Time to read some books, watch some films and play some games with The Scariest Things in Spooky Time Episode 17!
It's the Midsommar event of the Scariest Things calendar! Time to hand out some awards, for the best of 2022. It's never too late to hand out some accolades! As we do every year, we invite all our fans to join in, but this year we are on a SUPER SHORT schedule. YOU HAVE THREE DAYS to VOTE, as we are making our announcements THIS SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2023.
The Scariest Things presents a trailer alert for THE SACRIFICE (EL SACRAFICO; Panama, 2022).
Your hosts are putting on their sunscreen and stepping outside for episode 167- Daytime Horror!
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Prepare to be entertained! Onyx the Fortuitous, the fan-favorite award winner at the Portland Horror Film Festival, pulls out all the stops to catch your attention, get you laughing, and keeps piling on. It is wall-to-wall zany, filled with scene-chewing characters, fantastic puppet practical effects, an easy hook of a premise, and the frantic energy of actor/director Andrew Bowser who plays Onyx the Fortuitous, your gonzo lead character in the movie.
Here is The Scariest Things' preview of South Korea's Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival’s (BIFAN) 2023 edition.
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Influencer is the newest, hottest, and most hyped term of the last several years. Meaning many things to many people, including those that self-identify as influencers. For the rest of us it’s met with derision, disgust, and discounted as a cynical millennial side-hustle. All these things, and more, are modern truisms that we've all unwittingly had to learn about.
The 8th Annual Portland Horror Film Festival is back in action, live at the Hollywood Theater in Portland Oregon OR... streaming live at your home! This years offerings conjure up one word: GONZO.
Come see Barabara Crampton and Jeffrey Combs reuinite for the wild Onyx The Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls. The much praised Black Mold will be the Opening Night feature, and there will be a total of 9 features and 60 Horror Shorts... at a festival noted for giving you the best horror shorts on the festival circuit. See you there!
The Scariest Things Podcast had the honor of sitting down with one of the most inventive voices in horror today, Bomani J. Story, to talk about his new film the Angry Black Girl and Her Monster. The film had its premiere at SXSW and the Scariest Things Podcast was there to take it all in!
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Hard to believe that a 25-page story could be turned into a feature length film, but it has! The Boogeyman, originally released in 1978, was a taut and rather dark affair that explored the most corrupt fears in parenting. Fast forward 45 years and the Boogeyman is back as a full-on fright-fest.
A Film Festival meets Slumber Party meets Glamping. That's the Cabin in the Woods Film Festival, a brand new experience being brought to you from horror Author Crystal Connor. Join the Scariest Things, and all of Crystal's special guests for a one-of-a-kind experience, made special for horror fans. Come join us!
Chattanooga Film Festival serves up another scintillating cinematic stew of genre films for its 2023 edition, running June 23rd through...
It's Spooky Time 15! Time for a mayoral election for Tropetown, where all your scary movie themes get discussed.
Also:
- Liz goes scratch off ticket crazy for Glenn Danzig's new film.
- Mike does a mid-year report on his looking foward-to movies (it's not pretty)
- Eric talks about his experiences at Crypticon in Seattle.
For a powerful examination of the other side of exorcisms, check out Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism coming out on May 30 on TUBI! You can get a primer for the film with The Scariest Things Interview with the Director and Cast of the film. Listen in, and go get to the TUBI!
Your hosts are diving into the depths of the streaming horror to find you the weirdest, watchable horror on TUBI. Tune into podcast episode 166: TUBI...or not TUBI!
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Part hucksterism. Part faux science. Part Unsolved Mysteries. All exploitation. This film is a sad commentary on many levels, but it’s also a fascinating peek into horror history that’s impossible to turn away from.
On Saturday, May 27th at 3:45 p.m., the black comedy CLAUDIA--- directed by Edward Westrop --- will have its world premiere at The Romford Film Festival.
Summer is nearly here, and it is now time to reflect back at how the horror genre has done so far, and look forward to some wonderfully stoopid action like the Meg2! Plus Liz is on the Fantasia Press Pool and Robert found some Lovecraft short stories for those of you literate enough to digest the prose.
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Russell Crowe is riding his Vespa all the way to the box office with The Pope's Exorcist
Help preserve The Thing for eternity, at the National Film Preservation Board, by nominating it for the registry! It'll be like encasing it in the Antarctic Ice! There are plenty of other great films to nominate, but let's see if we can convince the Board to give The Thing its due respect.
It's the Original Crew of Mike and Eric for Episode 13! We gave Robert and Liz the day off...
In this Episode, Mike announces a new Faces of Death movie (Really!) and the release of Count Crowley: Amateur Midnight Monster Hunter.
Eric talks about his new Horror Movie production fantasy draft experience: The Horror Movie Greenlight Pitch that will be coming out at Crypticon later this month.
Chattanooga Film Festival serves up another scintillating cinematic stew of genre films for its 2023 edition, running June 23rd through the 29th.
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Make no mistake, 2023’s Enys Men will fall into the annals of polemic filmmaking. Much like its recent brethren, Skinamarink, this film will have people talking, shouting, and even throwing a couple haymakers. Truly a "love it or hate it" outing at the movies.
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A couple whose marriage is decidedly not in a good place — and add a newborn baby to that mix — find their lives fraught with horror thanks to the titular piece of furniture in the Spanish feature The Coffee Table.
We have a full house of Scariest Things for Spooky Time 12! We shill for some of our favorite scary shops. We review a BLOODY action film that is getting lots of attention, and Mike continues his pursuit of Texas Chainsaw completion. Good Luck, Mike.
Oscilloscope has dropped the new MOON GARDEN poster and announced theatrical dates.
Do you know everything there is to know about the Boston Strangler? Really?!?! The Boston Strangler is an incredibly complicated tapestry of lies, mistruths, deception, greed, murder, and avarice. Using beautiful early 1960s Boston as its backdrop, this story is the pure embodiment of truth always being weirder than fiction.
To celebrate this year’s most recent take on the Boston Strangler, aptly titled the Boston Strangler, the Scariest Things went back and looked at each and every film adaptation of the Boston Strangler story and ranked ‘em all!
Put that cell phone down! It will be the end of you! Explore the horrors of trolling and the internet mob in Episode 165: Social Influence Horror. It's a lonely world, let the podcast keep you company.