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Fans had to wait seven years for this return of the Saw franchise to theaters, but was this attempted...reboot? Legacy sequel? worth the wait?

We take a little break from the Saw features to discuss the three shorts in the franchise -- the original 2003 short James Wan and Leigh Whannell used to sell the feature, the "Full Disclosure Report" mockumentary from the Saw Uncut DVD, and the Scott Tibbs Documentary from the Saw 2 DVD! Plus, the Saw: Rebirth comic from 2005, which is absolutely not canon!

We finish out an era of Saw this month, with the final annual film in the series, Saw 3D. It's also known as The Final Chapter which it is assuredly not. But it is notable for many reasons, such as the first scene shot outdoors in the entire series, blood that is the wrong color, and being uniquely terrible. Join us for it, won't you?

We're officially halfway through 202Saw and we're at something of a turning point for the "Saw" series with the sixth movie! Consequences begin for Detective Hoffman, or seem to, and the series starts to get topical!

202Saw continues on this month's show with Saw V! The saga of Hoffman continues in this one, and at least one of us is thinking it's starting to feel like a TV show. Also: Wigs!

202Saw continues with the fourth installment in the franchise. It advances some storylines...but only barely pushes the timeline ahead. Instead, we begin the saga of Jill Saw.

202Saw continues as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of this third entry in the Saw series! Things really ramp up in this one, and emotions are high, even if the twists are a little more predictable. Maybe on purpose?

Well, that's a quick turnaround! How'd they get a Saw sequel out so fast? What twists and turns will this new one bring to the fore? And most importantly, is it any good? It's time to play another game as 202Saw continues!

202Saw, our nearly year-long dive into the Saw movie franchise, begins with the first film from 2004 this episode! Do the twists still land? Is the gore too much? Listen and find out!

(Also: We say a few times in the episode there are 11 entries in the series, but there are only 10. We know.)

A killer robot Santa is on the loose, and apparently the way to avoid its wrath is to have some really out-there movie opinions. We're watching this low-budget love letter to VHS cinema for our holiday special this year! Hope your holidays are great!

The newest horror-doll franchise dropped the horror and went for an action-comedy vibe with its second entry this year. Does it stick the landing in glide mode, or was Chucky right that "muh-three-gan" was never a contender to his throne?

Presenting: A mistake. The sequel to "The Boy" makes so many strange choices that we needed quite a while to talk about them. Also: The reason "Chucky" was canceled...revealed!

Chucky had some stuff to say about some competing haunted doll movies in a Season 3 episode of his series, so we're watching what he did! This time, it's 2016's "The Boy," which has a big twist on what the doll is all about. But how effective is it, really?

The new Final Destination is available to stream on HBO Max, so we took it for a spin. How does it stack up to the five previous entries, and what year is that flashback supposed to be in, anyway?

As Chucky said, "Didn't even get a franchise." So let's dig into why that happened in 2007's "Dead Silence" with otherwise reliable franchise-creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell.

We're changing streams with this episode and starting a series about the stuff Chucky saw on TV in "Chucky" season 3! We're starting with the TV episode that arguably started it all: "Living Doll" from season 5 of "The Twilight Zone"!

Fourth movie, first Purge. But they're not even calling it The Purge yet. Does this prequel experiment succeed?

Happy Purge Day (belated)! We're celebrating this year's Purge by watching 2016's The Purge: Election Year in which there's a big argument about whether it's better to fight tyranny from within the system or via a full-on armed rebellion. The escapism of entertainment, everyone!

The Purge continues on this month's episode with the second film in the franchise, "The Purge: Anarchy"! Does this one follow through on the promise of the first movie's premise? Does it dive further into the socioeconomic conflict at the heart of the idea? And Frank Grillo is basically The Punisher, right?

Our long journey through The Purge series begins with the first Purge film (not to be confused with The First Purge). How well does this low-budget home invasion flick live up to its lofty high concept? We watch and find out!

The holidays are here, so let's watch the 2015 Krampus movie and decide if it's good or not.

We're closing out our look at the Final Destination series (so far) with this entry that has...a TWIST! We also consider whether this is the final destination for our own show now that Chucky has been cancelled. Where do we go from here? Listen and find out!

We're contiuning our run through the Final Destination series of films with the fourth entry in the franchise, an apparent attempt to inject some new energy into it...in 3D! So does it succeed, or does it crash and burn?

We continue our roller coaster ride through the Final Destination films, and we've reached the first truly post-9/11 entry in the series. How does that change things? If at all?

Can the follow-up to the first "Final Destination" live up to our memories of it? Obviously, there's the famous highway sequence, but what about what comes after that? And what does it add to the mythology of the franchise?

It was Fate's plan that we watch all the Final Destination films, so we started in on the first entry of the series! 

Season 3 of Chucky is in the can, and the finale takes us to some wild places. The Spirit Realm! A flaming White House! John Waters' Doll Mansion! Did the journey satisfy? And what actual final destination did we reach?

They promised that there would be blood, and there was! We wondered last week how the makers of "Chucky" could follow what seemed like an unfollowable episode, and, lo and behold, they did it.

After a streaming snafu, we're rolling into the sixth episode of Chucky's third season, which goes big! It honestly feels like a finale, so let's dig into this jam-packed episode!

Chucky season 3 has come back from its hiatus, and it's confirming some things about the world that we weren't so sure about before! Also, the President has kind of totally lost it.

We're finishing up our run of episodes about movies that episodes of "Chucky" are named after with this 1980 Brian De Palma thriller, which is often cited by Don Mancini as an influence! We try to figure out just how it influenced him despite being...very flawed by today's standards.

We're continuing to watch movies that episodes of "Chucky" are named after, and this time we're taking a bite out of the now cult-classic 2009 film "Jennifer's Body"! Critics hated it when it was released; which view of the film is more correct?

As we wait for Chucky Season 3 to start back up, we're checking out a movie we've been talking about watching since the first season: the 1991 remake of Cape Fear directed by Martin Scorsese!

On this episode, we're talking about Kyra Gardner's 2022 documentary about being the daughter of the lead puppeteer on the Chucky series, Tony Gardner! Does it offer some new insights into the making of the Child's Play and Chucky series? We dig into it!

In an unexpected midseason finale indicating a lengthy break, developments abound for both Tiffany and Chucky! Tiffany makes a new frenemy, and Chucky finishes his mission at the White House. Or does he?

This week's episode connects the dots between the end of Season 2 and the start of Season 3. Just how campy and wild does it get? And who is this season's version of WWE Superstar Liv Morgan?

Jake, Lexy, and Devon make their way to the nation's capital this episode as a shadowy government agent arrives to help figure out who's killing people inside the White House. Something that happened made us very mad; can you guess what it is?

A new season of Chucky begins, and we're getting...political! What's it like finally having a Good Guy in the White House? We pound the pavement to get the answers.

Just in time for season 3 of Chucky to begin, we're wrapping up the series of Annabelle movies! How do they finish out? Feeley Meeley through the show to find out!

Can this prequel supersede our ill will toward the first Annabelle movie? And what the heck is the deal with the Warrens anyway? Those questions and more are answered on this episode.

The first Annabelle movie had by far the biggest box office take of any movie we've talked about on the show so far, but does that mean it's worth watching. The answer...might surprise you!

We dug deep (on YouTube) for this month's episode to find this very strange mix of Child's Play and The Exorcist from 1991 starring Denise Crosby (yes, Tasha Yar from Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Rip Torn (yes, Rip Torn). Was this tomb worth excavating? Play with this!

This Stuart Gordon movie about creepy porcelain dolls at a house in the remote English countryside not only predates the first "Child's Play," but was also produced by Charles Band, who would go on to produce "Puppet Master"! So how does it hold up, and what influence may it have had?

We're dancing, because a new doll-based franchise begins! How did M3GAN get right what the failed Child's Play reboot attempt got wrong? And how are the two movies strangely similar? We look at it all as we run through the many delights of this new toyetic horror.

We've opened up a real can of worms this week -- or maybe it's a can of leeches. There's a whole wide world of Puppet Master movies and lore to explore, and we're just scratching the surface on this episode, covering the first movie, that came out almost exactly a year after the first Child's Play.

Well, we couldn't avoid it any longer. We had to watch and talk about the Child's Play remake from 2019. Are we having fun now? (The answer is no.)

It's the second season finale of Chucky, it's a Christmas episode, and it's an absolutely wild time. The world's quietest chainsaw is involved, and it gets a workout.

It's time for an exorcism -- just like in that movie! From the confessions to the explosions to the pea soup, here's what we thought of the events of this episode.

It's Turkey Day, and in addition to some stuffed bird, how about an overstuffed episode of Chucky? So much happens in this one, and Dr. Mixter is quite literally everywhere. What did we think of this plot-heavy ep? Listen and learn!

In this corner! Good Chucky! And in this corner! Muscles! And that fight is just the first of many surprising events in this episode, which includes the long-awaited reveal of the Colonel and, yes, a baptism.