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Happy Mother’s Day!  Make sure you water your plants on stable ladders, avoid unnecessary globe-trotting, and check your kid for birthmarks before tuning in to our coverage of the poster-child for being child-free by choice in 1976’s The Omen.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, infanticide, religion 

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Sources: 

• Balanzategui, Jessica. “The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s.” The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 35–66. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv80cc7v.5. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

• Berlatsky, Noah. “Hell Is for Children: The Revolutionary Politics of ‘The Omen’”. https://wearethemutants.com/2020/10/30/hell-is-for-children-the-revolutionary-politics-of-the-omen/ 

• The Omen (1976) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omen 

• Nosferatu (2024) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075005/  

A night of roleplay with a stranger from a bar ends with a homemade breakfast in a farmhouse in the woods - but this isn’t the romance you may think.  Join us on a misadventure of expectations in 2023’s Strange Darling.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual violence & assault

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Sources: 

• Strange Darling Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Darling 

• Strange Darling IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22375054/ 

• Ex Machina, Derek. "’Strange Darling’ Review: A Modern Classic Thriller that Brilliantly Deceives its Audience.” Derekexmachina.com. https://www.derekexmachina.com/blog/2024/8/28/strange-darling-review-a-modern-classic-thriller-that-brilliantly-deceives-its-audience  

We’re quenching your thirst for a new-ish release and tackling our first sequel of the year - grab your product placement water and Pizza Hut to enjoy 2024's Smile 2.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, addiction, domestic violence, stalking

Minor spoilers for shows Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Bly Manor 

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• Smile IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29268110/trivia/

  Smile 2 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_2

Feeling lovesick this week?  Maybe check to make sure a secret admirer didn’t piss in a bottle with some herbs around you.  That might be the issue.

Join us as we take a trip back in time and aesthetic in the 60’s style horror comedy, The Love Witch.

****CONTENT WARNING: discussions of sexual assault, suicide

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Works Referenced:

• “Johnny, don't leave me': How 'The Love Witch' and Pomplamoose enchanted #RevengeTok” by Allison Foreman https://mashable.com/article/johnny-dont-leave-me-tiktok-sound-origin#:~:text=Elaine%20killed%20him.-,%22The%20day%20he%20left%20me%20was%20the%20day%20that%20I,reborn%2C%20as%20a%20witch.%22  
• From  “In Bloom: A Yonic Reading of The Love Witch” from Girls on Tops https://www.girlsontopstees.com/read-me/2020/3/13/in-bloom-a-yonic-reading-of-the-love-witch#:~:text=The%20Love%20Witch%20calls%20out,as%20through%20the%20film's%20props. 
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3908142/ 
• Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Witch 
• www.thetarotguide.com

What do you do when your ex abandons you in Turkish jail?  Follow her underground through the layers of hell in search of a stone that holds the secrets of eternal life, naturally.  Grab your headlamps and GET THE DAT as we venture into the catacombs for some found footage fun in 2014’s As Above, So Below.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of suicide

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Works Referenced:

• Perdita Weeks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdita_Weeks
• As Above, So Below: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2870612/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv
• Philosopher’s Stone: https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-philosophers-stone#:~:text=According%20to%20legend%2C%20the%20philosopher's,metals%20like%20gold%20and%20silver.
• Hermeticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism
• Bachman: https://screenrant.com/as-above-so-below-movie-title-meaning-alchemy-explained/#what-the-title-really-means
• This is Barry: https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/as-above-so-below-explained-plot-and-ending/

Who wants to play Bodies Bodies Bodies?  Trigger warning: this is not a safe space.

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Works Referenced:

• ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ and the Difficulty of Coping IRL by Kalia Richardson: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/movies/bodies-bodies-bodies-movie.html
• BBB IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8110652/
• BBB Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies_Bodies_Bodies

It’s nice to have a friend…right?  She’s super strong with killer dance moves, she protects you from bullies, she’s bulletproof with nothin’ to lose, she’s 2023’s M3GAN.

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Works Referenced:

• Dead Meat M3GAN Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Hq4U_0iig
• M3GAN IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8760708/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv
• M3GAN is about how scary a tween girl can be by Alex Abad-Santos: https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/1/11/23548955/m3gan-horror-movie-tween-girl
• M3GAN Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3GAN

Our girl Pearl is BACK and while she may not be a gem…she is a STAAAAAAAR.

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Works Referenced:

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18925334/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv 
• Bria, Bill. “Pearl Ending Explained: A Star Is Shorn.” https://www.slashfilm.com/1009341/pearl-ending-explained-a-star-is-shorn/ 

Happy 2023 Whorrors!  To kick off the new year, we decided to revisit some 2022 gems we didn’t get the chance to cover.  First up we have one fucked up horror picture that isn’t afraid to get horny, Ti West’s X.

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Works Referenced:

• X Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(2022_film)
• Gender in Horror Movies Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_horror_films
• Fisher, J.S., Rezk, A., Nwefo, E. et al. Sexual Health in the Elderly Population. Curr Sex Health Rep 12, 381–388 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-020-00278-0
• Ambler, Dana R et al. “Sexual function in elderly women: a review of current literature.” Reviews in obstetrics & gynecology vol. 5,1 (2012): 16-27.
• LaMotte, Sandee. “It's a Myth that Women Don't Want Sex as They Age.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/health/sexual-desire-older-women-study-wellness/index.html

What do you get when you put a National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Spy Kids 2, and the Alaskan Bull Worm from Spongebob in a blender?  Find out with the 2015 comedy that'll make you wanna break out the peppermint schnapps: Krampus.

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Works Referenced:

• Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christmas 
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3850590/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv  
• “Krampus Ending & What The Snow Globe Really Means Explained” bu Steve Cuffari https://screenrant.com/krampus-2015-movie-ending-snow-globe-meaning-explained/