138 | Doctor Sleep

Directed by Mike Flanagan

Adapted by Mike Flanagan, Story by Stephen King

Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson and Kylie Curran

Rated: R; Runtime: 2hr 32min

Released November 8, 2019; Available in theaters

Synopsis: Grown up Danny Torrence, now just Dan, has become a drifter struggling with the same issues of alcoholism & foul temper as his father. After hitting rock bottom he stumbles into a nice little town in New Hampshire & ends up staying there for the next eight years. From time to time he has received psychic messages from a little girl with a very strong “shine.” When the girl becomes the target of a group of traveling vampires who feed off psychic ability she reaches out to her pen pal for help. Thus Dan finds himself again facing down a supernatural foe.

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We’ve only mentioned our next movie about a thousand times and now we’re finally going to review it. Will it continue to live up to all the hype we’ve given it over the years? Methinks it will. So queue up "Looking for the Magic” on your music playlist and join us next time when we’ll be reviewing You’re Next!

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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134 | It Chapter 2

Director: Andy Muschietti

Writers: Gary Dauberman (screenplay), Stephen King (novel)

Stars: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, James Ransone, Bill Skarsgard

Rated: R; Runtime: 2hr 49min

Released September 9, 2019; Available in theaters

Synopsis: The gang is called back to Derry 27 years after they fought Pennywise by Mike, who never left town. He calls each in turn - Bill, Beverly, Eddie, Stan, Ben & Richie, & lets them know that the murders have begun again. Each member of the Loser’s Club makes their way back to town, remembering all the horrible things they had repressed in order to become functioning adults. Once reunited, Mike splits them all up again by sending them on a quest for meaningful artifacts from their pasts which they will use in a final showdown with Pennywise.

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Next up, we’ll be checking out the Shudder original, Tigers Are Not Afraid. You’ll need a Shudder account, your friend’s Shudder login info, or to sign up for their free trial, in order to check out the movie, but if you’re able to check it out, join us next time to hear what we thought of it.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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123 | Pet Sematary

Directors: Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer

Writers: Matt Greenberg & Jeff Buhler

Synopsis:The Creed family moves to the town of Ludlow Maine so that father Louis can take a cushy job as a doctor at the nearby university & spend more time with his wife & two children. Behind their new house is a place where the local children bury their dead pets. And beyond that is another burial ground, this one an ancient & sinister place where the dead don’t stay buried…

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It’s been a while since we’ve watched & reviewed an anthology but next we’ll be reviewing The Field Guide to Evil. With segments directed by Can Evrenol (Baskin), Severin Flala & Veronika Franz (Goodnight Mommy), and Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure), we should be in for a treat.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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122 | Us

Director/Writer: Jordan Peele

Synopsis: The Wilson family travels to their vacation home in Santa Cruz for a relaxing getaway, but a trip to the boardwalk brings back painful memories for matriarch Adelaide, who encountered her own doppelganger in the funhouse there when she was a child. Adelaide has been harboring a secret fear that her double is searching for her, & when a group of four strangely familiar people show up in their driveway one evening, she fears that she’s finally been found.

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We poopoo remakes but we’re a pretty interested in this one. Next episode, we’ll be reviewing and discussing the remake of Pet Sematary.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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84 | Gerald's Game

Director: Mike Flanagan

Writers: Mike Flanagan & Jeff Howard (based on novel by Stephen King)

Synopsis: Jessie Burlingame & her husband Gerald travel to their secluded lake house for a romantic getaway to rekindle the spark in their stale relationship. Gerald has brought some handcuffs along to spice things up, but when he suffers a heart attack & collapses after locking Jessie up, she is forced to endure a hallucinatory nightmare.

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Next up, we’ll finally be reviewing Better Watch Out. So you’d better watch out...for our next episode. 

81 | IT

Director: Andy Muschietti

Writer(s): Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, Gary Dauberman

Synopsis: When kids start going missing in the town of Derry, a group of kids band together and discover that a sinister clown named Pennywise may be behind all of it.

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Next up, we'll be seeing a movie that will, with any luck, be very upsetting and make us feel a bit funky all day. That's right, we're seeing Darren Aronofsky's newest movie, Mother!. Go see it, throw on some Danzing, and join us in two weeks for our review!