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297 | Scream 7
297 | Scream 7
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296 | Together
296 | Together
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295 | Send Help
295 | Send Help
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294 | 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
294 | 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
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293 | Influencer & Influencers
293 | Influencer & Influencers

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297 | Scream 7

Ghostface comes to Sidney Prescott’s small town of Pine Grove, Indiana, to target her once again. This time it appears that the vanquished killer from the first film, Stu Macher, is somehow back to seek revenge, and he’s targeting not only Sidney but her daughter, Tatum.

Horror Homework

This episode:

  • Man Bites Dog - 1992 - Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde - HBO, Criterion

  • The Night Eats the World - 2018 - Dominique Rocher - Tubi, Hoopla, $.99 rental

Next time:

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

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

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Bride!, opening in theaters March 6.

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

Tim and Millie are a long-time couple who move to the country for a change of pace. Before long the expected resentments and arguments start to arise, but it’s the strange cave they’re forced to spend the night in that really causes the rift between the couple. After drinking some water from a hole in the cave, Tim begins to feel powerfully physically connected to Millie, and any time their skin is touching they seem to merge together. Can they get to the bottom of this mystery before two become one?

Horror Homework

This episode:

  • Dead Calm - 1989 - Philip Noyce - Kanopy, Tubi

  • The Loved Ones - 2009 - Sean Byrne - $3.99 rental

Next time:

  • Man Bites Dog - 1992 - Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde - HBO, Criterion

  • The Night Eats the World - 2018 - Dominique Rocher - Tubi, Hoopla, $.99 rental

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Scream 7, opening in theaters February 27.

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

Overlooked office workhorse Linda and her entitled new boss, Bradley, are the only two survivors of a plane crash who are stranded on an island together. Linda, a Survivor superfan, is more than ready for the challenge, but Bradley is as helpless as a baby. As the power dynamics shift, a struggle begins to take place for not only dominance, but survival.

Horror Homework

This episode:

  • The Host - 2006 - Bong Joon Ho - Hulu, Hoopla, Tubi. 

  • The Wailing - 2016 - Na Hong-jin - Prime, Hulu, Kanopy, Tubi

Next time:

  • Dead Calm - 1989 - Philip Noyce - Kanopy, Tubi

  • The Loved Ones - 2009 - Sean Byrne - $3.99 rental

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Together, 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/

285 | The Long Walk

  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 48min

  • Directed by Francis Lawrence

  • Written by JT Mollner, based on the novel by Stephen King

  • Stars: Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson and Mark Hamill

  • Released in US September 12, 2025

  • RT: 90% critics / 85% audience 

  • Currently in theaters

    Synopsis

    In the United States of an undetermined year, 50 boys are chosen from a lottery - one from each state - to walk as long as they possibly can. They may not drop below 3mph. The last boy standing wins.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Cuckoo, currently streaming on Hulu and Kanopy.

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/

284 | Final Destination: Bloodlines

  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 50min

  • Directed by Zach Lipovsky & Adam B. Stein

  • Written by Guy Busick & Lori Evans Taylor

  • Stars: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones and Tony Todd

  • Released in US May 16, 2025

  • RT: 92% critics / 87% audience

  • Currently streaming on HBO

    Synopsis

    Tragedy is averted in the 1960s when a woman has a premonition of a tower collapse and alerts revellers in time to get everyone out safely. Unfortunately, Death can hold a grudge for a loooong time, because in the present day, that woman’s granddaughter is plagued by dreams of the same tower collapse and returns home from college to get to the bottom of why. Soon she learns that Death has been taking all the survivors of the near-tragedy one by one, as well as all the children they shouldn’t have been able to have, and she will soon be next.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Long Walk, opening in theaters September 12.

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

  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 2hr 8min

  • Written & Directed by Zach Cregger

  • Stars: Julia Garner, Josh Brolin and Benedict Wong

  • Released in US August 8, 2025

  • RT: 94% critics / 86% audience

  • Currently in theaters

    Synopsis

    Early one morning every child but one from teacher Justine’s elementary school class runs outside and disappears. Angry parents demand answers from the teacher, but the remaining child, Alex, is who they should be asking.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Final Destination: Bloodlines, currently streaming on HBO

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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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
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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
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278 | Bring Her Back

  • Rated PG-13 

  • Runtime: 1hr 43min

  • Written & Directed by Logan George & Celine Held

  • Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Eliza Scanlen and Lauren Ambrose

  • Released on streaming October 10, 2024

  • RT: 76% critics / 79%  audience

    Synopsis

    Siblings Andy and Piper, who have just lost their father, are placed in foster care with a mysterious and seemingly unstable woman named Laura who is also grieving a loss. They also meet their new foster brother, Oliver, a mute and extremely creepy little boy.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Ugly Stepsister, 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/