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  • V/H/S Mixtape, Ice Cream Man, Insidious: Out of the Further, and The Ghost

    V/H/S Mixtape, Ice Cream Man, Insidious: Out of the Further, and The Ghost
    Oct 18 2026
    All New releases this week, starting with the latest in the VHS series, “V/H/S Mixtape” (2026). We’ll follow that up with the sorta-remake of “Ice Cream Man.” “The Ghost” is a very cool Irish ghost story, and “Insidious: Out of the Further” was the latest in that series as well. And we’ll watch a cool short film too!All this, plus the latest issue of “Horror Monthly,” issue #61, for October 2026, is out now! Check out all the back issues, as well as our other books, with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.comMainstream Films:2026 V/H/S Mixtape* Directed by: Ernest Dickerson, Flying Lotus, Tobias Forge* Written by: Zoe Cooper, Ernest Dickerson, Matt Landsman* Stars: Mike Ferguson, Omar Mustafa Adem, Sarah Berman* Run Time: 1 Hour, 38 Minutes* Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneIt’s the twelfth V/H/S movie, again an anthology of short horror tales. This time with the performance rockers Gwar hosting the wraparound. And the stories all have the theme of music and sound as horror elements.We’re both in agreement that we hated the Gwar segments, but the shorts were all quite good, some more favorite than others. The shorts range from very short to full story mini-movies of their own.Despite the Gwar, we both call it a win.Spoilery SynopsisAs with the other films in the series, this one’s an anthology, but with an audio/music theme to it. A guy in a cheap monster mask comes out with a monster mask and babbles about hot dogs. Gwar then introduces the first tape…Dance Dance Dance DanceIt’s a children’s show with puppets, and they all sing about death, at least until the show was cancelled. We cut to people discussing rebooting, or re-imagining the series. George was a little boy on the original show, but now he’s grown up and very protective of the puppets. The technician scans the puppets to reproduce them for the new show. The computer scans show hideous monsters, not fun puppets.George shows the crew the original set for the puppets. He makes each of them put on a puppet and sing the song with him. The puppets turn lethal as they sing the song. The whole studio seems to come alive for the final guy.Another CabinThe stop-motion animated boy looks out the window to see a giant creature with an even bigger tongue. It eats his grandmother. Then it eats him. The creature looks toward the next cabin.HeartbeatWes and Maya, a couple of urban explorers find what might be a hidden military base in Bulgaria and rush right there to explore it. They cut their way inside and see that it’s been sealed up since 1967. They find a room labeled “Testing Room” and open it up.It’s a soundproof room, and they soon find themselves locked inside. Wes hears a heartbeat down near the floor. And other noises. It drives him insane, so he pokes out his eardrums and throat and dies. Maya continues on, going mad from hearing her own body sounds and the heartbeat of her unborn child.When she starts getting hungry, Wes is right there.The Music of Mr. SzePhil puts on recording glasses to record his neighbors for a documentary he’s making. The neighbors are all weird and talk about Mr. Sze who plays weird music on the top floor. The music is both horrible and very good at the same time, and Phil is enthralled. He tells Mr. Sze that it’s brilliant and that he’d like to record him. Sze is interested and allows the recording.Mr. Sze gets terrified when Phil hums the music he heard last night and the whole room goes crazy. Phil moves to a downstairs apartment, and when he sees Sze again, the man now has gray hair and won’t talk to him. That night, he hears more playing upstairs and investigates.Phil sneaks into Sze’s apartment the next morning and snoops around. He gets a vision of another world and a very Cthulhu-like place and monster. It follows Phil back to this world and wreaks some havoc.Premature BurialIt’s a music video from the death metal band “Repugnant.” A woman kills a man then does an autopsy on him. Except the man isn’t dead; she’s faked his death to bury him alive as an act of revenge.Death ToneLydia talks about her music producer father who recently died. He leaves her instructions on how to mix a song that will keep him with her forever. She can’t find just the right sound, so she starts taking his drugs. She lures a guy home with her and chains him to the bed. She uses a winch to rip him in half and records the sound it makes.Now she needs a vocal layer. She invites another guy home, and this time, she tears him up with a chainsaw.She still needs more, so this time, she “hires” a homeless woman to move some stuff for her. She stabs her repeatedly and records it all.A police officer comes to the door about several missing persons. More deaths are needed to complete the album. The officer comes back with a warrant just as Lydia decides to put herself into the work as her father’s recording advises.As the detective closes in, she finally gets the right ...
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  • Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Resident Evil, You’re Next, and The Earth Dies Screaming

    Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Resident Evil, You’re Next, and The Earth Dies Screaming
    Oct 11 2026
    This week’s new release is “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” (2026). We’ll also begin watching the Resident Evil series with “Resident Evil” (2002). “You’re Next” (2011) is up next, and finally is 1964’s “The Earth Dies Screaming.”All this, plus the latest issue of “Horror Monthly,” issue #61, for October 2026, is out now! Check out all the back issues, as well as our other books, with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.comMainstream Films:2026 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma* Directed by: Jane Schoenbrun* Written by: Jane Schoenbrun* Stars: Jack Haven, Hannah Einbeinder, Gillian Anderson* Run Time: 1 Hour, 52 Minutes* Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneSexual and psychological hijinks occur when the director who is going to reboot a classic horror movie franchise visits the camp where the first movie was filmed and tries to talk the final girl from the first movie into returning to acting. And of course she has to convince her agent that’s a good idea too. It’s weird and surreal and gets more so as the movie progresses, almost like being about horror and fandom than actually being horror, and it blurs the lines between fantasy and reality.We both agree it had good parts, and was interesting, but we were kinda bored for big chunks of it.Spoilery SynopsisWe open on a movie set, and then cut to a young couple walking through a field. A crazy man with a box on his head, “LIttle Death,” kills them excessively. Credits roll as we see newspaper clippings about what a hit the movie, “Camp Miasma” was back in the days of videotape. There are numerous sequels and merchandising gimmicks. Nowadays, it’s considered a “problematic classic.” But now, there’s a new reboot in the works!Kris calls Mari, who talks about Thor, about the new remake. She gets to the strange little Hilton Inn and talks to the proprietor about borrowing a DVD player that he has to dust off. She watches Part VI of the franchise, and it is pretty awful.She eventually comes to Camp Tivoli, which is clearly closed for the winter. They do, however, have a building marked “Cinema,” so she has to check that out. At just about the point where she’s expecting a jump scare, Billy Presley, the star of the films, shows up. She just might actually believe that Little Death is real. He’s still waiting down at the bottom of the lake, and he always comes back. We then get a montage of them eating fried chicken…The two discuss how Camp Miasma isn’t woke enough for modern audiences, but if they hire a queer director like Kris, that makes it OK. Kris explains all about being polyamorous, which is new to Billy. It’s a long conversation, and after, Kris wants to leave. Still, it’s late, so Billy convinces her to stay the night.Meanwhile, out in the center of the frozen lake, something glows and starts to break free.The two women watch the original film, released back in 1980, and it’s clear that Billy still identifies with the younger version of herself in the film. We watch as the camp counselors arrive ahead of the kids and tell the legend of the Little Death. There was a weird mute kid there one summer who was a boy on some days and a girl on others. Eventually, the other kids just drowned him. We see Little Death rise from the cold dark lake. He immediately starts killing people and spraying CGI blood everywhere. LOTS of CGI blood. He kills all the counselors within a few minutes.Back in the real world, Kris and Billy continue watching the film. There’s a sex scene involving young Billy, and we see the killer approaching them. Just as the Little Death is about to kill them, the power goes out and the film stops.Then we stop as Kris takes her shirt off to seduce Billy, and it appears to work quite well. Kris has visions of Little Death right in the middle of sex, which she finds annoying. Kris wants to be the victim of Little Death, or at least that’s her fantasy,The next day, Kris does a video conference with the backers for the film. Kris reports that she’s pretty sure she’s signed Billy to be in the project, but the others aren’t at all impressed with that idea. They all expect a Little Death origin story, but she explains her concept for the film, and it’s pretty weird. [At this point, I’m looking to see how much longer this is]. The producers decide to… get back to Kris.Kris, on the other hand, finds herself suddenly in the Miasma movie, with all the original actors and characters. Then she goes back to camp to dance and hang out with Billy again.Billy talks about losing her virginity, and it was its own “Little Death.” Kris sees Little Death rise out of the lake to chase her. She obliges by stripping down to her panties and a shirt with no bra. Mari and Thor show up just in time to be killed. So does her agent and others as things get more and more over the top like she’s in a Miasma movie.As Billy and Kris make love in bed, Little Death approaches from ...
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  • The End of Oak Street, Black Box, Goodnight Mommy, and Ju-On: The Grudge

    The End of Oak Street, Black Box, Goodnight Mommy, and Ju-On: The Grudge
    Oct 4 2026
    This week’s new releases are “The End of Oak Street,” and “Black Box” both from this year. We’ll also look at a couple of classics, “Goodnight Mommy” from 2014 and the original “Ju-On: The Grudge” from 2002. Mostly good stuff!All this, plus the latest issue of “Horror Monthly,” issue #60, for September 2026, is out now! Check out all the back issues, as well as our other books, with one easy link: https://horrormonthly.comMainstream Films:2026 The End of Oak Street* Directed by: David Robert Mitchell* Written by: David Robert Mitchell* Stars: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella* Run Time: 1 Hour, 39 Minutes* Trailer: Spoiler-Free Judgment ZoneThe Platt family bands together for survival when their whole neighborhood is transported back to an era when dinosaurs were thriving. The title has a double meaning of the end of Oak Street and perhaps the literal end of Oak Street. They nailed the retro vibe setting it in 1982. The blood and gore is surprisingly tame considering the violence. Somehow they managed to avoid an R rating. The special effects are good as is the story, and we thought it was very entertaining.Spoilery SynopsisThere’s a big block party on Oak Street, and Denise, Greg, Audry, and Brian Platt are all having a great time, probably because this is vaguely the 80s, when everyone was happy (Carl Sagan was alive and Chrysler was still a thing). Denise and Greg are having some martial issues because he’s working too many jobs. There’s a radio report of strange waves out in space.Denise has written a book, and the old lady who’s editing it shows her a weird plant in her back yard that she can’t identify that’s grown really fast. The kids and the dog have typical problems. That night, there are weird lights in the sky; only Brian and the dog see them.In the morning, nasty neighbor Mel comes over and blames the kids for piling hundreds of pounds of poop in his backyard. Later, the local bully, Kaden, chases Brian around the neighborhood. That night, the strange lights in the sky return, and everyone sees them this time. The power goes out and the rain instantly stops. They all hear screaming, so Greg goes out to investigate. When he returns, he warns them all to lock the doors before going back to bed.In the morning, the power is still out. The water isn’t working either, which is unexpected. Greg and Denise go out for a walk, and it’s very quiet– almost too quiet. They hear lots of unusual animal noises.Denise finds her elderly neighbor friend half-eaten in her kitchen, and there’s a full-on jungle in her backyard that wasn’t there yesterday. Greg, on the other hand, gets chased around the neighborhood by a dinosaur. They run home, and there is much screaming and panicking.Everyone hops in the car, but all the roads out of the neighborhood stop in forests, as if the whole subdivision was transported into a dinosaur-infested jungle. The camera pulls away, and we see that that’s exactly what has happened. They all rush home and start boarding up the windows.Greg admits that he was recently laid off and didn’t want Denise to worry. Denise’s book got destroyed when the basement flooded. The kids are terrified. Good times all around. The small dinosaurs hear something that scares them away. They talk about portals through time; could they be in the past?That night, they watch as Mel is torn apart by flying reptiles. We see larger dinos slowly moving into the area. Brian runs out after the dog, and Audrey runs out after Brian; the parents soon notice and go out again, looking for them. Something big attacks the car, so that doesn’t last long.Brian and Audrey run into Jeannette, the new kid at private school, and her parents have already been eaten. Greg and Denise find a portal that appears to lead back to the normal world, but it vanishes before they can do anything. There’s a lot of running around and being chased until Greg gets caught by a big one and eaten.There’’s a fire that’s coming, and it’s going to burn everything.They spot another portal, but it’s way across town. The group gets there without too much trouble and goes upstairs, where the portal is. Mr. Valcourt, the town’s librarian, is there with a shotgun. The elevated portal is blinking on and off, so they need to time their jumps. Jeanette goes through, no problem. Brian’s not so lucky and falls three stories to hurt his leg.They retrieve Brian and then go back to the roof, where they all jump together, even the dog. They wind up in 1982 in someone’s swimming pool, and the owner isn’t happy. Their neighborhood is still there, like nothing happened. It’s the night the portal came, in twenty minutes from now!Can they save all the people? Jeanette runs off to save her parents. Denise runs to a phone booth and makes a call. Turns out, she ordered a pizza from the company Greg has been working for, and that gets him out of the “transport zone.” The family ...
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