Cherry Pop Horror

"I don't wanna waste your time."

Well this week's movie certainly didn't waste our time as Jake and Myself discuss our first watch of Train To Busan (2016)

Seok-Woo is a successful salary-man, he has his own office, he makes good money but what he doesn't have is the love of his family; his wife has left and his daughter Su-An thinks she's a waste of his time. They board a train to reunite Su-An with her mother when they're hit suddenly by a zombie outbreak. Their only option is to head for Busan, a salvation that the military has made...but the infection is already spreading quickly through the carts of the train.

So say goodbye to Granny, practice your baseball swing and try not to make a sound as we clack along the tracks of Train To Busan (2016)

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You don't understand, the hellscape has brinner!

Destiny is back this week and this time it's my first watch of Coraline (2009)

Young Coraline (Dakota Fanning) is a bit of an odd child but it's more than that, she's a bit of a lonely child. Her parents push her aside, choosing their work over affection and attention. This seems to be the norm until Coraline finds a passageway to another world and in it another version of her Mother, her Father and the residents of her new home the Pink Palace Apartments with one big difference; that being everyone in this world is perfect and has replaced their eyes with buttons.

The local black cat (Keith David) warns her that this new world isn't quite as good as it seems and soon the façade begins to melt away.

So settle down with a cup of jasmine tea, laugh yourself silly being tickled by snapdragons and eat raw beets to grow your strength as we journey into the crawlspace with Coraline (2009)

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Is the Boogeyman real?

Ryan has come again to tackle another older film, this time the legacy slasher - Halloween (1978)

Michael Myers killed his sister one night with a kitchen knife and has spent the better part of 15 years in a mental institute, never speaking a word...until one stormy night he escapes. Laurie (Jaimee Lee Curtis) is just your regular high school student and tonight she'll be earning a couple of extra bucks babysitting little Tommy. She won't be alone though as he friend Annie is babysitting right across the road. Everything seems fine, except that Laurie has attracted the attention of an unwanted stalker...Myers is following her and it won't be long until he makes his move.

So make yourself some buttery popcorn, sit down to watch John Carpenter's 'The Thing' and maybe take longer than a few short seconds to please your lady as we stalk our way through Halloween (1978)

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Leave the jack-o'-lanterns lit, they keep the dark spirits away.

Dylan has returned again and it's their first time watching Trick 'r Treat (2007).

We journey through an anthology of a movie this week. A group of girls work to find dates for a party, Danielle trying to finally get her sister Laurie (Anna Paquin) to lose her virginity. A couple of school kids are collecting jack-o'-lanterns to honour a school bus tragedy that took place 30 years ago. The local Principle schools kids on the importance of following the Halloween rules. A grouchy old man (Brian Cox) deals with a home-invader. And somewhere in town a black robed figure is ready to claim another victim. All these stories intertwine with small vignettes between and yet somehow the whole thing joins together in a beautifully macabre mix of horrors.

So carve yourself a pumpkin, check your candy bars and don't play hard to get as we roam our way through Trick 'r Treat (2007)

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It sure is an unlucky day.

Jade is back again but this time we're taking on a true legacy horror - Friday The 13th (1980)

A group of councilors arrive at an old abandoned camp to start getting it ready for the campers who'll arrive in just a few short weeks. There's gutters that need replacing, walls that need painting, archery ranges to set up and a pantry to stock. What no one seems to have told them is that this camp was closed for a reason; first a kid drowned in '58 then in '59 two councilors were stabbed to death in the barn...but hey we just hit 1980 so there's probably nothing to worry about.

So sneak out with your crush for a quick make-out session, slowly make yourself a cup of instant coffee and row a canoe to the center of the lake as we chat about Friday The 13th (1980)

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A ghost story brought to life in the early days of Tim Burton.

Kat returns again and is very excited about our first Holloween Special - Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Icabod (Johnny Depp) is a man of science but in 1799 the world is so convinced of their own righteousness that there's no room for proof. Due to his insistence Icabod is sent to the town of Sleepy Hollow where a series of brutal beheadings have taken place. There he teams up with Katrina (Christina Ricci), daughter of the town's patron and a young boy; Masbath. Together the trio must solve the murders, find out the identity of the Headless Horseman and put a stop to the attack.

So have a secret rendezvous in the woods, give a kiss to the pickety witch and mind your head as we talk Sleepy Hollow (1999)

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They have brought damnation upon themselves.

Jess is back with our first look at a movie based on a game - Silent Hill (2006)

Mother Rose is extremely worried about her young daughter Sharon, who has been having a series of nightmares and calling out the name of an old coal mining town; Silent Hill.

Thinking it may be the only way to save her Rose takes a trip with Sharon to the deserted town against the suggestions of her husband Chris (Sean Bean). While there Sharon disappears and Rose must follow a trail to find her while dodging seemingly unexplainable monster which arrive with the call of an air-raid siren. Luckily she's not alone as police officer Cybil (Laurie Holden) aids tracking down the lost little girl. When they learn of a local church group it seems help is close at hand...the town isn't quite as abandoned as they'd been led to believe.

So coddle the coal-babies, swing a scalpel at a nurse or two and tip your hat to pyramid head as we wander Silent Hill (2006)

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CHERRY-PIE, that means neither myself nor my guest had seen this movie before the podcast.

"I just wanted to be loved."

Kat D is back with another odd-ball movie, this time we both had our first watch of the Korean anime styled Beauty Water (2020)

Ye-ji has not got much self-confidence and comes to the conclusion that to succeed in life you must be beautiful. It all comes to a head when she's humiliated on live television and becomes internet famous as the "ugliest," woman.

An unknown benefactor sends her a bottle of Beauty Water, a strange beauty product that allows her to completely reshape and mold her form to whatever she finds most pleasing but this of course leads Ye-ji down a dark and twisting spiral where the only thing that matters is how 'prefect' her body is.

So eat yourself a plate of chicken wings, do a quick pirouette and swoon for the handsomest man as we talk Beauty Water (2020)

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Detention slip for you, detention slip for you...oh and one for you.

Jess D has joined me again for another wild ride, this time we sit down to talk Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992) - that's right before there was a hit TV series there was a movie.

Buffy is your typical popular high school student until she's approached by an old man who tells her she is the next Slayer. It's taken Merrick (Donald Sutherland) a little longer to find the Slayer in this incarnation and so they're short on time as Lothos has already begun to build a vampiric family of the undead. Buffy must train hard and with new allies Merrick and Pike (Luke Perry) take on this ancient evil. Friends become enemies and a high school dance becomes ground zero for a vampire's invasion of Los Angeles.

So slide into an awesome yellow leather jacket, practice your stake-throwing skills and start writing up those detention slips as we talk Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992)

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Gonna get some amazing pictures on this holiday.

Chelsea is back joining me again for another crazy feature, this time it's The Ruins (2008)

A group of friends on holiday in Mexico are offered the chance of a lifetime when they meet a German stranger at the pools whose brother is off exploring the ruins of an undiscovered Mayan temple. The friends Jeff, Eric, Stacy and Amy travel with Mathias and a Greek friend Dimitri to take a look at the previously unseen wonder.

Things seem immediately off as the trail is covered and they're met by hostile locals who force them up onto the temple where not but more horrors await.

So snap a couple of pictures, make a sizzle on the frying pan and track the sound of a ringing cellphone as we talk The Ruins (2008)

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