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By day, Eric is a mild-mannered Architect, bringing great buildings to the good boys and girls of his hometown of Portland, Oregon. By night, he is a disreputable podcaster looking to promote the best and worst of horror movies!

The Scariest Things Podcast Episode CVII: The Hot Take “Potluck” Challenge

You might be wondering "What in the world is a potluck challenge?" Well, The Scariest Things hosts wanted to start sharing and sampling movies that we know each other has not watched yet. So this is a "Try it, you'll like it!" moment at TST. And, like most potlucks you've got to try everything. Is that a finger in that jello salad? PASS!
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Trailer Alert! Freaky (2020)

Universal / Blumhouse is going back to a reliable well to theatrically release a pop-horror film: Freaky. The often re-booted classic kids comedy Freaky Friday is being genre-bent into becoming a horror film, from the team that did it once before with Happy Death Day.
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Eric’s Review: The Barge People (2018)

★★ out of ★★★★★ A lovely vacation in the canals in the English countryside gets turned upside-down when the vacationers are attacked by a band of toxic mutant cannibals. This wanted to be The Hills Have Eyes: UK. Unfortunately, it plays out a bit flaccid around the edges, rather like the mutants it showcases.
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The Scariest Things Podcast Episode CVI: Abduction Horror!

Imagine that one day, you're just standing around, minding your own business and then ZOOP! You've been captured! Whisked away to a strange dungeon, and then tortured, and experimented on and... well it's not pretty, and for many, this a fate worse than death. The Scariest Things Crew explores this trope and has managed to drum up some real sleepers that might be new to you!
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Horror News: Blumhouse is Planning a Thing Remake! Should they?

According to Adam B. Vary at Variety, John Carpenter has been in discussions with Blumhouse to potentially reboot his masterwork, and my personal favorite movie of all time, The Thing. While this is pretty exciting news, the obvious question is, of course, is this a good idea? Reboots are risky propositions, and more than a few notable horror films have dropped the ball doing so.
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The Scariest Things Podcast Episode CV: Cosmic Horror

Inexplicable, unfathomable, abominable, and utterly incomprehensible: Cosmic Horror is designed to blow your mind. The concepts are vast and often come with a metric ton of tentacles. Behold and beware, it's Episode 105! The Stars are Right and your fates have been sealed. You MUST listen to this podcast!
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Eric’s TV Review: Lovecraft Country Season 1(2020)

★★★★★ out of ★★★★★ HBO's big budget Jordan Peele produced series is off to a ripping start. It is both timeless and timely, and the HBO pedigree shines through. Great acting, great characters, stunning visuals, a promising plot, and some very intense and gory moments mark the first entry to the show.
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Contracted (2013) Review

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

🩸🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

A brutal and difficult to watch examination of a young woman laid low by a necrotic wasting case of VD. Emotionally rough and viscerally horrifying, this is not one for the weak of heart or stomach.

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The Scariest Things Podcast Episode CIV: Horror Collaborations

We all know that horror movies are not the work of a single individual. That the production is a team effort. In many cases, these collaborative partnerships become long-lasting and reflect upon the skills and efforts of two (or a few) closely collaborating individuals that become forever linked together, and The Scariest Things takes a look at some of our favorites.
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Eric’s Review: Under the Skin (2013)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ A look back at one of the least-sexy sexy movies ever made. Under the Skin is the rough equivalent cold wet blanket of a movie that will absorb your soul and use it as a cleaning rag. Scarlett Johansson takes huge risks at the height of her acting career, and it really pays off.
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The Scariest Things Podcast Episode CIII: Summer Horror!

Ah, summertime! School is out, and bored kids (and adults) manage to find ways to get themselves hunted in the woods. Summer horror movies reflect the frisky and fun side of the genre. Time to break out those campfire tales and conspiracy theories. And, spend far too much idle time at a lonely cabin in the woods. Good thing there's cell phone coverage out here right? No? Well, good luck!
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Eric’s CFF Review: Attack of the Demons (2020)

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Origami Horror! Attack of the Demons is a unique artisan-crafted animated cut-paper gore flick that worships at the altar of Dario Argento and Sam Raimi and largely succeeds in its efforts.
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The Scariest Things Podcast Episode CII: GORE!

We're usually a fairly PG-13 site. This will be an exception. We're bringing the blood! Be warned if you click on this post, as we explore the gore in horror. This page will be very NSFW and pretty disturbing. But that's what you like about horror, right?
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Eric’s Review: Yummy (2019)

★★★ out of ★★★★★ Do you want to see a Euro-trashy zombie film in a Balkan backwater black market plastic surgery center? This film is proof positive that not all European horror films are intense and artistic sociological statements. Sometimes you just want to let it rip. Yummy cuts it loose (for better and worse).
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After Midnight (2019) Review

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

Intensity 🩸🩸 for violence and slow-burning self-destruction

After Midnight is a languid, beer-soaked monster metaphor for a romantic relationship in freefall. It's a well-executed break-up movie, with terrific indie horror bona-fides, but it is also certainly not for your average horror movie fan.

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Horror News: Horror Host Live (Dead) Stream Panel!

Our guest host for Episode 101, David Dastmalchian is having a special streaming event tomorrow night! Or... tonight, depending on when you see this. If you are a fan of late-night horror hosts, you'll want to catch this panel and a watch party for the Karloff Classic The Old Dark House.
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The Scariest Things Podcast Episode CI: Drug-Induced Horror! (With David Dastmalchian)

David Dastmalchian is one of Hollywood's good guys, and he is on the cusp of something very big, playing Polka Dot Man in the deliriously entertaining (with gore worthy of a horror movie) DC Comics movie The Suicide Squad. If you want to get to know our friend a little better, take a listen to our Episode 101, Drug-Induced Horror, where David shares some wonderfully personal tales of recovery and redemption. Congratulations David, on the big hit film!
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A Celebration of Slashers Part 2: Slasher Movie Bracket Fight!

What's the best slasher film of all time? What better way to find out by doing a bracket fight! 64 of the most notable horror films face off in a tournament-style bracket. The all-time classics you know face off against the underground fringe exploitation fare... who comes out on top? You pick!
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Eric’s PHFF Review: Witness Infection (2020)

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ When worlds collide! Witness Infection is a goofy and fun mashup of mob movie and zombie movie tropes. Family, duty, and mob justice become secondary for nice-guy Carlo when tainted Italian sausages ignite a zombie pandemic. Ooooo, maybe you shouldn't have had seconds!
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Eric’s PHFF Review: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (2020)

★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ "Let me DIE! Let me Die!" The Brain that Wouldn't Die is a loving note for note recreation of one of the great B movies of the 1960s. Cheeky and continually winking at the audience, the film embraces the silly camp classic and giving it a fresh coat of 4K technicolor paint.
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A Slasher Film Celebration Part 1 of 2: Ranking 120 Slasher Films into Tiers (for Fears)

We are celebrating the influence of the slasher movie to the horror genre by ranking them in tiers! The sheer volume of knife-wielding psycho movies is almost overwhelming, but The Scariest Things has taken the time to accumulate as many mad slasher films as we could and compared them to each other. The cool thing? If you disagree, you can shuffle the deck and make your own choices!
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The Scariest Things Podcast: Episode XCIX: Technological Horror

Do you ever feel like you are being monitored? That your communication device of choice is actively working against you? That the soulless automatons of industry are going to rise up and crush you? Well, we do! Join the Scariest Things as we talk about technology and horror!
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The Portland Horror Film Festival Goes Streaming!

It's Alive! It's ALIVE! IT'S ALIIIIIIVEEE!! The Portland Horror Film Festival is going virtual this year, which means more access to more people. Come join the festivities June 17-21st. A wealth of horror shorts and independent features await!
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Eric’s Chattanooga Film Festival Review: Jumbo (2020)

★★★★★ out of ★★★★★ A young woman gets a job at an amusement park, and falls romantically in love with an amusement park ride, in this bizarre and brilliant dark fantasy. Not so much a horror movie, but it is an absolutely brilliant coming of age piece about madness and unconventional affection.
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Eric’s Chattanooga Film Festival Review: The Yellow Night (2019)

★★ out of ★★★★★ The Yellow Night indicated it might be a psychedelic cosmic horror show. Nope! It is a teen-angst movie full of banal and unconvincing dialogue among a group of Brazilian high school grads. And, there might be a cosmic gate in the creepy shed at the beach house they are staying in, but the characters pay it no mind, and neither does the plot.
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The Wave (2019) Review: Chattanooga Film Festival 2020

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ The Wave is a dark sci-fi comedy that explores the collision of hallucinogens, a mid-life crisis, time travel, legal ethics, the afterlife, and lots of really bad decisions. Justin Long stars in this tale of a man who loses everything but finds his own personal truth in the end. Ooooo! Trippy!
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