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Horror knows exactly what to do with warm weather. It
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sends you to a motel where the shower isn't safe.
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It sends you back into the water when you should
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absolutely no better. It turns the biggest comic book sequel
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in the country into a gothic freak show. And then,
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just when you think the week can't get any stranger,
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it opens a spaceship near Haley's Comet and brings something
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hungry back to Earth. This week, we're talking about fear
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as a marketing event. Lines around the block, posters you
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Couldn't escape, summer releases that taught audiences to be nervous
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about bathrooms, beaches, villains and rubber masks, crowds that move
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like a wave of teeth, and beautiful strangers who might
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be draining the life out of life. So check the people,
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stay out of the ocean. And if a space mission
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brings back something too perfect to be human, maybe don't
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get close enough to find out. Welcome back to this
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Week in Horror History, your weekly time machine through the
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creepiest anniversaries in film, TV, books, and games. I'm your host,
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Enrique Kuto, and this week is June fifteenth through thirty
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first Coming Up, Hitchcock rewrites the rules of movie going
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and basically teaches America how to be afraid of a shower.
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A Shark sequel proves that Amity Island has the worst
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tourism board on Earth. Tim Burton drags a famous suit
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hero into a wintery carnival of trauma cats and penguins,
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and Brad Pitt runs from a zombie apocalypse that moves
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less like undead shufflers and more like a human flood. Then,
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after the break, our deep cut Spotlight takes us to
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June twenty first, nineteen eighty five, when Tobey Hooper canon
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films Haley's Comet and space Vampires collide in one of
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the wildest cult horror outings of the decade. June sixteenth,
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nineteen sixty. Psycho opens at the de Mille and Baronet
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Theaters in New York, and Alfred Hitchcock does something brilliant.
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He makes the audience part of the machine. No late
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ad missions, no spoilers, no sneaking in halfway through and
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asking your friend what you missed. That policy made Psycho
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feel like an event before people even knew what it
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really was, and once they did know the movie changed
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horror forever. It took the monster out of the castle
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and put him behind the front desk. It made a
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cheap motel feel mythic, and it turned one ordinary bathroom
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into the most famous crime scene in cinema history. And
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something a lot of people don't realize about Psycho and
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why their marketing campaign was so truly unique, is in
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the early days of cinema, it was very common for
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people to join a film already in progress, especially when
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it was one of the only public spaces where for
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a small fee you could experience air conditioning. That alone
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got a lot of people in the seats. But back
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in those days, it was very common to buy a ticket,
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go see movie, regardless of where in the run time
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the movie is, and if you liked what you saw,
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you would stay for the second show and watch what
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you missed. That's the way cinema was in the early
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days for many moviegoers. But Psycho saying no one would
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be admitted after the first ten minutes of Psycho or
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something like that, I'm paraphrasing that was a huge deal
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and the beginning of American audiences deciding that they wanted
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to see a film from beginning to end in the cinema.
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That's a big deal. Psycho cost roughly eight hundred and
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seven thousand dollars and became the most profitable film of
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Hitchcock's career, with about thirty two million dollars domestic and
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around fifty million in total gross, often cited across releases.
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I don't think I have to tell you what a
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classic Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho truly is, but if I do, well,
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you should definitely be watching it tonight, maybe with the
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lights on. Unless you think black and white movies won't
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scare you, because they will. It's available to rent or
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buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
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June sixteenth, nineteen seventy eight, Jaws two hits theaters and
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asks the immortal question after the last giant shark disaster,
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why is anyone still swimming near Amity Island? No Spielberg
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this time, and the magic is different, but the core
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anxiety is still nasty. The water looks normal until it's not.
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Roy Scheider's Brodie is trapped in the most frustrating horror
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movie position of all the guy who's right but sounds
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crazy because nobody wants the scary thing to be true.
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The sequel was huge for its moment. It cost about
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twenty to thirty million dollars depending on the source, and
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ultimately made around one hundred and eighty seven point nine
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million dollars worldwide, proving the Shark still had box office teeth.
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I think it's a nice change of pace from watching
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the first Jaws film every summer to get that summertime
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vibe of beach, sand, sun and well bloody water. So
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if you haven't seen Jaws two in a while and
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you need a revisit, or you've never went into the
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water again, it's available to watch with your Stars membership,
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or you can of course rent or buy on Prime Video,
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Apple TV and fan Dang Fandang Fandango Dango Dango Dango
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at home. Hey, what do you want me to do?
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I have to say it so often. June nineteenth, nineteen
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ninety two, Batman returns arrives, and if we're being honest,
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it is basically a Christmas horror fairy tale. Wearing a
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superhero cape for flavor, Tim Burton takes Gotham and turns
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it into a black snow, snow, globe sewer layers, circus gangs,
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stitched leather, abandoned children, corporate monsters, and a penguin who
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feels less like a villain and more like a nightmare
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somebody left in the basement a little too long. I
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know this one may be a little controversial, but of
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all of the Batman films, especially of that era, I
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think Batman Returns does bring the horror vibes the most,
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and it was a major hit, about two hundred and
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sixty six point eight million dollars worldwide on an eighty
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million dollar budget. But it was also a bit too
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strange and kinky and grotesque and sad for the toy
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isle version of Batman that most people were expecting, which
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of course is exactly why horror fans appreciated. And if
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you don't remember just how horror esque Batman Returns is
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or you've never seen it somehow, it is streaming currently
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on HBO Max with your subscription, and of course you
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can rent or buy it on Prime Video, Apple TV,
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and Fandango at home. June twenty first, twenty thirteen, World
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War Z hits theaters and The Zombie Outbreak gets Blockbuster speed.
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These are not shambling graveyard ghouls. These things climb and
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swarm and pour over walls like panic has become a
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weather system. The production story was famously messy with rewrites
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and reworked ending, but the finished movie did manage to
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connect with audiences. It made about five hundred and forty
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point five million dollars worldwide on a reported one hundred
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and ninety million dollar budget, becoming one of the biggest
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zombie films ever released. And while yes it has a
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lot more of the big budget sheen of a of
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a high end action movie and a big and a
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big star in Brad Pitt, at the end of the day,
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it's about zombies chomping guts, so it's still worth your time,
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especially if you've never seen it. It's currently streaming on
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Paramount Plus with your subscription, and of course to rent
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or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at
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home on weekly Spooky Our mini series Summer of the
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Demon has already turned Camp Redfeather into a nightmare of blood, football, revenge,
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and something wearing a cursed jersey. Eddie Peewee Richter already
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survived the Demon once, but now he's learning the truth
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maybe even worse than he imagined, because maybe the monsters
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stalking the camp isn't who he thought at all. Tomorrow,
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in part three, we start digging deeper into the mystery
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behind the jersey, the missing body, and the people who
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knew the Demon before he became a monster. Their search
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leads them back to Strickfield, to the empty room of
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the demon's ex girlfriend, and a hidden journal that changes everything.
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Who really stopped the Demon that night over a year ago,
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who took the jersey? And if the Demon isn't Greg,
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then what the hell is it? The answer comes with
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a body count. As the Demon is done waiting in
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the shadows, He's tearing through Camp red feather in the
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broad daylight. He's turning practice fields into killing grounds, and
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when a scrimmage becomes a slaughter, he re finds himself
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exactly where the Demon wanted him all along. Summer of
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the Demon Part three drops tomorrow on Weekly Spooky, So
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make sure you're subscribed, And if you've missed the previous parts,
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don't worry. They're waiting for you on the feed. So
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get ready for some summer scared with us, because the
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Demon is ready to finish the game. All right, my spookies,
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let's take a quick breather. When we return, we're leaving
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the beach behind and heading deep into space because on
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June twenty first, nineteen eighty five, a film opened in
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US theaters and asked one important question, what if the
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end of the world derived from space and looked impossible
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to resist? All right, we're back, so let's get into it.
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On June twenty first, nineteen eighty five, Life Force opens
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in US theaters, and somehow one movie manages to combine
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Haley's comment, alien vampires, naked cosmic seduction, zombie like plague victims,
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London destruction, and Canon Film's access into one absolutely unhinged
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and delightful cult movie. This is Toby Hooper after the
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Texas Chainsaw massacre and Poltergeist, working on a much bigger
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and stranger canvas, completely unleashed, and Life Force feels big,
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in fact, in some ways too big. This is part
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of the charm. Though It starts with a space mission
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investigating a massive alien craft hidden near Haley's comet. The
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astronauts find preserved humanoid bodies inside. Naturally, humanity does what
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humanity always does in horror, brings the impossible thing home
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and acts shocked when the impossible thing wakes up, and
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of course it's pretty hungry too. The central idea is
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wonderfully strange. I don't know how else to put it.
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These beings don't just drink blood, They drain life energy.
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They feed on the human force itself, leaving bodies empty, contagious,
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and desperate to take that energy from someone else. So
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the movie becomes a space vampire story, an outbreak movie,
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a disaster movie, and a very very sweaty nineteen eighties
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apocalypse all at once. And not to mention, the main
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monster of the film is a beautiful woman who wears
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no clothing for the majority of the time, which definitely
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makes it stand out. Life Force is not subtle or tidy.
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It's not one of those cult movies where you wonder
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why audiences missed out the first time. You can see
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exactly why people didn't know what to do with it.
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But that's also why it's lasted. It's simply too strange
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to disappear. The movie reportedly cost around twenty five million
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dollars and made only eleven point six million at the
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US box office, so as a commercial bet, it did
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not exactly Conquer the Summer, but as a deep cut
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it is fantastic, ambitious, ridiculous, eerie, horny, cosmic, and completely
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committed to its own madness and legend has it. The
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entire reason this film was made and allowed to go
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so far over budget and be so completely unhinged is
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because Canon Films was trying to keep Toby Hooper happy
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so that they could get the rights to and have
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him direct Texas Chainsaw Massacre two, which did eventually happen.
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So if you've never seen Life Force, you really do
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need to, and it's not hard to watch. It's available
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free with ads on to b and Roku channel, and
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you can watch it on MGM Plus with your subscription,
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and of course buy or rent on on Prime Video,
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Apple TV, Fandango at home, or anywhere else you rent
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your movies digitally. Now, let's light a creepy candle and
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celebrate some horror birthdays starting on June fifteenth, nineteen sixty four,
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when Courtney Cox is born. Gail weathers herself a Scream
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franchise anchor who turned ambition into survival instinct, no matter
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how many other mainstream films and TV shows She's done
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She'll always be gayl to US horror fans and most
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of the country at large if those box office numbers
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can be believed. So Happy Birthday, Courtney Cox and another
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Scream alumni. On June sixteenth, nineteen fifty five, Laurie metcalf
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Is born the Scream two Secret Weapon if you will,
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bringing sitcom warmth and full tilt genre chaos into one
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truly unforgettable turn. I remember this blowing my mind when
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I saw it as a kid. So Happy Birthday, Laurie Metcalf.
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Now for a legit member of Horror Royalty. Born on
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June eighteenth, nineteen fifty two, John Carl Beekler Makeup Affects,
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artist and director behind Friday the Thirteenth, Part seven, The
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New Blood Troll, and piles of practical monster work. The
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man worked on so many horror films. I guarantee you've
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seen more than four of them. He really has his
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fingerprints on such a remarkable amount of classic horror films,
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from Terror Vision, From Beyond Gooli's two Reanimator Trancers, Death Stalker,
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Mausoleum of Freddy's Dead, The Final Nightmare, Carnosaur one and
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two Project Metal Beast to personal favorite of mine, Halloween four,
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Halloween six, The Curse of Michael Myers. The man has
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done it all and he is worthy of legend status,
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and we lost him far too young. So a very
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happy birthday to John Carl Beekler. And for our final
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birthday this week, a mainstream name that went horror in
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a big way and was highly memorable. Born on June twentieth,
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nineteen sixty seven. Nicole Kidman, The Elegant Haunted Heart of
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the Others a film. If you haven't seen it, you
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desperately need to. It's one of the great modern ghost
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story performances I can think of. She really went all
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in and in my opinion, gained respect from genre audiences.
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So happy birthday, Nicole Kidman. For our then and now
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this week, it's horror learning how to sell fear at scale.
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Psycho turns suspense into a public ritual. Show up on time,
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Keep the Secret Scream together. Jaws two proves the Sharks
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still had teeth for a sequel even without the original
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Spielberg fairy dust, so to speak. Batman Returns proves a
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studio blockbuster can still be weird, wounded, and grotesque. World
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War Z shows the zombie Apocalypse as global disaster cinema,
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not one corpse at the door, but the whole world
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tipping over at once and hungering for flesh and of
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course life force is what happens when nineteen eighties blockbuster
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ambition gets possessed by pure cult horror, lunacy, space vampires, apocalypse,
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and the feeling that maybe humanity should stop bringing strange
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things back from space. Maybe, just maybe. And for our
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weekly recommendation, if you want some cl classic horror to
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go with your week, bust out Horror of Dracula in
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the United Kingdom. It arrived on June sixteenth, nineteen fifty eight,
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after its earlier US release, under the title most people
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now know it as, which is Horror of Dracula. It
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was released originally under the title Dracula Alone, but nobody
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wanted confusion, I guess later on, and then hammer Horror
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suddenly presented a sharper bite to audiences. Christopher Lee's Dracula
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is not just a cape and a castle. He's animal
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hunger in elegant clothes. Peter Cushing's Van Helsing is all speed,
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intelligence and a good dose of holy fury. It's short, colorful,
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and wonderfully direct. The kind of gothic horror that feels
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like it was painted in blood red and candlelight. Always
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worth another watch. I mean, Hammer Dracula movies, they're hard
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to go wrong with it, Lee East in the first
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two decades, and this one really kick them all off.
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You can check it out right now to rent or
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buy digitally on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at home.
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Imagine that well, my Spookyes, that was your trip through
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June fifteenth to twenty first in horror history. Don't forget
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to come back by tomorrow for our third installment in
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the summer mini series, Summer of the Demon. We know
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you'll enjoy it, and on Thursday, we'll have a brand
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new Thursday Thrills to keep you informed on all the
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weirdness coming and going. There's something spooky for you really
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every single day of the week here on the Weekly
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Spooky Feed, so make sure you're subscribed on your favorite
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podcast app that way, the fear is always near. And
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I'll see you right back here next Tuesday for another
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dive into horror his story. So until then, remember our
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days are numbered because that's how we tell them apart,
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see you next week,
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