THE SUBSTANCE (2024)

DAY 21 Fearing social irrelevance, an aging superstar misuses a secretive youth generating serum causing her body to deteriorate into something unrecognizable. As I waited outside the theater for a friend in the restroom, I watched as fellow moviegoers exited THE SUBSTANCE (2024) with huge grins, chatting excitedly having witnessed one of the sickest, sloppiest […]

SESSION 9 (2001)

DAY 20 A team of asbestos removers hired for a rush job at an abandoned mental asylum discover the secrets of a past patient, unlocking the buried trauma of one of the crew. Around sixty years ago, deinstitutionalization led to the closure of psychiatric hospitals across the country, leaving only the shells of deserted estates […]

BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1965)

DAY 19 A masked figure brutally murders the models of an Italian fashion house in search of a scandalous diary filled with intimate secrets. It’s fashion week, divas! Don your Louboutins and tighten your Versace stab vests because we’re headed to Rome for a terrifying technicolor turning point in Italian horror. Filmmakers in early 60s […]

HOUSE (1985)

DAY 18 Popular horror novelist Roger Cobb inherits his dead Aunt’s home where he intends to finish his new book, but the ghoulish monsters that reside there stir up paranormal trouble forcing him to reconcile with his own demons. As a person who was raised at a Hollywood Video store, the cover art for HOUSE […]

ABSENTIA (2011)

DAY 17 After seven years, a grieving woman is prepared to declare her missing husband as legally ‘dead in absentia’, but is shocked to find him reappear from a nearby tunnel. Horror it-boy Mike Flanagan is a household name whether you realize it or not. For the past several years he’s dominated our Netflix banners […]