Aug. 11, 2026
This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: The Monster Squad, Cujo & The Fly
Key Takeaways
- The Monster Squad is highlighted as a beloved cult classic where a group of young horror fans use their knowledge of classic movie monster rules as survival training against Dracula and his gang.
- Fred Dekker and Shane Black's 1987 film The Monster Squad turned fandom into a heartfelt, adventurous story about an underdog treehouse club saving the world.
- Due to rights issues with Universal, the iconic monsters in The Monster Squad had to be slightly redesigned, giving them a fresh yet deeply nostalgic look.
- The episode serves as an annual Halloween horror pregame, exploring classic anniversaries from August 10 through August 16, including The Others, Cujo, Jason Goes to Hell, and Lovecraft Country.
- The Monster Squad holds a special place in horror history as a gateway film for generations of monster kids passing their love of horror down to the next wave of fans.
The Monster Squad, Cujo, The Fly, The Others, Jason Goes to Hell, and Lovecraft Country headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 10 through August 16. As summer horror starts giving way to spooky season, we’re beginning the Halloween horror pregame with classic monsters, Stephen King terror, haunted-house mysteries, Jason Voorhees, cosmic horror, rabid-animal survival, and one of David Cronenberg’s greatest body-horror transformations.
Inside this episode:
August 10, 2001 — The Others opens in U.S. theaters
Nicole Kidman waits inside a fogbound mansion where every curtain must remain closed, every doorway follows a strict ritual, and mysterious footsteps suggest that Grace and her light-sensitive children may not be alone. Alejandro Amenábar builds a gothic ghost story from silence, grief, locked rooms, and competing versions of reality.
August 12, 1983 — Cujo opens in U.S. theaters
Stephen King turns a gentle Saint Bernard into the center of a brutally simple survival nightmare. Dee Wallace and a young child become trapped inside a failing car beneath the blazing summer sun while a rabid dog waits outside and their supposed shelter slowly becomes an oven. August 13, 1993 — Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday opens in U.S. theaters
The Friday the 13th franchise blows apart the familiar image of Jason Voorhees and transforms him into a body-hopping demonic force. Family bloodlines, possession horror, temporary human hosts, gruesome transformations, and one unforgettable final tease send Jason into his strange New Line era.
August 16, 2020 — Lovecraft Country premieres on HBO
Misha Green’s supernatural horror series follows Atticus Freeman, Letitia Lewis, and Uncle George across 1950s Jim Crow America, where sundown towns and systemic violence can be as deadly as the ancient creatures waiting in the dark. Cosmic horror, family history, inherited trauma, magic, body horror, and American history collide.
Deep-Cut Spotlight — The Monster Squad
Dracula arrives with the Wolf Man, the Mummy, the Gill Man, and Frankenstein’s creature—and the only people prepared to stop them are a group of young horror fans who have spent their lives memorizing monster rules.
Directed by Fred Dekker and written by Dekker and Shane Black, The Monster Squad turns fandom into survival training. A German diary must be translated, silver bullets must be tested, an ancient amulet must be protected, and a treehouse club has one night to prevent classic evil from taking control of the world.
Funny, adventurous, spooky, and unexpectedly heartfelt, The Monster Squad became a beloved cult horror movie through cable television, home video, and generations of monster kids passing it along to the next generation. It is also perfect viewing for anyone beginning their annual Halloween movie-season pregame.
Horror Birthdays This Week:
Alfred Hitchcock, Halle Berry, Natasha Henstridge, and James Cameron enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to Psycho, The Birds, Gothika, Dark Tide, Species, Aliens, and some of horror and science-fiction cinema’s most memorable killers, creatures, transformations, and survival stories.
Weekly Recommendation — The Fly
David Cronenberg’s The Fly celebrates its 40th anniversary with a story that remains romantic, disgusting, funny, tragic, and profoundly human.
Jeff Goldblum plays scientist Seth Brundle, whose revolutionary teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong when an unnoticed fly enters the pod beside him. The machine combines their genetic material, beginning a physical transformation that neither science, intelligence, nor love can reverse.
With Geena Davis as journalist Veronica Quaife, Academy Award-winning makeup effects, unforgettable body horror, and a devastating central relationship, The Fly remains one of the defining horror movies of the 1980s—and an essential addition to any early Halloween horror watchlist.
Plus, Weekly Spooky returns Wednesday with another original horror story, followed by more terrifying history, strange mysteries, horror movie discussion, and unexplained broadcasts throughout the week. From The Others and Cujo to Jason Goes to Hell, Lovecraft Country, The Monster Squad, and The Fly, this week in horror history proves that terror can hide inside a locked mansion, wait outside a stalled car, move from body to body, follow a family across America, gather the classic monsters, or emerge from a teleportation pod. The calendar may still say August, but the Halloween horror pregame is officially underway.
🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!
🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!
👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join
📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!
🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
👨💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Inside this episode:
August 10, 2001 — The Others opens in U.S. theaters
Nicole Kidman waits inside a fogbound mansion where every curtain must remain closed, every doorway follows a strict ritual, and mysterious footsteps suggest that Grace and her light-sensitive children may not be alone. Alejandro Amenábar builds a gothic ghost story from silence, grief, locked rooms, and competing versions of reality.
August 12, 1983 — Cujo opens in U.S. theaters
Stephen King turns a gentle Saint Bernard into the center of a brutally simple survival nightmare. Dee Wallace and a young child become trapped inside a failing car beneath the blazing summer sun while a rabid dog waits outside and their supposed shelter slowly becomes an oven. August 13, 1993 — Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday opens in U.S. theaters
The Friday the 13th franchise blows apart the familiar image of Jason Voorhees and transforms him into a body-hopping demonic force. Family bloodlines, possession horror, temporary human hosts, gruesome transformations, and one unforgettable final tease send Jason into his strange New Line era.
August 16, 2020 — Lovecraft Country premieres on HBO
Misha Green’s supernatural horror series follows Atticus Freeman, Letitia Lewis, and Uncle George across 1950s Jim Crow America, where sundown towns and systemic violence can be as deadly as the ancient creatures waiting in the dark. Cosmic horror, family history, inherited trauma, magic, body horror, and American history collide.
Deep-Cut Spotlight — The Monster Squad
Dracula arrives with the Wolf Man, the Mummy, the Gill Man, and Frankenstein’s creature—and the only people prepared to stop them are a group of young horror fans who have spent their lives memorizing monster rules.
Directed by Fred Dekker and written by Dekker and Shane Black, The Monster Squad turns fandom into survival training. A German diary must be translated, silver bullets must be tested, an ancient amulet must be protected, and a treehouse club has one night to prevent classic evil from taking control of the world.
Funny, adventurous, spooky, and unexpectedly heartfelt, The Monster Squad became a beloved cult horror movie through cable television, home video, and generations of monster kids passing it along to the next generation. It is also perfect viewing for anyone beginning their annual Halloween movie-season pregame.
Horror Birthdays This Week:
Alfred Hitchcock, Halle Berry, Natasha Henstridge, and James Cameron enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to Psycho, The Birds, Gothika, Dark Tide, Species, Aliens, and some of horror and science-fiction cinema’s most memorable killers, creatures, transformations, and survival stories.
Weekly Recommendation — The Fly
David Cronenberg’s The Fly celebrates its 40th anniversary with a story that remains romantic, disgusting, funny, tragic, and profoundly human.
Jeff Goldblum plays scientist Seth Brundle, whose revolutionary teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong when an unnoticed fly enters the pod beside him. The machine combines their genetic material, beginning a physical transformation that neither science, intelligence, nor love can reverse.
With Geena Davis as journalist Veronica Quaife, Academy Award-winning makeup effects, unforgettable body horror, and a devastating central relationship, The Fly remains one of the defining horror movies of the 1980s—and an essential addition to any early Halloween horror watchlist.
Plus, Weekly Spooky returns Wednesday with another original horror story, followed by more terrifying history, strange mysteries, horror movie discussion, and unexplained broadcasts throughout the week. From The Others and Cujo to Jason Goes to Hell, Lovecraft Country, The Monster Squad, and The Fly, this week in horror history proves that terror can hide inside a locked mansion, wait outside a stalled car, move from body to body, follow a family across America, gather the classic monsters, or emerge from a teleportation pod. The calendar may still say August, but the Halloween horror pregame is officially underway.
🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!
🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!
👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join
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- Twitter: @WeeklySpooky
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- Email: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com
🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
👨💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com
Frequently Asked Questions
What is The Monster Squad about?
The Monster Squad follows a group of young horror obsessives who must use their knowledge of monster lore to defeat Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolfman, the Gill Man, and Frankenstein's creature before a hundred-year deadline expires.
Who directed and wrote The Monster Squad?
The film was directed by Fred Dekker and co-written by Dekker and Shane Black.
Why did The Monster Squad feature redesigned Universal monsters?
Universal did not sign on to do the film as a direct monster reboot, which required the filmmakers to create slightly altered designs for the classic creatures while still capturing their traditional essence.
Where can you stream The Monster Squad?
The Monster Squad is available to watch free with an Amazon Prime subscription on Prime Video, with ads on YouTube and Prime Video, or to rent and buy on digital storefronts like Apple TV and Fandango at Home.
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Mid August is when summers starts to feel like a
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room with the windows hainted shut. The air is heavy,
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the road shimmers, and every locked door, stalled car, and
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darkened hallway seems to be keeping its very own secret.
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This Week in Horror History gives us a fog bound
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mansion where daylight is dangerous, a family dog turned into
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a siege engine, Jason Vorhee's crossing a very strange threshold,
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and an HBO journey where human monsters and cosmic ones
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share the same road. Then, after the break, our deep
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cut Spotlight gathers the neighborhood kids, raids the treehouse arsenal
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and asks whether a silver bullet is enough. When Dracula
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brings the whole gang. Oh yeah, I can't wait to
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talk about that one. 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, comics, and games. I'm your host,
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Enrique Kuto, and tonight we're talking about August tenth through
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the sixteenth Coming up. Nicole Kidman waits in a house
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where every curtain stays closed. Stephen King turns a gentle
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saint Bernard into a sun baked Nightmare, Jason Vorhees leaves
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Crystal Lake behind and discovers that evil can travel light,
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and Lovecraft Country sends a black family across Jim Crow
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America with ancient magic in the rearview mirror. Then right
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after the break, our deep cut spotlight is on the
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kids club that has one night to save the world
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from Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and one very misunderstood creature.
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That film, by the way, is the entire reason this
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podcast exists. I'll tell you more a little later. This
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is a very special episode. August tenth, two thousand and one.
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The Others opens in US theaters and summer sunlight disappears
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behind a wall of curtains. Nicole Kidman plays Grace, a
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mother waiting in a remote Channel Island mansion with her
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two children near the end of World War Two. The
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children are dangerously sensitive to light, so every room follows
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a ritual lock one door before opening the next. Draw
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the curtains keep the house dim. Writer director Alejandro Ahmanapa
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builds the film out of rules, silence, and competing versions
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of reality. New servants arrive, a child insists that strangers
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are moving through the house. Grace hears footsteps where no
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one should be. The mansion becomes a machine for controlling
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light and hiding whatever Grace cannot bear to see. The
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Others lets fog erase the world just beyond the gate,
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then makes every sound inside feel painfully close. The film
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has an incredible vibe and incredible mood that definitely turns
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itself into a kind of locked door. This is a
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film that I actually only saw about ten years ago,
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and man, did it leave an impression on me. I
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really think The Others is kind of an underrated early
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two thousands horror film. You all should watch if you
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haven't already, and it's relatively easy to watch if you
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have a subscription to AMC Plus or Shutter But of
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course you can rent or buy it on Amazon Video,
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Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. August twelfth, nineteen eighty three,
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Cujo reaches United States theaters and a broken down car
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becomes the hottest smallest fortress ever in horror, Adapted from
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Stephen King's novel of the same name and directed by
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Lewis Tige, Cujo begins with an ordinary accident. A friendly
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Saint Bernard chases a rabbit into a cave meets a
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rabbit bat and comes home carrying a disease that strips
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away everything his family could recognize. The film traps Donna
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Trenton played by Dee Wallace, and her young son Tad
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inside a failing car outside blazing sun, a total lack
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of help, and a dog powerful enough to make escape
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feel impossible. There is no accident, curse, or ritual. The
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horror is biology, which makes it eerily plausible. As well.
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That simplicity makes Kujo brutal. The threat was a once
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loved dog. The place is no longer safe because it's
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becoming an oven, and survival depends on choosing the least
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terrible moment to open the door. This is claustrophobic horror
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at its most joyously scary, especially if you have a
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child to protect or you have a love of very
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large dogs. This is one that I can't imagine you've
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slept on, but if you have, you need to give
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it a watch or maybe a rewatch, you know, before
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the hot summer passes. You buy you can find it
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streaming with your MGM plus account or through YouTube tv
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and their MGM plus membership. You can also, of course
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rent or buy it at you guessed it, Amazon Video,
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Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. You know how sometimes
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they say a bark is worse than their bite. Well,
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it's not the case with Kujo. August thirteenth, nineteen ninety three,
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Jason Goes to Hell opens in US theaters. Of course,
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that is a Friday the thirteenth, so it's natural, and
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it sends the franchise into body hopping territory and becomes
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one of the most hotly debated entries in a very
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rich and long horror series. The ninth Friday the thirteenth
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film begins by doing something I gotta admit is kind
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of delightfully reckless. I feel like this film is aged
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surprisingly well. It blows up the familiar shape of Jason Vorhees.
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Then it asks what exactly could remain. The answer is
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a demonic force that can move from host to host,
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turning the slasher into a possession movie with a hockey
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mask kind of hovering but only in our imaginations. Directed
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by Adam Marcus, this is the strange doorway into Jason's
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New Line era. When New Line Cinema got the rights
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from Paramount, this was how they started up the fervor
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that would eventually vary. Eventually, after many years of development
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land in Freddy Versus Jason, the rules are expanded, the
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family bloodline suddenly matters, bodies become temporary housing, and the
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title's promise of finality because the subtitle is the Final Friday,
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arrives with quite a wink. It has its detractors, but
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it is messy and gooey, and it relish in being
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odd as hell pardon the pun, a sequel willing to
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dismantle its icon just to see what might crawl out.
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And while people have complained about those changes, I'd be
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damned if I said that. They don't keep talking about
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all the bizarre choices and Jason goes to hell. It
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makes it a very memorable film. So if you want
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to take a little tango to The Final Friday, whether
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it's for the first time, which I would find bizarre,
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or you want to revisit your favorite day of the month,
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well or the year, I guess it's available to rent
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or buy on Yes, Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango
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at Home. August sixteenth, twenty twenty, Lovecraft Country premieres on
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HBO and puts cosmic horror on the same road as
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America's very human history of racial violence. Developed by Misha
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Green from Matt Ruff's novel, The series follows Atticus Freeman,
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his friend Letitia, and his uncle George as they leave
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Chicago in search of Atticus's missing father. Their route runs
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through nineteen fifties Jim Crow America, where a sundown town
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can be as deadly as anything waiting in the woods.
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The show keeps changing genre, but in a really fun way.
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Family mystery, haunted house story, body horror, a lot of
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that adventure serial kind of old time searches and hunting
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for lost loved ones. Its thread, though, is inheritance, the
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trauma family passed down, the history people sometimes bury, and
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the power others claim when they learn who wrote the
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rules exactly. Lovecraft Country makes the collision deliberate. Ancient creatures
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are frightening, but so are ordinary people backed by a
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system that expect no consequences for their actions. I did
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enjoy this show quite a bit. I felt like it
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was especially strong in the first four or five episodes.
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But it's definitely worth a binge if you've not checked
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it out, And of course it's streaming right now with
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your subscription on HBO Max tomorrow on Weekly Spooky. Always
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be suspicious of strangers offering free food, especially when the
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stranger's head is shaped like an egg. In Odd Egg,
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author Alex Grass makes his Weekly Spooky debut with a
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grotesque tale of neighborly generosity, unwanted rebirth, and the most
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horrifying breakfast imaginable. When Mary Ellen arrives home from work,
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she finds a strange man waiting on her porch. His
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name is Roger, his fingers are cool, his smile is
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far too wide, and he represents the Keystone Cooperative Growers Association,
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a charitable organization that wants everyone in the community to
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enjoy a curtain of fresh, cruelty free eggs. There's only
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one unusual detail. Roger claims that a god lives inside him.
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Mary Ellen should throw the curtain away, but instead she
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wakes up hungry. Eleven of the eggs are empty. The
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twelfth is not. Something tiny drops into the frying pan,
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something with a human face, six spindly legs, and a
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scream like a newborn child. Listen tomorrow to prepare yourself
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for the world of the time of the Egg. Odd
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So make sure you're subscribed and count every shell in
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your carton. All right, Spookies, let's take a quick breather.
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nineteen eighty seven for one of the most formidable horror
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movies of my entire life. One Treehouse Club, five classic monsters,
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with adult supervision. And we're back, so let's get into it,
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and I cannot wait for our deep cut spotlight. We
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go to August fourteenth, nineteen eighty seven, when The Monster
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Squad Oh opens in Los Angeles and New York and
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the kids who argue about monsters finally have to fight them.
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Directed by Fred Decker and written by Decker and Shane
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Black of Lethal Weapon fame, the film follows a group
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of young horror obsessives who meet in a treehouse, trade
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monster lore and take the classics very seriously. That turns
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out to be pretty useful when Dracula arrives with the Mummy,
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the gill Man, the Wolfman, and Frankenstein's creature. The monsters
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look familiar without copying Universal's exact designs and that is,
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and that is very on purpose. Because Universal didn't sign on.
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They tried to do the film as a kind of
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Universal Monster reboot, but they weren't biting, so they had
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to redesign the monsters just a little bit. But they
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still scratch that itch, don't you worry. Their mission is
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to seize an amulet where good holds evil in balance.
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Once every hundred years, that balance becomes vulnerable, and naturally,
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the deadline is tonight. What makes this film incredibly cozy
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for me is the kids are me, they are you
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there horror movie fans, comic book fans who end up
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going from being fans alone to field training. Monster rules
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are now survival instructions. A German diary needs translating, and
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fast silver bullets are hopefully effective, and one creature may
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be more human than the frightened adults all around him.
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The monster Squad understands the loneliness inside of classic horror.
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Frankenstein's creature finds friendship with the one child willing to
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look past the scars. It's cable in home video Afterlife,
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which is how I discovered it came from one monster
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kid passing a favorite to the next. This film was
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everything to me as a kid, I had a VHS
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tape that I begged and pleaded to have my mother
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finally acquiesced and I watched it till it broke. Then
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for a very long time, what felt like forever. It
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was probably about a decade. Really, it wasn't available anyway
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other than from an old VHS tape. It didn't come
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out on DVD until like twenty two thousand and six
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or two thousand and seven, pretty late in the DVD
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boom because of rights issues. But now, I mean, I
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have a boss looking four kuhd of the Monster Squad
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that I honestly watch every birthday with friends because just
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nothing beats feeling like for just a little while. You're
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part of the Monster Squad too, So I implore you
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for me, if you've never seen Monster Squad, which is
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a tragedy, or if you've not seen it in a
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long time, give it a watch. I promise you will
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not be disappointed. It's available to watch free with your
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Amazon Prime subscription on Prime Video, and you can also
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watch it free with ads on YouTube and Prime Video
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with ads, or of course rent or buy it on
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Apple TV and Fandango at home and afterward, try not
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to look at your friends and say, with a strong,
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childlike hope in your voice, where the monster squad. Now
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let's dive into some horror birthdays. We have a heavy
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hitter to start. Born on August thirteenth, eighteen ninety nine
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is Alfred Hitchcock, the director who made showers, staircases, birds,
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and simple acts feel unsafe. I've always loved Hitchcock's work,
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and I know that that's kind of normal, but it's
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normal for a reason, and I want to mention His
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TV show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents was one of my earliest
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horror favorites. It always stuck with me. So happy birthday,
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mister Hitchcock. Born on August fourteenth, nineteen sixty six is
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halle Berry, the Oscar winning actress who entered supernatural asylum
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horror in the highly Unforgettable Gothica and also got on
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the Crimson Waters a little bit in the creature feature
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Dark Tide. A very happy birthday, halle Berry. Born August fifteenth,
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nineteen seventy four. Natasha Henstridge, the lethal extraterrestrial sill in
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species Beautiful and Disgusting. She was a possibly the best
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looking biological threat in all of horror, and we wish
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her a very happy birthday and born on August sixteenth,
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nineteen fifty four. James Cameron. Now I know what you're thinking.
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James Cameron hasn't necessarily directed a straight horror movie, aside
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from maybe Piranha to The Spawning, which he has rightfully
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disowned as a film he didn't have that much of
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an influence on. But he's a filmmaker who turned Aliens
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into a massive war movie. But it still had a
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sense of being a haunted house under siege, and it
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was definitely a survival story worthy of your of your
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general fear and anxiety. So I say we can claim him.
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Happy birthday, James Cameron. Oh and by the way, people
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try to argue that Terminator wasn't a horror movie and
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it absolutely was a sci fi horror slasher movie. Fight me.
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I dare you seriously though, Happy birthday, James Cameron. You're
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