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It's the week of February ninth through February fifteenth, Valentine's Week.
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The calendar is all roses and heart shaped candy, but horror,
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as always shows up with work. Boots on picture, a
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mine shaft, damp rock, stale air, the thud of boots
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echoing down a tunnel that doesn't want you in it.
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A headlamp flickers somewhere in the dark, a breathing mask
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hisses like a snake. Now snap to a different kind
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of hunting ground. Fluorescent hallways, locked doors, a file folder
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full of missing women, and the soft, terrifying calm of
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a man who smiles without warmth. And then, because this
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is horror history, someone inevitably says, let's go to Crystal Lake,
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as if that sentence has ever ended well. In other words,
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if you're planning a date night, this is the week
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where horror History hands you a bouquet and hides a
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blade in the ribbon. This week's anniversaries are a Valentine sampler,
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platter for monsters, blue collar slasher, dread prestige, psychological horror,
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a reboot built like a roller coaster, and a sequel
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that turns dying into homework, and instead of a single recommendation,
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I've got a stack of love turns sick horror recommendations
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to carry you through the holiday, whether you're curled up
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with your sweetie or you think you're alone and you're
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suddenly suspicious about what exactly's in those chocolates and where
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they came from. So light a candle, put on something nice,
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and if the room gets a little too quiet, don't worry.
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That's just horror history setting the table. Welcome to this
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week in horror History, your fast fun tour through the
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creepiest anniversaries in film, TV, books, and games. Tonight we're
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talking about February ninth through fifteenth coming up. A Valentine's
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party that goes underground and comes back up with fewer
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people than it brought. A masked legend returns faster, meaner,
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and way too comfortable in the woods. A prestige nightmare
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where the monster doesn't need a blade because the voice
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is the weapon. And a sequel that turns dying into
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a weekly appointment until you crack the rules. So let's
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flip open the creepy calendar and see what dates are
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circled in A little heart made of human Blood. February eleventh,
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nineteen eighty one. My Bloody Valentine is released in the
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United States. A miner's town throws a Valentine's party. Hey,
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how nice A killer shows up dressed for the shift,
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heavy boots, mining gear, and that cold industrial look that
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makes every hallway feel like a trap. My Bloody Valentine
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is pure blue collar slasher, tight spaces, hard shadows, and
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a villain who feels like he belongs underground, and he does.
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It also has a weird, infamous afterlife. It was heavily
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cut for violence in its original run, then spent decades
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as the one that got trimmed, which only made fans
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want it more, which led to a great blu ray
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and inevitably a four k UHD release with all the
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gooey sticky parts put back in, and I do recommend them.
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It looks great, as good as the film could ever
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hope to. My Bloody Valentine is a phenomenal example of
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Canadian made slasher fun right at the beginning of the
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boom for the hack and slash genre. Box office wise,
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it did about five point seven million dollars on an
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estimated two point three million profitable but treated like a
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disappointment by its distributors, which makes its later cult status bittersweet,
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like finding a human finger in your chocolates. As far
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as where to watch it, you can, of course rent
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or buy it on Amazon, Prime Video, Apple TV, and
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Fandango at home, and if you want to watch it
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for free, you can check it out on Canopy with
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your Library card. And the remake My Bloody Valentine three
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D is definitely a hoot, even if you do have
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to watch it in two D. Come on, would it
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even b Valentine's Day without a killer minor running a muck?
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I think not. February thirteenth, two thousand and nine, the
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Friday the thirteenth reboot is released in theaters. This one's
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a speed run through everything people expect from the brand.
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It's got sexy camp counselors, a fast physical Jason, and
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a we'll just take a quick look attitude toward abandoned
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cabins that should be punishable by law but instead are
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by machete. What's interesting in hindsight is how cleanly it
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represents late two thousand studio horror. It's slick, it's mean,
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and it's built like a roller coaster. I've had a
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back and forth personally with the Friday the Thirteenth reboots.
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Sometimes I feel like I don't give it a fair shake,
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but then I revisit it and it doesn't quite click
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with me. But I know there are many of you
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out there who adore this, and I would never yuck
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You're yum. One thing though, that's always blown my mind
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is the box office seemed very very happy about ninety
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two million dollars worldwide on a nineteen million dollar budget.
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In this era, that's a hit. Yet it didn't spawn
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a ton of sequels or additional Jason content. And this
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was before the big kerfuffle between Sean Cunningham, the director
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and producer of Friday the Thirteenth, and its writer Victor Miller.
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As far as where to watch, you can rent or
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buy it via Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at home.
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February fourteenth, nineteen ninety one. The Silence of the Lambs
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hits theaters. On paper, according to the Academy, it's a thriller,
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but we all know the truth. It's horror, basements, captivity,
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skin crawling, psychological dread, and a monster who doesn't need
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a mask because his mind is the weapon. The Silence
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of the Lambs didn't just scare people, It validated a
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whole lane of serious horror storytelling, and the industry was
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forced to admit it. Financially, it's the kind of lightning
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that almost never happens. Making roughly two hundred and seventy
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two point four million dollars worldwide on a nineteen million
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dollar budget. That's not just a hit, that's a cultural event.
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And I think if you're listening to this, you have
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to at least know of Silence of the Lambs, even
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if you've never seen the film. And if you haven't, well,
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now is the perfect time, because would it even be
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date night without some fine dining. I ate his lever
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with some father means and a nice gunty. As far
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as where to watch it, well, it's streaming on AMC
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Plus with subscription and is rentable on Amazon Prime Video,
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Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and YouTube. February thirteenth, twenty nineteen,
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Happy Death Day to You, a personal favorite of mine. Yes,
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it is a sequel and the first film was Groundhog Day,
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but make it a slasher film on a campus. The
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sequel does the bold thing. However, it doesn't just repeat
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the trick. It expands on the rules. It leans harder
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into science fiction, keeps the breezy horror comedy rhythm, and
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still treats death like a punchline that lands because the
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stakes are oddly sincere. It's one of the reasons I
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feel like these two films do stand out so well.
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And at the box office it did around sixty four
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point six million dollars worldwide on just a nine million
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dollar budget. Solid business for a genre sequel that takes
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quite a left turn in a lot of ways. I
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think intentionally the filmmakers made Happy Death Day to You
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reference Back to the Future Part two in the musical
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flourishes in some of the ways the characters are interacting,
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some of the decisions they make, and honestly, I welcomed it.
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It was a lot of fun. So if you get
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a chance, please watch Happy Death Day, and of course
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it's sequel, Happy Death Day to You. As far as
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where to watch it, you can rent or buy it
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on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and h Fandango at home.
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All right, my spookies and all the lovers out there,
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time for a quick breather. But when we come back,
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we're heading into Our Deep cut Spotlight to February twelfth,
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nineteen seventy five, a suburban nightmare where the smiles are
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far too perfect, the neighbors are far too friendly, and
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romance starts to feel like a set of instructions. And hey,
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don't forget this Friday, we'll have a brand new episode
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of cutting Deep into Horror and it's our Valentine's Day
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special on one of my favorite films, twenty twenty two's Pearl,
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directed by Ty West. Love obsession and that slow, sweet
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slip into something sharp. You do not want to miss it,
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So make sure you're subscribed on your favorite podcasting app.
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And speaking of sick love, tomorrow right here on Weekly Spooky,
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We've got a brand new horror novella, Will You Be
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My Undead Valentine? By Bruce Haney. It starts like a sweet,
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small town winter romance, a lonely wallflower, a Friday night dance,
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a Valentine's promise, and then it lurches into something colder,
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because on Valentine's Day nineteen fifty eight, love doesn't just
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break your heart. It crawls back out of the ground
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to collect the rest of you. Welcome back, Let's go
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to a neighborhood where everything looks perfect, and that is
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the problem. February twelfth, nineteen seventy five. The Stepford Wives
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hits theaters. If you want proof that horror doesn't need
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a monster suit, Stepford is that proof. The dread is polite,
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It smiles, It offers you something to drink, and it
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tells you you're simply overreacting. Joanna Eberhart moved to a
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picture perfect Connecticut suburb and starts noticing a pattern. The
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women are off, not quirky, not an unfortunate new haircut,
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oft in a way that feels manufactured, like personality sanded
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down into something shiny and compliant. The film is built
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on paranoia, but it's the kind that creeps in slowly.
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You're the only one noticing, which makes you doubt yourself,
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which makes it worse. And the ultimate reveal is less
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jump scare than existential punch horror as the fear of
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being erased. And what makes it stand out is how
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ordinary the horror looks. No cobwebbed castle, no forbidden tome,
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just pta smiles, cocktail chatter, and the slow realization that
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everyone around you has agreed on a version of reality.
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Where you are the only problem. It's based on Ira
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Leven's nineteen seventy two novel and it plays like a
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sattire with sharp teeth, Funny for a second, then chilling
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when you realize the joke is on you. It's also
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one of those rare films that minted a term that
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outgrew it. Stepford Wife became shorthand for a specific kind
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of cultural dread, and that's a kind of immortality. Most
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films and books would kill for Give Stepford Wives another watch,
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and I assure you it holds up just as well
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as you remember, And if you haven't seen it before,
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maybe you actually have. As far as where to watch
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it right now, you can check it out with your
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subscription on Paramount Plus or rent it at the usual suspects,
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Amazon Prime Video, Fandango at Home, and Apple TV. Now,
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let's light a romantic candle for all the horror birthdays
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we're celebrating. February tenth, nineteen ninety one. Emma Roberts is Born,
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a modern scream queen staple from Scream Queens to American
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Horror Story and lots of other fun and fearful films
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and television series in between. Have a very happy birthday,
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Emma Roberts. On February eleventh, nineteen eighty two, Natalie Dormer
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is born sharp edged menace and gothic glamour across her
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genre work make her highly memorable in her performances, especially
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in the highly underrated horror film The Forest, which I've
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always liked even if everybody else doesn't, and I'm not
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changing my mind, so deal with it. Happy Birthday, Natalie Dormy.
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And on February fourteenth, Valentine's Day, nineteen seventy, Simon Pegg
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was born a man who's grown to horror comedy royalty
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thanks to his starring role in Sean of the Dead,
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as well as films like slaughter House Rules and Inheritance.
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Happy Birthday, Simon Pegg, and Happy Valentine's Day two And
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On February fifteenth, nineteen thirty one, Claire Bloom is born
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a classic era legend with genre roots including the nineteen
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sixty three classic The Haunting, giving her all in every
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performance she does, which allowed The Haunting to be far
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more haunting. Have a great birthday, Claire Bloom, and for
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our then and now, Back then Valentine's Horror was blunt
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coal dust, and the idea that the holiday itself could
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be a trap. Now the fear gets curated, its prestige
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and psychology. It's time loops and genre mashups. It's the monster,
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is the system hiding behind a perfect marriage or a
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perfect smile. But the core hasn't changed. Valentine's Day is
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a ritual about closeness. Horror loves rituals because every ritual
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has rules, and horror lives in the moment you realize
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the rules can be used against you. Back then, you
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caught these movies at a theater or a video store,
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and the fear traveled by word of mouth, hushed tones
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of don't watch that alone. Now the fear is just
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one click away, and it's also one click away from
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disappearing to another service. Horror has become easier to find,
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yet harder to pin down, which is a very on
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brand way for the genre to live. All right, Valentine's
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Week calls for a different kind of bouquet. Instead of
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one pick for the weekly recommendation, Here's a stack of
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horror movies where love kurdles, devotion turns into fixation, and
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the sweet stuff gets sharp edges perfect to watch with
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your sweetie, or to watch alone while you eye that
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candy box like it's got a pulse. First up from
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nineteen ninety is Misery, a film directed by the recently
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lost Rob Reiner. Devotion as captivity, love becomes ownership, and
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ownership becomes violence. Misery is a lot of fun, especially
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if you want to show someone how much you love
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them by breaking their legs. As far as where to
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watch it, it's streaming on MGM Plus right now with
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a subscription, or you can render by it on Amazon Video,
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Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. Next up is Audition
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from nineteen ninety nine. It starts like a lonely romance,
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then turns into a nightmare you cannot unsea. You're gonna
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want to check this one out, trust me. It's currently
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streaming on the CINEVERSAP and is of course available to
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rent on Amazon Prime Video, Fandango at Home, and you
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guessed it Apple TV. Next up is The Fly from
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nineteen eighty six, one of the best love and body
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horror tragedies ever made, Intimacy colliding with transformation in the
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most gooey way possible. It's free to watch right now
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on two BTV. With ads, or you can rent it