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This week on patreon SJ, Dan, and Spaventa unpack what they unanimously think is the best new horror movie of 2023, the Australian supernatural possession film from A24, Talk To Me. They discuss how the embalmed hand is not traditionally spooky, how the movie achieves its rough and visceral violence, the unique Australian elements, and the terror of being filmed for tiktoks while under spiritual possession.

Talk To Me (2023)

Directed by Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou

Written by Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman

Starring Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanju, and Miranda Otto

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Happy Halloween! This week on patreon SJ, Dan, and Spaventa went to the see the new Exorcist movie at 1:30pm on a weekday. They discuss the questionable choices that ruin the big exorcism scene, the solid acting and production design, how most of the diversions from the original are misguided, one character we can't believe made it into the final cut, Ellen Burstyn's cringeworthy line about the patriarchy, and the late William Friedkin's message to director David Gordon Greene. Also Dan bought a repulsive movie hot dog. We get into it all.

The Exorcist: Believer (2023)

Directed by David Gordon Greene

Written by Petter Sattler and David Gordon Greene

Starring Leslie Odom Jr, Lidya Jewett, Olivia O'Neill, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, Ann Dowd, Ellen Burstyn, and Linda Blair

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Dan, SJ, and Spaventa discuss the relatively new Hulu alien horror film No One Will Save You for the second episode of our Patreon launch! They talk about which scenes feel like Home Alone, if the design of the aliens feels scary, comparisons to Signs, whether we think the movie would have done well as a theatrical release, acting without dialogue, Kaitlyn Dever's creepy dresses, modern horror's overreliance on trauma as character backstory, and the ending feeling like a birth control commercial.

No One Will Save You (2023)

Written and Directed by Brian Duffield

Starring Kaitlyn Dever

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To celebrate the launch of our Patreon we are releasing two bonus episodes this week! Dan, SJ, and Spaventa watch and provide commentary over the highly anticipated independent slasher Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey. You can enjoy this podcast whether you are watching the movie with us or if you're just listening, but if you want to watch the movie it's available to rent in all the usual places and is streaming on Peacock now (not an ad). The rights to the Winnie-The-Pooh children's book series went into the public domain in January 2022, providing a bulletproof legal defense that the filmmakers were not in fact stealing the likeness of a famous Walt Disney Company property. Will Christopher Robin be punished for abandoning Pooh? What grisly fate befell Eeyore? Are Pooh and Piglet cryptids or could they be masked men? All answers will be revealed in this  episode.

Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)

Written and Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield

Starring Craig David Dowsett, Chris Cordell, Amber Doig-Thorne, Nikolai Leon, Maria Taylor, Natasha Rose Mills, and Danielle Ronald

Sean Donnelly (Brand New Jerks podcast) joins Dan and SJ on the show this week to review the first movie in the dystopian horror franchise The Purge. They discuss their own Purge survival strategies, how the movie revitalized Ethan Hawke's career, Dan buying a sledgehammer for protection, the villains' mostly unexplained motives, and which scene feels very out of place.