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January 19, 2025Aliens, Amazon Prime Original, Anthology, Body Horror, Found Footage, New Release, Shudder Original, VOD ReleaseGrave Encounters 2, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Justin Long, Kate Siegel, Mike Flanagan, Phoenix Forgotten, The Atticus Institute, The Jaunt, The Landlady, V/H/Sshockdoctors

The seventh installment in the found footage anthology franchise is perhaps a half-step above the period-piece trilogy that preceded it, but as Matt says, it’s getting increasingly hard to care or sit through the undifferentiated stew we’re presented with time and again. The Flanagan-Siegel segment is an exception.

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Episode 192 – Nosferatu (2024)

January 5, 2025Amazon Prime Original, Body Horror, Folk Horror, Found Footage, Listener Request, Netflix Original, New Release, Period Piece, Remake, Shudder Original, Theatrical Release, Vampires, VOD ReleaseAaron Taylor-Johnson, Bill Skarsgard, Emma Corrin, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Ineson, Robert Eggers, Schalcken the Painter, Shadow of the Vampire, Simon McBurney, Willem Dafoeshockdoctors

It may not be Eggers’ best work, but that’s a very high bar to clear. This is a beautifully shot, handsomely mounted reimagining of the landmark silent film, with standout performances all around.

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Episode 191 – Stopmotion

December 15, 2024Amazon Prime Original, Body Horror, New Release, VOD ReleaseAdaptation (2002), Aisling Franciosi, Black Swan, Blood Tea and Red String, Coraline, James and the Giant Peach, Mad God, May (2002), Repulsion, Robert Morgan, Vincent (1982), Wendell & Wildshockdoctors

Robert Morgan is a gifted animator, but the stopmotion vignettes that give this film its narrative spine don’t tell enough of a story to keep us fully invested. That said, Aisling Franciosi is terrific.

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Episode 190 – Apartment 7A

December 1, 2024Amazon Prime Original, Body Horror, New Release, Period Piece, Prequel, VOD ReleaseDianne Wiest, Inferno (1980), Inside (2007), Julia Garner, Kevin McNally, Natalie Erika James, Relic (2020), Rosemary's Baby, Suspiria (1977), Suspiria (2018), The Company (2003), The First Omen, The Sentinelshockdoctors

This Rosemary’s Baby prequel has visual style and strong performances, but fails to engender the same paranoid dread as the original.

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Episode 138 – Nanny (2022)

January 8, 2023Amazon Prime Original, New ReleaseAmerican Gods, Anna Diop, Atlantics, Black Girl (1966), Dark Water (2002), Enemy (2013), Farewell Amor, Fugue Soup, Fugue State, His House, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Spector, Nikyatu Jusu, The Wind in the Rose Bushshockdoctors

Nanny is visually gorgeous and chock-full of great performances, but eventually descends into “fugue soup,” and the overwhelming water motif spoils the ending.

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Episode 115 – Master (2022)

May 8, 2022Amazon Prime Original, New ReleaseAmber Gray, Get Out, Institutional Racism, Mariama Diallo, Regina Hall, Sociological Horror, Sorry to Bother You, The Blackcoat's DaughterElla Hunt, Witches, Zoe Reneeshockdoctors

The lack of a clear primary protagonist, poor integration of witchcraft elements, and a compromised would-be bombshell in the third act combine to limit the impact of the film’s important message and suitably oppressive mood.

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Episode 66 – Nocturne

January 10, 2021Amazon Prime Original, New ReleaseAmadeus, Black Swan, Madison Iseman, Raw, Sydney Sweeney, The Perfection, Zu Quirkeshockdoctors

One of the four initial entries in the “Welcome to the Blumhouse” film series, Nocturne doesn’t quite measure up to other tales of artistic obsession.

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