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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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Egg by Alex Glass premieres to tomorrow Wednesday on Weekly Spooky,
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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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But when we come back, we're headed to August fourteenth,
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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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and one hundred year deadline that really should have come
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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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all a highlight to our creepy calendar for aur then
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and now this week. Horror history keeps changing what the
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body can contain. Nineteen eighty three gives us disease, erasing
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the gentle animal that everyone knows and Loves nineteen eighty
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seven gives us classic monsters in fresh skins and some
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eighties themed attire. Some are cruel, one more human than most.
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Nineteen ninety three turns Jason into an evil that treats
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bodies like a motel six. Two thousand and one locks
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a family inside a house where identity depends on who
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believes that they belong there. And twenty twenty makes bloodline,
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ancestry and inherited power the map through both cosmic terror
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and American history. For our weekly recommendation, well, if you
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want one movie this week that is romantic, disgusting, funny, quietly, devastating,
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and everything in between, head to August fifteenth, nineteen eighty six,
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when David Cronenberg's The Fly opens in Los Angeles and
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New York, with Jeff Goldbloom as scientists Seth Brundle and
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Gina Davis as journalist Veronica Quaif Seth has built a
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teleportation system, the machine it works almost One unnoticed passenger
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enters the pod with him, and the computer combines what
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it reads at the genetic level. From there, Cronenberg turns
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scientific triumph into a transformation. Neither love nor intelligence can
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stop the makeup effects won the Academy Award, but the
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reason to return is the relationship. Gold Bloom and Davis
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make the movie feel alive before it starts to slowly
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and stickily die. And believe me, I do mean stickily,
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which may not be a word, but it's the only
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one that fits. Every physical change lands inside their romance.
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The body horror is the terror of watching someone become
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unreachable while still standing in front of you. Forty years later,
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the Fly still earns every gasp because it treats transformation
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as both monster movie and human tragedy. Bring a strong
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stomach but also a soft heart if you want to
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get the most out of this film, and I cannot
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recommend enough watching this film. If you've never seen it, it
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will blow you away, and if you have, you will
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somehow still not remember it being as gooey as it was.
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It's available to rent or buy on the Yes, Indeed,
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Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. Well my Spookyes,
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that's your trip through August tenth to sixteenth in horror history.
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Don't forget to stop by Tomorrow Wednesday for a brand
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new weekly Spooky story all about the dangers inside a
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simple egg and make sure you're subscribed on your favorite
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podcast app, because there's something spooky to enjoy every single
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day of the week here. And of course I'll be
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right back here next Tuesday to bring you even more
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horror history for you to bone up on. I've been
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your host, Enrique Kuto, reminding you that our days are
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numbered because that's how we tell them apart. See you
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next week.
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