BUDDIES, WE DID IT. The game was perfect, your hosts are nearly dead, but we have worshiped daily at the altar of horror from the dawn of October 1st to the midnight hour of Halloween. In our final episode on our October lineup, we discuss these movies: Smile 2 (2024), Ju-On (2003), Carrie (1976), Terrified (2017), Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988), Frankenstein (2025), You're Next (2011), Midsommar (2019), and Rec (2007). 

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The end of the perfect game is near! Can you believe it? It's HALLOWEEN, the greatest day of the year, and yeah we are having a SAW themed halloween party. We had some club bangers and some absolute duds in this batch, so let's get into it! Covered in this stretch of TPG are Strange Darling (2023), Scream 2 (1997), Alien: Romulus (2024), Cabin in the Woods (2012), Dawn of the Dead (2004), and Satanic Hispanics (2022). 

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Wellllll hello buddies welcome back to THE PERFECT GAME and this week, Katie is...sick as a dog, and oh boy does it show. With one half of our dynamic podcasting duo functioning at about 30%, we do our best to muddle through the next seven movies in our Perfect Game (tm): Pet Sematary (1989), Scream (1996), Prometheus (2012), Hell House LLC (2015), Slither (2006),  The Descent (2005) and Trick 'r Treat (2007).

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Welcome Buddies, to THE PERFECT GAME. And yeah, it's slowly killing us a little bit, but we'll do anything in pursuit of The Bit. For the first week of TPG, and yeah, it's got its own initialism, we watched the following: Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Calibre (2018), Hausu (1977), The Long Walk (2025), Child's Play (1990), Host (2020) and V/H/S/ Halloween (2025). That's so many movies, but fear not, we have sooooo many opinions. 

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We're back! After a brief hiatus in the desert, Katie and Cyrus triumphantly return to regale our precious listeners with tales of all the horror properties we watched on our vacation - Alien Earth S1E1 (2025), Alien: Covenant (2017), The Ritual (2017), and The Night House (2020). Also included are the plans for the rest of October,m our "perfect game", and weird transatlantic announcer accents. 

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This week, Cyrus and Katie sit down for a movie with that starts out promising and turns into a total disjointed trainwreck - not unlike this podcast! All You Need Is Death (2023) has everything - affairs, folk music, an old lady in a cupboard, shadow monsters, gender weirdness, and PUPPETS. Come on down and shame Cyrus for being a hiking pervert, listen to our hot takes about bad movie titles, and where to get yourself a Temu vaginoplasty. 

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A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.

Horror movies can be about a lot of things - grief, loneliness, change, the unknown - but sometimes, horror is about a scary thing being REALLY, REALLY BIG. Alligator is a movie that says "the alligator is very scary in its natural habitat, so let's take it out of that habitat and have it just sort of gingerly waddle around a scale model of a city". It's a movie with 3/5ths of an alligator puppet, a lead actor with a rapidly receding hairline, and a really very bad sequel. We also talk briefly about Crawl, which was actually decently scary, if you're scared of alligators, which Katie, unfortunately, is. 

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Determined to outshine her beautiful stepsister, Elvira resorts to extreme measures to win the prince's heart in this dark re-imagining of the Cinderella fairy tale.

We're jumping to the U's for a second to bring you guys Den Stygge Stesøsteren (2025) - The Ugly Stepsister for us English speakers, and this one is a DOOZY. Y'all, this one is so good. It's so gross. It's so good and so gross. A beautiful body horror nightmare that had us literally squirming in our seats and nauseated just thinking about some of the scenes. Love that for us. Also mentioned are the SAW escape room, children's literature academic Maria Tatar, and how many wieners and buttholes should be in Cinderella. 

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A group of artists' lives become unwittingly entangled as their obsessions and insecurities manifest monsters, demons, and death.

We're back in it buddies, this time with Allegoria (2022), an anthology movie directed by a man named SPIDER ONE and if that's not enough to get you interested, well, we're just wildly different people then. This week, Cyrus and Katie pick apart this low-budget anthology piece and while it's a little unfocused, we liked it's solid acting and decent dialogue! Come by to hear about our chicken woes, our beef with Wikipedia, and the ballad of Mr. Crispy Marshmallow. 

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"During the final throes of the last Carlist war, a little girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman who lives deep inside the forest."

All The Moons is a Basque film, and the first vampire movie to be covered on Shudder Buddies (if you don't count our bonersode on Sinners (2025), which I do not) and it's....well, it's a slow, contemplative, meditative take on the vampiric condition. Beautifully shot, well-acted, well-cast, and from a region we knew very little about, this movie has a lot to recommend! It's a little bit of a slog for our tastes, but we're big horny dummies who like our movies full of blood covered titties, so, we're probably the ones who are in the wrong here. 

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