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There’s a new wave of apps designed to track your sleep and improve your dreams. Because nothing says “restful night” like knowing something is monitoring you while you’re unconscious. Now that you’re wide awake, read on…
🩸SHOULD WE BE SCARED?
On October 6, 2023, Amazon launched its first satellite into space. One satellite. No big deal.
Except Elon Musk wants to cram roughly 12,000 more into low Earth orbit. And there are already thousands circling overhead.
At some point, outer space starts looking less like the final frontier and more like the parking lot at Costco on a Saturday.
According to our friends at The Hustle, all that orbital traffic could trigger something called Kessler syndrome—a chain reaction of satellite collisions that fills space with so much debris it becomes nearly impossible to launch anything else.
Turns out the first alien invasion might just be our own junk falling from the sky.
🩸RECENT HORROR NEWS
Obsession is headed to Peacock
Missed the year's biggest original horror hit? Your excuse expires next week. Curry Barker's Obsession begins streaming on Peacock July 17 after earning more than $400 million worldwide—proving once again that horror doesn't need superheroes when it has nightmares.
Internet horror is officially Hollywood's newest gold mine
Studios aren't just chasing novels anymore—they're buying nightmares that started on YouTube, Reddit, and social media. After Backrooms and Obsession became massive hits, creators behind viral horror like Siren Head and The Mandela Catalogue are signing movie deals worth millions. Your creepy internet rabbit hole may be tomorrow's blockbuster.
Evil Dead is back... and somehow even messier
Evil Dead Burn hit theaters this weekend, and early reactions agree on one thing: if you're buying a ticket, don't wear white. Critics praise the practical gore and relentless carnage, even if some say the scares don't always match the bloodshed.
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🩸NEWSWORTHY NUMBER
$1million
That's reportedly what Warner Bros. paid just to acquire the film rights to Siren Head, one of the internet's most famous horror creations. A few creepy images posted online have become million-dollar intellectual property. Somewhere there's a monster checking its royalty statements.
Name The Movie Below
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🩸HORROR IN THEATERS.
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… Grief and dead people—they kind of go together, don’t they? Trailer
The Town That Takes — (July 10th) A troubled Army veteran travels to a remote backwoods town where his ex-wife's funeral is held, only to have his young son mysteriously vanish… Grief is really putting in overtime this summer. If you like folk horror with small-town secrets, this one's worth a look.
Lockbox — (July 3rd) Based on the Knifepoint Horror podcast, Lockbox follows a woman who takes in her severely traumatized cousin, Winthrop, and protects him from an otherworldly entity that is hunting him… Last week I posted this movie under the title Winthrop. My apologies.
Backrooms-Everything Must Go — (July 3rd) The extended version of Kane Parson’s YouTube sensation is here… I don’t know, but did we really need to extend it? Sounds like a money grab. I guess $366 mil Worldwide was not enough. Trailer
Coming Soon
Her Private Hell – (July 24) A troubled young woman searches for her father as a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity. Her quest collides with an American G.I. who's on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from hell… A lot going on here.
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
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…This is one reboot I am dying to see. Trailer
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🩸HAUNTED VACATIONS — THE BELL WITCH HOUSE & CAVE
Several movies have been made about this IRL Tennessee home. Click for the true story of the deathbed threat that started it all. Your next stop on your Summer Haunted Vacation Tour.
🩸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 blockbuster everyone has been yearninfg for”
Obsession — Streaming on: Peacock
Obsession arrives on Peacock next week after becoming one of the biggest original horror movies in years. If you've somehow dodged spoilers this long, congratulations. You're stronger than the rest of us.
“The road trip from hell”
Passenger — Streaming on: Prime Video
Passenger quietly slipped onto VOD this week. It's creepy, tense, and proof that accepting a ride from strangers remains one of horror's least effective life strategies
“What's in the box? Regret”
Black Box— Streaming on: Prime Video
Black Box debuted this week, delivering a fresh psychological horror mystery for anyone whose idea of self-care involves anxiety and poor decision-making.
Comfort Horror Pick of The Week
“Sometimes haunted houses just need better tenants”
Hell Hous LLC — Streaming on: Shudder
Found-footage done right. Creepy clowns, haunted hallways, and enough slow-burn dread to remind you that opening a Halloween attraction inside an abandoned hotel was never going to end with a five-star Yelp review.
🩸FINAL SIP
Sleep tight. It’s either terrifying or comforting to know that even the sky has traffic problems now. 🛰️😬
The Horror Movie Trivia answer is: Midsommar. If you havn’t seen it, it’s the perfect summertime creepwatch.
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