Nov. 18, 2025

This Week in Horror History | Sleepaway Camp, Sleepy Hollow & Salem’s Lot

This Week in Horror History | Sleepaway Camp, Sleepy Hollow & Salem’s Lot
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Step into late November with This Week in Horror History, the horror podcast that digs into the spooky anniversaries hiding between Thanksgiving and Christmas. In this episode, we dive into a full week of genre milestones for November 18–25, from cult slashers and gothic ghost stories to Stephen King adaptations, survival horror gaming, and a haunting cannibal romance.

We kick things off at summer camp with Sleepaway Camp (1983), the infamous 1980s slasher movie whose shocking final twist made it a cult legend on VHS and a must-watch for every serious horror fan. Then we ride into the fog with Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (1999), a stylish gothic horror film packed with headless-horseman mayhem, Hammer Horror vibes, and one of Johnny Depp’s most beloved spooky roles.

From there, we lock the supermarket doors and let The Mist (2007) roll in. This Stephen King horror movie traps terrified townspeople in a grocery store surrounded by Lovecraftian monsters and religious hysteria, building to one of the bleakest endings in modern horror cinema. We also pick up a controller for Condemned: Criminal Origins (2005), a grim Xbox 360 survival horror game that turned a next-gen console launch into a nightmare of crime scenes, jump scares, and first-person brutality.

Our Deep-Cut Spotlight sinks its teeth into Salem’s Lot (1979), Tobe Hooper’s terrifying Stephen King TV miniseriesthat made an entire generation afraid to look out their bedroom windows. We talk small-town dread, the iconic window-scratch scene, and how this vampire story helped shape everything from Fright Night to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Midnight Mass.

Along the way, we roll through horror birthdays (including icons connected to The Silence of the Lambs, The Thing, and indie horror favorites), revisit the legacy of Universal’s Frankenstein in a Then & Now segment, and close with a Weekly Recommendation: Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All (2022), a melancholic cannibal road movie that plays like a twisted, emotional Thanksgiving watch.
If you love horror history, Stephen King adaptations, Tim Burton gothic horror, 80s slasher movies, Thanksgiving horror, and deep dives into cult classics, this episode is your cozy, creepy guide to late-November genre viewing.

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Sleepaway Camp (1983)

  • Streaming: Currently streaming on Peacock and available via Prime Video (depending on region/packaging).
  • Physical: Recent Blu-ray restorations from boutique horror labels are in print and easy to hunt down for collectors.

Sleepy Hollow (1999)
  • Digital: Available to rent or buy digitally on the usual suspects, including Prime Video and Apple TV.
  • Physical: Long-standing Paramount Blu-ray and DVD releases are widely available.

The Mist (2007)
  • Streaming: Streaming on Peacock and Paramount+, often as part of their Stephen King / horror lineups.
  • Physical: Blu-ray editions are easy to find, including releases that feature Frank Darabont’s preferred black-and-white cut.

Condemned: Criminal Origins (2005 – game)
  • Digital: Recently delisted from major digital storefronts, so it’s not a simple click-to-buy anymore.
  • Physical / Legacy: Best found as a physical Xbox 360 disc or as remaining PC keys from reputable sellers that still activate on Steam; expect some tinkering on modern hardware.

Salem’s Lot (1979 miniseries)
  • Streaming: Shows up on free-with-ads streamers like Tubi and on horror-centric services such as AMC+ and Shudder from time to time, though availability shifts.
  • Physical / Digital: There are solid DVD and Blu-ray editions in circulation, and it’s typically available to rent or buy digitally on major VOD platforms when it falls out of flat-rate streaming.

Bones and All (2022)
  • Digital: Available digitally on Prime Video.
  • Streaming: Also popping up on cinephile-focused streamers such as The Criterion Channel and MUBI, making it easy to slot into a late-night double feature.
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Late November is a weird time for horror. Jack o'

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lanterns are collapsing in the yard, Christmas lights are half hung,

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and the genre is busy sneaking in some of its strangest,

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moodiest releases while everybody else is thinking about turkeys and shopping.

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This week in horror History, we're pitching our tent at

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the edge of the holidays, a summer camp shocker with

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an all timer twist, a gothic decapitation fest from Tim Burton,

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a supermarket siege full of cosmic despair, and a small

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main town that quietly grew fangs on network television. If

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you like your comfort movies with a side of existential dread,

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well here in the right place. This week in horror History,

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for the week of November eighteenth through twenty fifth, I'm

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Enrique Kuto, your tour guide through the anniversary's oddities and

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deep cuts that built the creepy calendar we live by.

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On today's tour will mark the theatrical birthday of sleep

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Away Camp. Revisit Sleepy Hollow's fog drenched headless horsemen and

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watch the mist roll into theaters. Then we'll talk about

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a cult classic launch title that turned the Xbox three

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sixty into a crime scene simulator. And after the break,

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we'll dive into Toby Hooper's Salem's Lot, the mini series

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that made an entire generation afraid of their own bedroom windows.

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November eighteenth, nineteen eighty three, sleep Away Camp slashes its

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way into theaters. New York audiences get first blood as

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Robert Hiltzick's low budget slasher sleep Away Camp opens and

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tries to ride the post Friday the Thirteenth wave, which

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was riding the post Halloween wave. On paper, it's another

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camp set body Count movie. In practice, it leans into

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grubby detail and one of the most infamous final shots

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in horror history. And if you don't know, you need

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to find out. It crawled onto VHS, then into midnight

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movie Cannon, and now it's a staple of the wait

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you've never seen this lists and debates And I want

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to say I went into sleep Away Camp completely and

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utterly blind. I had heard, like crazy, this is gonna

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set my age a bit on MySpace about how awesome

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this box set for sleep Away Camp was. I'd never

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heard of the movies beyond seeing the box covers in

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video stores, so I went out and bought the sleep

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Away Camp Survival Kit, which was a three disc set

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from Anchor Bay. It was awesome, had lots of extras,

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and it came in a box that looked like a

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first aid kit. And actually that initial box got recalled

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because they used a Red Cross on it, and ironically enough,

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the Red Cross filed a cease and desist because I

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guess they own that iconography. But I had no idea

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what I was in for. And not only was sleep

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Away Camp one pretty freakin' awesome, but I am a

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massive supporter of the sequels as well. If you want

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to revisit or finally witness that ending, it's free with

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Prime right now on Amazon, or you can watch it

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on Peacock with a subscription, or you can see it

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completely and utterly free on places like to b pleaqu

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and Pluto TV. At least as of the recording of

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the show, there's no four K release of the original

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yet on physical media, so you'll have to stick to

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a standard Blu ray. But I've been enjoying very much

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by four KUHD copies of the sequels. November nineteenth, nineteen

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ninety nine. Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow gallops into cinemas Paramount

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drops Sleepy Hollow in the pre Thanksgiving slot, giving Tim

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Burton the keys to Washington Irving's Headless Horseman and letting

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him shoot a hammer horror love letter on a studio budget.

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The result is fog and blood and more severed heads

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than you can shake a stick at. Although I don't

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know why you'd want to anchored by Johnny Depp playing

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Ichabod Crane as a fussy proto forensic nerd, and actually,

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while it does borrow a lot from hammer horle horror films,

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I think it borrows even more, at least in the

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depiction of Ichabod Crane from nineteen eighty five's Fright Night,

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directed by Tom Holland, not Spider Man, the Child's Play.

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Tom Holland a vampire film I have a great deal

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of fondness for because there's a character in there named

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Peter Vincent, who is a vampire hunter in movies and

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hosts horror movies on television, who ends up becoming a

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real life vampire hunter, albeit very very reluctantly, and a

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lot of his mannerisms and reaction to the situation. Really,

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I think Depp at the very least watched Fright Night

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a couple of times, you know, had a Blockbuster night

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and got some inspiration. If you're in the mood for

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autumn vibes long after Halloween ends, It's free on Pluto TV,

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or you can rent or buy it digitally on the

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usual suspects like Prime Video, Apple TV, or you could

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even spin that long standing paramount Blu Raye. I'm due

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for a revisit of Sleepy Hollow. Hey, Dave, if you're listening,

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bring it over. November twenty one, two thousand and seven,

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The Mist blankets theaters. Huh boy, talk about another shock ending.

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Frank Derabant, the guy who turned the Shawshank Redemption into

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a comfort movie, adapts Stephen King's novella The Mist and

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delivers Pure Despair. Derabant would later go on to massive

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success as one of the showrunners for the long running

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Walking Dead. The film follows a main supermarket full of

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ordinary people in a kind of love crafty and fog,

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then watches their fear mutate into religion, mob rule, and

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one of the bleakest endings in mainstream horror, if not

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all the way through the genre, it didn't blow the

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doors off the box office, but its reputation has only grown,

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especially in light of that gut punch final scene. Currently,

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you can stream The Mist on platforms like Peacock and

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Paramount Plus, or grab the Blu ray that includes Darabot's

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preferred black and white cut that makes it feel like

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a lost nineteen fifties horror movie. November twenty second, two

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thousand and five, Condemned Criminal Origins launches with Xbox three sixty.

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When Microsoft rolls out the Xbox three sixty, one of

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its launch titles is a filthy little first person horror

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game from Monolith called Condemned Criminal Origins. You play an

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FBI investigator chasing a serial killer through rotting apartments, abandoned malls,

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and subway tunnels, doing more forensic work with a lead

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pipe than with a lab. It's focus on melee combat,

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forensic puzzles, and sheer grime made it a cult classic

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and a formative I really shouldn't be playing this at

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two am experience. Physical copies still trade hands, but in

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a very twoenty twenty five twist, the game has been

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delisted from major digital storefronts, sparking rumors and wishful thinking

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After the break, we're driving up to Salem's Lot, where

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the real estate is cheap and the vampires well they're plentiful.

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Now that we're back, let's talk about a mini series

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that permanently ruined the idea of looking out your bedroom

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window at especially if you live on the second floor.

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Our deep cut Spotlight this Week lands on Salem's Lot,

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the nineteen seventy nine CBS mini series that proved you

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could sneak genuinely terrifying vampire horror onto network television. For

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those uninitiated, there were several very famous examples of TV

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made horror films in the seventies that emotionally and psychologically

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scarred an entire generation. Dark Knight of the Scarecrow comes

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to mind that might have been the early eighties, and

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another one that's really famous is the Trilogy of Terror.

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Basically anything Dan Curtis touched It Turned to Gold if

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You're a Psychiatrist. Directed by Toby Hooper, who had directed

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre just a few years earlier, and based

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on Stephen King's nineteen seventy five novel, it aired over

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two nights November seventeenth and twenty fourth, which puts the

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second half squarely in This Week in Horror history. Instead

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of a suave, talkative Dracula type, Hooper and Company gave

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us Kurt Barlow as a chalk skinned rat, toothed no

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speratu who never speaks, just hisses and lunges out of

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the dark. And don't get me started on the eyes.

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The contact lenses were mortifying, even before you remember that

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this is the seventies, so those lenses in his eyes

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were made of glass. The setup is simple. Writer Ben

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Mears returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot to work

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through a childhood trauma involving the creepy Marston House on

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the Hill, only to find that a mysterious antiques dealer

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and his unseen partner have moved in and the locals

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are starting to look up a little pale, even for

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New England. What makes Salem's Lot special isn't just the plot,

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but the way it weaponizes every day small town life.

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Gossiping neighbors, bored kids, a local priest, all slowly swallowed

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by an infection nobody wants to name. Visually, it's pure

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late seventies comfort, horror, paneled walls, boxy cars, blue tinted night.

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But Hooper keeps dropping images that feel like urban legends

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come to life. The often referenced glick boy tapping on

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the window, the corpse that sits up on the Morgue table,

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that Antler impalement at the Marston House. It's no wonder.

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Later creators of vampire stories, from the aforementioned Fright Night

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to Buffy to Midnight Mass have cited Salem's Lot as

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a major influence. If you've only ever heard about it, Well,

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we have some moderately good news. It's still available, but

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you'll have to rent it on your preferred service like

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Prime Video, Apple TV, wherever you rent your movies. There's

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also a very solid Blu Ray addition in circulation. I

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have it, and it's pretty cool. It is a very

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long movie. They put them together instead of presenting it

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as a mini series, although it feels like a two

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part mini series. I guess that. Okay, I'll shut up.

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That is a very mini series, I suppose, but heed

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my suggestion. Maybe don't watch it right before bed, especially

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if your bedroom window doesn't have curtains made of garlic

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and holy water. Okay, I don't know how you'd make

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curtains out of holy water, but I mean science has

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come a long way since seventy nine, right, right, let's

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light some candles black ones, obviously, for this week's birthday

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role November eighteenth, nineteen sixty two. Kurt Hammett is born.

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Metallica's lead guitarist, is also one of the world's most

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famous classic horror collectors, with a museum worthy stash of

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posters and props and the coffee table book too much

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Horror Business to prove it. November nineteenth, nineteen sixty two.

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Jody Foster was born, an all time great who gave

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us one of horror's most iconic final girls as Clarice

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Starling in the Silence of the Lambs. Also, I want

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to mention this is one of those examples, a very

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early perfect example of a film being a horror movie,

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but then people trying to kind of scoot it under

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the rug as, oh, well it's a thriller. Well, sure

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it's a thriller, but it has a guy biting somebody's

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nose off. I think it's a horror movie. So just

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hand over the oscar and let's stop arguing about semantics. Yes,

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I'm aware, I'm in a room alone. November twentieth, nineteen

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forty eight. Richard Maser. Genre fans know him as Clark

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the dog Handler and John Carpenter's The Thing and as

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an adult stan URIs in the nineteen ninety IT mini series,

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and I can't wait to talk about the thing when

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the time comes. Four are then, and now we're raising

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a glass or maybe a lightning rod to Frankenstein. On

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November twenty first, nineteen thirty one, Universal officially released James

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Wales Frankenstein in the United States, cementing Boris Karloff's flat

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topped creature. And of course this moment I want to mention.

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When I was trying to find that sound effect for

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the show, everything I found was from young Frankenstein and

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not the original, So that goes to show you how

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iconic moments can morph and evolve in the zeitgeist. I

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guess it's only seventy minutes long, but between the lab equipment,

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the little girl at the lake, and the burning windmill,

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it pretty much wrote the visual language of Mad Scientist

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horror as it would come to be known. Fast forward

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to right now, and Frankenstein is back in the conversation

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thanks to Guermo Del Toro's new adaptation, rolling out theatrically

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in the fall and hitting Netflix in early November. It's

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actually available right now, and I'm ashamed to say I

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haven't had a chance to sit down and watch it yet.

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Del Toro is leaning closer to Mary Shelley's novel, but

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he's also openly paying homage to the nineteen thirty one

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film that first terrified him as a kid. It's a

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pretty cool full circle moment. Ninety plus years after that

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original November release, the same stitched together myth is still

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being jolted back to life for a new generation. And

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of course, as we wrap up this week's episode, I

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have to give you my weekly recommendation, and this one's

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a little more recent. It's Bones and All from twenty

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twenty two. Luca Guadagnino's melancholy Cannibal Road movie, which opened

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wide in the US on November eighteenth, twenty twenty two,

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is set against the wide open Midwest in the nineteen eighties.

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It follows two young eaters as they become known, who

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bond over a shared urge to consume people and hit

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the road in search of family, belonging and maybe a

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way to live with the hunger. It's a slow burn,

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part doomed romance, part Americana travelogue, actually filmed not far

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from where I live, but it's also part absolutely gnarly

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body horror when it wants to be Taylor Russell and

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Timothy schallomet sell the tragedy. Mark Ryland steals scenes as

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a deeply unsettling older eater, and the whole thing feels

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like a well, like a Thanksgiving movie from a parallel universe,

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one you don't want to visit. As of this recording,

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it's available with subscription on Prime Video and also cinophile

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focused streamer movie, so it's an easy one to add

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to a chilly night double feature. I also want to

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mention I saw Luca Guadaldino's most recent film, After the Hunt,

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which is not a horror movie, but my goodness, gracious,

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it was excellent. I enjoyed the hell out of it.

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And that My Spookies was this week in Horror History

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for November eighteenth through twenty fifth. If you enjoyed our

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little stroll through slashers, fog, monsters, and small town vampire plagues,

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make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode.

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We drop these every single Tuesday, and we'd love to

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hear from you. Send us an email at weekly Spooky

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in the right place. Also, tomorrow, right here on the Feed,

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we'll have a brand new story from Michael Kelso and

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it's a creepy one. So make sure you're back here

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tomorrow for Weekly Spooky. And by the way, on Friday,

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we're dropping a massive story compilation Thanksgiving horrors you will

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not want to miss until then. Keep your windows latched,

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your tapes rewound, and your calendar marked. And remember our

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days are numbered. That's how we tell them apart. Now

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back to trying to make a curtain out of holy water.