What will make you murder your family and join a farming commune that worships an agricultural god?  IT’S CORN!!! (in 1984’s Children of the Corn).

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• ​Chambers, Jamie. "Troubling Folk Horror: Exoticism, Metonymy, and Solipsism in the "Unholy Trinity" and Beyond." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61 no. 2, 2022, p. 9-34. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cj.2022.0014. Accessed December 2022.
• ​“Children of the Corn (1984) KILL COUNT.” Youtube.com. Uploaded by Dead Meat, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwHr31znIXg 
• ​Children of the Corn (1984 film) Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Corn_(1984_film) 
• ​Children of the Corn IMDb: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087050/ Thurgill, James. “A Fear of the Folk: On Topophobia and the Horror of Rural Landscapes.” Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, no. 5, March 2020, pp. 33–56. Revenant Journal, The University of Tokyo, [online].

In honor of National Dog Day, we’re back in Maine to visit a man’s best friend…but a mother’s worst nightmare in Cujo (1983).

***CONTENT WARNING: harm against a child, harm against an animal, sexual harassment, domestic abuse  

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• Cujo (film) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cujo_(film) 

• Cujo IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085382/ 

• Eggan, Michele. “Noteworthy Heroines of Horror: Donna from Cujo.” Wickedhorror.com. https://www.wickedhorror.com/features/noteworthy-heroines-of-horror-donna-from-cujo/ 

• Kirchner, Donnie. “Nope, Nothing Wrong Here: A Look At Stephen King’s Cujo.” Horrorobsessive.com. https://horrorobsessive.com/2021/02/25/nope-nothing-wrong-here-a-look-at-stephen-kings-cujo/ 

Weapons is the talk of the town, but what is it truly about?  We won’t spoon feed you this one, just take a 2:17am stroll with us as we discuss the wigs, the witches, and the weaponry of Zach Cregger’s 2025 box office success.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of addiction, police brutality, gun violence, self-harm, harm against children

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• @JakeLubb. “I can’t stop thinking about it.” TikTok. https://www.tiktok.com/@jakelubb/video/7536302666998205709?lang=en 

• Weapons Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_(2025_film)

• Weapons IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26581740/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv

Welcome to Club Juke— where bloodlust means a killer playlist. The only sin about Sinners (2025) is if you haven’t seen it yet.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of racism, racial violence & discrimination, colonization, enslavement, hate groups

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Sources: 

• ​Anderson, Maureen. “The White Reception of Jazz in America.” African American Review, vol. 38, no.
• ​          1, 2004, pp. 135–45. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1512237. Accessed July. 2025.
• ​Hobson, Janell. “Blood Money, Blues Women, and the Power of Price: How ‘Sinners’ Rewrites the Gothic South.” Msmagazine.com. https://msmagazine.com/2025/05/08/sinners-feminist-film-review-black-women-history-power-south/. Accessed July 2025. Web.  
• ​Hoepfner, Fran. “The Women at the Heart of Of Sinners.” Vulture. 24 April 2025.  https://www.vulture.com/article/the-women-at-the-heart-of-of-sinners.html 
• ​Kabeya, Victoria. ““How the Theme of Racial Escapism made Mary the Only Survivor in ‘Sinners.’” Medium.com. https://medium.com/@editions.canaan/how-the-theme-of-racial-escapism-made-mary-the-only-survivor-in-sinners-ffa421a52649. Web. 
• ​McBride. “Hip-Hop Planet.” The Language of Composition. New York; Bedford, 2019. Pg. 301-311. Print.
• ​Sinners (2025 film) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinners_(2025_film) 
• ​Sinners (2025) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31193180/ 
• ​@Teppertoks. “Spoilerish warning! Yes im still thinking about this movie!!” Tiktok. 19 April, 2025. https://www.tiktok.com/@teppertoks/video/7495079197350612254?lang=en 
• ​The Eras & History Of Jazz Music" GreaterTorontoMusic.ca. Greater Toronto Music School, 2022.
• ​          https://www.greatertorontomusic.ca/post/the-eras-history-of-jazz-music. Accessed July 2025. Web.
• ​"Timeline." JazzInAmerica.org. The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz.
• ​          https://www.jazzinamerica.org/JazzResources/Timeline/. Accessed July 2025. Web. 

Lack of eye contact ratio continues to be a problem 30 years later for the young adults of Southport.  WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?  Listen to find out if the new person behind the slicker got slick-er in 2025’s I Know What You Did Last Summer.

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• Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Know_What_You_Did_Last_Summer_(2025_film)
  IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4045450/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv

All aboard the Antonia Graza where the entertainment is to die for and horrors are senza fine.  Travel back in time to a more grim time (2002) as we explore the seas in Ghost Ship.

***CONTENT WARNING: death of a child

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• Ghost Ship (2002 film) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_(2002_film) 

• Ghost Ship IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288477/ 

• Costa Concordia Disaster : https://www.britannica.com/event/Costa-Concordia-disaster 

Today we check another movie off Elyse’s “Never Will I Ever Watch” list where the aliens may not look at much, but they hear all.  Skip the bag of chips and don’t make a sound as we whisper through 2018’s A Quiet Place.

***CONTENT WARNING: death of a child

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• A Quiet Place IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6644200/trivia/

• 'A Quiet Place' Falls Into A Tired Trope About Deafness by Pamela Kincheloe: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-kincheloe-quiet-place-deaf-people_n_5ad10645e4b0edca2cb9acc6

• A Quiet Place: A Review from the Deaf Perspective by T. Frohock: https://www.tfrohock.com/blog/2018/4/23/a-quiet-place-a-review-from-the-deaf-perspective

• A Quiet Place Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place

• Toxic Masculinity and the Gender Politics of A Quiet Place by Shelby Boyer:

• https://saboyer.medium.com/toxic-masculinity-and-the-gender-politics-of-a-quiet-place-d114b3b23b0d

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Maxine Minx has gone Hollywood and is on the run from more than just Pearl and her farmhouse.  Enjoy the third installment of Ti West’s franchise with a view from the Hollywood sign in 2024’s MaXXXine.

***CONTENT WARNING: violence against sex workers, drug use, religious trauma, true crime involving sexual assault

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• Maxxxine IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22048412/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv

• “MaXXXine” Is a Fun Ride to a Predictable Party by Jenn Adams: https://femaleantagonist.com/maxxxine-is-a-fun-ride-to-a-predictable-party/

• MaXXXine’s True Crime References Explained: Who Is The Night Stalker? By Dani Kessel Odom: https://screenrant.com/maxxxine-true-crime-references-night-stalker-black-dahlia/

• Maxxxine Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaXXXine

In anticipation of the holiday weekend, we’re headed to the beach to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the summertime slasher that started it all: Jaws (1975).

***CONTENT WARNING: death of a child

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• Gambino, Megan. “The Shark Attacks That Were the Inspiration for Jaws.” Smothsonianmag.com. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-shark-attacks-that-were-the-inspiration-for-jaws-15220260/#:~:text=Joseph%20Dunn%20was%20luckier.,and%20Steven%20Spielberg's%20blockbuster%20film. 

• Geiling, Natasha. “The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis Triggered the Worst Shark Attack in History”. Smothsonianmag.com. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sinking-uss-indianapolis-triggered-worst-shark-attack-history-25715092/ 

• Jaws (film) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film)

• Jaws (1975) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/?ref_=ttfc_ov_i 

• Rutigliano, Olivia. “On the Endless Symbolism of the Best Summer Movie Ever Made: ‘Jaws’”.  Lithub.com. https://lithub.com/on-the-endless-symbolism-of-the-best-summer-movie-ever-made-jaws/ 

This month’s theme has been one hell of a ride, but we’re slowing to a stop to get a clear snapshot of death’s design in 2006’s Final Destination 3.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, 9/11

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• Final Destination 3 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414982/trivia/

• Final Destination 3 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Destination_3