Random Number Generator Horror Podcast No. 9
This podcast aims to make horror films more approachable by using a random number generator to select and discuss movies. Hosted by Jeffrey Cranor and Cecil Baldwin, the creators of Welcome to Night Vale, each episode brings a unique and unpredictable take on horror cinema.
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345 - C.H.U.D. (1984)
This is why the 6 train is so slow
Approachability: 7/10 (More Sci-Fi Noir than gory monster horror)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Jump scares; Animal death;
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Announcing: This Will Ruin The Tour from the team behind Welcome to Night Vale
From the writers and team behind Welcome to Night Vale, comes a new audio drama.
Kiara Sloan has been one of the world's biggest pop stars since before she could legally drive, but now she is in her forties, and embarking on a big comeback tour after an embarrassing public incident almost ended her career.
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344 - The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
Mama told me not to come.
Approachability: 3/10 (Scary Demonic Presence Meets Family Drama)
Content Warnings: Suicide; Blood/gore; Creepy figures; Animal & child death; Jump scares
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343 - Deathdream (1974)
Hey soldier, where you heading?
Approachability: 7/10 (Pulpy Vietnam-era zombie drama w more suspense than scares)
Content Warnings: Blood/Violence; Drug abuse; Animal Harm/Death; Suspense/Jump scares; Suicide.
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342 - Red Dragon (2002)
An adaptation is like a lover…
Approachability: 6/10 (Peak 00s thriller complete with fan service and stunt casting)
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Blood/Gore; Child Abuse; Sexual assault; Suicide
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341 - The Lure (2015) w/Amanda & Julia of Spirits
It's your standard horror movie musical from Poland
Special Guests: Amanda McLoughlin & Julia Schifini of the podcast Spirits
Approachability: 7/10 (Gritty, musical adaptation of HC Andersen's The Little Mermaid)
Content Warnings: Sex trafficking; Blood/gore; Body horror
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340 - The Visit (2015)
Can you fit in this oven?
Approachability: 7/10 (Super fun and scary, but not overwhelmingly so)
Content Warnings: Jump scares/Creepy visuals; Child harm/endangerment
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339 - District 9 (2009)
17 years later, the allegory still applies
Approachability: 7/10 (Horror-adjacent sci-fi action allegory)
Content Warnings: Body Horror; Bloody Violence; Vomit; Racist Caricatures
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338 - Dawn of the Dead (2004)
We're gonna need a montage
Approachability: 4/10 (Action-packed, bloody, zombie blockbuster)
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Blood/gore
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337 - Nightbreed (1990)
Aaron F*cking Boone
Approachability: 6/10 (Not super-scary, but a practical-FX wonderland )
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Body Horror; Blood/violence; Strobe effects
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336 - The Company of Wolves (1984)
Grandma, what big hair you have!
Approachability: 8/10 (Beautiful VFX in a coming-of-age allegory)
Content Warnings: Body horror; Creepy animals
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335 - mother! (2017)
God is a pretentious poet
Approachability: 6/10 (Surreal and stressful domestic horror/religious allegory)
Content Warnings: Blood/violence; Misogyny/Imprisonment; Infant death
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334 - Final Destination 2 (2003)
Practice taking a breath.
Approachability: 2/10 (Creative and elaborate ways to die)
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Blood/gore
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333 - The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
The Great British Snake-Off
Approachability: 6/10 (Surreal and campy folk horror w/some fucked up imagery)
Content Warnings: Sexual assault; Blood/gore; Jump scares; Snakes
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332 - The Others (2001)
And God said: "I'm going out for cigarettes"
Approachability: 9/10 (Classy, bloodless, but intense ghost story)
Content Warnings: Ghosty-ness; Jump scares
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331 - Dolls (1986)
Parents just don't understand
Approachability: 6/10 (Killer doll fairy tale)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Creepy doll faces
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330 - Cat People (1942)
The Central Park Zoo is hiring security guards
Approachability: 9/10 (Tense but very approachable classic thriller)
Content Warnings: Animal Death; Sexual Harassment/Manipulation; Jump scare
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329 - Infinity Pool (2023)
The people you meet on vacation (are the worst people you know)
Approachability: 4/10 (Visually twisted thriller about The Worst People)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Jump scares
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328 - Hannibal (2013)
The classiest episode of Chopped yet.
Approachability: 5/10 (Stylish but gory cannibal story)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Cannibalism
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327 - The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Is there a queer read on this film? Let's get into it.
Approachability: 10/10 (Not a horror, but it sure freaked out a lot of kids)
Content Warnings: Flying monkeys
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326 - "1408" (2007)
Hope you're earning points for this stay
Approachability: 7/10 (PG-13 haunted house)
Content Warnings: Photos of blood and gore; Jump scares; Child death; Heights; Roaches
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325 - Martyrs (2008)
No one is truly prepared for this
Approachability: 1/10 (Not at all for the squeamish)
Content Warnings: Strobe effect; Extreme Blood/gore; Torture; Suicide; Child abuse/torture (non-CSA); Jump scares; Home invasion; Creepy demon thing
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324 - Blood and Black Lace (1964) w/Brie Williams
Cocaine, fashion, and murder
Special Guest Brie Williams
Approachability: 5/10 (Fashion-forward but still violent)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Jump scares
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323 - Shaun of the Dead (2007)
What are we going to do tonight? Same thing we do every night.
Approachability: 6/10 (Wholesome comedy about a zombie apocalypse)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore
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322 - Devil (2010)
The Devil went down to Philly…
Approachability: 6/10 (Thriller that's heavier on tension than blood)
Content Warnings: Suicide; Heights; Jump scares; Child death; Blood
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321 - The Mist (2007)
Cleanup requested on aisle 2
Approachability: 4/10 (Monster-packed splatter fest)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Jump scares; Giant spiders/bugs; Suicide
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320 - The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Ask your doctor if Zombinol is right for you.
Approachability: 4/10 (Gory & nightmarish & very very 80s)
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Blood/gore; Gloopy gloppy zombie stuff; Torture; Spider; Snake
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319 - Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
It's Temu Grease 2
Approachability: 10/10 (Wholesome, jukebox musical)
Content Warnings: no content warnings
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318 - Poison for the Fairies (1986)
The Bad Seed learns magick
Approachability: 8/10 (Bratty kid horror)
Content Warnings: Blood/murder; Child death; Jump scares; Gaslighting/Manipulation
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317 - November (2017)
Go make a ladder out of bread
Approachability: 9/10 (Art house folk horror slash black comedy)
Content Warnings: Sexual Assault
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316 - Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980) w/Symphony Sanders
Kung Fu Master vs Zombie Vampire Mummy
Special Guest: Symphony Sanders
Approachability: 8/10 (More kung fu action comedy than horror)
Content Warnings: Actual animal death (chicken); Blood/gore; Jump scares
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315 - Evil Dead II (1987) w/Andrew Scahill
Groovy.
Special Guest: Andrew Scahill
Approachability: 4/10 (Schlocky, funny, and brilliant splatter fest)
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Blood/gore
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314 - The Oldest View (2023) & other shorts w/Sarah Maria Griffin
Everytime We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole F*cking Face Explodes (2024) / All My Friends (2025) / Forklift Driver Klaus (2000) / Box Fort (2020) / The Oldest View Part 3 (2023)
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Special Guest: Sarah Maria Griffin
Approachability: Varies: a couple silly/bloody and a couple creepy/suspenseful
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Creepy faces/images; Jump scares; Strobe effects
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313 - The Lords of Salem (2013)
Hold my cigarette.
The most cursed song: Pluffnub's version of The Spice Girls' "Wannabe"
Approachability: 6/10 (Gory but arty movie that’s more vibes than scares.)
Content Warnings: Noisy Jump scares; Sexual assault; Blood/gore; Witch burnings
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312 - Happy Death Day (2017)
Is that chocolate milk, Becky?
Recipe for the unholy Bacon Snack Bars
Approachability: 8/10 (Bloodless horror/whodunit/dark comedy)
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Creepy masked killer
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311 - When Evil Lurks (2023)
Who's a good boy?
Approachability: 1/10 (Super gory, scary, and sad. It goes there and beyond)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Jump scares; Child death; Suicide; Animal death
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310 - La Llorona (2019)
Eventually, the bill comes due
Lena Pott's Magic Mike XXL essay
Approachability: 7/10 (Child murder; Genocide; Anti-indigenous racism)
Content Warnings: Slow burn bottle movie where the ghosts are less scary than the people
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309 - La cabina (1972) & other horror shorts
Suspense (1913) / EYE SCREAM (2023) / The Moths Will Eat Them Up (2025) / Fist of Jesus (2012) / Cargo (2013) / La cabina (1972)
Approachability: varies (Variety of shorts, mostly mild scares with one comedic gore fest)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Stalking; Suicide
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308 - Ghostwatch (1992)
I'm sorry. Did you say "glory hole?"
Approachability: 6/10 (Slow burn haunted house story that has a tense final act)
Content Warnings: Creepy imagery; Jump scares; Child sexual assault; Transphobic plot point
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307 - The Prophecy (1995)
Angels smell like ham.
Approachability: 7/10 (Bloody but not scary; Fits noir-thriller, not religious-horror)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Imagery that hints at suicide and
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306 - The Walking Dead (2010)
What if primetime soap… but with zombies?
Approachability: 5/10 (Smart zombie drama with lots of gore)
Content Warnings: Child death; Blood/gore; White Supremacy; Domestic Violence; Suicide; Jump scares/Tension
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305 - The Swarm (1978)
What are we even doing?
Approachability: 10/10 (Too silly to be scary)
Content Warnings: Bees; child death
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304 - The Wolf Man (1941)
So THIS is how werewolf work
Approachability: 9/10 (Pretty mild horror by today's standards)
Content Warnings: Animal death
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303 - Opera (1987)
That is not at all how anything works.
Approachability: 4/10 (Stylized (i.e. very Italian) and super-violent slasher/thriller)
Content Warnings: Excessive blood/violence; Jump scares; Sexual assault; Animal harm
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302 - Alien (1979)
You always save the cat
Approachability: 6/10 (Scary more than bloody… except that one scene, of course)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Strobe Effects; Jump scares
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301 - Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)
Prepare the gorilla!
Approachability: 4/10 (Grotesque & cynical B-movie w/some unintentional hilarity)
Content Warnings: Violent Sexual Assault; Animal harm/death; Graphic surgery; Blood/gore
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300 - Speak No Evil (2022)
Don't talk to anyone you meet on vacation
Approachability: 4/10 (Tense & disturbing psych horror)
Content Warnings: Child death; Blood/gore
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299 - The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Lucifer is gonna win the Chopin Competition this year
Aretha Franklin singing "Nessun Dorma"
Approachability: 8/10 (Standard 70s-style Satanic ritual fare)
Content Warnings: Suicide; Child death; Sexual Assault; Incest
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298 - Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991)
Sentient puppets kiling Nazis? 5 stars. No notes
Approachability: 7/10 (Goofy killer puppet movie, but the puppets are good)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Nazis; Suicide
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297 - Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Good and normal kids learn about science (and RIP Udo Kier)
References: Patrick Stewart's Quadruple Take masterclass
Approachability: 7/10 (Campy and grotesque art-house horror)
Content Warnings: Sexual assault; Blood/gore; Spider
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296 - Tales from the Hood (1995)
Welcome to hell, motherfuckers
Approachability: 6/10 (The horror elements are simple enough; But the real scares are all too real (and very intense).)
Content Warnings: Strobe effects; Racial violence (incl real photos/footage); Spousal and child abuse; Blood/gore; Jump scares
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295 - Ghoulies (1985)
What - and I mean this respectfully - what is a ghoulie, exactly?
Approachability: 7/10 (Gloopy/gloppy and very schlocky, but mostly silly)
Content Warnings: Blood/Gore; Jump scares; Clowns
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294 - The Amityville Horror (1979)
aka The Amityville Economic Anxiety
Approachability: 8/10 (Made-for-TV-level scares/gore)
Content Warnings: Blood/violence; Jump scares; Closeups of flies
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293 - Jack Stauber's OPAL (2020) & other horror shorts
Floor 9.5 (2018) / Souls of Totality (2019) / My house walk-through (2016) / You Are On The Fastest Available Route (2017) / Don't Feed Them (2023) / Jack Stauber's OPAL (2020)
Playlist of these horror shorts
Approachability: (minimal violence in this collection; mostly disturbing)
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Cult; General creepyness
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292 - Medium (1985)
Kids these days and their psychic shenanigans
Approachability: 9/10 (Twisted psychological thriller/mystery)
Content Warnings: Nazis
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291 - Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Franz Kafka's Starlight Express
Approachability: 4/10 (Horror-wise, if you can handle Eraserhead, you got this.)
Content Warnings: Body horror; Violent sexual assault; Animal death; Shaky camera
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290 - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) w/Symphony Sanders
Horny vampires and nonspecific accents galore
Special Guest: Symphony Sanders
Approachability: 7/10 (Bloody Hollywood epic; Not scary so much as monster-y)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Suicide; Child death; Animal death; Jump scares
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289 - Slumber Party Massacre 2 (1987)
Danny Zuko: Driller Killer
Approachability: 6/10 (Campy, not scary, but still gory)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Jump scares; Sexual assault
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288 - Saint Maud (2020)
I hope you dance.
Approachability: 7/10 (Arthouse psychological thriller with strong horror elements)
Content Warnings: Blood/gore; Rape; Vomit; Religious self-harm; Suicide; Depression
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287 - The Faculty (1998)
Weirdest episode of Friday Night Lights ever
Approachability: 6/10 (More action/comedy violent than horror violent, but it lands some scares)
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Blood/gore; Animal death
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286 - Basket Case 2 (1990)
Murder monsters are woke now
Approachability: 6/10 (Schlocky and gory (on a Garbage Pail Kids level), and surprisingly sweet)
Content Warnings: Strobe effect; Body horror; Medical torture; Blood/gore; Jump scares
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285 - Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
I hope this glowing pyramid finds you well…
Approachability: 4/10 (Surreal and visual feast; Slow-burn horror, but it gets there)
Content Warnings: Medical Imprisonment; Stalking; Needles; Body horror; Disturbing/surreal imagery; Blood/violence
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284 - Curse of the Demon (1957)
Let's summon the demon Labubu
Approachability: 7/10 (Pulpy classic with plenty of noisy jump scares)
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Suicide; Spooky demon
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283 - The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
The gods are such micromanagers
Approachability: 4/10 (Aggressively bloody and scary meta-comedy)
Content Warnings: Extreme violence; Jump scares
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282 - Dr. Caligari (1989)
Chinchilla chinchilla chinchilla
Approachability: 7/10 (Super-stylized art film with lots of gross body things)
Content Warnings: Body Horror; Sexual assault; Medical experimentation; Gore/Ooze
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281 - Fire in the Sky (1993)
Abduct me, alien daddy
Approachability: 9/10 (Domestic drama/thriller with a Movie-of-the-week aura)
Content Warnings: Medical torture; Body horror; Space goo
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280 - Kuroneko (1968)
The classiest of all streaming cat videos.
Approachability: 9/10 (Classy and spooky movie masterpiece)
Content Warnings: Sexual assault; Blood/violence
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279 - Intruder (1989) w/Iris Explosion
Found another use for the meat saw!
Special Guest: Iris Explosion (Iris is live onstage in Coney Island on Aug 15. Tix/info here)
Approachability: 3/10 (Schlocky/Fun 80s slasher with graphic practical effects)
Content Warnings: Sexual assault/harassment; Blood/Gore
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278 - Matango (1963)
Let's take a trip on Mushroom Island
Approachability: 10/10 (Rubber-suit mushroom monsters versus Gilligan’s Island)
Content Warnings: Threat of sexual assault
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277 - The Substance (2024)
It's time to Pump It Up!
Approachability: 4/10 (Over-the-top body horror satire)
Content Warnings: Body horror; Blood/gore; Lots of needles; Depression
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276 - Magic (1978)
Men will literally become ventriloquists instead of going to therapy
Approachability: 8/10 (Tragic drama with solid horror elements (namely that fucking doll))
Content Warnings: domestic abuse; bloody murder; creepy doll
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275 - The Thing from Another World (1951)
When do we get BRIDE of Frankencarrot?
Approachability: 9/10 (Corny, fun, sci-fi classics)
Content Warnings: Animal death; Jump scares; Strobe effects
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274 - History of the Occult (2020) w/Jonny & Aileen of ¡Uy Que Horror!
Imagine, if you will, a government run by evil people
Special Guests: Jonny & Aileen of ¡Uy Que Horror!
Approachability: 8/10 (Neo-noir journalism thriller with witches)
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Creepy imagery/sounds; Flashing lights
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273 - The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017)
Bad Bunny made me do it.
Approachability: 5/10 (Tense & violent with a slow burn)
Content Warnings: bloody/gore; jump scares; vomit
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272 - Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968) & other horror shorts
The Cat With Hands (2001) / Other Side of the Box (2020) / This House Has People in It (2016) / Still Life (2005) / Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)
Approachability: (varies)
Content Warnings: Jump scares; Child death; Creepy faces/figures
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271 - Sinners (2025) w/Symphony Sanders
Who invited Mumford & Son to the party?
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Approachability: 7/10 ( More dark action film than horror )
Content Warnings: Blood/violence; Animal death; Overt racism/epithets
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270 - The Dead Zone (1983)
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Approachability: 8/10 ( More Shawshank Stephen King than IT Stephen King )
Content Warnings: Sexual Assault/Murder; Blood; Suicide; Child endangerment; Mild jump scares
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269 - Wolf Creek (2005)
Let's talk about proper car maintenance
Approachability: 1/10 ( Tense, bloody, and torture-y )
Content Warnings: Torture/Sexual Assault; Mutilation; Blood Gore; Homophobic/Misogynist Slurs
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268 - The Ring (2002)
Throw me down a well, goth mommy!
Approachability: 2/10 ( Pretty disturbing supernatural noir mystery )
Content Warnings: Graphic animal death; Child murder; Jump Scares; Upsetting imagery; Suicide; Child abandonment
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