May 12, 2026
This Week in Horror History | Firestarter, Jason Voorhees, Godzilla & 28 Weeks Later — May 11–17
This Week in Horror History for May 11–17 brings together a loaded week of horror movie anniversaries, Stephen King adaptations, Universal Monsters, zombie outbreak horror, slasher sequels, kaiju blockbusters, and modern home-invasion terror.
Inside this episode:
• May 11, 1936 — Dracula’s Daughter
Universal Horror gets one of its strangest and saddest vampire follow-ups, turning Dracula’s legacy into a chilly story of blood, inheritance, repression, and the desperate hope that evil might be cured.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
• May 11, 2007 — 28 Weeks Later
The Rage virus returns with soldiers, checkpoints, quarantine zones, and the terrifying idea that the people in charge may declare the nightmare over long before the nightmare agrees.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
• May 13, 1988 — Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Jason Voorhees rises again on an actual Friday the 13th, this time facing a telekinetic final girl in the cult-favorite slasher sequel fans often describe as Jason versus Carrie at Crystal Lake.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Paramount+ with subscription; rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
• May 16, 2014 — Godzilla
The MonsterVerse begins as Gareth Edwards brings Godzilla back to American theaters with disaster-movie scale, radioactive awe, and the reminder that humanity is not always the main character of the planet.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
Then, in this week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight, we go to May 11, 1984 — Firestarter, the Stephen King adaptation about a little girl, a secret government experiment, and the terrifying question of what happens when the weapon you built learns to hate you. Drew Barrymore stars as Charlie McGee, a child whose fear and trauma can ignite into actual flame, making Firestarter one of King’s most haunting stories of power, control, and childhood weaponized by adults.
Plus: a birthday roll featuring Robert Pattinson, David Boreanaz, Megan Fox, and Bill Paxton, a Then & Now Bite about horror’s power to mutate across generations, and a Weekly Recommendation for The Strangers: Chapter 1, a modern masked-intruder nightmare that proves some old fears never stop knocking.
From Dracula’s Daughter to Firestarter, from 28 Weeks Later to Friday the 13th Part VII, from Godzilla to The Strangers, this week is packed with horror history that refuses to stay buried.
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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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