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An easily frightened hospice nurse arrives at the house of a sick author and while caring for her, she discovers one of her stories may reveal secrets about the house. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House is Osgood Perkins' second movie and while we enjoyed Longlegs and the style of storytelling Perkins used in that movie, this one didn't land for us. This film, while clearly ar...

35 years after the "Sweet Sixteen Killer" murders, the infamous killer returns and takes another victim. Incidentally, a young girl travels back in time to 1987 and attempts to stop the initial killings. Totally Killer is a fun, light-hearted horror film to close out Spooky Season. There's nothing worse than a horror comedy that isn't funny. Good thing that's not the case...

After partying on Halloween, a group of friends enter a haunted house that turns their deepest fears into reality. Haunt is our next review for Spooky Season and it sure is a fun watch. There's nothing like watching movies about extreme haunted houses in October. There's a bit here for everyone as there are slasher elements, some psychological horror, as well as a mystery. While this mov...

After 10 years, Victor Crowley starts killing again in the Honey Island Swamp. Victor Crowley  is the fourth installment of the  Hatchet  movies and if nothing else, this slasher series continues to have crazy kills in the bayou. What we've come to love from these movies is that they maintain the same premise in all movies which is a group heading into the Honey Island Swamp, only to be met a...

Michael and a mysterious cult come to Haddonfield to locate Jamie's newborn child for the evil and dastardly deeds.  Spooky Season is back and like usual, we are discussing Michael Myers and now we're reviewing Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. This is the sixth installment in the Halloween franchise and by far the most convoluted. This film stars Paul Rudd in an underwhelming perfo...

Contestants of a reality show titled "The Apocalypse" start filming and find their shooting location is occupied by a family of inbred cannibals who want nothing more than to kill and eat them. Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is the unlikely finale of Sequel September 2025, but it's the follow-up to one of our favorite horror movies growing up and is a fun movie with a ton of crazy kills. Th...

Old hidden secrets come to haunt teens in Woodsboro as a Ghostface killer resurfaces and anyone related to individuals from previous murders become targets. Scream  thematically maintains the clever parody of previous slasher movies and tropes, but weaves in new horror insights into a fresh film that still maintains the integrity of the franchise. The Scream movie series continues to have the same...

Sharon's adoptive father goes missing and she attempts to find him in the alternate reality holding the answers to her nightmares that have long haunted her. Silent Hill: Revelation is the sequel to  Silent Hill  and is based off the video game  Silent Hill 3.  Being one of Kit Harrington's biggest roles since his rise to stardom in  Game of Thrones , this film brought together both surv...

Local authorities delve into a cave system, bringing along a caver who recently made her way out with minimal memory of what happened to her and her friends and encounter unhospitable dwellers. The Descent: Part 2 is the follow-up effort to the tense, and at times, terrifying movie, The Descent. Where the original was successful in not only creating great characters with motives, a claustrophobic...

Freddy Krueger haunts the dreams of a teen boy and attempts to possess him to continue his murderous ways in reality. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge  is the sequel to one of the most popular slasher movies of its time,  A Nightmare on Elm Street,  and brings the deceased child killer, Freddy Krueger, back into focus. While Freddy is in control, his method of killing is a bit di...

A late night tv show host has a Halloween special to maintain his former glory, while evil has other plans. Late Night with the Devil is a unique horror movie that highlights what one man is willing to give up for fame. A lot of movies have portrayed the concept of selling one's soul to the devil, but never with such an original way of storytelling. This film takes place primarily on the set...

A flawed man attempts to renovate a home for his growing family that is worse for wear, but this house has a history that it can't forget or forgive. Girl on the Third Floor stars CM Punk, a wrestler that we've loved for years and were so excited to hear that he was the main event in a horror movie! This film had an interest idea and featured some heavy themes, but do they deliver? Can &...

Devout Irish villagers in a North American settlement are ravaged by disease while a woman and her daughter are thriving amidst suspicion of witchcraft. The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw starts off with a bang with a mysterious witch coven's use of a young girl to remain prosperous during a harvest, while a local village is struggling. The movie does teeter and starts to lose cohesiveness with the...

After witnessing a murder, a high school photographer believes the teachers at his school have been taken over by aliens and he investigates the odd phenomena sweeping over his school. The Faculty  is a 90s scifi horror movie like no other, paying homage to so many films before it. It features an amazing cast of breakout stars, and it's directed by Robert Rodriguez. It truly feels like  The T...

An FBI agent with an odd connection to a serial killer discovers cryptic clues to a pattern of murders that hits close to him. Longlegs is successful in blending a true crime vibe with the occult and is overshadowed by the creepy and unsettling performance of Nicolas Cage. The film had great marketing efforts to really build up tension and create that ominous mystery that leaves the viewer haunted...

A deaf and mute author, living in isolation, is visited at night by a masked predator threatening her life.  Hush takes home invasion horror to new heights by pitting a masked killer up against a writer who is living in the woods alone and doesn't have the ability to hear or speak. Mike Flanagan, who has made a name for himself with several successful horror movies and tv shows, creates a ten...

After being turned down by Brent to go to prom, Lola decides to throw a prom of her own. The Loved Ones is an excellent movie that is both brutal and comedic and it continues to get more sadistic as the film goes on. It focuses on themes of loneliness, acceptance, and grief and ties up all loose ends by the end for a full depiction of the character motivations. The movie also tosses in a few twist...

A grieving mother-daughter relationship takes a turn for the worst, when young Leah performs a ritual in the woods to murder her mother. Pyewacket is a folk horror film that explores a family experiencing tragedy and a mother and daughter finding ways to cope and live with each other. While this movie covers the extreme ways of a young rebellious teenage girl copes with grief, the film does a good...

Charlie suspects his new neighbor of being a vampire and turns to an unlikely source for help in the form of a washed-up actor who portrays a vampire hunter on a television show. Fright Night is the finale of Retro Reel 2025 as it should. This movie is always a joy to watch from the memorable set of characters to the tense dialogue, it constantly picks up the pace. We were particularly impressed w...

The legend in the small, coastal town of Antonio Bay is of a ship lured to the land and swallowed up by a mysterious thick cloud as it sank. The locals say when the fog returns, the dead will arise from their watery graves. The Fog, directed by John Carpenter, fits quite nicely into Retro Reel 2025. It stars horror greats such as Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, and Hal Holbrook and...

A child's comic book brings five tales of terror to life. Retro Reel 2025 rolls on with an anthology movie we enjoy watching every time. Creepshow, directed by George A. Romero, features an all-star cast of Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, and Adrienne Barbeau among many others in five horror tales that seem to get better and better as the movie continues. The blend of comedy and hor...

Sheriff Dan Gillis investigates a series of murders and odd events in the small coastal town of Potter's Bluff. Retro Reel returns with a movie like no other. There's something about small town murder mysteries that are always interesting. Now just add horror and supernatural elements to that and you get Dead & Buried , a movie that doesn't get the appreciation it deserves. It f...

An adult man dealing with past trauma goes on a killing spree in New York City.  Retro Reel is back for the 2nd run on the podcast and we are starting a whole month of 80's horror films with Maniac. This is the 2nd time we watched the movie and while the film is at times a mess, it conveys how a traumatic event in the past causes the main character to experience violent urges. The film is ent...

Dr. Dennis Alan travels to Haiti to research a drug that appears to be "zombifying" locals. The Serpent and the Rainbow is the last movie of Wes Craven May and a movie we love to rewatch. Flying under the radar of some of Craven's other movies, this film stars Bill Pullman as a convincing anthropologist working to uncover strange occurrences in Haiti regarding a drug that is pausing...

Escaped convicts kidnap and harm two teen girls who stop for weed in the city on their way to a rock concert. The Last House on the Left is a controversial film due to the depiction of sexual violence in the movie. Many regard it as a horror classic that has had wide-ranging influence on the genre. After multiple watches, we have differing opinions on the movie than Wes Craven fans of his first fi...