Fearless Films

Send us Fan Mail A 2000's remake of a William Castle classic starring a bunch of people not known for horror. If I had a nickel for every time that happened I would have two nickels! And this one is for Thirteen Ghosts! Pete takes us through the story of a grieving family that learns they have inherited a steampunk mansion from their estranged, ghost-hunting uncle. What should be their rescue...

Send us Fan Mail Dangerous imaginary friends, precocious little kids, and dark secrets from the past; that's a recipe for 2016's Lights Out! This week, Sarah walks us through this exciting horror flick that was actually expanded from a hugely popular short film from director David Sandberg. It tells the story of a family with a complicated and troubled history being haunted by a dangerou...

Send us Fan Mail Equal parts horror, comedy, homage, satire, gorefest, and anthology. That's the formula for 1988's Waxwork. When a group of yuppie college kids get invited to a private midnight showing at a new Waxwork, they are surprised to find that the exhibits are more interactive than they seem. Each scene of horrific violence is actually a portal to a pocket dimension where the mo...

Send us Fan Mail Two feral children living in the woods, a mysterious entity watching over them, and a punk rock Jessica Chastain. That's how you make the 2013 film, Mama! When Jaime Lannister finds his missing nieces (who have been surviving in the woods for five years), him and his girlfriend, Beverly Marsh, take them in and try to care for them. However, a strange ghost-like figure the gir...

Send us Fan Mail What do you get when Stephen Spielberg wants to produce a blockbuster-style horror movie with Jan de Bont directing? You get 1999's The Haunting! Based on the famous Shirley Jackson novel, The Haunting of Hill House, this incredibly 90's film follows a troubled woman invited to a sleep study at a spooky old haunted house in western Massachusetts. The reality, however, is...

Send us Fan Mail Finally an exorcism movie that does not follow the exact same formula as all the rest! That's right, we are talking about 2022's Prey for the Devil. Sarah talks us through this exciting tale about a nun who is allowed to observe the exorcism training school of the Catholic Church. It's kind of like the X-men school for Gifted Youngsters, but normal people fighting t...

Send us Fan Mail Wait a second. Didn't we already cover a movie called The Nun, about an evil spirit in a habit that kills people in Europe?? There is more than one movie with that premise!? And it's not even in the same franchise!?  That's right folks, this week we are not discussing anything related to the Conjuring Universe or any Blumhouse production. Pete is covering the early...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we've got another Mike Flanagan classic. It is 2016's, Before I Wake! Sarah takes us through this modern fantasy tale about a grieving couple who adopts a young boy with a tragic past. Soon, the boys dreams begin manifesting into beautiful illusions in the waking world. However, things take a dark turn when the dreams become nightmares. No one is safe, sleepin...

Send us Fan Mail Happy St. Patrick's Day, Fearless Fans!! What's better than another hilarious entry in the Leprechaun franchise? How about one where the titular character has no dialogue, no personality, and no magical powers?? Wait a second, that sounds terrible. This week, Pete walks us through the lowest rated film in the Leprechaun franchise (and that's saying something), Lepre...

Send us Fan Mail Who would have thought that A-Lister Sandra Bullock would star in a straight to streaming horror movie, and it would be seen as a successful move for her career!? This week, Sarah walks us through the Netflix gem that is 2018's Bird Box. When a global plague of formless entities that cause suicidal madness at mere sight kicks off the apocalypse, a pregnant woman finds shelter...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Valentine's Day, Fearless Fans!! This year, Pete walks us through the 2025 slasher film, Heart Eyes! In a fun blending of horror and romantic comedy, a pair of conflicted coworkers accidentally become the target of a serial killer who only goes after loving couples on Valentine's Day. Can they convince the killer that they are not actually a couple? or will they fa...

Send us Fan Mail Fearless Films goes musical! This week, Sarah takes us through the 2000's rock opera known as Repo! The Genetic Opera. Set in a dystopian future where an epidemic of organ failures has caused engineered specialty replacement organs to become the new fashionable trend. Citizens are addicted to surgery and chasing the fads of "designer organs". But if they can't...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Pete serves up the delicious meal that is 1999's Ravenous! This quirky horror-comedy western film depicts a squad of soldiers manning a lonely mountain fort in the 1800's. When a mysterious stranger arrives one night, things take a turn for the worse as madness and death run rampant through the camp. How far are you willing to go to survive? What horrors could...

Send us Fan Mail Time to ring in the new year, Fearless Fans! This week, Sarah brings us another great entry from Hulu's Into the Dark series, titled New Year, New You. When a group of friends reunites for a girl's night on New Year's Eve, the festivities turn violent when the past comes back up and old grudges are reignited. Join us as we discuss Hollywood casting tropes, the impor...

Send us Fan Mail Merry Christmas, Fearless Fans!! If you are British and hate Santa Claus, then we have the movie for you! This year, we are celebrating with the 1980's slasher, Don't Open til Christmas! Pete takes us through this film about a serial killer targeting Santa Claus performers who are being naughty, taking them out in increasingly brutal ways. Two detectives are on the case,...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we invite you to stay with us for winter break in a traditional location of terror and fear - boarding school! Sarah takes us through 2015's The Blackcoat's Daughter, and early entry in the works of Osgood Perkins. In it, two girls left behind over winter break at a boarding school find themselves haunted by a devilish presence. Meanwhile, a hitchhiking young...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Thanksgiving, Fearless Fans! The main course this year is a cheap slasher with at least three different names and just as many versions. We present 1987's Blood Rage (aka Nightmare at Shadow Woods, aka Complex, aka Slasher)!! Pete takes us through this wild tale of an evil twin brother that frames his sibling for murder, then years later goes on an insane murder spree w...

Send us Fan Mail Judd Nelson is back and he is still a monster in this week's entry, a Lifetime movie called The Girl in the Basement! Sarah takes us through this domestic horror film that is sickeningly based on true events. A family man holds his daughter captive in his secret basement dungeon for many years and father's multiple children with her. This entire movie is basically a two...

Send us Fan Mail It's the final week in October and we ran out of Jaws sequels. So you get the next best thing - the greatest Jaws ripoff of all time, Orca!! This week's movie follows a Richard Harris as a horrible ship captain that murders an Orca, which then spurs its grieving mate to declare war on him and the entire fishing community where he resides. That's not hyperbole, the s...

Send us Fan Mail Long before Halloween made it the hottest trend and Scream was spoofing the idea, Jaws was the master of the requel. This week, Pete takes us through Jaws: The Revenge, a film that completely ignores the events of the third entry and bills itself as the "actual" end of the trilogy. Lorrain Gary returns from retirement to portray Ellen Brody, widow and grieving mother aft...

Send us Fan Mail Sooner or later, every 80's franchise fell victim to the most dangerous beast - 3D gimmicks! This week, Pete takes us through the latest Jaws sequel, Jaws 3-D. This entry finds Michael Brody, all grown up and played by Dennis Quaid, working as an engineer at Seaworld. As soon as the park opens a new underwater attraction, a big-ass shark shows up and begins eating the guests!...

Send us Fan Mail Just when you thought October was safe again... it's another franchise!! This year, Pete is hunting for the sequels to one of the greatest movies of all time, Jaws! Somehow, this cinema classic got not only one, but three sequels. And one of them is even a requel, starting well before Halloween made that its defining feature. Jaws 2, from 1978, is a mix of the classic Jaws fo...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you decide to make a movie about breaking all the rules of a a supernatural horror movie? You get The Possession Experiment! This week, Sarah walks us through a 2016 film where a guy decides to prove the existence of the afterlife by ALLOWING himself to be possessed, and filming the whole thing. Things go horribly wrong, as everyone expected. Join us as we discus...

Send us Fan Mail The Warren's are back, and badder than ever! This week, Sarah walks us through part 3 of the Conjuring saga. We see the Warren's helping the defense of a young man accused of murder, who just may have been possessed by an evil force at the time (spoiler for the real life events: that evil force was alcohol). They race against time to uncover the mysterious entity that is...

Send us Fan Mail When the students of an athletic academy begin disappearing in bloody ways, their Olympic dreams will become... an Olympic Nightmare!! ...wait a second, the name of this movie is Fatal Games. Or is it The Killing Touch? No matter which of its many titles you pick, Pete's choice this week is a bad 80's slasher movie that suffers from being overly tropey, horribly offensiv...