Cult Macabre

On this week's episode we are talking about John Carpenter's The Thing, starring Kurt Russell. Released in 1982, this sci-fi horror film centers on a team of researchers in Antarctica who encounter an extraterrestrial life-form that is capable of assimilating then imitating other organisms. This leads to the group experiencing mass paranoia and conflict as they learn that they can no longer trust each other and that any of them could be the eponymous "Thing."

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On this episode we are discussing Zach Cregger's horror film Resident Evil, wherein our main protagonist Bryan (played by Austin Abrams) is a medical courier tasked with delivering an unknown high priority item to Racoon City, Colorado while fighting through an outbreak of infected monsters.

This adaptation of the franchise features fresh characters in a story taking place around the events of Resident Evil 2 (the video game) in a modern timeline, while aiming to capture the survival horror elements of the games with a focus on the physical mutations caused by the infectious outbreak.

Did the movie live up to the hype for you? Lets find out if the filmmakers understood the assignment.

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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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