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This week, we invite you to stay with us for winter break in a traditional location of terror and fear - boarding school!

Sarah takes us through 2015's The Blackcoat's Daughter, and early entry in the works of Osgood Perkins. In it, two girls left behind over winter break at a boarding school find themselves haunted by a devilish presence. Meanwhile, a hitchhiking young woman is picked up by a married couple on the road, but one of them might be harboring a deadly secret.

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Happy Thanksgiving, Fearless Fans! The main course this year is a cheap slasher with at least three different names and just as many versions. We present 1987's Blood Rage (aka Nightmare at Shadow Woods, aka Complex, aka Slasher)!!

Pete takes us through this wild tale of an evil twin brother that frames his sibling for murder, then years later goes on an insane murder spree when his brother escapes to confront him on Thanksgiving night. All the while their troubled mother slides further and further into madness.

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Judd Nelson is back and he is still a monster in this week's entry, a Lifetime movie called The Girl in the Basement!

Sarah takes us through this domestic horror film that is sickeningly based on true events. A family man holds his daughter captive in his secret basement dungeon for many years and father's multiple children with her. This entire movie is basically a two hour trigger warning.

Join us as we discuss too many horrible things that we don't even want to joke about. And as always...

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It's the final week in October and we ran out of Jaws sequels. So you get the next best thing - the greatest Jaws ripoff of all time, Orca!!

This week's movie follows a Richard Harris as a horrible ship captain that murders an Orca, which then spurs its grieving mate to declare war on him and the entire fishing community where he resides. That's not hyperbole, the sea animal goes full John Rambo and uses guerilla tactics to methodically destroy the property and economy of an entire community (yes it...

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Long before Halloween made it the hottest trend and Scream was spoofing the idea, Jaws was the master of the requel.

This week, Pete takes us through Jaws: The Revenge, a film that completely ignores the events of the third entry and bills itself as the "actual" end of the trilogy.

Lorrain Gary returns from retirement to portray Ellen Brody, widow and grieving mother after the death of her youngest son. Her oldest, Michael, takes her away to the Bahamas where he works as a marine biologist and lives...

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Sooner or later, every 80's franchise fell victim to the most dangerous beast - 3D gimmicks!

This week, Pete takes us through the latest Jaws sequel, Jaws 3-D. This entry finds Michael Brody, all grown up and played by Dennis Quaid, working as an engineer at Seaworld. As soon as the park opens a new underwater attraction, a big-ass shark shows up and begins eating the guests! What follows is a mess of blood, terror, and cheap 3-D bits that really don't hold up.

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Just when you thought October was safe again... it's another franchise!!

This year, Pete is hunting for the sequels to one of the greatest movies of all time, Jaws! Somehow, this cinema classic got not only one, but three sequels. And one of them is even a requel, starting well before Halloween made that its defining feature.

Jaws 2, from 1978, is a mix of the classic Jaws formula and the then-budding slasher genre. This one features a ton of teenagers stranded in a remote location getting picked off one by...

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What happens when you decide to make a movie about breaking all the rules of a a supernatural horror movie? You get The Possession Experiment!

This week, Sarah walks us through a 2016 film where a guy decides to prove the existence of the afterlife by ALLOWING himself to be possessed, and filming the whole thing. Things go horribly wrong, as everyone expected.

Join us as we discuss possession makeup, wasting big name actors on one scene, and the dangers of having sex with demons.

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The Warren's are back, and badder than ever!

This week, Sarah walks us through part 3 of the Conjuring saga. We see the Warren's helping the defense of a young man accused of murder, who just may have been possessed by an evil force at the time (spoiler for the real life events: that evil force was alcohol). They race against time to uncover the mysterious entity that is causing chaos across New England!

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When the students of an athletic academy begin disappearing in bloody ways, their Olympic dreams will become... an Olympic Nightmare!!

...wait a second, the name of this movie is Fatal Games. Or is it The Killing Touch?

No matter which of its many titles you pick, Pete's choice this week is a bad 80's slasher movie that suffers from being overly tropey, horribly offensive on multiple fronts, and just a general sense of poor filmmaking.

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Ed and Lorraine are back, and this time they are taking Great Britain by storm!

This week, Sarah takes us through The Conjuring 2, based on the real life Enfield Haunting. A British family is tormented by an evil spirit that is forcing the children to see and do horrible things. Ed and Lorraine show up to help prove that evil spirits real, and to uncover the demonic mastermind behind the happenings.

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What happens when road rage goes too far? You get the debut of one of the greatest directors of all time!

This week, Pete walks us through Steven Spielberg's first feature length film, Duel. A simple businessman finds himself pursued by a a psycho behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler across the lone highways of the California deserts. Can he survive this mad man? Or will he be crushed under tons of murderous steel?

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This week, we are talking about a spinoff from a franchise that was so spun, it doesn't even count anymore! It's The Curse of La Llorona!

Sarah breaks down this Conjuring branch that the producers claim was snapped off the tree, despite the direct connections. When the angry spirit of a woman comes looking for her children, Linda Cardellini's are offered up instead, and she must do everything she can to save them.

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Happy Fourth of July, Fearless Fans!! It's time for another holiday slasher!!

This week, Pete breaks down Uncle Sam, a cheap slasher about an undead soldier that punishes the unpatriotic... but also just any random person that's around. It's poorly made, often boring, and completely nonsensical. We're sure you'll love it!

Join us as we discuss peeping toms, corrupt politicians, and a town where chaos reigns and there is no sense of danger.

And as always: don't get too scared!

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The doll is back (again) in what may be the worst titled entry in the franchise - Annabelle Comes Home!

Sarah breaks down the third and (hopefully) final Annabelle film, which tells the story of a night of babysitting gone wrong. The Warren's daughter's babysitter accidentally lets loose the killer doll from the MUSEUM OF CURSED OBJECTS. Predictably, things go very wrong.

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This week, to celebrate the month of his birth, Pete picked another movie from his childhood that he definitely should not have been watching so young - John Carpenter's Vampires!

This late 90's western tells the story of a church-backed group of cowboys who hunt vampires across the United States. James Woods and one of the lesser Baldwin brothers must stop the bad guy from Karate Kid 3 before he unlocks a dark magic that will allow vampires to walk around in the day time. Badass action and gay panic humor ensues!<...

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Annabelle is back, and this time, she doesn't need any fancy subtitles! This week, Sarah breaks down the one that started us on this crazy doll train, the original Annabelle!

This entry finds the titular terror invading the home of a happy couple and their newborn babe. She gets up to her old antics and tries to steal and soul she can get her tiny wooden hands on.

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What was the best werewolf movie of 1981? Well, it was American Werewolf in London, which we already talked about. So this week, we're talking about the second best werewolf movie of 1981 - The Howling!

Pete talks us through this crazy film, which doesn't even feature any werewolf stuff until the half way point. So much is going on in this flick: a traumatized reporter, serial killers, occult book stores, health resorts, nymphomania, conspiracies, vegans, adultery, and more!

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Killer dolls aren't born... they're made! Wait a second, that's obvious, not scary...

This week, Sarah continues the long chronological trek across the Conjuring franchise and brings us Annabelle Creation! Witness the terrifying origin of the spooky doll that really should have just been a Raggedy Ann.

The film follows a group of young girl orphans being taken into a the home of an older couple who suffered a horrible tragedy in their past (get your Trope Checklists ready for this one). Strange things begin to occur, and the...

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We've seen what the common man has done to survive the zombie apocalypse. But what was the government and the military doing while the world went to hell? If you guessed wasting resources and turning on each other, you would be correct!

This week, Pete talks us through the thrilling third part of George A. Romero's original zombie trilogy, Day of the Dead! It follows a group of soldiers and scientists living in an underground bunker, desperately searching for either a cure, or a solution, to the zombie outbreak. After having...

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Another example of the most tense genre of horror - socially awkward horror! And just in time for April Fool's Day!!

This week, Sarah walks us through "I'm Just F*cking With You", which is part of Hulu's Into the Dark film series. A man traveling to a family wedding stops at a small motel for the night, and encounters that kind of jerk who keeps teasing and making jokes, but waves away his a-hole behavior with a "take it easy" mentality. Things take a dark turn when the man's joke...

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It's that time of year again. Time to celebrate St. Patrick's day with the best/worst tradition ever: a Leprechaun movie!!

Last year, Leprechaun went to the hood, and the studio liked it so much, they went back a second time! This week, Pete is discussing Leprechaun Back 2 The Hood, the follow-up that lacks any of the charm, humor, or self-awareness of its predecessor. This entry was so bad it put the franchise into hibernation for over a decade and had to be followed by a complete reboot.

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Found Footage. Ancient Pyramids. Bad CGI. It's time for 2014's The Pyramid!

Sarah breaks down this 2014 film about a group of archaeologists who enter a newly discovered pyramid and find something waiting for them within. Follow along as they get picked off one by one, all while absolutely mangling Egyptian mythology.

Join us as we discuss breaking the rules of found footage, why Sphinx cats are awesome, and how not to save someone from a spike trap.

And as always, don't get too scared!

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A movie so 2000's it has the year in the title!

This week Pete breaks down the rare 2000's horror movie that he actually enjoys - Dracula 2000! The master vampire (Gerard Butler) is resurrected in modern times, and it will take all of the shaky cuts and nu-metal we have to stop him. Featuring a packed cast of B-level celebrities and one pop singer.

Join us as we discuss what authors started which vampire tropes, who is the sexiest Dracula of all time, and why you should never shoot...

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What do you get when Stephen King leans all the way into his weird sex stuff? You get Gerald's Game!!!

This week, Sarah discusses the 2017 adaptation about a woman who finds herself in mortal danger when her husband handcuffs her to a bed in a remote cabin and then promptly has a heart attack and dies. The woman is left alone, starving and dehydrating while trying to maintain her sanity long enough to find a way out.

Trigger warnings up and down the board on this one!

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Happy Anniversary, Fearless Fans!!!

The podcast has officially hit its 200th episode! What an exciting milestone to have achieved.

To celebrate, we are skipping a movie review this week. Instead, we are digging deep into our hosts and figuring out what makes them tick. They'll be answering a lot of "schoolyard questions" about their favorite topic.

Join us as Pete and Sarah discuss their origins with horror, what they find most scary (and not scary at all), how they would handle a zombie apocalypse, whether killer dolls...

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Happy New Year, Fearless Fans!!!

We ring in the new year by watching a cheap, British 80's flick that starts out strange and just gets weirder and weirder as it goes - Bloody New Year!

Pete breaks down the story of a group of young people of indeterminate age who end up on an island that is even crazier than the one on Lost. They face off against jump-scaring ghosts and indoor weather events. By the end, there is only the weakest of connections to the New Year theme.<...

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Hey Fearless Fans!! We've pulled another present from our goodie bag, because its the happiest time of the year! Merry Christmas!!!

This week, Pete walks us through the 1980 film, Christmas Evil! The movie follows a deranged man named Harry Stadling, who takes it upon himself to act as his town's personal Santa Claus. This includes keeping a list of which kids are naughty or nice, and who deserves presents this holiday season, and who deserves to decapitations! Basically, its like a bloody Christmas version of Adam Sandler's Hubie Halloween.

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This week on Fearless Films, we are tackling the film that some say heralded the return to form of M. Night Shyamalan - 2015's The Visit!

Sarah takes us through the story of two teenage kids who go for a week long visit to meet their estranged grandparents for the first time, but find that nothing is as it seems. Told in a found footage style, the audience is put in the point of view of the terrified and confused children.

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They say time flies when you're having fun, and they are right! It has already been one year since Sarah took over co-hosting duties on the Fearless Films podcast, and she's got a special treat for all of us.

This week, Sarah breaks down the made-for-tv sequel to her made-for-tv debut film, Return to Cabin by the Lake! Judd Nelson returns as the writer/serial killer, and this time, he goes Hollywood! When a studio begins making a movie about the previous murderous events, Stanley decides to Clark-Kent his way on...

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Good news, scaredy cats! Today our friend Christian is here to present a less scary film than usual.

This week, we are talking about 2009's Coraline, which falls under the category of "made for kids, but probably traumatized them a little bit". The film follows the story of a young girl who moves into a new house with her parents, and discovers its dark secrets. A portal into a mirror world promises everything the girl could ever want, but her alternate family may have more sinister desires.

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We finally made it to the end... for now!

This week, Pete closes off our October Franchise Breakdown with The Exorcist: Believer, a requel from David Gordon Green that features not one, but two possessed little girls! Can he perform the same magic he pulled with his Halloween requel? Unfortunately, yes!

Join us as we discuss the holy Avengers lineup, common tourist mistakes, and the growing typecast of Ann Dowd. Featuring a special bonus discussion of stunt cameos, and the truckloads of money required to pull them off.
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We've talked prequels, we've talked sequels, but now we're talking one of the rarest of concepts: Requel in tv show format!

This week Sarah is breaking down season 1 of The Exorcist: The Series, which acts as a continuation of the universe of the original film, and ignores anything that came before! A normal family becomes plagued by possession, and it's up to two priests to save the day. One is a rogue gay priest who carries a gun, and the other is a conflicted priest who lusts after a married woman...

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What do you do when you dump millions of dollars into a movie you don't believe in, and it fails to get you a profit? Why, you dump even more millions into it and release it again, of course!

This week, Pete walks us through the production nightmare that is The Exorcist: The Beginning, also known as Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcism.

Both versions tell the story of a younger Father Merrin, traumatized survivor of WW2, and wandering archaeologist. He winds up in Africa, digging up a buried church...

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It's beginning to look a lot like Halloween... the franchise, not the holiday. But also the holiday... oh, never mind!

This week on Fearless Films, Pete is breaking down The Exorcist 3 (sometimes known as Legion).

It's looking like Halloween because this sequel is a direct continuation of the original film and does not acknowledge the second movie at all. So, it's gonna be one of these franchises!!

This movie follows a grizzled old detective who is investigating the copy-cat murders of a notorious serial killer. But nothing...

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Happy October, Fearless Fans!! It's time for another franchise breakdown, and this year the winner is... The Exorcist!!!

Strap in for two sequels, one prequel that was done twice, a tv series, and a requel.

Starting off with the Heretic, we join a now teenage Regan and another priest struggling with his faith as they face off against Pazuzu, and his army of evil locusts. Our heroes are joined by Nurse Ratched and her magical two-person hypnotism machine, and a surprise appearance by Mufasa.

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Turn on the disco ball, spike the punch, and get those heads rolling because it's Prom Night!

This week, Pete walks us through this 1980 slasher that stars Jamie Lee Curtis, still burning hot off of her Halloween breakout!

A group of high school friends are being stalked and picked off one by one, and who knows if anyone will survive until the end of the night!! Hint: Jamie survives. She usually does.

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Hey Fearless Fans! It's time to take a vacation to a tropical island to enjoy some sun, some fun, and some cursed spirits!

This week, Sarah takes us on a trip to The Resort! A group of friends go on a journey to an abandoned island resort to research its supposed haunted nature. Sure enough, it is haunted, and the friends start dropping like flies.

Join us as we discuss good and bad study habits, poor screenwriting choices, and what even is the deal with the ghost in this...

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What do you get when you mix horny teenagers, a blood-thirsty killer, and white-boy rap all in one movie? You get Cheerleader Camp!

This week, Pete talks us through an 80's sexploitation slasher flick about... well a group of teenagers getting slaughtered at a cheerleader camp. It's really not that deep.

Join us as we discuss peeping toms, corrupt cops, and very bad editing choices.

And as always: don't get too scared!

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You can run, you can hide, but you can't escape a POORLY TITLED SEQUEL!!!

That's right, Sarah is back to talk us through the sequel to the WWE produced slasher flick, See No Evil, appropriately titled... See No Evil 2. Lame.

Kane is back and bloodier than ever. When Jacob Goodnight's body is brought to the local morgue immediately after the events of the first film, he rises once again (with no explanation) to slaughter a bunch of hapless victims.

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No vacation is safe, especially when you take one to - The Ruins!

Pete breaks down this 2000's horror film about a group of college kids on vacation in Mexico who stumble upon an old temple that is overgrown with flesh-eating vines. They are trapped on top and are brutally taken out one by one as their endurance, and sanity, is put to the test.

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What happens when you combine a professional wrestler with a horror movie full of religious overtones? You get this weeks movie: See No Evil.

Sarah talks us through one of her guilty pleasures as she describes this WWE produced film that stars Kane as a mute serial killer who targets a group of work-release prisoners assigned to clean up an old abandoned building. He takes them out one by one with his meat-hook and his bare hands.

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Happy Fourth of July, Fearless Fans!

This week, Pete treats us to a straight to video threequel in a classic slasher series - I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer!

This forgotten follow-up tells the tale of a group of teens who are completely unrelated to the original cast. They are literally haunted by the ghosts of the past, and stalked by a murderous fisherman in their... landlocked, Colorado town.

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What happens when a cursed game pulls you into its world, and losing equals deadly consequences? Well, it's not Jumanji!

This week we are talking about the Netflix original, Choose or Die!

Sarah talks us through this film about a cursed video game that makes the player choose horrible consequences for an unlucky victim, for their own gain.

We discuss the importance of a good tagline, how to game any evil system, and what counts as fair in an evil video game.

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Once in a generation, a person is born who will fight the forces of darkness... and make it funny!

Join us as we discuss the original movie that spawned one of the most classic 90's TV series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer!

This horror comedy introduces you to our favorite 90210 monster slayer. Pete breaks down the story of a carefree California teen and her quest to destroy all vampires.

We talk about the insane amount of cameos in this movie, the equally abundant plot conveniences, and just how...

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A young boy who lives in a bubble, allergic to the outside world. A mysterious clinic offering a miracle cure. A ghostly presence that appears to be either a warning or a threat. We're talking about 2019's, Eli!

Sarah breaks down this Netflix original that throws a curve ball with its plot halfway through.

We discuss the woes of the American healthcare system, why you always vet a new doctor, and why you never stay more than one night in any haunted location.

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Hello, Fearless Fans! Its time for yet another adaptation of a classic piece of English literature. This week we break down the 1994 version of Frankenstein!

This film was helmed by and stars Kenneth Branagh, who does his darndest to turn the famous scientist into a shirtless leading man type. Luckily, he is balanced by an inspired casting of Robert De Niro as the Monster, who displays a vulnerability he rarely exposes in his other roles.

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Stranger danger, when a stranger calls, and people are strange, all in one movie!

This week Sarah answers the call with, The Black Phone. This 2021 film is based on a story from Joe Hill, and follows a young boy who is kidnapped by a deranged Ethan Hawke, but finds support and advice from the ghostly callers on the Black Phone.

Join us as we discuss the smartly written characters, the awesome visual effects, and how we could rework the plot slightly to make this a sleeper prequel to a...

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What happens when musical dreams become discordant nightmares? You must be watching, The Perfection!

Join us as Sarah breaks down this Netflix original about two cello prodigies who become involved with a prestigious musical academy that harbors dark secrets. The pursuit of perfection often leads to insanity and dark endings.

We discuss the joys of revenge against the powerful and corrupt, why you should always know where your medication comes from, and why this film reminds us of the surreal Italian horror flicks of the 60's and 70's.
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What's better than watching cheesy, holiday-themed horror movies?
Watching the remakes!!

This year for the holiday, we are watching the remake of April Fool's Day!

Join us as we watch a bunch of spoiled, rich, 20-somethings get picked off one by one in a plot that only vaguely has anything to do with April Fool's. Unlike the original, which we covered last year, this remake takes itself way too seriously, and misses the mark on being a cheesy, fun film.

Pete and Sarah will discuss the...

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Lep' in the hood, here to do no good!!

It's that time of year again! Happy Saint Patrick's Day, Fearless Fans!! Our annual celebration of the Leprechaun franchise brings us back to Earth for the latest entry - Leprechaun in the Hood!

Our favorite mischievous monster finds himself in the world of hip-hop. Caught between a greedy record producer, and a trio of up and coming rap artists, everyone wants a piece of the Leprechaun's pot of gold. The question is, will anyone survive long enough to come out...

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The demon Valak is back, and there is only one person you can call: The Nun...2!

In a follow up to the Conjuring Universe prequel/spinoff, we once again find Sister Irene being called upon to fight the forces of evil. This time, she is sent to a boarding school in France to help her old friend, Frenchie, fight off Valak as it torments a bunch of school-children.

Join us as Sarah and Pete discuss if this is a worthy follow-up, if some pranks can go too far, and...

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It's not The Blob, it's not THEM, it's not even The Tingler! This week, we are talking about the 80's, food based, satirical horror film, The Stuff!!

When a white, yogurt-like substance begins to bubble out of the ground, one American corporation does the only thing it knows how to do: it packages it up and sells it to every grocery store across the country!

Pete, Sarah, and their special guest, Joe, discuss this strange movie about addictive ice cream that possesses whoever eats it, and creates a dangerous...

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Happy Valentine's Day, Fearless Fans!

This week, we are celebrating the holiday with the best example of eternal love in horror cinema: Dracula! This 1994 version from Francis Ford Coppola is operatic, dramatic, and downright sexy! This Dracula is just looking for his lost love, and will kill anyone who gets in his way.

Join us as we discuss such topics as:
-Sexy Gary Oldman.
-The best ways to kill a vampire.
-Keanu Reeves finding his British accent.
-The beauty of practical effects.
-And much...

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We're back, and we're sharkier than ever!

Sarah returns to tell us about the follow up to her last movie, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged. This sequel finds a group of young women breaking the rules to explore an underground sea cave, who then find themselves face to face with near-blind subterranean monsters. The result is lots of interpersonal drama and dire consequences.

If you think that sounds a lot like the plot of The Descent, we thought so too! Having nothing to do with the first 47 Meters Down (other than...

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Strap in Fearless Fans, because we've got a doozy of a stinker this week. Pete breaks down the 2003 film, Darkness Falls, and tries to retain his sanity for the duration.

Plagued by production troubles that would make Waterworld look like a fun day at an amusement park, Darkness Falls is a heavily re-written, re-edited, and re-named mess of a film that barely counts as a coherent narrative.

It follows a young man returning to his hometown to face the monster that haunts it. Rules are made and broken, character...

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Two friends + vacation in Mexico + lots of liquor = SHARK ATTACK!!

Welcome to the New Year, Fearless Fans! We are kicking things off with a good old fashioned shark attack movie! This week, Sarah presents to us the 2017 film, 47 Meters Down!

This undersea thriller stars Mandy Moore and Claire Holt as two sisters on holiday, trying to absorb some sun and some positive energy. When they spontaneously sign up for a shark diving expedition, things immediately go wrong when the line snaps and their protective cage plummets to the ocean...

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Merry Christmas, everyone!!

It's that time of year again, and Pete has a very special present for everyone: the lesser known 1980 slasher classic, To All a Good Night.

This film carries the prestigious title of being the first slasher movie released in theaters in the 1980's! It is also a clear knock-off of the also Christmas themed Black Christmas.

Join us as we discuss obnoxious coeds, killers with too much time on their hands, and pervy police officers.

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No, not that Frozen. Get all your jokes out now, because this movie doesn't feature any lovable snowmen or reindeer.

This week we are talking about the 2010 survival horror film, Frozen! It tells the tale of three college friends on an annual ski trip who find themselves trapped on the ski lift overnight when the lodge closes down without them. Facing the dangers of hypothermia, frostbite, hunger, and deadly wolves, the three must figure out how to escape with their lives. No one will return for an entire week, leaving the...

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It's part 2 of our Special Guest Month, and this week we are joined by our very own Social Media Manager!!! (also named Sarah, so it gets confusing).

This week's movie was more specifically chosen to confuse and horrify Pete. It's a film that both the Sarah's had watched together previously, during the COVID lockdowns (via a synchronized streaming session). It is The Girl on the Third Floor! And they both hated it!

It tells the story of a terrible man, making a last ditch attempt to repair his marriage...

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It's special guest season on Fearless Films, and this week we are kicking it off when Pete's wife, Cheryl, talks to us about one of her favorite horror films of all time: The Woman in Black!

It tells the tale of a turn of the century English solicitor, still suffering the grief of losing his wife to a tragic accident, having to leave his very young son to take a job in the countryside. He is settling the paperwork of an old estate, an isolated house on a patch of land...

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We finally made it to the end! Welcome to the final episode (for now) on the Saw franchise. This week we cover the two "spinoff" films:

Jigsaw - A new game has begun, and forensic evidence somehow points to the long dead John Kramer. Has he truly risen from the grave? Or has someone new taken on the mantle of the Jigsaw killer? Seeing as how the rest of the series plays it pretty grounded, you can probably figure it out.

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The fun never stops, especially in October! This week, the penultimate episode in our Saw franchise breakdown!

First up is part 6: The trap involves an insurance man having to "balance the equation" on multiple lives, and hoping to survive his final test. Meanwhile, secret apprentice Hoffman is desperately trying to stay ahead of the investigators who are trying to uncover his identity. He goes on a rampage to keep his spot as the gamemaster, but outside forces are working against him.

Then, its part 7: The original "Final Chapter" in...

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The saga continues...

This week, the breakdown covers the fourth and fifth entries in the Saw series. John Kramer and Amanda are dead, but the Jigsaw killings continue. Who is carrying the torch on the Jigsaw legacy? And are they a true believer, or a serial killer using the traps as a cover?

More characters are introduced, more mysteries are uncovered, and more creative killings are implemented. Join us as we explore the past and future of the Saw lore, and remember: don't get too scared...

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This week, we continue our breakdown of the Saw franchise with Saw 3!

It's another series of crazy traps, another lesson to be learned, and another trapper getting in on the action!

Following up from part 2, the secret apprentice Amanda is now helping Jigsaw teach his latest lesson - and trying to keep him alive. Suffering from his terminal cancer, Amanda has helped kidnap a brain surgeon and forces her to do everything in her power to make sure Jigsaw lives until the end of the game. This includes some...

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The October Franchise Breakdown Special is back!!

This year, Sarah is gonna cover the entire Saw franchise, picking up at part 2 (go back and check out our episode on the original) and taking us all the way to the spinoff film, Spiral: From the Book of Saw.

Saw 2 tells the tale of a renegade detective hunting down Jigsaw and discovering that his son is trapped in a house with a group of strangers who must survive the deadly traps and escape before a nerve gas kills them all.
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What happens when you put a group of bored, white, rich kids in a room together and tell them to play a game? You get the 2005 film, Cry_Wolf.

What starts as a competitive lying game between some private school friends, quickly spirals into a campus-wide attempt to make the student body believe that there is a serial killer on the loose. But what happens when people actually start ending up dead and missing? Has one of these high schoolers taken things too far? Or have they summoned the wrath of...

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This week on Fearless Films, we present a spooky tale of forensic science, 2016's The Autopsy of Jane Doe!

Sarah breaks down this story of a father/son team of coroners who are delivered the body of a young woman who is dead, but has no apparent signs of how she died. As you would expect, unexplainable, haunting-like phenomena begins to occur, and the characters lives are quickly in danger.

Highlights include Pete's reaction to the characters decision to never leave, his fear over the fate of the pet...

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This week on Fearless Films, in celebration of the start of the school year, we are talking about the late 90's teen horror flick, Disturbing Behavior.

Pete breaks down this story of a boy and his family moving to a small island town in Washington state. He quickly discovers that something isn't quite right with the popular kids at the high school. He goes on to uncover a conspiracy to "make the kids better" through nefarious means. Only him and his misfit friends can save the town (or burn it all...

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This week on Fearless Films, we take a road trip through Australia and end up in the most dangerous place in the Outback: Wolf Creek!

This stranger-danger horror film from 2005 features a group of backpackers falling prey to a serial killer outdoorsman who just wants to have a good time.

Pete lays out the plot for this movie he has just watched for the first time. To his surprise, it is an early 2000's torture porn film that he actually enjoyed!

Sarah is shocked by this revelation...

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This week we are going over the 2005 film, The Exorcism of Emily Rose!

Sarah breaks down this horror/courtroom drama, which portrays a lawyer taking on a negligent homicide case after a young woman dies following an attempted exorcism. The performing priest is on trial, and its up to the lawyer to help him avoid a lengthy jail sentence. But he insists on pleading not guilty, creating a battle to prove whether or not Emily Rose was truly possessed or not.

Pete marvels at the creepy possession scenes, and...

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This week on Fearless Films, we inoculate ourselves on Eli Roth's debut film, Cabin Fever!

When a group of college friends rent a cabin in the woods for a vacation retreat, they encounter a deadly flesh eating, blood puking disease that literally tears them apart. Join us as we talk about one of the most WTF horror movies of the 2000's.

Spin-kicking karate kids, dangerous hillbillies, Sean Hunter from Boy Meets World, and Pancakes await you in this messed up tale of paranoia and necrotized flesh.

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What happens when you take a director known only for dramadies and have them helm a found-footage horror flick? You get The Bay!

The Bay is a mockumentary from Barry Levinson (Diner, Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man) and follows the story of a small coastal town that is devastated by a plague of parasitic isopods that have mutated due to illegal dumping in the waters. The crux of the plot follows an intrepid journalist trying to crack open the US government's attempts to cover up the incident.

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This is Pete's birthday week, so he's come prepared with one of his favorite horror movies: Tales from the Crypt presents: Demon Knight.

Watch William Sadler on a mission from God to keep safe a magical artifact from the clutches of the delightfully evil Billy Zane. This story is the big screen debut of the hit show, Tales from the Crypt, which ran for seven seasons throughout the 1990's.

The Crypt-Keeper of the title is an undead puppet that tells horror stories to the audience. The stories are often...

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A young priest and an old priest travel to a European church to talk to some nuns. It's not quite The Exorcist, but its got its moments. This week's movie is 2018's The Nun, a spinoff in The Conjuring universe.

Sarah breaks down this tale of a Vatican investigation of the death of a young nun in a remote Romanian church. A demonic force plays with reality and tries to kill our holy heroes, all while trying to escape its imprisonment.

Pete notices a lot of similarities to Tales...

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This week, we are talking about the 1981 film, Hell Night!

The Linda Blair-starring teen horror flick is about a group of fraternity/sorority pledges who have to spend the night in a spooky mansion. What starts off as harmless pranks quickly turns into a night of real horror and deranged monsters.

Well, that's probably what the marketing said about it anyway. As Pete explains, its kind of a cheap, schlocky mess that doesn't make a lot of sense and is very much of its time.

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This week, we take you back to the things that haunted you as a child: shadows that look a bit too much like people, bumps under the bed, and closets that act as portals through space and time!

No, it's not a sci-fi film. Its 2005's Boogeyman! This Sam Raimi produced film stars the oldest son from 7th Heaven as a man who has been terrorized since childhood by an evil entity that lurks in the shadows. He must return home to face his fears and stop this monster from claiming...

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We had such a fun time talking about cave diving and flesh eating monsters, we decided to do it again!!

Join us again as Sarah breaks down The Descent 2, which sees our only surviving character from the first movie being forced by authorities to return to the cave system to find the people they believe she murdered.

Pete is incredulous, but he comes along for the ride if only to see more monster mayhem. Strap in and take the plunge back into darkness with us, and remember, don't get...

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A group of women go cave diving and find something waiting for them in the dark...

Join us as Sarah breaks down Hollywood's best reason to never explore nature ever put to film. This movie is scary enough with the monsters, but damn does the claustrophobia do the heavy lifting.

Pete wants none of the crawling through 18 inch wide tunnels, and would rather fast forward to people getting their throats ripped out by the Gollum-on-steroids monsters.

Strap in as we venture into the depths of the Earth...

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April Fools!
In celebration of the most annoying of holidays, you all get a movie about a prank gone horribly wrong, The Burning!
Join us as Pete tells the story of a group of camp kids (clearly played by adults) who prank a guy by setting him on fire! And of course, he survives and seeks his revenge on... an entirely different camp full of people who did nothing to him.

This early 80's Halloween rip off was conceived before Friday the 13th, but released afterwards. It certainly plays...

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It's finally time we talked about the most famous horror movie of all time:

The Exorcist!

Join us as Sarah breaks down this holy horror about a young girl possessed by a demon and the two priests who attempt to save her eternal soul.
We learn a bit about the supposedly cursed production, and Pete shares some info about the hit-and-miss sequels and prequels that came after this classic piece of cinema.

Don't let the devil sneak into your body at night, and more importantly: don't...

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It is only a matter of time before all franchises end up in outer space, but some get there sooner than others.

On this St. Patrick's Day celebration, we continue our tradition and Pete subjects Sarah to the horror of Leprechaun 4: In Space! The little magical menace has found himself in the far future and across the galaxy, trying to steal gold from mining operations and marry alien royalty to make himself a king.

Never before has the low budget of this franchise been more obvious. Between horrible late 90...

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Critics will call it a crime-drama, but we know the truth: Seven is straight up horror!

Join us as Sarah discusses one of the darkest serial killer stories in cinema. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt must stop a madman with a love of Bible stories. Kevin Spacey stretches his acting ability by being a complete piece of shit. And Pete tries to keep his lunch down as Sarah describes all of the gross, gory horror of Seven!

And as always Fearless Fans, don't get too scared!

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Happy Valentine's Day!

This year's entry is a little known film about a woman being hunted by the most inept serial killer of all time throughout a hospital that is madder than a hatter. That film also has about four different titles, depending on where you see it. We settled on Hospital Massacre, but it is also commonly titled X-Ray in a lot of regions.

This movie features pervy doctors, rude contractors, three old crones from a Shakespeare play, mystery plots that the script forgets to wrap up, the...

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What happens when you mix a stranger-danger PSA with a Sam Raimi-esque aesthetic?
You get Barbarian!

Join Sarah and Pete (and a special guest) as they talk about the 2022 film they saw together at the theater, which left them repeating "WTF" all the way home.

Get ready for brutal murders, creeping paranoia, things going bump in the night, and Justin Long singing showtunes!

And as always, don't get too scared...

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What happens when you combine Wes Craven, social commentary, dark comedy, and gimp suits?
You get The People Under the Stairs!

Join us this week as Pete describes to Sarah the strange tale of a young boy who finds himself trapped in a house of horrors, in his journey to free his community from a couple of greedy capitalist incest psychos, all while trying to avoid being eaten by the feral cannibals locked in the basement.

Craven goes all in on social examination of class warfare and racism...

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What's the worst part about the holidays? Endless car trips, packed in with the family, singing annoying songs, and being haunted by highway ghosts of course.

This week Sarah presents another lesser-known movie to drive Pete insane: Dead End! This film from 2003 is a French made, English language tale about a family driving through an endless backroad during Christmas-time and encountering strange happenings along the way.

Part early 2000's trash, part Twilight Zone weirdness, 100 percent guaranteed to drive Pete insane! Join us for the ride, and remember, don't get...

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Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year!
Seasons G...Garbage Day!?

This holiday season, Pete and Sarah discuss the movie that started the meme heard round the world: Silent Night, Deadly Night 2!

What started as a money making scheme to just re-edit footage from the first movie into a "sequel" became something so much more. Well, it was definitely that first thing, but it also spawned a cinematic moment most people know from an out-of-context clip that took the internet by storm.

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It had to happen sooner or later... Ventriloquist Dummies!!!

That's right, its the 2007 film "Dead Silence", which just so happens to be one of Sarah's favorites. And one of Pete's least favorite. A Wan/Whanell classic about a ghost woman seeking revenge via her treasured dummies and a curse that punishes you for screaming.

Tune in as they discuss dummies, Donnies, and proper theater etiquette. Can Pete endure this 2000's flick without screaming for mercy? Listen to find out, and as always... don't get too scared!

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This week, Pete and Sarah learn how to Smile!!

The latest in the popular sub-genre of curses that follow people around and drive them crazy until they kill them, Smile is a creepy horror flick that will keep you tense the entire time.

Join us as we discuss its themes of psychological horror, paranoia, and deep-seated trauma. And as always, don't get too scared!

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Welcome to a brand new era of Fearless Films!
Kevin has retired from the podcast, but fear not, there is a new host to rise up in his place! Sarah is a fellow horror head who will be taking turns with Pete to talk about films both good and bad.
The people may change, but the format stays the same. We talk about scary films so the scaredy cats don't have to watch them.

This week, Sarah will be treating Pete to a made-for-TV movie about a serial killer...

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Kevin here - When I started doing this podcast with Pete 3 years ago, I had thought that I would be talking with my friend about the intricate, diabolical and twisted imagining of horror story crafters. Learning riveting and terrifying secrets about the stories told throughout the years that I was always too scared to learn about. After listening to over 150 different horror movies explained to me I've come to see the truth: MOST  of these damn movies are low effort, money grubbing crapfests meant to trick money from 17 year old boys who want t...

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What happens when a movie studio decides to adapt a popular zombie horror video game into a movie? Nothing good!

Join the guys as they break down 2002's Resident Evil. It's a fast-paced, action packed, thrill ride with plenty of guns and revealing female nudity.... so, nothing at all like the game its based on.

This is what happens when you don't let George Romero make your zombie movie!

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Zombie Boom Boom Shoot em up!

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VROOM VROOM TRUCKS EXPLODE

Steve King himself scared the hell outta people with this movie... but probably not like he intended to. 

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Corn comes in all varieties:
Pop corn.
Corn on the cob.
Canned corn.
Sacrificial corn.

What happens when a town’s children decide to rise up and destroy all the adults? Things go surprisingly well for them, despite having no commerce, infrastructure, or any clear goals.

As long as the dark God of the fields keeps giving them corn, these children are gonna keep on… children-ing…

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The tales of Stephen King continue with the most famous of killer dogs, Cujo!

Kevin can't believe that such a good boy of a St. Bernard could ever be so bad.
Pete wonders if its not too late to learn how to fix his own car.

Join us for another terrifying King tale, and remember, don't get too scared...

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What happens when a bunch of Mainers get trapped in a super market and creepy tentacle monsters are lurking outside?

Kevin has a bad time!

Join us as Pete pulls Kevin kicking and screaming through another Stephen King tale about monsters eating humans, humans turning on other humans, and Thomas Jane having another bad day in a King story.

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Kevin's notes just say LIES LIES LIES in all caps...

Pete's notes, on the other hand, say we have a very special treat this week.

In the late 80's, the producers of the Friday the 13th films decided they wanted more, so they made a TV series based around their slasher property.

Except it wasn't a slasher, it was a "mystery of the week" horror show.
And Jason wasn't in it.
And it didn't take place at Crystal Lake.
And it was about two...

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The Babysitter is back.... kind of.

Samara Weaving returns as the deadly babysitter Bee, but only for about 8 minutes, because she got super famous between movies.

The rest of the first movie's cast returns as well, mostly to fill the gap from the stars' absence. Will the young boy Cole be able to fight off the forces of evil again??

Yes. He will.