180 | Old

Written/Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

Based on the graphic novel “Sandcastle” by Pierre-Oscar Levy & Frederick Peeters

Stars Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps and Rufus Sewell

Released July 23, 2021

Available in theaters

Rated PG-13

Runtime: 1hr 48min

RT: 50% critics 52% audience

Synopsis 

Tourists at a secluded resort take a disastrous day trip to a deadly beach that kills them off one by one.

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You’d better start holding your breath… on our next episode, we’ll be reviewing Don’t Breathe 2. Why would anyone still be trying to break into this man’s house?

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101 | Hereditary

Writer/Director: Ari Aster

Stars: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff & Milly Shapiro

Synopsis: We meet the Graham family shortly after the death of Annie’s mother, a strange & private old woman who had been living with the family during her illness. Annie is conflicted over her mother’s death, since they had been estranged on & off. Days after the funeral a horrible accident happens, & there is another loss in the family. This one hits everyone much harder, & they also have to contend with horrible nightmares & terrifying visions & sounds. As Annie copes with her grief she starts to suspect that unseen forces might be at work, guiding the events in their lives for some mysterious purpose.

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For our next episode, we're dipping into our bag of listener suggestions and reviewing The Poughkeepsie Tapes. Join us in a couple weeks to discuss this cult classic found footage flick.

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98 | My Friend Dahmer

Writer/Director: Marc Meyers

Stars: Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche & Dallas Roberts

Rated: R

Based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same nameby Derf Backderf, the movie depicts Jeffrey Dahmer’s junior & senior years at Revere high school in Ohio from the perspective of his nerdy classmate. Derf & his friends took Dahmer into their circle junior year, after they were impressed by his bizarre outbursts at school, & Dahmer became the subject of a lot of his cartoons. After graduation, Derf & his friends lost touch with Dahmer. Derf was busy working for various publications back in the Akron, Ohio area after college, & we all know what Dahmer was up to. In 1991, after learning of Dahmer’s arrest & confession, Derf & his friends got together to reflect on their memories of Dahmer, & struggled to understand how the guy they knew had become one of the most heinous serial killers of all time. This led Derf to publish a number of Dahmer-related strips in his comic, The City, which eventually became My Friend Dahmer the comic book, then My Friend Dahmer the movie.

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Meet us back here in two weeks when we'll be talking about Ghost Stories, one of two horror movies starring Martin Freeman to come out recently. The other being Cargo, which was immediately nixed by my cohosts as soon as they heard the word 'zombie.' Sorry, Cargo!