222 | Piggy

• Written & Directed by Carlota Pereda

• Stars Laura Galán, Richard Holmes and Carmen Machi

• Not Rated 

• Runtime: 1hr 39mins 

• Premiered at Sundance January 25, 2022

• Released October 7, 2022 streaming

• RT: 92% critics, 57% audience 

• Available on Hulu and AMC+

  Synopsis 

  An overweight bullied teen girl finds sympathy from an unexpected source and soon finds herself at the center of a town mystery.

As promised, here is the video intro to the Twister “ride” that used to be in Universal Studios. It’s really just Bill Paxton striking a sexy pose whilst talking about the sexiness of tornados.

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Join us next time when we’ll be watching and reviewing Scream 6, currently in theaters.

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221 | Near Dark

• Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

• Written by Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow

• Stars Adrian Pasdar, Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 34mins 

• Released October 3, 1987

• RT: 83% critics, 74% audience 

• Available on Shudder and AMC+ 

  Synopsis 

  A young man is bitten by a pretty girl who turns out to be a vampire and is taken with her and her gang on a deadly road trip.

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Join us next time when we’ll be watching and reviewing Piggy, currently streaming on Hulu

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220 | Knock at the Cabin

• Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

• Written by M. Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman, Based on the novel The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

• Stars Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 40mins 

• Released February 3, 2023

• RT: 67% critics, 64% audience 

• Available in theaters

  Synopsis 

  A family’s vacation rental is invaded by four strangers who ask them to sacrifice one of their number in order to save the world.

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Join us next time when we’ll be watching and reviewing Near Dark, currently streaming on AMC+ and Shudder.

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219 | The People Under the Stairs

• Written & Directed by Wes Craven

• Stars Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill and Wendy Robie

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 42mins 

• Released November 1, 1991

• RT: 70% critics, 59% audience 

• Available to rent

  Synopsis 

  Facing eviction, a young boy agrees to help two men break into their weirdo landlord’s home to find gold coins. Once inside, however, they find that there is seemingly no way out.

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Join us next time when we’ll be watching and reviewing A Knock at the Cabin, currently in theaters.

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218 | M3GAN

• Directed by Gerard Johnstone

• Written by Akela Cooper, Story by Akela Cooper and James Wan

• Stars Allison Williams, Violet McGraw and Amie Donald

• Rated PG-13

• Runtime: 1hr 42mins 

• Released January 6, 2023

• RT: 94% critics, 78% audience

  Synopsis 

A robotics engineer creates an extremely lifelike child robot and allows it to bond with her recently orphaned niece, with disastrous results.

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Next up, we’re going back in time to review a lil Wes Craven film that we’ve mentioned more than a few times, The People Under the Stairs. So dust off your VHS copy, or head to your local video store and then join us for our next episode.

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217 | The Menu

• Directed by Mark Mylod

• Written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy

• Stars Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult and Janet McTeer

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 47mins 

• Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival September 10, 2022

• Released November 18, 2022

• RT: 89% critics, 76% audience 

• Available in the US on HBO

  Synopsis 

A group of 12 high-brow foodies attend a once-in-a-lifetime fine dining experience at the famous Hawthorne restaurant, which is conveniently situation on its own private island. The guests soon learn, however, that they may have bitten off more than they can chew with this particular experience.

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Next up (hopefully), we’ll be covering the fever dream that is M3GAN, which is currently in theaters. On the off chance we don’t make it to the theater in time, we will be reviewing The Harbinger, currently available to rent. Either way, you won’t want to miss it!

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216 | Eve's Bayou

• Written & Directed by Kasi Lemmons

• Stars Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Lynn Whitfield

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 55mins (Director’s Cut)

• Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival September 7, 1997

• Released November 7, 1997

• RT: 84% critics, 89% audience

  Synopsis 

“The summer I killed my father I was 10 years old.” So begins the story of Eve and her powerful family in 1962 Louisiana. Through Eve’s eyes we meet her gorgeous, long-suffering mother, philandering doctor father, and eccentric Aunt Mozelle, who is a fortune teller. When Aunt Mozelle has a premonition of tragedy befalling the family, Eve and her siblings are confined to the safety of their stately home. But keeping them locked up isn’t going to keep the family safe from tragedy.

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Out of theaters and into your streaming boxes, The Menu is next up for us. This film had a pretty good theatrical run, but now it’s available to watch from the comfort of our respective homes. So join us next time as we serve up the first entree of the new year.

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208 | Watcher

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• Written & Directed by Chloe Okuno, based on a screenplay by Zack Ford

• Stars Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman and Burn Gorman

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 31min

• Premiered at Sundance January 21, 2022

• Released June 3, 2022

• RT: 88% critics, 67% audience

  Synopsis 

An American woman moves with her husband to Bucharest, Romania so that he can take a new job. Often left alone in their apartment the woman notices a man in an adjacent apartment always seems to be looking out his window, possibly at her? Meanwhile, a murderer called the spider is terrorizing the city, decapitating women. Could the creeper across the way be the culprit?

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Next up, join us as we’ll be reviewing Glorious, available on Shudder and AMC+

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197 | X

• Written & Directed by Ti West

• Stars Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega and Brittany Snow

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 45min

• Premiered at South By Southwest March 13, 2022

• Released in theaters March 18, 2022

• RT: 96% critics, 74% audience

Synopsis 

The year: 1979. Wayne, his future fiance Maxine, and their group of young go-getters have a dream to cash in on the burgeoning field of amateur pornography, so they head out to rural texas to make their film on location on the property of an unsuspecting old man and his ill wife. But once the couple finds out what the group is really doing on their property we discover that they aren’t quite as old and helpless as we previously thought.

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Next up, another theatrical release. Get thyself to the movies to see You Won’t Be Alone, then join us in two weeks to discuss it.

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