July 21, 2026
This Week in Horror History | Dracula, Maximum Overdrive & Deep Blue Sea (July 20–26)
Key Takeaways
- This week in horror movie history marks pivotal moments ranging from the gothic elegance of Frank Langella's 1979 Dracula to the sun-baked desert survival intensity of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes.
- Reverse-horror gaming reached a milestone with the release of Carrion, a title that flips the traditional monster-chase formula by placing players in the role of the predatory creature.
- Jordan Peele’s 2022 film Nope serves as a modern masterclass in spectacle, blending UFO horror, creature features, and social commentary on the dangers of seeking the impossible.
- Stephen King’s directorial effort, Maximum Overdrive, remains an essential piece of horror movie history for its unique, unhinged premise of machines turning against humanity.
- For those looking for a summer creature feature, Deep Blue Sea is recommended as a fast, fun, and delightfully absurd watch that features one of the most memorable shock moments in 90s cinema.
Dracula, The Hills Have Eyes, Nope, Maximum Overdrive, and Deep Blue Sea headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering July 20 through July 26. Summer horror gets seductive, sun-scorched, mechanical, extraterrestrial, and shark-infested as we explore gothic vampires, desert survival horror, reverse-horror gaming, Jordan Peele’s terrifying vision of spectacle, Stephen King’s killer-machine apocalypse, and genetically engineered sharks loose inside an underwater laboratory.
Inside this episode:
July 20, 1979 — Dracula releases in the United States
Frank Langella gives Count Dracula a dangerous combination of gothic romance, theatrical charm, and supernatural menace. This version of Bram Stoker’s vampire proves that evil does not always need to force its way through the door. Sometimes it gets invited inside.
July 22, 1977 — The Hills Have Eyes premieres in Tucson, Arizona
Wes Craven turns an ordinary family road trip into a brutal desert survival nightmare. When a shortcut leaves the Carter family stranded far from civilization, the open landscape becomes a trap filled with heat, isolation, violence, and another family watching from the hills.
July 23, 2020 — Carrion releases
This reverse-horror video game flips the familiar monster formula by letting players become the creature. A growing mass of teeth, tendrils, and hunger escapes through a research facility while terrified scientists and guards discover that containment has completely failed.
July 22, 2022 — Nope releases in U.S. theaters
Jordan Peele turns the sky into a haunted house in a strange and ambitious collision of UFO horror, creature-feature spectacle, Hollywood exploitation, western imagery, animal behavior, and the dangerous human need to capture the impossible on camera.
Deep-Cut Spotlight — Maximum Overdrive
Stephen King steps behind the camera for one of the loudest and most gloriously unhinged killer-machine movies of the 1980s. After Earth passes through the tail of a comet, trucks, vending machines, arcade games, lawn equipment, and other everyday technology suddenly turn against humanity. At the Dixie Boy truck stop, a group of survivors becomes trapped by eighteen-wheelers that appear to have developed personalities, grudges, and a deep hatred of human beings. With a goblin-faced truck, massive explosions, diner panic, homicidal machinery, and AC/DC blasting through the chaos, Maximum Overdrive remains a greasy, absurd, and unforgettable piece of Stephen King horror history.
Horror Birthdays This Week:
Diana Rigg, Josh Hartnett, Willem Dafoe, and Lynda Carter enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to Theatre of Blood, Last Night in Soho, Halloween H20, The Faculty, 30 Days of Night, Trap, Shadow of the Vampire, The Lighthouse, Nosferatu, and The Initiation of Sarah.
Weekly Recommendation — Deep Blue Sea Researchers inside an isolated underwater facility genetically engineer mako sharks while searching for a medical breakthrough. Unfortunately, making enormous predators more intelligent turns out to be a catastrophically bad idea. Packed with violent storms, flooding corridors, underwater laboratories, corporate hubris, giant sharks, and one of the most memorable shock moments in 1990s horror, Deep Blue Sea remains a fast, fun, and wonderfully ridiculous summer creature feature. From Dracula and The Hills Have Eyes to Carrion, Nope, Maximum Overdrive, and Deep Blue Sea, this week in horror history proves that summer terror can wait inside a gothic mansion, watch from the desert hills, escape from a laboratory, descend from the sky, take control of an eighteen-wheeler, or circle silently beneath the water.
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Inside this episode:
July 20, 1979 — Dracula releases in the United States
Frank Langella gives Count Dracula a dangerous combination of gothic romance, theatrical charm, and supernatural menace. This version of Bram Stoker’s vampire proves that evil does not always need to force its way through the door. Sometimes it gets invited inside.
July 22, 1977 — The Hills Have Eyes premieres in Tucson, Arizona
Wes Craven turns an ordinary family road trip into a brutal desert survival nightmare. When a shortcut leaves the Carter family stranded far from civilization, the open landscape becomes a trap filled with heat, isolation, violence, and another family watching from the hills.
July 23, 2020 — Carrion releases
This reverse-horror video game flips the familiar monster formula by letting players become the creature. A growing mass of teeth, tendrils, and hunger escapes through a research facility while terrified scientists and guards discover that containment has completely failed.
July 22, 2022 — Nope releases in U.S. theaters
Jordan Peele turns the sky into a haunted house in a strange and ambitious collision of UFO horror, creature-feature spectacle, Hollywood exploitation, western imagery, animal behavior, and the dangerous human need to capture the impossible on camera.
Deep-Cut Spotlight — Maximum Overdrive
Stephen King steps behind the camera for one of the loudest and most gloriously unhinged killer-machine movies of the 1980s. After Earth passes through the tail of a comet, trucks, vending machines, arcade games, lawn equipment, and other everyday technology suddenly turn against humanity. At the Dixie Boy truck stop, a group of survivors becomes trapped by eighteen-wheelers that appear to have developed personalities, grudges, and a deep hatred of human beings. With a goblin-faced truck, massive explosions, diner panic, homicidal machinery, and AC/DC blasting through the chaos, Maximum Overdrive remains a greasy, absurd, and unforgettable piece of Stephen King horror history.
Horror Birthdays This Week:
Diana Rigg, Josh Hartnett, Willem Dafoe, and Lynda Carter enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to Theatre of Blood, Last Night in Soho, Halloween H20, The Faculty, 30 Days of Night, Trap, Shadow of the Vampire, The Lighthouse, Nosferatu, and The Initiation of Sarah.
Weekly Recommendation — Deep Blue Sea Researchers inside an isolated underwater facility genetically engineer mako sharks while searching for a medical breakthrough. Unfortunately, making enormous predators more intelligent turns out to be a catastrophically bad idea. Packed with violent storms, flooding corridors, underwater laboratories, corporate hubris, giant sharks, and one of the most memorable shock moments in 1990s horror, Deep Blue Sea remains a fast, fun, and wonderfully ridiculous summer creature feature. From Dracula and The Hills Have Eyes to Carrion, Nope, Maximum Overdrive, and Deep Blue Sea, this week in horror history proves that summer terror can wait inside a gothic mansion, watch from the desert hills, escape from a laboratory, descend from the sky, take control of an eighteen-wheeler, or circle silently beneath the water.
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🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the premise of the video game Carrion?
Carrion is a reverse-horror game where you play as an amorphous creature of teeth and tendrils, escaping from a research facility by stalking and consuming those trying to contain you.
Is Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive worth watching?
Yes, it is considered a cult classic of 1980s horror, known for its gloriously unhinged tone, killer-machine premise, and an iconic AC/DC soundtrack.
What makes the 1979 Dracula film unique?
Unlike more monstrous depictions, Frank Langella’s portrayal focuses on gothic romance and theatrical charm, presenting Dracula as a dangerous, seductive temptation.
Where can I watch the horror movies discussed in this episode?
Many of the discussed titles, including Maximum Overdrive and Deep Blue Sea, are available to stream on platforms like Tubi, Plex, or for rent/purchase on Apple TV and Prime Video.
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Summer is supposed to feel alive, warm nights, long drives,
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open road, ocean, water that bright, heavy, feeling that anything
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could happen before the sun comes up. But horror knows
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the other side of summer. Wrong roads, hungry waters, machines
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that wake up angry, and experiments that get loose. This
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Week in Horror History gives us vampires with velvet voices,
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desert nightmares, reverse horror video games, alien spectacle, homicidal trucks,
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and genetically engineered sharks with absolutely no respect for dramatic speeches.
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So start your engines, check the rear view mirror, and
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do not look directly at the sky. Just trust me
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on that one. Okay. Welcome back to this Week in
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Horror History, your weekly time machine through the creepiest anniversaries
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in film, TV, books, and games. I'm your host, Enrique Kuto,
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and tonight we're talking about July twentieth through twenty sixth.
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Coming up. Frank Langella brings Dracula back with dangerous elegance.
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Wes Craven turns a family vacation into a sun baked
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survival nightmare. A video game lets you stop running from
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the monster and become it. And Jordan Peel reminds us
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that spectacle can take a look back. Then, after the
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break our deep cut Spotlight, Stephen King directs a killer
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Machine apocalypse where the trucks never stop circling. July twentieth,
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nineteen seventy nine, Dracula releases in the United States, but
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maybe not the one you're thinking of this time, though.
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The count comes back smooth, romantic and dangerous. Frank Langella's
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Dracula is not the rat faced plague figure. He's not
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the Cape and Fang's Halloween image either. He's charming, he's theatrical.
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He understands exactly how to enter a room and make
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every living person in it feel slightly less alive. This
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version leans into Gothic romance, stormy cliffs, candlelight, old houses,
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and the horrible idea that evil does not always have
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to force its way in. Sometimes it gets invited. Not
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only a monster, he's temptation incarnate. In my opinion, this
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is one of a few extremely underrated Dracula films. If
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you've never seen the nineteen seventy nine Frank Langela Dracula,
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directed by John Badam. It also features Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasance,
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and Kate Nelligan. Those are some heavy hitting names, and
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the film delivers a lot of the scares. It's highly
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worth watching if you love the Dracula story or the
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book by Bram Stoker, or you just want to see
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a new to you, fresh take on the genre and
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the character. Well, you can give the nineteen seventy nine
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Dracula a watch for the first time or as a
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much needed revisit at Apple TV, Prime Video and Fandango
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at home, where it's available to rent or buy. Trust me,
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you'll like it. July twenty second, nineteen seventy seven. The
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Hills Have Eyes premieres in Tucson, Arizona, and Wes Craven
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makes the desert feel like a sandy trap. A family
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takes a shortcut, the car breaks down, the landscape stretches
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out in every direction, but somehow there's nowhere to go.
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That is the sick genius of The Hills Have Eyes.
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It takes the family road trip, one of the most
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ordinary American summer rituals there is, and strips it down
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to panic, dust and survival. Civilization is not gone here.
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It's just very very far away, far enough that the
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rules stop helping. Craven had already shocked audiences with Last
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House on the Left, but this one feels mythic in
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a very different way. Two families, two versions of a
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Marria America, staring each other down in the middle of
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the desert, and neither one gets to leave clean. Wes
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days for having so many interesting and pivotal horror films.
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I mean, he reinvented the genre multiple times in his career.
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And if you've never given The Hills Have Eyes a watch,
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you really should. This was during the era when Craven
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was pushing the envelope. The Last House on the Left
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was stomach churning, and The Hills Have Eyes was no
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different other than not being filmed in Connecticut, which does
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make a big difference. So hop in the car and
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have your own little summer getaway. It's available to rent
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or buy on Apple, TV, Prime Video and Fandango at Home.
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July twenty third, twenty twenty carry On Releases and Horror
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Gaming flips the camera around. Most games ask you to
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survive the monster. Carrion asks, what if you are the monster?
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You are an amorphous thing made of teeth, tendrils, and hunger,
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slithering through a research facility, escaping containment one hallway at
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a time. It's called a reverse horror game, and that
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label is pretty accurate. The fear is still there, but
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it's changed sides. The scientists are afraid, the guards are afraid.
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The building itself feels like it's trying to hold its breath,
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and the more you grow, the more the game becomes
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a nasty little power fantasy about containment failing. Not a
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haunted house, a haunted experiment. I'm going to give this
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one a play myself. It's available on PC and major
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consoles like Steam, Xbox PlayStation, and Nintendo consoles. July twenty second,
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twoenty twenty two, Nope releases in US theaters and Jordan
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Peel turns the sky into a well, kind of a
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haunted house. This is UFO horror but also creature feature,
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but also show business horrors and a western all at once,
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and it works. Nope understands something creepy about spectacle. We
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want to look, even when the act of looking might
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be exactly what puts us in danger. There are images
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in this movie that feel huge and strange and impossible
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to explain without draining them of power. A cloud that
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never moves, a house rained on by things that should
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never fall from the sky. A creature that becomes more
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terrifying the less it behaves the way you're expecting. It's
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a summer blockbuster horror, but with an edge. And it's
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also about exploitation, trauma, animals, cameras, and the terrible cost
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of trying to capture the impossible, which in my opinion,
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makes the film stand out a lot. It's also basically
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all bent around a twist that I don't want to
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reveal to you if you've never seen Nope, because it
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is an excellent, excellent film in my opinion, So give
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it a watch or a revisit and you can thank
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me later. It's available on Netflix with your subscription, or
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to rent or buy on Apple, TV, Prime Video and
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Fandango at home. Summer is here. The cabins are open,
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the campfires are burning bright, and something hungry is circling
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just beyond the trees. Tomorrow, on Weekly Spooky, Veteran Camp
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counselor Jonathan Edwards travels to Puerto Rico to help launch
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Camp Clemente, a beautiful new summer camp, surrounded by mountains,
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deep forest, and miles of tropical wilderness. For Jonathan, it
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should be the opportunity of a lifetime. A brand new campground,
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ten eager young counselors, and a few quiet weeks to
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prepare before the children arrive. Then, during their first night
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around the fire, an unholy howl rolls out of the darkness.
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Locals know that sound. They call the creature El vampiro
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de moca, but you may know it better by another name,
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chupa Brah. When a violent storm crashes over the camp,
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something comes charging through the forest. Then more shapes join it.
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Claws hammer against the cabin, windows, shatter, doors, buckle, and
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everyone trapped inside realizes this is not one legendary beast.
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It's an entire pack. Now the only question is how
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long can they survive. Tomorrow's story is Camping with Chupacabra
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by Douglas Waltz right here on Weekly Spooky. So make
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sure you're subscribed and stay close to the fire. Make
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sure to check that story out tomorrow. I promise you
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it'll be a good time. But now let's take a
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quick breather. When we come back, we hit July twenty fifth,
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nineteen eighty six, and Stephen King gets behind the camera
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for his one directorial film, It's Got Trucks, machines, ACDC,
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and a diner full of people, realizing that the entire
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world may have just developed a murder setting. All right,
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my spookees, we're back, let's get into it. On July
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twenty fifth, nineteen eighty six, Maximum Overdrive releases and Stephen
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King directs the loudest, greasiest, most unhinged killer machine film
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of the decade. Is maybe almost under selling it. The
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setup is pure midnight movie madness. Earth passes through the
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tail of a comet and suddenly machines just turn against humanity.
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But not just big machines, not just computers, all of them,
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vending machines, lawn equipment, arcade games, drawbridges, trucks, especially trucks.
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The heart of the movie is the Dixie Boy truck stop,
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where a group of survivors get pinned down by eighteen
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wheelers that seem to have developed personalities and grudges, and
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those grudges are definitely aimed at human beings. And yeah,
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the tone is completely bananees. This is not some elegant horror,
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some elevated psychological thing. It's Stephen King bringing you a
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goblin faced truck and explosions and panic in a diner,
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all while ACDC is blasting like the soundtrack was wired
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directly into your adrenal gland. That's also why it's got
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such a great lasting power to it. The world is
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already full of machines we depend on, ignore and barely understand.
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Maximum Overdrive just asks what happens if all those machines
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wake up on the wrong side of the bed. It
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turns the every day into an ambush. You can't trust
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the road, or the kitchen, or even the arcade cabinet,
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and once the trucks start circling, the whole world feels
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like a parking lot with no exit. This is a
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truly crazy film, but there's a lot to love about it,
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if only Emilio Estevez just completely putting us all in.
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I've always enjoyed Maximum Overdrive, and if you've never seen it,
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it's a piece of eighties cheese and nostalgia that you
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really need in your life. It's available to watch free
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with ads on two BTV and Plex, which honestly might
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be the best way to watch it because I always
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saw it on cable as a kid. It's also available
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best quote from the film. Now, it's time to celebrate
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some horror birthdays, starting on July twentieth, nineteen thirty eight,
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when Diana Rigg was born. Elegant, sharp, and unforgettable in
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films like The Avengers, Theater of Blood, and more recently
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The Last Night in Soho, Diana Rigg brings just about
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you feel a little safer, which, as we know, is
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exactly how horror movies really get you. A very happy
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birthday to Diana Rigg on July twenty first, nineteen seventy eight.
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films like Trap. He's a familiar face in modern genre
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cinema and a guy who's having a real resurgence in
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his career currently. After being kind of the talk of
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two thousands, He's popping up again and again, not only
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A very happy birthday. Josh Hartnett born July twenty second,
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nineteen fifty five is Willem Dafoe. This is a guy
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who has made a mark on every single genre. He's
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possibly bring a very happy birthday, Willem Dafoe. And on
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July twenty fourth, nineteen fifty one, Linda Carter is born.
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send a complaint. A very happy birthday to Linda Carter,
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and all of our horror birthdays this week are then
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and now. This week is horror history with safety locks removed.
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Nineteen seventy nine gives us Dracula as seduction evil dressed
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well enough to be welcomed into your home. Nineteen seventy
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that becomes a survival test. Twenty twenty gives us the
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Monsters point of view horror from inside the body that
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escaped the lab. Twenty twenty two gives us the sky
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as a predator spectacle transformed into threat, and nineteen eighty
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six gives us the machines baby, every tool, vehicle and
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convenience suddenly looking at us like we're prey. And finally,
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our weekly recommendation takes us to July twenty sixth, nineteen
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ninety nine, when D Blue Sea premieres in the United States.
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that'll help you feel all fun in the sun, but
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then not quite make it. Deep Blue Sea. It's a
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late nineties entry into shark horror that gets bigger and
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wonderfully ridiculous. Researchers in an isolated ocean facility genetically alter
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mako sharks while searching for a cure for Alzheimer's disease.
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The result smarter sharks, which, as plans go, turns out
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to have more than a few problems. Deep Blue Sea
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is pure summer creature feature joy. It has storms, flooding corridors,
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corporate hubris, underwater laboratories, giant sharks, and a cast of
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people slowly realizing they're not in a research facility anymore,
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they're in a lunch box. And of course it has
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one of the great shock moments of nineties horror, the
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kind of scene where the movie kind of stares you
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dead in the eyes and says, no one is safe. Also,
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are we having fun? That's the charm that you cannot
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deny about Deep Lucy. It knows exactly what it is.
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It's loud, it's fast, it's wet, it's absurd, and it's
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completely committed to the bit. This one is always a
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fun time anytime a year, but in the summer it
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really feels proper. So give Deep Lucy a watch, or
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you can rent or buy it on Apple TV, Prime Video.
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And Fendango at home. Well, my spookies, that's your trip
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through July twentieth to July twenty sixth. Than horror History
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