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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 163 – Lord of Misrule

January 7, 2024Folk Horror, New Release, VOD ReleaseDark Secret of Harvest Home, Ralph Ineson, The Lair of the White Worm, The Summer People, The Third Day, The Wicker Man (1973), True Detective, Tuppence Middleton, William Brent Bellshockdoctors

William Brent Bell’s latest is a cut above most of his other work, which is to say it’s a run-of-the-mill folk horror film with a lousy ending.

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Episode 144 – Sick (2023)

March 19, 2023Horror Comedy, New Release, Slasher, VOD ReleaseBarbarian, Bethlehem Million, Entrance, Gideon Adlon, Hush (2016), I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, In the Bedroom, Jane Adams, John Hyams, Kevin Williamson, The Conversation, The Rental, The Son (2002)shockdoctors

For a sub-80-minute film, Sick feels weirdly bloated, and yet at the same time, suffers from a disappointing lack of ambition.

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Episode 137 – Something in the Dirt

January 1, 2023Found Footage, New Release, VOD ReleaseAaron Moorhead, Dead Ringers, Justin Benson, Pishockdoctors

While intriguing and loaded with personality, Something in the Dirt would have benefited from a little more structure and stronger distinctions between John and Levi’s dialogue.

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Episode 125 – They/Them

September 4, 2022New Release, Slasher, VOD ReleaseJohn Logan, Kevin Bacon, Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Safe (1995), Sleepaway Campshockdoctors

They/Them is a poorly scripted, entirely muddled mess, a shallow coming-of-age trauma-bonding teen drama with a vestigial slasher film appendage.

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Episode 104 – Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin

November 28, 2021Found Footage, New Release, Possession, Sequel, VOD ReleaseGoat Hole, Left 4 Dead, Paranormal Activity, The Blair Witch Project, The Dirties, The Last Broadcast, The Visit, The White Ribbon, V/H/S, V/H/S 2, William Eubankshockdoctors

This sequel mostly dispenses with the series’ customary bag of tricks and replaces them with… well, nothing really.

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Episode 94 – The Night

August 15, 2021Foreign Film, Haunted House, VOD Release1408, Barton Fink, Bathtub Wife, Haunted Hotel, The Dark and the Wicked, The Shining, The Vigil, You Should Have Leftshockdoctors

A better-than-average entry in the haunted hotel genre, The Night is boosted by an understated and compelling ending.

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