Happy Halloween this month! You’re in the right place to hear about Horror movies because it’s always Halloween on this podcast! In fact, here in Episode 187 of Horror Movie Weekly, Jay of the Dead and Mister Watson take a detour into the lonely Belgian countryside for a Feature Review of the deranged and unsettling, French-language rural nightmare, Calvaire (2006) — also known as “The Ordeal” — which was chosen by Mister Watson. This overlooked entry in the New French Extremity movement delivers bleak atmosphere, strange locals, pigs, Christmas lights, and a traveling entertainer who has the very bad luck to break down in precisely the wrong place. Plus, the boys, boys, boys bring you Micro Horror Movie Reviews of Pig Hill (2025) and #Manhole (2025). Along the way, they discuss Watson’s ridiculous new meme-slang vocabulary, podcast “rizz,” the Seattle Seahawks’ Super Bowl victory, the cinematic value of colorful Christmas lights, and why Jay is still delighted by Monkeybone’s karaoke rendition of Jay’s absurd comedy song, “Flyin’ to Flin Flon.” Join us!
Note: This episode was recorded on February 12, 2026.
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This weekly Horror movie podcast brings you one recent Horror movie review every Sunday. (As noted previously, we’re defining “recent” as any Horror movie released within the last five years or the current year; so now that it’s 2026, we’ll be covering Horror films from 2005 to 2015.) 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. Thanks for listening!
SHOW NOTES
– Introduction
- Welcome to Horror Movie Weekly, Episode 187
- Happy Halloween from Jay of the Dead and Mister Watson at Horror Movie Weekly!
- To celebrate Halloween this month, Jay is committing to releasing Horror Movie Weekly every Sunday in October—with the hope of building momentum for continued weekly releases
- In addition to HMW releases, look for Horror and Halloween content this month from Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies, Considering Horror Cinema, and Movie Podcast Creepy
- Land of the Creeps Horror Podcast has begun a new podcast feed. To make sure you are subscribed, visit Land of the Creeps.com
- Congratulations to Land of the Creeps on releasing its 500th episode! Mister Watson and Jay of the Dead both left voicemails with Horror picks for the celebration
- Celebrating the Seattle Seahawks’ Super Bowl victory
- Watson delivers an incomprehensible, GenZ and Gen Alpha-slang proclamation
- Jay learns about “rizz,” acknowledging Watson’s apparent “podcast rizz”
- Jay previews a special Monkeybone-related discussion for the end of the episode
Micro Horror Movie Review:
Pig Hill (2025)
Mister Watson = 7 ( Stream )
Micro Horror Movie Review:
#Manhole (2025)
Jay of the Dead = 5.5 ( Low-priority Rental )
Feature Review: Calvaire (2006) – Mister Watson’s pick
Calvaire (2006)
Genre Classification: Drama-Horror / Thriller / Rural Horror / Euro-Horror / Folk Horror / Christmas Horror / New French Extremity
Premise:
A traveling entertainer named Marc Stevens breaks down in the isolated Belgian countryside while en route to a Christmas-season gig. A strange local takes him to a lonely inn whose proprietor offers help—but Marc soon learns that the hospitality, and the people surrounding it, are far more obsessive, dangerous, and grotesque than they first appear.
Ratings and Recommendations:
Jay of the Dead = 7 ( Rental )
Mister Watson = 8.5 ( Buy )
Jay of the Dead’s pick for the next episode:
Episode 188: Bloodlines (2007)
Wrap-Up:
– Jay thanks Monkeybone for creating a karaoke rendition of Jay’s comedy song, “Flyin’ to Flin Flon”
– Jay explains the song’s bizarre origins: a West Virginia airport, Loopin’ Louie, kidnapping a tiny Red Baron pilot, and flying to Canada to capture a moose
– A discussion of the song’s internal rhymes and cross-stanza rhyme scheme
– Jay says he may someday record a proper studio version of “Flyin’ to Flin Flon” for a future album
– The episode closes with a reprise of Jay’s original recording of “Flyin’ to Flin Flon”
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Full Film: Harvest Brood (2025)
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Channy on Hereditary with Ron Martin on The Resurrection of Zombie 7 Podcast
Channy Dreadful Archives on The Resurrection of Zombie 7
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