We dig into a savory double feature with “The Menu” and “Fresh” and discuss stranger danger with “The Strangers” and “The Collector”. SHOW NOTES FROM HOST ROBERT: Ashley Thomas returns to the show for “What’s Your Favorite Double Feature?” with the delicious duo of The Menu and Fresh. … The Menu is a 2022 film directed by Mark Mylod and written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy that blends social commentary and black comedy. It follows a foodie (Nicholas Hoult, Renfield) and his date (Anya Taylor-Joy, The Witch) traveling to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph F ..read more

“Baby Reindeer” is not what you expect; it’s much darker, unsettling, and emotionally resonant — an important and extraordinary journey. No time to read? Click the button below to listen to this post. Listen A writer and comedian may have created Baby Reindeer — and the trailer may make it look like a cheeky dark comedy and a fun, twisty thriller — but I assure you, it’s horror. It would be deeply disturbing and unnerving enough if it were a work of brilliantly conceived fiction. Knowing it’s a true story, however, makes it especially horrifying. In this seven-part Netflix miniseries, S ..read more

Even if you can only watch it once, “The Coffee Table” is a devastating masterpiece that will leave a lasting impression. No time to read? Click the button below to listen to this post. Listen The same dark, unforgiving force that inspired writers Borobia and Casas to create The Coffee Table (La Mesita Del Comedor), a story of an accident and its aftermath, will leave you picking glass shards from your psyche days after watching.  Now, I haven’t been writing with Morbidly Beautiful for long. Yet, I often wondered, “When will I come across a film that will make me feel confident iss ..read more

“Trypophobic Posession” holds you in its sickly grasp until the very end, burrowing into your psyche like a bloody mealworm. No time to read? Click the button below to listen to this post. Listen Cory DeAn Cowley is a special FX/ Gore FX Queen.  I first discovered her provoking and breathtaking work during the first Lockdown when I happened upon one of her posts via her official Facebook page: CDC Works Official (seriously, how genius is that name?!)  I felt an instant shock of recognition; Cory’s original characters, whom she embodies fully on an almost spiritual level, bore the a ..read more

The epic conclusion of the “Kill Bill” saga is a slow character reveal that still ignites with passionate revenge twenty years later. No time to read? Click the button below to listen to this post. Listen WARNING: SIGNIFICANT PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD Quentin Tarantino’s emotional saga in Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004) continues to tell an extraordinary story of Beatrix Kiddo’s (Uma Thurman) resilience and redemption while invoking all the love notes of the 1970s genres. Returning to the ugliest crime, The Bride lies hyperventilating while shot in the head.  Then, our favorite protagonist is driv ..read more

Richard Farren Barber crafts a suspenseful and multi-dimensional story that’s engaging and emotional with his novel “One of the Dead”. No time to read? Click the button below to listen to this post. Listen Nick Teel lives a mundane life with an office job, where he’s trapped in a cubicle all day. However, Nick feels restless. He knows something the rest of us don’t; he sees what no one else sees. The dead walk, but only he can see or sense their presence. However, these zombies don’t attack violently but feed with a touch. Nick does nothing about them until they infect his girlfriend, Abby ..read more

Green shades, transformation, and emotion: Why Alan Moore’s brilliant “Swamp Thing” desperately needs to be brought to life via animation. No time to read? Click the button below to listen to this post. Listen Alan Moore’s legendary run on Swamp Thing changed the face of comics for decades and, on a personal level, opened my mind.   I’m a writer, but my first love was art.  I grew up drawing, often on classwork or the back of tests. Sorry, teach.  Ever since I was exposed to Todd McFarlane’s art and the Spawn HBO series, I have never looked back. His gritty art style and ..read more

From its clever script to its unsettling climax, “Latched” is a memorable horror short that does everything right. This review was originally posted on November 12, 2017, and it has been updated with minor formatting changes in an effort to help you discover great horror you may have missed. YouTube and other streaming video platforms are overrun with short films, especially in the horror genre. While many of these shorts are quite good, others repeat the same plots, character types, villains, and jump-scares. Just how many videos can we stand with the monster’s sudden appearance at the very ..read more

“Traps and Tropes” was a thrilling discussion on inclusivity in film and unpacking the boxes where the disabled have repeatedly been placed. No time to read? Click the button below to listen to this post. Listen Earlier this month, a small group of talented, disabled female filmmakers gathered via virtual meeting to present Traps and Tropes, an Access: Horror event presented in partnership with ReelAbilities Film Festival and Lincoln Center. Hosted by award-winning filmmaker and advocate Ariel Baska, the one-hour panel focused on the lack of on-screen representation for the disabled communit ..read more

For this month’s short horror roundup, we spotlight some of the fantastic found footage shorts from this year’s Unnamed Footage Festival. The UFF, or Unnamed Footage Festival, showcases Found footage films from all genres, with an emphasis on horror. The festival recently completed its seventh year, aiming to “present to the audience these films as a legitimate cinematic movement, not a mere subgenre.” Found footage films have always been an incredibly divisive film-making style, and film fans either love or hate them. But whether a fan or not, it cannot be denied that some of the films in thi ..read more