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Send us Fan Mail It's special guest season on Fearless Films, and this week we are kicking it off when Pete's wife, Cheryl, talks to us about one of her favorite horror films of all time: The Woman in Black! It tells the tale of a turn of the century English solicitor, still suffering the grief of losing his wife to a tragic accident, having to leave his very young son to take a job in t...

Send us Fan Mail We finally made it to the end! Welcome to the final episode (for now) on the Saw franchise. This week we cover the two "spinoff" films: Jigsaw - A new game has begun, and forensic evidence somehow points to the long dead John Kramer. Has he truly risen from the grave? Or has someone new taken on the mantle of the Jigsaw killer? Seeing as how the rest of the series plays...

Send us Fan Mail The fun never stops, especially in October! This week, the penultimate episode in our Saw franchise breakdown! First up is part 6: The trap involves an insurance man having to "balance the equation" on multiple lives, and hoping to survive his final test. Meanwhile, secret apprentice Hoffman is desperately trying to stay ahead of the investigators who are trying to uncov...

Send us Fan Mail The saga continues... This week, the breakdown covers the fourth and fifth entries in the Saw series. John Kramer and Amanda are dead, but the Jigsaw killings continue. Who is carrying the torch on the Jigsaw legacy? And are they a true believer, or a serial killer using the traps as a cover? More characters are introduced, more mysteries are uncovered, and more creative killings...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we continue our breakdown of the Saw franchise with Saw 3! It's another series of crazy traps, another lesson to be learned, and another trapper getting in on the action! Following up from part 2, the secret apprentice Amanda is now helping Jigsaw teach his latest lesson - and trying to keep him alive. Suffering from his terminal cancer, Amanda has helped kidnap a...

Send us Fan Mail The October Franchise Breakdown Special is back!! This year, Sarah is gonna cover the entire Saw franchise, picking up at part 2 (go back and check out our episode on the original) and taking us all the way to the spinoff film, Spiral: From the Book of Saw. Saw 2 tells the tale of a renegade detective hunting down Jigsaw and discovering that his son is trapped in a house with a gr...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you put a group of bored, white, rich kids in a room together and tell them to play a game? You get the 2005 film, Cry_Wolf. What starts as a competitive lying game between some private school friends, quickly spirals into a campus-wide attempt to make the student body believe that there is a serial killer on the loose. But what happens when people actually start...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, we present a spooky tale of forensic science, 2016's The Autopsy of Jane Doe! Sarah breaks down this story of a father/son team of coroners who are delivered the body of a young woman who is dead, but has no apparent signs of how she died. As you would expect, unexplainable, haunting-like phenomena begins to occur, and the characters lives are qui...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, in celebration of the start of the school year, we are talking about the late 90's teen horror flick, Disturbing Behavior. Pete breaks down this story of a boy and his family moving to a small island town in Washington state. He quickly discovers that something isn't quite right with the popular kids at the high school. He goes on to uncover...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, we take a road trip through Australia and end up in the most dangerous place in the Outback: Wolf Creek! This stranger-danger horror film from 2005 features a group of backpackers falling prey to a serial killer outdoorsman who just wants to have a good time. Pete lays out the plot for this movie he has just watched for the first time. To his surprise,...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are going over the 2005 film, The Exorcism of Emily Rose! Sarah breaks down this horror/courtroom drama, which portrays a lawyer taking on a negligent homicide case after a young woman dies following an attempted exorcism. The performing priest is on trial, and its up to the lawyer to help him avoid a lengthy jail sentence. But he insists on pleading not guilty, creat...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, we inoculate ourselves on Eli Roth's debut film, Cabin Fever! When a group of college friends rent a cabin in the woods for a vacation retreat, they encounter a deadly flesh eating, blood puking disease that literally tears them apart. Join us as we talk about one of the most WTF horror movies of the 2000's. Spin-kicking karate kids, dangerou...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you take a director known only for dramadies and have them helm a found-footage horror flick? You get The Bay! The Bay is a mockumentary from Barry Levinson (Diner, Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man) and follows the story of a small coastal town that is devastated by a plague of parasitic isopods that have mutated due to illegal dumping in the waters. The crux of th...

Send us Fan Mail This is Pete's birthday week, so he's come prepared with one of his favorite horror movies: Tales from the Crypt presents: Demon Knight. Watch William Sadler on a mission from God to keep safe a magical artifact from the clutches of the delightfully evil Billy Zane. This story is the big screen debut of the hit show, Tales from the Crypt, which ran for seven seasons thro...

Send us Fan Mail A young priest and an old priest travel to a European church to talk to some nuns. It's not quite The Exorcist, but its got its moments. This week's movie is 2018's The Nun, a spinoff in The Conjuring universe. Sarah breaks down this tale of a Vatican investigation of the death of a young nun in a remote Romanian church. A demonic force plays with reality and tries...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we are talking about the 1981 film, Hell Night! The Linda Blair-starring teen horror flick is about a group of fraternity/sorority pledges who have to spend the night in a spooky mansion. What starts off as harmless pranks quickly turns into a night of real horror and deranged monsters. Well, that's probably what the marketing said about it anyway. As Pete explains...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we take you back to the things that haunted you as a child: shadows that look a bit too much like people, bumps under the bed, and closets that act as portals through space and time! No, it's not a sci-fi film. Its 2005's Boogeyman! This Sam Raimi produced film stars the oldest son from 7th Heaven as a man who has been terrorized since childhood by an evil ent...

Send us Fan Mail We had such a fun time talking about cave diving and flesh eating monsters, we decided to do it again!! Join us again as Sarah breaks down The Descent 2, which sees our only surviving character from the first movie being forced by authorities to return to the cave system to find the people they believe she murdered. Pete is incredulous, but he comes along for the ride if only to s...

Send us Fan Mail A group of women go cave diving and find something waiting for them in the dark... Join us as Sarah breaks down Hollywood's best reason to never explore nature ever put to film. This movie is scary enough with the monsters, but damn does the claustrophobia do the heavy lifting. Pete wants none of the crawling through 18 inch wide tunnels, and would rather fast forward to peop...

Send us Fan Mail April Fools! In celebration of the most annoying of holidays, you all get a movie about a prank gone horribly wrong, The Burning! Join us as Pete tells the story of a group of camp kids (clearly played by adults) who prank a guy by setting him on fire! And of course, he survives and seeks his revenge on... an entirely different camp full of people who did nothing to him. This earl...

Send us Fan Mail It's finally time we talked about the most famous horror movie of all time: The Exorcist! Join us as Sarah breaks down this holy horror about a young girl possessed by a demon and the two priests who attempt to save her eternal soul. We learn a bit about the supposedly cursed production, and Pete shares some info about the hit-and-miss sequels and prequels that came after thi...

Send us Fan Mail It is only a matter of time before all franchises end up in outer space, but some get there sooner than others. On this St. Patrick's Day celebration, we continue our tradition and Pete subjects Sarah to the horror of Leprechaun 4: In Space! The little magical menace has found himself in the far future and across the galaxy, trying to steal gold from mining operations and mar...

Send us Fan Mail Critics will call it a crime-drama, but we know the truth: Seven is straight up horror! Join us as Sarah discusses one of the darkest serial killer stories in cinema. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt must stop a madman with a love of Bible stories. Kevin Spacey stretches his acting ability by being a complete piece of shit. And Pete tries to keep his lunch down as Sarah describes all...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Valentine's Day! This year's entry is a little known film about a woman being hunted by the most inept serial killer of all time throughout a hospital that is madder than a hatter. That film also has about four different titles, depending on where you see it. We settled on Hospital Massacre, but it is also commonly titled X-Ray in a lot of regions. This movie featu...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you mix a stranger-danger PSA with a Sam Raimi-esque aesthetic? You get Barbarian! Join Sarah and Pete (and a special guest) as they talk about the 2022 film they saw together at the theater, which left them repeating "WTF" all the way home. Get ready for brutal murders, creeping paranoia, things going bump in the night, and Justin Long singing showtune...