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Three hundred episodes. Plus One.When we first decided to do a podcast, we thought one about Alfred Hitchcock's films would be fun. Partway through the second episode, we realized that he only made about 50 films, and we wanted to do something more ongoing. We decided to make it more generically about horror films in general.We chose well; with over 1700 films reviewed so far, there is no end in sight– they keep making more horror films, and there are still plenty of oldies we haven’t seen. There are so many new films coming out (especially this month and next, with Halloween coming!) that we must prioritize and choose among the latest releases. There aren’t enough days in the week for all the terror!But still… there are more things in the world than just horror. We’ve noticed that while watching our movies, we both really enjoyed the old movies a lot. I’ve even written books about them. We’ve decided that we like doing “Horror Weekly” so much that we want to branch out and do a more unlimited podcast about older films.Say hello to “Classics Weekly,” a brand-new Podcast/Newsletter devoted to classic films. Our first episode, devoted to “Casablanca,” will drop sometime next week. It’ll all be very similar in format to Horror Weekly, but since it’s only one film each week, we can go more in-depth with trivia and commentary. It’ll be fun! Sign up for the newsletter or subscribe to the podcast at https://www.classicsweekly.comAnyway, this time around, we’ve got a slight focus on “home invasion” films. We’d been sitting on the most recent two “The Strangers” films for a few weeks due to that prioritizing I mentioned, but then “Sunset Superman” (2024) released this week, and they all just went together so well that we had to include the three films. We’ve also got “Lyvia’s House,” a tale of romance and gaslighting, as well as “Mother Nocturna,” a new release about mental illness, depression, and family.Don’t miss out on our next members-only edition of the newsletter, coming toward the end of the month. Paid subscription info can be found at https://www.horrorweekly.com/Get all our reviews once a week: https://www.horrorweekly.com/Check out all our books with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.com/Indie Films:2024 Lyvia’s House● Directed by Niko Volonakis● Written by Patricia V. Davis● Stars Tara Nichol Caldwell, Joshua Malekos, Danielle Octavian● Run Time: 1 Hour, 56 Minutes● Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThis one is heavy on the mystery and thriller aspects and low-key on horror. The cinematography, cast, direction, and story keep a long movie interesting. It didn’t seem long, though it does take quite a while to start wrapping things up and telling us what’s going on and why. We liked it quite a bit and would recommend it.Spoilery SynopsisWe open on farmers working in an orchard. Ed then takes a break and buries a man alive in the field. Credits roll.We cut to karaoke night at the bar, and Tara and Helen laugh at Johnny, who’s “singing.” Tara’s mother is not a fan of Johnny, who is “making” Tara move from the city way out into the country. They stop at a house and meet a really weird guy named Georgie there. Eventually, they get to their own house, and it’s a big one. Johnny says they have a landline, but no WiFi, which she needs for work. There’s a painting on the wall of Lyvia, a famous Italian painter, who used to live there. Lyvia got called back to Italy and had to sell the house cheap, and Johnny just got lucky.That night, as they sleep, a rat climbs up on the bed and licks Tara on the face. She screams, Johnny searches, but there are no rats to be found.A week passes, and Tara’s mom complains that she’s hard to reach by cell phone; Mom might be a little crazy. We flash back to Tara finding a photo of her mother with a man she doesn’t recognize when Mom freaks out.Tara goes for a walk and bumps into a strangely silent man who warns her about coyotes. Later, we see that man flying a small airplane over the countryside.Tara goes to the Post Office to send a fax, and Mary Ann, the woman who runs the place, tells her how to get Internet access. She tells them about Dale, a local guy who can fix them up. The bar also has WiFi. Georgie is there too, and he’s still weird; he sings to them. Johnny is weirdly protective, but maybe in a creepy way.Johnny and Tara go to the bar and talk to Annie about the situation. Georgie comes in, and Mike the bartender throws him out. The quiet man from earlier comes in, he’s Sergeant Brian. Annie doesn’t like Brian. Mike doesn’t like Georgie.Tara thinks she sees someone outside, and Johnny goes out to check on it; he says the phone lines have been damaged, either chewed or cut.We cut to Annie, out in the woods, who encounters a masked killer. We then cut to Sergeant Brian out shooting beer bottles. Johnny and Tara take a shower together as Georgie peeps in through the window; Johny sees him and overreacts, at least in Tara’s eyes. The next morning, Tara calls Helen and

This week, we’ve got five brand-new, just-released films. We’ll start off with two indie films, “Inherit the Witch” and “The Deserving.” Then we’ll switch over to some more mainstream stuff with “Hell Hole,” “Hostile Dimensions,” and “Trap.” Finally, we’ll watch three short films!Don’t miss out on our next members-only edition of the newsletter, coming toward the end of the month. Paid subscription info can be found at https://www.horrorweekly.com/Get all our reviews once a week: https://www.horrorweekly.com/Check out all our books with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.com/Indie Films:Inherit the Witch (2024) · Directed by Cradeaux Alexander· Written by Cradeaux Alexander· Stars Cradeaux Alexander, Rohan Quine, Heather Cairs· Run Time: 1 Hour, 25 Minutes· Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PjDyQ-IgeU· Coming to streaming September 24thSpoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThis was a story about witchery, family secrets, and evil that lives a really long time. It starts out in 1984 and flashes forward 30 years, which was 10 years ago. Time flies. The tie-ins between past and present were interesting, and it does have a pretty cool wrap up. Horrorguy Kevin liked it quite a bit and Brian was pretty cool. You’ll have to see for yourself to decide. Spoilery SynopsisIt’s 1984, and it’s Jesse and Cory’s 14th birthday party. We watch grainy old footage of the party. A woman there says she’s putting a very special spell on Cory, but Rex isn’t sure if he even believes in that. She takes some of Rex’s blood and then drinks it. For his birthday, she gives Cory something shocking. In the present, Rex and Cory are grown up, and they complain about Pamela, who almost married their father. The father has died, and all the weird relatives are coming out for the funeral. No one wants to see Fiona, the sister, but she’s coming anyway. We cut to Pamela leading her coven in a ritual back in 1984. It’s all about “living forever.”Fiona visits Cory at his place. Older Pamela does a spell; she’s still a witch, and Rex assists her with it. They need to finish the spell with Cory and Fiona or Pamela’s going to die. The two of them, along with the Grand Witch, work on setting up a spell. The death of the old family will make her young again. We flash back and forth between Cody and Fiona arguing and the witches doing their thing for a long while. When Fiona finally leaves, Rex uses magic to ambush her on the road. He texts a photo of her unconscious body to Cody. Cody calls 911, but old Pamela is the one who answers. Weird stuff happens. Fiona wakes up and escapes. Cody’s boyfriend Lars is possessed by Rex. Fiona finds bodies in the basement of her father’s house. Cody goes off into the night looking for Fiona and ends up at his father’s house. Rex confronts Fiona, and they talk about Pamela being “about ready.” We flash back to Cody’s parents sacrificing his twin sister Jesse, in a ritual. Cory stabs her to death in the ritual and Pamela’s insistence. Rex sends Lars out to kill Cody and Fiona again, and we see that Pamela is behind the whole thing. Cody gets the upper hand with Lars and appears to suck the life right out of him; at the same time, Pamela has a seizure. In the flashback, after the sacrifice, we see that Pamela says Cory is the best of us; his power must be nurtured. Cory and his father kill his mother next, and Cory is very into it all. Back in the modern day, Cory remembers that he was the biggest witch all along. Fiona walks up and says that’s why she left the family all those years ago; she was afraid of Cory. Cory uses his magic to “force choke” both Fiona and Rex. Cory then goes into the house and stands next to Pamela’s bed, where the old woman is dying. He carries her down to the basement, where all the dead bodies are. The cultists come in chanting and put a crown on Cory. They wake up Fiona, who wasn’t dead after all, and Cory cuts her throat. Pamela sits up, looking much healthier now. Pamela then breaks Cory’s neck. She gets all the power! Brian’s CommentaryIt’s described as LGBT horror, but other than a few of the actors/characters being obviously gay, that doesn’t really seem to affect the plot in any way. The characters are drab and uninteresting from the beginning to the end. The story is something about a witch wanting the inheritance from Cody and Fiona’s dead father, but it’s all very drawn out and talky. The editing is disjointed and the story is a little hard to follow at points. It all made sense in the end, more or less, but it wasn’t particularly well made. Kevin’s CommentaryIt’s a heavy load to direct, write, and carry a major role in a movie. I thought Cradeaux Alexander did a decent job with it. The ending was unexpected, and I liked that. It wasn’t perfect, but I was entertained - which is the basic requirement that I need satisfied.The Deserving (2024) * Directed by Koka Singh Arora* Written by Koka Singh Arora* Stars Venkat Sai Gunda, Simone Stadler, Kelsey Stalter* Run Time: 1 Hour, 15 Minu

This week, we’ve got five brand-new, just-released independent films. We’ll start off with the very funny “Clawfoot” and “The Zombie Wedding” films. Then, we’ll watch “Subservience” and “Voice of Shadows,” which are not funny. We’ll then switch over to a documentary, “On the Trail of Bigfoot: The Ancients,” and wrap up with a mainstream film that’s getting a lot of press, “The Deliverance.” All of these are recent releases.Don’t miss out on our next members-only edition of the newsletter, coming toward the end of the month. Paid subscription info can be found at https://www.horrorweekly.com/Get all our reviews once a week: https://www.horrorweekly.com/Check out all our books with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.com/2024 Clawfoot· Directed by Michael Day· Written by April Wolfe· Stars Francesca Eastwood, Milo Gibson, Olivia Culpo· Run Time: 1 Hour, 27 Minutes· Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneRight from the beginning, it feels like more is going on than we see, and it’s fun seeing how things move along as we find out. In general, it’s a fun movie, with lots of humor that gets crazier as it goes along. It’s very funny and very dark. Two kids of very famous actors prove they can come through on their own merits, the cast and everything else is very good. We liked it.Spoilery SynopsisJanet looks at herself in a mirror as she puts on makeup. We then get establishing shots around her house as she cleans and does housework. A man comes to the door and says he has a work order to update the bathroom, but she doesn’t know anything about it; her husband ordered it. Leo offers to call her husband to straighten out the misunderstanding, but he only gets a voicemail. He’s pushy, but she doesn’t demand that he leave. She lets him in, and the credits roll.Leo gets to work, and Janet soon finds him walking around the bedroom with his shirt off, as is his assistant Sammy. He puts on his shirt and helps her cook lunch. He keeps commenting on her house, her money, her absent husband, and everything else that’s inappropriate and personal. She imagines knocking him out but doesn’t do it.Janet’s friend Tasha comes over with her kid, Darren, in tow. Tasha’s a lawyer, and she knows creepy stuff about her murderer clientele. Janet doesn’t know where her husband, Evan, went. He left this morning and didn’t go to work; his car is in the garage.Leo takes Evan’s violin out of the closet and starts playing. She demands that he leave, but he refuses. When she threatens to call the police, he laughs. Leo and Sammy take a break for lunch. She fantasizes about killing him again, twice. Evan still isn’t answering his phone, and she starts to get annoyed.Janet walks young Darren home, and the two handymen make themselves at home while she’s gone. Tasha talks about how bad Evan was toward his previous wife as she polishes her throwing knives.Janet goes home and loses her patience with Leo, who’s still stalling. Once again, she pictures herself killing him. He says they’ll be back at 10 a.m.That night, she fantasizes about him breaking in and her killing him. When she wakes up in the morning, the two men have returned and are eating breakfast. Janet checks her bank account, and there’s nothing there about a deposit for the bathroom upgrade. He’s aggressive and “gaslighty.” Leo explains that Evan gave him a ton of money to “launder” and that he gave him some fake invoices.Leo makes it clear that he’s in control and he wants some money. He leaves for another night, and she goes to bed. Leo sneaks in through a window in the garage. He finds Evan, Janet’s husband, tied up in the garage; he complains that he’s been there for days. There has been a bit of a miscommunication about Leo actually doing the work versus just money laundering. The people that Evan works for are very “connected,” and Evan says he doesn’t have any money for Leo to take.Leo doesn’t release him. Evan calls for Janet who hits Leo over the head for real this time. The much-larger Leo easily overpowers Janet for a while, but it soon becomes cat-and-mouse. She wins.In the morning, Janet has Leo’s truck towed away. She calls Tasha to come over, as a lawyer this time. She shows Tasha what she’s done; there are now two men tied up in the garage. Janet gives Tasha $100,000 in cash from her safe as a retainer to be her attorney.Sammy comes by, looking for Leo. He admits that he’s an ex-con with no phone or GPS. Tasha perks right up at hearing that. He hears voices from the garage and comes inside, just in time to find Tasha and Janet talking about cutting up bodies. Tasha takes out her frustrations on the strange little man.They have a surprisingly good time dismembering him. Then they order lunch to be delivered. It’s time to kill Evan, but first, Janet reads him a letter that she wrote. He says she just got old and she has terrible taste, so she has no problem stabbing him.The two men break loose and Leo uses Evan as a human shield, which slows Janet down for less than half a s

This week, we’ve got another full stack of new films. We’ll open with “Attack of the Meth Gator,” then go fishing “Under Paris.” We’ll then “Kill Your Lover” inside “The Abandon,” and finally visit the very weird “Starve Acre.” All of these have been released in 2024. We’ve also got five fun shorts this week as well.Don’t miss out on our next members-only edition of the newsletter, coming toward the end of the month. Get all our reviews once a week: https://www.horrorweekly.com/Check out all our books with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.com/Full-Length Films:Attack of the Meth Gator (2024)● AKA “Meth Gator”● Directed by Christopher Ray● Written by Lauren Pritchard, Joe Roche● Stars LaRonn Marzett, Ray Acevedo, Vanesa Tamayo● Run Time: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes● Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThis has more silliness and humor than horror, but the elements are there. It’s got a big monster and a decent body count. The gator and a lot of the effects are CGI, but they work well enough. Turn your mind off to logic and science for this one, and you’ll have a good time.Spoilery SynopsisWe open on shots of alligators in the swamp. We cut to drug dealers, Shane and Trig, frantically packing up their stuff as the cops close in. Sheriff Williams botches the bust, and the dealers run for the swamp. With some packs of meth that fall into the water. Shane steps into the swamp as Williams closes in on him. The gator gets him first. He also gets the deputy. Credits roll.The mayor pays off some gator-hunters to take care of this extra-big gator, but he wants the whole thing done quietly. Sheriff Williams’s son, Dante, now works for the DEA in Tampa, and he comes up for the gator as well. That gator ate a whole duffel bag full of meth. It didn’t die from it, it seemed to get stronger. Dante says the gator might be suffering from psychosis, and it may be looking for a meth lab.Williams calls Bithlo, who owns a gator farm, and he has found the monster with his drone, but it’s way too big for him to handle, and he knows it after it eats his drone. The mayor’s gator hunters stalk the big guy, but they don’t know when to quit, and it gets them.Dante goes to see the mayor, who’s throwing a party, and Anna, Dante’s ex, is there as well, which is awkward. Grady, an old friend, is much more enthusiastic about Dante’s return.Meanwhile, at the meth dealer's place, the men fill up more duffel bags with powder. They’re moving this load out via kayak, and the gator is not far away. It kills them and their girlfriends, chasing one guy up the side of a cell tower, which tips over under the weight. Without that tower, all communication for the island is down.This gator’s going to have meth-mouth, since Bithlo found a huge tooth. Grady and Anna want to assist in the hunt as deputies. Bithlo too. The mayor says Dante has no jurisdiction here and won’t cancel the Memorial Day celebration. Suddenly, there’s an explosion and they all rush to see what that was.Trig has checked into Grady’s inn, and the gator breaks right through the wall to get his meth. It swallows him whole. If it keeps eating meth, its teeth and armor will grow, and it’ll be invincible!Bithlo takes Dante to a bonfire party, and enlists him in a $5000 bet that he can beat Buck, a hillbilly giant, in a slap fight. After a few rounds, Dante wins. Dante wants the location of the main meth lab, and Tucker, the guy who runs the game, agrees to take them.In order to get to the meth lab, they have to zip-line over the swamp. No, it’s a trick. Tucker stops them part way there and pulls a gun on the other two men, but just then, the gator leaps up and eats him. Meanwhile, the mayor gets drunk and goes hunting as well. The gator eats him and Sheriff Williams and Anna arrive to start blasting, which does nothing.The good guys develop a plan to kill the meth gator. Grady has an RPG, and that might do the trick. They all head out to the island, which is very remote. They find the underground meth superlab; it’s huge and just full of meth. They find the people who worked there, all dead because the ventilation malfunctioned.The alligator arrives and there’s lots of shooting. Dante shoots the rocket launcher into the gator, indoors, and it explodes. When the dust settles, the gator is just laying there with no signs of life.Sheriff Williams and Anna congratulate Dante and the town’s parade commences.Bithlo wants to go back to the lab and skin the gator. When he touches it, the gator collapses; that was just its skin, which it has shed. It’s downtown now, and it’s far larger. It eats the sheriff and smashes a firetruck with its tail.Bithlo reminds the others about the fireworks barge; there’s lots of explosives there. Dante takes some meth out to the barge as bait. When the gator attacks, Anna shoots the barge with the RPG and everything explodes.Anna and Dante kiss. Happy ending, at least for them.Brian’s CommentarySupposedly, this was in the works before “Cocaine Bear” came out, but it’s v

This week, we’ve got a full stack of new films. We’ll open with the much-hyped “Longlegs” and see if we agree with the buzz. We’ll stop in and check out an “Oddity,” try not to die on “Tuesday,” figure out how to get by while “Handling the Undead,” and maybe go to a place where “You’ll Never Find Me.” All of these have been released in 2024. We’ve also got five fun shorts this week as well.Since our little restructuring last month, we’ve decided to bump up the benefits for paying subscribers. Earlier this week, we also sent out our first subscriber-only newsletter. In this first one, we examined all five of the movies in “The Prophecy” series, mostly starring Christopher Walken. We’re not cutting back on the free newsletters, but we’re offering more than we did to the paid people. Subscribers also get full access to the archive of more than three years of back issues, which is easily searchable.Paid subscription info can be found at https://horrorweekly.comCheck out all our books with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.com/Full-Length Films:Longlegs (2024)● Directed by Osgood Perkins● Written by Osgood Perkins● Stars Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood● Run Time: 1 Hour, 41 Minutes● Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneImagine taking the vibe of “Silence of the Lambs,” adding some supernatural elements and dialing the horror up to full volume, and you might get this movie. It’s really well made with a retro look and excellent performances all around, especially from Maika Monroe in the lead and an unrecognizable Nicolas Cage. We both liked it a lot.Spoilery SynopsisWe open on a young girl, looking at a car out in the snow. She goes outside and meets a strange man with a white face who says he wore his long legs today. Credits roll.It’s the 1990s. We cut to a bunch of FBI agents being briefed about doing a door to door search for their suspect, who is expected to be armed and dangerous. Agent Lee Harker waits in the car for Agent Fisk to start knocking on doors. She gets a feeling about one of the houses and wants to call it in. Fisk isn’t about to call in her hunch. Turns out, her hunch was right, and Fisk is shot immediately. Lee goes inside and arrests a man. Afterward, she undergoes a strange psychological test. Could she be psychic? She is at least highly intuitive.Agent Carter takes Lee and Agent Browning to the house of a man who killed his family. They found a strange handwritten letter in code, signed “Longlegs” and Carter suspects that this person somehow made the father kill his family. There have been ten families murder-suicided like this over the past few years, where Longlegs doesn’t seem to have done it directly himself. Carter wants to know how Lee knew that the house held the murderer; he thinks she is psychic and wants to use Lee to figure out the Longlegs case.Lee starts researching the ten cases of fathers murdering their families. Carter makes Lee come inside to meet his wife Anna and daughter Ruby. Lee goes home and calls her mother, Ruth, who used to be a nurse. There’s a knock on her door, and she sees someone standing outside in the woods. She goes outside and sees him inside; he leaves her a note: “Do not open until January 14th.”She opens it anyway and there’s a birthday card inside with the coded words inside. Ruby’s birthday party is soon. She immediately knows how to decode the message, and it’s a threat.In the morning, Lee gets called to another of the family murders. This one happened a month ago, and they just found the bodies. It’s a mess. Later, Lee decodes the rest of the letters, and they often mention “The Camera Farm,” which is where some of the earliest murders took place.Lee and Carter go to the Camera farm and look inside the barn. Inside, they find a weird porcelain doll with human hair. They find a metal ball inside the head that the medical examiner calls a brain. Lee gets a vision of Carrie Anne Camera talking to Longlegs. We cut to Longlegs being weird in a convenience store.The agents go to see Carrie Anne at the mental hospital, she was away when the killings happened and so was the only survivor. The doctor in charge says Carrie Anne was catatonic until she had a visitor yesterday, and she’s been awake. We get flashes back to Carrie Anne’s weird family life. She basically says she’d do anything for her visitor yesterday, even kill.Carter thinks Lee knows too much about the case and wonders what her connection is; she’s been too helpful to the case. Carter has called Lee’s mother, who says Lee was visited by Longlegs when she was younger.Lee goes to visit her mother, Ruth, to ask about the man who visited her on her 9th birthday. Ruth pretends to not remember any of what happened. Lee finds a photo of Longlegs from back on that day and takes it back to Carter.Longlegs is packed and expecting the police when they arrive to arrest him. There’s no real evidence that Longlegs has killed anyone, and he knows who Lee is. Lee insists that Longlegs has an acc

This week, we’ve got four new films: “Maxxxine,” “Tarot,” “Cursed Waters: Creature of Lake Okanagan,” and the very weird “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person,” all recently released. We’ll go back a few years and watch “Insidious 2: Chapter 2” from 2013 as we work toward completing that series.We’ve also got four fun shorts this week as well.Since our little restructuring last month, we’ve decided to bump up the benefits for paying subscribers. Later this week, we will also send out our first subscriber-only newsletter. In this first one, we’ll examine all the movies in “The Prophecy” series, mostly starring Christopher Walker. We’re not cutting back on the free newsletters, but we’re offering more than we did to the paid people. Subscribers also get full access to the archive of more than three years of back issues, which is easily searchable. Paid subscription info ($4.95/month or #$50/year) can be found at https://horrorweekly.comGet all our reviews once a week: https://horrorweekly.comCheck out all our books with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.com/Full-Length Films:MaXXXine (2024)● Directed by Ti West● Written by Ti West● Stars Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan● Run Time: 1 Hour, 43 Minutes● Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThis continues on with the adventures of Maxine, now trying to make it big in Hollywood. Mia Goth and the rest of the cast are very good, the retro look of it is fun, and it’s cool how they work in the facade of movie sets and movies in progress. But it’s too long and drags, and it’s hard to root for the lead character who is fundamentally despicable. Mixed feelings on this one.Spoilery SynopsisWe watch old 1959 footage of a girl dancing. Her father’s a preacher, and he tells little Maxine that she can be whatever she wants to be. We cut to adult Maxine who is doing an audition for a movie. She is nearly 33, and she knows she’s starting to get too old for porn, now she wants to be in “real” movies. She does a dramatic scene, and the casting people are impressed, but they still want to see her boobs. Credits roll as we see 1985 news stories. We are reminded just how weird the 80s really were. The Night Stalker murders are mentioned repeatedly.After the audition, Maxine walks to a porn studio, snorts some coke, and gets ready for a different acting job. Her agent calls and says she didn’t get that good part, but she has been cast in a new horror film.We cut to a “peep show” where a man in black leather and a hat watches a woman undress. Later, Maxine gets caught in a dead-end alley with a man carrying a knife. She pulls her gun and makes him strip naked. Then she does something excessive to him. Later, Maxine gets a video tape delivered anonymously. It’s a police evidence tape of her doing bad things from the previous movies.Maxine goes to a special effects place and has a full head cast made; part of her horror movie thing. While she’s waiting for it to dry, she flashes back to old Pearl.Detectives are called to a crime scene, where two more bodies have been found.Maxine gets a cryptic note with a phone number, and the man on the line demands that he meet her. John Labat is a private detective, hired to find her. He brings up the names of dead people from the first film. He hands her an invitation to a party; she’s being blackmailed, or at least it looks like it. As she goes home, the two detectives question her about Amber and Tabby, two of her colleagues who were murdered.Maxine talks to Elizabeth, the director of her new movie, The Puritan II, and they talk about Hollywood and the “Moral Majority.” They drive to the set of “Psycho” and she hallucinates Pearl up in the window of the iconic house. There are religious people protesting the film, saying “Horror is not art” and stuff about Satanists. Soon after, she beats the crap out of Labat the PI.Maxine goes to see Teddy, her agent and lawyer, and tells him her secret. We see that Labat and the serial killer are working together when Maxine’s video-store friend is murdered. The detectives want to know how Maxine is tied up in all this.Later, Labat chases Maxine all over some famous movie sets, ending up back in the Psycho house. That night, she gets her friends to gang up on Labat, who later wakes up handcuffed in his car– inside a car crushing machine. He’s not going to be a problem anymore, but no one ever asks who he’s working for.Maxine decides she’s had enough and goes to that party that Labat had mentioned earlier. The police tail her car. As she goes up to the house, she hears a recording of that video taken of her as a child that we saw earlier. Yes, the killer is her own father, and he’s more than slightly insane. He knocks her out.She wakes up tied to a tree and surrounded by cultists and cameras. After a long speech, the two detectives storm in, guns drawn. There’s a shootout, and things get carried away. Maxine’s father runs away, up the hill toward the big “Hollywood” s

This week, we’ve got two new films, “Lore” and also “Humane,” both from 2024. Going back a few years, we cover a trio of books based on Clive Barker stories, “Midnight Meat Train” (2008), “Lord of Illusions” (1995), and “Rawhead Rex” from 1986. Then, instead of a single short film, we’ll watch FOUR of them!Note: This week, we’ve got another SURPRISE giveaway! Listen to the podcast to find out how you can get a free streaming copy of “A Quiet Place: Day One.” Get all our reviews once a week: Check out all our books with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.com/Full-Length Films:Humane (2024) · Directed by Caitlin Cronenberg· Written by Michael Sparaga· Stars Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Peter Gallagher· Run Time: 1 Hour, 33 Minutes· Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneWe went into this blind and were very glad of it. It sets up the state of the world very quickly in a possible near future, and focuses on one wealthy family with many issues to start with. Then things get more complicated. And we’re pulled along wondering how things are going to end up and who is going to survive. And how. We both give it a strong thumbs up.Spoilery SynopsisWe hear news reports of catastrophic environmental collapse. Things have gotten bad. There are now “population reduction goals” to cull off twenty percent of the population. Credits roll as we see masked people in white suits carrying bodies out of houses. There are posters everywhere asking people to “Enlist” in a euthanasia program. Charles York talks to his wife Dawn about moving the piano into the bedroom. They’re not saying something, but they’re both crying. Jared, Charles’s son, said on a TV interview that he’d let his ten-year-old son enlist, which gets him a lot of flack from the other relatives. Rachel arrives with her daughter, Mia, and Charles says that this was supposed to be an “adults only meeting.” Noah, Charles’s other son, calls Grace and says he doesn’t want to go tonight. Ashley picks him up and whines about how hard it is to get an acting job. None of them know why Charles has invited them tonight.Everyone finally arrives, and Dawn serves the fancy meal she’s prepared. Charles apologizes for working late so many nights when they were all growing up. He’s weird, and all the kids notice it. Charles announces that he and Dawn have chosen to enlist. The government is talking about drafting people for euthanasia, and he doesn’t want any of them to have to do it. Jared says those rules are for poor people, not people like them. None of the kids take the news well. There are pro-enlistment ads on TV (voiced by David Cronenberg), and the voluntary enlistment number is under nine percent. The discussion soon gets political when they mention a whole bunch of undocumented immigrants volunteer for the cash payment. It’s all been blamed on the Asians, and Dawn’s restaurant was burned to the ground because of it. Jared works for the government, and he’s all in on the conservative point of view.Charles goes into the kitchen and finds a note from Dawn. “I can’t do it.” The doorbell rings, and it’s Bob the euthanasia guy, who has shown up a little early. He’s friendly, chatty, and jokey about the whole thing. Bob comes in and admires the house and wonders where Dawn went. Charles explains the situation and wants to reschedule, but Bob gets all serious. Charles can get out of the agreement, but he’ll go on a “list.” He decides to go through with it but doesn’t tell the kids what changed his mind. Bob gives him the injection, and he soon dies. Bob says he needs a second cadaver to make up for Dawn. Someone else will have to go. Bob brings in men with guns. Someone will be volunteering, and they have two hours to do it. Bob doesn’t get paid without all the bodies. Also, he basically takes Mia hostage until someone “enlists.” Bob explains the penalties for backing out, which is why Charles went ahead with the procedure. Jared wants to break the rules cause he’s rich, but Bob doesn’t care about that. In fact, Bob has detailed dossiers on each of them. If they can’t pick someone to die, he will by drawing straws. Jared argues that Noah should give himself; he’s a junkie who killed someone in an accident. They all argue, and finally Rachel asks if they have to go through with it, or can they just get him a body to substitute. She also mentions that Noah already got his inheritance, so killing him won’t financially benefit any of them. A fight breaks out, and everyone gangs up on Noah. Noah says he’s off the drugs and has a good future, but the others don’t care. Outside, Bob gets a call on the radio that they’ve apprehended Dawn, so he can stop and move on. He has Dawn taken to headquarters and doesn’t change anything. He tells Mia that her relatives are inside killing each other; he says they’re all bad people, worthy of dying. Ashley pretends to make up with Noah but ends up leading him into an ambush from Jared and Rachel. The battle rages until Noah stabs Rachel in the ne

This week, we’ve got two new films, “A Quiet Place: Day One” and also “In a Violent Nature,” both from 2024. Going back a ways, we cover the haunted hotel in “1408” from 2007, and get all beat out of shape at “Eden Lake” from 2008. Lastly, we’ll watch a new LGBT Indie film, “Ganymede” also from 2024. Good stuff!Then, instead of a single short film, we’ll watch FOUR of them!The new issue of “Horror Monthly” is now out in print or as an ebook:Check out the newly-expanded issue here: https://www.horrormonthly.comGet all our reviews once a week: https://www.horrorweekly.com/Check out all our books with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.com/Full-Length Films:A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) * Directed by Michael Sarnoski* Written by Michael Sarnoski, John Krasinski, Bryan Woods* Stars Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff* Run Time: 1 Hour, 39 Minutes* Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPY7J-flzE8Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThis was interesting seeing how things started out with the whole alien apocalypse thing, and this was entertaining. Being a prequel, we know how things are going to go overall, but there was enough tension and uncertainty to keep us involved. The budget was big and the effects are good, with a high body count and lots of carnage. We liked it.Spoilery SynopsisWe open on New York City, and are told that it gives off the same amount of noise as a typical scream. Samira has a bad attitude in her cancer support group at the hospice center. The group is going to a show in the city, and they invite her along. As the bus crosses the bridge into town, several jet fighters fly over in a hurry. The “show” turns out to be an old man doing marionettes. It gets a little intense for Samira, so she steps outside and sees police cars going down the road. The guy who runs the group gets a call that he needs to bring everyone home; something is happening in the city. Sam wants her pizza, and she starts getting upset. She does get on the bus as the air raid sirens go off. Meteors are coming down all over the city, one very near the bus. Sam gets off and walks through the smoke and ash. She watches silently as people are attacked and pulled away by… things. Credits roll. Sam wakes up with Henri and a bunch of people in the crowded theater; they are all sitting silently, many of the wounded. Reuben, the nurse, is there, and he has her cat. The cat rings a bell, and we soon see one of the monsters indoors– and a whole herd of them outdoors. They get a radio report that the planes are blowing up bridges to contain the things– and trap them on Manhattan Island. One guy freaks out and yells, “We’re all gonna die!” and then Henri kills him to keep him quiet. Sam decides she really wants that pizza and jokes with Reuben that she’s going after some anyway. The power goes off, and an automatic generator kicks on. It’s loud, and Reuben is slow to turn it off; one of the monsters gets him. When she finally goes outside, Sam sees that the city has gotten a lot quieter. She finds a couple of kids hiding inside a fountain; the monsters don’t like the noisy water. She hears helicopters announcing an evacuation plan via boats, since the aliens can’t swim. Sam and the kids soon meet a huge crowd of people silently walking through the streets of NYC. Sam, however, decides to go the opposite way. Some of them have rattling luggage and squeaky wheelchairs, and it’s just a matter of time. Yep- a monster shows up, and someone screams. It’s a major massacre. Frodo the cat runs away, has a quick adventure, and then returns with a man in tow who follows Sam through the streets.It starts to rain, and Sam figures out that they can talk quietly. The man’s name is Eric, and she tells him where to go. He insists on following her, though. They go back to Sam’s apartment, and she looks for her meds, but they aren’t there anymore; she took them all to the hospice. Eric is British and has no friends or family to go to. Sam divulges her plan to get the last pizza on Earth, and he begs to come along. She has him read a poem she wrote about her dying of cancer any day now. In the morning, they continue on. Naturally, they attract the creatures and get into a chase. They hide out in a flooded subway, and the water is very cold and getting more and more deep. Eric is a loud swimmer, but he’s still better than the monsters. They get out of the sewer and hide some more in a big, empty church. Eric goes out to see if he can find painkillers for Sam. He has some close calls but eventually returns with what she needs. Feeling better, Sam insists on resuming the quest for pizza. They get to Patsy’s Pizzeria, and the place has been destroyed. Eric finds another pizza place, and they pretend that it’s the same. It’s pretty awful, since it’s been three days, but it’s also the last pizza in the world, so they deal. They see one of the ferries leaving to cross the river, and Sam gives Eric her coat; he needs to go, but she’s staying. He wordlessly convi

We’ve got an eclectic collection of weirdness for you this week: The much-improved sequel to last year’s “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” is out, as is a very nice caveman horror film, “Out of Darkness” from last year. “Wolf Creek 2” (2013) continues our fun with Mick from Down Under, and “The Wicker Tree” (2011) shows us how the folks on that crazy island are doing forty years later. We’ll then watch “Killer Klowns from Outer Space” (1988).Then, instead of a single short film, we’ll watch FIVE of them!Announcement: Changes!Our MagazineWe’ve dropped “Bulletin” and are now just “Horror Monthly.” This is in tune with our new Internet domain, HorrorMonthly.com. We’ve still got the same writers, editors, reviewers, and basic style; it’s just a name change. We’re just changing the mix of what goes into it.Our NewsletterHorrorBulletin.com is no more. Long live HorrorWeekly.com! Any old links to the “bulletin” site should still work, so don’t worry about losing your favorite issues. From this point forward, however, we’ll be referring to Horror Weekly, our once-a-week email newsletter. This free weekly email contains all our full-length and short-film reviews and commentary. As always, the newsletter is completely free every week. After an issue has been out for four weeks, however, it falls into the “Archive” status, which requires a paid subscription to access. Again, you only pay for “old” issues; the newest weekly issues and those of the past few weeks are still free. This isn’t anything new, but it seems like a good time to point it out and explain it. The newsletter also includes a convenient built-in option to listen to our podcast. The podcast is also free (ALL the episodes) at HorrorGuysPodcast.com. Horror Guys PodcastCurrently, at HorrorGuysPodcast.com, each week, Kevin and Brian read and comment on the same material that hits the Horror Weekly newsletter. Nothing is changing here. The podcast is included in our newsletter each week, but it can also be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube, among many other podcast listings. HorrorGuys.comThis is probably where the biggest change is going to be. We won’t be posting four full-length movies and a short in the future. The HorrorGuys.com site is now focusing more on indie films (as they are made available to us) and short films. The full-length film reviews and synopses are going straight to the newsletter. Everyone seems to love the short films, so we’re beefing those up in a big way!The simplest, easiest way to get ALL our content is either by subscribing to the newsletter or picking up this magazine in print or ebook each month. You won’t miss anything!TLDR? HorrorGuys.com is now for short and indie films.HorrorWeekly.com = All those same shorts plus five full-length films, a mix of old and new releases. Same as before, only BIGGER. HorrorMonthly.com = Everything in HorrorWeekly, just compiled in print and eBook form each month. Get all our reviews once a week: Check out all our books with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.com/Full-Length Films:Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024) * Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield* Written by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Matt Leslie, A. A. Milne* Stars Scott Chambers, Tallulah Evans, Ryan Oliva* Run Time: 1 Hour, 33 Minutes* Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThere’s a bigger budget this time around, with better special effects and more of a background story. There’s a little too much time spent seeing Christopher struggle with his problems. But it has excellent gore kills and a good payoff once things get going.Spoilery SynopsisWe’re reminded of the old story about “The Boy and the Bear,” and we’re told about the Hundred-Acre Massacre, and things haven’t gone so well for Pooh or our heroes. We see an animated intro with Christopher Robin being loaded into an ambulance. Few believed his story, and he became a pariah. The locals searched for Pooh and his friends, searching and burning the woods and driving the animals to new places. Pooh reunited with some of his old friends. We cut to an RV with a woman trying a seance for the “Spirits of the Hundred-Acre wood.” Mia, Jamie, and Alice try using a Ouija board, but they don’t get very far before Pooh gets them. Owl enters the scene, “Who's the abomination now?” Credits roll. Christopher Robin finishes up with his therapist. His girlfriend, Lexy, says it’s like he’s trying to make her leave him. He gets home and finds that the neighbors have vandalized his car. When the police find the three women and the burned RV, the locals go out hunting for “those things.” Owl reports to Pooh and Piglet, “We trusted Christopher.” Owl is tired of hiding; he wants to take the fight to the humans. Something big in a locked room growls ominously…The hunters are still out after dark. They find Piglet and blow his head off. Pooh shows up and makes short work of the three hunters. Chris gets laid off from the hospital; the administration has had complaints. He goes home to visit h

It’s time to catch up on some newer releases. We’ll take a look at 2024’s “Arcadian,” “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” “Cold Blows the Wind,” and “New Life.” For our oldies, we’ll look at 1966’s “Psycho Circus” and 1991’s “Child’s Play 3.” They’re mostly decent, but we had some nits to pick with each of them. Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys2024 Arcadian* Directed by Benjamin Brewer* Written by Mike Nilon* Stars Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins* Run Time: 1 Hour, 32 Minutes* Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThis was very slow-moving and low on action for the first hour or so, focusing more on survivors and how they were carrying on. We’re gradually filled in on how the world is now, and things pick up in the last half hour with much more action. Not everything is explained, but it tells a good story that we liked.Spoilery SynopsisA man in a backpack runs through the deserted streets. We hear sirens, gunshots, and explosions as credits roll. Paul continues running, past piles of bodies and past hordes of screaming people. He gets out of town as civilization collapses around him. At some point, he picks up a baby. Fifteen years later, Paul and his two sons, Joseph and Thomas, live out in the country, away from the city. When it starts getting dark, they all close up the shutters over the windows and heavily lock the doors. Thomas has been spending a lot of time at the Rose farm. As the boys play chess, the dog starts scratching at the floor, which gets all of them on alert. Suddenly, there’s crazy banging at the door, and they have to help hold the door shut. Whatever it is, they soon go away. In the morning, the outside of the door is covered with scratches. Paul talks about the Earth being past the worst part, and the air and water are getting cleaner. He still has hope for humanity, but Joseph isn’t so sure. Joseph has gotten an old cart running, and they use it to drive to the town for some salvage. Thomas, on the other hand, is obsessed with hanging out at the Rose farm; Mr. and Mrs. Rose are nice, but he’s way more interested in their daughter, Charlotte. Charlotte and Thomas play a game of recap the apocalypse badly in ten seconds. Charlotte says it’s something to do with bugs and a plague and the machines taking revenge. Thomas says everyone turned into wolves and ran into the forest. Or just maybe the kids are making all this up. There’s an accident, and Thomas doesn’t make it home one night. Paul goes looking for him while Joseph stays to lock up and defend the house. Thomas fell into a ravine, and at least one of the creatures is down there. Joseph doesn’t lock the door properly, and one of them gets in– but is promptly caught in a trap. Joseph knew what he was doing. Meanwhile, the creatures are digging into where Paul and Thomas are trying to hide for the night. Paul ignites something that explodes. In the morning, Thomas pulls the unconscious Paul out of the ravine and Joseph picks them up in the car. Thomas wants to see the creature in the cage, but it’s terrified of the sunlight. It goes badly, and they end up killing it when it escapes. Thomas takes Paul to the Roses’ place for help, but they refuse to get involved. Thomas stays with them anyway, but Joseph takes Paul back to their house. Mr. Rose catches Charlotte and Thomas kissing and doesn’t like it one bit. Charlotte gives Thomas some medication and runs home, but the men at the farm take exception and kidnap him. The monsters take the opportunity to attack Charlotte’s parents. Everyone dies except for Thomas and Charlotte, who escape back to Paul’s house and meet up with Joseph. The three young people have to defend themselves and Paul from the monsters. They carry in a big chest freezer and a bunch of gasoline and explosives; he’s going to make a trap. The creatures soon get inside the house. Suddenly, Paul wakes up and starts fighting the horde that’s gotten into the house. Paul uses himself as bait as everything explodes. Charlotte, Thomas, and Joseph hide inside the freezer to avoid the carnage. Not all the creatures are dead, so the three run to the car and drive off. The monsters pursue, even while on fire. In the morning, they have a little funeral for… essentially everyone. Maybe some of the other neighboring farms survived, so they’re gonna go look…CommentaryThis one is very slow moving and at about the one-hour mark, I was starting to suspect that it wasn’t going anywhere. Nic Cage is good here, but he’s out of the picture for a large part of the film, leaving the drama in the hands of the two boys. The action does pick up in the final half-hour. We don’t get a really good, close look at the monsters, but what we do see is really something else, like werewolf-alligators. We never really do get an explanation of what happened to the world or what the creatures really are. 2023 New Life* Directed by John Rosman* Written by John Rosman* Stars Sonya Walger, Tony Ame

It’s been three years since we did our last “Shark Week,” and we thought it was high tide to do another. But this time with a twist– they’re all horror comedies. We’ll start off with “Sharktopus,” a terrible, terrible film that was good enough to spawn two sequels, “Sharktopus vs Pteracuda” and “Sharktopus vs Whalewolf,” which actually got better as the series progressed. Then we’ll take a look at “Sharkenstein” and “Sharkula,” which you can probably guess all you need to know from the names alone. Finally, we’ll watch “Shark Side of the Moon,” a silly sci-fi story about a colony of sharks, you guessed it, on the moon. Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys2010 Sharktopus* Directed by Declan O’Brien* Written by Mike MacLean, Steven Niver* Stars Eric Roberts, Kerem Bursin, Sara Malakul Lane* Run Time: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes* Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U87zVkIXNI0Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneYou have to just let yourself go and think of this one as silly entertainment to enjoy it. When just a shark isn’t scary enough, add some tentacles, and you’ve got another level. This is well made for what it is, with some low-level CGI, and we thought it was a pretty fun watch.Spoilery SynopsisWe open on a bright, sunny day at Santa Monica Beach as the credits roll. One girl goes for a swim as her friend remains behind to play on her phone. Soon, a shark fin appears and chases Bree. Just as it’s about to bite her, giant tentacles reach up and kill the shark. The creature looks like half a shark, but it has tentacles too, and has some kind of electronic control device on it. We cut to a control room where Nathan Sands shows Commander Cox footage of the whole incident. Nathan’s daughter, Nicole, explains that S-11 is completely under their control, a new weapon for the US Navy. They recall the S-11, but it’s on an intercept course for another vessel. The Commander wants the S-11 to pursue the little motorboat as a test. The speedboat does something unexpected, and it knocks the control collar off of the S-11. The “Sharktopus” stops responding and is now uncontrollable. This could be… bad. The Sharktopus is heading to Mexico, so they track it to Puerto Vallarta; Nathan and Nicole go as well. Santos recommends that they call in Andy Flynn to help, a guy who Nathan fired for being too greedy. Nathan tells Andy that he needs S-11 captured, not killed. Stacy, an investigative reporter, tracks down Pez about a photo he took of the Sharktopus. Meanwhile, a couple goes bungee jumping over the ocean; it’s like dangling bait over the aquarium as the Sharktopus leaps up and grabs the girl (played by Roger Corman’s daughter, Mary). A pirate radio station reports that the Sharktopus is in the area. He suggests that someone is filming a low budget horror movie. Pez takes Stacy to where he saw the creature and they soon see it again. The creature attacks a bunch of people on the beach and causes a stampede. Stacy reports this on the news, so now everyone knows about it. Pez thinks he can track the creature from the previous movements. Andy confronts Nicole about what she’s hiding. Sharks aren’t serial killers; could they have genetically modified the creature to make it more vicious? We cut to Nathan and Commander Cox talking about just that. Andy and his men dive where they think the creature is, and it fights back, eating everyone but him. Andy gets a big gash on his leg, but Santos patches him up. Nathan tells Nicole that he enhanced its aggressiveness to make it a killer for the military. Andy and Nicole run into Pez and Stacy’s boat. Pez is eaten by the shark before Andy shoots at it, running it off. Sharktopus then attacks Bob and Ed, a couple of jet skiers, before heading for another beach. Stacy figures out that Blue Water is behind the creature, a shady genetic engineering firm with government contracts. The creature then eats the pirate radio guy even as he makes fun of it on the radio. After a few more random attacks, Commander Cox wants to bring in a team to kill the Sharktopus, but Nathan wants it captured alive. The creature then attacks the main resort in Puerto Vallarta, and that’s crazy. Andy shoots at it, but it appears to be bulletproof. Nathan shows his true colors as he confronts Andy, but Nicole takes Andy’s side. Suddenly, the Sharktopus attacks all of them, and Nathan’s goons are all killed. When it grabs Nicole, Nathan jumps in, and it kills him instead. The Sharktopus arrives at another resort and starts eating people and jumping for people riding on the zip lines. Nicole tells Andy that the creature’s “kill switch” might still be working, but they have to get close to it. Meanwhile, Stacy and her cameraman meet an unfortunate end. Andy tranquilizes the monster and keeps it busy as Nicole tries to hack the kill switch on her computer. It’s all very tense until she guesses the password, and the shark’s brain explodes. We’re not going to see the Sharktopus

Wait Until Dark, The Entity, Space Amoeba, Dark Places, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and The Torture Chamber of Dr. SadismWeekly Horror Bulletin Issue #289We’ve got a mixed bag this week, some really good films and some awful stinkers. That’s OK; we watch them, so you don’t have to. We’ll start off with the classic “Wait Until Dark” from 1967. then move on to the scary “The Entity” from 1982. We’ll take a fun break with “Space Amoeba” from 1970 and watch a short film as well. We’ll then move on to 1978’s “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes,” which really is as bad as you’ve heard. We’ll then watch a pair of old Christopher Lee films, “Dark Places” from 1973 and “The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism” from 1967. Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguysThe Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967) * AKA “Blood Demon” and “The Snakepit and the Pendulum”* Directed by Harald Reinl* Written by Manfred R. Kohler, Edgar Allan Poe* Stars Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Christopher Lee* Run Time: 1 Hour, 24 Minutes* Watch it: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThis is loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s work, but it’s kind of a mishmash of The Pit and The Pendulum with living dead and weird science and dark magic. The music was somewhat mismatched for the seriousness sometimes and it was a little draggy at times, but overall, it was pretty good.Spoilery SynopsisA jailer, judge, and executioner walk into a cell where Count Regula has been found guilty of torturing and murdering people. He’s killed 12 people and is sentenced to be quartered. The count swears to destroy the judge, Roger Von Marienberg, and his entire family in retaliation. They put a mask of spikes on the count and lead him on the long walk outside as credits roll. Out in the village square, they tie his arms and legs to four horses and then whip the horses. 35 years later, people are still talking about the execution of the old count. Roger Mont Elise is a lawyer, and an old man gives him a letter from Count Frederic Regula, offering to tell him about his past. A woman related to the old baroness gets a letter as well. Roger arrives in town and asks about Castle Andomai. People run away when he even says the name. He watches a religious procession to “drive out the man-eating monster in the valley.” That’s where Count Regula killed the twelve virgins and was quartered. Another old man warns him not to go, as Count Regula died 35 years ago. Roger tells the old priest in the carriage that he doesn’t know who his parents were or where he was born. He’s going to the castle to find out some answers. Roger’s carriage interrupts a bunch of highwaymen about to kidnap Lilian von Brabant and her servant Babette. They just happen to be going to the same place and they all share a carriage. She has a similar letter about her mother’s estate. They arrive at the castle, but it’s a burned-down ruin. There’s an old man camping there. As they drive away, what’s left of the castle collapses completely. The coachman insists on returning to town, at least until the priest pulls a pistol. They pass mannequins in trees; there are arms and legs everywhere. Night falls, and they’re all lost in “The Forbidden Forest,” much to the driver’s dismay. There are bodies hanging from nooses on the trees, and the carriage runs over a few on the road. The driver has a heart attack and dies. Roger and the priest, Father Fabian, get out to check on all the corpses, and a strange man takes the carriage and the women. Roger and Fabian find the ruins of Castle Andomai and Regula’s tombstone. They find an underground passage that leads to a whole complex of rooms. The strange man who took the carriage comes to greet them; he’s Anatol. The women are there, and Lilian plays the piano. She doesn’t seem to recognize either Roger or the priest. Anatol says he gave her a drug to calm her, but that doesn’t seem right to Roger. Babette is there as well, and she seems normal enough. Father Fabian admits that he’s just a robber, not really a priest. Lilian comes out of her delusion and is terrified. They find a painting on the wall of both Lilian and Roger. Fabian comes in yelling that Babette is being tortured. She’s tied to a big contraption that is going to slowly lower her onto spikes. Roger and Fabian are on the other side of a locked door. They break in the door and save her just in time. She says it was Anatol who put her in the trap. Anatol chases Babette some more, and Fabian shoots him. “I’ve been dead for years; they hanged me. I am invulnerable.” Anatol laughs maniacally. He shows them to Count Regula’s body, encased in glass. “His spirit is still intact. He shall live again.” Fabian gets locked in a room with no doors as Anatol works a ritual to revive the dead count. The count, still in his mask of spikes, wakes up. He’s pale and scarred, but looks much better than expected. Anatol reports that Lilian and Roger are the daughter and son of the count’s enemies. The count d

We’ll start out this week watching the recent “I Saw the TV Glow” from 2024. We liked it but admit that we probably didn’t fully understand all of it. Then we’ll get caught up by watching the most recent three movies in the “Saw” series: “Jigsaw” (2017), “Spiral” (2021), and “Saw X” from 2023. Then we’ll watch some old classics, “Black Sunday” from 1960 and “The Invisible Ghost” from way back in 1941. This is one of those rare weeks where we liked everything!Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguysI Saw the TV Glow (2024) * Directed by Jane Schoenbrun* Written by Jane Schoenbrun* Stars Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman* Run Time: 1 Hour, 40 Minutes* Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThis is a beautiful, well-made movie with bright colors and angst and allegories galore. It’s a slow-moving piece, and we can’t say we quite understood it, but it kept us watching with fascination. It’s just a television show that Owen is watching, so how could it be impacting reality? Well, it certainly seems to be. We’d recommend it for a watch with the caveat that you’ll probably love it, hate it, or be baffled.Spoilery SynopsisYoung Owen watches a trailer for a horror movie on TV. Credits roll. It’s 1996, and Owen is in school, waiting for his mother to vote. He sees a girl reading a book about that show, “Pink Opaque.” He talks to Maddy, who’s two years ahead of him in school. He wants to watch the show, but it’s on in the evening past his bedtime. He asks his mom if he can stay over at a friend’s house, and she makes it all as awkward as possible. Then he goes to Maddy’s house instead, where he can stay up to watch the show. We watch some of the show, and it’s full of lame teenage dialogue and a killer ice cream cone. Afterward, Maddy explains the show to him; the ice cream man is just the monster of the week, Mr. Melancholy is the “Big Bad.” Isabel and Tara are the main characters, and they are the Pink Opaque. He doesn’t really understand most of it. He goes to sleep on the floor at her house. In the morning, Owen walks home, thinking about the show. Two years later, Owen’s mother has cancer. She says he always seems like he’s somewhere else lately. He still has a 10:15 bedtime, and he’s not allowed to watch the show. His father is a jerk, so he’s still not allowed to watch it. He tells Maddy this, and she starts taping it for him. She also writes him a lot of notes about the show. He watches them over and over again. We watch part of the pilot episode with him, where the two girls meet. Owen wants to stay at Maddy’s house overnight and watch the show live, but she warns him that she’s into girls, not him. Owen doesn’t much care for boys or girls, he just likes TV shows. He thinks maybe there’s something wrong with him. They stay up late (for him) and watch the show, and Maddy cries during the episode. Maddy tells Owen that she’s going to be leaving town soon, as her parents are just terrible. She draws the symbol that the TV show characters have on their backs, on his. That night, he dreams about the glow of the TV. Maddy tells Owen to make plans for next week, so they can run away together. He doesn’t really want to go, and Maddy disappears without a trace; all they found was her TV set burning in the backyard. “The Pink Opaque” got canceled that same month. Eight years later, Owen works at a theater. He’s still very shy around people, and his coworkers laugh at him. One night, on the drive home from work, he sees strange lights in the road- a fallen power cable. He finds a page from one of the Pink Opaque books. Owen’s mother has died years before, and his father is still awful. Owen goes to the grocery store and sees someone acting strangely. It’s Maddy. We cut to a band singing a song as Owen and Maddy talk in the back. Everyone thought she was dead, but all she wants to talk about is the show. “Do you remember it as just a TV show? Do you ever get confused? Like the memory isn’t quite right?” We flash back to her making him wear dresses during the show. Were they actually in the show? She says she has been inside the show for all these years. She can’t stay here much longer, she’s going back soon. She wants him to meet her tomorrow night at midnight. Owen goes home and watches the tape of the show’s final episode. It absolutely doesn’t feel like a kids’ show anymore. Both the main characters die and are buried alive. Then the show just ends. Owen’s father goes into the basement and finds Owen trying to crawl inside the picture tube of the TV. The father carries him up to the bathroom, where he vomits TV sparks. Owen goes to see Maddy, who explains that she ran away to Phoenix and got a job. She bought a coffin and paid some guy to bury her alive. She talks about watching herself start to die and then clawing her way out of the coffin. She goes on and on about her exploits and drama. She says all his memories were put there to distract him from the Mid

It’s Road Kill Week here with the Horror Guys. The rubber hits the road with “Mad Max” from 1979, “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior” from 1981, and “Max Max: Beyond Thunderdome” from 1985. We wait about thirty years for the next installment, “Mad Max: Fury Road” from 2015. Then we’ll go back and see the movie that influenced the whole thing, “Duel” from 1971. Just for laughs, we’ll also take a look at “Rubber” from 2010. Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguysMad Max (1979)* Directed by George Miller* Written by James McCausland, George Miller, Byron Kennedy* Stars Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley* Run Time: 1 Hour, 28 Minutes* Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThis was a heavily action thriller movie, but it’s grim enough to be horror adjacent. It’s set somewhat in the future from the 70s, or in a vaguely alternate timeline, without really being futuristic or seeming too science fiction. We thought it holds up pretty well, and it’s one that you should check out as where the ongoing Mad Max movies began.Spoilery SynopsisAfter the most 70s credit ever, we are told it’s “a few years from now…” A couple of young cops get a call about a cop killer on the highway. Before they go, they argue over who gets to drive. They’re chasing “terminal psychotics,” and we see the police leader, Max, getting into his car. They pick up more cops and some tow trucks as the chase continues. We cut to a couple arguing, an RV driver who can’t drive, and a baby walking in the road. This goes badly for all involved, except the maniac, who calls himself The Night Rider, gets away with his girl sidekick. Charlie, one of the cops, gets hurt pretty badly. Max finally starts his car and awaits the Night Rider, who says on the radio that he works for Toecutter. Night Rider and Max play chicken on the road, and then it’s another chase. Night Rider’s car explodes in a big fireball. That night, back at home, Max watches his wife, Jessie, play the saxophone. They have a really nice house out on the Australian coast. Max goes to work, and we see the police aren’t what they used to be, but they do have some really souped-up cars. Max hears from the captain that the Night Rider’s friends are out to get him now, but Max doesn’t seem concerned. A whole bunch of bikers come to town, led by Toecutter. They’ve come to pick up Night Rider’s body. The gang is rowdy in town, picking on the locals. They chase one guy and his girlfriend’s car, and they soon run him off the road. They destroy the guy’s fancy car and terrorize the couple inside. Max and Goose get a call about the bikers, and they respond. They find the girl in shock, and Johnny the Boy, one of the bikers, high out of his mind. Toecutter sends one of his guys to get him out. No one in town presses charges, and they have to release Johnny. This enrages Goose, who takes it all very personally. Later, Toecutter shows Johnny how much he is displeased. Later, while the cops are all at a dance club, someone sabotages Goose’s motorcycle. In the morning, Goose rides off and Johnny smiles from a distance. Naturally, his bike waits until he’s going at a very high speed before it all falls apart. He’s not hurt, but the bikers ambush him in his borrowed truck on the way back. With Goose trapped upside down and gas leaking, Toecutter goads Johnny into setting him on fire, and they watch him burn. Max rushes to the hospital, where all the other cops are waiting. Goose is badly burned and on a ventilator. What Max sees is bad enough to give him nightmares that night. The next morning, Max tries to resign, but the captain, Fifi, offers him a few weeks off instead. We get a montage of Max and Jessie enjoying their time off together. They go on a picnic, get a flat tire, and take it to the mechanic to get the tire fixed. Jessie and the baby go to town for some ice cream and run into the bikers. Jessie knees Toecutter in the groin and drives off with the whole gang in pursuit, but they do get away. We do see that the bikers aren’t very far behind. Later, Jessie goes to the beach, and the bikers chase her through the woods. She gets away, but the baby suddenly goes missing. She’s confronted by the gang, steals the baby, and runs away down the road, where she’s run down by the gang. The baby is killed, and Jessie is severely injured just before Max catches up. Max freaks out and goes to get the souped-up police “Pursuit Special.” He starts tracking down the Toecutter gang. He finds a group of them and runs several off the road. The survivors call Toecutter to join them. Max gets shot in the knee, and his arm gets run over. That just makes him mad. He shotguns Toecutter’s last remaining gang member. Max gets back in the car and chases Toecutter into running head-first into a semi-truck. Later, he finds Johnny at the site of another accident that he probably caused. Max cuffs Johnny’s ankle to the wreckage, sets up a lighter next to a leaking p

This week, we’ve got a neat mix of things, starting with “They/Them” from last year and “Immaculate” from last month. We’ll check in on a young werewolf in “My Animal” from 2023 and then run to the country for 2021’s “The Retreat.” We’ll meet an unusual pet in “Good Boy” and then watch Freddy die again in “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare” from back in 1991. Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguysPsst: for the next five days, you can get the HourLong Press book “Ed Gein: The Biography” issue from Amazon for FREE. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6966JGSStay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week!They/Them (2023) * Directed by John Logan* Written by John Logan* Stars Kevin Bacon, Theo Germaine, Anna Chlumsky* Run Time: 1 Hour, 44 Minutes* Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThis was kind of good on viewing, but it starts to crumble around the edges the more you think about it afterward. It’s a slasher at an isolated camp, which has certainly been done before, but it’s different enough to be interesting. We give it a weak thumbs up.Spoilery SynopsisA woman drives down the country road at night and gets a flat tire. She looks in the road and sees tire spikes back there; that wasn’t an accident. She gets scared by a deer, but we see a masked killer out there as well. She gets the chop while we see that “Whistler Camp” is just over the hill. In the morning, a bunch of kids get off the bus at the camp as credits roll. Owen comes out to talk to the kids. “Gay people are A-OK with me. I can’t make you straight. You start hearing the words ‘gay conversion camp’ and you get the wrong idea.” He does, in fact, make it all sound very relaxing and not traumatic at all. He introduces Cora, Molly, Zane, Sarah, and Balthazar, the staff of the camp. He takes their cellphones, cigarettes, and medications. He sends the boys to the boys’ cabin and the girls to the girls’ cabin. Jordan wonders which cabin they should use, as they are nonbinary. Owen is completely reasonable about it, which impresses everyone, suggesting they go to the boys cabin for now. We soon meet Toby, who’s a theater nerd. Veronica hates herself for being bisexual. Kim doesn’t want to pretend anymore. Some of them are just there because their parents made them. Jordan’s family made them come. Balthazar the handyman creeps out watching the girl campers, and Veronica tells him off that they’re the wrong team. Alexandra gets caught showering alone early in the morning, and she hasn’t been quite honest about who she physically is below the waist. We don’t see it, but one of the staff does, and she’s sent to the boys cabin. She wants her hormone pills, and Molly gives them to her.Then we have a camp activity montage, and it looks like everyone is having a good time. In the middle of the night, Zane wakes them all up and leads them out into the woods, handcuffed in pairs. Owen is there, and this is all some kind of self-reliance exercise. He wants them to wander around in the woods and find their way back to camp by morning, handcuffed to their partners. Jordan tells Alexandra that they think something is wrong with the camp; there’s not enough Bible-thumping and queer bashing. They both get a glimpse of the masked killer in the woods, but he’s gone when they look again. Back at camp, Cora and Sarah go through everyone’s stuff. In the morning, everyone is back at camp. Jordan gets to talk to Dr. Cora about his life and psychological issues. She’s… not encouraging to Jordan, and they get upset. All the campers then break out in song as Owen watches from outside. There is supposed to be a killer in this, isn’t there?That night, Jordan sneaks into the park office and finds pictures of beaten, scarred, and abused people. Former campers that have been coming there for decades, Owen’s ancestors started the place. Molly comes in, and he shows her the photos; she didn’t know. She warns Jordan that things could get a lot worse. We see Balthazar watching closed-circuit cameras of the girls’ shower. The killer comes up behind him and lets him have it. In the morning, the girls all work together to make pies while the guys shoot guns. Molly goes out to a shed and finds a locked room there, at least until Cora finds her and makes her leave. Jordan is an excellent shot, and Zane seems to take offense to that. They have a little contest, and Jordan easily wins. Owen wants Toby to shoot his sickly old dog. It’s all very stressful until Jordan shoots the dog first. Back in the kitchen, Sarah hits on Kim; she’s not supposed to be doing that, and Kim is weirded out. Later, she tells Veronica about it, and they talk about their problems, which escalates into something naughty they aren’t supposed to do in a gay conversion camp. Stu and Gabriel do the same thing in the tool shed. Jordan, Alexandra, and Toby make plans to steal the bus and leave in the morning. Stuart finds himself in a trap set by Owen and Zane. Gabriel

This week, we’ll start with three brand-new films, all of which we liked. 2024 has brought us “The Moor,” “Arena Wars,” and “Realm of Shadows.” Next we’ll watch a couple of fun films we missed in 2018, “The Perfection” and “The Devil’s Path.” Finally, we’ll head back to Japan with 1968’s “Destroy All Monsters.”Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys2024 The Moor* Directed by Chris Cronin* Written by Paul Thomas* Stars Sophia La Porta, David Edward-Robertson, Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips, Bernard Hill* Run Time: 1 Hour, 58 Minutes* Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThis was grim and moody and quite slow moving. It pulls you along though, and we didn’t think it ever got dull. Much of it takes place on an endless flat and foggy landscape which makes it all the more chilling when something strange pops up. And it caps off with a satisfying ending. We’d give it a thumbs up.Spoilery SynopsisWe open up on two children arguing about robbing the candy store. The little boy distracts the shopkeeper while his friend loads her bag with snacks and runs out. Her friend doesn’t come out, so she goes back inside looking for him; the shopkeeper says his dad came in and took him. We see “missing” posters of the boy as credits roll. Many missing posters, followed by headlines telling us that a man was sentenced to 25 years for the crimes. Twenty-five years later, Claire has grown up and talks to Bill, the boy’s father, about the killer’s sentence ending. They never found Danny’s body, so they couldn’t lock the man up forever; Bill wants to go up to the moors and search for Danny’s body. He complains about how the vultures from the news have hounded him for years. Claire agrees to go with him and Liz to search the peat moss moors. They have a map and they’re systematically searching the whole thing, which is going to take many days. We cut to an old interview with people originally involved with the investigation 25 years ago. People talk about the moors, where the bodies were supposedly hidden. Claire talks to Mr. Thornley, an old friend who was in charge of the original search, and mentions that Bill still goes up there to search. He knows all about the moors and shows that the moors are much, much larger than Claire realized. “How could anything be found in this?” Thornley is confused why Bill is searching in that particular area. Claire goes to see Bill, who has a psychic (dowser) there pointing to areas on a map. Bill, Claire, and Liz go back out for more searching, and Liz reiterates how dangerous it is here. It’s all very scenic in a really bleak way. Claire wears a GoPro and records the whole thing. It’s miles and miles of bleak, foggy, grassy, swamp terrain. Claire falls into a ravine and hears the others calling for her. She finds a child’s shoe down there, and the others soon catch up to her. Bill looks validated. On the way back, Liz leads them past some kind of neolithic stone monument. Claire starts to panic about being lost, but Liz says they aren’t lost, and soon come to the road where they parked. Back in town, the police aren’t much interested in the shoe, saying it doesn’t indicate anything. Back to the interview shows, they talk about the man who was arrested for the crimes. They wouldn’t show the man’s face on the news, which made him even more scary to the public. He only got one life sentence, which is 25 years, but he must have killed many children. On the next trip out to the moor, Claire has a vision, seeing Danny– No, just a dream. Bill invites Alex, his dowsing friend, over, and they argue about someone else who’s involved– Eleanor, Alex’s daughter. Bill explains to Claire that Eleanor tried to help them before, but there were… issues. Alex has never asked for any money, so he’s not a crook. He really believes. Eleanor wants to try something different. She uses the dowsing pointer to go over the map and gets nothing. Then she touches the shoe that they found, and the pointer gets really obvious about a location. It’s a long walk from the road, most of the day just to get there. Eleanor wants to go help, but Alex is not supportive of the idea. Liz packs a whole lot of safety equipment just to be sure. Alex tells Claire that this sort of thing always has a cost for Eleanor. Soon, Eleanor picks up the spirit of a little girl on the moor. Something scares her, and she runs off– right over a cliff into a ravine. She’s obviously hurt, and Alex and Claire tend to her, but Bill starts digging where she fell and finds a body. Four weeks later, Claire complains about nightly nightmares about the little girl’s face in the mud. They didn’t find Danny, but the body was enough evidence to keep the killer in jail for a long time; the little girl died three years before Danny, so the killer was at it for a while. Bill, however, is still looking for Danny. Eleanor doesn’t want to go back up there, but she talks about Thomas, who is her spiritual guardian and the one wh

Note: We’re trying something new this week; we’re including the audio podcast embedded in the newsletter as a convenience for you. If you like it, hate it, or it causes technical issues, or if it just doesn’t work, let me know: [email protected] week, we’ll start with three brand-new films, all of which we liked. 2024 has brought us “Sting,” “The First Omen,” and “Insane Like Me.” Then we’ll talk about a really weird one, “Titane” from 2024. For our bonus movies, we’ll look at “Cthulhu” (2008) and “Jesus Shows You The Way to the Highway” (2019). Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguysPsst: for the next five days, you can get the June 2024 “Horror Bulletin Monthly” issue from Amazon for FREE. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6966JGSSting (2024) * Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner* Written by Kiah Roache-Turner* Stars Jermaine Fowler, Ryan Corr, Alyla Browne* Run Time: 1 Hour, 32 Minutes* Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneWhat’s worse than spiders? Spiders from space! In addition to the creep factor, this has a lot of dark humor and offbeat characters. The story is a little basic, but they dress it up nicely into an entertaining film.Spoilery SynopsisWe hear that an asteroid passed near to Earth yesterday, and today it’s unusually cold outside– it’s a very rare ice storm. We watch an old woman knitting– until she hears something upstairs running around. She pulls out an [antique] phonebook to call an exterminator. We see from the notes on the wall that it looks like she has Alzheimer’s. Frank the exterminator comes by but the “Bug Brothers” are parked right outside. Frank warns the confused Helga about the green snot coming out of her vents. He hears the noise right away and goes in to check it out. He finds a blood trail in the back bedroom and a “Bug Brothers” hardhat before he starts screaming. Something drags him back into the room and closes the door. Old Helga forgets all this and goes back to her knitting. She hears banging noises and calls an exterminator… Four days earlier, we see a meteor crash down into Helga’s apartment building, and a big spider hatches out of it as Credits Roll. A kid breaks in through the ventilation shaft and finds the spider; she puts the spider in a matchbox and Gunter, a mean-looking old woman, comes in. As she crawls through the ducts, we see the other people who live in the building. We see that the girl is Charlotte, and she’s Ethan the apartment manager’s stepdaughter. Gunter is her grandmother who owns the building. Her mother is Heather. Charlotte names her spider “Sting” and feeds it other bugs. Charlotte’s other grandmother is the addled Helga, who watches horror movies and knits all day. Charlotte wrote a comic book, and Ethan drew it, and it’s become quite popular. They are working on the next issue. Sometime during the night, the spider gets into the vents. Not long after, something eats Gunter’s parrot in a really gnarly way– it’s partly melted and half-eaten. Ethan calls Frank the exterminator. He’s sure it’s not rats and that whatever it was, it came through the ducts. We soon see that Charlotte’s spider is back in the jar and that it really hates mothballs. Frank and Charlotte talk about pets; he says spiders only know “Eat” and “Kill,” they can’t love. Charlotte continues feeding Sting, and Sting is getting bigger. Maria is doing things in her apartment, and we see there’s a spider in there. It jumps at her, and she loses track of it. She’s been bitten, and soon falls down, paralyzed but not dead. The spider crawls down her throat then out her abdomen. Ethan finds Maria’s dog in the ventilation shaft. He takes the dog back and finds what’s left of Maria. Charlotte goes to see Erik upstairs to buy one of his aquariums for Sting. She’s taught it to whistle, and Erik is a little creeped out. Erik is a weird biology student, and he wants the spider. Erik calls Ethan about the spider and it’s dangerous– and quite large. Ethan confronts Charlotte about the spider, and she doesn’t take it well. They fight about her real father. Erik says he’s going to turn into the spider to the Department of Health, but he actually keeps it and feeds it bigger things from his specimens. It’s soon big enough to break out of the glass aquarium. Gunter fires Ethan, her own son-in-law. Gunter says he’s weak and a quitter. That night, Gunter hears her cat in the hallway, but when she drunkenly crawls into the event, the spider gets her. The spider jumps down and bites both Heather and Ethan. Charlotte’s got earphones on and misses all of it. It drags them away before she takes the headphones off. She does notice, however, when it steals her baby brother. She quickly makes a solution of mothballs in water bottles and loads pesticide into a squirt gun. Gunter and Ethan wake up webbed and unable to speak. Charlotte checks on Helga, who is fine. Helga saw the spider, but it ran away from her– because she smells like mothballs. Charl

This week, we’ll start with three brand-new films, all of which we liked. 2024 has brought us “Abigail,” “Pandemonium,” and “Infested.” Then we’ll talk about a fairly obscure oldie, “The Deathhead Virgin” from 1974. The weekly newsletter this time around has two more:– “Vertigo” (1958)– “Frankenstein vs. Baragon” (1965) aka “Frankenstein Conquers the World”Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.comCheck out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguysPsst: for the next five days, there’s a free book available at hourlongpress.com; stop in and grab it while you can! (It’s a biography of Alfred Hitchcock this time!)Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week!Contact Info:– Email: mailto:[email protected]– Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys– Website: https://www.horrorguys.com– Subscribe by email: – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys– Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell– Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell– Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 282 This week, we’ll start with the brand-new, kaiju-sized “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” (2024) and then look at a smaller scale problem, “Imaginary” (2024). We’ll watch a short film, then take a look at some filmmakers getting murdered in “Knife+Heart” (2018). Finally, we’ll spend the night in a convenience store with “Open 24 Hours” (2018). The weekly newsletter this time around has two more: “The Mysterians” (1957) “Son of Godzilla” (1967) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Psst: for the next five days, there’s a free book available at hourlongpress.com, Stop in and grab it while you can! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 281 It’s Toho week! After last week’s look at Godzilla Minus One, we realized that we’ve been lax in our old-Godzilla coverage. So this week, we’ll continue that series with six movies from that period, in order! We’ll start with the original “Mothra” from 1961, move on to “Mothra vs. Godzilla” from 1964, team up in the all-out battle against “Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster,” also from 1964. Then we’ll travel to Planet X with “Invasion of Astro Monster,” better known in the States as “Godzilla vs. Monster Zero.” The weekly newsletter this time around has two more: “Ebirah, Horror of the Deep” from 1966 “War of the Gargantuas” from 1966 Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Psst: for the next five days, there’s a free book available at hourlongpress.com, Stop in and grab it while you can! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 280 We’ve got some really fun ones this week. We’ll start with the Academy Award-winning “Godzilla Minus One” from 2023, then look at the very weird “Stopmotion” of 2024. We’ll take a comic break for the new issue of “Hemlock Ave” and then take a look at 2020’s “Ghosts of War.” Lastly, we’ll subvert some expectations with “Lowlifes,”also from this year The weekly newsletter this time around has two more oldies: “The Human Monster” from 1939 “The Leech Woman” from 1960 Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Psst: for the next five days, there’s a free book available at hourlongpress.com, Stop in and grab it while you can! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 279 How are you feeling? It could be time to visit a caring health professional, and we’ve picked out a few that we’d be happy to prescribe! We’ll start out with the hilarious “Dr. Giggles” from 1992 and “The Dentist” from 1996. We’ll watch a short about a girl who needs a dermatologist, and then we’ll do some body mods with “American Mary” (2012). Finally, we’ll look at the 1996 version of “The Island of Dr. Moreau” and see if it’s as bad as they say. The weekly newsletter this time around has two more oldies: “The Island of Dr. Moreau” from 1977 “Gui Yan” aka “Ghost Eyes” from 1974 Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Announcement! Check out https://hourlongpress.com/ and sign up for the weekly free nonfiction book newsletter. Last week, we looked at all 13 “Halloween” films, and this week we’re something similar with “The Blair Witch: Lore and Legends from the Films.” Next week, there’ll be another! Here. We. Go! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 278 We’ve got a good mix of old and new for you once again. We’ll open with the new “Late Night with the Devil” (2024) and then look out a “Secret Window” (2004) with Johnny Depp. After we take a break for our short film of the week, “Dysmorphia,” we’ll move on to 1957’s “The Land Unknown” and 2019’s “Being.” The weekly newsletter this time around has two more oldies: “Castle of the Creeping Flesh” from 1968 “A Bay of Blood” from 1971 Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Announcement! Check out https://hourlongpress.com/ and sign up for the weekly free nonfiction book newsletter. The first seven books were about legendary horror icons: Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc. Now we’re moving into some various topics that we find interesting. This week, it’s Brian’s turn once again, and he’s sticking with horror as his theme. This time, it’s “Halloween: A Guide to All 13 Films.” We look at all 13 films, plus a nice explanation of various timelines, alternate universes, remakes, requels, and– oh, it’s just complicated. It’s all here though! Next week, there’ll be another! Here. We. Go! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 277 We’ve got a good mix of old and new for you this week! We’ll start off with the fun monster-in-the-basement flick, “Baghead” from 2023. Next, we’ll take a look at the amazing “The Coffee Table” which just dropped. We’ll check on the babysitter in the classic “When a Stranger Calls” from way back in ‘79. Lastly, we’ll watch two versions of one of the most famous ghost stories of all time with the 1948 classic, “Hamlet” followed by the just-released 2024 version. The weekly newsletter this time around has two more oldies: “Blood and Roses” from 1960 “The Devil’s Partner” also from 1960 Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Announcement! Check out https://hourlongpress.com/ and sign up for the weekly free nonfiction book newsletter. The first seven books were about legendary horror icons: Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc. Now we’re moving into some various topics that we find interesting. This week, it’s Kevin’s turn! For the next five days, you can get “Oh, Say Can You See? A Brief History of the Star Spangled Banner” absolutely for free from Amazon. Next week, there’ll be another! Here. We. Go! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 276 It must be Spring– there’s no new horror this week. Instead, we’ll take a look at some more oldies. We’ll start with the seventh Saw movie, “Saw 3D: The Final Chapter.” It wasn’t in 3D for us, and it wasn’t the final chapter, but that’s the way things go sometimes. We’ll stop in on Johnny Depp and Tim Burton with 2012’s “Dark Shadows” spoof. Then we’ll watch a contender for Worst Movie of All Time with “Dead Sea.” As a palette cleanser, we’ll watch the stalker movie “Cold Creek Manor.” The weekly newsletter this time around has two more oldies. Neither of these films are horror, but both star Peter Lorre, the subject of this week’s free biography: “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1932 ) Hitchcock! “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) Bogart! Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Announcement! We’ve launched a new series of books under a new imprint: Hourlong Press now offers a new, free, nonfiction book every week. Check out https://hourlongpress.com/ and sign up for the weekly free book newsletter. The first half-dozen or so books will be about legendary horror icons: Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc., so I’ll be pointing those out in this newsletter, but to get future, non-horror–related books, you’ll need to be on that email list. For the next five days, you can get “Peter Lorre: The Biography” absolutely for free from Amazon. Next week, there’ll be another! Here. We. Go! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 275 We’ve got a mostly-random selection of fun this week. We’ll watch the chosen-one werewolf story “Wolves” from 2014, then go back and watch the classic “Angel Heart” from 1987. We’ll advance through another Freddy movie with “A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child” from 1989. FInally, we’ll catch Christopher Lee in 1964’s “The Castle of the Living Dead.” The weekly newsletter this time around has two more oldies: “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1992 ) Anthony Hopkins! “The Return of Captain Invincible” (1983) Christopher Lee! Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Announcement! We’ve launched a new series of books under a new imprint: Hourlong Press now offers a new, free, nonfiction book every week. Check out https://hourlongpress.com/ and sign up for the weekly free book newsletter. The first half-dozen or so books will be about legendary horror icons: Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc., so I’ll be pointing those out in this newsletter, but to get future, non-horror–related books, you’ll need to be on that email list. For the next five days, you can get “Christopher Lee: The Biography” absolutely for free from Amazon. Next week, there’ll be another! Here. We. Go! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 274 Why NOT have an Easter horror week? There’s nothing scarier than bunnies anyway, right? This week, we’ll take a look at the just-released “Easter Bloody Easter.” Then we’ll watch some more rabbit-terror with “Cute Little Buggers” and “Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter Cottonhell.” Yeah, really. Lastly, we’ll watch an oldie, 1972’s “Night of the Lepus.” Anyone got a carrot? The weekly newsletter this time around has two more oldies: “The Leopard Man” (1943) “Forbidden Planet” (1956) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Announcement! We’ve launched a new series of books under a new imprint: Hourlong Press now offers a new, free, nonfiction book every week. Check out https://hourlongpress.com/ and sign up for the weekly free book newsletter. The first half-dozen or so books will be about legendary horror icons: Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc., so I’ll be pointing those out in this newsletter, but to get future, non-horror–related books, you’ll need to be on that email list. For the next five days, you can get “Boris Karloff: The Biography” absolutely for free from Amazon. Next week, there’ll be another! Here. We. Go! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 273 We’ve got more old and new movies this time around. We’ll start off with the brand-new sci-fi thriller, “Restore Point” (2023) and then look at the slightly older zom-com, “MexZombies” (2022). Then we’ll dig in the archives a bit to watch “The Ninth Gate” (1999) and “Night of the Demon” (1957). The weekly newsletter this time around has two more oldies: “Varan the Unbelievable” (1962) “The Evil Eye” (1963) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Announcement! We’ve launched a new series of books under a new imprint: Hourlong Press now offers a new, free, nonfiction book every week. Check out https://hourlongpress.com/ and sign up for the weekly free book newsletter. The first half-dozen or so books will be about legendary horror icons: Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc., so I’ll be pointing those out in this newsletter, but to get future, non-horror–related books, you’ll need to be on that email list. For the next five days, you can get “Lon Chaney Jr.: The Biography” absolutely for free from Amazon. Next week, there’ll be another! Here. We. Go! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 272 We have a crazy mix of old and new this time around. We’ll begin with “Night Swim” and “Lisa Frankenstein” from this year (2024). Then, we’ll go way back and watch the original “Rodan” from 1956. While we’re in the ‘50s, we’ll stop in and visit “The Bride of the Monster,” an awesome film by Ed Wood from 1958. If you think Ed Wood’s films are a hoot, you might like the reviews in our bonus newsletter this time. Neither is strictly horror, but Ed’s definitely horror-adjacent: “Ed Wood” (1994) “Glen or Glenda” (1953) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.comCheck out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Announcement! We’ve launched a new series of books under a new imprint: Hourlong Press now offers a new, free, nonfiction book every week. Check out https://hourlongpress.com/ and sign up for the weekly free book newsletter. The first half-dozen or so books will be about legendary horror icons: Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc., so I’ll be pointing those out in this newsletter, but to get future, non-horror–related books, you’ll need to be on that email list. For the next five days, you can get “Bela Lugosi: The Biography” absolutely for free from Amazon. Next week, there’ll be another! Here. We. Go! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 271 We’ve got a few fun new films for you this week, starting out with Hammer’s newest film, “Doctor Jekyll” (2024). Next, we’ll watch a documentary about Skinwalkers with, “The Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2.” We’ve then got a short film, “Drama Queen,” followed by “Deliver Us” (2023). Lastly, we’ll look at one of the contenders for the worst horror film of all time, “Dracula vs Frankenstein” (1971). Is it as bad as everyone says? In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “The Gorilla” (1939) “Hercules in the Haunted World” (1961) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.comCheck out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Announcement! We’ve launched a new series of books under a new imprint: Hourlong Press now offers a new, free, nonfiction book every week. Check out https://hourlongpress.com/ and sign up for the weekly free book newsletter. The first half-dozen or so books will be about legendary horror icons: Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc., so I’ll be pointing those out in this newsletter, but to get future, non-horror–related books, you’ll need to be on that email list. For the next five days, you can get “Peter Cushing: The Biography” absolutely for free from Amazon. Next week, there’ll be another! Here. We. Go! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 270 We’ve got a big week for you this time: seven films and a comic! We’ll start off our final episode of “Ghost Month” with “The Others” from 2001. We’ll next do some reality TV with 2011’s “Grave Encounters.” We’ll squeeze into “The Canal” from 2014, go back to 1990 with “Ghost,” and wrap up our final film in the big ghostly franchise, “Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin.” In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: – “Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night” (2010) – “The Objective” (2008) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Announcement! We’ve launched a new series of books under a new imprint: Hourlong Press now offers a new, free, nonfiction book every week. Check out https://hourlongpress.com/ and sign up for the weekly free book newsletter. The first half-dozen or so books will be about legendary horror icons: Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc., so I’ll be pointing those out in this newsletter, but to get future, non-horror–related books, you’ll need to be on that email list. For the next five days, you can get “Vincent Price: The Biography” absolutely for free from Amazon. Next week, there’ll be another! Here. We. Go! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: – Email: mailto:[email protected] – Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys – Website: https://www.horrorguys.com – Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys – Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell – Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell – Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 269 We’ve got six and short again this week! We’ll start out with the excellent “The Devil’s Backbone” from 2001, “The Innkeepers” from 2011, and then “We Are Still Here” from 2015. Lastly we’ll continue looking at the “Paranormal Activity” series, with the fifth installment, “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones” from 2014. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: • “Paranormal Activity 4” (2012) • “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension” (2014) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Here. We. Go! Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: • Email: mailto:[email protected] • Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys • Website: https://www.horrorguys.com • Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys • Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell • Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell • Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 267 We’ve got four and short again this week! We’ll start out with the excellent “The Fog” from 1980, “Ghost Story” from 1981, and then a newer one, “Personal Shopper” from 2016. Lastly we’ll continue looking at the “Paranormal Activity” series, with the second installment. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “Paranormal Activity 3” (2011) “Stir of Echoes” (1999) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 266 I’m not ‘fraid o no ghosts! Well, not anymore, because the ghostbusters took them all away. Yes, we’re going to talk about all four of the Ghostbusters films. We’ve got the first two from 1984 and 1989, the female-reboot from 2016, and “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” from 2021. We’ll also fit in a fun new indie film, “Aware of the Wolf” from 2024. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “The House of Last Things” (2012) “Ghosts of Mars” (2001) Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorBulletin.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 266 We’ve got four and short again this week! We’ll start out with the recent “Trunk– Locked In” from just this week, and we’ll talk about the awesome “Wolf Creek” from 2005. After our short film, we’ll look into “Curse of the Undead” from way back in 1959. Then, we’ll hit off “Ghost Month” with our film for February 1st, “Hell House LLC II: The Abbadon Hotel,” from 2018. We’ll also look at a new book, “Flesh Communion and Other Stories,” which just launched this month as well. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “The Cave” (2005) “The Phantom Creeps” (1939) Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorBulletin.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Contact Info: Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 265 We’ve got four and short again this week! We’ll start out with the recent “Birth/Rebirth” from late last year. Then we’ll watch a couple of oldies with “Nightflyers” from 1987 and “Wishmaster” from 1997. Last, we’ll go back in time to the old West with “Bone Tomahawk” from 2016. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “Saw VI” (2006) “House at the End of the Street” (2012) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 264 We’ve got four and short again this week! We’ll start out with the recent “The Dorothy Project,” just released this week. Then we’ll watch “Ouija” from 2014, the sorta-reboot of “Friday the 13th” from 2009, and finally, “Troll” from 1986. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “The Terror of the Tongs” (1961) “The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu” (1980) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 263 We’ve got four and short again this week! We’ll start out with the recent “The Human Trap,” just released this week. Then, we’ll watch some oldies: “Lust of the Vampire” from 1957 and “Ghoulies” from 1985. We’ll then wrap up the Friday the 13th series with “Jason X,” the last installment before the reboot. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “Saw V” (2008) “Robocop” (1987) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 261 We’ve got four and short again this week! We’ll start out with the recent “Thanksgiving” film from Eli Roth, Follow-up with “The Tank,” “Saltburn,” and “Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor,” all from this year. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “The Dungeonmaster” (1984) “The Most Dangerous Game” (1932) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

As promised, we’ve got a special bonus episode/newsletter this week. Both Brian and Kevin made a list of their top ten and bottom three films of 2023 and ranked them. They also added a few honorable mentions. Listen to the discussion on episode 262. Here we go: Brian’s Best —————————— 10 Cocaine Bear Cocaine Bear (2023) 9 Renfield Renfield (2023) 8 Talk to Me Talk to Me (2023) 7 The Last Voyage of the Demeter The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) 6 Candy Land Candy Land (2023) 5 We Have A Ghost We Have a Ghost (2023) 4 Totally Killer Totally Killer (2023) 3 Suitable Flesh Suitable Flesh (2023) 2 Godzilla Minus One [No review YET] 1 When Evil Lurks When Evil Lurks (2023) Brian’s Worst —————————— Insidious: The Red Door Insidious: The Red Door (2023) The Outwaters The Outwaters (2023) The Nun II The Nun II (2023) Brian’s Honorable Mention —————————— Skinamarink (Worst) Horror Bulletin Leave the World Behind [No review] Saltburn Saltburn (2023) Kevin’s Best —————————— 10 Candy Land Candy Land (2023) 9 Renfield Renfield (2023) 8 Totally Killer Totally Killer (2023) 7 When Evil Lurks When Evil Lurks (2023) 6 The Goldsmith The Goldsmith (2023) 5 Perpetrator Perpetrator (2023) 4 Suitable Flesh Suitable Flesh (2023) 3 The Wheel of Heaven The Wheel of Heaven (2023) 2 No One Will Save You No One Will Save You (2023) 1 Infinity Pool Infinity Pool (2023) Kevin’s Worst —————————— Evil Dead Rise Evil Dead Rise (2023) Insidious: The Red Door Insidious: The Red Door (2023) Scream VI Scream VI (2023) Kevin’s Honorable Mentions —————————— Boy Makes Girl (2023) Boy Makes Girl (2023) Baskin (2015) Baskin (2015) Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Phase IV (1974) Phase IV (1974) Pontypool (2009) Pontypool (2009) Se7en (1995) Se7en (1995) The Menu (2022) The Menu (2022) And the whole “Subspecies” series of vampire movies. Overall, it’s been a great year! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 260 We’ve got a mishmash for ya this time around. We’ll start off with the desert-based, “The Bone Snatcher” from 2003, then watch a documentary about Satan in 2023’s “Satan Wants You.” We’ll bounce back to the old west in “The Burrowers,” from 2008, play a deadly game in 2009’s “Open Graves,” and lastly, go back to a time when all the scares, or at least the suspense, came from Hitchcock— 1954’s “Rear Window.” In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “Saw III” (2006) “Saw IV” (2007) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 259 We’re getting ready to close out the year by catching up on some 2023 releases. “Totally Killer,” a fun retro-time-travel thing, “Megalomaniac,” a not-nearly-as-funny serial killer story, “Perpetrator,” a witchcraft-meets-superhero tale, “Summoning Sylvia,” because it’s hilarious, and “The Breach,” a sci-fi Lovecraftian mess. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “Macabre” (1958) “Saw II” (2005) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 258 We’ve got a fairly random selection of horror films this week. We’ll start off with “Reflect” and “Wicca Book,” two new films from this year. Then, we’ll watch the cheery and uplifting “Euthanizer” from 2017, we’re all gonna die in 1984’s “Sole Survivor,” and finally, go way back to 1935 and watch the classic Bela Lugosi film, “The Mystery of the Mary Celeste.” In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “Demons” (1985) “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1963) Those two can be found at http://horrorbulletin.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Get ready for next week, where we’ll watch four more full-lengths and a fun short film! Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 257 There are lots of good (and bad) horror films this week. We’ll start out with the first “Saw” film from back in 2004. Next, we’ll watch the maybe-monster movie “Hunter Hunter” from 2020, then ”Gargoyles” from 1972. Finally, we’ll watch an outrageous cult film, “Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell” from 1990. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “Repulsion” (1965) “The Conspiracy” (2013) In the podcast this week: Saw (2004) Hunter Hunter (2020) Short Film: El Monstruo (2022) Repulsion (1965) Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Get ready for next week, where we’ll watch four more full-lengths and a fun short film! Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 256 There are lots of good (and bad) classic sequels this week. We’ll start out with the second Godzilla film, “Godzilla Raids Again” from 1955, then zip forward a few decades to continue with “Howling V: The Rebirth” and “Puppet Master 4: The Demon.” Next, we’ll get one of the very few good crossover horror battles, “Freddy vs. Jason” from 2003. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “Hostel: Part III” (2011) “Onibaba” (1964) In the podcast this week: Godzilla Raids Again (1955) Howling V: The Rebirth (1989) Short Film: Ancient Voice (2021) Puppet Master 4: The Demon (1993) Freed vs. Jason (2003) Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Get ready for next week, where we’ll watch four more full-lengths and a fun short film! Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 255 There’s lots of good (and bad) stuff this week. We’ll start out with the retro “Suitable Flesh” and the funny “Haunted Mansion”, both from 2023. After a classic short film, we’ll solve a mystery in “A Hunting in Venice” and then slog our way through “They Wait in the Dark,” also both from this year. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “Hostel: Part II” (2007), more torture mayhem at the murder factory “Red White & Blue” (2010), a gritty tale of revenge In the podcast this week: Suitable Flesh (2023) Haunted Mansion (2023) Short Film: The Black Hole (2008) A Haunting in Venice (2023) They Wait in the Dark (2023) Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Get ready for next week, where we’ll watch four more full-lengths and a fun short film! Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 254 We have a fun episode for you this week, with “Killer Ant Week.” We'll take a look at 1974’s “Phase IV,” and 1977’s “Empire of the Ants.” Then we’ll visit Lakewood Manor in “Ants!” and go for a trip with “Ants on a Plane.” In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: “Legion of Fire: Killer Ants” aka “Marabunta” (1998) “Triangle” (2009) In the podcast this week: Phase IV (1974) Ants (1977) Short Film: Bugbear (2023) Empire of the Ants (1977) Ants on a Plane (2007) Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Get ready for next week, where we’ll watch four more full-lengths and a fun short film! Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 253 We have a fun episode for you this week, with four full-length and short films. We'll take a look at “The Nun II” and “When Evil Lurks,” both newish releases from 2023. Then, we’ll watch the first “Hostel” film from 2005 and the very odd “Incident in a Ghostland” from 2018. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: "It's Alive" (1974) “Cold Prey” (2006) “The Bad Seed” (1956) There are three bonus films this time because we just plain forgot to include “It’s Alive” in last week’s newsletter. Whoops! In the podcast this week: The Nun II (2023) When Evil Lurks (2023) Short Film: The Last Halloween (2014) Hostel (2005) Incident in a Ghostland (2018) Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Get ready for next week, where we’ll watch four more full-lengths and a fun short film! Week 252/Newsletter Footer.md This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 252 We've got an extra-big episode for you this week, with SIX full-length films, all brand new from this year. We'll take a look at "Five Nights at Freddy's," "Exorcist: Believer," "The Hive," "Bloodthirst," "Beyond the Gates of Hell," and "The Wheel of Heaven." In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: "It's Alive" from 1974 In the podcast this week: Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) Bloodthirst (2023) The Hive (2023) Beyond the Gates of Hell (2023) The Wheel of Heaven (2023) Exorcist: Believer (2023) Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Get ready for next week, where we’ll watch four more full-lengths and a fun short film! Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe

Episode 251 It's "Killer Animal" week again. This time, we'll watch "Pet Sematary: Bloodlines" from 2023, followed by the original "Anaconda" from 1997, "Zombeavers" from 2014, and "Slotherhouse" from 2023. In addition, exclusive to our weekly email newsletter, we also reviewed: "Grizzly" from 1976 "Piranha" from 1978 In the podcast this week: Pet Sematary: Bloodline (2023) Anaconda (1997) Short Film: Leech (2023) Zombeavers (2014) Slotherhouse (2023) Check out my recent discussion with Bill Groves on his podcast, “Movie Nights and Matinees.” We talked about silent horror films. I’m on episode #19: Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2117200/13818252-episode-19-silent-shivers Podcast Home page: https://movienightsandmatinees.com Check out all our books with one easy link: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys And that’s our show. Thanks for joining us. Stop in during the week at our website, HorrorMovieGuys.com, for news and horror updates, to comment on this podcast, or to contact us. Get ready for next week, where we’ll watch four more full-lengths and a fun short film! Contact Info: Stay tuned for more regular and bonus reviews next week! Email: mailto:[email protected] Book Store: https://brianschell.com/collection/horrorguys Website: https://www.horrorguys.com Subscribe by email: http://horrorbulletin.substack.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrormovieguys Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@BrianSchell Threads: https://threads.net/brian_schell Twitter: http://twitter.com/HorrorMovieGuys This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.horrorweekly.com/subscribe