I‘ve loved scary movies as far back as I can remember. And with 2020 taking us all down interesting paths, I decided it was time to finally get off my butt and start this web series. So the focus of this series is mostly scary things. Movies, games, comics, whatever. We‘re gonna do reviews, commentaries, discuss big news, and do Scary Hot Chip Challenges.
Episodes
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
After discussing the 5 best horror films of the year so far, T is back with a hybrid week and is talking
Dashcam (2022)
At the start of the pandemic, an indulgent and self-deluded livestreaming improv musician abandons L.A. for London, steals her ex-band mate's car, and makes the wrong decision to give a ride to an elderly woman who is not what she seems.
Stephen King's Rose Red (2002)
Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, leads a team of psychics into the decrepit mansion known as Rose Red. Her efforts unleash the spirit of former owner Ellen Rimbauer and uncover the horrifying secrets of those who lived and died there.
T also discusses recent news: Neve Campbell will NOT be returning for Scream 6 Prey will come with a Comanche language track
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
T takes a quick look at what he thinks are the best 5 horror films of 2022!
Did your favorites make the list!?
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
It's NEW week on TWASM and T is here to bring 2 stories about mothers who aren't all that they seem!
You Won't Be Alone
In 19th-century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim's shape to live life in her skin. Her curiosity ignited, she continues to wield this horrific power to understand what it means to be human.
You Are Not My Mother
In a North Dublin housing estate, Char's mother goes missing. When she returns, Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
T also shows off some of his collection in the studio
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
It's CLASSICS week, and T takes a look at 2 old school slashers that even if you haven't seen, you've likely at least HEARD of their remakes!
The Hitcher
While transporting a car from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), who claims to be a serial killer. After a daring escape, Jim hopes to never see Ryder again. But when he witnesses the hitchhiker murdering an entire family, Jim pursues Ryder with the help of truck-stop waitress Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh), pitting the rivals against each other in a deadly series of car chases and brutal murders.
House on Sorority Row
Seven sorority sisters throw a graduation party and play a prank that goes horribly wrong. Ending up with a dead body, they panic and try to hide it. But someone witnessed the crime and begins to murder them, one by one, in this cult classic.
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
It's new movie week and T is looking at the recently released remake of the Drew Barrymore classic, Firestarter
A couple desperately try to hide their daughter, Charlie, from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for turning fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Her father taught her how to defuse her power, but as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. When a mysterious operative finally finds the family, he tries to seize Charlie once and for all -- but she has other plans.
and he also takes a look at the Netflix video game thriller, Choose or Die
A broke student who plays an obscure 1980s survival computer game in pursuit of an unclaimed $100,000 prize. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she soon realises she's no longer playing for the money, but for her own life.
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
In the followup to Part 1 (episode 92) T takes a look at the final 4 films of the 2006 Afterdark Horrorfest Film Festival and also discusses the recent horror news including:
Scream 6 casting
The Crow reboot
Terror Train remake
Unrest
Alison Blanchard is training to become a doctor and must confront her fear of mortality while working with cadavers. She approaches a body and senses a strange presence in the lab when she pulls back the sheet. Her professor dismisses her fears as nerves, but after her friend is found dead in the basement, her worries increase. She must discover how the cadaver got into the lab before its spirit can exhibit its wrath on anyone who disturbed the corpse.
Reincarnation
A movie is being made about a spree of murders in a Tokyo hotel in 1970. The killer was a professor who murdered his wife, many hotel guests and young daughter, Chisato. The director of the movie casts Nagisa Sugiura (Yûka) as the young daughter. Soon after landing the role, Nagisa begins to experience the murders as if they were occurring around her in present day.
Wicked Little Things
Karen Tunny is a recent widow and takes her two daughters, Sarah and Emma, to move into a remote mountain home they inherited from her husband. Karen does not realize the home is built near an old mine, where many children were buried alive in the early days of the 20th century.
Penny Dreadful
Penny (Rachel Miner) goes on a road trip to recover from a horrible accident in her childhood. When she and her therapist (Mimi Rogers) find a mysterious hitchhiker on a desolate mountain road, they are thrust into a life or death struggle with a ruthless killer who preys on Penny's worst fears.
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
It's NEW week, and T has 2 brand new movies up for you!
Master - Three women strive to find their place at a prestigious New England university that may disguise something sinister.
A timely tale of racial horror, T takes a look at how sometimes seeing the real world in horror can be scarier than any ghost, goblin, or vampire
Vicious Fun - A horror film critic finds himself in a sticky situation when he stumbles into a self-help group for serial killers.
This tale is RIGHT on the nose for T, so how would he fair if trapped with some serial killers?
Finally, T Takes a look at a recent short story "Flicker" by Jed Shepherd, artwork by Trevor Henderson, a terrifying short story about a Rolling Stone reporter who meets one of his idol and finds it may not be what he wants
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
It's classics week, and T is taking a look at the original Firestarter in anticipation of the remake coming out at the end of of May
As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew Barrymore), begins to exhibit the ability of setting fires solely with her mind. This volatile talent makes the youngster extremely dangerous and soon she becomes a target for the enigmatic agency known as "The Shop."
And with the recent release of Netflix Video Game Horror, Choose or Die, T also takes a look at the mid 2000s video game horror, Stay Alive
Teenagers decide to pass idle time by playing an online game that has a horror theme. But the action taking place on their computer screens becomes a terrifying reality when they realize that each time a character dies during the game, the figure's human overseer dies as well.
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
T takes a look at 2 recent new thrillers.
Umma & X
Umma is the story of a single mother who lives with her daughter in a isolated farm being haunted by her mother's ghost.
X follows a cast and crew who gather to make a Porno on an elderly couple's rural Texas property, but find themselves threatened by a killer.
How do the jump scares of Umma compare to the building terror of the slasher that is X?
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
It's time for a film festival!
Back in 2007, T got a job working at Blockbuster and that fall, a series of movies began to come in for the employees to preview.
The "8 Films to Die For", the tagline for the Afterdark Horrorfest, a independent film festival where AfterDark films presented a number of acquired films all in the horror genre.
They ran for a number of years starting in 2006 until most recently in 2015, but T had an urge to revisit these movies, so we begin!
Tonight we discuss:
Dark Ride
The Abandoned
The Gravedancers
The Hamiltons