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CHILD'S PLAY (1988) | Evil Doll Month | #LastCentury NEW MONTH, NEW NIGHTMARE!  🪆🔪 November is officially  EVIL DOLL MONTH  at Ghost Ninja Raccoon, and we're kicking things off with the foul-mouthed, knife-wielding little bastard who helped make us all suspicious of our childhood toys — CHUCKY! For our #LastCentury pick, we're revisiting 1988's  Child's Play , where a struggl...

We're closing out Dealer's Choice Month by checking into a mental institution where the doctors are horny for hell, the patients are expendable, and the treatment plan involves a BLOODY CHAIN MATTRESS OF LIFE AND DEATH! That's right, we're going straight to hell with  Hellbound: Hellraiser II! Our Final Girl is back, Evil Stepmom is still up to no damn good, and Dr. Dumb Ass is det...

Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976) | Black Week Ghost Ninja Raccoon – Dealer’s Choice Month Dealer’s Choice Month continues, and for Black Week we're heading back to 1976 for some Blaxploitation horror with  Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde! Starring Bernie Casey, we've got a brilliant Black doctor determined to cure liver disease, save lives, and achieve a little SCIENCE FAME! Unfortunately, somebody skipped...

Dealer’s Choice rolls on as we head to  BLOOD FEST , where the horror fans came for fake blood, jump scares and overpriced festival food…and instead got a very aggressive lesson in immersive entertainment. Our FINAL BOY has spent years carrying some serious horror-related trauma, but when Blood Fest goes from spooky good time to  RUN FOR YOUR ACTUAL LIFE , there’s no more hiding behind movie trivi...

October, it’s  Dealer’s Choice , and for our Last Century pick we’re going straight into the questionable science department with  FROM BEYOND (1986) ! Because apparently reg It’s ular orgasms weren’t enough. This week, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and Ken Foree join us for a scientific experiment involving a machine called  The Resonator , designed to stimulate the pineal gland and allow human...

Dead End Jobs Month  is clocking out with  Sequel Week  and  See No Evil 2  — a movie that teaches us one very important lesson: If your shift ends on your birthday…GO THE FUCK HOME.  🎂⏰ Birthday Girl is TEN MINUTES away from freedom when a pile of fresh bodies rolls into the morgue and she decides to stay and help. Girl. No. Your friends are waiting. Drinks are waiting. Your birthday is waiting...

Sometimes the dead-end job is retail. Sometimes it’s corporate America. And sometimes…you’re an escaped lunatic who decides to reopen the family medical practice with zero credentials, questionable equipment, and a murder bag full of instruments. I needed a week off from living, so for Dead End Jobs Month we’re clocking back into one of my favorite GNR episodes: 1992’s Dr. Giggles — because if pre...

Sometimes you gotta be a Risky Bitch! Dead End Jobs Month rolls into  #BlackWeek , and this week we’re clocking in at  CULTURE , where it’s 1989 Los Angeles, the music is hot, the ambition is hotter, and apparently success comes with one very specific dress code: Girl…what are we doing with that hair? In  Bad Hair (2020) , our girl QUEEN is talented, broke, freshly heartbroken and trying to surviv...

CLOCK IN. TRY NOT TO DIE. 🧛🏾‍♂️📊 September’s  Dead End Jobs Month  continues with our  #ThisCenturyWeek  pick, 2015’s  Bloodsucking Bastards  — a movie that asks the important question:  What if corporate’s solution to low productivity was simply…vampires? Fran Kranz officially returns to GNR after surviving  The Cabin in the Woods  as our beloved  Astute Stoner — GNR Episode 30  — and apparent...

September is here, Labor Day is upon us, and Ghost Ninja Raccoon is celebrating the workforce the only way we know how: WELCOME TO DEAD END JOBS MONTH.Clock in. Try not to die. We’re kicking things off with our #LastCentury pick, 1986’s CHOPPING MALL , where corporate decides the local mall needs some fancy new robot security guards and — shockingly — it’s the hourly employees who end up dealing w...

Family Horror Month is coming to a close, and for #SequelWeek we are heading back to the Bates Motel for 1983’s Psycho II — because apparently 22 years of psychiatric care is enough to send Norman Bates back home to the exact house where all his problems started. Seems reasonable. Norman has been declared sane, released back into society and is genuinely trying to get his life together. He gets jo...

As we roll into  Black Week for Family Horror Month , we finally make it to the movie that inspired the whole damn theme:  Stepfather ! This Tubi Original starring  thee Taye Diggs  alongside R&B diva  Tamar Braxton  came ready to serve camp, chaos, and enough Lifetime Movie energy to power an entire Sunday afternoon marathon. More reimagining than straight-up remake,  Stepfather  feels like t...

Family Horror Month forges ahead with a quick family-fun stop for our This Century Pick ! We’re celebrating a birthday, opening presents, having some cake, and hopefully surviving the night at Willy’s Wonderland . 🎂🤖🔪 This week, we join Nicolas Cage for what should be a simple overnight cleaning gig after an extremely convenient unforeseen car situation leaves him working off his repair bill at...

For August, we’re diving headfirst into a brand new theme, and apparently choosing emotional violence because welcome to Family Horror Month!  That’s right: toxic relationships, questionable parenting, inherited trauma and enough deeply uncomfortable family business to completely destroy Thanksgiving dinner. For Last Century Week , we’re traveling back to 1974 for It’s Alive , a film that asks: Wh...

Since we started Summer Horror Month at camp, naturally we’re going to finish it at camp. And while you may be wondering if Jason Voorhees is about to pop out from behind a tree—don’t worry. Today’s killer is racking up Voorhees-level numbers using camp supplies, killer instincts and unlimited motivation provided by badly behaved teenagers. This week, we’re talking  Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Camp...

Black as Night (2021) New Orleans has a vampire problem—and apparently, these bloodsucking bastards have been recruiting from the city’s most vulnerable communities. After a nighttime attack and a devastating loss, a shy teenager decides she has had enough. Armed with her ride-or-die bestie, a pro-Black crush, information from Lady Google, Mom’s silver jewelry and enough garlic Parmesan dust to sh...

🦈 Piranha 3D (2010) | Summer Horror Month As we party our way into our #ThisCenturyWeek pick for Summer Horror Month, we skipped the peaceful family vacation and headed straight into the most chaotic Spring Break imaginable. After an underwater earthquake cracks open a prehistoric feeding ground, thousands of flesh-hungry piranha crash the biggest party of the year… and they are hungry . This wee...

For #LastCenturyWeek of Summer Horror Month , we’re heading back to camp… because apparently sending horny teenagers into the woods after a homicidal groundskeeper sounds like a solid business model. Years after a prank leaves Camp Blackfoot’s caretaker, Cropsey, burned beyond recognition, a new crop of campers learns that maybe campfire legends aren’t always just stories. Armed with an absolutely...

For #BonusWeek, we had to go back to one of the most iconic slashers ever made. Before there were ghostface calls, killer dolls, or haunted Zoom meetings… there was one crispy child murderer who said, “Nah, I’mma catch you in your sleep.” When a group of teens all start having the same terrifying nightmare, they realize staying awake might be the only thing keeping them alive. Unfortunately, coffe...

For Juneteenth Week we’re revisiting one of the best horror-action sequels ever made: Blade II! What happens when Blade is forced to team up with the very vampires he’s spent his life hunting? Well, apparently the answer is: a whole lot of ass kicking, several questionable alliances, and an underground army of mutant blood junkies that have everybody rethinking their priorities. When a new breed o...

For #BlackWeek of All 5’s Month, we headed to a cabin in the woods with The Blackening (2023) and honestly? This might be one of the funniest horror movies we’ve covered. A Juneteenth reunion weekend goes completely off the rails when a group of friends discovers a racist board game that wants to test their Blackness… and kill them if they fail. What starts as trivia night from hell quickly turns...

For #ThisCenturyWeek of All 5’s Month, we head to a remote family vacation mansion where a rich family reunion goes spectacularly wrong in 2011’s You’re Next. Mom and Dad just wanted to celebrate their anniversary. Instead, they got sibling rivalry, inheritance schemes, three animal-masked killers, and enough family dysfunction to keep a therapist employed for decades. We get: • One of the most ca...

For #LastCenturyWeek we headed to the most famous motel in horror history and discovered that sometimes the real danger isn’t stealing $40,000… it’s stopping for sandwiches with a weird guy who talks to his mother through the walls. After impulsively stealing a small fortune from her employer, one Sexy Secretary hits the road hoping to start a new life with her broke boyfriend. Instead, a rainstor...

For Sequel Week of Vacation Horror Month, we could’ve hit the beach with Michael Caine in Jaws: The Revenge… but instead we chose chaos 😌 This week we’re ruining everybody’s vacation plans with 3 Headed Shark Attack — a movie where scientists studying ocean pollution realize WAY too late that all this trash in the water is creating mutated sea monsters that are mad, hungry, and absolutely sick of...

For #blackweek of Vacation Horror Month, we head to Lake Arrowhead for a birthday getaway full of beautiful people, HORRIBLE decision making, and a whole lotta unlocked doors as we dive into 2007’s Somebody Help Me! What starts as a cozy cabin weekend birthday party quickly spirals into chaos after couples start disappearing into the woods one by one. As bodies start piling up and random people ke...