Did ye follow bread crumbs to our door? Come in and have some cake with Horror Movie Weekly, One Badass Horror Podcast, where your three late-night Horror hosts, Jay of the Dead, BillChete, and Lady Phantom, review Gretel and Hansel (2020) for Episode 024. Also in this episode, your hosts discuss another remake of “The Thing,” as well as an impromptu battle about the upside-down camera angle in “Midsommar.” Join us!
On Horror Movie Weekly, your late-night Horror hosts Jay of the Dead, BillChete and Lady Phantom bring you one recent Horror movie review every Sunday. (We’re defining “recent” as any Horror movie released within the last five years.) And we always reveal next week’s pick at the end of every show, so you can watch along with us and be prepared for the following episode. Join us, and thanks for listening!
SHOW NOTES:
Introduction
— Super Bowl LIV
— Remaking “The Thing” from novel “Frozen Hell”
— Theaters turning up the volume for Horror movies
– Jay of the Dead’s pick for this week: Gretel and Hansel (2020)
Gretel and Hansel (2020) — Genre Classification: Drama / Fantasy Horror
Premise:
Gretel and her little brother, Hansel, become hungry and homeless when their destitute and mentally unstable mother casts them out. So, as the children wander in search of work and food, they come upon an A-frame house in the middle of the woods whose hostess seems to be hospitable — or maybe, perhaps — harmful…
Ratings and Recommendations: Gretel and Hansel (2020)
Jay of the Dead = 4.5 ( Avoid for Horror fans / Low-priority Rent for Art Film Cinephiles )
BillChete = 0.5 ( Avoid )
Lady Phantom = 1 ( Avoid )
— Listener comments from Sean Smith and Sam from Snomonton
Next on Episode 025: Pledge (2019) — BillChete’s pick!
Podcast artwork: Lady Phantom
Original podcast theme music: Jay of the Dead
Links for this episode:
Jay recommends Considering the Cinema Podcast, Episode 019, where he discusses The Turning, Countdown and Movie Shaming
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