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Possibly the only horror franchise that got better because it went to space, we end this month and this series with bang - its 1992's Critters 4!

After a mishap with a specimen containment pod, our hero Charlie finds himself in space, and in the future. Trapped with a ragtag salvage crew aboard a failing space station with a glitchy AI controlling the place, Charlie and his new friends must survive another Crite outbreak. Can they survive long enough for help to arrive? And will that help, in the form of greedy...

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Taking a page from the Book of Jason Voorhees, the third installment of the Critters franchise takes a trip to the big city! (Which city that is... is unclear).

This 1991 direct-to-video sequel sees the Crites hitching a ride on a family's RV into the city and causing mayhem inside a run down tenement building. A smaller budget means smaller locations and less Critter action, but it also means a much weaker script. Pete considers this the low point in the franchise, filled with shallow characters, atrociously weak humor, and a broad...

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Part 2 is always bigger and louder, and the Critters franchise is no exception!

This week, Pete takes us through the 1988 sequel, Critters 2: The Main Course. The Crites are back, and this time instead of terrorizing a single Kansas farm, they are taking over the entire town! Brad, Charlie, and the Alien Bounty Hunters are back with help from their fellow townsfolk. But the Critters are prepared, and they too have a few new tricks up their sleeve.

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If you thought the Gremlins were bad news, wait until you get a load of... Critters!

It's another October Franchise Breakdown, and this year Pete is bringing us one of his childhood favorites with the Critters franchise! The first film from 1986 tells the story of a gang of escaped alien monsters known as Crites (hungry little furballs that eat anyone they meet) that make their way to a small Kansas farm town on Earth and begin causing chaos. They are pursued by shape-changing bounty hunters with loose trigger fingers and no...

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This week's movie has it all: romance, music, dancing, throat slitting, human pies!

This week Sarah sings us the song of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This 2007 adaptation of the classic stage musical once again reunites director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp. Depp plays a man seeking revenge in 1800's England, who hides under the guise of a simple barber. With the help of his maniacal new friend (the always delightful Helena Bonham Carter), he kills his way through London while she bakes the victims into pies...

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When there's something strange in your little hamlet, who you gonna call? Ghost Constables!

This week, Sarah rides with us to the 1999 Tim Burton film, Sleepy Hollow. This spooky retelling of the classic tale sees Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane, a science obsessed inspector who gets called to investigate a murder and learns that magic may be more real than he imagined. A star studded cast livens up this dark and bloody gothic film that proved that Tim Burton could handle a true rated R experience.

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If I had a nickel for every time Katie Holmes starred in a 90's teen horror film that was recut by the studio and brought down from an R rating to a PG-13... I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but its weird that it happened twice.

This week, Pete schools us on the 1999 film, Teaching Mrs. Tingle. The directorial debut of Kevin Williamson, this was an early screenplay of his that did not get picked up until after he blew up with Scream and Dawson's Creek. It tells...

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When the ghosts get tough, who ya gonna call? The pope's guy!

Sarah blesses us with this week's film, 2023's The Pope's Exorcist. Inspired by the real life priest with an awesome name (Gabriel Amorth) this movie details Rome's number one exorcist helping a young boy fight off possession from a demon. Amorth then uncovers a Vatican conspiracy while dealing with his own personal "demons", all while cracking jokes and kicking the devil in the ass.

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"Let's Encyclopedia Brown this bitch!"

This week, Pete talks us through one of his favorite movies of all time, Stephen King's 1408. This 2007 film tells the story of a jaded horror author who checks in to the most haunted room in New York's Dolphin Hotel, only to find out that the stories are true, and he may never get out alive. Who will win? The stubborn alcoholic writer, or the infinite patience of a shapeless evil?

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It's based on a book, it's got a white woman solving a mystery, it features the teachings of 18th-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg! It's the Netflix original, Things Seen and Heard!

Sarah takes us through this 2021 film (which takes places in the 80's) about a family moving into an old home in upstate New York. Weird things start happening, the husband doesn't believe the wife and is dismissive of her, and a town mystery is investigated with a good old séance. A tale as old as time.

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A 2000's remake of a William Castle classic starring a bunch of people not known for horror. If I had a nickel for every time that happened I would have two nickels! And this one is for Thirteen Ghosts!

Pete takes us through the story of a grieving family that learns they have inherited a steampunk mansion from their estranged, ghost-hunting uncle. What should be their rescue from poverty and despair quickly becomes a night of horror as they find themselves trapped in a glass box of negative emotions... and also 13...

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Dangerous imaginary friends, precocious little kids, and dark secrets from the past; that's a recipe for 2016's Lights Out!

This week, Sarah walks us through this exciting horror flick that was actually expanded from a hugely popular short film from director David Sandberg. It tells the story of a family with a complicated and troubled history being haunted by a dangerous entity that can only exist in pure darkness. Secrets from the past reveal a horrifying truth about why the only way to survive is to keep the lights on at...

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Equal parts horror, comedy, homage, satire, gorefest, and anthology. That's the formula for 1988's Waxwork.

When a group of yuppie college kids get invited to a private midnight showing at a new Waxwork, they are surprised to find that the exhibits are more interactive than they seem. Each scene of horrific violence is actually a portal to a pocket dimension where the most depraved souls in history reenact their most gruesome kills, over and over again. And the guests are the victims!

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Two feral children living in the woods, a mysterious entity watching over them, and a punk rock Jessica Chastain. That's how you make the 2013 film, Mama!

When Jaime Lannister finds his missing nieces (who have been surviving in the woods for five years), him and his girlfriend, Beverly Marsh, take them in and try to care for them. However, a strange ghost-like figure the girls call Mama is overprotective of them and will hurt anyone who tries to take the girls away.

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What do you get when Stephen Spielberg wants to produce a blockbuster-style horror movie with Jan de Bont directing? You get 1999's The Haunting!

Based on the famous Shirley Jackson novel, The Haunting of Hill House, this incredibly 90's film follows a troubled woman invited to a sleep study at a spooky old haunted house in western Massachusetts. The reality, however, is that the doctor conducting the study is really writing a book on fear, and trying to get his guests to give in to the creepiness of the location. When...

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Finally an exorcism movie that does not follow the exact same formula as all the rest! That's right, we are talking about 2022's Prey for the Devil.

Sarah talks us through this exciting tale about a nun who is allowed to observe the exorcism training school of the Catholic Church. It's kind of like the X-men school for Gifted Youngsters, but normal people fighting the devil instead of mutants. The nun assists on a case about a possessed young girl whose demon seems to know secrets about the past that could...

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Wait a second. Didn't we already cover a movie called The Nun, about an evil spirit in a habit that kills people in Europe?? There is more than one movie with that premise!? And it's not even in the same franchise!? 

That's right folks, this week we are not discussing anything related to the Conjuring Universe or any Blumhouse production. Pete is covering the early 2000's Spanish-produced but English-speaking "The Nun". The film follows a teen girl who discovers that the evil spirit of a nun that ran her mother's childhood b...

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This week, we've got another Mike Flanagan classic. It is 2016's, Before I Wake!

Sarah takes us through this modern fantasy tale about a grieving couple who adopts a young boy with a tragic past. Soon, the boys dreams begin manifesting into beautiful illusions in the waking world. However, things take a dark turn when the dreams become nightmares. No one is safe, sleeping or awake, from the horrifying Canker Man, a monster from the boy's imagination that threatens all their lives.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day, Fearless Fans!! What's better than another hilarious entry in the Leprechaun franchise? How about one where the titular character has no dialogue, no personality, and no magical powers??

Wait a second, that sounds terrible.

This week, Pete walks us through the lowest rated film in the Leprechaun franchise (and that's saying something), Leprechaun Origins. Its a generic slasher about a group of college kids vacationing in Ireland when the locals betray them to a small, nondescript monster that really should not be as much of...

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Who would have thought that A-Lister Sandra Bullock would star in a straight to streaming horror movie, and it would be seen as a successful move for her career!?

This week, Sarah walks us through the Netflix gem that is 2018's Bird Box. When a global plague of formless entities that cause suicidal madness at mere sight kicks off the apocalypse, a pregnant woman finds shelter with a group of survivors. They must figure out how they are going to survive and gather supplies when walking around without a blindfold is...

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Happy Valentine's Day, Fearless Fans!!

This year, Pete walks us through the 2025 slasher film, Heart Eyes! In a fun blending of horror and romantic comedy, a pair of conflicted coworkers accidentally become the target of a serial killer who only goes after loving couples on Valentine's Day. Can they convince the killer that they are not actually a couple? or will they fall in love and find a way to fight back against this killer cupid?

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Fearless Films goes musical!

This week, Sarah takes us through the 2000's rock opera known as Repo! The Genetic Opera. Set in a dystopian future where an epidemic of organ failures has caused engineered specialty replacement organs to become the new fashionable trend. Citizens are addicted to surgery and chasing the fads of "designer organs". But if they can't make their payments, assassins known as the Repo Men will come and take back their property by lethal force.

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This week, Pete serves up the delicious meal that is 1999's Ravenous! This quirky horror-comedy western film depicts a squad of soldiers manning a lonely mountain fort in the 1800's. When a mysterious stranger arrives one night, things take a turn for the worse as madness and death run rampant through the camp. How far are you willing to go to survive? What horrors could you stomach just to stay alive?

Join us as we discuss cannibalism, consumerism, a cast full of "that guys", the music of Gorillaz, the Mexican-American war...

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Time to ring in the new year, Fearless Fans!

This week, Sarah brings us another great entry from Hulu's Into the Dark series, titled New Year, New You. When a group of friends reunites for a girl's night on New Year's Eve, the festivities turn violent when the past comes back up and old grudges are reignited.

Join us as we discuss Hollywood casting tropes, the importance of therapy, and why influencers don't have all the answers.

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Merry Christmas, Fearless Fans!! If you are British and hate Santa Claus, then we have the movie for you! This year, we are celebrating with the 1980's slasher, Don't Open til Christmas!

Pete takes us through this film about a serial killer targeting Santa Claus performers who are being naughty, taking them out in increasingly brutal ways. Two detectives are on the case, harassing witnesses and making inappropriate advances at every turn. But also, the daughter of one of the victims is trying to solve the mystery on her own. Also...

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This week, we invite you to stay with us for winter break in a traditional location of terror and fear - boarding school!

Sarah takes us through 2015's The Blackcoat's Daughter, and early entry in the works of Osgood Perkins. In it, two girls left behind over winter break at a boarding school find themselves haunted by a devilish presence. Meanwhile, a hitchhiking young woman is picked up by a married couple on the road, but one of them might be harboring a deadly secret.

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Happy Thanksgiving, Fearless Fans! The main course this year is a cheap slasher with at least three different names and just as many versions. We present 1987's Blood Rage (aka Nightmare at Shadow Woods, aka Complex, aka Slasher)!!

Pete takes us through this wild tale of an evil twin brother that frames his sibling for murder, then years later goes on an insane murder spree when his brother escapes to confront him on Thanksgiving night. All the while their troubled mother slides further and further into madness.

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Judd Nelson is back and he is still a monster in this week's entry, a Lifetime movie called The Girl in the Basement!

Sarah takes us through this domestic horror film that is sickeningly based on true events. A family man holds his daughter captive in his secret basement dungeon for many years and father's multiple children with her. This entire movie is basically a two hour trigger warning.

Join us as we discuss too many horrible things that we don't even want to joke about. And as always...

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It's the final week in October and we ran out of Jaws sequels. So you get the next best thing - the greatest Jaws ripoff of all time, Orca!!

This week's movie follows a Richard Harris as a horrible ship captain that murders an Orca, which then spurs its grieving mate to declare war on him and the entire fishing community where he resides. That's not hyperbole, the sea animal goes full John Rambo and uses guerilla tactics to methodically destroy the property and economy of an entire community (yes it...

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Long before Halloween made it the hottest trend and Scream was spoofing the idea, Jaws was the master of the requel.

This week, Pete takes us through Jaws: The Revenge, a film that completely ignores the events of the third entry and bills itself as the "actual" end of the trilogy.

Lorrain Gary returns from retirement to portray Ellen Brody, widow and grieving mother after the death of her youngest son. Her oldest, Michael, takes her away to the Bahamas where he works as a marine biologist and lives...

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Sooner or later, every 80's franchise fell victim to the most dangerous beast - 3D gimmicks!

This week, Pete takes us through the latest Jaws sequel, Jaws 3-D. This entry finds Michael Brody, all grown up and played by Dennis Quaid, working as an engineer at Seaworld. As soon as the park opens a new underwater attraction, a big-ass shark shows up and begins eating the guests! What follows is a mess of blood, terror, and cheap 3-D bits that really don't hold up.

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Just when you thought October was safe again... it's another franchise!!

This year, Pete is hunting for the sequels to one of the greatest movies of all time, Jaws! Somehow, this cinema classic got not only one, but three sequels. And one of them is even a requel, starting well before Halloween made that its defining feature.

Jaws 2, from 1978, is a mix of the classic Jaws formula and the then-budding slasher genre. This one features a ton of teenagers stranded in a remote location getting picked off one by...

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What happens when you decide to make a movie about breaking all the rules of a a supernatural horror movie? You get The Possession Experiment!

This week, Sarah walks us through a 2016 film where a guy decides to prove the existence of the afterlife by ALLOWING himself to be possessed, and filming the whole thing. Things go horribly wrong, as everyone expected.

Join us as we discuss possession makeup, wasting big name actors on one scene, and the dangers of having sex with demons.

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The Warren's are back, and badder than ever!

This week, Sarah walks us through part 3 of the Conjuring saga. We see the Warren's helping the defense of a young man accused of murder, who just may have been possessed by an evil force at the time (spoiler for the real life events: that evil force was alcohol). They race against time to uncover the mysterious entity that is causing chaos across New England!

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When the students of an athletic academy begin disappearing in bloody ways, their Olympic dreams will become... an Olympic Nightmare!!

...wait a second, the name of this movie is Fatal Games. Or is it The Killing Touch?

No matter which of its many titles you pick, Pete's choice this week is a bad 80's slasher movie that suffers from being overly tropey, horribly offensive on multiple fronts, and just a general sense of poor filmmaking.

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Ed and Lorraine are back, and this time they are taking Great Britain by storm!

This week, Sarah takes us through The Conjuring 2, based on the real life Enfield Haunting. A British family is tormented by an evil spirit that is forcing the children to see and do horrible things. Ed and Lorraine show up to help prove that evil spirits real, and to uncover the demonic mastermind behind the happenings.

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What happens when road rage goes too far? You get the debut of one of the greatest directors of all time!

This week, Pete walks us through Steven Spielberg's first feature length film, Duel. A simple businessman finds himself pursued by a a psycho behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler across the lone highways of the California deserts. Can he survive this mad man? Or will he be crushed under tons of murderous steel?

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This week, we are talking about a spinoff from a franchise that was so spun, it doesn't even count anymore! It's The Curse of La Llorona!

Sarah breaks down this Conjuring branch that the producers claim was snapped off the tree, despite the direct connections. When the angry spirit of a woman comes looking for her children, Linda Cardellini's are offered up instead, and she must do everything she can to save them.

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Happy Fourth of July, Fearless Fans!! It's time for another holiday slasher!!

This week, Pete breaks down Uncle Sam, a cheap slasher about an undead soldier that punishes the unpatriotic... but also just any random person that's around. It's poorly made, often boring, and completely nonsensical. We're sure you'll love it!

Join us as we discuss peeping toms, corrupt politicians, and a town where chaos reigns and there is no sense of danger.

And as always: don't get too scared!

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The doll is back (again) in what may be the worst titled entry in the franchise - Annabelle Comes Home!

Sarah breaks down the third and (hopefully) final Annabelle film, which tells the story of a night of babysitting gone wrong. The Warren's daughter's babysitter accidentally lets loose the killer doll from the MUSEUM OF CURSED OBJECTS. Predictably, things go very wrong.

Join us as we discuss proper cursed item storage conditions, how to deal with stray hell hounds, and what the hell typewriters have to do with this...