235 | Perpetrator

• Written & Directed by Jennifer Reeder

• Stars Kiah McKirnan, Alicia Silverstone and Christopher Lowell

• Not Rated

• Runtime: 1hr 41mins

• Premiered at Berlin International Film Festival February 17, 2023

• Released September 1, 2023

• RT: 80% critics, 32% audience

  Synopsis 

  Teenage outcast Jonny is sent to live with her strange aunt in a town where girls have been going missing. As her aunt introduces Jonny to her burgeoning new powers, she decides to utilize them to find her missing classmates.

Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing V/H/S 85, streaming on Shudder starting October 6.

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234 | Cobweb

• Directed by Samuel Bodin

• Written by Chris Thomas Devlin

• Stars Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr and Cleopatra Coleman

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 28mins

• Released in the July 21, 2023

• RT: 59% critics, 71% audience 

  Synopsis 

  A lonely little boy with overprotective parents is kept up at night by a tapping on his bedroom walls. 

Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing Perpetrator, currently streaming on Shudder.

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184 | No One Gets Out Alive

• Directed by Santiago Menghini

• Written by Jon Croker (story by) and Fernanda Coppel (novel by Adam Nevill)

• Stars Cristina Rodlo, Marc Menchaca, David Figlioli

• Premiered on Netflix 9/29/2021

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 25min

• RT: 71% critics 63% audience (fewer than 50 audience reviews)
  

  Synopsis 

  A young woman rents a room in a creepy old house. The landlord said there was only one other tenant besides himself, yet she keeps hearing crying coming from supposedly empty rooms and running into strange people in the halls. And then there are the strange nightmares she’s been having since moving in...

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Next up, the long awaited sequel to the rebooted sequel to Halloween, Halloween Kills. That’s right, it’s time for more Jamie Lee Curtis and her distinguished natural grey hair kicking ass and taking names, along with her daughter, Judy Greer. I just love that those two are the leads again. Assuming the trailer hasn’t misled us. Guess we’ll finally find out.

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176 | A Quiet Place Pt II

Written & Directed by John Krasinski

Stars Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Cillian Murphy

Released May 28, 2021

Available in theaters

Rated PG-13

Runtime: 1hr 37mins

RT: 91% critics, 93% audience 

Synopsis 

We rejoin the Abbott family pretty much right where we left them, grieving the death of husband/father Lee and preparing to leave their ruined home. When they reach a factory not too far away they find that a former friend has also survived and has been using the building as his home. While her mother is preoccupied with replenishing their supplies, daughter Regan forms a plan to follow a radio signal off the coast to share her discovery with a settlement that might be located on an island.

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Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. Hopefully we like it better than the other ones…

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175 | Army of the Dead

Directed by Zack Snyder

Stars Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Ana de la Reguera

Released 5/21/2021

Available on Netflix

Rated R

Runtime: 2hrs 28mins 

RT: 69% critics, 75% audience

Synopsis: An army transport accident leads to a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas. Many people are killed but the city is eventually walled off, the outbreak contained within Vegas. Scott Ward (Dave Bautista) was a hero in the outbreak, but now works as a line cook in a diner, having become estranged from his daughter. One day a mysterious millionaire offers him a heist job that will pay big. The only catch? The vault is in Las Vegas, of course. Can Ward and his team get the money and get out alive? And can they do it before a nuclear bomb is dropped, annihilating the city?

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Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing A Quiet Place part deux. Let’s see if they came up with an interesting follow-up to the first film, without her having another baby…

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174 | Willy's Wonderland

Directed by Kevin Lewis; From a screenplay written by: G.O. Parsons

Stars Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Beth Grant

Released 2/12/2021

Available for rent on Amazon Prime

TV-MA

Runtime: 1hr 28mins 

RT: 62% critics, 74% audience

Synopsis: When a man finds himself in a weird town after running over a spike strip and ruining all his tires, he’s offered the job of cleaning out the town’s cursed/closed themed restaurant, Willy’s Wonderland. What the man doesn’t know, however, is that the animatronic characters in the restaurant have a sordid past and come alive to do what they do best…KILL!

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The horror world will never outrun zombies. But since it’s been a while since we’ve covered a zombie flick, if you join us next time, we’ll be reviewing the Netflix released, Army of the Dead.

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