This Week In Horror History Episodes

This Week in Horror History for May 11–17 brings together a loaded week of horror movie anniversaries, Stephen King adaptations, Universal Monsters, zombie outbreak horror, slasher sequels, kaiju blockbusters, and modern home-invasion terror. Inside this episode: • May 11, 1936 — Dracula’s Daughter Universal Horror gets one of its strangest and saddest vampire follow-ups, turning Dracula’s legacy into a chilly story of blood, inheritance, repression, and the desperate hope that evil might be c...

This Week in Horror History for May 4–10 dives into a killer week of horror movie history, slasher movie anniversaries, cult horror films, horror comics, survival horror games, and classic monster adventure. This episode revisits the bloody legacy of Friday the 13th, the 2005 remake of House of Wax, the serial-killer comic-book mystery Nailbiter, the retro survival-horror game Crow Country, and this week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight: The Burning, one of the most brutal and underrated 1980s camp slasher ...

This Week in Horror History for April 27–May 3 dives into a packed week of monster movies, vampire cinema, Stephen King adaptations, teen witch horror, found-footage terror, fake true crime, and killer-plant science fiction. Inside this episode: April 27, 1956 — Godzilla, King of the Monsters!: The American cut that helped turn Japan’s atomic monster into a worldwide horror icon, reshaping Gojira for U.S. audiences and introducing countless viewers to Godzilla’s radioactive roar, city-smashing s...

This Week in Horror History for April 20–26 dives into a packed week of horror release dates, anniversaries, cult favorites, and modern genre hits—from Vacancy (2007) and Silent Hill (2006) to The Hand (1981), Until Dawn (2025), and this week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight, The Dark Half (1993). - April 20, 2007 — Vacancy: stripped-down motel horror, snuff-film panic, and one of the nastiest little studio thrillers of the 2000s. - Where to watch (U. S., this week): PlutoTV; rentable on Amazon, Apple TV, ...

This Week in Horror History for April 13–19 dives into a killer stretch of horror release dates, anniversaries, cult favorites, horror gaming, and one of the most divisive occult fever dreams of the 2010s. We’re talking American Psycho, The Amityville Horror, Jakob’s Wife, Sker Ritual, and a Deep-Cut Spotlight on The Lords of Salem—plus horror birthdays, a Then & Now bite, and a weekly recommendation with Green Room. Inside this episode • April 14, 2000 — American Psycho Mary Harron’s razor-sha...

This Week in Horror History is your weekly horror release-date roundup, with where to watch or stream (U. S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation for fans of monster movies, supernatural horror, survival horror, cosmic horror, Stephen King, and cult favorites. This week brings A Quiet Place, Oculus, Critters, Scary Movie 5, and The Void—a lineup packed with silence-driven terror, cursed mirrors, hungry little monsters, horror parody, and blood-slick cosmic nightmare fuel. Inside ...

This Week in Horror History is your weekly horror movie and horror game release-date roundup, with where to watch or play (U. S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation for fans of body horror, supernatural horror, Stephen King, cult horror, survival horror, and horror documentaries. This week brings Slither, Cat People, Cursed Films, Pet Sematary, and Resident Evil 3—a lineup packed with alien parasites, erotic transformation, cursed-production mythology, grief-driven resurrection ...

This Week in Horror History (Mar 23–29) is your weekly horror release-date rundown—with where to watch (U. S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for nights when you want your horror mean, chaotic, and just a little contaminated. This week we’ve got desert-mutant survival horror, a killer video game movie with pure mid-2000s cursed-object energy, a found-footage livestream nightmare that spirals beautifully out of control, and one extremely angry flock proving that pastora...

Final Destination, Dawn of the Dead, Us & The Hearse (Mar 16–22) anchor a week-by-week tour of horror releases, anniversaries, and genre milestones. This week we’ve got franchise-launching paranoia, turbo-charged zombie apocalypse energy, polished...

This Week in Horror History (Mar 9–15) is your weekly horror release-date rundown—with where to watch (U. S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for nights when you want your horror a little meaner, stranger, and more paranoid. This week we’ve got killer kids, franchise reinvention, slow-walk supernatural dread, survival-horror blockbuster energy, and a deep-cut faux-documentary that feels eerily ahead of its time. Inside this episode ✅ Horror releases from Mar 9–15 Mar ...

Nosferatu, Angel Heart, The Mangler, Zodiac & Pontypool (Mar 2–8) anchor a week-by-week tour of horror releases, anniversaries, and genre milestones. This week we’ve got silent-era vampire plague dread, occult noir doom, a killer laundry machine, and...

This Week in Horror History (Feb 23–Mar 1) is your weekly horror release-date rundown—with where to watch (U. S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation for that weird stretch where winter won’t let go. This week we’ve got small-town paranoia, social terror, a survival nightmare in the pines, and love at the end of the world—plus a Deep-Cut that turns disbelief into the monster. Inside this episode ✅ Horror releases from Feb 23–Mar 1 Feb 26, 2010 — The Crazies Romero-era paranoia w...

Freaks, House on Haunted Hill and Army of Darkness (Feb 16–22) anchor a week-by-week tour of horror releases, anniversaries, and genre milestones. This week we’ve got haunted-house showmanship, toy-factory dread, medieval deadites, and vampire rock-star chaos—plus a studio-era Deep-Cut that still feels like a dare. Inside this episode ✅ Horror releases from Feb 16–22 Feb 17, 1959 — House on Haunted Hill William Castle + Vincent Price turn a party invite into a deathtrap: five strangers, one ...

Love isn’t soft this week — it’s sharp. In Valentine’s Week Horror History (Feb 9–15), we trace the anniversaries where romance curdles into obsession, suburbia turns sinister, and the holiday’s heart-shaped sheen hides something mean underneath. Inside this episode (Quick Hits + Spotlight): - Feb 11, 1981 — My Bloody Valentine: blue-collar slasher dread in a mining town where the tunnels feel alive and the “tradition” is murder. (U. S. this week: free via Kanopy / buy-rent on major VOD.) - Feb...

This Week in Horror History covers February 2–8 with cursed media, haunted farmland, home-invasion terror, possessed children, and a deep dive into one of John Carpenter’s strangest nightmares. The release-date rundown begins with “The Messengers” (2007), a supernatural farm story where the land itself seems hostile, before revisiting “Rings” (2017) and its attempt to carry a deadly videotape curse into the age of online media. The conversation also looks at “The Strangers: Chapter 3” (2026), t...

Travel back through January 26–February 2 with This Week in Horror History—a horror history podcastcountdown of horror movie anniversaries, a Stephen King milestone, and winter-week picks built for being snowed in. Quick Hits (Jan 26–Feb 2): - Jan 26, 1996 — Screamers: killer machines evolve fast on a war-torn planet. Where to watch: Free w/ ads on TubiTV, plus rent at the usual suspects, or watch free with your Amazon Prime membership. - Jan 27, 1989 — Parents: suburban dinner-table dread wit...

A horror history podcast trip through January 19–25, when the winter slump gets mean and the genre leaves fresh footprints in the snow. This week’s creepy calendar run includes classic creature feature chaos, a modern psychological thriller hit, a creepy doll shocker, a claustrophobic space-horror video game, and a found-footage landmark that changed horror marketing forever. Inside this episode (Quick Hits): - Jan 19 (1990): Tremors — a creature feature that burrowed its way into cult legend....

Primeval, DeepStar Six, Scream (2022), This Wretched Valley, and Cloverfield anchor January 12–18 in horror history, spanning killer-crocodile terror, underwater monsters, slashers, folk horror, and found footage. Inside this episode (Jan 12–18): - Jan 12, 2007 — Primeval: a killer-croc creature feature with a nastier real-world edge than it first appears. - Jan 13, 1989 — DeepStar Six: underwater sci-fi horror where technology goes too deep… and something down there answers back. - Jan 14, 20...

Start the year with killer dolls, museum monsters, Arctic dread, and survival horror at full sprint. In this week’s This Week in Horror History (January 5–11), we’re tracking the releases that shaped modern fear—then diving deep into one of the meanest “new apartment” nightmares of the 1970s. Quick Hits (Jan 5–11): - M3GAN (2023) — the AI “best friend” who decides safety means control… permanently. Where to watch (U. S., this week): Streaming on Peacock; also available to rent/buy on Apple TV,...

New Year’s horror, horror movie history, and messages from the other side—welcome to This Week in Horror History, the weekly horror podcast where we track what happened on these dates across film, books, and cult classics. In this episode, Henrique Couto follows a haunting thread that runs straight through the holiday: a phone that calls from the future, a killer hiding in the power grid, a cursed ghost anthology, and the original “new year, new monster” that’s been chasing us since 1818. This w...

Step into This Week in Horror History and relive the nightmare fuel of December 22–28: a Christmas-week collision of alien infiltration, true-case exorcism lore, and paranoia-soaked sci-fi horror. This episode digs into: - Dec 25, 1998 — The Faculty: the ultimate ’90s teen alien horror—teachers acting wrong, bodies getting swapped, and the school turning into a trap. - Dec 22, 1978 — Deep-Cut Spotlight: Invasion of the Body Snatchers: a remake that doesn’t just update the story—it infects it wi...

Bundle up, my spookies—this week’s This Week in Horror History digs into Christmas horror movies, winter ghost stories, and festive frights from December 15–21. We’re hanging the stockings and turning off the lights as we revisit the classics that made the holidays just a little more terrifying. We kick things off with Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (1974), a black-and-white horror-comedy love letter to the Universal Monsters era. It proved that audiences were happy to unwrap creepy laughs duri...

Horror movies, holiday slashers, and classic monster mayhem collide in this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering December 8–14 in spooky cinema. We dig into the releases, icons, and deep cuts that shaped horror long before Christmas morning ever arrived. This week’s watch list includes: - Christine (1983) – John Carpenter’s sleek, icy adaptation of Stephen King’s killer-car novel. We look at how this haunted Plymouth went from a modest box office performer to a cult favorite thanks ...

The first week of December isn’t just for cozy rom-coms and twinkling lights. On this episode of This Week in Horror History, we dig into the spooky side of December 1–7, charting travel nightmares, cursed deserts, classic Universal monsters, and a knife-clawed college mascot turning school spirit into a bloodbath. We kick things off with Turistas (2006), the mid-2000s travel horror where a dream backpacking trip in Brazil plunges into organ-harvesting terror. It’s that “don’t get on the bus” e...