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The Amityville Horror , a 1977 book by Jay Anson, has sparked interest around the world by being based on a “true story,” sparking more than 30 film adaptations and a debate as to the credibility of the original story. We’re diving in to the 1979 movie adaptation starring James Brolin and Margot Kidder, and the 2005 remake starring Ryan Reynolds ( Deadpool & Wolverine ) and Melissa George. Sum...

In yet another horror movie about people eating people, Fresh , starring Daisy Edgar-Jones ( Twisters ) and Sebastian Stan ( Captain America: The Winter Soldier ), explores “the horrors of modern dating” when a woman is taken hostage by a seemingly perfect man, who is secretly a shill for the human meat trade. Horror Movie Releases August 2024 AUGUST 2 - Trap , by M. Night Shyamalan: https://www.y...

Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe star in the brand new horror crime thriller Longlegs , directed by Oz Perkins. We explain that wild ending and give our honest review of what outlets are calling “the scariest movie of the decade.” Horror News 👉 Sam Raimi directing new horror movie likened to Castaway x Misery : https://www.ign.com/articles/sam-raimi-send-help-20th-century-fox-deal 👉 Conjuring 4 rel...

Hulu Original No One Will Save You stars Kaitlyn Dever as Brynn, who lives a content life of solitude in her childhood home until she is woken up one night by literal aliens. We chat through our thoughts on the light-dialogue viral classic, and spill on our highest and lowest rated horror movies since starting Killer Cuties Podcast ! Next Week In this episode, kd and Cassidy guess the plot of the...

The Fly , a 1957 sci-fi horror short short story published in Playboy by George Langelaan, has spawned numerous iconic movies, sequels, and reboots over the decades. Join us as we dissect the 1958 original movie starring Al Hedison and Patricia Owens and the 1986 David Cronenberg reboot starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. Summary: A scientist’s groundbreaking experiment goes wrong when he unin...

We’re celebrating the release of MaXXXine (July 3, 2024) by revisiting Ti West’s first film of the X trilogy! X (2022) is about an aspiring actress named Maxine (Mia Goth, Pearl ) who travels to a remote property to film a pornographic movie with her boyfriend and their crew. The elderly couple that owns the property are not as they seem and the cast and crew begin a desperate fight for survival....

Jennifer’s Body is a 2009 horror/comedy cult classic starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried about a high schooler named Jennifer who gets possessed by a demon after a band’s failed attempt to sacrifice her to the devil. Her nerdy best friend Needy steps in in an attempt to save her. Horror News 👉 The Creep Tapes TV show announced: https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/the-creep-tapes-mark-d...

The Watchers (released June 2024) is Ishana Night Shyamalan’s writing and directing debut. Produced by her father, M. Night Shyamalan, the movie follows Mina, an artist who gets stranded in a forest she can’t escape. The movie stars Dakota Fanning ( Twilight , War of the Worlds ), Georgina Campbell ( Barbarian ), Olwen Fouere, and Oliver Finnegan. Horror News 👉 Jane Schoenbrun announces novel fol...

In this very special 75th anniversary episode of Killer Cuties Podcast, we’re joined by Lex from Chasing Childhood to rank all the movies of the Scream franchise! Scream is the iconic 90s slasher that spawned 5 sequels (so far) and has starred the likes of Matthew Lillard, Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, and Jenna Ortega. Check out our friends at Chasing Childhood Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/...

As Above, So Below is a found-footage horror film delving into the mysteries of alchemy and the Paris Catacombs. Archaeologist Scarlett Marlowe searches for the Philosopher's Stone, a legendary artifact rumored to grant immortality. Venturing deep beneath the city, Scarlett and her team uncover a nightmarish underworld, facing their darkest fears and confronting the horrors of Dante's Inferno. It...

In the isolated town of Perfection, Nevada, handymen Val and Earl long to escape their uneventful lives. Their plans are thwarted by monstrous underground creatures with a taste for human flesh. Joining forces with a resourceful seismologist and a quirky survivalist couple, they must fight for survival against the giant, worm-like Graboids using their wits and whatever weapons they can muster. Sta...

From the mouth of the director, Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow is a movie about two lonely teenagers who find each other through their shared love of a strange TV show – they get together every week to watch it, but when their obsession gets out of hand, their sense of reality gets called into question. It stars Justice Smith ( Detective Pikachu , Jurassic World ) as Owen and Brigette Lundy-Pa...

Happy Tuesday! This week we’re comparing and ranking the 1978 and 2004 versions of Dawn of the Dead ! The 1978 version is directed by George A. Romero and stars David Emge, Gaylen Ross, Ken Foree, and Scott Reiniger, whose characters team up in a mall in an attempt to survive a sudden zombie apocalypse. In 2004, Zack Snyder and James Gunn teamed up to remake the movie, starringSarah Polley, Ving R...

Welcome back to Killer Cuties Podcast, today we’re dissecting Pandorum , a sci-fi horror with a cult following (mostly on Facebook). Two astronauts (Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster) awaken on a deserted spaceship with no memory of their mission or crewmates. Disoriented and alone, they must unravel the mystery of the missing crew while navigating the depths of the vessel, where monstrous creatures lurk i...

We’re chatting about the 2017 French horror film, Raw , starring Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, and Rabah Nait Oufella. In the chilling coming-of-age horror film Raw, vegetarian freshman Justine (Marillier) enters veterinary school with dreams of following in her family's footsteps. But a bizarre hazing ritual forces her to consume raw rabbit flesh, awakening a newfound and disturbing taste for me...

In this week’s episode, we’re breaking down the newly-released movie Arcadian, starring Nicolas Cage, Maxwell Jenkins ( Reacher , Lost in Space ), and Jaeden Martell ( It , Defending Jacob ). In the desolate aftermath of an apocalypse, a father (Cage) fiercely protects his twin teenage sons (Martell, Jenkins) on a remote farm. Their fragile peace by day crumbles each night as bloodthirsty creature...

Released in 1976, The Omen is a chilling supernatural horror film. A co-production between the UK and US, the film features a star-studded cast including Gregory Peck ( To Kill a Mockingbird ), Lee Remick, and David Warner. The plot centers around a diplomat who adopts Damien after his newborn son tragically dies. Unknowingly, Damien is the literal Antichrist, and a series of mysterious and violen...

Tusk is a 2014 horror comedy starring Justin Long ( Hereditary ) and Michael Parks ( Kill Bill ) about a retired seafarer who dreams of recreating his memory of being lost at sea by mentally and physically conditioning a prisoner into a walrus. Directed by Kevin Smith ( Clerks , Jay and Silent Bob ). Epic Meal Time (Harley Morenstein): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDwvqrSi92Q Regular Ordinary S...

Cube is a 1997 Canadian horror film starring Nicole de Boer ( Private Eyes ), Maurice Dean Wint ( SurrealEstate ), and David Hewlett ( Stargate: Atlantis ), in which a bunch of strangers need to fight their way out of a deadly cube-shaped prison. Autism representation in the media, by blogger Aoife: https://aisforaoifenotautism.com/category/autism-on-screen/ Behind the scenes of Cube : https://twi...

This week, we’re chatting about the 2015 horror comedy The Final Girls , starring Taissa Farmiga ( American Horror Story ), Malin Åkerman ( Watchmen ), Nina Dobrev ( The Vampire Diaries ), Adam DeVine ( Pitch Perfect ), Alexander Ludwig ( The Hunger Games ), and Thomas Middleditch – a star studded cast! The movie pokes fun at horror tropes ( Friday the 13th ) and has a surprisingly emotional core....

Stopmotion is a British horror released at Austin Fantastic Fest in 2023 and in select theaters nationwide in February 2024. It’s about “a talented stop-motion animator becomes consumed by the grotesque world of her horrifying creations -- with deadly results.” In this week’s horror news, the Willy Wonka experience that went wildly viral for how disappointing it was is getting the horror movie tre...

Psycho is a black-and-white classic horror film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh (mother of Jamie Lee Curtis), in which a woman books a room at the Bates Motel after getting caught in a storm. This movies does NOT star Christian Bale. In this week’s horror news Sydney Sweeny surprised her grandmas with cameos in her new horror movie, Immaculate . Plus, Dakota Fanning’s...

A culty found footage classic, V/H/S is an anthology that now spans six films, two spin-offs, and one miniseries since its release in 2012. In this week’s horror movies & films news, Ishana Night Shyamalan is dropping a movie with Dakota Fanning called The Watchers , Christ Nolan is reportedly shopping a horror film, there’s a fun MaXXXine update from Ti West, and Ari Aster’s next film is rumo...

Ethan Hawke stars in this successful yet controversial horror by Scott Derrickson and Blumhouse, in which author Ellison Oswald moves his family into a family homicide victims’ home in an attempt to be close to the source material for a new book. Featuring daddy Baghuul (Mr. Boogie), husband of the Babadook (probably). In this week’s news, Gary Doberman is producing a film based off Ushers by Joe...

Diablo Cody (Juno) brings us this light-hearted horror-comedy starring Kathryn Newton ( Paranormal Activity 4 , Pokémon Detective Pikachu ) and Cole Sprouse ( Riverdale , The Suite Life of Zack & Cody ). In this week’s horror news, we chat through Stop Motion, the new animated and (somehow) live action adult cartoon horror movie (?????) that’s coming to the United States and Bill Skarsgard’s (...