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152 | The Wretched

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152 | The Wretched
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Written/Directed by Brett Pierce & Drew T. Pierce

Stars John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda & Jamison Jones

Premiered at Fantasia Film Festival July 19, 2019, opened in limited drive-ins and on demand May 1 2020,

Not rated

Runtime: 1hr 35 min

16yr old Ben is spending the summer with his father, his parents having recently divorced. He begins to suspect that something sinister is going on at the house next door, but because he’d gotten in trouble recently his dad doesn’t believe him. Will he be able to get to the bottom of the mystery before it’s too late? 

Next up, the alleged cursed film that’s been sneaking into Amazon Prime viewers’ nightmares, Antrum. Fans of found footage will want to check this one out, as well as lovers of occult horror.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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151 | The Lodge

Horror fans have long understood that horrific things don't only happen in the movies. In fact, 2020 has felt as if it's single-handedly showing us just how horrible the real world can be. While our podcast is a platform for us to discuss the horror genre, we can't ignore the fact that it's this same genre that often provides a catharsis for many of those real-world horrors. 

We at Bloodlust Ventures are troubled by the seemingly endless instances of murder and violence towards POC. We want our black listeners to know that we see you, we hear you, and we will NOT forget about this after the hashtags stop trending.

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151 | The Lodge
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“a constant barrage of bad parenting decisions”
— Jamie

Synopsis: A father insists on taking his two children to spend Christmas at their cabin with his new fiance shortly after the death of their mother, then promptly leaves the three of them there together to get to know each other. Already a profoundly stupid idea, right? But it gets so much worse - turns out dad’s fiance is the lone survivor of a Heaven’s Gate-like cult that committed mass suicide not long ago. Why wouldn’t you want to leave her alone with your kids in a remote cabin?

 

NOTES FROM THE EPISODE:

Okay listeners, which of these two do you think looks more like the cult leader from The Lodge? Let us know in the comments.

Here’s a fun thing I didn’t think of while we were recording - Jamie’s pick for who the cult leader looked like was The Six-Fingered Man (aka Christopher Guest), who played opposite my pick, Chris Sarandon. Ain’t life funny.

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Next up, The Wretched, now available for rent on Amazon as well as showing at select drive-in theaters. This movie is real hot right now and probably owes a lot of that success to the fact that times are crazy and one of the few escapes for folks is to head to the the drive-in.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/