242 | Saw X

• Directed by Kevin Greutert

• Written by Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg

• Rated R 

• Runtime: 1hr 58min

• Stars: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith and Synnøve Macody Lund

• Released September 29, 2023 in theaters

• RT: 80% critics / 89% audience 

  Synopsis 

  John Kramer returns, and he still has cancer! This time, John is swindled by a group pretending to provide a miracle cure, and he takes his revenge in the usual ways.

Join us next time when we'll review Birth/Rebirth, currently streaming on Shudder and AMC+.

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241 | Thanksgiving

• Directed by Eli Roth

• Written by Jeff Rendell

• Rated R 

• Runtime: 1hr 46min

• Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Gina Gershon and Ty Olsson

• Released November 17, 2023 in theaters

• RT: 84% critics / 79% audience

  Synopsis 

  One year after a Black Friday riot killed multiple people, a masked killer starts picking off those involved in gruesome ways.

Join us next time when we'll review Saw X, currently available to rent.

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229 | The Blackening

• Directed by Tim Story

• Written by Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins

• Stars Antoinette Robertson, Dewayne Perkins and Sinqua Walls

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 37mins 

• Premiered at Toronto International Film Festival September 16, 2022

• Released June 16, 2023

• RT: 86% critics, 85% audience

  Synopsis 

  A group of college friends reunite ten years later to celebrate Juneteenth at an isolated cabin in the woods. When they discover a mysterious board game, their vacation becomes a fight for their lives.

Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing Insidious: The Red Door, in theaters July 7

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223 | Scream 6

• Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

• Written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick

• Stars Courteney Cox, Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega

• Rated R

• Runtime: 2hr 2mins 

• Released March 10, 2023 

• RT: 77% critics, 91% audience 

• Available in theaters

  Synopsis 

  The fucks are at it again! This time several different people want to be the next Ghostface, and they’re all going after our survivors.

Join us next time when we’ll be watching and reviewing Ari Aster’s newest, Beau is Afraid, opening in theaters April 21.

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222 | Piggy

• Written & Directed by Carlota Pereda

• Stars Laura Galán, Richard Holmes and Carmen Machi

• Not Rated 

• Runtime: 1hr 39mins 

• Premiered at Sundance January 25, 2022

• Released October 7, 2022 streaming

• RT: 92% critics, 57% audience 

• Available on Hulu and AMC+

  Synopsis 

  An overweight bullied teen girl finds sympathy from an unexpected source and soon finds herself at the center of a town mystery.

As promised, here is the video intro to the Twister “ride” that used to be in Universal Studios. It’s really just Bill Paxton striking a sexy pose whilst talking about the sexiness of tornados.

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Join us next time when we’ll be watching and reviewing Scream 6, currently in theaters.

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212 | Halloween Ends

• Directed by David Gordon Green

• Written by David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Chris Bernier and Paul Brad Logan

• Stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak and James Jude Courtney

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 51min

• Released October 14, 2022

• RT: 40% critics, 57% audience

  Synopsis 

The final chapter in David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy. There’s a new “Michael Myers” in town and he’s gonna team up with the original to light the town of Haddonfield “on fire.” With Laurie’s granddaughter falling for this new killer, will anyone make it out alive? Also, do we care?

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Lucky us! It’s a new VHS movie! Join us next time when we’ll be checking out and reviewing the newest movie in our beloved V/H/S collection, V/H/S 99.

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197 | X

• Written & Directed by Ti West

• Stars Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega and Brittany Snow

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 45min

• Premiered at South By Southwest March 13, 2022

• Released in theaters March 18, 2022

• RT: 96% critics, 74% audience

Synopsis 

The year: 1979. Wayne, his future fiance Maxine, and their group of young go-getters have a dream to cash in on the burgeoning field of amateur pornography, so they head out to rural texas to make their film on location on the property of an unsuspecting old man and his ill wife. But once the couple finds out what the group is really doing on their property we discover that they aren’t quite as old and helpless as we previously thought.

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Next up, another theatrical release. Get thyself to the movies to see You Won’t Be Alone, then join us in two weeks to discuss it.

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195 | Texas Chainsaw Massacre

• Directed by David Blue Garcia

• Written by Chris Thomas Devlin, based on a story by Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues

• Stars Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher and Mark Burnham

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 21min

• Released on Netflix February 18, 2022

• RT: 32% critics, 29% audience
  

Synopsis 

A group of young entrepreneurs buy up property in the ghost town of Harlow, TX with a plan to turn the downtown into a hip retail zone. Unbeknownst to them, however, there are still a few former residents occupying the properties, and one of them is Leatherface.

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Join us next time as we review Fresh, currently streaming on Hulu.

Really assaulted us with those pop songs in the trailer, huh? At least they didn’t slow them down to make them ominous.

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192 | Scream

• Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett

• Written by James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick (based on characters created by Kevin Williamson)

• Stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette, plus Melissa Barrera, Jack Quaid and Jenna Ortega

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 54min

• Released in theaters January 14, 2022 

• RT: 76% critics; 83% audience

  Synopsis 
  The town of Woodsboro is once again being stalked by Ghostface, and 25 years after the murders of Sydney Prescott’s friends a new killer is going after people related to the earlier tragedy. Will the new group of teens, helped along by reluctant players from the original murders, be able to find the killer before the killer finds them?

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Join us next time when we will be covering the upcoming indie release, Shapeless. To be released for free on Tubi on 2/10 (available for rent through other streaming services).

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