Good morning,
We survived fireworks, backyard BBQs, and at least one suspicious-looking potato salad. May all your leftovers be fresh and all your potato salads free of eldritch horrors.
🩸TODAY’S TERROR — THE STREAMING BETRAYAL
You spend twenty minutes deciding what to watch.
You finally commit.
You press play.
“Leaving Netflix May 15.”
Today is May 14.
You now have six seasons, two spin-offs, and the emotional stamina of a damp napkin. Even your TV can dish up emotional horror.
🩸RECENT HORROR NEWS
Backrooms is back... with more rooms.
Just when audiences thought they'd escaped, A24 has announced Backrooms: Everything Must Go, an expanded theatrical cut featuring 16 minutes of new footage. Apparently the only thing scarier than infinite hallways is an extended runtime.Robert Eggers finally lets the wolf out.
The first trailer for Werewulf dropped this week, giving horror fans their first look at Eggers' medieval nightmare starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson. If The Witch and Nosferatu made you uncomfortable, congratulations—you've found your Christmas plans.
Eli Roth is expanding beyond the screen.
Roth announced a publishing partnership that will launch a line of horror books through The Horror Section beginning next year. Soon you'll be able to lose sleep without even turning on your TV.
🩸 T- BONE’S TOP MOVIE PICKS
You are not going to believe what T-Bone selected for 250. OMG!
🩸NEWSWORTHY NUMBER
16
That's how many new minutes of footage were added to Backrooms: Everything Must Go. Somewhere there's a horror fan saying, "Excellent. I was hoping to be emotionally damaged for an extra quarter hour…” and another asking “are they charging per minute?”
🩸HORROR IN THEATERS.
Winthrop — (July 3rd) Based on the Knifepoint Horror podcast, it follows a woman who takes in her severely traumatized cousin, Winthrop, and protects him from an otherworldly entity that is hunting him… thus allowing his trauma to become our trauma.
Backrooms-Everything Must Go — (July 3rd) The extended version of Kane Parson’s YouTube sensation opened Friday… For those who can’t get enough of creepy halways and yellow light Trailer
Camp — (June 26) Gen Z coming-of-age film dealing with witchcraft… because apparently surviving high school wasn’t terrifying enough. Trailer
Coming Soon
Evil Dead Burn — (July 10th) After the loss of her husband, a grieving woman seeks solace with her in-laws at their secluded family home. However, it soon becomes a reunion from hell as the Book of the Dead unleashes demonic forces that transform them into Deadites one by one. Trailer
And keep an eye out for
The Ice Cream Man — (Aug. 7th) This summer the children are having a meltdown with Eli Roth’s new movie… Good Humor has officially left the building. Trailer
🩸THE BLOG — STORYTELLERS — WHY TONE MATTERS
Your tone matters in your horror storytelling more than your monster does. Inside: Four ways you can create tone when writing horror. Look for these the next time you watch a horror movie.
🩸HORROR TO WATCH ON STREAMERS
What’s Worth The Watch — a mix of hidden gems, buzzy titles, comfort horror, underseen picks, and classics worth revisiting
“The séance that never should've happened”
Talk To Me — Streaming On: Netflix
Talk to Me arrives on Netflix, giving a whole new audience the chance to discover why grabbing a mysterious embalmed hand is somehow everyone's first idea. Teenagers remain undefeated at making terrible decisions.
“The subway from HELL”
Exit 8 — Streamimng on: Shudder
The cult horror game is adapted into a tense psychological nightmare where escaping an underground passage becomes increasingly impossible. Your workday commute suddenly seems... acceptable.
“Body horror with a side of terrible life choices”
Saccharine — Streaming on: Shudder
Saccharine serves up one of the year's strangest premises involving obsession, body image, and supernatural consequences. Proof that fad diets have officially gone too far.
“The folk horror masterpiece”
The Witch— Streaming on: Netflix
If you've somehow never watched The Witch, now's your chance. Robert Eggers' debut remains one of the finest slow-burn horror films ever made—and after watching the Werewulf trailer, it's the perfect refresher.
Comfort Horror Pick of the Week
The Ring — Streaming on: Paramount +
The Ring still proves that VHS tapes were terrifying long before buffering wheels existed. Seven days later... you'll probably be sleeping with the lights on.
🩸FINAL SIP
The Fourth of July is behind us, which means America has officially entered the long, sweaty march toward Halloween. Stay cool, stay spooky, and remember: if you still hear fireworks tonight, it's either the leftovers... or something much worse. 🎃🪓
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