We've got a full house, and are fully loaded with reviews, previews, and news of festivals, books, and upcoming genre films! Check out Episode 25!
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Avoid the life, keep your life! This Halloween is going to be Totally Killer!
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You know the story. You’ve got the gist of the Catholic Church’s involvement in exorcisms. Little kids probably freak you out. You either terrified of demonic possession or you’re not. Point is, you probably have a well-defined idea of what the Exorcist: Believer is going offer.
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The Sacrifice Game and There's Something in the Barn bring the holiday spirit to Fantastic Fest!
Cosmic fishiness, served up multiple ways, and one of the freakiest museum anywhere await in the latest Spooky Time. Liz and Eric literally travel the Earth (and the internet) to share the best in spooky in Spooky Time 24.
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Joseph reviews the mind-boggling Japanese horror film VISITORS: COMPLETE EDITION, which screened at Fantastic Fest.
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Eileen is a moody noir thriller of the highest caliber that delves into the deepest, darkest parts of the human psyche.
Hole, Incomplete, and La Vedova Nera reviews from the 2023 SLASH Filmfestival
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If a film title contains the word “haunting” does that automatically qualify it as a horror film? Horror has a deep and weird history with “The Haunting of…” films. Haunting in Connecticut, The Enfield Haunting, Haunting of Bly Manor, Haunting of Hill House, the Haunting of Julia, and even the Haunting of Sharon Tate. So many hauntings.
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The age old question of "who let the dogs out" finally gets an answer!
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What’s the scariest thing you can include in a horror film? Why the unknown and the unfamiliar, of course. What’s more unknown and unfamiliar than the darkest musical art form, Black Metal? Well, really nothing. That is as scary as music gets.
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The Last Video Store reminds you to be kind, rewind...if you escape, that is.
Do you have the self control and common sense to survive a horror movie event? Georgina Black is here to present a tactical means to beat all those horror tropes that will allow you to be a Final Girl (Guy). Trust me, there are some tips and tricks that would have saved many a horror movie character if they had her knowledge. Find out in this TST Podcast Extra, live from the Cabin in the Woods Film Festival!
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A quiet and ethereal film about and equally quiet and ethereal creature. The Wendigo may be the most ill-defined creature in all of horror. Not just because the Wendigo pulls directly from many different tales of Native American lore, but the fact that the perfect Wendigo film has yet to be made. Antlers from 2021 is close, but that’s a whole other story.
Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness reviews:
WORKING CLASS GOES TO HELL (2023)
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Riddle of Fire (2023)
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It's Horror, eh? Get ready to experience a dose of Great White North horror in The Scariest Things Epsisode 172: Canadian Horror: AKA The David Cronenberg Invitational. Actually, Canadian Horror is much deeper than that auteur king of body horror, but you know we have to start there. The Scariest Things have picked out some deep cut choices from our Canuck neighbors!
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Cosmic Horror served two ways in the same book. John Langan's Bram Stoker Award winning novel The Fisherman serves a unique nested story structure to deliver the tale of how two widowed men deal with grief and loss by fishing, but are being drawn into literally hellish decisions.
As we enter into fall, Spooky Time takes some time to preview some upcoming big titles, as well as a promising franchise fan film, and we also look back at the best horror short films from the first half of 2023.
We’re always intrigued by folk horror cinema here at The Scariest Things, and the highly anticipated Falling Stars is one...
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Bad Things actually has some really good things going for it. Not all these things are bad. Bad Things also has one of the coolest and most well preserved 1970/80s remote travel lodge hotels. The location is perfectly roiled in soiled dreams, loneliness, and unmet expectations. The hotel is just drenched in melancholy. But sadly, that’s Bad Things biggest problem — not the melancholy, but the fact that they wasted this incredible set.
Imagine a time when the visions of where technology could take us collided with the dreadful mysteries of what might be beyond. The H.P. Lovecraft theme for 2023 is The Arkham World's Fair, and the kickstarter campaign has been launched, and supporters will get access to some fabulous Arkham Fair themed rewards. Another fantastic lineup of films await, so come prepared with the proper SWAG!
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Joseph reviews Takeshi Kushida's FrightFest feature MY MOTHER'S EYES, "which blends psychological and physical horror in a remarkable studied but immediate manner. "
It's been 16 long years, but the wait is over! Eli Roth teased us with some exceptional grindhouse glee in 2007 when he cobbled together a faux trailer for Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse.
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We know them. We love them. They’re little rapscallions, religious zealots, and outcasts. But that’s why we love them! That said, the question is not whether we love them, but rather do we need to go back to the exact same Children of the Corn story 11 times. Really, it’s been 11 times and we’re not even counting the TV series.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Popcorn Frights! There's MORE! The popular festival is hosting its annual Wicked Weekend in Fort Lauderdale, featuring eight film events in five days. Seven highly anticipated preview screenings are going to be shown plus a 25th Anniversary screening of Halloween H20. It's a live in-theater event only, so plan your trip to Florida now!
A Night of Horror International Film Festival presents its 2023 edition in Sydney, Australia from September 29th to October 1st.
Godzilla Minus One is an impressive looking period piece reboot of the world's favorite atomic monster. Set in a crippled immediate post war Japan, Godzilla adds insult to injury, kicking the island nation while it's down. See the trailer here!