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Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Fearless Films, the guys check out Jamie Lee Curtis' second slasher outing with the 1980 Canadian horror film, Terror Train. The story follows a group of college students celebrating New Years on a party train, and being stalked by a vengeful killer. Not quite "Die Hard on a train" but close enough. Pete takes Kevin through the intriguing mystery...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Christmas time at Fearless Films! Having run out of Black Christmas movies to talk about (for now) Pete and Kevin turn to another Christmas movie for their holiday Cheer. Unfortunately for them 'cheer' is the last thing anyone is feeling as they struggle through this movie. Pete tries to grapple with the horrendous exploitation in this 80's slasher tellin...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of Fearless Films, the guys talk about The Conjuring! This 2010's haunting film tells the tale of a family set upon by an evil spirit, and the middle aged ghost fighting couple who comes to save them. Pete explains the history of the Warrens (the couple who fights ghosts), and how in real life, they were charlatans and con artists. The movie is a l...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of Fearless Films, the guys open up one Christmas present early, and inside is a killer doll! This is the late 80's slasher hit, Child's Play! Pete tells the tale of a notorious serial killer using voodoo magic to inhabit the body of a doll in order to cheat death. He then continues his killing spree while trying to obtain the body of a young...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode of Fearless Films, the guys discuss 30 Days of Night, a comic book inspired tale about a group of vampires that descend on a small Alaskan town to feed for an entire month while the sun never comes up over the horizon. Pete describes the film as the last bastion of good, monstrous and violent vampires before the first Twilight film would come out the follow...

Send us Fan Mail On this weeks episode of Fearless Films, the guys return to the Overlook for the rare Stephen King sequel, this time being Dr. Sleep. Pete explains how this follow-up to The Shining focuses more on psychic people battling each other, and less on spooky haunted hotels. Little Danny Torrence is all grown up, and battling demons both metaphorically and literally. Kevin squirms as Kin...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of Fearless Films, the guys go on holiday to the infamous Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrik's "The Shining." Pete breaks down the classic horror film, from its pioneering of Steadicam technology, to its differences from the Stephen King source material. Nerd warning: Pete may go on a rant about how the book is better (but the movie is stil...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, the guys repeat the same day over and over again with Happy Death Day. Pete explains how a young female college student is caught in a timeloop, and is murdered over and over again by a killer in a baby mask. Unlike the seminal timeloop film, Groundhog's Day, she does not learn how to play the piano with her new free time (however, she does learn...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of Fearless Films, the guys take their 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 to the place where evil spends its summers, Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead! Pete explains the cult classic that built the foundation of a group of young people meeting at a secluded cabin and conjuring spirits from an ancient book. He also explains that the way to defeat the evil is to hack...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, the guys confront their most dreaded enemy once again - THE REMAKE. This time they are discussing Friday the 13th (2009). Pete explains how the writers crammed four movies worth of plot into this one film, and yet somehow came up with a shallow series of kills with barely any story holding them together (and that's compared to the 80's slashe...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, the guys check out the FINAL two chapters of the Friday Franchise. No, for real, the last ones. Promise. First, Kevin gets his wish when Pete explains Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. We learn that only the blood relative of a Jason can kill him for good and send him to Hell. Just like we learn that he actually has blood relatives at all. And a ho...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, the guys enter the prime of the Friday the 13th series' pop culture influence: The Gimmick Years. From parts 5 through 8, the creators throw in everything but the kitchen sink in order to keep audiences interested in the bloody adventures of Jason Voorhees. We're talking copycat killers, Frankenstein-like revivals from the dead, battling psyc...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of Fearless Films, the guys return to their annual October tradition of The Franchise Breakdown. This year, they are discussing Pete's favorite slasher series, Friday the 13th. In part 1, Pete breaks down Friday's 2, 3, and 4 - The Human Years. Jason is still just a "regular" human killer, who runs instead of stalks, and struggles to...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of Fearless Films, the guys are celebrating their one year anniversary by coming full circle and returning to the haunted place where it all started: Black Christmas!... (2019). Pete is amazed to admit that he actually found a version of Black Christmas that he enjoyed! Turns out, when you remove the shock factor gross-out elements, creepy incest, and e...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, the guys have a study session on 1998's The Faculty, a Scream-inspired take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Pete explains why a shapeshifting alien overlord chooses to start their invasion in the most ethnically diverse Ohio high school instead of a major metropolitan city. He also wonders why these aliens even bother with a stealthy approach w...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, the guys discuss the very first Stephen King film adaptaion, 1976's Carrie! Pete explains the story of a lonely, bullied high school girl who discovers she has psychic powers and ultimately unleashes her rage on all those who tormented her and more. Pete also gets excited to see John Travolta in his first major film roll, and his best villainous p...

Send us Fan Mail On this weeks episode of Fearless Films, the guys sit down to play a game with the darkly funny Ready or Not. Pete delves into the pros and cons of making business deals with the Devil, and why you should always check the fine print on the contract. Also, he shows us why the Wedding Night is not the time for the bride to get to know the grooms family. Kevin explains why board game...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of Fearless Films, the guys dream up a scare with the essential 80's slasher, A Nightmare on Elm Street. This game-changer from Wes Craven is about a group of teens being stalked in their dreams by a burnt, blade wielding serial killer who can kill you in real life if you die in the dream. Pete explains how vigilante justice can backfire if the cri...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's special episode, the guys pick apart the two film adaptations of Stephen King's Pet Sematary. Pete explains how an overplayed accent is the key to eternal fame, and that cats are assholes whether they are undead or alive.  Kevin has to face the horrors of the idea that his children could turn demonic and kill him one day. Also, he agrees that cats are jerk...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, the guys redefine the slasher genre with the essential Wes Craven film, Scream (1996). Pete breaks down the rules of every horror movie (and how they can be ignored if you are badass enough). He then reveals that horrifying truth that no matter how big a name your celebrity is, no one is safe in a horror movie. Kevin is relieved to hear that not every...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode, the guys run in terror from the 1988 remake of The Blob. It's a tongue-in-cheek monster movie with a lot of gory practical effects. Pete explains how the only chance we stand against the Ruskies is with uncontrollable, mindless monsters that devour everything in sight. How this helps is still lost on him, but damn it this is America! Kevin tries t...

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Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode, the guys go back to the mall and check a remake of an old classic: 2004's remake of Dawn of the Dead! Pete explains that zombies can run now, and characters are more like set dressing in the modern horror genre. He also details a list of fun games you can play if you are trapped in a mall during an apocalypse (most include the murder of zombies!)...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode, the guys deconstruct horror movies with the hit horror-comedy, The Cabin in the Woods. Pete explains what it takes to make a horror movie, and why studio interference almost always ends with someone getting "axed". Also, he discusses the relationship between the audience and the movie-makers, and why hardcore fans tend to get a little too &qu...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fearless Films, the guys dive in headfirst to the original summer blockbuster (and the movie that almost ruined summer at the beach), JAWS! Pete gushes over his favorite movie of all time, the breakout film of Director Stephen Spielberg and the one that changed cinema forever. Pete explains how sometimes a movie adapted from a book can be better than the source materi...