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Grave Tone: Horror Podcast

Grave Tone: Horror Podcast

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Grave Tone is a horror podcast covering the genre across books, film, TV, and games. From cult classics to fresh nightmares, we dig into the stories that scare us — and why we can’t stop coming back for more. Whether it’s a blood-soaked slasher, a slow-burn psychological thriller, or the horror novel everyone’s talking about, we cover it all. If it bleeds, reads, streams, or screams… it’s on Grave Tone.© Grave Tone Podcast Kunst
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  • Fantasia Film Festival 2026: The Best Horror Films We Saw Out of 20-Plus Screenings

    Fantasia Film Festival 2026: The Best Horror Films We Saw Out of 20-Plus Screenings
    Aug 12 2026
    Fantasia Film Festival 2026 is over, and we saw more than 20 films between us. These are the six that stuck. Meaghan and Arthur close out Grave Tone's Fantasia Film Festival 2026 coverage with a mini wrap-up of their best horror films of the fest. No ranking (Meaghan ranked hers anyway). Just the movies that are still living in our heads two weeks later, plus honorable mentions and the release dates you actually need. Fantasia Film Festival 2026 wrapped, and we saw more than 20 films between us. No ranking, just the six that stuck, plus when you can watch them. Fantasia 2026 Vampire Horror: No Rest for the Wicked Kasper Kalle's queer vampire period piece, set on the Faroe Islands in 1862, follows a young fisherman and a stranded whaler.The vampire lore here is not the lore you know, and that is the whole point.Gorgeous start to finish (the Robert Eggers comparison is earned) with chemistry that carries the entire film.Won two Cheval Noir awards at Fantasia. Opens in Danish cinemas September 3. No North American date yet. Korean Zombie Horror: Colony from Yeon Sang-ho The Train to Busan writer-director returns to zombies a decade later, and it is nothing like Train to Busan.A biotech conference gets sealed off after a bioterrorism attack. The infected share information through spores and function as a hive mind.Characters make smart decisions, which is Arthur's entire personality at this point.Yeon Sang-ho's zombie run: Train to Busan, the animated Seoul Station, then Peninsula in 2020. Colony is a standalone. Killer Mascot Horror: Buddy and the Too Many Cooks Effect Casper Kelly (Too Many Cooks, Adult Swim Yule Log) made a horror movie that asks what if Barney was a monster.We caught the international premiere at Fantasia and stayed for the Q and A.It uses the uncanny sitcom-credits trick from Too Many Cooks and pushes it somewhere much worse.Funnier than you expect and considerably gorier than you expect. Superpowers as Horror: Freaks Part II Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein's sequel closed the festival as a world premiere.Think X-Men, except the powered people are the ones being hunted.Each generation born to powered parents comes out stronger, which is where the sequel expands past the first film's isolation.The original Freaks (2018) is streaming free with ads on Plex. Watch it first. Queer Slasher Joy: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Jane Schoenbrun's film is a full 180 from the sadness of I Saw the TV Glow.Made from joy and love for the horror genre, and every frame shows it.Self-aware about slasher tropes without ever sneering at them.Instant cult classic (the merch already exists). Our full review episode is up. Honorable Mentions and Release Dates The Leader dramatizes the Heaven's Gate UFO group, with Vera Farmiga and Tim Blake Nelson.Colony and Buddy both land in theatres the same day at the end of August. Make a weekend of it.Freaks Part II has distribution but no date yet.More Grave Tone incoming: mini episodes, childhood trauma entries, and interviews. Follow us & Subscribe:SpotifyApple PodcastTikTokInstagramThreadsGrave Tone Horror Podcast Website Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    22 Min.
  • Junction Row Review: Katharine Isabelle Fights Cosmic Horror at Fantasia 2026

    Junction Row Review: Katharine Isabelle Fights Cosmic Horror at Fantasia 2026
    Aug 8 2026

    Junction Row review time, and this Fantasia 2026 world premiere is the one that split us right down the middle.

    Meaghan and Arthur close out their Fantasia International Film Festival minisodes with Ashlea Wessel's feature debut, a Canadian sci-fi horror creature feature starring Katharine Isabelle as Juno, an army veteran in recovery who returns to the housing compound she walked away from. Her friend Ruby is missing. A new drug called The Link is tearing through the place. And something underneath Junction Row is a lot worse than the dealers running it.

    Junction Row Review: Ashlea Wessel's Sci-Fi Horror Feature Debut
    • Ashlea Wessel moves from festival shorts (Tick, Weirdo, and segments in the anthology Creepy Bits) to her first feature, and the ambition is all over the screen.
    • Katharine Isabelle plays Juno, an army veteran in recovery who returns to the Junction Row compound to find her missing friend Ruby.
    • Co-written by Wessel with Adam Cesare (the Clown in a Cornfield novels) and Matt Serafini.
    • Meaghan came out of it satisfied. Arthur wanted the film to reveal more instead of asking him to reverse-engineer it.
    Katharine Isabelle as Juno and the Junction Row Cast
    • Making Juno an army vet is a real choice, not set dressing. She has the tactical knowledge, she can fight, and she can plan an infiltration.
    • Isabelle kicks a genuinely absurd amount of ass here (Ginger Snaps and American Mary fans, this is your action-star era).
    • Kyle Mac plays Miles, Juno's former dealer, and steals every scene he lands in. He is an asshole, and he is very funny about it.
    • A lot of familiar Canadian faces round out the compound, which Meaghan is never going to stop enjoying.
    Sci-Fi Horror Design: Retro Ads, Future Tech, Budget Limits
    • The film mixes 60s and 70s styling in its advertising and posters with technology that feels well ahead of ours. The phones and tablets look like sheets of paper.
    • A pharmaceutical company is weaponizing addiction inside the compound with a new drug, and what it does to people is where the horror lands.
    • Some of the visual effects get wonky, which is what a lower budget buys you. Meaghan is fine with that here and would not be fine with it from a studio sitting on all the money in the world.
    Sci-Fi Horror That Withholds: Meander, Coherence, and Ambiguity
    • Arthur's whole issue is explanation. He wants a film to reveal more as it goes, even if the ending stays strange.
    • Coherence is his counter-example for slow, conversational sci-fi that still tells you what is happening.
    • Meaghan raised the same complaint about Home Bodies a few episodes back and it did not bother her at all here. Junction Row's open ending worked for her.
    Bagman Short Film Review: Wildlife Cams and Recursive Dread
    • Bagman, from brothers Connor Gaston and Vaughn Gaston, screened with Junction Row and Arthur loved it. [LINK: Bagman]
    • Nat monitors a wildlife camera feed tracking deer and bears. One frame there is nothing, the next frame there is a black garbage bag in the brush.
    • Her supervisor goes to check it out while she watches through the live feed, and it gets very bad very fast.
    • The ending did not land for Meaghan. Arthur calls it a solid jump scare with recursive implications that get worse the longer you sit with them.

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    12 Min.
  • The Glorious Dead Review: The Adams Family Go Full Apocalypse

    The Glorious Dead Review: The Adams Family Go Full Apocalypse
    Aug 6 2026
    The Glorious Dead review: the Adams Family wake a small town to blood in the taps and dead that will not stay buried. Meaghan and Arthur close out their Fantasia 2026 coverage with a mini review of The Glorious Dead, the sixth consecutive film from the Adams Family to world premiere at Fantasia. John Adams and Toby Poser wrote and directed it. Poser stars as Sheriff Deb McCloud, who wakes up on her day off to a total blackout, blood coming out of faucets, missing people, holes in the ground that should not be there, and creatures in the woods. Zelda Adams plays her deputy Mikey. The whole thing unfolds over roughly twenty four hours in the dead of an upstate New York winter, and it goes exactly where you do not expect. The Adams Family and Their Sixth Fantasia World Premiere John Adams and Toby Poser write and direct together, Poser stars, and daughters Zelda and Lulu Adams act in the films. They shoot, score, and edit as a unit out of upstate New York.The Glorious Dead is the sixth consecutive film from the family to world premiere at Fantasia, following The Deeper You Dig, Hellbender, Where the Devil Roams, Hell Hole, and Mother of Flies.John Adams told the room before the screening that Fantasia is where they find out what their movie is actually about. They screen it, they read the reaction, then they know what they made. The Glorious Dead: Blood in the Taps and a Town Coming Apart Toby Poser plays Sheriff Deb McCloud, woken on her day off by a full blackout in the dead of an upstate New York winter. No power, no wifi, no cell service. The cars still run (do not think about it).Zelda Adams plays Deputy Mikey, bringing in reports of blood from faucets, missing people and holes in the ground that nobody can explain.The story covers roughly twenty four hours. Calling it a zombie movie is technically true and completely misleading. Adams Family Style: Quick Cuts and a Heavy Metal Score Fast interspersed cuts, deadpan performances everyone fully commits to, and a metal score the edit syncs to. There is a shot of windshield wipers moving in time with the beat and it rules.Every film in their catalogue is a different subgenre: supernatural thriller, folk horror, Great Depression period piece, creature feature body horror, dark fantasy.Mother of Flies is streaming on Shudder now if you want an entry point The Ratings and the Ending Nobody Called Meaghan started around a six on the night and moved up to a seven after a few days. The first two thirds landed immediately, the ending took time.Arthur went a hard seven, setting the film's closing message aside. The last ten minutes are wild enough that he wanted more of that energy earlier. TERM: Dean Norris, Mark Hamill and a Hell of a Short Written and directed by Chadrick Preuss, also a Fantasia 2026 world premiere, playing before The Glorious DeadDean Norris of Breaking Bad carries the whole thing basically alone as a state senator facing a miracle that turns into a nightmare across one night before a major vote on abortion.Every other character speaks to him over the phone, and one of those voices is Mark Hamill.The producing team reached out to Hamill on a maybe and got a yes. Ask for the thing. Where Fantasia Shorts Go After the Festival Shorts this good are almost impossible to watch again once the festival ends, and that is a real problem worth naming.Fingers crossed for a Shudder pickup on The Glorious Dead, since most of the family's catalogue already lives there.One more Fantasia 2026 minisode is coming for the closing film Follow us & Subscribe:SpotifyApple PodcastTikTokInstagramThreadsGrave Tone Horror Podcast Website Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    14 Min.
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