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AI horror, demonic deals, graveyard horror, undead revenge, and creepy psychological terror collide in this Ides of March installment from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast. If you love scary stories, supernatural horror, occult suspense, vampire-style graveyard chills, and modern nightmares about technology turning against us, this collection is built to hit every nerve.

In this episode, a writer discovers that artificial intelligence can become something far more invasive—and far more dangerous—than a helpful tool. A deadly mistake on a dark road spirals into an occult revenge nightmare that refuses to stay buried. A promising night out twists into a demonic first date from hell, where desire, danger, and ritual all collide. And deep in the cemetery, greed leads two men straight into a grave-robbing horror story where the dead are anything but powerless.

In this episode (in order):

• “I used to think AI was wonderful. Now I know it’s evil.” — by Michael Kelso  A writing shortcut becomes a nightmare when the tech starts watching… predicting… and finally acting.
• “Dead Ahead” — by Joe Solmo  A body in the pines. A shoveled secret. And a ritual that turns guilt into something that can walk back out of the dirt.
• “The Blind Date” — by Joe Solmo  A goth romance fantasy curdles into a graveyard pact—because some dates aren’t looking for love… they’re looking for a third soul.
• “The Grave Robbers” — by Bruce Haney  A quick cemetery score turns into old-world hunger, blood-soaked greed, and a ride that doesn’t come with brakes—or mercy.


This Ides of March compilation is packed with creepy AI horror, dark supernatural fiction, demon horror, graveyard terror, undead suspense, and the kind of doom-soaked consequences that make horror so satisfying. If you like your horror stories with cursed choices, sinister turns, and punishments that come crawling back out of the dark, press play and keep the lights low.

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John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! (1978) is one of the most overlooked thrillers in his filmography, and this week on Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into the tense, creepy made-for-TV shocker Carpenter made right before Halloween.

The film stars Lauren Hutton, David Birney, and Adrienne Barbeau, and turns anonymous phone calls, apartment paranoia, and stalker dread into a slow-burn nightmare that still lands. The movie was produced by Warner Bros. Television and aired on NBC on November 29, 1978. 

In this episode, Henrique and Rachael get into why the movie works so well as a pre-Halloween Carpenter thriller, how it builds suspense out of invasive attention and helplessness, and why its made-for-TV roots actually sharpen the tension instead of softening it. They talk about Lauren Hutton’s strong lead performance, Adrienne Barbeau’s memorable supporting turn, the movie’s stalking setup, its uneasy humor, and the way it taps into fears about privacy, vulnerability, and not being believed. They also explore why this one deserves a much bigger reputation among fans of 1970s horror, psychological thrillers, and John Carpenter deep cuts.

Inside this episode:

• why Someone’s Watching Me! feels like a missing link between Carpenter’s early work and Halloween
• how the film turns phone harassment, surveillance, and apartment living into effective horror
• why Lauren Hutton makes such a compelling lead
• the importance of Adrienne Barbeau’s Sophie and the film’s unusually progressive character dynamics for 1978
• why the movie’s TV-thriller format gives it a different but very effective rhythm
• how Carpenter creates tension without needing nonstop violence or spectacle

Film details:
Year: 1978
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau
Runtime: 97 minutes 


Where to watch (U.S., this week):
Hoopla and available to rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

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Black cat curse horror collides with carnival horror, fortune teller terror, and a brutal supernatural revenge story in tonight’s nightmare from Weekly Spooky. When a reckless young woman ignores a warning at a county fair, she triggers a chain of bad luck deaths, fiery disaster, and a curse that turns every crossed path into a death sentence.

What starts as a wild night of lust and attitude spirals into a vicious tale of killer bad luck, occult punishment, and a woman trapped inside a living nightmare she can never escape. With a black cat omen, a furious gypsy curse, exploding homes, gruesome accidents, and a final twist that turns death itself into something worse, this is the kind of dark, fast, nasty scary story that sinks its claws in and doesn’t let go.

If you love horror stories, cursed object tales, urban legend vibes, creepy carnival stories, and savage supernatural punishment, this one is for you. Turn down the lights and watch your step… because once the curse begins, nobody who crosses her path is safe.

Black Kat — by Rob Fields

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This Week in Horror History (Mar 23–29) is your weekly horror release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for nights when you want your horror mean, chaotic, and just a little contaminated.

This week we’ve got desert-mutant survival horror, a killer video game movie with pure mid-2000s cursed-object energy, a found-footage livestream nightmare that spirals beautifully out of control, and one extremely angry flock proving that pastoral scenery is no protection from body-count madness.

Inside this episode
✅ Horror releases from Mar 23–29
Mar 23, 2007 — The Hills Have Eyes 2
A brutal remake-era sequel that swaps the family-road-trip setup for National Guard trainees, abandoned bunkers, and irradiated desert terror. Mean, grimy, and built to make survival feel filthy.
Where to watch: Rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
Mar 24, 2006 — Stay Alive
One of the most aggressively 2000s horror premises ever made: what if the video game kills you for real? Glossy PG-13 studio horror with haunted-game rules, gamer paranoia, and cursed-tech charm.
Where to watch: Free with a library card on Hoopla; rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.
Mar 28, 2018 — Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
A South Korean found-footage jolt that turns a livestream ghost hunt into a panic attack. Smart about performance, smart about fear, and one of the best “camera keeps rolling while everything goes wrong” horror movies of the last decade.
Where to watch: Prime Video; free with ads on Tubi, Xumo Play, The Roku Channel, and Plex.
Mar 29, 2007 — Black Sheep
A gloriously ridiculous horror-comedy creature feature where genetic engineering goes wrong and the countryside itself becomes the problem. Carnivorous sheep, splatter laughs, and full commitment to the bit.
Where to watch: Free with ads on Tubi TV and Plex; rent or buy on Amazon Video and Apple TV.

🎬 Deep-Cut Spotlight
Mar 23, 1990 — Def by Temptation
A slick, smoky, neon-lit cult favorite that drops supernatural horror into late-night New York and makes every bar, sidewalk, and bad decision feel dangerous. Seductive, funny, eerie, and way too cool to stay overlooked.
Where to watch: Prime Video, Shudder, AMC+ channels, and Troma NOW; free with ads on Tubi and Pluto TV.

🎂 Horror birthdays
Mar 24, 1930 — Steve McQueen
Mar 24, 1977 — Jessica Chastain
Mar 25, 1942 — Richard O’Brien
Mar 26, 1931 — Leonard Nimoy

⭐ Weekly Recommendation
Mar 24, 2017 — Life
A tight studio sci-fi horror movie built on the eternal bad idea of smart people assuming protocols will save them. Space-lab panic, escalating dread, and one rapidly evolving organism that does not care about anybody’s plan.Where to watch: Rent or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

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The Deer Woman is one of the most haunting figures in Indigenous folklore and modern paranormal legend—a beautiful woman with deer hooves who appears at the edge of the woods, the roadside, the party, or the dark place where safety ends. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we explore the chilling shape of the Deer Woman story, the many ways it appears across traditions and retellings, and the reason this legend still hits so hard today: because in many versions, she is not random evil. She is warning, justice, and consequence. 
We follow the core pattern of the legend—the alluring woman, the reveal of the hooves, the predator becoming the prey—and examine how Deer Woman stories survive in modern encounter lore, including roadside sightings, party retellings, and the Haskell-associated versions that spread as powerful warnings inside communities. This episode also takes the careful route, separating traditional story, modern folklore, and pop-culture adaptation, while asking why so many Deer Woman stories cluster around themes of stalking, harassment, predation, and violence against women.

Inside this episode:

• What the Deer Woman is across folklore and modern retellings
• Why there is no one single “official” version
• The hooves reveal and why it makes this legend unforgettable
• Roadside, party, and encounter-story variants
• The Haskell folklore cluster and why Deer Woman persists as a warning
• The connection between the legend and predatory male behavior
• Why Deer Woman still resonates now as both horror figure and moral consequence

If you love true paranormal folklore, Native American legends, cryptid-style mystery, dark mythic horror, urban legends explained, and stories where the supernatural may be hiding a deeper social truth, this episode is for you. The Deer Woman is scary on the surface—but the deeper terror is what she says about the world that keeps needing her story. We’re telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast leaks once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying four old-time radio horror stories in its teeth and insisting they are perfectly harmless. Tonight’s signal wanders through reincarnation and resentment, jungle danger and false names, poison and polite suburban dread, and finally a grim little reckoning delivered by The Whistler himself.

If you came seeking classic OTR horror, vintage radio suspense, gothic mystery, and those deliciously strange old broadcasts that sound as though they were never meant for civilized company, then do sit down. Just don’t sit with your back to the door. The lineup for this episode is The Return of the Moresbys, John Jock Todd, The Burning Court, and Retribution.       

🐈 The Return of the Moresbys
A husband sneers at the unseen, laughs at spiritual notions, and finds murder much easier to imagine than remorse. But some wives are difficult to escape, especially when devotion curdles into haunting and the grave proves distressingly porous. This Radio Mystery Theater tale was written by Henry Slessor.
🗡️ John Jock Todd
Then off we go into dust, danger, and the kind of frontier where a man’s name is rarely the most suspicious thing about him. Old grudges, savage reckonings, and jungle survival all come striding in together, looking for blood and perhaps a little justice, though the two are so often confused. The episode credits this as John Jock Todd by Robert Simpson, adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield. 
🥃 The Burning Court
Now a glass of sherry, a handsome room, and all the proper comforts of domestic life — which is usually when murder feels most at home. From John Dixon Carr’s famous novel comes a tale of poison, suspicion, and secrets moving quietly through well-appointed rooms with very bad intentions. 
⚖️ Retribution
And last comes The Whistler, who never sounds quite as though he is judging you and never quite as though he isn’t. A lonely courthouse, a storm-black road, and a story promised as “the strange story of retribution” make for an ending full of guilt, fate, and the sort of payment that always arrives overdue but never forgotten.   

So there you are: four doorways, four warnings, four invitations dressed up as entertainment. You may call it classic radio horror, vintage suspense, supernatural mystery, or old-time gothic drama. I call it a rather lovely way to spend an evening with the lights too low and the conscience unguarded.

Some doors open onto memory, some onto guilt, and some onto the sort of justice that has all the time in the world.   

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The Ides of March isn’t just betrayal—it’s the moment the universe decides you’ve had it too easy. In this compilation of scary horror stories, we go from demonic possession and hellish bargains to occult curses, bloody pentagrams, and a revenge trail that crawls straight out of the old world and into something far worse.

In this episode (in order):

• “Academia Demonia” — by David O’Hanlon  A school day goes wrong in the most unholy way—shadows lengthen, bodies move wrong, and something ancient comes calling with a deal that wants blood.
• “A New Beginning” — by Rob Fields  A stranger arrives with heat in her veins and Hell in her lineage—protection comes with power, temptation, and the kind of justice that smiles while it burns.
• “Breaking The Seal” — by Douglas Waltz  A night of partying turns into the grossest curse imaginable, where panic, humiliation, and dark magic collide—and the punchline might be fatal.
• “Satan’s Shotgun” — by Dan Wilder  A revenge saga in the wilds—bones, bandages, monsters, and a yearly return from the dirt… all leading to a final reckoning that doesn’t play fair.

If you love demon horror, occult stories, witch curses, and darkly funny horror with a mean streak—this Ides of March installment is for you. Light a candle… or don’t. Something might take it as an invitation.

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Step into the strange and biting world of Edgar Allan Poe’s Lionizing, a sharp gothic satire that blends dark humor, social commentary, and Poe’s signature fascination with vanity, status, and human absurdity. In this unforgettable classic, a man’s rise to fame is built on something as ridiculous as it is disturbing — and the higher he climbs into fashionable society, the more twisted the praise, obsession, and cruelty become.

If you love Edgar Allan Poe stories, classic horror, gothic fiction, macabre satire, and eerie tales that expose the ugliness hiding beneath beauty and popularity, this episode delivers a weird, witty, and wonderfully unsettling listen. Lionizing is a perfect example of Poe’s ability to mix the bizarre with the brilliant, turning a strange premise into a chilling reflection on ego, reputation, and the madness of public adoration.

Lionizing — by Edgar Allan Poe

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A scary phone number horror story, technology thriller, and psychological nightmare collide in tonight’s chilling episode. In Boredom can be Deadly, a bored man sitting in a bathroom stall makes one tiny mistake: he calls a strange number scribbled on the wall. What answers isn’t a prank, a wrong number, or a joke — it’s the beginning of a deadly game involving mind-reading phones, secret surveillance, manipulation, murder, and a terrifying conspiracy hiding in plain sight.

What starts as curiosity turns into a spiral of paranoia, greed, violence, and dread as one ordinary man is pulled into a trap far bigger than he understands. If you love creepy phone calls, urban legend horror, tech horror stories, twist ending horror, and dark tales where a simple bad decision destroys everything, this one is going to get under your skin.

This episode is perfect for fans of scary stories, horror fiction, suspense thrillers, weird conspiracy horror, and unsettling stories about the danger lurking behind everyday technology. One number. One call. One moment of boredom. That’s all it takes.

Boredom Can Be Deadly — by Michael Kelso

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This Week in Horror History (Mar 16–22) is your weekly horror release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for nights when you want your horror full of bad omens, fast panic, doubles in the driveway, and death working from a checklist. This week we’ve got franchise-launching paranoia, turbo-charged zombie apocalypse energy, polished Biblical doom, modern prestige nightmare fuel, and a deep-cut supernatural oddity where a black hearse keeps gliding back into frame like something unfinished is still following you.   


Inside this episode
✅ Horror releases from Mar 16–22
Mar 17, 2000 — Final DestinationThe movie that made everyday accidents feel rigged by fate: planes, power lines, bathroom cords, kitchen knives, and the awful sense that death noticed you got away with something.
Where to watch: Max or YouTube TV; rent or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Plex, and Spectrum On Demand. 
Mar 19, 2004 — Dawn of the DeadZack Snyder’s breakneck zombie remake turns the mall into a brightly lit coffin: panic in suburbia, brutal momentum, and fast zombies that still know how to ruin a room.
Where to watch: Netflix; rent or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango At Home. 
Mar 20, 1981 — The Final ConflictSam Neill steps in as adult Damien Thorn and somehow makes the Antichrist look corporate, ambitious, and perfectly comfortable bringing end-times menace into the boardroom.
Where to watch: rent or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango At Home. 
Mar 22, 2019 — UsJordan Peele’s nightmare of doubles, class terror, mirrors, scissors, and subterranean dread—one of those modern horror hits that felt like an event the second it arrived.
Where to watch: Hulu; rent or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango At Home. 

🎬 Deep-Cut Spotlight
Mar 21, 1980 — The HearseA weird little regional supernatural chiller with cults, suspicion, personal trauma, and a black hearse that keeps showing up like an accusation. Exactly the kind of strange side-road title this show exists to celebrate.Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Plex Player, or Fawesome; rent or buy on Amazon. 

🎂 Horror birthdays
Mar 16, 1975 — Sienna Guillory
Mar 18, 1950 — Brad Dourif
Mar 20, 1962 — Stephen Sommers
Mar 22, 1991 — Dominique Fishback 

⭐ Weekly Recommendation
Mar 21, 2008 — Shutter
A ghostly remake with cursed-image energy, a dislocated Tokyo setting, and a nasty little payoff that still works if you want something slick, eerie, and easy to throw on after the main lineup.Where to watch: Hulu or Disney+; rent or buy on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango At Home. 

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