Today we discuss Joel Schumacher's comedy-horror cult classic, The Lost Boys. In the film, teenage brothers Sam and Michael move to the fictional town of Santa Carla, California with their mom and slowly find out that it is a home to a gang of vampires who seek to grow their "family." Inspiring future synthwave artists and rock bands with its sleek soundtrack, this is truly considered to be the "rockstar" of vampire films. It also launched the career of Corey Haim, established the beginning of the "Two Coreys" (Corey Haim and Corey Feldman), and cemented Kiefer Sutherland as a major player in Hollywood.

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On today's episode, we read a Creepypasta entitled "The Cornfield". Originally submitted to r/nosleep in 2010 by Karina Young (Redditor dum-di-dum), the story centers on two classmates and a revenge prank gone wrong within a cornfield.

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Our Summerween Spectacular heads to the midwest! Today we talk about the 2023 found-footage folk horror film Frogman. In it, a fledgling filmmaker named Dallas sets out with two friends to capture the legendary Loveland Frogman cryptid he once encountered on a family vacation in 1999.

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On today's episode we continue our Summerween Spectacular series with the lore of the Loveland Frog, aka the Loveland Frogmen. This bipedal, amphibious animal was supposedly encountered several times in the vicinity of Loveland, Ohio between 1955 and 1972, and once again in 2016.

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Our Summerween Spectacular continues on in the form of a holiday hike from hell with David Bruckner's 2017 film, The Ritual. This psychological folk horror follows a group of old college friends reuniting for a hiking trip in a remote area of Sweden where they encounter an ancient evil presence.

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This week we kick off our Summerween Spectacular with The Burning. Released in 1981, and often compared to Friday the 13th, this summer slasher takes place in upstate New York where an abusive camp caretaker named Cropsy is horribly burned from a prank gone wrong at Camp Blackfoot. Five years later, he returns to Camp Stonewater with garden shears, seeking revenge on those responsible for his disfigurement.

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Today we conclude our liminal/analog horror series with Late Night with the Devil starring David Dastmalchian. Set on Halloween night in 1977, the film follows the events of an episode of "Night Owls," a late-night talk show, in which its host Jack Delroy (Dastmalchian) attempts to boost ratings by inviting an allegedly posessed girl onto the show.

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Our Liminal/Analog month continues as we discuss the experimental horror film Skinamarink, directed by Kyle Edward Ball. Set in 1995, a young brother and sister wake up during the night to discover that their father has disappeared along with the windows, doors, and other objects in their house while also being tormented by a mysterious entity.

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Today we kick off our Liminal/Analog Horror month with Backrooms from A24. Inspired by the Creepypasta of the same name and based on the webseries by Kane Parsons (who also directs this feature length version), the film follows a man's psychological descent into madness as he enters a surreal, extradimensional space, and his therapist's attempt to save him.

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On today's episode it's 4/20, and we are talking about the parody slasher Scary Movie (2000). The film is mainly a spoof of both Scream (1996) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) mixed with other movie/pop culture references in and around the years surrounding its release.

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