HubrisWeen!

The Fiasco Family skipped prom, which is probably for the best. Look what happened to Carrie (1976).

The Fiasco Family has a culinary experience with the gore classic Blood Feast (1963).

The Fiasco Family falls into HubrisWeen with a grotesque version of Alice in Wonderland. You do not want to have the tea in Alice (1988).

We’ve done HubrisWeen episodes for 6 years now. How did it start? What were our favorites? In the true Fiasco Family spirit we each prepared a review of the show using completely separate approaches!

The world of the near future suffers the effects of overpopulation. With harsh penalties in place for violating Zero Population Growth (1972) mandates, one couple dares to have a child.

Losing time? People around you dying? Covered in blood? We’re afraid You Might Be the Killer (2018).

Things get heated on a remote farm when a film crew uses it as the setting for their X-rated picture (2022).

Boris Karloff portrays a wrongly executed man seeking vengeance in The Walking Dead (1936).

Gogol’s tale of a loutish seminarian who incurs the wrath of a vengeful witch is brought vividly to the screen in Viy (1967).

Can a construct become human? If it resembles us, can it truly become like us Under the Skin (2013)?

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Brand new tales and a brand new host bring new life to a classic horror anthology franchise in Tales from the Hood 3 (2020).

A lot of movies have people trying to rip off a young heiress using spiritual hoohah, but only Supernatural (1933) features an actual ghost possessing Carole Lombard.

First the living dead had their night. Then they returned, after which they returned once more. Now it’s the Return of the Living Dead III (1993), and we finally find out what coming back feels like.

A reporter and her cameraman accompany a fire and rescue crew on a standard medical call, little suspecting that they would end their night in Quarantine (2008).

On a rainy night just before a deadly massacre, a handful of strangers wait inside a bus station. Nerves fray and tensions mount as they discover that they are more similar than they first appear… in The Similars (2015).

It’s the night before D-Day, and allied troops are tasked with clearing a base before the assault. They expected a fight, but never imagined the horrors of Project Overlord (2018).

Angela’s throwing another party, and you’re all invited to the haunted mortuary for Night of the Demons 2 (1994).

There’s a lot going on right now. We’re halfway through HubrisWeen, John Saxon is sniffing around the house, my best friend is obsessed with this jerk… and oh yeah, I think My Mom’s a Werewolf (1989).

The first blush of young love… Or wait, is that from the cold? No. No, it’s blood. Oh dear. That’s what you get when you don’t Let the Right One In (2008).

It’s a different kind of Hammer vampire film when Van Helsing steps aside for the partly vampiric Kronos (1974).

When bad things happen, sometimes they just never stop happening. Such is the case in the J-Horror classic Ju-On: The Grudge (2002).

Things take a dark turn in small-town America, when a lot of patients start reporting that their loved ones aren’t who they used to be. Either there’s a rash of Capgras syndrome or it’s the Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

Free of her time loop from the previous movie, Tree falls into another loop for the same day but in a different universe. Everything is familiar but not reliably the same, in Happy Death Day 2U (2019).

An evil capitalist convinces an expert to undertake one more mission for him to rescue one of her loved ones who’d been looking for a fabled city. It’s like Congo, but instead of apes the Guardians of the Tomb (2018) are funnel-web spiders.

Eric Binford loves movies, especially old black and white films. When life doesn’t go his way, he tends to see red followed by a Fade to Black (1980).