood friend, Squeez-It's sister, Renee (Matthew Bright) disappears into the portal, Frenchie decides to check it out for herself.

She goes down down down and meets Queen Doris (Susan Tyrell) and her King Fausto who lock her up for different reasons, the King wants a sex slave and the Queen wants to torture her with the help of daughter, The Princess (Gisele Lindley). When her family comes looking for her, they find a world beyond comprehension where you always expect to see a skid mark and the boys are always humpin' - Forbidden Zone, this week on Doom Generation.

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L.A. is like...Nowhere

The people that live here are just...lost.

West coast bohemians, Dark (James Duval), his girlfriend Mel (Rachel True), her girlfriend, Lucifer (Kathleen Robertson), best friend Cowboy (Guillermo Diaz), his boyfriend Bart (Jeremy Jordan), dreamboy Montgomery (Nathan Bexton), trio of binge bunnies, Alyssa, Dingbat and Egg (Jordan Ladd, Christina Applegate, Sarah Lassez) and Egg's brother, Ducky (Scott Caan) are gathering for kick the can before the big party at Jujyfruit's (Gibby Haynes). In one night, with the help of a rogue Lizard Creature (Roscoe), a teen idol (Jaason Simmons), Handjob (Alan Boyce) the drug dealer and a televangelist Moses Helper (John Ritter) everything transforms...literally. Part of Gregg Araki's Apocalypse Trio (NOT THAT ONE) featuring television's finest, this week on Doom Generation.

In the small town of Deerfield WA, Theresa Banks (Pamela Gidley) is found, dead and wrapped in plastic. When the killer isn't found, the Gordon Cole (David Lynch) of the FBI, calls up Chester Diamond (Chris Isaak) and sends him, along with Sam Stanley (Kiefer Sutherland) to investigate. Meanwhile at headquarters, Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle Maclachlan) has a strange dream about the day before Phillip Jeffries (David Bowie) reappears and Chester disappears while on the hunt for a killer. Cooper has a vision about the next victim and asks fellow agent, Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer) to help him solve the upcoming case. This is where Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) comes in, in the nearby town of Twin Peaks she's going nowhere fast. She's living a secret life that her best friend Donna (Moira Kelly) doesn't even know about, she's dating Bobby (Dana Ashbrook) and seeing James (James Marshall) on the side, heavy into cocaine provided by Leo Johnson (Eric DaRe) she's also half of the party twins with Ronette Pulaski (Phoebe Augustine) in sex clubs in Canada, run in part by the great Went, Jaques (Walter Olkewicz). Home for Laura is even worse, at night she's visited by entity BOB (Frank Silva) but the truth of what and who he his is even worse than she can imagine. Check behind your dresser and make sure Leland Palmer (Ray Wise) isn't lurking it's the beginning of Janueerie with Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, this week on Doom Generation.

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5 years after literally saving New York City and by extension the WORLD, the Ghostbusters are all but forgotten. Ray and Winston (Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson) are doing parties for privileged brats, Egon (Harold Ramis) is experimenting on human emotions and Venkman (Bill Murray) is hosting The World of the Psychic, a show Kreskin won't even do. Dana (Sigourney Weaver) who married, had a baby, and divorced is now working for the art museum under Dr. Janosz Poha (Peter MacNicol) who has an unhealthy obsession with a painting of maniac, Vigo the Carpathian (William von Homburg), all while negative energy coalesces into pink slime underground that threatens a season of evil. After beating a charge and getting the crew back together, they packed up their group, got a grip, came equippe, grabbed their proton packs on their backs and they split! Try and battle our boys? It's not legal! It's the last episode of 2024. Ghostbusters 2 taking control, this week on Doom Generation.

Experience D-Generation as we take a trip down faulty-memory lane with approximately 1:08 minutes of the best bits of 2024 - that's right, it's a clip show ladies and gentleman! We'll be back next week with a fresh new episode and until then, later Doomers!

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Losers, Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey) lose their jobs when Harry has an unfortunate incident with show dogs and Lloyd, after falling in love at first sight with Mary (Lauren Holly), bungles her ransom drop and crashes his limo. With no prospects they decide to pack up the shaggin' wagon and follow Mary to Aspen to return her briefcase The boss Nicholas (Charles Rocket), family friend and kidnapper, sends henchmen, Shay (Karen Duffy) and Mental (Mike Starr) to recover the ransom money Harry and Lloyd have unwittingly carried with them as they bumble their way across country in Dumb and Dumber. This week on Doom Generation. 

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In the American Research Institute in the South Pole, several snow pirates are met with a wolf dog being chased by a Norwegian helicopter and if they understood WTF they were saying, they wouldn't be in this mess. After eyebrows Hoolihan, Garry (Donald Moffat) shoots the Norwegian, the team decides to check out what could have happened at the other camp. They get MacReady (Kurt Russell) and his lustrous beard to fly them over and when they get there, they see twisted smoking bodies, an empty ice coffin, and a huge spacecraft frozen in the ice. They decide to bring the bodies back to be examined by nose ring having Dr Copper (Richard Dysart) and oatmeal eating Dr. Blair (Wilford Brimley). While all this is happening, dog wrangler, Clark (Richard Masur) is ordered to take the wayward dog to the kennels where it begins to transform...wetly. Blair discovers the secret of the shape-shifting organism, launching a night of paranoia where everyone is suspect. Who goes there? Is it Palmer (David Clennon), Fuchs (Joel Polis), Nauls (TK Carter), Norris (Charles Hallahan), Windows (Thomas G Waites), Bennings (Peter Maloney) or the always on guard, Childs (Keith David)? Take a quick blood test and find out in The Thing, this week on Doom Generation.

Writer Paul Sheldon (James Caan) wants to break free from the series of novels he's built his career on so he goes to his usual hideaway to finish something new.  He calls his agent, Marcia Sindel (Lauren Bacall) to tell her he's coming back with a manuscript, but drives straight into a blizzard. After a terrible crash, Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), former nurse and current wacko, takes Paul back to her secluded farmhouse for him to heal, but neglects to tell anyone that he's there. Sheriff Buster (Richard Farnsworth) must solve the mystery of the missing writer quick because once Annie finds out Paul's plan for her favorite fictional heroine, the nightmare really begins. Join us and our #1 fan, LORETTA for Misery, this week on Doom Generation. 

Steven M Kovacs (that slut, Matthew Broderick) is going through a hard time. He's recently moved out of the apartment he shared with longtime girlfriend, Robin (Leslie Mann) and has moved into a new place. Naturally he needs his utilities hooked up so buddy, Rick (Jack Black) suggests to bribe an extra 50 bones to get free cable. Enter The Cable Guy (Jim Carrey) who infiltrates Steven's life in a way that he finds nearly impossible to explain and almost destroys his life. A Ben Stiller joint that features almost the entire cast of his show (Janeane Garafalo, Bob Odenkirk, that Dick Andy along with David Cross, Kathy Griffin and Kyle Gass) that teaches us all to maybe be a little more careful of the people we trust with our information superhighways. The Cable Guy, this week on Doom Generation.

Wes Craven once heard a story about people who avoided sleep for fear of dying in their nightmares; along with a childhood bully and a step-father, it inspired him to create an iconic character who's haunted us all for 40 years.

Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), child murderer, comes to thin lipped Tina (Amanda Wyss) with his wet face and knife glove in her nightmares, scaring her so badly she warns best friend, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) who's had the same dream. Not wanting to be alone, Tina has a spend-over with Nancy, her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp), Tina's rough boyfriend, Rod (Jsu Garcia) shows up uninvited and she ends up slashed to death after a night of a pretty okay weinering. Rod is arrested by Nancy's father, Lt. Thompson (John Saxon). Nancy's drunken orange mother, Marge (Roni Blakley) must now come to terms with her part in the vigilante justice that resulted in the death of Freddy, causing him to come back for his children in A Nightmare on Elm Street. A 40 year celebration, dedicated to the memory of Kathleen Garcia, the gal that started it all

The ultimate nightmare, this week on Doom Generation.