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  • Episode 117 - The Offering (2022)
    The son of a Hasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife in hopes of reconciling with his father. Little do they know that an ancient evil lurking inside a mysterious corpse has sinister plans for their unborn child.
    18 min
  • Episode 116 - The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
    Something’s wrong with Emily Rose, a college student from a devout Roman Catholic family in the Midwest. Once a happy-go-lucky girl, she has started seeing strange visions, falling into body-contorting convulsions, speaking in strange voices and mutilating her body. Doctors at first suspect epilepsy or psychosis. But when Emily does not respond to medical treatment, her family and the Catholic Archdiocese suspect something more sinister: demon possession. Father Richard Moore, the family’s priest, is called in to perform the rite of exorcism to rid Emily of her demonic tormentors.
    Father Moore is not successful. Emily dies. And Moore is charged with negligent homicide.
    The Archdiocese wants the case to go away and hires hotshot defense attorney Erin Bruner to work out a plea agreement. But Father Moore will have none of it. He insists on telling Emily’s story, even if it means he will not be granted bail and is likely to be convicted in the process. His attorney, whose belief in things supernatural is so shaky she only thinks she’s agnostic, is presented with the perplexing dilemma of having to defend a man who believes in things she can’t even begin to imagine. (Father Moore says to Erin, “Demons exist whether you believe in them or not.”) The ensuing courtroom showdown pits the sureties of faith against the presuppositions of science—a true clash of worldviews.
    19 min
  • Episode 115 - Alien (1979)
    In the distant future, the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo are on their way home when they pick up a distress call from a distant moon. The crew are under obligation to investigate and the spaceship descends on the moon afterwards. After a rough landing, three crew members leave the spaceship to explore the area on the moon. At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship's computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a distress call. When one of the eggs is disturbed, the crew realizes that they are not alone on the spaceship and they must deal with the consequences.
    26 min
  • Episode 114 - Saint Maud (2019)
    There but for the grace of God goes Maud, a reclusive young nurse whose impressionable demeanor causes her to pursue a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud's fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward's soul from eternal damnation - whatever the cost. Making her feature-film debut, writer/director Rose Glass cannily lures the audience into this disturbed psyche, steadily setting up her veritable diary of a country nurse for an unnerving and ultimately shocking trajectory. Morfydd Clark portrays the sanctimonious Maud with an intense stoicism that belies a disquieting vulnerability, as Maud desperately vies for absolution and solidarity from her embittered patient.
    Glass tenderly captures this relationship with an empathetic gaze that first assumes an ethereal, dreamlike atmosphere--but before long, Maud's dogmatic candor incites an irreconcilable friction that spirals her mind into a suffocating confluence of creeping doubt and paranoia. As Glass tightens the screws on her misguided martyr, well-placed nods are made to religious horror forerunners like William Friedkin's "The Exorcist," further contributing to the film's increasingly dread-filled malaise. And when this insidious fever climatically breaks, the consequences are devastating and terrifying in equal measure
    23 min
  • Episode 113 - Sinister (2012)
    In the 2012 horror film "Sinister," true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt (played by Ethan Hawke) moves his family into a new home, hoping to uncover a captivating story for his next book. However, his fascination with the macabre takes a twisted turn when he discovers a box of disturbing home videos in the attic. As Ellison delves deeper into the chilling footage, he realizes that they depict a series of brutal murders linked to a mysterious supernatural entity. As his obsession grows, Ellison unwittingly puts his family at risk and becomes entangled in a terrifying web of evil forces that threaten to consume them all.
    In this episode of 100 Horrors, find out if we think that the film that was once found to be "the scariest film ever" in a 2020 study lives up to the hype!!
    27 min
  • Episode 112 - Barbarian (2022)
    Released in 2022, Barbarian follows Tess, a woman who rents an Air BnB in a rough part of Detroit only to find that the guy who plays Pennywise also has the place booked. While yes, this is by no means the worst thing that has ever happened to anyone in an airBnB, Tess is still understandably upset by this and so they spend an awkward night getting to know one another. It naturally turns out though, that they are not alone in there...
    But Barbarian isn't just a film of frights and shock value, it's also a powerful commentary on a complex social dynamic in the wake of the #MeToo movement giving the film a dimension that a lot of modern horror *CoughSMILEcough can only dream of.
    Amazing performances from Justin Long, Bill Skarsgard and Kathryn Hunter push this film to the top of 2022's best horror list, and an interesting slit narrative firmly cements it there, but does that actually mean that we liked it? You'll have to tune in to episode 112 of 100 Horrors to find out!
    Overall, Barbarian is an experience that will leave you breathless and terrified, but also give you plenty to think about long after the credits roll. So if you're a fan of horror films or just looking for an intense, adrenaline-filled ride, Barbarian is a must-see.
    27 min
  • Episode 111 - Smile (2022)
    Released in 2022, Smile
    follows a therapist (played by the hilariously named Sosie Bacon) who starts to
    experience a series of frightening that are connected to a supernatural entity
    that feeds off of people's negative emotions – at least, that’s what a quick Wikipedia
    summary of the film says anyway. I’ll be honest, I was so bored watching it
    that I had no idea what was going on as I battled against the will to slip into
    a coma to preserve my own sanity.
    While the movie has all of the classic horror movie ingredients,
    it somehow manages to bring the sum total of nothing new to the table. The
    story is predictable. The ending feel unmotivated. The delivery feel
    underwhelming.
    Sosie Bacon gives a decent performance as the protagonist, but
    her character, just like the rest of the characters, is one-dimensional. If you’re
    having trouble sleeping maybe give this one a whirl. It should send you off in
    no time.
    21 min
  • Episode 109 - Cloverfield (2008)
    After becoming an instant cult classic after its release in 2008, Cloverfield has enjoyed its post release life bathed in a nostalgic glow. With a mosnterous budget of $25 million, Cloverfield was found footage like we had never seen before. With only The Blair Witch Project to compare it to, its easy to see how audiences may have been tricked into thinking that this was a hyper budget blockbuster.
    Hugely ambitious, the movie pits a monster that is part dinosaur, part spider, and part octopus against a terrified New York City where it shoots explosive acid, breathes fire, and rip buildings buildings and people apart with its mouth. It even spawns hundreds of micro-monsters which infact anyone they bite with a body bursting illness... and yet... its so dull.
    Not aging well is something we all have to face, and while it might have aged better than some of its cast members have (we'll let you guess which one we're talking about), it isn't exactly Pamela Anderson in her later years. Years of found footage and real-world footage of national and global tragedies have really taken the sting out of this one's tail, and so we won't be rushing to watch it again any time soon.
    17 min
  • Episode 109 - Midsommar (2019)

    When I first saw Midsommar, I was in a cinema with Paul, and as the film drew to its beautiful, horrifying and oddly joyous ending I knew I had just witnessed one of the best horror films that will ever be made. With Midsommar, Ari Aster takes a story that has been told before (it's basically The Wicker Man) and tells it so well that it becomes a beast all of its own.

    I collected my things, walked toward the exit and the woman in front of me said "That was rubbish. What a load of shit". This woman had sat and shovelled popcorn into her mouth loudly throughout the film. She had laughed loudly as the sex scene had aired. She had loudly asked "What the fuck is happening" as the communes women had gathered around Dani and screamed in sadness with her, sharing her guilt.

    She, was an idiot.

    This film is not for everyone. I very rarely get on my high horse about movies (there's a time and a place for the Maniac Cops and Evil Deads of the world) but I genuinely think that this is the thinking man's horror. It rolls forward at a sinfully slow pace. It pulls no punches with its blatant foreshadowing and terrifying imagery. It toys with convention to such an extent that I'm not even sure its even a horror film anymore. All I am sure of, is that this absolutely deserves its spot waaay up at the top of the 100 Horrors list.


    39 min
  • Episode 108 - His house (2020)
    His House tells the story of a refugee couple who escape war torn Sudan only to find new struggles whilst adjusting to their life in an unforgiving English town. Not only do they face the natural terrors of being in an alien land, suddenly becoming an ethnic and cultural minority and having to deal with the putrid undercurrent of racism that runs silently through every interaction they have with their new countrymen, there's also a witch in their house, so... you know... they've had better days...
    While the haunted house genre has been done to death, His House somehow manages to breathe new life into stale narratives, exploring all too real themes of trauma, guilt, and identity through the lens of immigration and cultural clash. The film shows the horrors of war and displacement, as well as the challenges of assimilation and integration. The film also incorporates elements of African folklore and mythology, such as the apeth or night witch, a vengeful spirit that follows the couple and demands a debt to be paid.
    It is an astonishing debut from Director Remi Weeks, and is quite frankly one of the best best British horror films ever made. We'd love to know what you think!
    Mr Daryl French guests. Cheers Dazlad.
    37 min

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100 Horrors is an award winning comedy podcast that seeks to rank the best one-hundred horror films of all time (as dictated by a poster that one of us owns). Every week we bicker over another film in…