Haunted Homebodies

B-horror, gruesome kills, and a plot built around a bad-ass final girl? Yes please! While this movie may lack a bit in polish, it makes up for it with lots of gritty, silly, sometimes even scary moments. Join us as we chat about this lesser-known 2011 slasher, You’re Next.

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Editor’s note: This episode is full of SPOILERS for Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. So, if you haven’t seen the movie yet, here’s your warning that ready or not. . .

Here we come! After some serious fangirling last week about the horror comedy masterpiece that is the first Ready or Not movie, we’re here to share all our thoughts on the sequel! Taking place immediately following the events of the first, two of our absolute favorites - Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood - make their appearance! This week, we’ll talk the updated setting, upgraded weapons, and the same amazing Samara Weaving. . .and also a bit about a goat.

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It’s time for our most cathartic theme yet. . .GOOD FOR HER. Join us as we dive into one of the great horror comedies of our time, Ready or Not. Today, we discuss absolute Scream Queen Samara Weaving, going head to head against a truly excellent cast of (overwhelmingly Canadian?) in-laws. . .I mean villains. . .all while wearing one of the most iconic horror movie outfits of all time. Is that a lot of hyperbole for one movie? Yes. Is it deserved? Definitely.

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Well, homebodies, we have reached the end of our SNOWBOUND theme and hopefully also the end of this brutal New England winter! We are celebrating by watching another episode of Ashley’s comfort show, Murder, She Wrote. But today, we will discuss the MSW episode widely considered the most brutal of all. Dare I say, this is the closest thing to a “slasher” episode that we get from this show’s very long run. So bundle up and grab one last cup of hot cocoa, as we watch Jessica Fletcher crack another case!

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It’s now April, but we are still covered in snow over in Haunted Homebody land! Join us as Ashley reveals yet another embarrassing and questionable young adult memory about another wintery Stephen King adaptation, Misery. Is Sara okay after watching *that* scene? You know the one… And were we wrong to assume that the King of Horror could ever be considered cozy? And do we ever actually answer any of these theoretical intro questions? Probably not, but we at least have a lot of fun trying.

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There was a time when, asked what our favorite cozy horror movie was, we may have said, first: what is cozy horror? And then, maybe… The Shining? But it is not this day. Today, we will be chatting all about this adaptation of the Stephen King classic, deciding whether we find this movie cozy and whether it still “hits the spot” as a wintery horror rewatch.

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The Donner Pass is named after one of the most harrowing and tragic tales in American history. Not surprisingly the area is now haunted AF. But it is not just ghost dogs and badass pioneer women who haunt this infamous area. It is also haunted by its own incredibly treacherous landscape, which just keeps proving that, even with incredible progress, in the battle of man vs. nature, nature will always win.

From creepy train tunnels with tragic origin stories to even more moments that make you ask, “How is this a real story and not part of some movie?”, we hope you enjoy the haunted history and happenings of California’s Donner Pass.

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown

Ripley’s: The Donner Party: Horror and Cannibalism in the Mountains by Engrid Barnett

The Haunted West: Ghost Hunt - Summit Tunnel No. 6, Donner Summit

The Union: Ghosts of the Donner Party

Tahoe Guide: Ghost Stories of Tahoe and Truckee

Smithsonian Magazine: When a Deadly Winter Storm Trapped a Luxury Passenger Train Near the Donner Pass for Three Days

Britannica: Sierra Nevada Mountains

Wikipedia: The Donner Pass

Most Terrifying Places: Unnatural World - The Travel Channel

Sierra College Press: Tamsen Donner: Dream to Legacy

Here Lies A Story: The Donner Party: Worse Than You Thought

Moon Shine Ink: Nitrogylcerine’s Explosive History on Donner Summit

Sierra Sun: Train Wreck: The 1936 Pacific Limited

Atlas Obscura: Donner Pass Summit Tunnels

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Howdy, homebodies! Are you ready for the trip of a lifetime? If you ever played The Oregon Trail computer game growing up (hey, fellow millennials!), then this episode will be right up your alley. If you also are a fan of harrowing cross-country treks, stories with real-life villains and heroes, and dark tales with lukewarm endings, then this episode is also for you. And if nothing else, the almost entirely tragic tale of the Donner Party will make you very appreciative of a warm, cozy bed. Grab a warm drink and an extra blanket, and enjoy the first and likely snowiest episode of our snowbound theme.

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown

Ripley’s: The Donner Party: Horror and Cannibalism in the Mountains by Engrid Barnett

The Haunted West: Ghost Hunt - Summit Tunnel No. 6, Donner Summit

The Union: Ghosts of the Donner Party

Tahoe Guide: Ghost Stories of Tahoe and Truckee

Smithsonian Magazine: When a Deadly Winter Storm Trapped a Luxury Passenger Train Near the Donner Pass for Three Days

Britannica: Sierra Nevada Mountains

Wikipedia: The Donner Pass

Most Terrifying Places: Unnatural World - The Travel Channel

Sierra College Press: Tamsen Donner: Dream to Legacy

Here Lies A Story: The Donner Party: Worse Than You Thought

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Editor’s note: This episode is full of SPOILERS for Scream 7. If you haven’t seen the movie yet and don’t want to know what happens, we’d ask you to… hold, please!

Scream…7?? Today marks what (at least currently) is the end of the Scream franchise, and boy oh boy, what a journey it has been. At this point, you know we are going to be talking through the opening scene, the cozy factors, the not-so-cozy factors, and the Ghostface reveal–there’s a formula to it, after all! But did we like it? Would we recommend it to a friend? Did Scream 7 finally “ruin” the franchise for us? It’s time to find out!

And if you’d like to see how this movie and the rest of the Scream franchise land in our personal rankings, become a paid subscriber to our Substack to find out. Our first bonus episode will be released very soon!

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New York Times: ‘Scream 7’ Controversies: What You Need to Know

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Can NYC serve as a cozy horror setting? Will a Scream villain’s motive ever truly make sense? How can you have a Scream movie without Sidney? And yet... is this the best movie of the franchise since the original? All great questions, but none better than Gale Weathers asking Ghostface, “Can you hold, please?”

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