The Fright Lab

Have things gotten too spooky in the city again? Maybe our third trip to the waterfront this year will be better, since we are staying at The Beast House. (Check notes) Oh no, not again!

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It wouldn't be October without a rewatch of John Carpenter's classic Halloween. This seminal slasher has become part of the historical canon of Horror. In this episode we are going to finally the all-important question: Why?

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Shiraiishi Koji's Noroi: The Curse is one of the best examples of the early J-Horror Boom that occurred in the United States. Does it still have the same power? Lucas is also thinking about the role of culture in Horror and NoroI is a great in-road into that discussion.

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A trio of Journalism student have made some very poor decisions in reporting the affairs of a remote village. This is a great setup for a tight, ugly Folk Horror...but is Tunisia's first International Horror outing more than that? Folk Horror is pretty popular around Fright Lab HQ, so there is plenty of ground to cover with this one.

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The late 1970s was a good time for Horror in the U.S. But no movie from that time period has a reputation for weirdness quite like Phantasm. Why is that? And why is this film discussed less than other so-called Horror classics?

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A castle on ancient Saxon grounds is the home to new experiments on recording technology...but there are other residents in the castle than the scientists. Who is recording who? The BBC was really doing alchemy in this era with ghost stories. And Lucas loves a good haunting.

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The V/H/S series is practically an institution on Shudder and in the Horror world. So how does this newest outing stack up to earlier iterations? Lucas wants to analyze this and more!

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Marie needs to go to where her late mother is buried. But this island is more than a mere relaxing little resort town. It's much worse and much, much darker. So pack your bags and let Lucas take you on the world's worst family errand... Don't forget your toothbrush!

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"Oh my God, they're back." Not only is this one of the first lines of the film, but also the perfect encapsulation of Lucas' feelings when this movie landed on Tubi. It's clear that the crew had time to mature and work in more forgiving conditions than the first film. Does that translate on screen?

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Making movies is a hard job, doubly so during a global pandemic. Do these constraints make or break Horror in the High Desert? Can fictional films do proper justice to real life events? We covered this back in our series on Horror Cinema Verité, but didn't give this movie much air. Time to change that.

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