All good things come to an end and the curtain call has arrived for Blockbuster Month at The Losers’ Club! In case you missed out, the Losers have been taking a brief summer break by unlocking a couple episodes from their Patreon. Two weeks ago, they dusted off Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park ahead of Dominion, […]
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“Honey, just keep the coffee coming, or I’ll give you a tip you won’t forget!” The Halloweenies have good jobs, great friends, and a bright future. Today, though, they’re going to Hell as they face the wrath of Lamia, the omnipotent evil force within Sam Raimi‘s 2009 horror comeback Drag Me to Hell. Worst of […]
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It’s Blockbuster Month at The Losers’ Club! What the hell does that mean? Well, over the next month, the Losers will take a brief summer break by unlocking a few episodes from their Patreon and sharing a couple of new interviews. Rest assured, each episode will include deep meditations on Stephen King — after all, […]
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“One, two… Vecna’s comin’ for you.” Wait, Vecna? What? The Halloweenies wake up in Westin Hills Asylum, where they finally come face to face with the dream demon himself, Mr. Robert Englund. It’s 15 minutes in hell with the Fred Head as the gang discusses his new role as Victor Creel in Netflix’s Stranger Things […]
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“I really wanted to expand things much more than I ever had before. I wanted to work on a large canvas. ‘Salem’s Lot showed me how to do this without getting lost among a lot of minor characters.” –Peter Straub on writing Ghost Story With Danse Macabre, The Losers’ Club journeys through all the books […]
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It took nearly three years, but Stranger Things 4 has finally arrived on Netflix. (Well, the first volume of episodes anyways.) By now, everyone’s already talking about the season’s Elm Street vibes, praising Kate Bush for giving fans the best needle drop of the series, and debating whether or not Steve Harrington is going to […]
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Sorry Eleven, and no shade to Steve “The Hair” Harrington, but the most important character in Stranger Things is arguably the soundtrack. It’s hard to imagine this series would be nearly as ubiquitous as it stands all these years later without its essential needle drops. The music has framed this franchise, not only by offering […]
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In January 2017, five friends gathered around a single microphone to dissect Stephen King‘s Carrie. Since then, they’ve spent more than half a decade making their way through King’s Dominion, chronicling his novels, his short stories, his essays, his adaptations, hell, even his recommendations. It’s been a journey, to say the least, and one that’s […]
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“Sure, I could have stayed in the past. I could have even been king. But in my own way, I *am* king.” The Halloweenies are back to hail to the king that is Bruce Campbell. In the second of two episodes dedicated to Sam Raimi‘s Army of Darkness, the gang celebrates one of horror’s greatest […]
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“They don’t make ’em like this anymore.” Well, to be frank, they never made ’em like Army of Darkness, and given today’s stale slate of sequelizing, they ain’t gonna make ’em like this ever again. No, as years become decades, and time shifts ever further away from 1993, hindsight becomes kinder and kinder to Sam […]
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With Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn behind them and Army of Darkness just around the corner, the Halloweenies find themselves in a pretty creative sweet spot. They’re standing on a bridge between two of the most creative and surprising sequels in the horror genre. So, they thought: Wait a second, why not talk about […]
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“Bless me”? Do you know what God did for me? He threw an 18-wheeled truck at me and bounced me into nowhere for five years! When I woke up my girl was gone, my job was gone, my legs are just about useless… Blessed me? God’s been a real sport to me!” The ice is […]
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All month long, Shudder has been celebrating their annual “Halfway to Halloween” tradition with a jam-packed schedule of signature spooky selections. From new originals like The Cellar and Cursed Films to exclusives like all past seasons of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, there’s been no shortage of Halloween treats for horror hounds to unwrap. But it ain’t […]
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A week ago, the Halloweenies returned to the woods to hit record yet again on their reel-to-reel and discuss Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn. Together, they shared their first experiences with the brazen 1987 sequel and revisited its inspiring production history that saw Raimi & co. rebound tremendously in the wake of 1985’s […]
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“SSDD. Same shit, different day…” Hello? Jonesy. Jesus Christ, I knew it was you. Where’s he taking you? Massachusetts. He is? Duddits, OK… Jonesy, I will. You hang in there. Jonesy? Jonesy. He hung up… Well, it’s back to hitchhiking for The Losers’ Club as they try to stop Mr. Gray, the big meanie behind […]
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