Necromancer

Part 2 of 2. Bret and Shira are back with the quintessential neighbor horror movie: Rear Window. It might as well be the quintessential quarantine movie too. A lot of us are in the same boat with Jimmy Stewart's protagonist: stuck at home with probably only one or two essential folks coming through to remind you that you aren't alone. Who wouldn't choose to investigate a possible neighborhood murder at this point? If murder isn't your jam though, never fear. The necromancers are here with some romantic reboots of this Hitchcock gem.  

Part 1 of 2. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Won't you join Bret and Shira for rom coms and horror movies featuring neighbors? Additionally, Necromancer is experimenting with a new format: splitting the theme into two episodes. First up is Shira's pick, What's Your Number? with a nice helping of horror remixes. Stay tuned for Part 2 featuring Rear Window later this week. 

The necromancers explore movies where animals steal the show. Having already crossed crocodiles off the list in Episode 9, Bret naturally selects Alligator for his horror pick. Shira on the other hand wants to know once and for all: what is The Truth About Cats & Dogs? Between giant sewer dwelling gators and the questionable ethics of strapping roller skates to a 90 pound dog, the pair find inspiration for their own remixes featuring four legged friends. 

Grab a slice of pizza and a nice Chianti because Bret and Shira are headed to Italy. As an Italian horror connoisseur, Bret has a lot to choose from but settles on Demons, an old favorite. He's not the only one feeling the nostalgia though as Shira lands on Cinema Paradiso, beautifully scored by the late Ennio Morricone. If you thought Italians were passionate about pasta shapes, just wait 'til you hear how they feel about movies!

Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is not coincidental because Bret and Shira are covering movies based on true stories! Is the truth about The Mothman Prophecies might be stranger than fiction? Are Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordan as charming in real life as they are in The Big Sick? Come for the answers and stay for the true stories turned crazy remixes! 

It's another actress themed episode and this time Bret and Shira are paying tribute to Halle Berry! Halle Berry! Halle Berry! Halle Berry! Whether she's on the hunt for serial killers in The Call or putting Eddie Murphy in his place in Boomerang, Ms. Berry has more than enough heart and nerve to touch these two genre movie fans. No actor episode would be complete without some original Halle Berry vehicles from our hosts and the darker the Berry, the sweeter the remixes. 

The Witching Hour has arrived and the necromancers are ready to celebrate a different kind of spellcaster. Are witches power hungry women who love cursing people or is that just anti-witch propaganda? Bret and Shira ponder this and more as they cover The Witches and I Married a Witch before brewing up their own witchey remixes. 

Bret and Shira just want to go back, back to 1999. The eve of Y2K was both a simpler time AND a legendary year for rom coms and horror movies. The duo discuss the meeting of two 90s screen icons in Notting Hill and then move on to paranormal thriller, Stir of Echoes. Is it just an excuse to resume the Kevin Bacon fan club they started in Episode 10? Maybe. Probably. Come for the Bacon and stay for this episode's radical remixes!

In honor of Father's Day, Bret and Shira let their dads pick the movies. The dads did not disappoint. Bret's dad knows a killer joke when he sees one in Motel Hell and Shira's dad sticks to the fundamentals with When Harry Met Sally. The necromancers finish with some remixes that prove these kids are not alright. 

Bret is a casual fan of anime while Shira considers herself a full on closet otaku but they both agree the medium knows it's way around horror and romance. If you're a horror fan, expect a master class in psychological terror from Perfect Blue, Bret's pick. But if you're really ready to play hardball with your emotions, stick around for Shira's rom com pick, Your Name. Anime is all about pushing boundaries. How cute is too cute? How violent is too violent? Is there a way to be both? This episode's off the wall anime remixes are no exception.