Horror movie reviews artfully conducted by four classy broads and one token dude.

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313 | It Ends

Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 29min
Written & Directed by Alexander Ullom
Stars: Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth and Mitchell Cole
Premiered at SXSW March 7, 2025
Released on streaming August 21, 2026 (Neon)
RT: 93% critics / 59% audience
Synopsis

Four 20-something friends head home from college and find themselves stuck on an endless road with nothing but forest on either side.

Join us again in two weeks when we’ll be reviewing Black Zombie, currently available to rent.

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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307 | Redux Redux

Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 49min
Written & Directed by Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus
Stars: Michaela McManus, Stella Marcus and Jim Cummings
Premiered at SxSW March 8, 2025
Released in US theaters (limited) February 20, 2026
RT: 97% critics / 61% audience
Synopsis

Grieving mother Irene travels through the multiverse to find a reality where her daughter hasn’t been murdered. Being unable to save her daughter each time, Irene consoles herself by murdering her killer over and over again. But when she is able to save the killer’s next victim, she faces the new dilemma of what to do with the rebellious teen.

Join us again in two weeks when we’ll be reviewing Marama, which is currently available to rent.

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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306 | Buffet Infinity

Not Rated
Runtime: 1hr 33min
Written & Directed by Simon Glassman
Stars: Kevin Singh, Ahmed Ahmed and Allison Bench
Premiered at Fantasia Film Festival July 28, 2025
Released in US theaters (limited) April 24, 2026
RT: 100% critics / Not enough info for audience score
Synopsis

Local TV advertising tells the story of a battle between competing restaurants in a strip mall that evolves into a supernatural showdown between an all-powerful deity and a new age cult.

Join us again in two weeks when we’ll be reviewing Redux Redux, which is 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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305 | Exit 8

Rated PG-13
Runtime: 1hr 35min
Directed by Genki Kawamura
Written by Genki Kawamura and Kentaro Hirase, based on the 2023 video game by Kotake Create
Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kochi and Naru Asanuma
Premiered at Cannes Film Festival May 19, 2025
Released in US theaters (limited) April 10, 2026
RT: 92% critics / 86% audience
Synopsis

Three people are trapped in a physics-defying maze of a subway station, where they need to follow a particular pattern to escape.

Join us again in two weeks when we’ll be reviewing Buffet Infinity, which is currently available to rent. Looks wacky, right??

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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304 | Backrooms

Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 50min
Directed by Kane Parsons
Written by Will Soodik
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass
Released in US theaters May 29, 2026
RT: 88% critics / 74% audience
Synopsis

Struggling furniture store owner and divorcee Clark discovers a portal in the basement of his store that leads to the backrooms, a strange space that seems to remake itself using the memories of those who enter it. His dubious therapist goes looking for him at the furniture store after his disappearance and finds out the portal is real.

Join us again in two weeks when we’ll be reviewing Exit 8, an adaptation of the video game of the same name. been a while since we’ve had a foreign film, or a PG-13 one. I’m more excited about that first bit than the second. Exit 8 is currently available to rent.

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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303 | Obsession

Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 48min
Written & Directed by Curry Barker
Stars: Inde Navarrette, Michael Johnston and Cooper Tomlinson
Premiered at TIFF September 6, 2025
Released in US theaters May 15, 2026
RT: 96% critics / 95% audience
Synopsis

Bear is in love with his friend, Nikki, but is afraid to confess his feelings for her. Instead, he buys a novelty toy called One-Wish Willow and wishes that Nikki would love him more than anyone else in the world. Unfortunately, this is a horror movie, so they do not live happily ever after.

Join us again in two weeks when we’ll be reviewing a movie made by a guy even younger than Curry Barker - Backrooms, 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/

The Bloodlust 4/27/26 The Bloodlust 4/27/26

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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293 | Influencer & Influencers

Influencer

Unrated
Runtime: 1hr 32min
Directed by Kurtis David Harder
Written by Kurtis David Harder and Tesh Guttikonda
Stars: Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant and Rory J Saper
Premiered at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival October 16, 2022
Released in US May 26, 2023 (internet)
RT: 91% critics / 68% audience
Currently streaming on Shudder/AMC+

Synopsis

Influencer Madison is moping around Thailand because her boyfriend dropped out of the trip at the last minute. She meets the mysterious CW, who takes her under her wing. But is CW who she seems to be?

Influencers

Unrated
Runtime: 1hr 50min
Directed by Kurtis David Harder
Written by Kurtis David Harder
Stars: Cassandra Naud, Veronica Long and Paulo Saraiva
Premiered at Fantasia International Film Festival July 26, 2025
Released in US December 12, 2025 (internet)
RT: 96% critics / 68% audience
Currently streaming on Shudder/AMC+

Synopsis

CW has somehow gotten off the island and is now living in France with a girlfriend. When an influencer disrupts her plans for a romantic getaway, she just can’t resist going back to her old ways.

Horror Homework

This episode:

Carnival of Souls - 1962 - Herk Harvey - HBO, Prime, basically everywhere

Next time:

Audition - 1999 - Takashi Miike - Kanopy
Battle Royale - 2000 - Kinji Fukasaku - Kanopy, Hoopla, Tubi

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, opening in theaters January 16, 2026.

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/