The Nice Hog!-o-ween Newsletter
The Nice Hog! Newsletter - Vol 81 - 10.31.2025
Another Hogtober has come and passed, and in celebration of the spookiest time of the year, we’ve got brand new comicz, the latest MOTORAMATHON, a weekly curated mixtape, weekend movie recommendations and more! It’s been a lowkey Hogtober this year, but we’ve got plenty of tricks and treats on the way, y’all!
News & Announcements
Frankie, Steve, and Friend of the Hog Jordan Roman took to the east coast last week for production on MY NAME IS JOHN, the latest horror short from Nice Hog! Productions, in collaboration with JS Pictures and Ominous Entertainment. Check out the exclusive first production still above - and stay tuned for more!
Stay tuned to the Nice Hog! Newsletter for an announcement about when GOOD BOY, the latest sci-fi/horror short from writer/director JOSEPH GENUA makes its online debut.
MOTORAMATHON - Episode 38:
Little Puke with Nick Autore
This week, Nick Autore joins Frankie & Steve to talk Halloween and Thanksgiving, Blockbuster, law movies versus long movies and the long awaited end of the console wars.
And, of course, they break down MINUTE THIRTY-EIGHT of the 1991 not-quite-a-cult-classic movie MOTORAMA, directed by Barry Shils, written by Joseph Minion and produced by Donald P. Borchers, (who called this podcast “awesome”.)
MOTORAMATHON is the world's first (and number one) live podcast dedicated to breaking down the movie MOTORAMA one minute at a time.
Join hosts Frankie Campisano, Steve Autore and their funny friends live every Wednesday night on Twitch.TV/NiceHogLIVE.
Audio episodes are now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major pod platforms. Full video episodes stream free on our YouTube channel. Fans of the show can send in questions, comments, complaints, or whatever, really by emailing the show at pod@nice-hog.com with subject line ‘MOTORAMA’.
YOU AWAKEN IN A STRANGE PLACE!
Catch up on all four episodes of our SPIRIT HALLOWEEN run now!
Carson Bailey DMs our third series of YOU AWAKEN IN A STRANGE PLACE, featuring the Nice Hog! crew running amok in a Spirit Halloween.
Frankie, Evan, Chip and Steve take on an improvised comedy RPG in a dusty, crusty world where Halloween animatronics have their own souls, vampires and undead draculas alike walk among the living, and a man just wants to be reunited with his son.
Starring...
Carson Bailey as DM
Chip Bailey as STACY
Steve Autore as MONKEY KONG
Evan Burdett as SEBASTIAN
Frankie Campisano as MAPLE PIE
YOU AWAKEN IN A STRANGE PLACE is an improvised comedy RPG adventure. Game design by Jacob Andrews. Edited by Carson Bailey.
Where is Your VOD Now?
No game stream this week, sorry everyone. Keep twitch notifications on for Saturday and join us for a special belated Halloween special! In the meantime, here’s a throwback to when Frankie had to take up the mantle of Thor.
Tune into our regular video game streams Thursday nights at 7pm PT live on Twitch! Let us know what game you want us to play next! info@nice-hog.com
Comicz Corner
Mixtape
“I got a feeling inside that I can’t domesticate, it doesn’t wanna live in a cage.”
Mixtape #81: Tricks and Treats
Curated by Lunch Pale
First one, then the other.
“Trick” - Alex G
“Treat Each Other Right” - Jamie xx
“Bishops Knife Trick” - Fall Out Boy
“Treat People With Kindness” - Harry Styles
“Summer and the Magic Trick” - The Sidekicks
“Treat Her Like a Lady” - The Temptations
“Cupids Trick” - Elliot Smith
“Treat Jar” - Great Grandpa
“One Trick Ponies” - Kurt Vile
“Treat” - Santana
Submit your own mixtapes (up to 10 tracks) to mixtapes@nice-hog.com for a chance to be featured in a future newsletter!
This Week at the Movies
Wide releases are SCARCE this week, folks! Probably on account of Halloween and all, yeah?
BUGONIA goes wide this week, so if you’re not a coastal elite, now’s your chance to see the wildest Lanthimos pic yet. KINDS OF KINDNESS fans, we’re eating good this year.
BAAHUBALI: THE EPIC, from RRR director S.S. Rajamouli, is a new edit that combines the two BAAHUBALI films, with remastered picture and sound to boot. And it’s still clocking in at a decidedly epic 3 hours 44 minutes!
We don’t usually use this space for streaming drops, but SORRY, BABY just hit HBO Max and deserves more attention.
In Case You Missed It…
The Nice Hog! team tries our hand at Ian Hinden’s fast-paced musical minigame medley. A one-of-a-kind visual experience! Originally recorded July 2025.
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We’ll see you next Friday. Until then, may all your hogs be nice.