July 14, 2026
This Week in Horror History | The Blair Witch Goes Viral (July 13–19)
Key Takeaways
- Mid-July serves as a pivotal window in horror history, marked by iconic releases that pushed the boundaries of creature features, body horror, and found-footage cinema.
- This week explores how filmmakers and authors have historically used the concepts of 'biological horror'—from the teleportation nightmare of The Fly to the vampire outbreak in The Strain—to transform modern fears into tangible threats.
- The Blair Witch Project remains a foundational landmark in horror history for its revolutionary use of internet-based marketing to blur the lines between fiction and reality.
- Stephen Graham Jones' novel, The Only Good Indians, stands out as a masterclass in modern supernatural literature by blending personal identity and tradition with relentless, haunting consequences.
- The episode highlights the career-defining horror contributions of legends like Patrick Stewart, Larry Cohen, Corey Feldman, and James Brolin, whose works continue to define the genre's legacy.
Mid-July horror gets mutated, vengeful, infectious, and lost in the woods in this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering the week of July 13 through July 19. This time, we’re digging into mad-scientist island nightmares, supernatural revenge literature, one extremely angry killer whale, a science-fiction body-horror classic, biological vampires, and the tiny independent movie that changed horror marketing forever.
Inside this episode:
July 13, 1977 — The Island of Dr. Moreau opens in U.S. theaters
Burt Lancaster brings H.G. Wells’ nightmare of science without conscience to the screen in a sweaty, pulpy story filled with animal-human mutations, unchecked authority, and a scientist convinced that nature would be better if he personally rearranged it.
July 14, 2020 — The Only Good Indians is published
Stephen Graham Jones delivers one of modern horror literature’s sharpest supernatural reckonings as four Blackfeet men discover that something from their past has memory, purpose, and antlers waiting in the dark.
July 15, 1977 — Orca opens in New York
The post-Jaws creature-feature wave gets stranger, angrier, and surprisingly tragic when a killer whale driven by grief, intelligence, and patience begins pursuing the human responsible for an unforgivable act.
July 16, 1958 — The Fly releases in the United States
A scientist, a teleportation machine, and one tiny insect create one of science-fiction horror’s most unforgettable transformations, turning a dream of human progress into a cruel nightmare of mixed bodies and irreversible mistakes.
Deep-Cut Spotlight — The Strain
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan drag vampires out of the velvet cape and into the quarantine zone as a passenger plane lands at JFK filled with the dead. What follows treats vampirism like a biological outbreak capable of spreading through New York while officials argue, deny, and react too late.
Horror Birthdays This Week:
Patrick Stewart, Larry Cohen, Corey Feldman, and James Brolin enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to Lifeforce, Green Room, It’s Alive, Q, The Stuff, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, The Lost Boys, Gremlins, and The Amityville Horror.
Weekly Recommendation — The Blair Witch Project
Three student filmmakers enter the Maryland woods with cameras, recording equipment, and a local legend, creating a landmark of found-footage horror built from darkness, disorientation, improvised performances, and the terrifying possibility that the footage might be real.Plus, Weekly Spooky returns Wednesday with another fresh original horror story, followed by more terrifying history, strange mysteries, movie talk, and unexplained broadcasts throughout the week.
From The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Only Good Indians to Orca, The Fly, The Strain, and The Blair Witch Project, this week in horror history proves that terror can spread through laboratories, guilty memories, dark water, crowded cities, and one cursed corner of the internet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the premise of the horror film The Fly?
The Fly tells the story of a scientist whose experiment with a teleportation machine goes horribly wrong when a housefly enters the chamber, resulting in a tragic and gruesome transformation.
Why is The Blair Witch Project significant in horror history?
The Blair Witch Project is significant for being a pioneer of the found-footage subgenre and for using early internet rumors and fake missing persons campaigns to trick audiences into believing the events were real.
What happens in the series The Strain?
Created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, The Strain reimagines the vampire mythos as a biological outbreak, treating the spread of vampirism like a viral public health emergency.
Who is Larry Cohen in the context of horror history?
Larry Cohen was a visionary independent filmmaker and screenwriter known for producing unique horror concepts on small budgets, including films like It's Alive, Q, and The Stuff.
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Mid July is when summers starts getting strange. The heat
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is up, the woods are thick, the water looks darker
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than it should, And somewhere in a lab or a cave,
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or a cursed corner of the Internet, something is changing shape.
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This week Horror History gives us experiments that should never
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have happened, Animals that refuse to stay harmless, bodies that
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turn against themselves, vampires treated like an outbreak, and one
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little movie that convinced audiences a few missing kids might
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actually be real. So keep the flashlight steady, don't follow
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the strange noise in the trees, and if a scientist
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tells you everything is perfectly under control, run. Welcome back
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to this Week in Horror History, your weekly time machine
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through the creepiest anniversaries in film, TV, books, and games.
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I'm your host, Enrique Kuto, and tonight we're talking about
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July thirteenth through nineteenth. Coming up. Bert Lancaster turns an
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island into a laboratory of nightmares. Stephen Graham Jones delivers
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one of modern horror literature's sharpest supernatural reckonings. A killer
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whale decides revenge is not just for people anymore. And
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one of the great sci fi horror classics, reminds us
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that one tiny little fly can ruin everything. Then, right
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after the break for our deep cut Spotlight, Guermo del
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Toro has a vampire series where the monster isn't romantic
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at all, It's biological. July thirteenth, nineteen seventy seven, The
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Island of Doctor Moreau opens in US theaters and H. G.
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Wells's nightmare of science without Conscience gets a sweaty, albeit pulpy,
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seventies makeover. Bert Lancaster plays Moreau, the kind of doctor
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who looks at nature and decides it would be better
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if he personally rearranged it. His island is full of creatures,
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caught between animal and human, between instinct and obedience, between
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being alive and being a failed experiment. That's what still
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gives the story its bite. It's not the monster made.
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It's the horror of authority with no morality, of a
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man so convinced he's improving life that he never notices
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he's become the monster at the center of the island.
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That makes The Island of Doctor Moreau worth revisiting in
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its film version or giving it a quick read as
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a nineties, kid, I have to admit that the nineteen
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seventy seven The Island of Doctor Moreau was one of
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the first quote unquote old movies that actually kind of
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got under my skin and made me creeped out. So
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it's always had a special place in my horror heart,
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so to speak. And if you want to give it
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a watch or check it out for the first time ever,
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it is streaming on Amazon Prime Video with your subscription
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or MGM Plus with your subscription, as well as free
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on two BTV or to rener by at the usual
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suspects like Apple TV and Fandango at Home. July fourteenth,
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twenty twenty, The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
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is published and modern horror literature gets a story that
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feels like a curse tightening one breath at a time.
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The novel follows four Blackfeet men haunted by something they
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did years earlier, an act of violence that refuses to
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stay buried. What returns is not just guilt. It has memory, purpose,
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and antlers in the dark. What makes this book stand
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out is the way it blends supernatural revenge with identity, grief, tradition, masculinity,
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and the terror of consequence is arriving long after you
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thought you would escape them. It's available in print, ebook,
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and audiobook editions through all major booksellers, library apps, and
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audiobook platforms. So give it a listen and get creeped out.
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July fifteenth, nineteen seventy seven, Orca opens in New York,
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and the post Jaws creature feature wave gets stranger, angrier,
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and weirdly tragic. This is not just a killer whale movie.
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It's a revenge movie where the whale has the clearest
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emotional motivation of the entire cast. A human hunter does
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something unforgivable and nature answers back with intelligence, patience, and
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a very personal grudge. Orca is bizarre, but in the
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best kind of drive in movie way. It's part ocean thriller,
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part eco horror, then part operatic revenge tragedy. It asks
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what happens when the animal you underestimate is not just dangerous,
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it has a memory, especially for human faces. I have
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long been a huge, huge celebrator of Orca. I think
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it's a surprisingly scary Jaws knockoff, and this is another
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one that as a nineties kid, it creeped me out
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a lot. The Orca attacking people, knocking their homes into
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the water, causing a gas explosion. It's as freaky and
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fun as it is ridiculous and means spirited. I don't
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know if I've ever given a film a bigger thumbs
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up to give it a watch, but I've always loved Orca.
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if it's been a while and you remember not liking it,
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check your mouth and give it another watch. You can
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email me at Weeklyspooky at gmail dot com and tell
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me if you're new viewing ruined your day, and I'll
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gladly apologize, but maybe with my fingers crossed behind my back.
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July sixteenth, nineteen fifty eight, The Fly releases in the
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United States, and science fiction horror finds one of its
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cleanest but cruelest Ideas a scientist builds a teleportation machine,
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a fly enters at the at the wrong moment, let's say,
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and suddenly the dream of human progress becomes a nightmare
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of mixed bodies and identities, all from one terrible little
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mistake that can never be undone. The Fly works because
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the horror is simple and it's devastating at the same time.
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It's not about a madman trying to become God. It's
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about a brilliant man who reaches too far then realizes
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the universe has answered him with I guess kind of
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a joke that is so awful it becomes a tragedy.
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I've always loved The Fly, whether we're talking about the
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original or the incredible Cronenberg remake from the eighties, as
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well as that sequel. I'm a big Fly lover, and
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if you are not a Fly lover, well that's your problem.
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But if you want to give it a watch for
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the first time or a review, it is streaming on
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YouTube TV, or you can rent and buy it at
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Prime Video, Apple TV and of course Fandango at Home.
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Tomorrow on Weekly Spooky. Some nightmares fade when you wake up.
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Others are warnings. In Tomorrow's story by Michael Kelso, an
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ordinary delivery driver wakes up from a horrifying dream in
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which a massive, demonic creature tears him away from his
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truck and drags him screaming into the woods. It feels real,
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the road, the bridge, the monster's teeth. But morning comes,
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his family is safe, and the nightmare begins to fade away, until,
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of course, his next late delivery run comes up. As
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the truck carries toward that same stretch of highway, every
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mile feels familiar, every shadow between the trees feels wrong,
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and his eight year old daughter keeps begging him not
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to go. She knows someone is waiting for him. She
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knows when he passes the bridge, and somehow she knows
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what he sees watching from the woods. Now, a father
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desperate to get home must drive directly toward the place
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where his nightmare ends, while something huge, hungry and impossibly
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patient waits beside the road for its second chance. Driving
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a truck can be a nightmare. Literally by Michael Kelso
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Premier's Tomorrow right here at Weekly Spooky. So make sure
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you're subscribed, keep your eyes on the road, and don't
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stop near that bridge. Trust me, all right, my Spookies,
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make sure you're subscribed on your favorite podcast staff because
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that's the story tomorrow, and I know you'll enjoy it.
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Now it's time for a quick breather, but we're going
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to July thirteenth, twenty fourteen, a plane lands, the passengers
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are dead. The CDC gets called in, and what looks
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like an outbreak is actually something much older, hungrier, and
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harder to kill. All right, we're back, let's get into it.
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On July thirteenth, twenty and fourteen, the Strain premieres on
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Fax and vampires get dragged out of the Velvet Cape
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and into the quarantine zone created by Guillermo Del Toro
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and Chuck Hogan. The series begins with an instantly creepy hook.
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A passenger lands at JFK with the lights off, the
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shades down, and almost everyone on board dead. That opening
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gives the show its best flavor. This is vampire horror
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treated like a public health emergency. The monster isn't mysterious
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because it sparkles or seduces. It's terrifying because it spreads,
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It infects bodies, It turns a city into a feeding ground.
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While officials argue, deny and react too late. The Strain
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is at its best when it leans into that collision
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between ancient evil and modern systems. You have CDC language
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emergency proto calls news, spin, old World, vampire lore, and
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Del Toro terrorizing you with his creature designs. All of
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that mashes together to make quite a fun ride. And
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the vampires themselves are nasty. They are not romantic predators.
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They're biological nightmares, parasitic, pale, hungry things that make the
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neck bite feel almost quaint. This is some fun horror goodness.
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I really want to revisit The Strain No, no foolan,
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I kind of want to watch that. Maybe show it
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to Rachel if you want to give it a first
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time watch, or binge it yet again, it's pretty easy
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to do so it's streaming on Hulu or Disney plus,
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AMC plus Shutter or of course, you can rent or
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buy the seasons on Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango
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at home. Now it's time to light a black candle
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for some horror related birthdays. First born on July thirteenth,
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nineteen forty, it's Patrick Stewart. Now, I am a lifelong
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Star Trek fan, but the guy is genre royalty, with
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horror and thriller films in the ouvre, including Toby Hooper's
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Life Force Yeah. Patrick Stewart's in Life Force, the one
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about the naked space vampire woman, and also Green Room,
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which that film holds up great makes you feel sick
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to your stomach and scared all at once. I love
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me some Green Room and Patrick Stewart playing the leader
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of the Skinhead Nazi gang was brilliant casting and way
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outside of type. He brings gravitas even when everything around
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him is going feral and maybe is silly at the
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same time. So a very happy birthday to Patrick Stewart.
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Born on July fifteenth, nineteen thirty six. Is Larry Cohen,
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in my opinion, one of the most underrated creatives in
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all of cinema, not just horror films. The guy had
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a wild, independent mind which brought us It's Alive, Q,
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The Stuff, and some of horror's strangest, big ideas on
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small budgets. The guy was a scriptwriting machine. He also
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wrote the screenplay for Uncle Sam. He wrote the screenplay
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for Ambulance. He wrote the screenplay for Phone Booth. The
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guy deserves to be a legend, and I believe in
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many's eyes he is. So A very happy birthday Larry
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Cohen born on July sixteenth, nineteen seventy one. It's Corey Feldman,
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that's right, one of the Coreys, a childhood face of
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eighties genre chaos. Really, from Friday the Thirteenth, the Final Chapter,
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to The Lost Boys to Two Yeah Gremlins. It's easy
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to forget Corey was in a lot of horror films
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when he was a young kid, and I don't know,
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it's hard sometimes to connect that face to the Michael
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Jackson dancing guy that he became in the nineties, etcetera, etcetera.
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Corey Feldman has. There's a lot to say about the guy,
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on this list. So happy birthday, Corey Feldman. And finally,
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born on July eighteenth, nineteen forty, James Brolin forever tied
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to Haunted House cinema through his starring role in one
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of the quintessential Haunted House films, The Amityville Horror. I mean,
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if that doesn't make you horror royalty, nothing would. So
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a very happy birthday James Brolin and all of our
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horror history birthdays this week for our then in now
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this week, Horror is Evolution in Fast Forward nineteen seventy
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Then Nature striking Back in Orca nineteen fifty eight gives
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us the body as a failed experiment in The Fly,
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twenty twenty gives us guilt as a living curse in
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The Only Good Indians, and twenty fourteen gives us vampires
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as an outbreak, something ancient wearing the language of modern panic.
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Different monsters, same warning. Once something changes, it may not
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change back. And for our weekly recommendation, we're heading back
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to July fourteenth, nineteen ninety nine, when The blair Witch
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Project opened in its limited release. If you want one
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movie to queue a for this week, I gotta tell
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in a limited release on July fourteenth, and horror marketing
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was really never the same again. The genius of The
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blair Witch is how small it feels. Three student filmmakers,
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a camera, the woods, a local legend, no big monster reveal,
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no clean answer, just dread piling up in little pieces
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until the audience starts doing all the scary heavy lifting themselves,
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and that allows it to still hold up very well
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to this day. It also understood the Internet before most
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movies even knew how to use it. It blurred fiction
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and reality so effortlessly that the story didn't just live
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on screen. It spread through message boards, rumors, fake missing persons, materials,
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such a fun film, such as a great blueprint for
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modern found footage horror, and every time I revisit it,
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I like it more. Just make sure you also give
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Curse of the blair Witch first, because it really primes
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you to be spooked out. I love that blair Witch project.
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It's available to watch right now on HBO Max with
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your subscription, or to rent or buy on Prime Video,
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Apple TV. And did you hear that who's out there
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in the dark? Oh, it's just Fandango at home? Well,
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my spookys. That was your trip through July thirteenth to
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nineteenth in horror history. Make sure you stop back by
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tomorrow Wednesday for a brand new horror story from Michael Kelso,
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