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

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291 | Queens of the Dead

Unrated
Runtime: 1hr 41min
Directed by Tina Romero
Written by Tina Romero and Erin Judge
Stars: Jaquel Spivey, Katy O'Brian and Quincy Dunn-Baker
Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival June 7, 2025
Released in US October 24, 2025 (limited)
RT: 88% critics / 71% audience
Currently available to rent
Synopsis
The drag night Yum is preparing for their Easter show in a converted warehouse in Brooklyn when a zombie outbreak occurs. Now the performers and a few outsiders are sheltering in place and trying to figure out their escape.

Horror Homework

This episode:

The Fly - 1986 - David Cronenberg - Hulu
Bram Stoker’s Dracula - 1992 - Francis Ford Coppola - Netflix

Next time:

Bride of Frankenstein - 1935 - James Whale - HBO
Carnival of Souls - 1962 - Herk Harvey - HBO, Prime, basically everywhere

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Man Finds Tape, 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/

The Bloodlust 7/21/25 The Bloodlust 7/21/25

281 | The Damned

Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 29min
Directed by Thordur Palsson
Written by Jamie Hannigan
Stars: Odessa Young, Joe Cole and Siobhan Finneran
Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival June 6, 2024
Released in US January 3, 2025
RT: 90% critics / 47% audience
Currently Streaming on Hulu
Synopsis
A widow is tasked with running an isolated fishing outpost in Iceland at the end of the 19th century. When a ship wrecks on some rocks off the coast, she makes the decision not to rescue the passengers, dooming her crew to madness and danger.

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Rule of Jenny Pen, 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/

The Bloodlust 7/7/25 The Bloodlust 7/7/25

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
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The Bloodlust 5/30/21 The Bloodlust 5/30/21

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?

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…

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 5/21/17 The Bloodlust 5/21/17

72 | Train to Busan

Writer/Director: Yeon Sang-ho

Synopsis: A busy hedge fund manager agrees to take his young daughter to visit her mother on her birthday. On the way to the train station they notice lots of emergency & army vehicles, but don’t pay much attention. Too bad, b/c a viral outbreak is causing people to rise from the dead & go after the living. And one of them just got on the train with them. In addition to the father-daughter team we meet a very pregnant woman & her husband, a high school baseball team & their one cheerleader, & two elderly sisters, among others. Will they make it to their destination, & what will be waiting for them when they get there?

Director Yeon Sang-ho made an earlier, animated prequel to Train to Busan called Seoul Station, which is said to take place one day prior to the events in Train to Busan.

Watch Seoul Station Here

For our next episode we'll be reviewing Irish film A Dark Song, about Aleister Crowley-style magic rituals. Sounds intriguing, right? Check it out on VOD & join us back here in two weeks to discuss.