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It’s the final week of summer, your last chance to check off one last thing on your summer bucket list… unless that last thing involves a cabin, a lake, or splitting up… Then, just stay home.
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🩸TODAY’S TERROR — “RECALCULATING” YOUR FINAL DESTINATION
You miss one turn.
One.
And suddenly the pleasant woman who’s been guiding you for the last 40 miles goes quiet.
Recalculating.
There’s judgment in that word.
You can hear it.
She gave you clear instructions. You ignored them. And now she has to clean up your mess.
Recalculating.
The arrival time jumps from 2:17 to 2:24.
Then 2:31.
Now she wants you to make a U-turn on a road that absolutely does not allow U-turns.
You keep driving.
She keeps recalculating.
At this point, you’re no longer sure she’s trying to get you to your destination.
She may just be trying to get even.
Today’s Terror: Because at least HAL had the decency to admit he wanted you dead.
🩸RECENT HORROR NEWS
STEPHEN KING’S CROUCH END IS HEADED TO PRIME VIDEO
King’s Lovecraftian short story Crouch End is getting a series adaptation from Mammoth Screen and Fifth Season for Prime Video. The story follows an American couple who wander into the wrong London neighborhood and discover that getting lost is sometimes the least of your problems.NICK CUTTER’S THE TROOP IS FINALLY GETTING THE MOVIE TREATMENT
Paramount is developing an adaptation of Nick Cutter’s notoriously nasty horror novel The Troop, with Chris Basler writing the screenplay. The book involves Boy Scouts, an isolated island and a bioengineered parasite. If they remain faithful to the novel, theater concession stands may want to stop selling food.KING BACH MAKES THE JUMP TO HORROR DIRECTOR
Influencer, Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor has wrapped Tap Twice, his feature directorial debut. The supernatural horror film follows a group of friends whose weekend getaway goes predictably, catastrophically wrong. Another creator crossing into horror. We approve. The woods probably won’t.AUSTRALIAN HORROR EFFIGY WRAPS PRODUCTION
The supernatural horror film Effigy has finished shooting and released its first images. Set in 1989, the Australian production comes from director Josh Tanner and stars Shalom Brune-Franklin and Ewen Leslie. More original horror from filmmakers outside the Hollywood machine? The next one could be yours.
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🩸T- BONE’S TOP MOVIE PICKS
This week T-Bone finds terror in the subway with three movies in three different subway systems, all guranteed to make you want to take an uber next time.
🩸NEWSWORTHY NUMBER
100 +
That’s how many human skeletons authorities say were recovered from the home and storage unit of a Pennsylvania man accused of stealing remains from cemeteries around Philadelphia.
Investigators found skulls, mummified hands and feet, and other human remains—some reportedly up to 200 years old. He has been charged with hundreds of offenses related to the alleged grave robberies.
Suddenly that guy with 47 Funko Pops seems perfectly reasonable.
🩸HORROR IN THEATERS.
Buddy — (Aug 28th) Dressed as a unicorn, a beloved TV children’s host reveals his true self… Mr. Rogers’ worst nightmare. Trailer
Colony — (Aug 28th) From Yeon Sang-ho, director of Train to Busan, comes a new Korean zombie nightmare. A rapidly mutating virus erupts during a biotech conference, the facility gets sealed, and everyone trapped inside discovers the infected aren't done evolving… Corporate conferences were already terrifying. Now they're contagious… This looks like fun. Trailer
Insidious: Out of The Further — (Aug 21st) A young mother discovers she can travel into The Further—a purgatorial realm of lost souls. When something evil comes after her, she realizes she can bring what lives there back to the real world… As long as it’s not my Mother-In Law (badumbump!) I’ll be here all week. Trailer
It Ends — (Aug 21st) follows a group of graduates who go on a late-night drive but accidentally turn onto a two lane hellscape surrounded by untold horrors…No exit. No way out. Basically, the 405 freeway on a Friday night Trailer
Coming Soon
Onslaught — (Sept. 4th) An Army sniper unleashes her lethal skills to protect her young daughter from a rogue squad of genetically engineered soldiers… Terminating Terminators.
Ever After — (Sept. 4th limited) A bachelorette weekend at a remote forest lodge runs into homicidal lunatics who believe they're characters from fairy tales… Happily Ever After is oficially cancelled.
Hope — (Sept. 9th) A police chief, a policewoman and a group of hunters try to track down and kill a mysterious creature that's laying waste to a Korean village… More Korean horror. Lovely!
Don’t Move — (Sept.11th) A church group's retreat in the Ozark wilderness goes haywire when they enter the wrong part of the forest. They are hunted by a giant, prehistoric arachnid that tracks its prey through vibration… A Quiet Place’s evil twin.
Keep an eye out for
Resident Evil – (Sept. 18) From the director of Barbarian and Weapons (Zach Cregger) comes a reboot about a medical courier who is caught in a viral outbreak of infected monsters in Racoon City... Sweet memories! Trailer
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🩸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
“Someone’s Been Whispering!”
The Whisper Man — Streaming On: Netflix
Brand new this weekend. Adam Scott plays a widowed father whose son disappears in a case with disturbing connections to a serial killer his estranged father—a retired detective played by Robert De Niro—put away years ago. Michael Keaton and Michelle Monaghan join the seriously stacked cast… Maybe close the window. And the curtains. And move.
“Worst Wedding Hangover Ever!”
Ready Or Not 2: Heere I Come — Streaming On: Hulu
Samara Weaving's Grace survived one murderous family and apparently somebody looked at that experience and thought, sequel. Kathryn Newton and Sarah Michelle Gellar join the blood-soaked festivities... Family—you can’t live with em, you can’t kill em… or can you?
“Till Undeath Do Us Part!”
We Bury The Dead — Streaming On: Hulu
Daisy Ridley enters a quarantine zone searching for her missing husband after a catastrophic military disaster. Unfortunately, the dead aren't staying particularly buried.
“Nature Wants You Dead!”
In The Earth — Streaming On: Netflix
Ben Wheatley's underseen folk-horror nightmare sends a scientist and park scout deep into the woods during a pandemic—and then proceeds to make trees, mushrooms and Mother Nature herself seem deeply untrustworthy.
Comfort Horror Pick Of The Week
“Never Trust the New Girl!”
The Faculty — Streaming On: Tubi
Robert Rodriguez takes Invasion of the Body Snatchers, stuffs it into a late-'90s high school and gives us alien teachers, teenage paranoia and a cast that somehow includes Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster, Salma Hayek and Jon Stewart…High school was already horrifying. Then the teachers started eating people.
🩸FINAL SIP
Summer’s almost over. The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer, and somewhere a pumpkin just cracked its knuckles.
See you next week. 🎃😈
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