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The Evolution of Horror

FRESH BLOOD: Hellbender, The Humans, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Batman

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 1 of FRESH BLOOD! A new monthly strand that covers all horror new releases. This month Brad Hanson, Becky Darke, Louise Blain and I discuss Hellbender, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Master, The Humans, The Batman and a whole bunch of other new releases. We've dropped epsiode 1 of Fresh Blood on the main feed, but to continue listening to monthly episodes, sign up to our Patreon! 

TIMECODES:

04:22 Horror News 

  • Scream 6 announced 
  • Jordan Peele's NOPE trailer dropped
  • Ari Aster's new movie Disappointment Boulevard is 4 hours long (!)
  • Mike Flanagan's House of Usher TV series has started filming

13:37 New on Shudder

  • Hellbender (out now)
  • Slapface (out now)
  • All The Moons (out now)
  • The Scary of Sixty-First (out now)

29:20 New on Netflix

  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre (out now)
  • The Humans (out now)
  • BigBug (out now

42:30 New on other streaming services

  • Lamb (2021) Out now on MUBI 
  • Fresh (2022) Out on Disney+ 18th March
  • Kimi (2022) Out now on NowTV 
  • Master (2022) Out on Prime Video 18th March 
  • Tinashe - Naturally (Music video) on YouTube

55:00 New Horror Games 

  • Horizon: Forbidden West
  • Dying Light 2

59:50 Horror TV Shows 

  • Archive 81 (Netflix) 
  • The Sinner Season 4 (Netflix) 
  • Station Eleven (Starzplay) 

01:09:50 Physical Media Releases 

  • The McPherson Tape
  • The Children of the Corn trilogy 4k 
  • Don't Go In the House

01:17:00 New in Cinemas 

  • Studio 666

01:22:00 Non-Horror recommendations 

  • Jackass Forever
  • The Batman 
  • Flee
  • Death on the Nile
  • The Godfather Trilogy (re-release) 

01:36:20 OUT NOW. Additional streaming recommendations

  • Freaky (2020) NowTV
  • The Forever Purge (2021) NowTV
  • In The Earth (2021) NowTV
  • Funny Games (1997) Mubi
  • Cujo (1983) Netflix 
  • City of the Living Dead (1980) Shudder
  • Bird with Crystal Plumage (1970) Shudder
  • Battle Royale (2000) Shudder
  • The Wretched (2019) Shudder
  • Rob Zombie's 31 (2016) Shudder
  • VHS 2 (2013) Shudder
  • VHS Viral (2014) Shudder
  • Hagazussa (2017) Shudder
  • The Lesson (2015) Shudder

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the evolution of horror.

0:18.5

My name is Mike Munter and as ever, I am your host.

0:22.1

If you tune in for the first time, then welcome in this podcast, we explore and dissect

0:26.8

the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at a particular subgenre's

0:31.6

one series at a time.

0:33.6

Now we are currently in the middle of a little hiatus.

0:36.4

Our seventh series, exploring the evolution of alien horror, finished a couple of months

0:41.3

ago and our new series on vampire movies will kick off in the spring.

0:46.2

However, over on Patreon, we've got all kinds of stuff happening every single week.

0:51.7

And this week we are launching a brand new little strand of our Patreon channel called

0:57.3

Fresh Blood in which we're going to be reviewing and discussing new releases every single month.

1:03.2

So I thought as a bonus episode and to give you a little taste of what we've got going

1:07.8

on over on Patreon, I would put the first episode of Fresh Blood out on the main feed

1:13.0

for everyone to enjoy.

1:14.7

So have a little listen, if you like what you hear today, then please do sign up to our

1:20.1

Patreon channel.

1:21.1

Patreon.com slash evolution of horror and for a donation of $5, that's about ÂŁ4 per

1:27.6

month.

1:28.6

You'll get access to the Fresh Blood strand and hundreds of other bonus episodes.

1:34.4

So please enjoy Episode 1 of Fresh Blood.

1:40.6

Hello and welcome to Episode 1 of Fresh Blood.

1:46.0

This is a brand new monthly strand as part of the evolution of horror Patreon and it's

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