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We’re back this week with a horror movie review for one we’ve been excited to watch: Strange Darling. Strange Darling (2023) is a thriller from writer-director JT Mollner, starring Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Barbara Hershey, and Ed Begley Jr. Set in rural Oregon, the film follows a one-night stand that spirals into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Told in six nonlinear chapters, it unfolds as...

We are so close to the finale of Haunting of Hill House and everything is starting to ramp up. The jump scares. The family drama. The child murder.  Wait…the what? In the past, Olivia Crain begins experiencing terrifying paranormal visions in Hill House. She sees haunting premonitions of her children’s deaths and is visited by the ghost of Poppy Hill, who convinces her that the outside world will...

Woot woot! This week we are reviewing the Oscar-nominated horror movie The Substance. The Substance is a 2024 body horror film from Coralie Fargeat, who serves as writer, director, co-editor, and co-producer. The story follows Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), a once-iconic celebrity grappling with the realities of aging in a ruthless industry. After being dismissed by her producer (Dennis Quaid) fo...

We’re a little late starting this year but we are finally back after two snow storms and the winter holidays. We can’t think of a better way to jump into the new year than by watching the drama unfold within the Craine family, which is exactly what we’re doing this week.  Steven and Hugh search for Luke, uncovering dark truths about their family's connection to Hill House. Hugh reveals the ghosts...

Merry Christmas to all you ghouls listening today! We’re finally tackling Terrifier 3 for this year’s Christmas special. Don’t say we never do anything for ya filthy animals. No matter how hard it is to trudge through these movies sometimes, we love doing it for you guts. That was a typo. But it works.  Terrifier 3 is a 2024 American supernatural slasher film with a Christmas theme, written, direc...

Welcome back to the Real Horrorshow Podcast. This week, we return to the Hill House for Episode 7: ‘Eulogy’. Hugh struggles to let go of Olivia, often speaking to her as if she’s alive. During her funeral, he makes amends with Theo and tries to reconnect with his children. In flashbacks, Mr. Dudley warns Hugh about Hill House’s dark history and urges Olivia, whose behavior grows erratic, to leave....

We’re back this week with another horror movie review! We’re excited to finally tackle the sleeper hit of 2024: In a Violent Nature. And at least one of us means that literally.  In a Violent Nature is a 2024 Canadian slasher film written and directed by Chris Nash, featuring performances by Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, and Lauren-Marie Taylor. Touted as an "ambient slasher," the film centers on a...

There’s a storm coming to the Crain household in Episode 6 of The Haunting of Hill House. The episode alternates between a stormy night at Hill House, where young Nell disappears and later claims she was invisible to her family, and the present, as the Crains reunite for her funeral. Tensions boil over with secrets, arguments, and eerie occurrences, including Nell’s ghostly presence—the night peak...

We’re back this week to finish our review of Ti West’s ‘X’ Trilogy, with the final installment Maxxxine.  Picking up where X left off, Mia Goth returns as Maxine Minx, navigating the glitz, grit, and gore of 1980s Hollywood in her quest for fame. But with a mysterious killer on the loose, Maxine's dreams turn into a fight for survival. We’ll discuss the film’s star-studded cast—featuring Elizabeth...

After a brief hiatus, Real Horrorshow Podcast is back, and we're diving right into an intense episode. Join us as we break down The Haunting of Hill House, Episode 5, where we uncover the chilling secrets behind the Bent-Neck Lady. Perfect for anyone looking for a little company on days when the world feels uncertain. Plus, we’ve got thrilling updates from the world of Stormy Skies and the latest...

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This week, Sam and Stormy are back from the afterlife (well, kind of) and diving into the spine-tingling world of Stopmotion. Join them as they dissect Robert Morgan’s chilling feature debut, where a stop-motion animator’s fixation on her craft spirals into a nightmarish descent. Released to rave reviews on February 23, 2024, Stopmotion melds live-action with adult animation, creating a psychologi...

Welcome back to another chilling episode of Real Horrorshow! In today’s Minishow, we dive deep into the unsettling world of "The Haunting of Hill House" with our review of Episode 4. Watch as frantic Luke battles addiction and a creeping dread while trying to rescue a friend, all while sensing the peril facing his twin sister. But that’s not all—prepare for a dive into the dark and twisted realm o...

Dive into the sinister world of 2023’s chilling hit, Late Night with the Devil, in this spine-tingling episode of Real Horrorshow! Join us as we dissect Colin and Cameron Cairnes' latest supernatural horror sensation that promises to haunt your nightmares. This episode, blending found footage and documentary-style thrills, takes us back to Halloween 1977, where a late-night talk show turns into a...

This week is all about wife guys(™) as we get into Episode 3 of “The Haunting of Hill House”.  This episode tackles Theo’s backstory and how the memory of Hill House affects her everyday life, specifically, how she’s been able to use the psychic powers she discovered to help children process their trauma.  We also talk about the high price of digital movie rentals, Twisters, and another famous wif...

Ty West hit it out of the park with X, and surprised us all with the near-immediate release of it’s prequel Pearl.  Set in 1918, Pearl follows the younger self of our former protagonist as she lives on a farm and dreams of a life bigger than what she has. However, nothing wants to go the way she wants it to. Her husband immediately left her to go fight in the war, her mother hates everything she d...

Things start getting weird in The Hill House as the family settles into their new routine. Shirley takes on the monumental task of caring for some abandoned kittens she finds in the bard; however, each cat dies one by one, instilling a need to care for everyone around her.  That trauma manifests in the present as Shirley takes on all the responsibilities involved with preparing Ness’s funeral--inc...

Sorry for the delay y’all, but we’re finally back with a hot new review for the runaway 2022 hit horror movie, X.  Set in the mid-1970s on a creepy Texas farm, X follows a group of young adults as they set out to make the best porno ever conceived. However, the quiet farm isn’t all it seems as the group has to navigate around the mysterious farmer’s wife.  X is written, produced, and directed by T...

Welcome back! As promised, we’re back from our week off with the official start of our Mike Flanagan rewind series as we get ready for his take on The Exorcist.  Haunting of Hill House marks the beginning of Flanagan’s deal with Netflix and is a loose adaptation of the Shirly Jackson novel of the same name. In the show, we follow the Craine family in the past and present as they cope with the trau...

Well, it looks like we have officially reached the end of our time with John Kramer and Co. (for now). There’s been some highs and a lot of very low lows, but we made it through.  That’s right, this week we’re wrapping up our Saw retrospective with Saw X, the latest installment in the franchise. Released in October 2023, this movie picks up shortly after the events of the original Saw (2004) and f...

It’s been five whole movies since John Kramer/Jigsaw died; however, the franchise continues to find a way to work him back into the franchise--even if it didn’t make sense, as was the case with Jigsaw. Well, Darren Lynn Bousmann is back to explore the Saw universe outside the John Kramer circle. Finally, someone has accepted the fact that John Kramer is dead and that the Saw franchise needs to fin...

While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened — there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind — the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight — my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder — there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters — and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the “House of Us...

DID YOU THINK IT WAS OVER?  It’s been seven years since the last installment of our Saw retrospective, and we’re back from the dead (just like John Kramer) to review Jigsaw.  Jigsaw is a 2017 horror film released as the eighth installment of the Saw franchise. Ten years after the death of John Kramer, someone has decided to restart his games of terror. It has to be a copycat. Right?  Guest Find Us...

The end of our time with the Usher family is rapidly approaching as they continue to die. This week, we bid farewell to the oldest of the Usher children: Frederick. He’s lost his mind trying to figure out why his wife was at that rave that night and is taking all that anger out on her, despite her chemical burns. However, Lenore is on to her father’s evil ways and plans to get her mother the help...

Everyone, let’s phone it in for the final movie in the Saw franchise: Saw 7 The Final Chapter 3D.  Mark Hoffman survived Jill Tuck’s trap and now she’s fighting for her life to get Hoffman locked up before he can take her out. Meanwhile, some dude is pretending to be a victim of the Jigsaw killer, making a crapton of money as a motivational speaker. I don’t know, I feel like he at least gets what...