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An evening of fine dining at Chef Slowik's prestigious island restaurant turns into a nightmare for a young couple. The Menu is one of the best horror movies of last year and was such a pleasure to watch from start to finish. It's both dark and hilarious at the same time and the performances from Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, among several others are incredible. Our fri...

In Titanic 666, evil forces are stirring aboard the maiden voyage of the world's most famous new luxury cruiseliner, the Titanic III and passengers start to believe they are on a course to repeat history. Check out our website https://thefinalpodcast.com/ Join the Discord https://discord.gg/nFSnEE9wG2 Subscribe to our YouTube channel  @thefinalpodcast   Follow us on Facebook The Final Podcast...

In Scream 2, another killer in the Ghostface costume has resumed killing 2 years after the Woodsboro murders, all while Sidney is getting used to college life. Scream 2 is a fun, engaging sequel that may not be as good as its predecessor, but is a very successful film in its own rite with great characters and continues to build on the Ghostface killings. Shane's brother, Nick, and our good bu...

Serial killer, Havoc, has escaped from his confinement and kills all the way to a cabin where a husband and wife are having a complicated weekend. Playing with Dolls: Havoc is the 3rd installment in the Playing with Dolls series and we believe it's the best one. For the first 45 minutes, the movie does a total 180 and presents itself as a romance only to become the gory slasher movie we all e...

Teenager, Casey, starts the World's Fair Challenge and documents the changes that effect her while immersed in the horror game. We're All Going to the World's Fair is a movie that kept us thinking about what was going on. There's not a lot happening on screen and yet there's so much. It's a movie that kept us theorizing way after the end credits rolled and we couldn&a...

A young girl who has the ability to send psychic visions is taken. In order to retrieve her, Axe gets his old team back together. Attrition is one of Steven Segal's later movies and is all over the place. The pacing of the film as well as the structure is all over the place, but Segal has this magic over us that keeps us coming back for more. Watch the movie and catch our review. Check out ou...

Rich young adults throw a hurricane party at a family mansion which goes downhill fast after a game of Bodies Bodies Bodies goes wrong. We couldn't wait to discuss Bodies Bodies Bodies which captures the rich and spoiled lives of several Gen Z young adults who put their narcissistic lives on full display as they backstab each other while playing a game. We were originally set to review this l...

In San Andreas Quake, a seismologist in LA reports a 12.7 earthquake, which is believed by no one based on previous history of misreporting earthquakes. As the disaster starts to occur, she is separated from her family and must find her disapproving stepdaughter and husband and get them to safety. After reviewing San Andreas Mega Quake, we had to go back and check out San Andreas Quake to see wher...

Parker and Miri stay at a family lake house during the pandemic and soon realize they are not alone. Sick is a pandemic slasher movie written by Kevin Williamson, who is well known for writing Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. He has a strong resume especially when it comes to writing slashers so we were curious what a slasher during the pandemic would look like. We were not disappointed...

In Route 666, government agents are sent to track down a witness. Finding him was easy, but returning him safely, takes them down the shortcut highway, Route 66, where the undead lie. Route 666 is the first Lou Diamond Phillips movie we've discussed on this podcast, but it won't certainly be our last. An enjoyable watch all the way through, this movie even provided some nostalgia to all...

A cancelled internet star tries to regain his followers by livestreaming an overnight stay in the most haunted house in the country. His night soon becomes a fight for survival as he awakens an angry ghost. Deadsteam is a comedy horror surprise that captured the YouTuber and toxic internet culture in such a unique and hilarious way. Not only did this movie keep us on the edge of our seats, but mad...

District Queens: The Racine Robinson Story depicts the fearless leader of a crime syndicate, who with the help of her two daughters, has a whole town at her feet, but fights to maintain her criminal organization. This movie has so many characters and just about all of them get popped. One thing is for certain, if someone acts disrespectful to anyone in Racine's company, that person will be ha...

Hitting a wall in the dating world, Noa meets the charming Steve by chance at a grocery store and what seems like a good thing, isn't so wonderful. Fresh is a very entertaining, enjoyable horror thriller that builds up tension and adds this black market subculture of cannibals that hasn't really been explored before. Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan have great chemistry and did an am...

In Human Zoo, a contestants enter a reality game show where they compete against one another to see who can last the longest in solitary confinement to win a prize of one million dollars. Human Zoo  was interesting to say the least. It leaves a lot of the plot up in the air, makes you question the motives behind the show, and provides frustrating camera angles. There's definitely a lot to tal...

After cocaine is dropped out of an airplane into a Georgia forest, criminals swarm the forest to retrieve it and cops track the criminals trying to intercept them. Little do they know there's a black bear who ingested the cocaine and is going on a murderous rampage, while a mother is searching for her missing daughter amidst the chaos. Elizabeth Banks directs Cocaine Bear , which is a wild ri...

Two Catholic schoolgirls selling religious items door-to-door, approach the wrong house. Run! Bitch Run! draws a lot of similarities from I Spit on Your Grave as a revenge horror flick after the protagonist experiences violent sexual assault. Sometimes crazy, sometimes non-sensical, this movie is certainly wild. Watch the movie and catch our review. Check out our website https://thefinalpodcast.co...

Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their house is without their parents and also without doors and windows. Skinamarink is an experimental horror movie released in 2022 and was directed by Kyle Edward Ball, who's known for creating nightmarish dreamscape videos with his clever use of camerawork. Many people have a love/hate relationship with Skinamarink based on its style...

Verotika compiles three erotic horror stories from Danzig's graphic novel. Verotika is exactly the type of movie for why we made Final Friday. It's a movie that is so bad, it's a fun watch. It's a true popcorn flick that'll leave you breathless. Watch the movie and catch our review. Check out our website https://thefinalpodcast.com/ Join the Discord https://discord.gg/nFSn...

In Barbarian, a young woman realizes her AirBnb is double-booked and the house isn't what it seems. In what is most likely our favorite movie of 2022, Barbarian offers an original story that kept us on the edge of our seats. It features an excellent cast of Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgard, Justin Long, and Richard Brake. This film changes up its tone mid-movie upon a horrifying discovery an...

Six teens wake up in a deserted factory and quickly realize they're being filmed for a reality game show based upon their worst fears. Are You Scared? came out 2 years after Saw and draws elements from Jigsaw and his games. The man behind these deadly games is a bit of a mystery, but what isn't a mystery is that he has a nasty burn scare on his face that is way too noticeable for it not...

After witnessing a traumatic suicide at her place of work, a psychiatrist believes she's being haunted by a supernatural entity. Smile was a big surprise last year as what seemed like another Truth or Dare , turned out to be a very entertaining and engaging horror movie. The film does have elements of other horror movies like Truth or Dare, It Follows, and Drag Me to Hell , but has a lot of o...

In The Foreigner, Steven Seagal stars as Jonathan Cold, an operative tasked with delivering a package for an unknown employer that quickly becomes deadly. The Foreigner is the first of two Jonathan Cold movies, which the second, being Black Dawn, a movie we reviewed earlier this year. In a movie that has more twists that we thought possible, it can be a bit of a mess, but it does have Seagal. Watc...

In 1918, a young woman, grown tired of the mundane farm lifestyle she's been living, decides to pursue her dreams of becoming a movie star. Pearl is the prequel to X, which Ti West had released back-to-back and both have been great modern additions to horror. Mia Goth's performance in both movies, especially Pearl, have really made her standout as a horror movie star. If you hadn't...

Staying alive in the woods will win any survivors a big prize, but with a killer clown, the game gets very deadly. Within the Woods is the 3rd installment in the Camp Blood series. It goes back to the comedic roots of the first movie, while capitalizing on the misses of the second. Watch the movie and catch our review. Check out our website https://thefinalpodcast.com/ Join the Discord https://dis...

It's 1979 and young adult filmmakers, looking to add substance to their movies, head to a Texas farmhouse where their elderly hosts aren't too fond of their activities. X, directed by Ti West, stars the up-and-coming scream queens, Mia Goth and Jenna Ortega as well as Brittany Snow and Kid Cudi. Ti West really outdid himself last year by making this movie as well as its prequel, Pearl. H...