“It’s the most wonderful time of the year/ with the kids trick or treating/ and everyone saying you’re entitled to a scare/ it’s the most wonderful time of the year.” Granted, Halloween is a state-of-mind all year round for most horror hounds, but even the die-hards and devotees will contend that October is busy season. […]
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The Walking Dead brand has been going strong for well over a decade. Since its Halloween debut in 2010, the franchise has expanded its proverbial walls with half a dozen spinoffs: Fear the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Tales of the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Dead City, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, […]
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Sorry New Orleans, but Chicago may be America’s most haunted city. There’s the Congress Hotel, Jane Addams Hull House, the Water Tower, H.H. Holmes Murder Castle, basically the entire Lincoln Park neighborhood, the list could go on forever. (Seriously, if spooky is what you seek, head to the Second City.) This October, however, there’s a […]
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The Halloweenies are back in Haddonfield to kick off a new October tradition! After carving out the franchise for a whole year in 2018, then proceeding to slice through the Hallogreen trilogy in 2021 and 2022, they’re finally turning to the stacks. Specifically, the novelizations. So, each spooky season, they’ll dust off those vintage novelizations […]
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Because it’s spooky season, The Losers’ Club are dusting off an old Crate episode on 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, a film that even Stephen King asked to turn off for being “too freaky.” Where do you stand? Where do the Losers stand? Hopefully, not in the corner. Join Losers Michael Roffman, Jenn Adams, Randall […]
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Also: Writer-Director Lindsey Beer discusses the making of the prequel.
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Haunted house movies have been a cinema staple for well over a century. Lorimer Johnston, Buster Keaton, D. W. Griffith, and Elliott Nugent all knocked on the creaky doors of the subgenre well before film married even sound. It’s a familiar trope, one that has permeated our culture for a very long time. Naturally, as […]
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Spooky season is not complete without a haunted house and its share of lonesome ghosts. Well, our Chicagoland readers are in luck because Bloody Disgusting and Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast invite you to see one of the greatest haunted house movies of all time on the big screen: Peter Medak’s 1980 classic The Changeling […]
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With summer behind us, it’s time to embrace the Fall season ahead. Pumpkins, black cats, and deadly rats. Be sure to keep an eye on your watch as the sun hits that horizon much, much earlier this time of the year. Before you know it: Full Dark, No Stars. Alas, The Losers’ Club has reached […]
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Four years after Curse of Chucky reunited horror hounds with their favorite Good Guy, writer-director Don Mancini continued to pile on the decades-long story with its seventh entry, Cult of Chucky. Like Curse, the straight-to-VOD sequel revolves around one location — in this case, a mental hospital — and follows the exploits of Nica Pierce […]
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To celebrate 40 years of Lewis Teague’s Cujo, the Losers count down and match up to identify — and crown — the best critter in all of King’s Dominion. Watch out! The critters take control in this episode and duke it out with each other until only one remains. But never fear! No animals were […]
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This month, the Halloweenies are covering Cult of Chucky, the last feature of the Don Mancini run before heading into two (and soon-to-be three) seasons of Chucky. It’s also the 50th anniversary of The Wicker Man. So, yeah, cults are on the mind, and cults are what we’re talking about on our first list episode […]
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By closing the book on 2009’s Under the Dome, The Losers’ Club have finally reached the end of Stephen King‘s prolific run in the ’00s. That means it’s time to hand out some awards. Constant Listeners, you are cordially invited to another round of The Kingies – a night where the Losers celebrate the best […]
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Rise and shine, listeners. You’re probably wondering where you are. I’ll tell you where you might be. You might be listening to the last podcast you ever hear. Up until now you simply sat in the shadows watching others live out their lives. But what do voyeurs see when they look into the mirror? Now, […]
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Ten years ago, CBS hit it big with its series adaptation of Stephen King‘s Under the Dome. The show arrived on June 24, 2013, shattering records to become the most watched summer drama premiere on any television network since 1992. It was a genuine summer event, and then, well, three years later it was all […]
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