Overview Join us today as we have a nice visit to the woods. Tall trees, green, fresh air. Animals with black fungus growing out of them. Mythological creatures kidnapping babies. So relax. for those of you looking for a more ‘traditional’ scary movie, this one should be up your alley – or forest lane. Based …
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Season 03 – Episode 03 Part B – Midsommar
Overview And we are back with – Midsommar. What? We already did this one? Well, if you had actually listened to the episode, you’d know that Midsommar had so much to talk about that we had to break it into 2 episodes! Shame on your for not knowing that. So here we are, the last …
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Season 03 – Episode 03 Part A – Midsommar
Overview Let’s celebrate! And let’s do it in some factor of 9. Well, unless you are 72 – then you’re celebrating days are over. Oh, and don’t forget the drugs. Sound like a bunch of random rambling. Yes, yes it does. But it also is how to describe the movie Midsommar, which is our focus …
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Season 03 – Episode 02 – Bone Tomahawk
Overview Do you like Westerns? Cowboys, Indians (Native American/First Nation), gunfights, horseback riding, etc? Yeah? Well, you may be surprised by this western. Most of the standard western tropes don’t exist here. In fact, many of the horror movie tropes don’t exist. What you get is a passion project that is definitely different than most. …
Season 03 – Episode 01 – Hold the Dark
Overview Our first culture clash takes place in northern climes and its cold. This is another one that is based on a book and its a wild ride right from the start. What seems like a simple story of a child killed by wolves and then a hunter coming to shoot the wolves evolves into …
Season 02 – Episode 10 – Attack the Block
Overview Attack the Block closes out season 02 with a great alien invasion that is thwarted by a bunch of street thugs. One of those thugs does go on to help the Resistance and another goes on to be a unique Doctor, but that’s another story. This movie has some comedy elements, but its not …
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Season 03 – Episode 00 – Culture Clash Intro
Overview We are on to season 03! For this new season, the movies are tied together with the theme of culture clash. And there are a variety of cultures that have conflict. We discuss what the theme means and the types of horror movies we’ll be talking about for this season. As usual, we have …
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Season 02 – Bonus Episode – Event Horizon
Overview In Season 02, we watched Europa Report, a movie that is touted as being realistic in its depiction of space travel. We liked that movie for its subtle and low-key portrayal of the monster. This brought up a discussion of Event Horizon, another space horror movie but with a totally different feel. Now, by …
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Season 02 – Episode 09 – Hatchet
Overview Today we are talking about Hatchet. This is not the middle grade kid’s book, this is all horror. This is actually a pretty popular series with several sequels and the head ‘bad guy’ is very popular. And it’s got Robert Englund! They spent quite a bit of time on this, more so than you …
Season 02 – Episode 08 – The Maus
Overview If you like a little history with your horror, this is the film for you. The Croatian – Serbian conflict from the 90’s may not seem that personal to us, but to at least one of the characters in this film, it certainly is personal. Watch a little horror? Check. Learn some history? Check. …