July 07, 2025

Shooting the Flames July '25: Popcorn Trauma, Queer Family, and the Mystery of Helen Who Bottoms Carter

45 minutes

We're kicking off our Michael Crichton Summer with our regular Shooting The Flames episode, where we cover all your comments and questions, along with all the latest horror news and trailers!

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News:

Mel Brooks’ Back In Action

Sequel to Spaceballs https://tinyurl.com/bddfjy5c

TV series based on Young Frankenstein https://tinyurl.com/patwkds4

Yet Another The Stand adaptation? A single theatrical film is in the works for the very, very long novel https://www.joblo.com/doug-liman-the-stand-movie/

M3Gan 2.0 underperforms with 10m opening: https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3886154/m3gan-2-0-crashes-at-the-box-office-with-10-million-opening-what-happened/

Trailers

Dracula (Luc Besson, Christoph Walz, Caleb Landry Jones, in French Theaters July 30th): https://youtu.be/JBYPPNPhuVg?si=PoC_FZGqAD9vhVbN

Sketch (In Theaters August): https://youtu.be/6ru4xaU_cHc?si=L_o580-_cXfmpCZa

Alien Earth (Streaming on Hulu August): https://youtu.be/ZbsiKjVAV28?si=puWDSnUwGOVRBC3-

The Black Phone 2 (Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames et al, in Theaters October): https://youtu.be/v0kqkRZHqk4?si=9z7PSxx-RmGoBSeK

Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth, Jacob Elordi, in Theaters November): https://youtu.be/E4WR_oFDqxM?si=71q0Fyr9YPzc7-gb

Omukade (Japanese Folklore, Thailand Horror, Coming Soon): https://youtu.be/JBYPPNPhuVg?si=U4_T7cWMQ0TNzPSw

Running Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD18ddeFuyM

Out this Month:

Congo (1995)

Sphere (1998)

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