168 | His House

168 | His House

The Bloodlust

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Directed by Remi Weekes

Written by Remi Weekes, based on a story by Felicity Evans and Toby Venables

Stars Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba (also Javier Botet)

Released 10/30/2020

Rated TV-14

Runtime: 1hr 33mins

RT: 100% critics, 76% audience

Synopsis: Bol & Rial are two refugees from war-torn Sudan, who are trying to start new lives in England. However, it isn’t long before they realize that the horrors and traumas they’ve experienced may have followed them to their new home.

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Join us next time when we’ll be coving La Llorona, currently available on Shudder.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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164 | The Dark and the Wicked

164 | The Dark and the Wicked

The Bloodlust

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Written & Directed by Bryan Bertino

Stars Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr., Julie Oliver-Touchstone

Released 11/6/2020

Unrated

Runtime: 1hr 35mins

RT: 90% critics, 63% audience

Synopsis: Siblings Louise and Michael return to the family farm after years of estrangement to help their beleaguered mother care for their dying father. Once there they find that there’s a lot more wrong than just their father’s illness.

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Next up will be our first review of the new year - we’ll be covering Scare Me, which is currently streaming on Shudder.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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163 | The Deeper You Dig

163 | The Deeper You Dig

The Bloodlust

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Written & Directed by John Adams & Toby Poser

Stars John Adams, Toby Poser & Zelda Adams

Released online June 5 of this year

Unrated

Runtime: 1hr 35mins

RT: 94% critics, 64% audience (avg. of 30 critic reviews & audience)

Synopsis: Ivy is a psychic who used to be legit but now scams old ladies out of their money. She and her daughter Echo live in an isolated area in rural New York. They’re content with their lonely existence until Echo goes missing. Ivy turns to the paranormal abilities she rejected to find her daughter, and signs seem to be pointing her to a new neighbor; one who is acting very suspicious...

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Our next movie is kind of a wild card. I don’t know a thing about it except that I think the name is stupid. People seem to be liking it tho, and my cohosts were intrigued that it was described as ‘disturbing,’ so here we are. Join us next time to discuss The Dark and the Wicked, which is available to rent now. Here’s a trailer for ya, see what you think. I’m going in blind, myself. Might as well take advantage of not knowing a thing.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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162 | Bad Hair

162 | Bad Hair

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Written & Directed by Justin Simien

Stars Elle Lorraine, Vanessa Williams, Lena Waithe & Kelly Rowland

Premiered at Sundance January 23, 2020

Released October 23, 2020 on Hulu

Unrated

Runtime: 1hr 42mins

RT: 64% critics, 41% audience

Synopsis: Anna is a young woman with a low-tier job at a struggling music TV station called Culture. She desperately wants a show of her own but is hampered by sexism and by her lack of style. When the station management is revamped in an attempt to increase viewership, a glamorous woman named Zora becomes Anna’s new boss. Anna manages to impress her with her ideas, but Zora makes it clear that she’ll go nowhere until she looks the part. Willing to do anything to succeed, Anna agrees to see the stylist Zora recommends for a fabulous weave. Little does she know that, while the weave giveth plenty, it also taketh away.

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Next up, a supernatural horror movie made by a mom, dad and their teenage daughter. The family wrote, directed, starred, pretty much everything’d in the low budget The Deeper You Dig. Check it out on Shudder so you’ll be up to speed when we discuss in in two weeks.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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103 | I Remember You

103 | I Remember You

The Bloodlust

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Director: Oskar Thor Axelsson

Writers: Oskar Thor Axelsson, Otto Geir Borg, [novel by] Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Synopsis: A psychiatrist mourning the mysterious disappearance of his son is caught up in another mystery, when he is called in to assist a detective in the investigation of a suicide. An old woman has hung herself, but her body showed clear signs of abuse, which didn’t seem to come from her husband. Together they uncover her connection to another missing boy, one who disappeared decades ago, & whose apparition has begun to appear to the psychiatrist. Could these events somehow be connected to his own missing son?

Another plot line follows an uneasy trio who travel to the same area in Iceland to renovate an old cabin. The husband & wife have recently patched things up after a separation following the loss of their child. They are accompanied by a female friend, & there are clear unspoken conflicts at the heart of each person’s relationship with the other, though the nature of those conflicts aren’t revealed right away. Amidst the renovation montages & tense interactions with her husband & friend, the wife also begins to have visions of the mysterious boy.

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Next movie will be the aptly-named rape revenge thriller, Revenge.

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