The Losers head to the tropics for Stephen King‘s You Like It Darker. Join Losers Michael Roffman, Jenn Adams, Justin Gerber, and Dan Caffrey as they rank all 12 stories within King’s 2024 collection — from the hard-hitting novella Two Talented Bastids to the harrowing Cujo sequel “Rattlesnakes” to the soul searching sendoff “The Answer […]
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All good things come to an end… To close out the first quarter of this century, the Halloweenies have hit the archives to revisit all the horror movies released between 2000 to 2025. After careful consideration, they’ve made their lists, checked them twice, and given them to Santa Gerber to collate them all into a […]
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In the jungle you must wait…. After kicking off December with an oft-requested but underseen listener pick in the religious chiller The Sentinel (listen) and the found footage superhero thriller Chronicle (listen), we’re heading back to the ’90s for one of Trace’s favorite gateway horror films: Joe Johnston‘s 1995 creature feature Jumanji! In Jumanji, Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and […]
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Anyone familiar with the mysterious death of Kathleen Peterson knows that we may never know what really happened. Her husband, Michael, was ultimately convicted of her murder, though he would be granted a new trial after eight years in prison. This twisting case is chronicled in Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s 2004 docuseries The Staircase, which focuses […]
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“You followed a step-by-step plan that killed nine people. What did you think was going to happen?” Never underestimate a hyperfixation. That obscure historical event or random theory that takes up space in our brains and keeps us from focusing on more important things. But sometimes those hyperfixations spin out of control and put our […]
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The end of 2025 is nigh. To close out the first quarter of this century, the Halloweenies hit the archives and revisit all the horror movies released between 2000 to 2025. After careful consideration, the gang has made their lists, checked them twice, and given them to Santa Gerber to collate them all into a […]
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She went to a party with eight dead murderers… After wrapping up November with a look at one of the most controversial films ever made in Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (listen) and delving back into the world of Stephen King with Misery (listen), we’re kicking off December with an oft-requested pick from our […]
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We’re 25 days away from Christmas. What do you want Santa to bring you? How about a mogwai? Are you responsible enough for that? Well, the Halloweenies think they are, which is why they’re spending the holidays in Kingston Falls. Join Justin Gerber, Dan Caffrey, and Rachel Reeves as they dust off Joe Dante‘s 1984 […]
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On Saturday, June 23, 2018, twelve young members of the “Wild Boars” soccer team and their coach became trapped in the rapidly flooding Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. As part of a global rescue mission, a team of elite cave rescue divers was able to locate the stranded team two and a half miles […]
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It’s two days before we slice the big bird and the Halloweenies are hungry… for blood. To satiate their blood-lusting bellies, they’re popping in a new holiday classic: Eli Roth‘s 2023 slasher Thanksgiving. Together, they discuss how the Grindhouse trailer evolved into a feature film, the whodunnit mystery, the witty script, and why John Carver […]
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Nothing is more contagious than evil… After kicking off November with a look at James Whale’s Frankenstein (listen) and the Kate Hudson-starring The Skeleton Key (listen), we’re finally(?) tackling one of the most controversial films ever made for its 50th anniversary: Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). In Salò, four wealthy, corrupt libertines (a […]
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“Seventeen and you can’t stop me! Seventeen and you won’t boss me! You cannot control me, father! Daddy’s girl’s a fucking monster!” The teenage years are hard. With hormones raging, you’re still very much a child but expected to make important decisions about the rest of your life. It’s even more difficult in a futuristic […]
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After spending the last few weeks on J.A. Bayona’s ghost story The Orphanage (listen), Jack Nicholson’s commanding performance in George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick (listen), and a timely discussion of James Whale’s Frankenstein (listen), we needed some mid-aughts comfort food. Enter Iain Softley’s 2005 film The Skeleton Key, a Southern Gothic tale about Caroline (Kate Hudson), an impressionable […]
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“If you wanna be profound, if you really gotta justify, take a breath and look around, a lot of folks deserve to die!.” What would it take for women to rule the world? Would this unprecedented power come in the form of a female politician? Or perhaps the mysterious disappearance of all the earth’s men? […]
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The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast laces up and jogs through Edgar Wright‘s The Running Man, now playing in theaters everywhere. Topics include: Wright’s signature style and whether we see it in this adaptation, Glen Powell’s star power (and why he has the IT factor), the ballsy new ending, and why this makes a […]
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