Straight Chilling: Horror Movie Review (2026)

#469 – Silver Bullet (1985)

Released on 04/03/2024

In a small town, brutal killings start to plague the community. Marty Coslaw, a paraplegic boy, is convinced the murders are the doings of a werewolf.

On this week's episode…

Join the crew as we discuss Stephen King, Corey Haim, and Gary Busey in the classic werewolf movie, Siilver Bullet (1985).

Show Notes:

Housekeeping (2:34)

Back of the Box/Recommendations (9:40)

Spoiler Warning/Full Review (15:45)

Rotten Tomatoes (70:20)

Trivia (76:50)

Cooter of the Week (65:25)

What We've Been Watching (94:50)

Hotline Scream: (105:43)

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#468 – Late Night with the Devil (2024)

Released on 03/27/2024

A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.

On this week's episode…

Join the crew as we discuss late night talk shows, the satanic panic, and Faustian tales in, Late Night with the Devil (2024).

Show Notes:

Housekeeping (4:16)

Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:02)

Spoiler Warning/Full Review (16:17)

Rotten Tomatoes (72:26)

Cooter of the Week (80:12)

What We've Been Watching (86:08)

Hotline Scream: (98:04)

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#467 – Hollow Man (2000)

Released on 03/20/2024

A brilliant scientist's discovery renders him invisible, but transformers him into an omnipotent, dangerous megalomaniac.

On this week's episode…

Join the crew as we discuss government-funded experiments, Kevin Bacon's bacon, and Paul Verhoeven's take on the Invisible Man, Hollow Man (2000).

Show Notes:

Housekeeping (3:50)

Back of the Box/Recommendations (12:45)

Spoiler Warning/Full Review (18:36)

Rotten Tomatoes (74:16)

Trivia (81:40)

Cooter of the Week (91:00)

What We've Been Watching (93:47)

Hotline Scream: (106:40)

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#466 – Ticks (1993)

Released on 03/13/2024

A group of troubled teenagers are led by social workers on a California wilderness retreat, not knowing the woods they are camping in have been infested by bloodsucking, mutated ticks!

On this week's episode…

Join the crew as we discuss Seth Green, illegal grow operations, and unfortunate stereotypes in the made for TV creature feature, Ticks (1993).

Show Notes:

Housekeeping (6:58)

Back of the Box/Recommendations (18:06)

Spoiler Warning/Full Review (25:12)

Rotten Tomatoes (77:25)

Cooter of the Week (83:06)

What We've Been Watching (94:23)

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#465 – As Above, So Below (2014)

Released on 03/06/2024

When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within the city of the dead.

On this week's episode…

Join the crew as we discuss treasure hunting, the Parisian catacombs and the hellish found footage film, As Above, So Below (2014).

Show Notes:

Housekeeping (3:07)

Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:42)

Spoiler Warning/Full Review (17:16)

Rotten Tomatoes (70:58)

Cooter of the Week (82:54)

What We've Been Watching (86:40)

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#464 – Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Released on 02/28/2024

In the dying days of the old west, a sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town's doctor from a group of cannibalistic cave dwellers.

On this week's episode…

Join the crew as we discuss Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson and S. Craig Zahler's horror-western, Bone Tomahawk (2015).

Show Notes:

Housekeeping (4:45)

Back of the Box/Recommendations (10:40)

Spoiler Warning/Full Review (16:10)

Rotten Tomatoes (81:05)

Cooter of the Week (89:00)

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#463 – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Released on 02/21/2024

Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers finds out she is her generation's vampire slayer.

On this week's episode…

Join the crew as we discuss Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, and 90's nostalgia in Fran Rubel Kuzui's, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992).

Show Notes:

Housekeeping (4:53)

Back of the Box/Recommendations (10:15)

Spoiler Warning/Full Review (18:22)

Rotten Tomatoes (68:26)

Trivia (76:41)

Cooter of the Week (80:47)

Hotline Scream: (87:34)

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#462 – Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Released on 02/14/2024

The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.

On this week's episode…

Join the crew as we discuss Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright's incredibly effective Zom-Rom-Com, Shaun of the Dead (2004).

Show Notes:

Housekeeping (5:15)

Back of the Box/Recommendations (11:00)

Spoiler Warning/Full Review (16:20)

Rotten Tomatoes (77:29)

Trivia (87:53)

Cooter of the Week (96:54)

What We've Been Watching (107:23)

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#461 – From Beyond (1986)

Released on 02/07/2024

A group of scientists have developed the resonator, a machine which allows whoever is in range to see beyond normal perceptive reality. But when the experiment succeeds they are immediately attacked by strange life forms.

On this week's episode…

Join the crew as we discuss H.P. Lovecraft, Barbara Crampton in tight leather, and Stuart Gordon's other worldly film, From Beyond (1986).

Show Notes:

Housekeeping (5:30)

Back of the Box/Recommendations (10:32)

Spoiler Warning/Full Review (16:50)

Rotten Tomatoes (72:30)

Trivia (78:33)

Cooter of the Week (91:08)

Hotline Scream: (101:29)

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