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Tales of Horror changes things up this week with discussion about the Halloween franchise and it being shopped around in a bidding war around Hollywood. The team also discusses who their favorite horror directors are, if the horror genre is masochistic against women and, in none horror news, we celebrate the end of the writers strike after 146 days! The team then wraps things up with box office predictions for Saw X.

Tales of Horror continues with the directorial debut of Eli Roth, Cabin Fever, which is also celebrating its 20th anniversary. Starring Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, Joey Kern, and Giuseppe Andrews, the film follows a group of college graduates who rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a flesh-eating virus. Helping us out with this latest Tale of Horror is Redfox of the Super Slash Bros podcast and he’s more than ready to go all in on this flesh-eating tale of terror.

Links For Guests: Super Slash Bros Podcast, Super Slash Bros Twitter

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Tales of Horror continues with the late 90s fan-favorite slasher film, Urban Legend, which is also celebrating its 25th anniversary! Directed by Jamie Blanks and written by Silvio Horta, the film stars Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, Michael Rosenbaum, Robert Englund, Joshua Jackson, Loretta Devine, John Neville, and Brad Dourif, and it focuses on a series of murders on the campus of a private New England university, all of which appear to be modeled after popular urban legends. Helping us out with this latest Tale of Horror is Zack Cherry, horror movie junkie and host of the Cherry Picker podcast with a YouTube following that has topped 130,000 subscribers!

Links For Guests: Cherry Picker Podcast, Zack Cherry Instagram, Zack Cherry Twitter, Zack Cherry Patreon 

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Jackson and Gaius continue spooky season with another Tale of Horror courtesy of the 2016 Korean horror film, The Wailing. Written and directed by Na Hong-jin and starring Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee, the film centers on a policeman who investigates a series of mysterious killings and illnesses in a remote Korean village called Gokseong in order to save his daughter. Tales of Horror not only showcases horror films but it also highlights other horror podcasts and the pair is thrilled to be joined with the guys from the Halloween Is Forever podcast, Brian and Steve.

Links For Guests: Halloween Is Forever Podcast, Halloween Is Forever Instagram, Halloween Is Forever Twitter

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Even though we’re in the middle of spooky season, Gaius and Jackson are still here to give you the news on this special episode which focuses on the expose that revealed Rotten Tomatoes scores could be easily manipulated. In addition to this news, the duo is breaking down eight new trailers that include the second trailer for The Exorcist: Believer, followed by the trailers for No One Will Save You, Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving, The Bikeriders, Saltburn, The Killer, & Ferrari.

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Spooky season has officially started on Back To Blockbuster and we’re excited to kickoff two months of a horror movie takeover with Wolf Creek, a 2005 Australian horror film written, co-produced and directed by Greg McLean. Starring John Jarrat, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, and Kestie Morassi, the film follows three backpackers who find themselves taken captive and subsequently hunted by Mick Taylor, a sadistic, psychopathic, xenophobic serial killer, in the Australian outback. Spooky season will not be complete without other horror fans to help us out so we’re excited to be joined by Alex and Dean of the Return Revenge Resurrection podcast! 

Links For Guest: Return Revenge Resurrection Podcast, Return Revenge Resurrection Instagram

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Gaius and Jackson look back at one of cinema’s greatest grudge matches between two horror movie icons in Freddy vs. Jason for the film’s 20th anniversary. Directed by Ronny Yu and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the film is a crossover between the A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises and it puts their respective antagonists, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, against each other. Freddy has become weakened and forgotten because the citizens of his home town Springwood have defeated him by using medications to repress dreams. Freddy awakens Jason to stir up fear and grow his powers so that he may return and kill again but Jason turns out to not be easily controlled as Freddy initially thought and the two supernatural mass murderers come into a major conflict. Starring Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena, Kelly Rowland, Jason Ritter, Chris Marquette, Katharine Isabelle, and more, the pair look into the film’s impact at the time of its release, the movie’s long journey to the big screen, performances, favorite scenes and more!

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WELCOME TO THE O.C. BITCH! Gaius and Jackson are looking back at The O.C. for its 20th anniversary, a series that began running on August 5, 2003, and concluding after four seasons and 92 episodes. Starring Ben McKenzie, Adam Brody, Mishca Barton, Rachel Bilson, Peter Gallagher, Kelly Rowan, Melinda Clarke, and Tate Donovan, the series centers on Ryan Atwood, a troubled and gifted young man from a broken home who is adopted by the wealthy Cohen family in the high-class world of Newport Beach. The duo look back at the phenomenon the show became, its impact on pop culture, how it influenced future teen shows moving forward and how it holds up today. In addition to The O.C., the pair also cover news at the top of the show regarding Twitter users thinking Sandra Bullock should give her Oscar back for The Blind Side due to the real family’s recent drama, the controversy over Maestro and its alleged use of ‘Jewface’ and Bonnie Aarons wanting fair compensation over merchandising for her likeness being used in The Nun.

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Back To The Blockbuster is starting spooky season with a look back at Halloween: H20 for its 25th anniversary. Directed by Steve Minrer, the film stars Jamie Lee Curtis, LL Cool J, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Josh Hartnett, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Adam Hann-Bryd, Janet Leigh and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and finds Curtis returning to the role of Laurie Strode 20 years after the release of the first film. Suffering from post-traumatic stress, Laurie has faked her death in order to go into hiding from her murderous brother, Michael Myers, only to have him find her working at a private boarding school in California. We didn’t celebrate this milestone alone so friend to show Mark J. Park of the Release Date Rewind podcast is back to discuss this return of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode while we’re joined by Halloween fan and new friend of the show Wes as we discuss how the film performed in 1998, various production issues, its decision to ignore the sequels without Jamie Lee Curtis, how it stands up against Halloween 2018 and more!

Links For Guests: Release Date Rewind Podcast

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This week it’s Gaius’ pick and he and Owen are deep diving into 2003’s Shattered Glass, written and directed by Billy Ray. The film is based on a 1998 Vanity Fair article of the same name by H.G. Bissinger and chronicles Stephen Glass’s fall from grace when his stories for The New Republic were discovered to be fabricated. The movie stars Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Hank Azaria, Melanie Lynskey, and Rosario Dawson, and the pair dive into aspects of the true story, the film’s performances, a difference of opinion of Christensen’s performance and how the subject matter makes for an enticing film about journalism and how it as changed in the years since this event and the film.

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