Escape The Tapes
Escape the Tapes is your new favorite rewind button. Join best friends Thomas Massey & Brittany Vaughn as they dive headfirst into the dusty, glorious, and occasionally ridiculous world of old films, forgotten VHS gems, scratched-up DVDs, and vintage media madness. Each episode, they crack open a relic from their past and attempt to escape its cinematic clutches. Fair warning: things might get a little off topic, mildly unhinged, and dangerously nostalgic. From cult classics to “how did this get made?” disasters, no tape (or disc) is safe. Pop some popcorn, press play, and embrace the chaos with Escape the Tapes.
Episodes
53 episodes
Ep 44: A Bug's Life (1998) ft. Andrew
Tiny bugs. Big drama. Questionable accents. In this episode, we get aggressively into A Bug’s Life—Pixar’s bug-powered fever dream with many a tangent. There’s mutiny. There’s sabotage. There’s a caterpillar who fully believes h...
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TT- Ep 3: Slumber Party Picks
Zero sleep, the grazing board of your dreams, and a movie lineup from both past and present that will make you so content with the state of your life for once. Welcome to our slumber party picks episode 📼🛌👯✨
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36:58
Ep 43: X-MEN (2000)
Trench coats, daddy issues, superpowers, and a whole lot of thirst- this movie has it all.
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1:07:28
TT- Ep 2: Victorian Romance
In this episode, we explore the dark, decadent beauty of Crimson Peak, a gothic tale of haunted hearts and secrets buried beneath red clay, and Tarzan, the wild, sweeping adventure of a man raised by apes and the fiercely inte...
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52:37
Ep 42: Blade (1998)
RETIRED??? We think not. Let’s dive into the hero who embraces the anti-hero vibe completely.
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52:48
TT- Ep 1: Good For Her pt.2 (ft. Drew)
Second installment of our “Good for Her” series with a pick by each of us (including our esteemed guest, Drew).
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49:02
Ep 41: My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) ft. Drew
We are joined by our good friend Drew, aka @horror_with_an_accent to go over how we all missed getting to see the sequel of the OG My Bloody Valentine in theaters, as well as seeing it in 3D. There are comparisons, there are banjos, and there’s...
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52:14
Ep 40: Fantastic Four (2005)
Pre-MCU superheroes with a literal villainous ex-fiancée, a little bit of lazy, and a whole lot of silly.
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50:34
Ep 39: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Thomas’s second favorite movie of all time. We talk adventure, effects, and homages to the future.
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48:20
Ep 38: Pride & Prejudice (2005)
A very near biblically accurate rendition of the 1813 novel, we go over the highs and the extremely low lows (the cringe, if you will) of this gorgeous film.
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Ep 37: End Of Days (1999)
Catholicism, a REALLY cool devil, a 27 year old who is just a girl, and the ball dropping into a new year
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57:30
Ep 36: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Ghosts of Christmas three, Tiny Tim, slightly odd Jamaican accents, and the spirit of being better for your fellow humans. All with mostly felt friends
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51:25
Ep 35: Black Christmas (2006)
Creative kills, homages, and tons of holiday cheer. This remake truly drives herself
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59:59
BONUS Ep: Jason X (2001)
Celebrating Friday the 13th the only way we know how- with Jason Voorhees. Jason in space is almost a diabolically hilarious take on a franchise.
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41:21
Ep 34: Addams Family Values (1993)
Mayhem, mischief, murder, and the Addams family with all their values.
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45:40
Ep 33: SPIDER-MAN (2002)
We open on a truly iconic song. Spider-Man is quotable, real, dramatic, and everything we could have possibly asked for in the early 2000’s.
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59:31
Ep 32: Scary Movie (2000)...HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
You thought we’d do horror for Halloween, you thought partially correct. 2000’s Scary Movie is dissected and quoted thoroughly, and we go into a potential new movie in the franchise.
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Ep 31: SPOOKY LADIES PT. 5
We have SIX (count them, six) spooky ladies to end our Spooky Ladies™️ segment for the month of October. We’ve got the girls from Addams Family Values, and we’ve got the undead from Death Becomes Her. Listen as we round out the month!
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41:37
Ep 30: SPOOKY LADIES PT. 4
Beware the stare of Mary Shaw, and beware the wrath of Tiffany Valentine. Join us as we start bringing our spooky ladies month to a close.
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31:55
Ep 29: SPOOKY LADIES PT. 3
Does Elvira or Mary Lou Maloney have the better song? We talk brash, unapologetic spooky ladies of the murderous variety.
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40:34
Ep 28: SPOOKY LADIES PT. 2
Blue butterflies with an exposed ribcage and a thirsty succubus from Devil’s Kettle. Not a competition, always appreciation. Our spooky ladies this week are Emily from The Corpse Bride and Jennifer from Jennifer’s Body.
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