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300 | WiH 300th Episode Spectacular
300 | WiH 300th Episode Spectacular
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299 | undertone
299 | undertone
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298 | The Bride!
298 | The Bride!
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297 | Scream 7
297 | Scream 7
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296 | Together
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300 | WiH 300th Episode Spectacular

300 | WiH 300th Episode Spectacular
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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)
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299 | undertone

299 | undertone
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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)
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288 | Shelby Oaks

288 | Shelby Oaks
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  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 31min

  • Written & Directed by Chris Stuckmann

  • Stars: Sarah Durn, Mason Heidger and Brendan Sexton III

  • Premiered at Fantasia International Film Festival July 20, 2024

  • Released in US October 24, 2025

  • RT: 59% critics / 60% audience 

  • Currently in theaters

    Synopsis

    Riley Brennan and her friends are paranormal investigators who disappear while exploring the abandoned town of Shelby Oaks, Ohio. The bodies of the other investigators are later found, along with one of the video tapes containing their footage. Riley and the other tape remain missing. 12 years later, a film crew is making a documentary about the murders and disappearance focusing on Riley's sister, Mia, and her efforts to locate Riley, when a strange man appears at her door with the missing tape. This plunges Mia further into her search for Riley.

 

Horror Homework

This episode:

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers  - 1956 - Don Siegel - rental

  • Village of the Damned - 1960 - Wolf Rilla - rental

Next time:

  • The Innocents  - 1961 - Jack Clayton - rental

  • Wait Until Dark - 1967 - Terence Young - rental

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s newest, Cloud, currently streaming on the Criterion Channel and available to rent elsewhere.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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278 | Bring Her Back

278 | Bring Her Back
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  • 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)
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270 | Oddity

270 | Oddity
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  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 38min

  • Director & Writer: Damian Mc Carthy

  • Stars: Carolyn Bracken, Johnny French, Steve Wall

  • Premiered at Overlook Film Festival April 5, 2024

  • Released in theaters July 19, 2024

  • RT: 96% critics / 77% audience

    Synopsis

    A psychic medium attempts to uncover the truth behind her sister's murder at the site of the crime.

 

Join us in two weeks when we review The Monkey, in theaters on February 21, 2025.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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269 | Presence

269 | Presence
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Synopsis

A dysfunctional family moves into a new house and begins to suspect that it might be haunted.

 

Join us in three weeks when we review Oddity, currently streaming on AMC+.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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268 | Smile & Smile 2

268 | Smile & Smile 2
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Smile

  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 55min

  • Written & Directed by Parker Finn

  • Stars: Sosie Bacon, Kyle Gallner and Kal Penn

  • Premiered at Fantastic Fest September 22, 2022

  • Released in theaters September 30, 2022

  • RT: 79% critics / 77% audience

Synopsis 

Psychiatrist Rose witnesses a disturbing event at work which leads her to believe that a demonic entity has malicious designs on her.

Smile 2

Synopsis 

A global pop star is next in line to be terrorized by the insidious Smile entity. However, her increasingly erratic behavior is seen as a drug relapse and career meltdown instead of the desperate cry for help that it is.

 

Join us in two weeks when we review Presence, which will be released in theaters on January 24th.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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257 | The Night House

257 | The Night House
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Synopsis 

A woman grieving the recent suicide of her husband experiences strange disturbances in her home and begins to believe that his ghost is attempting to contact her.

 

Join us in two weeks when we review Alien: Romulus, opening in theaters August 16.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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256 | Longlegs

256 | Longlegs
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Synopsis 

Rookie FBI agent Lee Harker uses her psychic abilities and apparent personal connection to help her catch elusive serial killer Longlegs, who has been implicated in several “family annihilator” murders over the past 30 years, and whose coded letters are the only physical connection to the crime scenes.

 

Join us in two weeks when we review The Night House, available on demand.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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