Backrooms, Obsession, and Horror's Big Weekend

Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast

The Losers' Club LLC

Horror Movies, Film Reviews, Horror Franchises, Film Interviews, Halloween, Tv & Film, Film History, Horror Movie Franchises

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Welcome back to Coming Soon & Now Showing, our monthly series that catches up on the latest horror headlines and round robins capsule reviews of new and old horrors. Today, Mike and Justin look back on the blockbuster weekend that saw Backrooms and Obsession smashing box office records. They also brush on some franchise news and dust off oldies for the first time: 1987's Dead of Winter and 1977's False Face. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations.
0:05.0	You've successfully arrived at the bloody disgusting network.
0:10.0	The passage of time will now bring you to something strange, unique, and idiosyncratic.
0:17.0	Have a good time. The box.
0:25.2	The box
0:29.0	you opened it
0:30.9	and he has
0:36.1	such sights to show you.
0:40.0	From Frank's decrepit attic to the furthest reaches of Leviathan's realm, we are Halloween's.
0:50.1	Jesus wet.
0:56.6	Greetings and welcome to another episode of Halloween's, a horror franchise podcast.
1:02.7	I'm your host Michael Myers Rothman.
1:05.7	Although, I have to say, I'm a little trepidious because right now it seems like franchises
1:10.7	aren't the de facto thing in Hollywood right now it seems like franchises aren't the
1:11.3	de facto thing in Hollywood anymore. It seems like IP might be in trouble. IP might be shivering
1:17.9	in the dark right now, or I should say shivering in the sun because we're soaking it up because
1:22.8	it's June 1st right now when we're recording. But I say all of this ingest because we all know that
1:28.8	Hollywood will never get rid of intellectual property and franchises and sequels and yada,
1:34.4	yada, yada. So I think the Halloween's are good. But maybe my co-host disagrees. Justin from
1:40.9	Chicago, getting warm in there, getting hot in the summer yet? There's a little bit of a tease here. Hey, this is Justin IP Gerber. Oh. Yeah, you know, right now I think the high is in the 60s, but I believe on Thursday, it's going to be high of 87. And I'm sure it'll be 55 degrees on Saturday. It's just, you know, I'm just here in Chicago, Illinois. But once the summer kicks in, no better place to be. So I'm looking forward to that eventually happening.
2:05.8	Yeah. I know it. There's always the false fronts, the false starts, but it's right around the
2:11.8	corner. And, you know, I was trying to think about this, but when you think about it, backrooms,
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