LHR: I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, Glory Daze, Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension

I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, Glory Daze, Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension
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For our latest Lunch Hour Review Mindy suffered through The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) and for some reason the newest installment in the Paranormal Activity series, The Ghost Dimension, but turned it around with her dive into the Glory Daze (2016), a documentary about Michael Alig and the NYC party monsters. Darren thoroughly enjoyed Oz Perkins's atmospheric poem of a film, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016).

100th Episode! Meta-Horror!

Meta Horror: Meta-Horror! New Nightmare, Scream & Cabin in the Woods
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For our massive 100th Episode we explored Meta-Horror with Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Scream (1996), and Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods (2012). (Including material from our live Tweet with fans for New Nightmare.) We also shed a little light on perhaps the first Meta-Horror movie, Rolfe Kanefsky’s There’s Nothing Out There (1991).

“Not in my Movie”: The 90s Slasher Cycle and Grrrl Power by Alexandra West 

Horror Film and Psycho Analysis; Freud’s Worst Nightmare by Jonathan Crane

Watch Copycat, the story of Rolfe Konefsky's There's Nothing Out There.

The Nitehawk Shorts Festival

The Nitehawk Shorts Festival Midnight
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We review our outing to The Nitehawk Shorts Festival and a chat with Sam Zimmerman about Shudder's role in selecting the films for the fest. We go over our favorite horror shorts, name-checking directors with focus on the strong outing by women filmmakers.

Check out http://nitehawkshortsfestival.com/2016/ & https://www.shudder.com/

GDT Presents: The Orphanage, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark & Mama

GDT Presents The Orphanage, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark & Mama
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Happy Halloween! Moving between Halloween, and Día de los Muertos we feature a few films produced by Guillermo del Toro. Our focus this time- stories centered around the perspective of the children in The Orphanage, Mama & Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. #MacabreMonday