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300 | WiH 300th Episode Spectacular

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)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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299 | undertone

Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 34min
Written & Directed by Ian Tuason
Stars: Nina Kiri, Michèle Duquet and Adam DiMarco
Released in US theaters March 6, 2026
RT: 59% critics / 73% audience
Synopsis

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)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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298 | The Bride!

Rated R
Runtime: 2hr 6min
Written & Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
Stars: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale and Annette Bening
Released in US theaters March 6, 2026
RT: 59% critics / 73% audience
Synopsis

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
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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281 | The Damned

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)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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280 | 28 Years Later

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)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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279 | The Ugly Stepsister

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)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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261 | The Substance

Rated R
Runtime: 2hr 21min
Written & Directed by Coralie Fargeat
Stars: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid
Premiered at Cannes Film Festival May 19, 2024
Released in theaters September 20, 2024
RT: 90% critics / 71% audience

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)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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243 | Birth/Rebirth

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)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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237 | Appendage

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)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/