It's a new year - and old aquaintances will not be forgot. This week, a documentary on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre's decades of "Chain Reactions" and influences hits Shudder and the immigrant K-horror blend "Death Name" is this year's first Tubi Original horror flick. Also - Green Room hits Netflix, Hulu picks the wrong version of Shutter, Joe Bob's back in town with "Don't Night" and I want to give the canine star of "Good Boy" all the treats.

Nordic kaiju are back - the other Troll 2 stomps onto Netflix this week alongside B-movie classic Santa's Slay and Silent Night, Deadly Night on Shudder and Slither on Tubi. Plus - the Northman, Tremors: Shrieker Island, Brightburn, Hollow Man, Influencer, and "scream park" documentary Spooktacular, along with a shout out to Radu Vladislas and the Subspecies series.

The end is nigh - the first four episodes of the final season of Stranger Things hits Netflix this week, along with punk rock slasher Director's Cut on Shudder and The Ugly Stepsister on Hulu. Also, tell Scotty to beam you up with indie aliens in the Grey Ones and ghostly whodunnits in The Ruse on Tubi. If you're looking for indigenous horror to watch over Thanksgiving, you've got great options with Prey, Slash/Back, Blood Quantum and The Dead Lands.

Stay safe and stay sane over Thanksgiving. I'll be back in December.

Is there a better adjective for Creep and Creep 2 than, well, creepy? Find out this week when season two of The Creep Tapes hits Shudder, along with the unfairly maligned Krampus and the English dubbed version of The Ugly Stepsister. Tubi is in full form with Possession, an Showtime TV movie with Timothy Dalton and Christopher Plummer, Nuclear Hurricane and Reptisaurus, two high-budget gems that need no introduction, and the "difficult" Don't Breathe hits Hulu. Also, we proudly salute Predator: Badlands and struggle through spoiler-free praise for The Black Phone 2. Begonia ... ehh, not so much.

A horror junkie friend and familiar voice visits the podcast this week. My home recording audio setup isn't great but the conversation more than makes up for it.

There's vintage horror, and there's vintage horror. Mary Shelley and Abraham Van Helsing are the latter. This week, we get historical with Frankenstein on Netflix and Abraham's Boys on Shudder, plus everybody's favorite 80s cult goblin musical hits Netflix and Hulu. Also, Tubi experiments with low-budget experimental physics in The Quantum Devil and gets lost in the scary Canadian wilderness with The Wildman Massacre. Joe Bob is back in town on Shudder and I give a waterlogged thumbs up to Underwater and Lizzie.

Mother Nature is scary. So are the terrifying interdimensional beings of GWAR. Get ready for wild mashups this week with the stone cold nature documentary Nightmares of Nature on Netflix, GWAR's visit to Joe Bob's Splatterween on Shudder and an ominous speech from Indiana's favorite goofball parks worker in The Devil Comes to Kansas City on Tubi.

Also - The Hand that Rocks the Cradle remake on Hulu, Dante's Hotel and Malignant onTubi, Hell House LLC Lineage on Shudder and Nos4A2 on Netflix, plus a quick review of Nick Frost's oddball folk horror spoof Get Away.

Mother's Day was six months ago - so get ready for a week of twisted maternal scares with Other on Shudder, You are Not My Mother and Eyes of My Mother on Tubi and the newest I-horror on Netflix, The Elixir. Tubi also brings the finest in b-horror camp with Return of the Corn Zombies and Smashsquatch, Hulu gets cannibalistic with 40 Acres and this year's Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are live on Shudder.

Is Bill Nighy the next Peter Cushing? Would Betty White feed you to a lake monster? Is four hours and forty two minutes too long for a documentary about your favorite stomach-bursting extra terrestrials? Survey says - yes.

This week, pop some popcorn for Aliens Expanded and Limehouse Golem on Shudder, the I Know What You Did Last Summer requel on Netflix, Cabin in the Woods and the Halloween Baking Championship on Hulu - don't laugh, you know you'd eat a ghost-shaped snicker doodle. The avant garde B-movie collection on Tubi continues to mutate with Mirror Life: Modern Zombies, Wrath of the Crows and The Weedhacker Massacre, plus short reviews of the best in lake horror with What Keeps You Alive, the Night House and Lake Placid.