July 28, 2026
This Week in Horror History | The Lost Boys, Jason Lives & Fright Night (July 27–August 2)
Key Takeaways
- Summer horror often subverts warm-weather nostalgia by placing supernatural threats and ancient monsters right in the middle of familiar settings like boardwalks and small towns.
- Cherie Dimaline's supernatural horror novel Empire of Wild explores themes of stolen identity, grief, and Métis folklore surrounding the rogarou following its U.S. publication on July 28, 2020.
- M. Night Shyamalan's The Village explores institutional fear, ritual, and control within an isolated community surrounded by forbidden woods.
- Joel Schumacher's 1987 classic The Lost Boys redefined vampire cinema by blending neon boardwalk aesthetics, motorcycles, and youthful rebellion with genuine horror.
- Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives transformed the Crystal Lake killer into a fully supernatural, zombie-like slasher icon resurrected by lightning.
- The deep-cut spotlight on The Collector highlights late-2000s trap horror and home-invasion suspense, where a burglar becomes trapped in an elaborate maze of wires and mechanisms.
The Lost Boys, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Fright Night, The Village, and The Collector headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering July 27 through August 2. Summer horror gets vampiric, supernatural, folklore-soaked, and dangerously familiar as we revisit an iconic 1980s vampire movie, the resurrection of Jason Voorhees, M. Night Shyamalan’s isolated village nightmare, a brutal home-invasion trap thriller, and a modern Métis horror novel about a loved one who returns profoundly wrong.
Inside this episode:
July 28, 2020 — Empire of Wild receives its U.S. publication
Cherie Dimaline’s supernatural horror novel follows Joan, a woman searching for her missing husband. When she discovers a charismatic preacher who looks and sounds almost exactly like him—but insists he is someone else—her search leads toward Métis folklore, the rogarou, stolen identity, grief, and an ancient hunger wearing a familiar face.
July 30, 2004 — The Village releases in the United States
M. Night Shyamalan transforms an isolated community surrounded by forbidden woods into a haunting story about fear, control, ritual, and the dangerous power of a carefully protected lie. The villagers have been taught that creatures wait beyond the boundary, certain colors must never be worn, and safety depends upon everyone obeying the same rules.
July 31, 1987 — The Lost Boys releases in the United States
Joel Schumacher gives vampire horror leather jackets, motorcycles, beach fog, neon boardwalks, and unforgettable 1980s style. Beneath the lights and nightlife of Santa Carla, a gang of young vampires offers danger, immortality, and the seductive promise of never having to grow up.
August 1, 1986 — Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives releases
Tommy Jarvis accidentally resurrects Jason Voorhees with a bolt of lightning, transforming the Crystal Lake killer into a fully supernatural slasher icon. Faster, funnier, and more self-aware than many earlier entries, Jason Lives combines gothic cemetery imagery, summer-camp terror, black comedy, and one of the franchise’s most memorable versions of Jason.
Deep-Cut Spotlight — The Collector A desperate thief breaks into a wealthy family’s home and discovers that a masked killer has already transformed the property into an elaborate maze of wires, traps, locked rooms, and carefully arranged suffering. The Collector captures the brutal energy of late-2000s horror, combining home-invasion suspense, post-Saw trap horror, survival-thriller momentum, and the terrifying idea that every possible escape route has already been anticipated by someone waiting inside.
Horror Birthdays This Week: David Warner, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Wes Craven enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to The Omen, Waxwork, Predator, The Terminator, Aliens, Planet Terror, The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.
Weekly Recommendation — Fright Night A teenage horror fan becomes convinced that his charming new neighbor is a vampire—but nobody believes him. Desperate for help, Charley Brewster turns to Peter Vincent, a washed-up television horror host who has spent his career pretending to battle monsters. Funny, stylish, spooky, and filled with practical-effects vampire horror, Fright Night remains one of the great horror-comedies of the 1980s. It combines the vampire-next-door premise with suburban paranoia, late-night horror television, supernatural action, and the realization that imaginary courage may suddenly need to become real.
From Empire of Wild and The Village to The Lost Boys, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, The Collector, and Fright Night, this week in horror history proves that the most dangerous monsters do not always remain hidden. Sometimes they wear the face of someone you love, live inside your community, move into the house next door, or rise from the grave when lightning strikes.
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Inside this episode:
July 28, 2020 — Empire of Wild receives its U.S. publication
Cherie Dimaline’s supernatural horror novel follows Joan, a woman searching for her missing husband. When she discovers a charismatic preacher who looks and sounds almost exactly like him—but insists he is someone else—her search leads toward Métis folklore, the rogarou, stolen identity, grief, and an ancient hunger wearing a familiar face.
July 30, 2004 — The Village releases in the United States
M. Night Shyamalan transforms an isolated community surrounded by forbidden woods into a haunting story about fear, control, ritual, and the dangerous power of a carefully protected lie. The villagers have been taught that creatures wait beyond the boundary, certain colors must never be worn, and safety depends upon everyone obeying the same rules.
July 31, 1987 — The Lost Boys releases in the United States
Joel Schumacher gives vampire horror leather jackets, motorcycles, beach fog, neon boardwalks, and unforgettable 1980s style. Beneath the lights and nightlife of Santa Carla, a gang of young vampires offers danger, immortality, and the seductive promise of never having to grow up.
August 1, 1986 — Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives releases
Tommy Jarvis accidentally resurrects Jason Voorhees with a bolt of lightning, transforming the Crystal Lake killer into a fully supernatural slasher icon. Faster, funnier, and more self-aware than many earlier entries, Jason Lives combines gothic cemetery imagery, summer-camp terror, black comedy, and one of the franchise’s most memorable versions of Jason.
Deep-Cut Spotlight — The Collector A desperate thief breaks into a wealthy family’s home and discovers that a masked killer has already transformed the property into an elaborate maze of wires, traps, locked rooms, and carefully arranged suffering. The Collector captures the brutal energy of late-2000s horror, combining home-invasion suspense, post-Saw trap horror, survival-thriller momentum, and the terrifying idea that every possible escape route has already been anticipated by someone waiting inside.
Horror Birthdays This Week: David Warner, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Wes Craven enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to The Omen, Waxwork, Predator, The Terminator, Aliens, Planet Terror, The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.
Weekly Recommendation — Fright Night A teenage horror fan becomes convinced that his charming new neighbor is a vampire—but nobody believes him. Desperate for help, Charley Brewster turns to Peter Vincent, a washed-up television horror host who has spent his career pretending to battle monsters. Funny, stylish, spooky, and filled with practical-effects vampire horror, Fright Night remains one of the great horror-comedies of the 1980s. It combines the vampire-next-door premise with suburban paranoia, late-night horror television, supernatural action, and the realization that imaginary courage may suddenly need to become real.
From Empire of Wild and The Village to The Lost Boys, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, The Collector, and Fright Night, this week in horror history proves that the most dangerous monsters do not always remain hidden. Sometimes they wear the face of someone you love, live inside your community, move into the house next door, or rise from the grave when lightning strikes.
🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!
🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!
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🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Frequently Asked Questions
When was The Lost Boys released in the United States?
The Lost Boys was released in the United States on July 31, 1987, bringing leather jackets, beach fog, and teenage vampires to the big screen.
What horror movie anniversary falls during Horror History July 27?
Horror History July 27 highlights multiple historic releases, including M. Night Shyamalan's The Village on July 30, 2004, and Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives on August 1, 1986.
What is the premise of the horror novel Empire of Wild?
Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild follows Joan, a woman searching for her missing husband who discovers a charismatic preacher with his exact face who insists he is someone else, drawing heavily on Métis folklore and the rogarou.
Which film is featured as the weekly recommendation for this episode?
The 1985 classic Fright Night is recommended as the weekly feature, highlighting its blend of suburban paranoia, practical effects, and the vampire-next-door premise.
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As July comes to a close. This is when summer
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starts to feel a little suspicious. The sun is still blazing,
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the nights are still warm, the boardwalk is still open,
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the woods are still calling, and every road trip still
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feels like it could turn into a memory you'll laugh
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about later. But horror knows better, because this week, familiar
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things start wearing strange faces. A missing husband comes home wrong,
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A quiet village hides something in the trees. A beach
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town turns into a vampire playground, a dead slasher gets
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back up with lightning in his bones, and somewhere in
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a booby trapped house, survival stops being a plan and
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becomes amaze. Welcome back to this Week in Horror History,
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your weekly time machine through the creepiest anniversaries in film, TV, books,
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and games. This week, we're talking about July twenty seventh
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through August second. Coming up, a modern folklore novel where
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love curdles into something ancient and hungry, a secretive village
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where fear is treated like a community rule, the vampire
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movie that made the Undead look like the coolest bad
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influence in town. And the moment Jason Vorhees becomes fully
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a supernatural horror icon. Then right after the Break, our
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Deep Cut Spotlight, a late two thousand's trap horror nightmare
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where the house itself feels like it wants you dead.
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July twenty eighth, twenty twenty, Empire of Wild receives its
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US publication from William Morrow, bringing Shari Demaline's folklore soaked
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horror thriller to wider American audiences. At the center is Joan,
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a woman searching for her missing husband. Then she finds
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someone who looks just like him, sounds almost like him,
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and stands in front of people as a charismatic preacher.
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But he insists he is not the man she lost,
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and that's the hook, not just grief for gaslighting, but
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the terror of seeing a beloved's face being used by
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something else. The novel draws on Matisse folklore and the
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figure of Rouguro, turning old hunger into modern dread. It's
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definitely a book you want to kick back with on
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a cold and lonely night. It's available in print, ebook,
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and audiobook through all major booksellers, and you can even
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check your local library or their apps and give it
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or read. July thirtieth, two thousand and four. The Village
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releases in the US and m Night Shyamalan takes horror
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into a community built on rules, ritual, and carefully managed fear.
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The setup of this is beautiful in its simplicity. A small,
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isolated village surrounded by woods. The people know not to
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enter those woods. They know not to wear the wrong color.
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They know the creatures beyond the back boundary are real,
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or at least they've been taught to live as if
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they are. The Village works best when you treat it
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less like a monster movie and more like a nightmare
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about control. What happens when fear becomes the foundation of
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a society. What happens when safety depends on everyone believing
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the same story. This is one that, depending on the
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circles you hang in, is either overrated or underrated. Eileen
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underrated personally, but that's just me. So maybe take a
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trip to the village and take a look at the
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real estate. It's available to rent or buy on Prime Video,
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Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. On July thirty first,
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nineteen eighty seven, The Lost Boys releases in the United
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States and Vampires Get Leather Jacket, Its Motorcycles, Beach fog
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and one of the most aggressively eighties atmospheres horror has
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ever given us. And I still believe Santa Carla is
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all neon and boardwalk noise on the surface, but underneath
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it's a feeding ground. The vampires aren't dusty old aristocrats.
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They're young, beautiful, dangerous and having the time of their
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air quote lives. And that's what makes The Lost Boys
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really stand out. They understand the seduction of horror. Monsters
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don't just threaten you, they invite you to stay out late,
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break the rules, and become something your family can't recognize.
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This was the ultimate movie when I was a young kid,
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when I was like eight nine years old, I watched
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The Lost Boys to the point where the VHS tape
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wore out and broke. So it's a classic. I've always
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loved it. I've loved the sense of humor in it,
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the style of it, how damn eighties it is. Everything
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about The Lost Boys is great. If you've never seen
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The Lost Boys, I'm very very confused, but also very concerned.
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It's free with ads on two b or you can
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rent or buy it on Prime Video, Apple TV and
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you guessed it. Fandango at home, and on August first,
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nineteen eighty six, Friday the Thirteenth Part seven Jason Lives
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releases in the US, and Jason Vorhees stops being merely
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hard to kill. This is the film with the Lightning
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Bolt resurrection. It features a grown up Tommy Jarvis who's
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haunted and desperate, so he digs up Jason's body to
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make sure the nightmare is truly over and gain some closure. Instead,
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he accidentally gives the Friend one of its most impressive images,
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Jason reanimated by a storm rising from the grave as
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something bigger than a man with all the gothic fun
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of Frankenstein. Jason Lives is where the series does get
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sharper and more self aware with its humor, but it
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doesn't lose the slasher engine that powers the locomotive, as
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there's plenty of slashing to go around. It may be ridiculous,
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but it's powerful nonetheless, and Friday the Thirteenth Part six
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is one of the very well loved Friday movies, and
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I do love Part six. Its tongue in cheek attitude
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toward itself just kind of takes me out a tiny bit,
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but that doesn't mean it's not a blast, especially if
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you love all the other ones, because that's what it's
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riffing on. But I also want to mention that when
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I was in high school, during the brief time that
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I was in high school, I actually wrote a report
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involving Friday the Thirteenth Part six where I explained how
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Jason Vorhees had went from a kind of woods dwelling
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redneck he man who is hard to kill to a
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full blown zombie because of the resurrection scene in Friday
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the Thirteenth Part six. So I've always been this way, kids,
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It wasn't some head trauma that happened later in life.
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But if you want to give Friday the Thirteenth Part
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six a watch, it is a perfect summertime watch. It's
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available with your subscription on Paramount Plus, and of course
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you can rent or buy it through any of the
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major platforms like Amazon, Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango
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at All Tomorrow right here on Weekly Spooky. Some relationships
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end with heartbreak, Others refuse to die in the ties
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that bind. By Rob Fields, Buster Crane has always been
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lucky in the ways of love, but maybe too lucky.
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His first love, Talia Mirn, vanished from his life when
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they were children. Years later, he found something deeper with
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romy Gillian, a beautiful, mysterious young woman who lived beside
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a graveyard, never ate in front of him, and kept
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every mirror out of her house. Then Buster discovered the
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truth Romy was a vampire. Terrified, he ran, but you
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can't outrun someone who can hear your heart beating. Now
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Buster is beginning college, and fate has brought Talia back
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into his life, older, wilder and determined never to lose
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him again. For the first time in years, Buster thinks
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he may have escaped romy Shadow, until she follows him
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into a crowded nightclub, locks the door behind them, and
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his former lover makes it clear that four years of
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passion simply cannot be forgotten. So make sure you're subscribed
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to weekly Spooky and come back tomorrow because the person
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who loves you may also refuse to let you remain human.
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All right, Spookies, let's take a quick breather, But when
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we come back, we're stepping in to a house full
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of traps, a thief in the wrong place, a masked
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killer who doesn't just hunt people, he arranges them, and
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once the doors close, escape becomes another part of the
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design and we're back, so let's get into it. On
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July thirty first, two thousand and nine, The Collector is
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released in the United States, and late two thousand's Horror
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gets one of its nastiest little puzzle boxes hell Raiser films.
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Notwithstanding the premise, starts like a crime thriller. A desperate
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man breaks into a wealthy family's home, hoping to steal
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enough to solve his problems. But someone else is already inside,
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someone who's turned the house into a machine of wire blades,
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locked rooms, and human panic. What makes The Collector special
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is the shift the burglar becomes the rescuer, the home
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comes hostile architecture, and the masked killer feels less like
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a random intruder than a curator, someone preserving fear, pain
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and helplessness, Like specimens behind glass. This is not cozy horror.
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It's sharp, mean, and mechanical. That's why it's a perfect
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deep cut spotlight. It earns its place, capturing a very
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specific era, host saw home invasion, and the fear that
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every safe room may already have been prepared by someone
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far worse than you. The Collector I think very underrated.
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I actually discovered The Collector because its sequel, The Collection
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was released wide in theaters and I went to see
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it on a lark. I loved it and ran home
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and rented The Collector right away. This is a pered
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Saw era horror film that delivers in every way, not
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just the torture porn elements, but really keeps the scares
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going and keeps you wondering what contraption will they think
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of next and what will it do to human flesh.
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and Fandango at home. Now, let's light a creepy candle
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for some horror birthdays starting on July twenty ninth, nineteen
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forty one, when David Warner is born Unforgettable in the
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it all the more real. A very happy birthday to
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David Warner, I remember him from Secret of the Owse.
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the Creature feature Survival Hall of Fame, right. Plus, don't
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Sorry not sorry. A very happy birthday, Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'll
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have a cigar or five to honor you. And born
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on July thirty first, nineteen fifty six is Michael Bean.
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the weary soldier Kyle Reese and The Terminator. He also
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in the realm of our horror heroes. A very happy birthday,
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Michael Bean. And finally, this is a Biggie Born on
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August second, nineteen thirty nine. Is Wes Craven, one of
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horror's defining architects. From the Last House on the Left
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in one lifetime. He's a fascinating artist and one of
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the most talented, in my opinion, underrated directors to ever live.
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the world. He's very missed. A very happy birthday, Wes Craven,
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and to all of our horror birthdays. For our then
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and now, Bite this week draws a strange little map
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of horror's favorite trick. Making the familiar unsafe Empire of
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Wild gives us a loved one who comes back wrong.
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Lost Boys turns the beachtown cool kid into a predator.
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it for long enough. Different decades, different monsters, same awful question.
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else's rules? And for our weekly recommendation, we head to
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August second, nineteen eighty five, when Fright Night released in
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the United States and gave us one of the great
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vampire next door setups. Charlie Brewster is convinced his charming
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new neighbor is a bloodsucker. The problem is nobody believes him,
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horror host who made a career pretending to battle monsters
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on screen. And that's where the movie becomes magic. A
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horror fan, a horror host, and a real vampire forcing
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make believe bravery to become actual courage. It's funny and spooky,
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it's stylish and deeply lovable. It's the kind of vampire
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movie that understands both the fear and the fun of
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the folklore. I've always loved Fright Night. It's one of
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love the Vampire next door, all the vampire lore, and
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of a reluctant hero in horror cinema, and second maybe
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only to Ash Williams from Evil Dead. It's a great,
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great film. If you haven't seen it in a while,
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you need to watch it. If you've never seen it,
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you should just stop what you're doing right now and
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check it out because it's available with AMC Plus if
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you have a subscription, or of course you can rent
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at home. I really can't recommend this one enough. All right, spookys,
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