Episode #49

Originally aired December 31, 2022.

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Upcoming Horror Movies [Official Website]

https://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/uhm-schedule

Promote Your Horror Project [Horror Facts]

You can promote your horror project in a simple and completely cost-free manner with the help of Horror Facts. free of any obligations or commitments.

https://horrorfacts.com/promote/

Holes in the Sky, The Sean Miller Story Beats the Blair Witch Project for Most Awards Won for a Found Footage Film [Horror Fix]

“Holes in the Sky: The Sean Miller Story” has just hit 19 award wins which makes it the most awarded found footage film in history beating out “The Blair Witch Project” for the victory. The award wins took place during the 2021-2022 festival seasons.

https://horror-fix.com/holes-in-the-sky-the-sean-miller-story-beats-the-blair-witch-project-for-most-awards-won-for-a-found-footage-film/

The Two-headed Lady at the End of the World Book Review [Hellnotes]

Amanda and Miranda Morgan are identical twins dreaming about first kisses and playing spin the bottle in the ‘80s of rural east Texas, until a secret government particle collider hidden beneath their family farm accidentally conjoins them. Now they must navigate the normal teenage angst of love, hormones, and popularity as two minds trapped in one body–a situation made all the more excruciating because both girls have different dreams and are in love with different boys.

https://hellnotes.com/book-review-the-two-headed-lady-at-the-end-of-the-world-2/

Lunchmeat [Official Website]

Greetings, Videovores! So you wanna know what this LUNCHMEAT thing is all about?! We can dig it!

LUNCHMEAT is your number one destination for the appreciation, celebration and preservation of VHS and video store culture! We officially pressed play in the VHSummer of 2008 with our first print issue of Lunchmeat Magazine, and we’ve been spreading the rewind-inclined word ever since! It is our express mission to keep VHS love alive in modern times.

Over the years, we’ve expanded beyond the print magazine, starting this here website in 2011, and jam-packing it with all the weird, fantastic, and absolutely radical VHS culture we can find! We’ve also created a mess of groovy merch, rewind-inclined apparel and fresh VHS tapes of all persuasions! We’ve done countless screenings, tape swaps, and VHS-driven gatherings, most notably creating the largest VHS-centric live event in the country with DRIVE-IN VHS Fest, held at Mahoning Drive-In Theater.

We’ve also co-created HOME VIDEO HORRORS, helped launch a 70,000 title video store (where all the rentals were free!) called VIDEO VORTEX, and co-authored STUCK ON VHS: A Visual History of Video Store Stickers.

As you can see, we’ve been busy here in Lunchmeat Land over the past 12 years, so instead of making your eyeballs bleed with an overdone slice of our home video-lovin’ history, we encourage you to dig through our site, store, and all our VHSocial media channels (@LunchmeatVHS), and experience the great expanse of the radical rewind-inclined world for yourself!

And, hey, you can always reach out to us, too, if you have a question or wanna talk tapes. We love making new friends. Especially if you have snacks. Do you have snacks? Hit us up.

Keep feedin’ that VCR and remember these words to live by: REWIND OR DIE!

Josh Schafer

Head Videovore / Editor-in-Chief

Lunchmeat

https://lunchmeatvhs.com/

Nightmare on Film Street Podcast [Official Website]

Horror for the Casually Obsessed. A community for every type of horror fan; addicts, enthusiasts, and casual creeps. We’re inclusive of all humans, monsters, and sub-genres.

Tune in on candid and comedic discussions on our top-rated horror podcast, and enjoy Features, Editorials and Reviews on all things HORROR!

https://nofspodcast.com/

Mickster’s Totally Eighties Holiday Funhouse [kindertrauma]

https://www.kindertrauma.com/micksters-totally-eighties-holiday-funhouse/

La Petite Mort Film Review [Indie Horror Films]

German transgressive cinema, at the moment, has two shining stars of gore and, well, more gore: one is Marcel Walz, and the other is Olaf Ittenbach, both of whom deal with a combination of directing and practical SFX. Their films are certainly not for the squeamish. Naturally, the film is in German, with well-defined English subtitles.

https://indiehorrorfilms.blogspot.com/2022/12/review-la-petite-mort.html

Creature Double Feature [Minds]

Creature Double Feature was a syndicated horror show, broadcast in the Boston area during the 1970s and 1980s.

https://www.minds.com/cdf_roundup/

2022 Horror Comic Award Winners [Horror News Network]

Series of the Year – Ghost Rider (Benjamin Percy and Cory Smith)

Writer of the Year – Jeff Lemire (The Passageway, Little Monsters)

Artist of the Year – Szymon Kudranski (A Town Called Terror)

Mini-Series of the Year – Maniac of NY: The Bronx is Burning (Elliott Kalan, Andrea Mutti, AfterShock Comics)

Cover of the Year – House of Slaughter #6 (Kyle Hotz)

https://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/2022-horror-comic-award-winners/

Haunting at the Ridge is a Haunt Unlike Any Other [Horror Buzz]

Haunting at the Ridge at the Powder Ridge Mountain Park & Resort in Middlefield, CT may be Connecticut’s newest haunted attraction, but it is brought to us by Graveyard Productions, the same team that has been putting on haunts in this area since 1991. The folks at Graveyard Productions are practiced at their craft and they have leveraged that experience into an ambitious new haunt that is unlike any other we have seen.

https://www.horrorbuzz.com/haunts/haunting-at-the-ridge-is-a-haunt-unlike-any-other/

Michael Gingold’s Best Horror Films of 2022 [Rue Morgue]

While some types of features continued to struggle as the box office recovered from the [scamdemic] this year, horror scored repeatedly with theatrical audiences–though several of the movies on my top 10 (actually, 11) list were smaller indie releases, and a couple of them premiered on Shudder following their festival tours. But whether big or small, fear flicks explored all kinds of interesting and intense avenues in 2022, finding new ways to address classic subjects and ranging from quiet to in-your-face. With the usual determiner that the films saw commercial North American release in ’22 (and the caveat that I haven’t seen a few of the year’s significant titles, like NOPE and THE SADNESS), here are my choices, starting with the very best…

https://www.rue-morgue.com/michael-gingolds-best-horror-films-of-2022/

1999 [Creepypasta]

In a cellar somewhere, standing before the camera, a man in a tatty, moth eaten bear suit says hello to the small handful of watching children. This is a public access show viewed by only a small number of fans. A small number that includes you.

https://www.creepypasta.com/1999-creepypasta/

Seven Horror Movies that were Major Financial Successes but Critical Disappointments [Wicked Horror]

If you look at the highest grossing movies of all time, most are generally beloved, examples include Titanic, Avatar, the Star Wars franchise, Marvel movies, etc. The same can be said in the horror genre for the most part. The majority of the highest grossing genre pictures enjoyed plenty of critical success to go with the financial windfall they secured. The link between box office success and critical success has usually gone hand in hand for movies across all genres. Good word of mouth, well financed marketing ploys, and likable talent are critical factors to financial success.

It goes without saying that a good product is the key factor to critical success. Like I said, most financial successes were also critical successes. But the below seven movies were the exception to this rule. These films were huge financial successes, but major critical disappointments. Why did they succeed financially? Were they overlooked and unfairly criticized at the time of release? Was the financial success just a byproduct of coattail riding on well-known franchise IP? All of the movies below grossed over $100+ million at the box office, and are listed in order of profits earned, low to high…

https://wickedhorror.com/top-horror-lists/seven-horror-movies-that-were-major-financial-successes-but-critical-disappointments/

How Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Subtly Criticizes the Previous Sequels [Horror Obsessive]

I have a love/hate relationship with the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. On the one hand, the original Nightmare is one of my favorite horror movies of all time, and I think Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is quite possibly the most underappreciated film in the entire genre. But on the other hand, I’m not a huge fan of parts two through six. Sure, Dream Warriors is fun enough, but it’s the only one that’s even remotely good. The rest of the pre-New Nightmare sequels are forgettable at best, so my overall feelings toward the series are very mixed.

But in a somewhat paradoxical way, I love that it’s so hit or miss. See, in a certain sense, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is basically just Wes Craven giving the other sequels (except Dream Warriors) the finger and showing us what a real Freddy film looks like, so without the bad entries in the franchise, we never would’ve gotten this excellent seventh film.

It subtly but powerfully points out where the Nightmare movies go wrong, and it incorporates that criticism into its story in a really clever way. In fact, that’s one of the reasons why this film is so great, so let’s take a deep dive into Wes Craven’s New Nightmare and see what it has to say about the sad state of the Freddy Krueger franchise before Wes Craven came back to right the ship.

https://horrorobsessive.com/2022/12/29/how-wes-cravens-new-nightmare-subtly-criticizes-the-previous-sequels/

List of the 10 Most Underrated Horror Movies from 2000 to 2010 [Horror News Net]

As most of you know I grew up in the 1980s and consider that decade to be the golden age of horror. I also really enjoy a lot of horror films from the 90s as well, and in the past I put together a couple of lists that looked at the underrated horror films that came out of both decades that were overlooked and just never got the attention and love that they deserved. But what about the 2000s, you ask? While the quality of horror movies has gone down a bit since the new millennium (in my humble opinion anyway) there have still been some pretty awesome horror flicks to hit the scene in the last seventeen years. Adam Green’s Hatchet is without a doubt one of the best horror films to come out of the decade as is Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (which I almost put on this list as I am surprised by how many horror fans haven’t seen it- or even heard of it-for some strange reason).

At the same time there were a lot of really bad horror movies released during the 2000s as well and sometimes people shied away from watching horror as a result because they didn’t know what was really good and what was really bad and didn’t want to take a chance on something they weren’t familiar with. This is unfortunate because it stopped people from seeing certain horror films that were actually pretty good and said films became vastly underrated as a result. I personally think that there are a lot of underrated horror movies from 2000-2010, so I thought that I’d put together a top ten list that showcased these films so that they can be introduced to the horror fans out there that skipped them during their initial runs or never took a chance on renting them from the video store (remember those?) back in the day. Who knows, maybe after reading this list a ton of people will run out and checks these films out so that they can finally get the love and respect that they deserve.

Without further ado here is my list of the 10 Most Underrated Horror Movies from 2000 to 2010…

https://horrornews.net/126143/list-10-underrated-horror-movies-2000-2010/

The Cat and the Canary (1927) Full Movie [Internet Archive]

Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.

https://archive.org/details/PaulLeniTheCatAndTheCanary1927MusicByDionysisBoukouvalasliveVersion

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