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Some weeks in horror History feel like somebody spilled gasoline
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across the calendar and handed the genre a match. This
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one opens with old Universal Shadows, jumps straight into Stephen King,
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Pyrokinesis mutates into Rage Virus, Panic drags Jason Vorhees back
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out of Crystal Lake, and then lets Godzilla stomp into
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the modern blockbuster age like he owns the place. It's
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a week about things that refuse to stay buried, Vampires
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trying to escape their bloodline, children turned into weapons, infected
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cities that were supposedly under control, franchises that keep finding
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new life, and monsters so big they make every human
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argument look tiny. So don't touch the experiment, don't trust
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the quarantine zone. And if the water at Crystal Lake
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starts bubbling, maybe let the fish have that part of
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the lake. Welcome back to this week in Horror History.
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I'm your host, Enrique Kuto, bringing you your weekly time
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machine through the creepiest anniversaries in film, TV, books, games,
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and beyond. Tonight, we're talking about May eleventh through the fifteenth.
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Coming up, Dracula's Legacy gets a haunted aftershock. In the
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Universal Monster era, a rage virus sequel turns outbreak horror
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into military collapse horror. Jason gets a psychic component on
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the unluckiest Friday possible, and got Zillah returns as a
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modern American Kaiju and a blockbuster. Then, right after the
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Break Our Spotlight goes to a Stephen King adaptation where
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the scariest thing in the room is a young girl
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who can burn down the world. May eleventh, nineteen thirty six,
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Dracula's daughter arrives, and Universal Horror gets one of its
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strangest and saddest vampire follow ups, at least until Dracula
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two thousand. Gloria Holden plays Countess Mariya Zaleska, a woman
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trying to free herself from Dracula's curse after his death.
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That's what makes the movie fascinating. It's not just another
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monster on the loose. It's a vampire story about inheritance, addiction, repression,
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and the hope that evil might be something you can cure.
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The result is elegant, chilly, and unusually mournful for the
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classic monster cycle. It's not as iconic as Lugosi's Dracula,
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but it casts a long shadow, especially for vampire stories
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interested in longing as much as Blood. I think this
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one is highly underrated, and you know how much I
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love a good black and white horror movie on a
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Sunday afternoon. If you want to give Dracula's Daughter a
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revisit or watch it for the first time, it is
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available to rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV,
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and Fandango at Home. May eleventh, two thousand and seven.
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Twenty eight weeks later opens and the Rage Virus comes
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back with uniforms, floodlights, and a very bad sense of
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official confidence. The first film felt like a waking up
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after the end of the world, but the sequel asks
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what happens when the people in charge decide the nightmare
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is over before the nightmare gets the memo. The opening
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sequence is still a masterpiece of pure panic, but the
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real dread is institutional checkpoints, containment zones, soldiers on rooftops,
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and the terrible moment when a plan becomes a slaughter house.
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It grossed about sixty four million dollars worldwide and kept
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the twenty eight Days Later universe alive long enough for
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the franchise to come roaring back very recently with twenty
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eight years Later and twenty eight years Later Bonegarden respectively,
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both of which, in my opinion, should have performed better
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at the box office because they were a hell of
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a lot of fun and I'm sad that we probably
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won't get another twenty eight years later to wrap it
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all up. But I digress. I liked them, I really did,
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and twenty eight weeks later is definitely a bit on
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the underappreciated side looking back, at least in my opinion.
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I revisited the films before twenty eight years later came out,
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and I was surprised how much I enjoyed them and
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how much they held up today. So if you want
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to take a fresh stroll to the well the contamination zone,
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it's available to rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV,
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and Fandango at home. Imagine that May thirteenth, nineteen eighty eight,
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Friday the thirteenth, Part seven The New Blood opens on
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an actual Friday the thirteenth, because sometimes the marketing gods
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do indeed smile upon the wicket. This one is where
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Jason meets Tina, a traumatized young woman with telekinetic powers,
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which means the movie is basically Jason versus Carry at
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Crystal Lake and how can you top that it also
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marks the first film Caine Hotter portrayed Jason Vorhees, in
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giving Jason a heavier, angrier, physical presence that would define
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the character for an entire generation of fans, myself included.
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The film opened at number one and grossed about nineteen
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point one million dollars domestically, not the franchise's peak, but
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enough to keep Jason chained to pop culture forever. These
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films are serious comfort food to me, both The Friday
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the Thirteenth and The Nightmare on Elm Street films. I
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watched them a ton growing up, and it's important to
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mention that while it only made nineteen million dollars domestically,
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it likely cost well under five million dollars, and marketing
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for Jason Vorhees at that point was pretty easy going
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because everybody knew about Jason. Now. Of course, if you
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want to talk about the Friday the Thirteenth bomb of
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the entire original series, well, don't worry, because in the
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next year Jason would well, he'd take Manhattan and the
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rest is history. If you want to head back to
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camp and revisit the original Caine Hotter Jason Vorhe's performance
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Friday the thirteenth, Part seven is available on Paramount Plus,
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or you can of course rent it at the usual suspects,
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Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. May sixteenth,
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twenty fourteen, Godzilla returns to American theaters and the Monster
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Verse takes its first big radioactive breath. Gareth Edwards treats
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Godzilla less like a superhero and more like a disaster
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that you pray never passes over your city. The movie
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is patient, sometimes almost cruelly so, but when it finally
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lets the creature stand tall, it understands the awe of
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scale soldiers falling through smoke, cities folding under ancient forces,
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and humanity realizing it's not actually the main character of
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the planet. And it was a major hit, about five
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hundred and twenty nine million dollars worldwide on a reported
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budget of one hundred and sixty million, And it opened
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the door for the modern Godzilla Kong era, which is
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still going strong right now. I'm literally watching the Apple
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TV series Monarch on its second season right now. And
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when this Godzilla movie came out, it was a big
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deal for a lot of reasons, and one of them
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was that American audiences were rightfully so pretty skeptical about
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the idea of an American produced god Zen movie, because
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you know, we had that one in nineteen ninety eight
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with Matthew Broderick, and that's all we need to say
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about it. And as a lifelong Godzilla fan myself, I
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gotta admit that Godzilla from twenty fourteen really did scratch
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that kaiju itch. And I'm still amazed that the American
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Godzilla series is pretty much a kaiju series, which means
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that the focus is often on monsters fighting monsters and
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not strictly humans fighting monsters. It's a minor delineation, but
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it is a big difference between what we tried to
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do with the first American Godzilla versus what Japan and
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Toho had been doing with Godzilla since nearly the very beginning.
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Plus I just showed Rachel Godzilla's Revenge the other day. Oh,
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I love that. I love that film. It's one of
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my favorites, and I love that it's considered the worst
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of the Godzilla movies. Yet I love it so much.
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But that is quite a digression. If you want to
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give it a watch, whether you've seen it before or not,
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it's of course available to rent her buy at Amazon,
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Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home. It's also available
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on YouTube. It's available on Google Play. So get yourself
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some Godzilla and have a great time. Stomp in the
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city Tomorrow On Weekly Spooky High School Revenge gets messy, bloody,
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and very very undead. Meredith Ridley is the kind of
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girl who makes an entrance violet hair, pink leather jacket,
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zero fear, and a talent for making enemies fast. But
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when jealous Queen bee Leada Holloway decides Meredith has gotten
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too close to her boyfriend, one ugly night in the
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backwoods of Strickfield turns into a murder by the lake,
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and that should be the end of it. Except in Strickfield,
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the dead don't always stay where you leave them. Meredith
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wakes up underwater with a knife still buried in her chest,
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a hunger gnawing through her guts, and a brand new
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craving for revenge. From the lake to the Highway to
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a junkyard full of secrets, This one goes from teen
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rivalry to full blown zombie chaos, complete with a car crusher,
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a shotgun, a love triangle that literally refuses to die,
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and the most disgusting second chance at romance. You've ever heard,
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it's nasty, it's funny, it's wild, it's undead Triangle by
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Rob Fields, and it's on tomorrow here at Weekly Spooky
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where Love Bites Back. So make sure you're subscribed. You
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don't want to miss this one. All right, Let's take
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a quick break from the zombies, the other kinds of zombies,
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the giant monsters, and so on and so forth. When
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we come back, we're going into our deep cut Spotlight
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from May eleventh, nineteen eighty four, about a little girl,
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a secret government experiment, and the terrifying question what happens
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when the weapon you built learns to hate you? All right,
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we're back. Let's play with fire. May eleventh, nineteen eighty four.
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Firestarter open and Stephen King gives the monster movie formula
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a very human fuse. The setup is a secret experiment
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psychic powers, a shadowy organization called the Shop, and a
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child who becomes both victim and threat. Drew Barrymore plays
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Charlie McGee, a little girl whose fear and anger can
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ignite into actual flame. David Keith plays her father, trying
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to protect her from people who do not see a
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child at all. They see property, a test result, and
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most importantly, a weapon, and that's where Firestarter is still
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effective today. The effects and pacing belong to the early eighties,
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but the core anxiety has aged. Like fine wine, adults
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building systems they can't control, then acting shocked when the
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human being inside that system fights back. It's not the
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wildest King movie ever, or even the scariest, but it
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has a nasty emotional hook. Charlie is dangerous because people
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made her dangerous. The fire isn't just spectacle, it's it's
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trauma with a temperature. At the box office, it earned
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about seventeen point one million dollars in the US and
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Canada against a reported twelve million dollar budget. So while
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not a monster hit, it is a durable Stephen King
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title that kept smoldering in reruns, video stores, and my
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favorite late night cable. I've always felt like this one
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was a sleeper, but a really, really good one. If
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you've never seen Firestarter before, you really need to check
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it out. It's a available to you guessed it rent
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or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at home,
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and don't get it mixed up with the twenty twenty
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two remake, which was fine at best, but the original
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it really has everything you need. Now it's time to
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bust out the creepy candles for some horror related birthdays,
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and we're starting on May thirteenth, nineteen eighty six, when
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Robert Pattinson was born from Twilight's vampire superstardom to the
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Lighthouse and the Batman, a genre adjacent actor who keeps
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choosing weird shadows to follow. When I was a young man,
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I definitely fell into the bullying Twilight camp and I'm
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still not a fan of the movies per se. But
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Robert Pattinson is a hell of an actor. I mean
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there's no doubt about it, whether it's The Lighthouse, which
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was really an exquisite piece, or the truly fascinating and
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harrowing Good Time. I love his work, So Happy Birthday,
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Robert Pattinson. Born on May sixteenth, nineteen sixty nine. David
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boreanis Angel himself, the vampire with a soul who helped
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define late nineties supernatural television. I mean, come on, Buffy
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and Angel had a massive effect on just about everything
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pop culture related to ghosts, vampires, demons, and so much more. So,
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Happy birthday David Borianas on May sixteenth, nineteen eighty six.
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Megan Fox is born forever tied to cult horror through
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one of her earliest hits, Jennifer's Body, a movie whose
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reputation only grows sharper as the year pass on. While
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she's had a massive career with many mega hits and
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just generally being the hot chick in whatever movie or
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show she appears in, Jennifer's Body really helped her make
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a mark, or maybe leave a mark on horror history.
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So happy birthday, Megan Fox. And finally born on May seventeenth,
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nineteen fifty five, Bill Paxton, whether it's Aliens, Near Dark,
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Predator to Frailty, he's one of the great human faces
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whenever you enter monster territory. Plus he's just sincerely one
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of the greatest actors to ever live. In my opinion,
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my humble opinion. He's incredibly talented. His brushes with the
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horror genre are always highly memorable. I mean, come on,
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Near Dark, we keep odd hours, Come on. It's a
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great film, a phenomenal film. But his directorial debut, Frailty,
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is a film I consider to be both a horror
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movie and just a fascinating, fascinating drama all at once.
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That's a movie you really need to revisit. Frailty by
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Bill Paxton. So a very happy birthday to Bill Paxton
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for our then and now. This week, I want to
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talk about how horror is learning to survive mutation. Nineteen
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thirty six gives us the Vampire as inheritance, nineteen eighty
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four gives us Psychic Fire as a government made curse.
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Nineteen eighty eight gives us the Slasher sequel, turning Jason
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into a near mythic force. Two thousand and seven gives
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us Outbreak Horror as failed containment, and twenty fourteen gives
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us Godzilla Reborn as blockbuster mythology, different monsters, but same
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lesson horror history does not ever stay dead. It simply
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adapts and finds a way out of the grave. All Right,
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My weekly recommendation is going to be a little polarizing,
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and honestly, that's how I like it. On May seventeenth,
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twenty twenty four, The Strangers Chapter one opens in theaters,
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and I know I went into this a little bit
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when I was talking about chapter two, but well, deal
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with it. Rennie Harlan's reboot slash sequel. Launcher sends a
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young couple into a remote cabin and lets three masked
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intruders turn the simplest question in horror into a whole
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evening of dread. Why are they doing this? It's a
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stripped down home invasion horror with a franchise machine behind it,
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but that's what makes it fit in this week's lineup
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a lot like Firestarter twenty eight weeks later, Friday the Thirteenth,
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Part seven, and Godzilla. It's horror about old fears getting
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repackaged for a new cycle. The masks may change, the
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calendar rolls forward, but the knock at the door stays
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the same. And I really enjoyed the hell out of
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The Strangers Chapter one. I thought it worked. I thought
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it was very tightly directed. It was very tense. It
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was simply meant to freak you out and make you
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squirm in the movie theater, which is at the end
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of the day, all I'm hoping for. I love when
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they reinvent the wheel very well, but sometimes you just
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want an expertly made hamburger, and that's The Stranger's chapter one.
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And I enjoyed Chapter two and chapter three quite a
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bit as well really fun, fun trilogy. It's available to
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watch free with ads on the Roku channel and of
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course to rent or buy on EUH Prime Video, Apple TV,
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and Fandango at home. Well, my spookys, that's your trip
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through May eleventh to seventeenth in horror history. Don't forget
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Tomorrow Wednesday. There's a fresh horror story waiting for you
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on the Weekly Spooky Feed with Undead Triangle. It's one
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you do not want to miss. And next Wednesday we're
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celebrating episode four hundred of Weekly Spooky with a very
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special episode with a very special guest star that you
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might recognize from films like Rob Zombies, Halloween two Feast,
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and From Dusk Till Dawn two Texas Blood Money. But
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that's the hint I'm gonna give you, speaking of I
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need to get back to work on that bad boy,
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So you all stay subscribed because there's always something fun
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and spooky here on the feed. Friday, they'll be a
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little surprised for you, in fact, but make sure you
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return here next Tuesday for more horror history. And remember
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our days are numbered because that's how we tell them apart.
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See you then,
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