Iris was ready to spend a relaxing weekend by the lake with her boyfriend - but when she’s forced to kill the host of the party, she realizes that her relaxing was never a part of the program. Make sure your voice command settings are turned off before tuning in to 2025’s Companion.

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

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Sources:

• Companion (Film) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_(film)

• Companion (2025) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26584495/

• Willmore, Alison. “Review: ‘Companion’ Is a Perfectly Mean Romp.” Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025, https://www.vulture.com/article/review-companion-is-a-perfectly-mean-romp.html#:~:text=Friend%2C%20Guill%C3%A9n%2C%20and%20an%20unusually,is%20never%20less%20than%20perfect.

• Ruppert, Audrey. “Companion Explores an Unsettling Reality.” Severna Park Voice, 19 Jan. 2025, https://severnaparkvoice.com/stories/companion-explores-an-unsettling-reality,67425.

When Reese gets a crush on a theater nerd, he’s faced with the Troy Bolton conundrum of love or football…and he’s going to wish he chose football. Sneak into school with us after hours to catch a midnight performance of The Gallows (2015).

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of hanging

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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Sources:

• The Gallows (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gallows

• The Gallows (IMDb): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2309260/

For Elyse’s birthday episode, we’re taking it way (way, way) back to one of the oldest horror films to grace our screens (except this time it’s in 4k). Join us as we unwrap the most twisted love triangle to date in Nosferatu.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of childhood sexual abuse/grooming, death of children, necrophilia

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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Sources:

• Lomaia, Natalia. “Return of the Repressed: The Real Horror of Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu”. Headspace.org. https://headstuff.org/entertainment/film/the-real-horror-of-robert-eggers-nosferatu/

• Nosferatu (2024) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_(2024_film)

• Nosferatu (2024) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5040012/

• Weston, Kelli. “Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu Is a Modern Gothic Triumph.” The Nation.com. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/robert-eggerss-nosferatu/

• https://filmint.nu/nosferatu-2024-against-tradwives-and-uplift-stories-j-m-tyree/

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