Paris brings the film that started it all for Mike Flanagan. In 2011, a struggling video editor living on the outskirts of Hollywood raised $23,000 on Kickstarter and made his last independent feature film. He said so himself in the pitch video. He had no idea how right he was.

Then Tommy closes out the Fred Dekker Double Decker. The Monster Squad fell between every audience it was aimed at, and made less than a third of its budget back at the box office. But the film found it's audience and they will, each and everyone remind you, Wolfman's got nards.

Paris brings the gothic soap opera that invented the sympathetic vampire. Dark Shadows ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971, attracted nearly 9 million daily viewers at its peak, and was condemned by evangelist Jack Chick as Satan's favorite TV show. Teenagers raced home from school to watch it.

Then Tommy brings House from 1985. Fred Dekker's 15 page treatment became a comedy horror film about a horror novelist who moves back into his aunt's house to write about Vietnam and ends up having to live through it instead. The House finds the exact wound and won't let go.

Paris brings the funniest TV show that never aired. In 1999, Ben Stiller, a then-unknown Jack Black, and a brand new writer named Dan Harmon made a pilot about an astronaut whose brain expanded after flying too close to the sun, on the run from NASA with his talking motorcycle voiced by Owen Wilson. Fox passed. It became the most expensive unaired pilot in network history, survived only through bootleg VHS dubs passed around Hollywood for over a decade.

Then Tommy brings the book with one of the greatest covers in pulp horror history and almost nothing else going for it. Toy Cemetery promises killer dolls. It delivers a satanic small town conspiracy, a possessed grandfather clock, and a plot so overstuffed it abandons its own premise within the first few chapters. Trigger warning required. Bring snacks.

Paris brings the book that invented the modern zombie before zombies existed. Richard Matheson published I Am Legend in 1954. George Romero called it his primary inspiration for Night of the Living Dead. Three film adaptations followed across forty years: The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man, and the 2007 Will Smith version. Every single one of them missed the point.

Then Tommy brings a movie that gets called one of the worst films ever made. The Garbage Pail Kids started as deliberately transgressive trading cards designed by Maus creator Art Spiegelman and painted by John Pound. The movie got pulled from theaters by an organized protest after 3 weeks. But it left a mark on the kids who found it on a VHS tape nobody else was watching.

Paris brings the series that drew up the blueprint. Rod Serling came home from World War II with a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, and something to say. The Twilight Zone ran from 1959 to 1964, introduced a forgotten episode written by Richard Matheson and became the most influential science fiction series in television history. Paris has seen every episode multiple times.

Then Tommy brings the book Flowers in the Attic, published in 1979. It spent 14 weeks (although Tommy says "14 months" on the episode - oops) on the New York Times bestseller list and made her a phenomenon almost overnight. Then she died seven years later. There are nearly 100 books with V.C. Andrews on the cover now. It is a gothic horror fairy tale about what happens when a dead man's values keep making decisions long after he's gone.

Paris brings a vampire Western that got buried by Lost Boys two months before it hit theaters. Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 debut featured forty night shoots, a cast pulled straight from Aliens and Bill Paxton as a hitchhiking vampire.

Tommy brings the book that launched a thousand school board meetings. Alvin Schwartz & Stephen Gammell at their finest. Folk horror dressed up as a children's paperback. The most banned book of the 1990s.

Paris brings a Stephen King original. Not an adaptation. An original screenplay King had been sitting on since 1966 about a small island cut off by a blizzard and a stranger named Andre Linoge who knows everyone's darkest secrets. Give me what I want and I'll go away. Storm of the Century premiered Valentine's Day 1999.

Then Tommy brings the first book published under the Point imprint. Christopher Pike's Slumber Party from 1985. Six teenage girls. One ski resort. Two 22 year old men. And a flare gun in a pine tree.

Paris brings a 2015 found photography horror film. An entire Arizona border town of 57 people is killed or disappears overnight. The only survivor is an undocumented Mexican immigrant covered in blood. The only evidence of what actually happened is 37 photographs of things that should not exist.

Then Tommy brings a 1975 psychological thriller with six Goodreads ratings. Diana Ramsay was a pen name. Her real name was Rhoda Rebee Brandes. Published by Collins Crime Club, the same imprint as Agatha Christie.

Then Tommy brings a 1975 psychological thriller with six Goodreads ratings. Joyce has just left her husband for a fresh start in her new Greenwich Village apartment. With a new job too it feels like the beginning of something. Then the woman upstairs never sleeps and her noise never stops. Joyce begins to drink and spiral. It was written under a pen name Diana Ramsay, and published by the same imprint as Agatha Christie.

Paris brings the movie that almost ended Guillermo del Toro's career. Mimic. 1997. Bugs genetically engineered to save New York City evolve to mimic humans. A great concept challenged by the Weinsteins. Bob Weinstein barged onto the set. The film flopped. But the new Director's Cut is worth streaming.

Then Tommy brings the book Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones. A 12 year old named Junior sees a figure in his trailer one night in full fancy dancer regalia. His father never danced. That was his dream that didn't happen. Deciding this thing is his Father, back to protect him, is where the horror starts. A Bram Stoker Award winning novella most people skipped on their way to The Only Good Indians. Don't overlook it.

Paris brings a show NBC didn't know what to do with. Eerie, Indiana aired in 1991, ran 19 episodes, and disappeared. A 13 year old moves from New Jersey to the strangest town in America and spends one season investigating it with his only normal friend. It's YA Twin Peaks shot on film. The episode about a humanoid ATM named Mr. Wilson giving a kid free money hits differently in the age of AI.

Then Tommy brings a book with Stephen King's name on the cover, but King didn't write it. Charles L. Grant did. The man who invented quiet horror, won two Nebula Awards, three World Fantasy Awards, and the title of World Horror Convention Grandmaster wrote the same book as Stephen King in the same year. Four novellas. Four seasons. 1982. They went head to head at the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.