165 | Scare Me

Written & Directed by Josh Reuben

Stars Josh Ruben, Aya Cash & Chris Redd

Released 10/1/2020

Unrated

Runtime: 1hr 44mins

RT: 83% critics, 73% audience

Synopsis: Two authors on separate vacations pass the time during a power outage by telling each other scary stories.

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The next movie we’ll be covering has been getting a lot of buzz and we’re pumped to finally be reviewing it. Join us next time when we review Possessor, which is currently available for rent on Amazon Prime.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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164 | The Dark and the Wicked

Written & Directed by Bryan Bertino

Stars Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr., Julie Oliver-Touchstone

Released 11/6/2020

Unrated

Runtime: 1hr 35mins

RT: 90% critics, 63% audience

Synopsis: Siblings Louise and Michael return to the family farm after years of estrangement to help their beleaguered mother care for their dying father. Once there they find that there’s a lot more wrong than just their father’s illness.

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Next up will be our first review of the new year - we’ll be covering Scare Me, which is currently streaming on Shudder.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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160 | Session 9

Directed by Brad Anderson

Written by Brad Anderson & Stephen Gevedon

Stars David Caruso, Peter Mullan & Josh Lucas

Released August 10, 2001

Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 37min

RT: 64% critics, 63% audience

Gordon and his crew clean hazardous materials out of old buildings and this time they scored a hell of a contract to clean out the abandoned Danvers State Mental Hospital. The catch is, they’ll have to complete the project in a fraction of the time it would normally take. With tensions already high, Gordon and crew start to become affected by their surroundings. And by affected I don’t mean lung cancer.

This part is like someone walked onto the set and was like ‘you know what would be really cool here? How about you zoom in on Caruso like he’s Bruce Willis in Die hard’ and then left.

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It’s back into the vault next time, when we review the Spanish zombie thriller [Rec]. ay dios mio!

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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156 | Host

Directed by Rob Savage

Written by Gemma Hurley, Rob Savage & Jed Shepherd

Stars Haley Bishop, Gemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb

Premiered July 30, 2020 (Shudder exclusive)

Rated NR

Runtime: 57 min

RT: 100% critics, 79% audience (finally over 50%!)

A group of college friends quarantining in their respectives homes participate in a seance over Zoom and it somehow works.

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For next time we’re leaving it up to you - which of these four movies should we review next? Clicking the posters will take you to each trailer. We’ll tally your votes here and across our various social accounts and let you know the winner on Friday, 8/28.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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155 | The Rental

Directed by Dave Franco

Written by Dave Franco & Joe Swanberg

Stars Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Jeremy Allen White, Sheila Vand & Toby Huss

Premiered July 24, 2020

Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 28 min

RT: 73% critics, 44% audience 

Two brothers and their respective partners rent a gorgeous vacation home with some extra audio/visual features they don’t discover until it’s too late. Who has the incriminating footage and how far will they need to go to get it back? 

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Next up, the quarantine-filmed Host, about a seance conducted over Zoom. Yes, I agree that it sounds preposterous, but it’s currently sitting at 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s also 56 minutes long, so if you hate it you’re not out too much time.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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154 | Relic

Written by Natalie Erika James & Christian White

Directed by Natalie Erika James

Stars Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, Bella Heathcote

Premiered at Sundance January 25, 2020; available to rent

Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 29 min

When family matriarch Edna goes missing her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam come back to the crumbling family home to look for her. When Edna shows back up she seems different somehow. Could this be the start of dementia or something more supernatural?

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From the episode: Our answers to the round-table question, “who was/is your horror movie crush?” (in order from left to right: Eddie’s, Karen’s, Jamie’s and Amy’s).

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Next up, a film featuring two of the above celebrity crushes. I swear it was a coincidence. The Rental is available to rent meow.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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153 | Antrum

Written/Directed by David Amito, Michael Laicini

Stars Nicole Tompkins, Rowan Smyth, Dan Istrate

Premiered at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival October 14, 2018 released on VOD November 12, 2019

Not rated

Runtime: 1hr 35 min

Antrum is an alleged cursed film made in the late 70s about a sister and brother who journey to an ominous forest to dig a hole to hell in order to contact their deceased dog. The film is presented in its entirety and is bookended with documentary footage regarding the deaths connected with previous screenings.

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Next up, a film about Emily Mortimer’s character in 30 Rock who had Avian Bone Syndrome (hollow bones). Just kidding, but Emily Mortimer does star. It’s available on demand now.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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152 | The Wretched

Written/Directed by Brett Pierce & Drew T. Pierce

Stars John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda & Jamison Jones

Premiered at Fantasia Film Festival July 19, 2019, opened in limited drive-ins and on demand May 1 2020,

Not rated

Runtime: 1hr 35 min

16yr old Ben is spending the summer with his father, his parents having recently divorced. He begins to suspect that something sinister is going on at the house next door, but because he’d gotten in trouble recently his dad doesn’t believe him. Will he be able to get to the bottom of the mystery before it’s too late? 

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Next up, the alleged cursed film that’s been sneaking into Amazon Prime viewers’ nightmares, Antrum. Fans of found footage will want to check this one out, as well as lovers of occult horror.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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151 | The Lodge

Horror fans have long understood that horrific things don't only happen in the movies. In fact, 2020 has felt as if it's single-handedly showing us just how horrible the real world can be. While our podcast is a platform for us to discuss the horror genre, we can't ignore the fact that it's this same genre that often provides a catharsis for many of those real-world horrors. 

We at Bloodlust Ventures are troubled by the seemingly endless instances of murder and violence towards POC. We want our black listeners to know that we see you, we hear you, and we will NOT forget about this after the hashtags stop trending.

If you want to support BLM, and have the financial means to do so, please consider joining us in donating.

Directed by Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz

Written by Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz and Sergio Casci

Stars Riley Keough, Alicia Silverstone, Jaeden Martell and Lia McHugh

Rated R

Runtime of 1hr 48 min

“a constant barrage of bad parenting decisions”

— Jamie

Synopsis: A father insists on taking his two children to spend Christmas at their cabin with his new fiance shortly after the death of their mother, then promptly leaves the three of them there together to get to know each other. Already a profoundly stupid idea, right? But it gets so much worse - turns out dad’s fiance is the lone survivor of a Heaven’s Gate-like cult that committed mass suicide not long ago. Why wouldn’t you want to leave her alone with your kids in a remote cabin?

NOTES FROM THE EPISODE:

Okay listeners, which of these two do you think looks more like the cult leader from The Lodge? Let us know in the comments.

Here’s a fun thing I didn’t think of while we were recording - Jamie’s pick for who the cult leader looked like was The Six-Fingered Man (aka Christopher Guest), who played opposite my pick, Chris Sarandon. Ain’t life funny.

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Next up, The Wretched, now available for rent on Amazon as well as showing at select drive-in theaters. This movie is real hot right now and probably owes a lot of that success to the fact that times are crazy and one of the few escapes for folks is to head to the the drive-in.

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