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Mid-September is when Halloween stops playing around. Porch pumpkins start
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to appear. Spirit stores rise from the dead. And school
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hallways fill with rumors that sound harmless until somebody accepts.
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This week gives us prep school liars inventing a killer.
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New cameras entering the same old woods. Television's happiest monster family.
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and a cheerleader whose appetite turns friendship into a battlefield. Then,
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after the break, a post-apocalyptic apartment becomes a workshop for
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a machine, rebuilding itself from scraps. So, verify the message,
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watch the sculpture, and if your best friend comes home
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covered in blood, maybe don't lend her a shirt. Welcome
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back to This Week in Horror History, your weekly time
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machine through the creepiest anniversaries in film, TV, books, comics,
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and games. Tonight, we're talking about September 14th through 20th.
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Coming up, boarding school students turn an online hoax into
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a real slasher's blueprint. New cameras, GPS trackers, and a
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drone enter the Black Hills. The Addams Family brings Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday,
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and that snapping theme into American homes. An angsty millennial
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film lets a botched sacrifice put teeth into an already
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complicated friendship. Then, for our deep-cut spotlight, industrial art meets
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a government killing machine that refuses to stay in pieces.
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September 16th, 2005. Cry Wolf opens in U.S. theaters, and
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a lie typed for fun begins deciding who dies next.
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At an elite boarding school, students invent the wolf, design
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the costume, write the rules, and spread the story by
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email after a nearby murder. Then the messages become specific
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and victims match the inventions. Did the story attract a killer,
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or did one storyteller always know the ending? Cry Wolf
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is peak mid-2000s horror. Flip phones and campus gossip and
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teenagers learning that a digital rumor can easily outrun the truth.
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This one I think is underrated and definitely a great watch,
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especially for that post-Scream slasher era that It doesn't really
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deliver the way you'd expect, but I like it. The
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film earned about $ 10 million domestically and $ 32. 6 million worldwide
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against a reported $ 1 million production budget. You can revisit
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or see it for the first time right now on
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Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at home in Rent
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or Buy. September 16th, 2016 Blair Witch sends a new
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generation into Burkittsville, Maryland with better equipment and the same
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terrible instincts. James believes online footage may show his missing sister, Heather.
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He enters the woods with friends, GPS trackers, ear-mounted cameras,
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and a drone. The equipment should make them safer. Instead,
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the forest starts bending time, scrambling directions, and turns every
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device into... Another way to document the panic. Director Adam
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Wingard and writer Simon Barrett trade some of the original's
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uncertainty for a Woods that feels louder, faster, and, most importantly,
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physically impossible. At the box office, it earned around $ 40
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million worldwide, making it a pretty decent success, although nothing
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compared to the original Blair Witch Project. And this is
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another one I think is extremely underrated. It actually delivers
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a lot of great scares, a lot of great lore
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in the Blair Witch oeuvre. And I think it should
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have spawned even more Blair Witch sequels. But here we
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are almost 10 years later, and I'm still waiting. If
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you've never seen Blair Witch or you need to revisit
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it because who doesn't like a hike through the woods,
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it's streaming right now on HBO Max with your subscription
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or you can rent and buy it on Amazon Video,
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Apple TV, and Fandango at home. September 18th, 1964. The
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Addams Family premieres on ABC and television meets a household
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where the monsters may just be the healthiest people on
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the block. Charles Adams had drawn the macabre clan for
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The New Yorker, but the series gives them names, voices,
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and a gloriously gloomy home. Carolyn Jones is Morticia. John
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Astin's Gomez adores her with operatic intensity. Wednesday and Pugsley
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play with dangerous toys. Lurch answers the door, and Thing
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always lends a hand. The Adamses are affectionate, supportive, and
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delighted by one another's strangeness. It's really only the respective
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visitors who bring the panic and bad manners. The house
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is full of traps, but belonging is not one of them.
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This is why I love The Addams Family and always have,
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because it is about a family who spends time together
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and enjoys each other's company. As spooky and creepy and
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goofy as it can be, it really is a film
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about being yourself and being with the people who see you.
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I know I got real deep on The Addams Family,
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but that is how I feel, and you should revisit
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that original series. Yes, the 90s films are also incredible,
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but that original 1964 series, so damn good, and it's
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available to watch free with ads on the Roku channel, Tubi,
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and Pluto TV, and of course you can buy or
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rent episodes and seasons through Amazon Video, Apple TV, and
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Fandango at home. Da-da-da-da. September 18th, 2009. Jennifer's body opens
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in U.S. theaters, and possession makes every old resentment in
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one friendship get pretty sharp teeth. Megan Fox plays Jennifer Check,
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Amanda Seyfried plays Needy Lesnicki. Her lifelong best friend and
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the first to realize Jennifer returned from a disastrous night
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looking a bit different. An aspiring band botches a ritual sacrifice,
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a demon moves in, and Jennifer begins feeding on boys
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while Needy tries to stop her. Director Karen Kusama and
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writer Diablo Cody make a horror comedy revenge story with
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a messy portrait of female friendships. The marketing sold Megan
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Fox as a fantasy, but the movie is far more
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interested in the girl beside her. There's a reason this
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film became kind of a major awakening film for millennials
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like myself. It had all the angst and all the
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technology and all the uncertainty and all of the, I
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don't know, all the elements of being a modern teenager
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depicted very accurately, but also fun and sexy, of course.
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Jennifer's body made about $ 16. 2 million domestically and $ 31. 6 million
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worldwide against a reported budget of $ 16 million. Not a
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terrible hit, but not something that would set the world
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on fire. But its later cult reputation became one of
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the clearest reversals of that era. If you've never seen
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Jennifer's Body, if you felt like you were too old
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to enjoy it when it came out, now's a really
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good time to check it out. It's streaming on Netflix
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with your membership, or you can rent and or buy
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it through, you guessed it, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV,
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and Fandango at home. Tomorrow on Weekly Spooky, it's September 1944.
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America is at war. A Nazi prisoner has escaped nearby.
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Families are dying from mysterious gas leaks. And 14-year-old Candace
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Cardona is about to learn that something far more terrifying
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than rumor is stalking the homes of Kudo Basin. An
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Intruder in the Night by David O'Hanlon. Candace expects an
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ordinary evening babysitting two young boys while their mother works
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the night shift. Then things start moving. A window she
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knows she closed is suddenly open. Heavy footprints appear inside
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the house. A strange, sickly, sweet odor drifts through the night.
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And outside the kitchen window, someone is watching. Candace tries
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to convince herself it's just nerves. War stories, a trick
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of the light, maybe even the escaped prisoner everyone in
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town is whispering about. Until she discovers that someone has
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already entered the house. Someone carrying chemicals, wearing a mask,
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and they've done this before. Somewhere in Kuto Basin, entire
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families have already died. And this is the story the
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authorities buried. The story of an old woman who spent
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80 years waiting to tell it. Tomorrow, right here on
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Weekly Spooky, we premiere Intruder in the Night. You won't
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want to miss it. It's got a lot of thrills, chills,
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and of course, spills. So make sure you're subscribed on
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your favorite podcast app. And maybe also lock the windows
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and keep the children close. All right, my spookies. Time
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for a quick breather. But when we come back, we're
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headed to September 14th, 1990, as a scavenged robot head
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becomes an art project. And that project starts rebuilding its body,
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and the apartment door is already locked behind you. We're back, Spooky,
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so let's dive into it. September 14th, 1990. Hardware opens
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theatrically in Los Angeles, and industrial art becomes an assembly
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instruction for murder. Richard Stanley's feature debut takes place in
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a scorched future where radiation and government control have made
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survival feel temporary. Dylan McDermott plays Moe, a scavenger who
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gives his artist girlfriend Jill, played by Stacey Travis... a
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robot head found in the wasteland. She builds it into
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a sculpture inside her apartment. It belongs to a Mark 13,
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a military machine designed to kill and repair itself. Once powered,
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it collects parts from Jill's studio and rebuilds piece by piece.
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Doors seal, ventilation fails, and metal claws scrape through the
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walls while the machine learns the room is faster than
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Jill could ever hope to escape it. Red dust, blue
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television light, welding sparks, and pirate radio noise fill the film.
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Iggy Pop is heard as Angry Bob, while Lemmy, yeah
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that Lemmy, appears as a taxi driver. The machine is
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a government program carrying out its one survival command. Jill
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understands tools, circuitry, and the space she built. The apartment,
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well that becomes the the trap but it's also her
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workshop hardware earned about 5.7 million dollars domestically and the
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budget was around 1.6 million dollars so while not a
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monster hit it has certainly left an impression on the
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horror genre i have always really enjoyed hardware it is
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the kind of 90s post-apocalyptic sci-fi but also still very
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horror kind of vibe that really hits hard Unfortunately, there
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are no major U.S. subscription, ad-supported, or digital rental options
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for hardware right now. You'd pretty much have to seek
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it out on physical media, although there are some great
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additions out there, so sorry to give you a tease
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like that. It happens, but I try not to do
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it too often. Now let's bust out the candles for
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a couple of horror-related birthdays, including one that's very timely.
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Born on September 14, 1947, is Sam Neill. On what
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would have been his 79th birthday, we remember the genre
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actor of Possession, The Omen Part 3, Event Horizon, In
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the Mouth of Madness, and of course, Jurassic Park. We're
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all very sad that we lost Mr. Neill this year,
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and we wish him and his family all the best.
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And happy birthday, Sam Neill. Born on September 16th, 1958,
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is Jennifer Tilly. Unmistakable voice and wicked comic timing behind
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Tiffany Valentine, the love interest of Chucky in the Child's
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Play universe. Jennifer Tilly is highly memorable, great in everything
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she does, and really owned that Tiffany character. So happy birthday,
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Jennifer Tilly. Born on September 17th, 1951, Cassandra Peterson, performer, writer,
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and creator of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, who turned
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a local television character into an absolute Halloween institution. A
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very happy birthday, Cassandra Peterson. And born on September 20th, 1948,
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is George R.R. Martin, an author whose dark horror and
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fantasy pieces include Fever Dream, Night Flyers, and a saga
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where the dead... rarely stay buried. Happy birthday, George R.R. Martin,
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and well wishes to all of our horror birthdays this week.
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For our then and now this week, horror asks, who
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controls the story? 1964 let the Addams Family define normal
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inside their own home. 1990 gives a killing machine one
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surviving command and an apartment full of materials. 2005 lets
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students invent a murderer, then watches the fiction choose victims.
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2009 lets a sacrifice rewrite one girl while her best
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friend fights over their history. And 2016 gives filmmakers more
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cameras than ever, without control over what the woods will
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show them. And for our weekly recommendation, if you want
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a pre-Halloween blast of blue-black streets, ancient grudges, and enough
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leather to upholster a whole crypt, head to September 19th, 2003,
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when Underworld opens in U.S. theaters and reveals a secret
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war between... Vampires and Lycans Beneath the Modern City. Kate
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Beckinsale plays Selene, a vampire death dealer whose certainty fractures
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when the Lycans pursue human Michael Corvin, and she discovers
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her coven's history may have been written by its victors.
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Len Wiseman directs like a gunmetal gothic comic book. Mansions
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hide laboratories, subway stations become battlefields, and every rainstorm and
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betrayal belongs to the same heightened world. Underworld grossed about
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$ 52 million domestically and $ 95. 7 million worldwide against a $ 22
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million budget, launching a five-film franchise and establishing Selene as
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a genre-defining action-horror heroine. of the 2000s and while there's
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a lot to joke about and make fun of in
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underworld because it comes off so cliche for the era
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it invented many of those cliches the color palette the
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action over suspense mentality it was a lot of fun
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and there's a reason that the whole world took notice
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If you haven't seen Underworld in a long time or
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somehow missed it entirely, it is streaming on YouTube TV
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and free with ads on Fandango at Home. You can
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also rent or buy it on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and, yes,
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Fandango at Home. So pick a side, wolves or vamps. Well,
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my spookies, that was your week in horror history. Don't
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forget tomorrow, Wednesday, there's a fresh horror story waiting just
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for you right here on Weekly Spooky. So make sure
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you're subscribed. We have something scary and fun to listen
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to every single day of the week. So subscribe on
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your favorite podcast app. And while you're at it, leave
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us a five-star rating. If you could be so generous,
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it really makes a very big difference. But now it's
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time for me to get back to work. We'll be
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back here next Tuesday. with another week of horror history.
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So until then, remember, our days are numbered. Because that's
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how we tell them apart. See you next week.