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A secretary, on the lam for taking money from her employer, holes up at a California motel owned by a man and his overprotective mother. Psycho is often referred to as a horror movie masterpiece. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this psychological horror stars Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, who owns a motel along with his mother. Without too much screen time and based on dialogue and reactions from...

Teenagers experience unsetting tactics from the counselors at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp as murderer hunts the grounds. They/Them is a very different type of horror movie as it blends elements of a teenage drama along with being a slasher. Kevin Bacon stars in this film as the head of a conversion camp, who has a welcoming smile, but a sinister way of handling the camp practices. The movie features...

A plastic surgeon applies his theory of synthetic skin that can withstand any damage on a mysterious woman, who unveils a more sinister plot. Antonio Banderas stars in an absolutely crazy movie in every single way as we discuss The Skin I Live In. The story starts in a wild fashion as a well-known plastic surgeon is keeping a mysterious woman at his house, who he's experimenting on, but it ac...

Oskar, a young, bullied boy, forms a friendship with his new neighbor Eli, a young girl, who holds the secret of needing to consume blood. Let the Right One In is a Swedish vampire, coming-of-age film based off the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist of the same name. This movie explores the challenges of navigating bullying, growing up, and finding friendship among the oddest of circumstances. While t...

A single mother adjusts to living in rural Ireland with her son, who starts to exhibit strange behavior that she believes is connected to a large hole in the middle of the forest behind their house. The Hole in the Ground  is the last movie in Staring into Holes month and was the movie that inspired the theme. While the story simply revolves around a mother's discovery of a mysterious hole in...

A young girl finds herself trapped in her family's lake house while they're renovating and is haunted by a mysterious invader.  In the fourth week of Staring into Holes month, we discuss Silent House, a psychological horror movie featuring Elizabeth Olsen in her first starring role. While this movie takes on the style of a continuous shot, it relies on acting and character developing to...

A brother and sister travelling home for spring break are hunted by a creature who eats human flesh and is in the midst of its feeding season. It's another month of Staring into Holes and it's time to discuss the long-awaited, Jeepers Creepers. One of Justin Long's earliest starring roles, Jeepers Creepers is a nostalgia trip for us. It introduces the Creeper, a creature that has a...

When a young girl is chosen to be a sacrifice by a worshipped pit in her backwoods community, she fights to survive even at the expense of those around her. Staring into Holes month continues with indie heater, Jug Face. This movie tells the unique story of a backwoods community that worships a pit in a forest. Sometimes when wrongdoing is amidst, the pit will call for a sacrifice, which is the ca...

After a breakup and drowning out his sorrows outside of a rest stop, Wes finds himself locked inside a bathroom stall and in an otherworldly encounter with a mysterious entity in the neighboring stall.  Staring into Holes month kicks off with  Glorious, a cosmic, mystery horror film that takes place in a rest stop bathroom. This movie stars Ryan Kwanten who plays, Wes, who's feeling down afte...

A video uncovers the torture of a woman over 10 horrific stages by two men. In the last week of Fucked Up February 2026, we discuss Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment, a found footage style movie and a film that is not for the faint of heart. This movie has had a lot of hype due to the graphic nature of a woman being tortured over 10 different stages throughout the duration that escalate in their...

A killer gathers more sick and twisted degenerates to continue the violent rampage and capture everything on camera. Another week of Fucked Up February and we discuss another extremely fucked up movie. This week, it's August Underground's Mordum, which is the follow-up to the 2001 found footage horror movie,  August Underground.  In this one, they crank up the grotesque nature of the vio...

A cleaner takes a corpse home to spark his romantic life and find fulfillment. In Fucked Up February, anything can happen including the combination of necrophilia and romance. Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantik is a shock value horror movie that is a response to movie censorship at the time and explores desensitization to violent and disgusting cinema. The film blends comedy and horror in a unique...

The events of a tragic night in Paris are unveiled in reverse. Irreversible is the first move of Fucked Up February for 2026 and it's a strong start to an always disturbing month. Gaspar Noe's camerawork, lighting, and creative storytelling are on full display in this movie as he reveals the horror of one night's events in reverse, creating more shock as the movie continues. Monica...

Teens headed to a football game find themselves holed up in an almost abandoned town with an odd wax museum. It's the 300th episode and to cap off Mike G's Wet Dream Month, we are discussing  House of Wax . This movie is a loose remake of House of Wax from 1953 and that movie is a remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum from 1933. As a movie that often gets some hate, we've always said...

After a young girl discovers a mysterious box that is able to grant wishes, she starts to experience deadly consequences at the cost of fulfilling her desires. Wish Upon  is a guilty pleasure teen horror movie that we have spoken about quite a bit and are happy to discuss it. While it's not a perfect movie and has a lot of plot holes, it's a fun time with classic horror cliches, crazy ki...

A group of friends start receiving voicemails from their future selves just moments prior to their deaths and then they start to die one after another. One Missed Call is the remake of a 2003 Japanese horror movie from director Takashi Miike and after watching this movie again, we come to the same conclusion. This movie has an interesting concept, but poor execution with a convoluted storyline, pl...

Two high school friends crash a Y2K party in the hopes of getting laid, but as midnight arrives, the night takes another direction in the form of a computer assimilation plot. Y2K is a late 90s nostalgia trip, bringing us back to when we remember hearing about a technological apocalypse in the new millennium. This film explores the idea of computers taking humans over, leaving it up to high school...

A dark and twisted spin on everyone's favorite holidays in an anthology exploring traditions and what we've come to know and love. Holidays is a horror anthology that tells 8 tales based on several popular holidays including Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween, Christmas, and New Year's Day. This film has a strong dir...

Two children stay at their family cabin along with their father's girlfriend during a snowstorm. Tensions heighten when odd events occur which shakes their troubled relationship. The Lodge  is a heavy movie that explores grief, loneliness, and guilt set in an isolated cabin in the middle of a snowstorm and delves into how these complex emotions can affect an already fragile relationship. The...

A cloaked man pays Diane and her family a visit on Christmas Day and he ensures this is a Christmas they'll never forget. Every once in a while, there comes along a movie that has such a bizarre plot, you can't help, but watch it for the craziness. Red Christmas is not only a holiday horror movie, but it also has one of the weirdest, most insane slasher backstories we've ever heard...

Killer toys, programmed by an older toymaker who works along with his son, are designed to kill children. Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker may be even more bizarre to watch than the last Silent, Deadly Night movie if it's possible. In a series with little to no continuity or identify, this installment features a drunken, elderly toymaker making toys programmed to kill children. A y...

After Winnie, puts an end to a killer in her town, life is meaningless. When she wishes she wasn't born under the aurora, she's transported to a parallel universe where life is going on without her and it's not promising. It's a Wonderful Knife is a Christmas horror slasher that is a parody of It's a Wonderful Life and pays homage with its own spin on the story. The film f...

After the arrival of strange creatures who use their strong hearing to hunt, a family fights to stay alive by living their lives in silence.  A Quiet Place is directed by John Kraskinsi, who also stars in the film alongside Emily Blunt. While not his directorial debut, it's Krasinski's first horror movie and he makes an impact on the genre immediately. In what many, including us, believe...

Two young Mormon women discuss their faith in the house of a strange man who has plans to make it a night no one will forget. Heretic is a psychological horror movie like no other led by a strong and unlikely, Hugh Grant, performance. The film also stars Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East who also deliver strong performances in a movie that's highly dialogue-driven, but tense throughout. From the...

Although Jigsaw is dead, the games continue as Lieutenant Rigg is tested in order to save his colleagues. Saw IV  is the fourth installment in the Saw series and although it's not the best of the series, it's still fun and has tense moments and creative traps. As huge fans of these movies growing up, we love watching them and feeling the nostalgia of one of our favorite horror franchises...