Episode 209 – The Strangers: Chapter 2

September 30, 2025New Release, Remake, Sequel, Slasher, Theatrical ReleaseBryan Bertino, Carnival of Souls, Die Hard 2, Entrance, Gabriel Basso, Halloween II, High Tension, House of the Devil, Madelaine Petsch, Razorback, Renny Harlin, Requel, The Texas Chain Saw Massacreshockdoctors

The saggy midsection of a trilogy that should only have been one movie – or none at all – this latest installment is shapeless, bottom-of-the-barrel stuff. Just woeful.

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Episode 208 – The Conjuring: Last Rites

September 21, 2025Cursed Object Movie, Exorcism, Haunted House, New Release, Period Piece, Possession, Sequel, The Conjuring Universe, Theatrical ReleaseBlack Ichor, Insidious, James Wan, Knights of the Round Table (1953), Michael Chaves, Noroi: The Curse, Patrick Wilson, Steve Coulter, The Crooked Man, The Exorcist III, The Nun, Vera Farmigashockdoctors

Not as much of a trainwreck as The Devil Made Me Do It, the final(?) installment in The Conjuring series still suffers from the same storytelling pitfalls and overall churchiness as the rest. The first remains really the only one worth watching.

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Episode 207 – The Ritual (2025)

August 24, 2025Exorcism, New Release, Period Piece, Theatrical ReleaseAl Pacino, Ashley Greene, Cuckoo (2024), Dan Stevens, David Midell, Patricia Heaton, Patrick Fabian, Requiem (2006), The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, The Last Exorcism, The Pope’s Exorcistshockdoctors

If you were trying to create the world’s most generic, lifeless, bog standard exorcism film, you’d be hard pressed to do better than The Ritual. Al Pacino and Dan Stevens deserved better.

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Episode 206 – Weapons

August 17, 2025Horror Comedy, New Release, Theatrical ReleaseAlden Ehrenreich, Amy Madigan, Austin Abrams, Barbarian, Benedict Wong, Jacob's Ladder, Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Justin Long, Non-Linear, The Witches (1990), Us (2019), Witches, You Won’t Be Alone, Zach Creggershockdoctors

While Zach Cregger shows a deft hand at nurturing intrigue and creeping dread, he is once again hamstrung by his penchant for hard left turns into comedy. The climax is fun, but left us wanting.

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Episode 205 – I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

August 10, 2025New Release, Remake, Sequel, Slasher, Theatrical ReleaseChase Sui Wonders, Freddie Prinze Jr., Ghost Story (1981), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Madelyn Cline, Reboot, Requel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sarah Pidgeon, Scream V, Scream VI, The Burning (1981)shockdoctors

This latest lifeless rehash of a 90s slasher is a little less self-serious than Screams V and VI, but probably also dumber.

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Episode 204 – M3GAN 2.0

July 20, 2025Horror Comedy, New Release, SequelAllison Williams, Blumhouse, Gerard Johnstone, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Sci-Fi Horror, Shaun of the Dead, Terminator 2, Terminator 3shockdoctors

The Shock Doctors were already the farthest thing from M3GAN stans, but this needlessly convoluted sequel seals the deal. It’s given up on horror, and it’s an action comedy with no action and bad jokes.

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Episode 203 – 28 Years Later

July 9, 2025New Release, Sequel, Theatrical Release, Zombies28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alex Garland, Danny Boyle, Day of the Dead, Jodie Comer, Land of the Dead, Ralph Fiennes, Shallow Graveshockdoctors

Despite being kind of an odd mash-up of two movies in one, neither of which strongly resembles the series’ standout first entry, 28 Years Later is another win for Danny Boyle and Alex Garland.

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Episode 202 – Bring Her Back

June 22, 2025Body Horror, Found Footage, New Release, Possession, Theatrical ReleaseA24 Horror, Ari Aster, Danny Philippou, Hereditary, Michael Philippou, Pet Sematary (1989), Sally Hawkins, Talk To Me, The Mummy (1999)shockdoctors

The sophomore feature from the Philippou Brothers underwhelmed us about as much as their debut, Talk to Me. What’s worse is that the flashes of originality in that film are almost entirely absent here, in a borrowed hodgepodge indebted most obviously to Hereditary.

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Episode 201 – Clown in a Cornfield

June 15, 2025Horror Comedy, New Release, Shudder Original, Slasher, Theatrical ReleaseDark Night of the Scarecrow, Eli Craig, Hot Fuzz, Katie Douglas, Kevin Durand, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Sleepy Hollow, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Will Sassoshockdoctors

Eli Craig’s latest feature is another disappointment from the filmmaker behind Tucker and Dale vs. Evil – just bland YA claptrap with scattershot humor that mostly doesn’t land.

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Episode 200 – Matt and Jim’s Best and Worst

June 1, 2025Aliens, Anthology, Body Horror, Creature Feature, Creepypasta, Crime Procedural, Cursed Object Movie, Exorcism, Folk Horror, Foreign Film, Found Footage, Halloween, Haunted House, Horror Comedy, Period Piece, Possession, Prequel, Remake, Sequel, Serial Killer, Slasher, Slender Man, The Conjuring Universe, Universal Monsters, Vampires, Video Game Adaptation, Zombiesshockdoctors

After 200 podcasts, we’ve watched some great movies and a whole lot of crap. Give a listen as we pick out our favorite and least favorite subjects of past episodes.

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