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300 | WiH 300th Episode Spectacular
300 | WiH 300th Episode Spectacular
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299 | undertone
299 | undertone
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298 | The Bride!
298 | The Bride!
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297 | Scream 7
297 | Scream 7
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296 | Together
296 | Together

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300 | WiH 300th Episode Spectacular

300 | WiH 300th Episode Spectacular
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Look, it’s our faces! Can you believe it??

This Episode’s Movies

Prevenge

  • Rated TV-MA

  • Runtime: 1hr 28min

  • Written & Directed by Alice Lowe

  • Stars: Alice Lowe, Dan Renton Skinner and Jo Hartley

  • Premiered at Venice Film Festival September 1, 2016

  • Released in US (streaming) March 24, 2017

  • RT: 92% critics / 53% audience

    Synopsis

Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant and is being persuaded by her unborn child to exact revenge on the people she deems responsible for her husband’s death.

The Stylist

  • Unrated

  • Runtime: 1hr 45min

  • Directed by Jill Gevargizian

  • Written by Jill Gevargizian, Eric Havens and Eric Stolze

  • Stars: Najarra Townsend, Brea Grant and Jennifer Seward

  • Premiered at Fantastic Fest September 26, 2020

  • Released in US (streaming) March 1, 2021

  • RT: 93% critics / 42% audience

    Synopsis

    Claire is a lonely, awkward hair stylist who occasionally scalps her clients and has a dungeon dressing room full of her grisly wigs. When a bride-to-be invites her into her circle of friends, Claire is thrilled. Unfortunately, she’s just too weird to not screw it up.

Huesera: The Bone Woman

  • Not Rated 

  • Runtime: 1hr 37min

  • Directed by Michelle Garza Cervera

  • Written by Michelle Garza Cervera and Abia Castillo

  • Stars: Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal and Mayra Batalla

  • Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival June 9, 2022

  • Released in US (limited) February 10, 2023

  • RT: 97% critics / 65% audience

    Synopsis

    Valeria and her husband Raul have been trying to conceive and are delighted to find that they have succeeded. However, Valeria soon begins having second thoughts. She used to be a riot grrrl with a girlfriend, how did she let herself become so square? Oh yeah, and some kind of evil spirit with bad joints is stalking her.

Join us in two weeks when we’ll be reviewing Hokum, opening in theaters May 1.

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

299 | undertone
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Evy is the skeptical host of a paranormal podcast who moves back into her childhood home to care for her dying mother. When a listener sends in a collection of audio recordings made by a pregnant couple experiencing possible paranormal activity, she begins to suspect that they were not sent to her merely because of her podcast but because she is somehow tied into the events.

Horror Homework

This episode:

  • Ganja & Hess - 1973 - Bill Gunn - Kanopy, Criterion, Hoopla

  • Tales from the Hood - 1995 - Rusty Cundieff - Starz or rental

Next time:

  • Prevenge - 2016 - Alice Lowe - Netflix, Hoopla, Shudder

  • The Stylist - 2020 - Jill Gevargizian - rental

  • Huesera: The Bone Woman - 2022 - Michelle Garza Cervera - Shudder

Join us again in two weeks for a special video edition of our 300th episode! We’ll be discussing the three Horror Homework movies above and answering listener questions, so if you have a burning question for us, let us know!

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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298 | The Bride!

298 | The Bride!
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In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein’s Monster is still around and still lonely, so he seeks out Dr. Euphronious to make him a mate. The lucky lady is Ida, who has coincidentally also just been possessed by the spirit of Mary Shelley into making a scene in front of the mobsters she was partying with, which gets her thrown down some stairs.

Horror Homework

This episode:

  • Cronos - 1992 - Guillermo de Toro - HBO, Criterion

  • We Are What We Are - 2010 - Jorge Michel Grau - Kanopy or rental

Next time:

  • Ganja & Hess - 1973 - Bill Gunn - Kanopy, Criterion, Hoopla

  • Tales from the Hood - 1995 - Rusty Cundieff - Starz or rental

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing undertone, currently in theaters.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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281 | The Damned

281 | The Damned
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  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 29min

  • Directed by Thordur Palsson

  • Written by Jamie Hannigan

  • Stars: Odessa Young, Joe Cole and Siobhan Finneran

  • Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival June 6, 2024

  • Released in US January 3, 2025

  • RT: 90% critics / 47% audience

  • Currently Streaming on Hulu

    Synopsis

    A widow is tasked with running an isolated fishing outpost in Iceland at the end of the 19th century. When a ship wrecks on some rocks off the coast, she makes the decision not to rescue the passengers, dooming her crew to madness and danger.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Rule of Jenny Pen, currently streaming on Shudder and AMC+

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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280 | 28 Years Later

280 | 28 Years Later
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  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 55min

  • Directed by Danny Boyle

  • Written by Alex Garland

  • Stars: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes

  • Release in US theaters June 20, 2025

  • RT: 88% critics / 63% audience

    Synopsis

    12yr old Spike lives with his domineering father and mysteriously ill mother on a small island less than a mile away from mainland northern England. While safe there from the infected, the citizens uphold a tradition that sees their young people escorted to the mainland to kill infected as a rite of passage. Disillusioned after his outing and determined to locate the rumored doctor there, Spike sneaks out of the compound with his mother in tow in an attempt to cure her illness.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Damned, currently streaming on Hulu

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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279 | The Ugly Stepsister

279 | The Ugly Stepsister
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  • Not Rated 

  • Runtime: 1hr 49min

  • Written & Directed by Emilie Blichfeldt

  • Stars: Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss and Ane Dahl Torp

  • Premiered at Sundance January 23, 2025

  • Limited Release in US theaters April 18, 2025

  • Currently Streaming on Shudder and AMC+

  • RT: 96% critics / 86% audience

    Synopsis

    Rebekka and her two daughters, Elvira and Alma, move into the estate of her new husband, Otto, and his beautiful daughter, Agnes. Elvira, the oldest of Rebekka’s daughters, is a dreamy, braces-wearing teen who swoons over the kingdom’s handsome prince and his romantic poetry. But when Otto dies suddenly and it is revealed that he was deeply in debt, Rebekka is forced to pile all her hopes for financial stability on the prince choosing Elvira as his bride at the upcoming ball. In order for the plain and gawky Elvira to catch his eye, she must undergo a series of horrifying medical procedures to become more beautiful.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing 28 Years Later, currently playing in theaters.

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

261 | The Substance
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Synopsis 

Fading Hollywood star Elizabeth Sparkle has just been fired from her fitness show and is to be replaced by a younger actress. She decides to use a mysterious drug called “The Substance” to make herself look younger. But this is no ordinary fad drug…

 

Join us in two weeks when we review Apartment 7A, currently streaming on Paramount+.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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243 | Birth/Rebirth

243 | Birth/Rebirth
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  • Directed by Laura Moss

  • Written by Laura Moss and Brendan J. O'Brien

  • Rated R 

  • Runtime: 1hr 41min

  • Stars: Marin Ireland, Judy Reyes and A.J. Lister

  • Premiered at Sundance January 20, 2023

  • Limited release August 18, 2023 

  • RT: 96% critics / 75% audience

    Synopsis 

    A morgue technician has developed a method to reanimate the dead using embryonic tissue. When she tests it on the recently deceased daughter of a delivery room nurse and the nurse catches wise, they work together to keep the child alive at all costs.

 

Join us next time when we'll review Society of the Snow, currently streaming on Netflix.

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

237 | Appendage
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  • Written & Directed by Anna Zlokovic

  • Rated TV-MA

  • Runtime: 1hr 34min

  • Stars: Hadley Robinson, Emily Hampshire and Kausar Mohammed

  • Premiered at South by Southwest March 11, 2023

  • Released on Hulu October 2, 2023

  • RT: 52% critics / 62% audience

    Synopsis 

    A stressed-out young woman finds that her anxieties are manifesting themselves in strange ways, as a growth begins to appear on her stomach and soon dislodges itself and develops a mind of its own.

 

Join us next time when we'll review Argentinian import When Evil Lurks, currently in theaters and coming to streaming October 27.

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