Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

By Henrique Couto | Scary Stories & Horror ExpertTrue CrimeFictionDrama
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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween episodes

  • Christmas Horror Books with Cameron Chaney of Library Macabre
    Build a darker December reading pile with Henrique Couto and Cameron Chaney of Library Macabre. Their Christmas horror conversation includes R. L. Stine’s “Silent Night,” “Secret Santa” and the anthology “Hark! The Herald Angels Scream,” moving between holiday slashers, horror comedy and unsettling winter fiction. Cameron also discusses his own “Autumncrow High: Fresh Hell.” This book-focused episode explores the pleasure of getting comfortable with a story designed to make you uncomfortable. Familiar traditions, snowbound nights and carefully wrapped gifts can all hide something worth reading after dark.

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    1 hr 22 min
  • Christmas at the Psych Ward: A Killer Santa Stalks Sumpter Behavioral Health
    A Santa-suited killer turns a snowbound psychiatric ward into a maze with no easy exit. Bruce Haney’s “Christmas at the Psych Ward” follows Caleb and fellow patients at Sumpter Behavioral Health Center as communications fail and they must rely on one another to survive. Holiday isolation becomes an immediate threat, forcing Caleb to confront his despair while other lives depend on his choices. This Christmas slasher story combines friendship, vulnerability and the fight to be believed when help is out of reach. Contains suicidal themes and graphic violence.

    Sponsored by HenFlix.com.

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    38 min
  • Doorway to Horror — A Cursed Movie Leads to a Vampire Dimension
    A Christmas movie night opens a doorway into a town full of vampires. In Rob Fields’s “Doorway to Horror,” Mouse, Arial, Mona and Bailey watch an unfamiliar disc at a holiday sleepover, then find Strickfield changed beyond recognition. The sky stays dark, familiar faces are hungry and the film that might take them home has vanished. This feature-length cursed-media adventure combines alternate realities, vampire survival and the friendships that hold the Strickfield stories together. Finding the disc means crossing a place that remembers their faces for entirely different reasons.

    Sponsored by HenFlix.com.

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    1 hr 6 min
  • Terrifying & True | Ronald Gene Simmons: The Christmas Familicide & Arkansas Mass Murder
    Ronald Gene Simmons killed sixteen people in Arkansas during Christmas week in 1987. Terrifying & True follows the family isolation and abuse preceding the murders, the killings at the household and the later attacks in Russellville. Written by Morgan Moore, this episode examines the investigation and court proceedings without losing sight of the relatives, children and coworkers whose lives were taken. A holiday gathering became part of a plan built around control and grievance. What warning signs surrounded Simmons before the violence reached its final days? We're telling that story tonight.

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    16 min
  • Unknown Broadcast | Cold Storage & Murder Comes at Midnight — Gothic Graves and Maritime Peril
    A mother declared dead is still alive, and her son wants to keep his inheritance. “Cold Storage” opens four vintage radio dramas with a Gothic family secret, followed by the seafaring revenge of “Habit,” a rented country house in “Murder Comes at Midnight” and John Dickson Carr’s crime puzzle “Nothing Up My Sleeve.” Unknown Broadcast gathers CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Inner Sanctum and Suspense, with Ruby Dee and John Baragrey starring in the first tale. From a concealed captive to a captain steering toward danger, familiar routines become cover for motives nobody should trust.

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    2 hr 12 min
  • A Christmas to Remember — A Snowbound Road Trip Becomes an Organ-Theft Nightmare
    A Christmas drive home ends in a snowy ditch, and the strangers who stop to help have something else in mind. Joe Solmo’s “A Christmas to Remember” follows a man returning north after nearly a decade away. His pickup overturns on the New York State Thruway, leaving him injured, freezing and desperate for rescue. The figures approaching through the blizzard seem like his only chance—until their conversation turns toward what they can take from him. This holiday body-horror story makes roadside help an organ-harvesting nightmare. What will a Christmas miracle cost someone else?

    Sponsored by HenFlix.com.

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    23 min
  • Cutting Deep Into Horror | Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984): Killer Santa, Trauma and Controversy
    A childhood trauma, a Santa suit and a disastrous holiday shift turn Christmas into a slasher nightmare. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit “Silent Night, Deadly Night” (1984) on Cutting Deep Into Horror, discussing the film that made a murderous Santa one of horror’s most notorious seasonal images. The conversation explores its disturbing setup, holiday atmosphere and place in Christmas horror, with spoilers for the movie. Join the hosts for a closer look at how cheerful decorations and familiar traditions become part of Billy’s terror—and why this dark December staple still provokes discussion.

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    2 hr 7 min
  • Christmas Horror Movie Watchlist — Gremlins, Deadly Games & Darker Holiday Picks
    Build a Christmas horror watchlist with Henrique Couto and David Denoyer as they talk through seasonal films that put monsters, murder and mayhem beside the tree. Their picks include “Gremlins,” “Deadly Games” (also known as “Dial Code Santa Claus”) and “Black Xmas” (2006), spanning mischievous creature chaos, a child’s fight against a holiday intruder and a bloodier return to a slasher setting. This movie conversation offers a route beyond a single killer-Santa formula. Find a familiar favorite to revisit or a stranger holiday discovery, with two horror fans explaining what makes their choices worth a winter night.

    Sponsored by HenFlix.com.

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    1 hr 50 min
  • The Mall Overnight — Christmas Horror at Strickfield Towne Centre
    An overnight decorating job traps Arial Mirren and her friends inside a shopping mall with something made to hunt them. Rob Fields’s “The Mall Overnight” turns a Christmas chore into a Strickfield monster story when the group’s punishment keeps them in the building after closing. The empty corridors offer little comfort once Vincent Frankenstein’s creation enters the picture. Queer friendship, holiday horror and a vampire experiment collide beneath the seasonal displays. The friends came expecting an unpleasant shift. Surviving until opening time will take more than finding the nearest exit.

    Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.

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    1 hr 40 min
  • Introducing: Do You Even Movie? | Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984): A Slasher Hunts London’s Santas
    Someone is murdering London’s Santas in “Don’t Open Till Christmas” (1984). Henrique Couto and David Denoyer unwrap the British holiday slasher on Do You Even Movie?, discussing its grimy atmosphere, conspicuous suspects and chaotic production. Directed by and starring Edmund Purdom, with Alan Lake and Caroline Munro, the film turns a festive costume into a target. Join this spoiler-filled conversation about an unusually seedy Christmas whodunit and its place on a darker December watchlist.

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    1 hr 7 min

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