SCARE-A-THON 2022: WEEK 2!!

Seasons shriekings, boils and ghouls! Back with another grisly group of monsters and murderers for your viewing delights!

Our Scare-a-Thon fundraising efforts are cresting new heights this year, having just sailed past the $3,400 mark on our way toward our $5K goal benefitting the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project, a non-partisan, nonprofit organization assisting women who are financially unable to pay for safe, legal abortions or emergency contraceptives. WRRAP works directly with pre-qualified, reputable reproductive health clinics across the U.S. on behalf of the person in need.

As before, the new H101 with Dr. AC YouTube channel is the place to be for the lowdown on our thoughts for this year's selections, the poster art and links for which are below. Stop on by, pull up a virtual chair, and enjoy the blithering and the blathering in equal measure!

Thanks to everyone who has lent their support thus far, in whatever means you've done so. If money is tight this year and a monetary donation is not possible, please consider spreading the word via your particular networks and circles. Every little bit helps, every little bit is appreciated, every little bit makes a difference.

Here's the donation link:

https://www.plumfund.com/charity-fundraising/october-scare-a-thon-2022

And here are the flicks!

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Old (2021) d. M. Night Shyamalan (USA) (108 min)

Author Eric Fritzius (A Consternation of Monsters) beams himself in from the wilds of West Virginia to share the pain that is M. Night Shyamalan's latest, OLD! Despite a solid premise (lifted from the graphic novel), The Artist Formerly Known as a Good Director coaxes his capable cast (Rufus Sewell, Gail Garcia Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Alex Wolff, Ken Leung) into some deeply dire line deliveries and face-pulling, prematurely aging his audience right along with the onscreen characters.

OLD (2021) MOVIE REVIEW

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Censor (2021) d. Prano Bailey-Bond (UK) (84 min)

Filmmaker Gert Verbeeck (At the Pond) is back in the Doc's office to talk nasty... Video Nasties! Yes, it's writer/director Prano Bailey-Bond's feature debut, CENSOR, which screened in the Midnight section of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, featuring a stellar central turn from Niamh Algar as a member of the British Board of Film Censors during the infamous mid-1980s when horror videos were being banned, burned, and blamed for pretty much all of society's ills. However, our gatekeeper in question has a few personal issues of her own to resolve, leading to a bloody fantastic finale!

CENSOR (2021) MOVIE REVIEW

11.
Peninsula (2020) d. Sang-ho Yeon (South Korea) (116 min)

Actor and fellow 007 fan Daniel Millhouse resumes his rightful place alongside AC as they board the express to PENINSULA, Sang-ho Yeon's action-packed, literally scene-stealing follow-up to his breathtaking and emotionally resonant zombie thriller Train to Busan. Is this a stellar round trip or a one-way trip to Substandard Sequelsville? Turns out the truth lies (see what I did there?) somewhere in the middle. Come for the witty banter, stay for the "which movie are we borrowing from now" bingo game.

PENINSULA (2020) MOVIE REVIEW

12.
We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021) d. Jane Schoenbrun (USA) (86 min)

Author (Screaming for Pleasure) and Rondo-nominated podcast guru (Hellbent for Horror) S. A. Bradley reconnects with his Bay Area Blood Brother (CREATURE FEATURES 4-EVAH!!!) to bash their brains up against writer/director Jane Schoenbrun's challenging and provocative examination of loneliness, creepypasta, and the perils of extreme online, WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR. Because neither of these gents are short on words and/or opinions, it's a long and windy road of appreciation - we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed gabbing about it!

WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR (2021) MOVIE REVIEW

13.
Come True (2020) d. Anthony Scott Burns (Canada) (105 min)

Rondo Award-nominated writer and podcaster Aaron AuBuchon (Discover the Horror) returns to the Doc's office to ponder the finer points of multi-hyphenate Anthony Scott Burns' synapse-snapping mindfrick, COME TRUE. We go over the rainbow, through the woods, and through grandmother's house with a cyber freight train in search of the meaning of it all... if there is such a thing.

COME TRUE (2020) MOVIE REVIEW

14.
In the Earth (2021) d. Ben Wheatley (UK) (107 min)

Author Ben Beard (The South Never Plays Itself, The Bad Class) goes for a stroll in the woods with AC to discuss writer/director Ben Wheatley's return to folk horror with the pandemic-themed IN THE EARTH. It's a challenging and rewarding enterprise on multiple levels, from the big ideas to the minimal (and effective) gore effects to the superb acting from the small and talented ensemble. Dig deep, my friends!

IN THE EARTH (2021) MOVIE REVIEW

15.
Don't Breathe 2 (2020) d. Rodo Sayagues (USA) (98 min)

Author Eric Fritzius (A Consternation of Monsters) jumps back into the Scare-a-Thon hot seat for another round with DON'T BREATHE 2, the sequel to Fede Alvarez's surprise sleeper hit from 2016. 70-year-old Stephen Lang puts all of us to shame with his ripped physique, playing our antihero The Blind Man (who we learn has a name!) for another go-round facing off against criminals and ne'er-do-wells led by all-grown-up child actor Brendan Sexton III.

DON'T BREATHE 2 (2020) MOVIE REVIEW


We're halfway through! Thanks for coming this far with us - cheers and fears to the the back half!


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