Feb. 3, 2026
This Week in Horror History | Rings, The Prodigy, The Messengers + In the Mouth of Madness (Feb 2–8)
This Week in Horror History (Feb 2–8) is your weekly horror movie release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for long winter nights. This week we’re talking cursed media, home-invasion dread, and the kind of slow-burn paranoia that makes you stare at your own hallway a little too long.
Inside this episode
✅ Quick Hits: Horror releases from Feb 2–8
🎬 Deep-Cut Spotlight
🎂 Horror birthdays in this window
⭐ Weekly Recommendation
Support the show
This episode is “sponsored by me”—grab merch and support the Weekly Spooky feed at weeklyspooky.com/store
As I look ahead to the upcoming release of *The Strangers: Chapter 3*, I dive into my enthusiasm for this continuation of a beloved horror trilogy. I discuss its structure as a storytelling experiment, exploring the implications of a narrative that unfolds over multiple chapters. I consider the franchise's effectiveness in eliciting primal fears and challenge listeners to confront the mixed reactions surrounding the first two installments.
Turning to *The Prodigy*, released in 2019, I share an unsettling exploration of parenthood that delves into the psychological ramifications of nurturing a child with a dark secret. This film captures the discomfort of realizing that the sweet façade of a loved one may be hiding something sinister. I reflect on its emotional punch and how it excels within its modest budget.
After navigating through these noteworthy titles, we shift gears to our deep-cut spotlight on John Carpenter’s *In the Mouth of Madness*, released in 1995. I delve into its themes of existential dread and the power of narrative, offering an analysis of how it blurs the lines between fiction and reality. With its cult classic status secured, I invite listeners to revisit or discover this psychological horror tale that plays with the very fabric of storytelling.
I wrap up the episode with reflections on horror's evolution through the decades, demonstrating how core fears persist even as the delivery methods change. From the immersive dread of the early 2000s to the modern-day experiments in psychological horror, I highlight how films adapt to reflect societal anxieties while maintaining their chilling essence.
Finally, I celebrate notable horror anniversaries and the figures who have shaped the genre, ensuring their legacy continues to inspire future creators. This week’s horror history encapsulates everything from thrilling narrative arcs to the exploration of our darkest fears, urging listeners to confront what lurks just beyond the edge of our comfort zones.
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Inside this episode
✅ Quick Hits: Horror releases from Feb 2–8
- Feb 2, 2007 — The MessengersA glossy studio haunted-house/farm nightmare where the land doesn’t want you there.Where to watch: Tubi (free w/ ads), Prime Video (subscription)
- Feb 3, 2017 — RingsThe modernized curse—fear spreads because people can’t stop clicking.Where to watch: Prime Video (subscription) / MGM+; or rent on Apple TV, YouTube, Fandango at Home
- Feb 6, 2026 — The Strangers: Chapter 3The trilogy payoff—masks, anonymity, and primal “why us?” terror.Where to watch: In theaters (check local listings)
- Feb 8, 2019 — The ProdigyA parent’s worst nightmare: the moment you realize your child might not be only your child anymore.Where to watch: Tubi + The Roku Channel (free w/ ads); or rent/buy on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV
🎬 Deep-Cut Spotlight
- Feb 3, 1995 — In the Mouth of MadnessJohn Carpenter turns reality into a trapdoor—fiction vs. belief, and what happens when a story starts rewriting the world.Where to watch: Shudder / AMC+ (subscription), Tubi (free w/ ads), or rent on Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Prime Video
🎂 Horror birthdays in this window
- Feb 4, 1940 — George A. Romero
- Feb 4, 1948 — Alice Cooper
- Feb 6, 1977 — Josh Stewart (and a quick shout to The Collector / The Collection)
⭐ Weekly Recommendation
- Feb 2, 2001 — ValentineGlossy early-2000s slasher comfort food—stylish, mean, and perfect for the season.Where to watch: Tubi + The Roku Channel (free w/ ads), Hoopla (library card), or rent on Prime Video, Fandango at Home, Apple TVCompanion pick: Heart Eyes
Support the show
This episode is “sponsored by me”—grab merch and support the Weekly Spooky feed at weeklyspooky.com/store
As I look ahead to the upcoming release of *The Strangers: Chapter 3*, I dive into my enthusiasm for this continuation of a beloved horror trilogy. I discuss its structure as a storytelling experiment, exploring the implications of a narrative that unfolds over multiple chapters. I consider the franchise's effectiveness in eliciting primal fears and challenge listeners to confront the mixed reactions surrounding the first two installments.
Turning to *The Prodigy*, released in 2019, I share an unsettling exploration of parenthood that delves into the psychological ramifications of nurturing a child with a dark secret. This film captures the discomfort of realizing that the sweet façade of a loved one may be hiding something sinister. I reflect on its emotional punch and how it excels within its modest budget.
After navigating through these noteworthy titles, we shift gears to our deep-cut spotlight on John Carpenter’s *In the Mouth of Madness*, released in 1995. I delve into its themes of existential dread and the power of narrative, offering an analysis of how it blurs the lines between fiction and reality. With its cult classic status secured, I invite listeners to revisit or discover this psychological horror tale that plays with the very fabric of storytelling.
I wrap up the episode with reflections on horror's evolution through the decades, demonstrating how core fears persist even as the delivery methods change. From the immersive dread of the early 2000s to the modern-day experiments in psychological horror, I highlight how films adapt to reflect societal anxieties while maintaining their chilling essence.
Finally, I celebrate notable horror anniversaries and the figures who have shaped the genre, ensuring their legacy continues to inspire future creators. This week’s horror history encapsulates everything from thrilling narrative arcs to the exploration of our darkest fears, urging listeners to confront what lurks just beyond the edge of our comfort zones.
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🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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If you're listening in February, you know the deal. The
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sun checks out early, the air tastes crisp, but not
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in a good way anymore, and every creek in the
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house gets a little louder because the world outside is quiet.
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Winter doesn't just change the weather, it changes your imagination.
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It turns a normal wholeway into a long tunnel. It
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turns your reflection into a stranger if you catch it
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at the wrong angle. And that is why this show exists.
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Because horror history isn't just trivia. It's proof that certain
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fears come back on schedule. A family moves into a
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place that doesn't want them, a curse modernizes itself and
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spreads like a bad link. A kid smiles like an adult,
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and you feel your stomach drop. This week has all
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of that. So let's open up the calendar. I'lbeit carefully.
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Welcome to this Week in Horror History, your weekly tour
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through anniversaries, releases, and genre landmarks that began haunting us
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between February second and February eighth. Coming up, a mid
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two thousand studio spookfest where the Cornfield is patiently waiting
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a revived Jy Horror curse that retools itself for the
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always online era. The third chapter of a modern home
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Invasion trilogy hitting theaters right now, well this weekend, and
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I'm excited about it, and a twenty tens something is
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wrong with the kid thriller that really goes for the throat.
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Then after the break we'll do our deep cut spotlight
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on John Carpenter's reality cracking Nightmare, released this week in
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nineteen ninety five. If you like horror that makes you
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question the rules, well buckle up because we're diving. In
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February second, two thousand and seven, The Messengers was released.
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The Pang Brothers brought a glossy jump scare, friendly studio
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horror vibe to a story that's basically a winter fear
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in disguise. You move somewhere to start over, and the
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place has its own opinion about that. A struggling family
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lands on a remote farm, money's tight, tensions are high,
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and then the house starts showing them things, not just
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spooky silhouettes in doorways, but the kind of unsettling wrongness
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that feels personal. The best part of The Messengers is
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its atmosphere, big empty spaces, long sight lines, and that
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sense that the land itself is well, let's just say
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not on your side. At the box office, it made
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about fifty five point one million dollars worldwide on a
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sixteen million dollar budget. It also helped to establish Kristen Stewart,
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who would later go on to star in Twilight and
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many other films, as a box office draw. Straight up.
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For some reason, this movie had completely shot over my
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head for years and years, but I finally discovered it
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maybe ten years after it came out on a random
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streaming service. Really enjoyed it. Definitely worth a look or
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a revisit, and you can stream it very easily for
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free with ads on two BTV, or check it out
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on Prime Video with your subscription. It's prety cool. I
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can kind of take or leave, but if you love
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the first one, you'll want to check that out too.
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February third, twenty seventeen, Rings hits theaters. Rings is what
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happens when an old curse tries to survive in a
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new ecosystem. The original Ring concept is beautifully analog, a videotape,
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a tube television, and a phone call on a landline.
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Rings drags that legend into a world where everything is shareable, streamable,
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and forwarded without thinking. The movie's core dread isn't just
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the tape kills you in seven days. It's the way
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curiosity spreads. A rumor becomes content, a dare becomes a ritual.
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And the scariest part is how believable that chain reaction feels.
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On a twenty five million dollar budget, it in eighty
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three point one million dollars, which isn't setting the whole
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world on fire, but is nothing to sneeze at. And
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I do want to mention I saw this film in
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the theater and I actually really liked it. I don't
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hear people talk a lot about Rings, but I think
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it held up pretty well. It delivered some fun scares
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and some cool concepts and an update to the Ring
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gou concept. I wish more people talked about Rings, and
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I think it's worth a revisit if you've already seen
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it but kind of forgotten a bit about it. It's
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available to watch on Amazon Prime Video with your subscription
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or MGM Plus, and of course you can and of
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course you can rent it on Apple TV YouTube or
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Fandango at Home, among many others. Ooh, this one might
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get a little heated and a little controversial. February sixth,
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twenty twenty six. That's this week The Strangers Chapter three
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will hit theaters. It's the capper to the new reboot
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era trilogy of The Strangers. It's an experiment that's been
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pitched as one long story split into three chapters, which
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is why chapters one and two play like cliffhangers instead
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of clean standalone films. But honestly, I think that's kind
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of forward thinking in some ways, what with streaming being
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what it is. I mean at this point, when you
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watch a lot of these streaming shows, they're damn near
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a feature film as each installment. I mean the last
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season of Stranger Things, some of the episodes were knocking
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on two hours, so I think watching three ninety to
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one hundred minute movies is not a huge stretch. Chapter
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three is positioned as the payoff, the point where the
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tension either collapses into something satisfying or proves the whole
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thing should have stayed a tighter, meaner one and done.
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Either way, It's a big date for modern home invasion horror,
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and this franchise has always been good at one thing,
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and that is making the ordinary feel unsafe. I think
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The Strangers is a phenomenal horror film. I think The
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Strangers Pray at Night is a wild ride that really
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does work. And I have really enjoyed The Strangers chapters
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one and two, and I've heard a lot of mixed
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things all over the internet about those two films. Most
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people saying that their Pedestrian are not the most interesting
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films are criticism that to me, doesn't really make a
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lot of sense. To me, The Strangers very simply is
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a solid horror series meant to scare you, unnerve you,
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and make you question because there's a massive mystery element
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with the killers being masked in a mysterious town full
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of strangers. Ah See, they're even playing the concept up
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even more of strangers the title. Obviously, I'm not here
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to guilt you or tell you you're wrong if you
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didn't like The Strangers chapters one and two. To me,
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chapter one was pretty pretty solid. Chapter two was NonStop
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fun in games, with an incredible amount of suspense and
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a scene involving a wild boar that had me so
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on the edge of my seat. I just had a
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really great time. I didn't have to walk out of
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the theater feeling like a changed person like after watching
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I don't know, Uncut Gems or Pearl or something like that.
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It was a fun time. I enjoyed my popcorn and
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my movie. I got scared. I got to see some
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freaky horror atmosphere. It was a lot of fun. I
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am totally amped to see where they go with the
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Strangers chapter three personally. So that's just my opinion. And
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as far as where to watch it, it'll be in
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a theater near you. You check your local listings. February eighth,
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twenty nineteen, The Prodigy hit theaters. This one taps into
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a very specific kind of nightmare, the moment a parent
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realizes the child they love might not be only their
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child anymore. The Prodigy leans into the fear that something
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ancient and cruel has slipped behind a sweet face. It's
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not the big, supernatural fireworks that sting. It's the small,
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intimate wrongness, a look that just unnerves you for no reason.
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You can put your finger on a tone that doesn't
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belong in an eight year old mouth, a family dynamic
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rotting from the inside. And I do want to mention
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one of my favorite creepy things in movies and TV
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shows are little children that talk like adults. The cruel
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irony of that is I, growing up was a little
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child that spoke like an adult, so I would creep
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myself out. As far as the box office goes, it
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pulled in twenty one point one million dollars worldwide on
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a six million dollar budget. That's not too shabby for
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a smaller film, although it always feels weird to say
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six million dollars is small. I caught this film in
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the theaters myself, and I remember enjoying it quite a bit.
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Madness John Carpenter's proof that the scariest monster is the
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And if you see a paperback on your shelf that
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you swear wasn't there yesterday, well maybe don't open it.
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Although I'm not your dad, you can do what you want.
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You're an adult. Do you read? Sutter Kane On February third,
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nineteen ninety five, In the Mouth of Madness hit theaters.
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This is one of those films that feels like it
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was made for people who love horror and love the
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idea that it can bend reality. It's often joked that
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in the Mouth of Madness is the scariest story. H. P.
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Lovecraft never wrote a film that underperformed in its initial release,
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but has become an absolute cult favorite. In fact, I
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already have my pre ordered copy of the soundtrack on
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vinyl courtesy of Terror Vision Records. In the film, we
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follow an insurance investigator played by the incredible Sam Neil,
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practical skeptical, trained to follow paper trails, sent to locate
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a missing best selling horror author, and immediately the case
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behaves like a mind trap. The clues don't just lead somewhere,
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they reshape the road beneath you, figuratively and literally. Fans
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aren't merely obsessed, they are altered. And the horrific fictional
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town in Sutter Kane's writings appears to be an actual place.
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But which came first, hobbs End or the stories? And
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if the stories came first, what built the town? What
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makes it work is how straightforward Carpenter keeps the presentation.
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He doesn't nod to the camera. He plays it like
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a nightmare. Procedurally, find the man, read the pages, follow
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the map, except the map is lying, and the pages
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aren't describing the world. They might be replacing it. The
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whole thing builds to a question that lands like a
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cold hand on the back of your neck. If enough
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people believe a story, does that make it true? Or worse,
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does it become inevitable? As far as box office goes,
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it made eight point nine million dollars domestically, and the
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budget was reportedly between eight and fourteen million dollars, depending
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on who you ask. So it was a bomb at
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the box office, but a phenomenal film. I just recently
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watched my four kuhd release of it and it looked stunning.
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I very much recommend you do. It's streaming on Shutter
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or AMC Plus with a subscription, and also free with
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ads on two BTV. You can of course, also rent
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it on any VOD platform like Apple TV, Fandango at Home,
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and Amazon Prime Video. So go on, read yourself some
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Sutter Kane. Now let's light a black candle for the
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horror birthdays that took place during this week in horror history.
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Starting with one of horror's biggest legends. Born on February fourth,
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nineteen forty George A. Romero, the filmmaker who helped define
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the modern zombie genre with his trailblazing film Night of
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the Living Dead, as well as the follow up's Dawn
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of the Dead My possibly favorite movie of all time
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and Day of the Dead, along with a plethora of
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other films. Very much worth your time. Happy Birthday, George Romero,
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and you are greatly missed. February fourth, nineteen forty eight.
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Shock rock icon Alice Cooper is born a man who
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basically turned horror esthetics into a touring religion, and not
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only beloved for his music strictly, Alice Cooper is always
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leaned into the horror realm of the world, including playing
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Freddie Krueger's father in Freddie's Dead The Final Nightmare. Happy Birthday,
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gam Gam That was for you, Dave, February sixth, nineteen
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seventy seven. Josh Stewart, best known to horror fans as
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Arkin in The Collector and the Collection, was born. And
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if you've never seen The Collector and the Collection, stop
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what you're doing. Well, okay, finish the podcast and give
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those a watch. The Collector is available to watch on
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Amazon Prime with a subscription to BTV, Pluto Tv, and
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the Roku channel free with ads, and of course you
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can rent it. And The Collection, which was the massive
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follow up with a bigger budget and a bigger body count,
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