Jan. 27, 2026

This Week in Horror History | Stephen King Week: The Shining + Rose Red (Jan 26–Feb 2)

This Week in Horror History | Stephen King Week: The Shining + Rose Red (Jan 26–Feb 2)
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Travel back through January 26–February 2 with This Week in Horror History—a horror history podcastcountdown of horror movie anniversaries, a Stephen King milestone, and winter-week picks built for being snowed in.

Quick Hits (Jan 26–Feb 2):

  • Jan 26, 1996 — Screamers: killer machines evolve fast on a war-torn planet. Where to watch: Free w/ ads on TubiTV, plus rent at the usual suspects, or watch free with your Amazon Prime membership.
  • Jan 27, 1989 — Parents: suburban dinner-table dread with black-comedy bite. Where to watch: Free w/ ads on TubiTV, or rent at the usual suspects like Amazon Prime Video.
  • Jan 27, 2002 — Stephen King’s Rose Red: network miniseries haunted-mansion nostalgia with teeth. Where to watch: With your Hulu membership.
  • Jan 28, 1977 — The Shining (novel) published: snowbound horror at its most iconic. Where to read/listen:widely available in print, e-book, and audiobook—check library apps or Audible.

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Deep-Cut Spotlight:
  • Jan 26, 2001 — Shadow of the Vampire goes wide in the U.S.: a “movie about making a movie” where the vampire may not be acting. Box office: $11.2M worldwide on an $8M budget. Where to watch: Rent on Amazon Prime Video.

Weekly Recommendation:
  • Feb 1, 1980 — John Carpenter’s The Fog: a perfect late-January blizzard-week watch. Where to watch: Free w/ ads on TubiTV, or rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

Up next: Tomorrow: the final installment of the snowy slasher horror-con miniseries BANNED. Friday: another Best of 2025 horror film. In February: Cutting Deep into Horror returns.

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Some weeks in horror feel like a neat little lineup,

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and some weeks feel like a trapdoor. This one trapdoor,

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because in our window, the monsters don't politely wait in

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castles or crips. They show up on beaches, in tidy

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suburban kitchens, inside a prestige film set that's definitely not

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safe for humans, and in the middle of a haunted

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house experiment that was never meant to be controlled. So

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lock the doors, keep your boots out of the sand,

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and don't accept dinner from anyone who smiles a bit

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too much. It's time to spin the calendar backwards and

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see what crawls out. Welcome to this week in horror history.

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I'm Enrique Kuto, and I'm here to help you celebrate

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the spooky past, one release date at a time, this

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time for January twenty six through February second. And I

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do hope all of you listening who are hit by

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the big ice and snowstorms of the weekend are safe, warm,

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and secure, because I'm about to help you feel a

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whole lot less like that, Because tonight we have killer

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robots that won't stay buried, a haunted mansion study that

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becomes a televised seance, a suburban family dinner that is

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absolutely not pork roast, and a Stephen King publication date

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that changed the genre forever. Then for our deep cut

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spot light, a film about the making of the silent

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classic Nosferatu that might be hiding a real vampire in

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plain sight. January twenty sixth, nineteen ninety six. Screamers hits

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US theaters. If you like science fiction horror with a

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mean streak, well, Screamers is the kind of movie that

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asks one simple question, what if the scariest thing on

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a war torn planet isn't the enemy, it's the weapon

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you already built. Based on the Philip K. Dick's story

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Second Variety and written by Dan O'Bannon of Return of

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the Living Dead and Alien Fame, this one drops you

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into a toxic wasteland where subterranean killer machines hunt anything

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with a heartbeat, and then they start getting creative. It's

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got that gritty mid nineties texture to it, the kind

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where the future looks like rust, smoke and a lot

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of bad decisions. Plus it stars RoboCop himself Peter Weller.

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If that's not reason enough to check it out, I

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don't know what is. It's available to stream right now

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free with ads on two B TV, and of course

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you can rent it at the Usual Suspects or watch

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it free with your Amazon Prime membership. On January twenty seventh,

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nineteen eighty nine, a film that bothered me a lot

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as a kid, Parents arrives with a limited theatrical release.

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Oh man, I saw this movie on Monster Vision the

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Joe Bob Briggs on TNT and it stuck with me

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for a while. Meet the labels. Mom's perfect and dad

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is very proud, and the neighborhood is spotless. However, the

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meat Loaf is Suspicious. Parents is a black comedy horror

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film that plays like a Norman Rockwell painting with something

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kind of twitching behind the canvas. A kid starts to

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suspect his all American parents are hiding a family secret,

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and the movie lets that dread simmer until you're staring

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at the dinner table like it's a well, like it's

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a crime scene. It's funny, for sure, it's also uncomfortable,

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and it's got that slow creeping something is wrong vibe

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that horror does best. It's a film about a kid

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who realizes his parents are cannibals and that that's just

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a normal part of their lives. But to go even deeper,

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the cannibalism is an allegory or a metaphor for sex.

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The idea that the parents are doing something mischievous and

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immoral behind closed doors and tiding it from their son

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is kind of the focus of the film, and the

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depictions of cannibalism in that film messed me up for

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a long time. I remember seeing it on TV and

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being mortified. I mean, just the concept of child against

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parent is scary enough, like in Toby Hooper's Invaders from Mars,

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but to take it one step further with that taboo

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of cannibalism and the taboo of sex and family, it

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really pushes it. And of course, on top of all

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of that, having Randy Quaid of all people play the

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dad and masterfully, I might add, it really does make

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parents say a highly memorable kind of lost gem that

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I really recommend you either check out or give a

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new viewing to. And it is available to watch right

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now on two BTV free with ads, or you can

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rent it at the usual suspects like Amazon Prime Video,

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So make sure you bring your appetite. January tends to

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be a busy month for one of the undisputed Kings

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of horror pardon the pun, Stephen King. And in January

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twenty seventh of two thousand and two, Stephen King's Rose

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Red premiered on ABC. And I was actually just watching

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a different Stephen King three part mini series because as

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the snow was pouring down and beating Dayton, Ohio, we

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got over a foot of it. I was watching Storm

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of the Century, which is a three part mini series

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based on a Stephen King book, and it holds up great.

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There's something truly delightful and cozy and horror fun about

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this about ten years stretch where Stephen King kind of

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owned the three night mini series concept. And for those

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who are maybe too young to remember, three night mini

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series were just that Friday, Saturday and Sunday you would

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have a ninety minute or two hours with commercials installment

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of a Stephen King's story. It would keep you engrossed

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all weekend waiting for the next piece to drop. And

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Rose Red was no different. Three nights, one mansion and

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a team of psychics, skeptics and the curious walk into

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a place that does not want them there. Rose Red

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is Stephen King doing Haunted House Horror as a big

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TV event with sprawling rooms, hidden history, and a house

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that feels like it's rearranging itself to isolate you. And

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one of the most fun parts is it's structured like

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a study, like the mansion itself is a lab specimen,

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and the people are well the test mice. If you

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grew up in the era of Network mini series horror,

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well this nostalgia hit has a lot of teeth and

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it's definitely worth checking out, especially if you're snowed in

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like I am right now. I actually can't drive anywhere

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technically because of a Level three snow emergency. It's available

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to watch with your Hulu membership and I do recommend

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you check it out or head back to the old

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Mansion for another visit. I'm sure it missed you. And finally,

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on January twenty eighth, nineteen seventy seven, we go all

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the way back to one of the original truly terrifying

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snowbound horrors, with The Shine, which was published. This is

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one of those dates that really does echo on the calendar.

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Stephen King's The Shining hits bookstores on January twenty eighth,

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nineteen seventy seven, and horror gets a new kind of

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haunted space, not just a place with ghosts, but a

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place that feeds on the people inside of it. The

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Overlook isn't haunted in a simple way. It's hungry. It watches,

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It whispers, it tempts, and even if you've seen Kubrick's

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film one hundred times, the novel truly is its own beast,

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deeper on the family, deeper on the alcoholism, the slow corrosion,

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and the idea that evil doesn't always arrive as a stranger.

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Sometimes it moves in with you. And if you haven't

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checked out the nineteen ninety seven mini series for The Shining,

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that's also worth your time. While it's hard to compare

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it to kubricks The Shining, which many consider a masterpiece,

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I'm not the biggest fan, but I do appreciate the

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film quite a bit. The mini series, Stephen King himself

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liked more because it was more like the novel. But

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if you want to check out The Shining novel and

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kill some time before the roads are safe to be

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on again, it's widely available in print, on ebook and audiobook.

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You could check library apps if you don't want to

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pay anything for it, or just head to audible dot com.

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But either way, the overlook looks forward to your stay.

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are going behind the scenes of a movie set where

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the director is chasing authenticity and the actor might not

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act at all all. Right, lights back up to your places,

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cameras rolling, and somebody please keep an eye on the

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guy with the coffin in his trailer. On January twenty sixth,

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two thousand and one, Shadow of the Vampire goes wide

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in the US. So here's the pitch. It's nineteen twenty one.

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FW Murnow is making nos Farratu. He wants the perfect vampire,

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so he hires Max Shrek, and the crew starts to

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wonder if Shrek isn't performing a vampire so much as

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simply being one. Shadow of the Vampire is one of

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those delicious movies about movies, where where the horror works

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on two levels, and not just because that's my day job.

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Level one, a backstage satire about obsession, ego and art

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directors while they want truth, producers want money, and actors,

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of course the worst of all, want immortality. And then

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on level two, an honest to goodness vampire tale where

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the camera itself becomes bait. Williem Dafoe's performance is legendary

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here feral, funny and often unsettling, like a creature trying

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to remember how humans move. And John Malkovich plays Mernau

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as a man who's so committed to the shot that

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he'll sacrifice anything for it, including and especially people. And

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that's the real horror, isn't it. Not just the monster,

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but what will allow in the room as long as

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the work looks great in the end. As far as

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box office goes, Shadow of the Vampire made about eleven

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point two million dollars worldwide on an eight million dollar budget,

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So not a blockbuster, but it definitely became a cult

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title that's remembered very very well and fondly and rightfully. So.

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So if you want to check out Shadow of a Vampire,

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whether it's a revisit or it's your first time having

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your neck bitten, it's available to rent on Amazon Prime Video.

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Now it's time to light a creepy candle or two

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for some horror birthdays. January twenty sixth, nineteen forty three,

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Katherine Lee Scott is born beloved Dark Shadows icon and yes,

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she's been part of horror TV history for decades. She

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is truly iconic, and I don't like to throw that

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word around all willy nilly. Catherine Lee Scott brings a

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classy beauty to her roles. Happy birthday, Katherine Lee Scott.

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On January twenty seventh, nineteen fifty three. One of my

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personal heroes, Joe Bob Briggs, was born drive in legend

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horror host. In fact, we're both in the Horror host

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Hall of Fame eh eh, and of course the patron

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saint of movies that are Better with friends. Joe Bob

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Briggs helped grow generations of horror movie and exploitation movie

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fans with his three TV series Joe Bob's Drive In

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on the Movie Channel in the eighties and early nineties,

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Monster Vision on TNT on Saturday Nights, which I watched

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constantly until it's cancelation in two thousand, and of course

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his current show on Shutter, The Last Drive In with

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Joe Bob Briggs. I had the fortune of going to

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two of his Drive In jamborees and even visiting the

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set of The Last Drive In back when they were

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shooting in New Jersey. Incredible experience. Joe Bob is the best,

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and I'm so glad younger generations are getting exposed to

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his type of movie hosting and movie appreciation. So big

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happy birthday to John Bloom aka Joe Bob Briggs. January

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twenty eighth, nineteen fifty nine. Frank Darrabant was born. He's

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written some of the best genre screenplays of the eighties

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and later directed one of Stephen King's arguably best modern adaptations,

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The Mist. Darrabant has had an incredible career, so many

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great scripts, so many great films, so many great television

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series that he's been involved in. He's had his hand

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in underrated horror films like the nineteen eighty eight Blob

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remake and the nineteen eighty nine The Fly Part two,

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which I think are both great films, highly underrated. But

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he's also been involved in The Walking Dead's first season,

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which is of course a major part of horror history.

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So big happy birthday to Frank Dearrabat and finally, born

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on February second, nineteen seventy four, a more modern horror figure,

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Osgood Perkins was born. Osgood Perkins has recently become very

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well known for his film's Long Legs, The Monkey and

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his most recent film Keeper, which I really enjoyed and

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saw in the theater, and I actually on the first

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night of the big blizzard that hit, I finally checked

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out his film The Block black Coat's Daughter, which is

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very snowy, very creepy, and very dark, but I really

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enjoyed it. So osgood Perkins, a rising star in modern horror,

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and of course an overnight sensation that was twenty years

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in the making. I think he's earned a lot of

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the accolades. So happy birthday, Oz Perkins for our then

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and now. Then in the nineties, screamers warned us about

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autonomous killing machines that learn too fast to keep up.

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Now we have a real world with AI and drones,

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and the most unsettling part is how quickly conversations shift

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from should we to how soon will we? Horror doesn't

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really predict the future so much as it pressure tests it.

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Our fears and anxieties are related to what we seek

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coming down the pike, so it takes a fear and

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turns the dial well past safe and makes you stare

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at the consequences and won't let you look away. That

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catharsis is why horror is so popular with so many

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people all over the world, regardless of age, gender, or

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religious affiliation. For our weekly recommendation, we head back to

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February first, nineteen eighty, when John Carpenter's The Fog hit theaters.

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If you need a perfect late January Blizzard week watch.

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The Fog is pure atmosphere, coastal night air, ghost story, dread,

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and of course John Carpenter tightening suspense like it's a

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wire wrapped around your throat. It also pairs nicely with

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our deep cut Spotlight because it's another mood first horror

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where the setting feels almost alive, like the town is

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in on the secret. The atmosphere of the Fog is

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certainly next level, and if you've never seen it, you

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really need to. And if you haven't seen it in

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a while, well you really need to. The Fog is

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available to watch free right now on two b TV

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with ads. You can also rent or buy it on

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Amazon Video, Apple TV, and of course Fandango at home.

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So get your fog on, get down with your bad self,

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and try not to be massacred by the ghosts of lepers.

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Try your best at least well, my spookys. That's your

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tour through January twenty sixth to February second, and as always,

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the calendar is soaked in something unpleasant. No no, no,

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don't try to taste it. If you want more horror

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in your week, well you're in the right place, because

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here on the weekly Spooky feed. Tomorrow we drop the

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final installment of our Snowy Slasher set at a horror

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convention called band so make sure you check that out.

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And on Friday we'll be presenting another of the best

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of twenty twenty five horror films. And just so you know,

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in February you can expect a full return from cutting

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deep into horror, so make sure you're subscribed on your

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Weeklyspooky at gmail dot com. I do love hearing from you,

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so until next time, remember our day are numbered because

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that's how we tell them apart. See you next week