The Horror Returns - THR - Bonus Episode: 10 Best Horror Movies of 2025

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

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Yo, yo, what's up, everybody? The horror returns, bonus episode. I almost said E-society, but same thing. Brian and I are here tonight. This will probably be a quick one. um i've been on dextro.com a lot and i've been finding all these lists if you've been listening to east society we're always bringing up uh this website so um i think we did one not from dextro but from some other horror list and we ran down some of those movies but this one is the 10 best horror

movies of 2025. This article came out back in October, so that's up to this point, I assume, but we're just about to roll in the 2026. 24 hours, maybe. I don't know. But, all right, let's get down this list. But this is number 10.

This is the new Guillermo del Toro film starring Oscar Isaac Jacob El Dori and the

beautiful Mia Goth Frankenstein Have you seen this one? Yeah I liked it I liked the visuals

I thought everybody did did their job in it as far as acting but it's probably something I'll never watch

again because I'm not into these big run times and that movie was almost two and a half hours long. Could they have shaved off? Half hour, 45 minutes? 45 minutes would probably be good.

I have not seen this yet. The Zisu saw it, and he told me to watch it. And just yesterday or last night, Mike was texting me. Dude, you need to watch Frankenstein. Yeah, I was like, two and a half hours, really? it's i mean it's don't get me wrong it's good if you especially if you like giermo del torro you know it's his take on frankenstein and uh i think he pronounced his name e lordy jacob e lordy he kind of looked like uh what were those dudes from prometheus i'm looking at a picture

he looks like one of the engineers yeah kind of looked like that and he was a little superpowered a little bit but I mean as far as acting he did a good job I remember Frankenstein being all buff and ripped but he's kind of like sexy Frankenstein I mean there's been a

shit ton of Frankenstein films um I don't other than the OG which I love yeah it's corny and cheesy but the one that came out in 94 war when Robert De Niro Oh, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Yeah, that one was

okay. I haven't seen it forever. The Frankenstein in that one series was pretty good. Penny Dreadful. Oh, okay. What else? Monster Squad.

Yeah, I've got to give a flesh for Frankenstein Some love. Oh, yeah. But that wasn't the traditional Frankenstein. When I think of the monster,

Frankenstein's monster, I think of the big bolt in the neck and the flat top and the big thick boots like Herman Munster, that. That's what I'm throwing a kid in the lake. Yeah, I like that type of stuff, man. But then... Oh, young Frankenstein.

Yeah, that one too. I mean, shout out to Frank. from uh everybody loves raymond i mean all these all these renditions of frankestine they try to just make it a more serious film as as it years and years of it going the old hammer films were awesome um was it curse of frankestine is that the one christopher league i really like that one he did a good job as the monster and everything

so I'm like do we need another Frankenstein film so I'm kind of like I haven't seen it yet everyone so I'm just I think this was like a passion project for him

because I guess he said he wanted to do Frankenstein and then he wanted to do his take on the fuck is it Phantom of the Opera why not we haven't done that in a while I think the last one of that I've watched was the one with

Robert England in the 90s I can't remember what that one was cool we had to do one on Patreon for a Patreon request the one with Gerard Butler oh that one the sing the musical one I got through that once

And somebody brought it to work And my buddy, oh, it's good, it's good It is not good I was like, oh man But then again, I'm not Into musicals or anything Speaking of Gerard Butler It was right when

Right before 300 came out I was at WonderCon in San Francisco And they were having the panel for it And there was just like a shit ton of soccer moms in the audience. I was like, what, what, what's going on? What's, why are they all here? What, what are they going to show? Everyone had Team Jerry t-shirts on or sweatshirts on.

And I was like, who the fuck is Jerry? I didn't really know Gerard Butler like that yet until 300. And then when they did the panel, ah, they went nuts. he was there they showed us some stuff of the movie and then they gave out tickets for an advance screening

to go see it in IMAX across the street and yeah that was that was awesome the only thing the only thing I knew him from before 300 was a what was it

Dracula 2000 I've still not seen that yet it's not great but I think you should watch it anyways It's like that late 90s, early 2000s era of horror where they just had good-looking people in there. See, that's what I don't like. I mean.

Because it's like a who's who of, oh, I've seen this person in a lot of things. Oh, he's Dracula in this? Yeah. Didn't they do like a second one? Yeah, I think straight to video. oh Jennifer Esposito

yeah Omar Epps Umar Epps Damn all right I'm out Damn they made three of them There's a Dracula 2 and Dracula 3

Is it streaming anywhere MGM Plus I have that Oh man I fucking forgot to cancel Stars And they got me

for 80 bucks for the year oh damn so i'm like well i'm just keep it now so do you have stars i canceled well i don't know if they care about the sharing the password i'll shoot it up to you could watch stuff on there but i meant to catch like kept getting emails like yeah your trials running up because and then as soon as they forgot and i'm oh man man, they hit me for the 80. I was like, yeah, fuck it. I watched a lot on there. I'm down to the basic streaming apps because I keep paying for apps that people said they're going to watch this and that on.

Then I ask them, did you watch any of your shows? And they're like, oh, I forgot you got it. And I was like, I'm paying for it for no reason. That's like Shudder. I watch it every now and then. But one of my buddies, he's on the account. I look on there. He's watching every.

thing on good well someone's watching it i think the last thing i watched on there was good boy but yeah we we recorded an episode of the horror returns earlier today and i i said it on there i dropped ESPN i only watched those wrestling things i haven't even seen anything else on there because i was thinking about it since rural rumble so late in january

i'm going to be paying for a month that i'm not even going to use I just don't even look at it I know it's there so and I did the tag on for MGM Plus on my prime and there's a shit ton of movies I've been watching on there so I'm getting that

extra $7. And MGM Plus I don't understand because Amazon owns MGM it's just more how they get more money at you just like we talked about the Netflix buying Warner Brothers deal and they talked about

because I'm just like, well one good thing is they could just consolidate Netflix and HBO Max. No, they said they're keeping HBO Max going. Yeah, yeah. No, they ain't getting rid of that either. It's just making them more money and we keep paying it.

That's how the world goes around. everyone gets paid except for us speaking of that you guys want to give us a check man we'll take that check and hype up whatever you got you know within reason so but yeah frankestine uh a brilliant but uh egotistical scientist brings a monstrous creature to life and a daring experiment that ultimately leads to an undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation i'll get to it when i get to it everyone i still haven't checked it out. I mean, Oscar Isaac, he's probably the only reason I didn't

really, like, dive into it. I mean, he's okay. He's actually pretty good in it. All right. Well, I didn't really care for his character in Star Wars, so that's me. All right. This one, I had just seen something for it today,

so I want to check it out. I have not seen, I haven't even heard of this. This is coming in number nine. This is Presence, uh, directed by Stephen Soderberg. What's it about? A supernatural forces watches a family move into their new suburban home,

then follows them around for the duration of the film. All right. Lucy Lou, that sold it to me right there. I love her. Chris Sullivan and Kalina Liang Lang, I think as I said it, this came out earlier this year. and I didn't even know Steven Soderberg made a horror film.

So have you seen this one? Yeah, it's, um, spoiler. It's very light on the horror and more on the drama. That's a lot of things, man. I don't know if it's on this list, but I'll throw it out. We just talked about it on the East Society. Him.

Where was the horror in that? I don't know. i i didn't i didn't like him i didn't either i was like i mean i love it had moments in it but i felt like the director was trying to be jordan peel yeah and in doing so he didn't like stick the landing on it and the end completely was a completely different tone from the rest of the movie yeah i was like i mean i see what they were trying to say say. Yeah, but it was just one of those

re-between the lines type of thing, but we're going to show you all these supposedly creepy and eerie visuals. Yeah. I was kind of like, all right, something happened. And, I don't know, it was maybe if you were tripping on acid or something,

you would have got it. But I was I thought Marlon was good in it. Yeah, I mean, it was a different role for him. Yeah. I thought it was going to be about him. I didn't know it was going to be about this other young character, but, man. Marlon's been surprised to me lately. I don't know if you're watching, if you watch Bel Air, the serious take on Fresh Prince.

I tried. I couldn't do it. He's actually pretty fucking good because he plays Will's father. Oh, okay. And again, like this, it's a different take. Is that still going or is it overwork? It has season finale. Ali last month.

Okay. Well, someone's watching it. Yeah. But Presidents, I want to watch this. I have not seen it yet. Neon is hit and miss with me. So, I mean, I'll check it out. Yeah, I say watch it, but it's light on the horror.

It's more on the drama. And it has a good twist in there, I think. And the cast was pretty solid. Other than Lucy Lou and what's the other actress Julia Fox I think the rest of the cast was pretty much unknown at least to me

and I think they did a pretty good job all right I have to check it out this next one coming at number 8 I've been meaning to watch this I know it's streaming shutter or AMC plus one of those things

this is the ugly step sister directed I'm not even I'm not even going to try out that last name this stars Leah Myron Thea Sophie Locke

I'm not even going to try that last part Yeah there's some names on here You might not want to try Yeah I don't even if you can try this next one It came out in April This messed up fairy tale Revolves around the Trouble Teen Who goes to

shocking lengths to win her prints. From what I understand, this is the perspective of the evil stepsisters from Cinderella. Mm-hmm. So, that's what sold it to me when I

first heard about this film, so I have not seen this yet. I don't know if it can go more like the story where they cut their feet their toes off or whatever so they can try to jam it into the glass.

I've seen this. I've seen this. I can't tell you. I don't want to spoil anything. This is a recommendation from me. This is, like you said, from the perspective of the evil step-sister with body horror. All right. Well, I'm going to check this out. I've been meaning to. I just haven't seen this yet. So you're the first person I know I've seen this. All right. See, you, if you tell me, yeah, check it out. I can listen to you. So I'll check it out, everyone. Let you guys know what I think. of it. Yeah, with this

lady, the link she goes to, just to get the prince or the ideal husband or status or whatever she was trying to get. It's pretty crazy. All right.

This next one I did see. I believe this is streaming on HBO Max. Coming in at number seven, companion. Directed by Drew Hancock starring Sophie Thatcher. Jack Quaid, Lucas Gage, and a bunch of other people. It came out earlier in the year.

A cabin getaway implodes when friends discover one among them isn't human, causing loyalties to fracture the brutal choices to be made in a service of self-preservation. I thought this movie was good. I really enjoyed what was happening in it. And, I mean, there wasn't really much of a twist because you kind of already know who well don't don't watch the trailer yeah that's how it's like i saw the trailer when i went and seen something and i was like well shit that just spoiled it for me um i like it when you you're shocked and you find out something about one of the characters for those of you that

haven't seen it definitely check this one out if you guys haven't seen it yeah i want to recommend this i like uh sophie thatcher yeah she was in that movie um heretic heritage with the fuck's his name the oompa lupa from the new Hugh

oh Hugh Grant yeah oh okay yeah the one she was in that and she was also in that bogeyman remake that came out a couple years ago

did you like that one yeah but that's more on the long lines of it introductory horror like you're getting somebody that's not into horror into horror yeah because i really liked that movie i thought that was a good one yeah and and heretic that was hell of good yeah she's been knocking it at the part this one i had heard about it and i saw the trailer and i was like okay other than you ruined it for me but i wanted to see it but i never made

it out to theater once it started streaming on um HBO i checked it out and i liked this one i thought it was a really good film as far as horror i wouldn't go down that hole but um it has little elements in there yeah i mean i've said this before on this show and in our show a lot they're really pushing this horror quotes well i i honestly i don't know what horror is anymore because we had some feedback on i don't know if it was a recent episode but somebody was saying sinners was wasn't a horror movie it was sold to me as a horror movie as a vampire film

did we get that yes we did but I wanted that through the whole thing not to say I mean it was an awesome film I loved it one of my favorite films of the year but to say it's not horror it was it was a horror film and then they also said what was the feedback I think this says sinners is not a horror movie

matter of fact it's not even a good regular movie can't please everyone I mean listen to east society listen to me with some of this shit I just talked about a movie today which I thought was cool it was I saw it on one of those must watch horror movies of this year

and I saw it was streaming on Hulu or something descendant it was a good film really good film it was a think it was a sci-fi more of a sci-fi mystery thriller type of thing drama they kept saying it's a horror film I'm I'm like okay when's the horror element keeping in coming in it was a really really good film but I was just like

stop throwing horror speaking of Jordan peel get out to me me personally I did not think that was a horror film it was a good film I loved it But, I mean, they're pushing it on horror. To me, that is a horror movie. It's horrific on what they're saying in it and what's going on. But when you say horror, to me, I want slasher. I want blood. I want killers and this and that and everything.

I want Frankenstein. That's why we have subgenres, because Frankenstein wouldn't even be in the same. realm is a slasher movie I mean but when I'm sold Frankenstein I'm thinking of the old black and white monster movies that I saw that I grew up watching

I mean you watch them now they're not even scary at all Frankenstein Dracula the mummy creature for the black lagoon still scares me because I think the reason why horror movies ain't scary anymore is because they're not trying to push the boundaries they're trying to

get as many people as they can to watch it. A lot of them are trying to make you think and then they try to just gross you out with however they can kill like the terrifier films. I really love the first one. Second one is probably my favorite.

But the third one, I was like, okay, we just want to see how bloody you're going to get. And then this fourth one or whatever is coming. I mean,

they just seem to be pushing the envelope. Same thing with the soft films. I love them all. but you just want to see how people are going to die how what's what's going to tear their bodies apart or whatever that's all you want to see yeah i mean friday 13th me too man i mean you just want to see the kills and everything you want to see jason do his thing but we get another movie i don't know i'm still waiting for this fan film one that's supposed to be coming out we'll see what they're going to do with this crystal lake show

or whatever, but I don't know. At this point, I've said this about tons of movies, just entertain me and I'll enjoy it. Like this one, a companion. It was a really good story, and I got a lot of, I got entertained by it. And Sophie Thatcher's a plus.

She's a cute young woman. And I like a Jack Quaid, son of Randy Quaid. He was killing me in this movie. So, I don't want to go to it. I like him. because we've seen him play the good guy yeah and we've seen him play the bad guy he was an asshole in this one yeah and spoiler we's you know he he was ghost face in one of the screen

movies oh what was it the fifth one i don't know they're all but then we we've seen him play the good guy and uh what's that one that he came out the little action comedy where he couldn't feel pain Oh, uh, the Novocaine. Yeah. I wanted more in that one. For what I got it, it was all right. Yeah. So, but coming in number seven, companion.

Check it out. It's an awesome film. This one, this next one, I need to finish it. I was tired and I fell asleep and didn't see the end. But coming in at number six, this is Dangerous Animals, directed by Sean, what, Brian? Baby Shark, do, dude, dude. do do do do it stars uh hassy harrison

jai courtney josh houston and some other people a surfer finds herself abducted by a human predator who uses sharks as a weapon but refuses to go down without a fight i know you guys did this one what did you think of this one i liked it

uh it was a movie where jai courtney finally got to be jai courtney he didn't have to do no accents he can just be himself and i i like this version of a serial killer that uses a shark and he was doing the crazy baby shark song i don't know why i love that scene where he just got everybody to hold hands and he started doing the baby shark song and to me i'm like why are they not why is a red flag not popping up this guy is crazy get out of here

and um yeah and i think i think this one's on shutter yeah it's it was a shutter exclusive so i mean what i remember what i saw i liked what was happening i mean i know there's a billion shark movies but uh has some just crazy dude kidnapping people and feeding them to dangerous animals yeah i liked what was going on in this one i again i need to finish it i didn't see how it played out so but um it was kind of

a quick into the point thing you know what's going to happen i mean you know what's going to happen i mean trailers nowadays every spoils the hell out of everything so you know you know what you're getting into you know they're getting kidnapped and all hell is going to break loose so but yeah same director of that one movie

uh the devil's candy i don't think i see that one the one with the the guy from Can't Hardly Wait Temple's Candy Yeah I think we talked about this one a while ago Oh Oh okay

All right I had to Look it up Yeah he directed that one He directed the I think What's it called the loved ones About the girls Her and her father kidnapped her Guy she wanted to take the prom and like torture him

Yeah this is streaming on emc plus yeah that guy it's a pure Taylor Vince oh with the eyes yeah he's he's a weirdo and Ethan Emory

he's in it I'll have to check this one out again I'm completely He was supposed to give us an interview one time Ethan Embury I remember when Were you standing in When me and Lance were talking to him?

No, Lance was telling me about it. Oh, okay. Yeah, he said, yeah, yeah, man. Just get a hold of his people or whoever. Yeah, I think we tried, and they were like, we don't know what you're talking about. I don't know. We'll see.

He's always at cons. I don't see why they can just give you a quick one. Yeah, I just showed my daughter can't hardly wait for the first time. I love that movie. Yeah, she loved it, too. And her thing was like, there's so many people popping up in a movie.

Mike Dexter. Brophy. Sulture Boys. Oh, when I met that guy, I don't know his name. This was one during the Twilight craze. Mike Dexter, whatever his name is. It was him and the other big dude from,

twilight oh kellen lutz yeah that guy he was in what nightmare at elm street yeah he was in that horrible expendables three that's right he wasn't there he was the motorcycle guy that that was his that was his specialty

well uh we just got there we just checked in we're gonna go out and get the party started so we walked outside into the hallway and I was waiting for Theo and Joel And I was standing because they're laughing and I was like, yeah, let's go, let's go. I was like, cool.

So I walked outside into the hallway and nobody was there. The door shut. And I was like, fuck where is everyone? So I was standing or waiting. And I saw two guys walking down the hall in the corner of my eye. I didn't even really look at him. But as they got closer, I kind of turned and looked. And I went, holy shit, Mike Dexter.

I didn't know his name. He was, that big dude started laughing. He went, oh, dude. He went, hey, man, how you doing? I said, dude, I'm sorry, man. I don't really know your name. I know you're in Twilight and all this and you two. And they're like, oh, yeah.

Then they told me their names and shook hands and how you guys were ready to party and all this. And I was like, hell yeah. Took pictures. They were really cool guys if you guys ever get to me. Yeah, I would have said, a man, duh. I don't know why I mean. My daughter just been saying that since that movie. But he was a cool guy.

He was not an asshole. That's cool. Yeah, number six, dangerous animals. again with the horror coming in number five a good film horrific stuff in it the long walk I love this movie yes I did too directed by Francis Lawrence starring Cooper Hoffman David Johnson Garrett wearing Luke Skywalker Mark Hamel and a bunch of other people in it. This movie was depressing

for beginning to end. I had never rooted for so many different people to win in a movie. It was crazy. As part of a nationwide contest, 50 teenage boys must walk nonstop

at three miles per hour or above. Fall below that pace and you're executed. While the last boy walking wins, riches and the granting of a wish yeah this one man

I mean yeah they start off and I think the key to this is don't get to know everyone because as they're walking along yeah they want to talk I mean if nobody was talking it would be boring

because one of my friend goes man this movie was so boring all they were doing was walking I went the tie it's in the title yeah i mean it was it was the dialogue the the relationships that was being built that drew me to this movie like i said i i was rooting for i knew only one person could win yeah but there was like four or five six different people even even one of the asshole kids once we get to reveal why he he's in it i was like oh man i kind of want you to win too

But yeah, I mean, they were like assholes to each other, but then they were kind of like redeeming themselves. Yeah, the three musketeers. Yeah, I mean. Which that brought a little humor to it because there was four of them. And then like a fifth guy was like, I'm in too. And they were like, no, it's too many.

The one kid, uh, Hank Olson, he was number 46, uh, Ben Wang. He was just like, yeah, trying to be cool with everyone. But then, spoiler alert. um when he was like just you knew he was just going to drop at any moment because they they don't get to sleep or anything they just got to walk and walk until there's one person standing and i was liking him and i was i was dread like trying to be second to the end before you die we already know who's going to finish it oh you're talking about karate kid yeah him man

I felt so sorry for you. Oh, and just a little spoilers, everybody. Just the little details to his character that he was eating Clementine. Yeah. And then you find out he was married

and his wife was named Clementine. I was like, and I didn't even realize until I was like looking up stuff about this movie that that was Philip Seymour Hoff's son. Oh, was it? Yeah, the main guy, right?

Yeah. it was it was a depressing thing and to see mark hamill in this type of role i mean if you know his political stance on everything i was i think that was one of the reasons why he did it it was because his disapproval of the other side and what's his name is one of my new favorite actors david johnson which oh yeah the one from alien romulan yeah uh andy i loved him in that movie he was the all star in that one yeah he was pete in this one oh i mean again this movie was so depressing because you know there can only be one winner and when it got down to the end i was like

oh my god but the part they really got me was um the native guy uh i think he was collie parker he was number 48 uh joshua when he took the gun Yeah, Joshua Odd Jack. I think that's what he said his name. He was in Welcome to Derry. He was one of the main native guys in that one. Oh, the nephew? Yeah. Oh, man, when he went out and right before they got him and then he started singing, he was singing a native song. And I was like, oh, my God. I didn't, I didn't recognize him until he, spoiler alert, he met his demise. I was like, oh, shit. This movie was just rough. The kid that gets his legs run over by the tank. Oh.

And they're still like, you have 15 seconds to whatever. This is your final warning. And I'm like, final warning, he can't fucking walk. I know. It was just, they do. You could not do anything but walk. I mean, if you have to piss, you better piss while you're walking. Isn't that one guy that had to.

had the shit. Yeah, and I just happened to, like, because I watched this with my daughter, and I was like, what did they need to take a shit? And then the guy was, like, pulling his pants down. I was like, oh, okay, they're answering it right here. Yeah, and I'm like, he didn't even get to wipe, man. I was like, oh, my God.

It was rough, man. It was a rough movie. I went, I seen it by myself. And I was like, oh, my God. This is just so depressing. But you know what you're getting into before you see the, film so but it was a really really good film i mean i highly recommend this one i do agree with you it's not horror it's gonna start streaming on stars uh i think sometime really soon i think next

week yeah so i want to watch it again i only just saw the one time in the theater so but yeah check out the long walk coming in number five all right this next one oh man this one was this is a lot to get through coming at number four bring her back oh this was a rough one too oh man uh directed by the who i'm not i can try their last names but danny and michael philippo yeah them uh this stars billy bratt sora wong sally and sally hawkins came out she she was the all-star in this movie sally hawkins the the foster mona oh i thought the blind girl she Yeah. This was like her first time out acting.

She was a blind and she's playing, and she's really blind. So I thought she did. I thought all three of them, or all four of them, even though the main kid that was in it. Man, that was brutal. I mean, these are the directors that brought you talk to me from last year. Yeah, and these guys came from YouTube. Yeah. They got their money from YouTube, made a film.

And from what I understand, this is supposedly in the Talk to Me universe. I don't know if it's true or not, but that's what they're saying. That's what the, the story doesn't have connect to talk to me, but it's in the same world. Yeah. Two step siblings are paired with an erratic foster. the family little really realizing they are in a mortal they are in mortal danger right yeah this one was oh my god it was rough i didn't know i don't look into it i just go and and watch these films but oh my god it was it was it was rough i like this is a second film out

And I thought killed it with talk to me, killed it with this one. But oh my God, the visuals on what was going on. What was that kid's name? His name was Oliver in the film. Jonah Wern Phillips. Man, that little kid, he went through transformations in this one. That knife scene. Oh, that and when he bit the counter.

I was like, what the fuck's going on in here? It was crazy on what was going on. It was, it's streaming on HBO now. So check it out. And I saw the trailer and I was like, okay, this looks cool. And then when I saw who made it, I was like, all right, that sold it to me. So that's why I had to rush in there and see it. I saw it that first night, it came out.

And I wanted to see it before whatever was in it was going to get spoiled to me. So, but man, this movie was awesome. Yeah, you have to go into this, not knowing anything. Yeah. Because, I mean, the trailer looked cool, but it didn't really understand what was going on in it. So I was like, all right. So, yeah, basically it went in blind. And this movie has some depressing shit in it, too.

Oh, a lot of it is, man. I mean, it's sad, man. It was sad as well. I mean, there's crazy people out there in the world. And what these three kids had to go through, especially all of her, man. I was like, yeah, what the hell's happening? Oh, man. It's a crazy movie, man.

No spoilers or anything. But yeah, definitely, you've got HBO, definitely check this one out. If you're not for blood and crazy. stay away from it but if you can sit through type of that it's other than the visually it's amazing and the story is good

so yeah I think this is the movie because they originally were going to do the street fighter movie they were like ready to go but then they had to pass on it because of uh scheduling because they were doing this movie too

um Street Fighter will cover that when it comes out But nah man They did the right thing Was to To concentrate on this film Because yeah this film was fucking awesome I loved it

So again HBO Max Check it out there And yeah That's number four Bring her back Number three I seen it twice I need to watch it again

The new one's coming in a couple weeks and this is 28 years later directed by Danny Boyle uh Jody Comer M. T.O. Johnson, Ray Fines and

whatever that big guy's name that was hanging dead through the whole movie. Swinging through the movie. Yeah. I was watching I don't know. I think it was a Saturday Live or some

show. And they were talking about 28 years later. No, it was a reel on Instagram or TikTok or whatever. They go, you want to watch 28 years later? And then they show the poster. Then they just show this big thing swinging. It looked like a salami or something.

I was like, I showed that to my son. He didn't see it yet. And then when he went and saw it, he watched that little clip again. He was like, oh, man. but a group of survivors of the rage virus live in a small island when their group when their group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland he discovers secrets wonders and horrors that are mutated not only the infected but other survivors

I enjoyed it I thought it was good this was before I realized that it was a trilogy I just thought it was going to be another stand-alone film like the first two so I didn't know there was going to be more because when the movie was over I was like wait what's going on here

I mean but after I left the theater and I went to YouTube and I wanted to listen to reviews is when I found out that it was going to be a trilogy so I was like okay because we have the bone temple coming next this is streaming on Netflix

they already went ahead and greenlit the third one well they better I mean well from what I understand at first it was going to depend on how well the second one did

but then I guess they just went ahead and said we're just going to go ahead and develop the third one I think I think they should I mean maybe test screeners people enjoyed it but I mean I I have to see this one

because of the way this one was left the movie with a lot of questions unanswered and I kept telling Theo I said dude don't if he hadn't seen this one yet I said stay away from the trailer for the second one

I said there's spoilers if you don't see the first one dealing with the track suit mafia or whatever they're called the jimmies that's something that has to be explained in the second one. From what I understand, that character is based off of a famous TV personality

that was arrested for multiple accounts of child diddling. I don't, I don't know. That's one, because we had some listener feedback, and they were quite angry about that part of the movie. And there has to be some. reason that you're basing this character's look off of that person.

Yeah, because I had no idea who this person was that they were talking about. So, but I'm, this one, it was okay. I mean, I liked when it was just the rage

and they're just trying to infect you and you're just trying to survive and then that it's been 28 years later and, uh, well, I, I, I like that it's mutated. Yeah. So I'm saying,

everything mutates no matter what it is. And yeah, this rage virus mutated in something else because now we got these, what they call them? Alpha. The alphas, yeah. A big giant dude

that was hanging 10 the whole movie. I mean, big ass fucking Jason Mamoa looking dude. But I mean, I liked what was going on. I thought kick ass was going to be in it a little more.

He was mainly in the beginning. Shit, he was damn glorified cameo to me. Yeah. But I think that kid did an awesome job. Yeah. He was the all-star of it. And Ray finds when him popping into it, I was like, whoa, we,

you got this big, huge, did he win Academy Award? I think he has. I'm not sure. You got this big-ass star in this horror movie. And I was like, okay, his character was awesome. I like it. Now that we're going to get more explanation on who he is and who the jimmies are.

And I assume more into the alphas. And I want to know more about those little fat things that were crawling around. Yeah. Those were scary. What did that mutate into? Yeah. I was like, what the hell was going on in this one? but I liked what was happening in it

it was just if you saw it and you didn't know there was more coming you were just like what what the hell it's over with because the way it ended it just ended and I was like whoa wait what yeah with hardcore flipping around and yeah complete tone change

yeah I was like what's going on here then the movie was over it's streaming on Netflix if you guys haven't seen it yet so definitely check it out um i'm gonna watch it again before uh bone temple comes out yeah but who this next one coming in number two weapons directed by zach is it creaker yeah starring uh corey webster josh brolin gila gardner alden however hon solo that guy and uh wong and a ton of other people in this film um but let me see weapons when all but one child from the same class mysteriously

vanished on the same night at the exact exactly the same time a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance yeah i didn't know what to expect for this one i didn't really know what was going on at first i mean i'd seen the trailer but when I saw who directed it I was like ah okay you gave us Barbarian and that was an awesome film so I was like all right let me just go see it and um

I yeah I saw it that weekend it came out because Mike saw it and I was in Oklahoma City and I had like hours to kill before Mike flew in and it was like dude go see weapons I was like wow all right I kind of wasn't really in the mood to go to a movie And he goes, no, dude, you got to go see it.

Here, I'm going to buy you a ticket and go see it. And I was like, okay. Turned out, he bought me an IMAX ticket. And I was like, why is this movie an IMAX? And it was worth that IMAX price. Because I was like, I didn't know what to expect in this movie. And this movie blew me away. And at that end, that ending was crazy.

I was like, what the fuck is going on? This is streaming on HBO Max. So if you haven't seen it, definitely check. it out the all-star in this one to me is um what's her name yeah what the hell was her name she had been in a a ton of things yes uncle bucks girl yeah and she was in um streets of fire and fields a dream yeah everything what the hell is her name where is it on here gladys is dig man to i don't know how to pronounce her last name magd again mad again okay

she's been in a ton of things she's been in i didn't even realize that was her until i really got a glimpse of her and i was like well when you when you first see her you're like who the fuck is this yeah she was fucking scary i mean that scene when um josh brolin was dreaming of his son oh that part got me

the what the fuck scene yeah when she was laying in the bed when he flipped over I was like what the that part made me jump there was a few parts that made me jump

that was a realistic reaction that's probably how I would have been if I woke up at Julia Garner I didn't care for that Wolfman movie I thought it was

she was fine in this because this was, I think I said it in my review for it, this was the closest that she's been to Ruth Langmore from what's that Netflix series? Which one? The one with Jason Bateman. Oh, um

The Ozards. yeah that somebody was yelling at us this was the closest she was to not necessarily be in that character but that acting yeah I was

I was feeling for her I mean the situation that was going all these kids disappeared and they were blaming her yeah it just happened to be her classroom yeah nothing to do with her uh-uh and I like I liked the way they they filmed it and I like the way they put it together.

Like, every character had a story. Yeah. It wasn't like just a straightforward movie. They talk about Justine. Then they talk about Archer. Then they would talk about Paul. And I liked, what's his name's story? James, the homeless drug addict guy.

Yeah, him too. And even Marcus, Benedict Wong. And dude, that was creepy. The way he just came hurling over that wall and he just came running at, justine top speed at the gas station and i was like what the fuck is going on here so but yeah it was it was cool there was a lot of jump scares in it um yeah i would say this was this is more like smart horror or because it was visually and yeah gladys she was she was probably the scariest thing

in the whole movie that part to really trip me out was that yeah james when he was in the in the woods when he was running and hiding from Han Solo Oh, and she was waving at him in the woods Yeah, in the bushes I was like, oh dude, I just got the chills thinking of that image

I started watching it I need to go and finish it But man, they're supposed to be doing a spinoff movie With her Yeah, I might as well Where do they have it listed here as Body horror, dark comedy Folk horror

okay monster horror there were no monsters but they were scary looking Wikipedia has it is mystery horror psychological horror supernatural horror

you on IMDB yeah which horror they love to put on the tags on that one horror mystery yeah it was like mystery horror I don't know about dark comedy but well I was laughing

my ass off and what's his name socked the shit out of James when he got stuck by the needle yeah because that again the second time in this movie appropriate response in the face

oh man he's lucky to get shot but I mean the whole archer story Josh Rowland's character oh man that part got me because I was tearing up because he just was

sleep in his son's room and his wife was I was kind of pissed off at her I mean it's like she didn't care yeah she was just going on with with life like it was just normal yeah

I was I was like bitch that was my one complaint with a lot of these people that their children were gone yeah I don't feel like enough was happening with the parents yeah at least they weren't showing it

yeah we were just focused on archer and then and his story with his son well i guess it was good that they focused on him because he was the one that did spoiler alert he was the one that figured it out on what was going on and where it was because he well even even when we get introduced to uh in cameo roles uh sarah paxton and justin long yeah

there because he needs to get that well fuck it we're already spoiling in it they need to get that ring camp footage because their son went missing too they're kind of just going wrong with shit like it's just regular yeah like there's another day so yeah no more i mean again if you guys want to see this if you haven't seen this movie this is one that you have to see you got to see what's going on and yeah it was it was creepy it was scary i mean i jumped a lot i think think what made me jump more was the there was a couple sitting in front of me really quick when the theater isn't full spread out you don't need to sit right in front of me and they're like it could have sat maybe another row down because when i first went in there was me and a couple other guys and we were all spread out but as it got closer to the movie people started pouring in i mean there was it was a huge huge i max theater yeah there's only five people in the

theater you don't have to sit in your assigned seat yeah i mean just spread out you don't need to sit right in front of me i was like oh really i moved over a couple seats but i was like man i love being right in the center and looking straight forward at the screen but yeah there was this one time it was like me and my kids is mom and then like another couple sitting right there and then this dude came and sat right in between us four yeah he was being fucking weird to the point where I had to ask him to get up and move there's like 50 other seats you could pick pick one oh fuck that was when I went and seen um death wish we'll cover this one as well the remake uh the empty theater

Me and maybe four other guys in there. It was up when I was up in Seattle. I sit way in the back, maybe second to the back. I was in one of the smaller theaters, so it wasn't like a big theater. I sit there in the row. I sit down in the middle of the seat, and then some guy comes in and sits right behind me. I'm like, fuck, really? And then the next guy comes in.

sits right in front of me i was like fuck this i got up and moved i was like i'm not gonna have an empty theater and two people right in front one behind me right but right in front of me i was like you guys serious i mean i just got up and moved like all the way to that to the aisle and just so no i don't i'm not saying anything was going to happen but i just too many movies so I just got it but booed anyway now weapons

coming in at number two uh check it out this number one better be good because if it ain't better than weapons I'm going to have issues I guess we already talked about it I would put weapons above this film I mean not to say there wasn't a good film

but coming in at number one sinners sinners is a masterpiece we'll get into in a second Ryan Coogler Black Panther and is he making the next Black Panther?

Yeah. All right, good. He should be making the Blade movie. Why don't they stay away from Creed? Don't do that again, man. That last one was... He didn't direct that one. I know. I was what's his nuts? Pete Jordan. the reason I didn't care for Creed 3 is the the final fight.

Just give me a boxing match. Don't try to make it all artsy and add all these special effects. I was just sitting in the theater like, I'm just like, man, you killed it with the first two movies, but just like a regular boxing match. They tried to make it all artsy and add this and that to it. I was like, uh,

next. I was mad when I left them. Anyway, sinners trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers returned to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an evil,

even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Written and directed by Michael, or, uh, Michael Ryan Cougler, and this stars, uh, dual roles,

uh, Michael B. Jordan as smoke and stack. a Jack O'Connell Miles Captain I think it's his name a Haley Sadfield Yeah

I liked her in this one And a ton Of other people In this film But I want to put Weapons above this one No way

But I loved this film But like I said earlier This film was sold to me As a horror vampire film. So that's what I wanted. So I was kind of like, when's the vampires coming into play in this? But to put that aside, the story of what was going on in it during this time in history, I thought was

really good. My favorite scene in the whole film wasn't even a horror scene. I loved it when the vampires kicked in, but when they were having their party at their juke joint that they built. Oh, and the different generations of music. yeah i was yeah that was i was like oh my god the way they filmed it and what they were doing it was like a history lesson so i mean you can you can take this film a bunch of different ways and i loved what they did and then they just ended it with horror with the vampire and there was little things too that i liked because of the asian couple yeah born and raised in

the south had southern accents and i like that because why would they have asian accents yeah i mean it was it was like everybody was represented in this one it was really it was a really really good film but i was just when's the vampires coming into play i was waiting for all that but i mean like i said this was like a history lesson on what was going on at this time And I loved it. I was there for it. But I just wanted more action and vampires. But, I mean, again, not to say it wasn't a bad movie.

I mean, I really did enjoy it, but I got a little more enjoyment out of weapons. Because that was more of a surprise to me. But this was beautifully shot the way he filmed it. If you guys got to see it and was it film, whatever millimeter that they filmed it in, and then if you got to see it in iMacs as well um i saw it here in the little last movie theater but it was still awesome and everybody killed it in this if they had a good speaking role in this movie they killed it yeah i thought everybody hey steinfeld's not she's not kate bishop from hawkeye in this one she is a grown woman yep with the dirty with a dirty mouth

Everybody was dirty in it. Spitting in Michael B. Jordan's mouth. I'm not with that. But, I mean, it was crazy. I mean, every day, everybody was going on. And Michael B. Jordan playing two roles. I thought that was cool.

I liked what he did. I mean. And it looked good, too. Yeah. The scene when he's rolling a cigarette and he hands it to his brother. Yeah. It looked like two Michael B. Jordan's

that were really there. And it was good. And the way it ended with the scene at the end. Mm-hmm. I would like this to be one and done. But the way everyone's talking about it, they want to do more, do more of... I think Googler doesn't want to do it.

And I think if they do a second one, I think it'll be without him. they want to go more of a prequel leading up to what's going on i mean i mean if you do or even do a sequel because that scene at the end that was way in the future well i i wanted more with the Native Americans that were hunting Jack O'Connell's character Ram was it Ramick

Remick because you get them for like two minutes Yeah I mean that's what I've said This a ton of times Listen to us God damn it And none of this shit would have happened Yeah they didn't

They didn't care about your clan hoods In the background they were trying to warn you anyway yeah man they were like let us come in and handle it yeah and you were being stupid about it and then his boys was telling him hey it's getting dark we need to get out of here

yeah fuck yeah man they knew what they were dealing with yeah I'd like to see that story on on what happened to them I mean a lot of these films man I mean when fucking natives are telling you this is this is gonna go sideways you guys better listen to us and nobody fucking listens What was that movie with the

Wendigo? Antlers. Yeah, when they were asking them kids in the classroom and they were like, we can't talk about it. Yeah, I'm like, you motherfuckers, listen to us. It, welcome to Derry. You motherfuckers better listen to us. They didn't fucking listen.

They were the heroes of it. Spoiler alert. But it was like, you motherfuckers, I mean, listen to the indigenous people of this land. We're telling you guys something's going to go sideways and you guys don't listen and all hell breaks loose. Oh, man. So many different movies and everything of this.

For those you that don't know, I'm Native American. So I'm like, you motherfuckers listen to us. Yeah, I know I'm not the one to fuck around with shit. But if I got someone that's Native American, it's like, don't know. Don't go that way. Don't mess with that. Don't talk about that. I'm like, yes, sir, yes, ma'am.

Yeah, even in, what was that movie, The Witch, of that part of the land and everything, they were saying, yeah, nobody goes over there. Even the natives didn't go over there. There was a reason why they didn't go over there. They didn't listen. Look what happened. I was like, damn.

This one, too, as soon as I seen them roll onto the screen, and they were telling them, they just wanted to go in there and handle it, and they were like, nah, no, no, get out of here. And then, yeah, it's getting dark, man. We better roll. And I was like, oh. If you guys would have listened, none of that would have had no movie.

But I was like, it's always the same thing in these films when they bring in the indigenous perspective in it, the representation of them. I'm like, you better fucking listen to you. We always know more. We've been in this land longer and we're here to tell you and you guys don't fucking listen. And then look what happens. So I was like, God damn. Oh, man. But this movie was awesome.

Yes. I loved it. It was again. Again, I loved weapons a little more, but this movie was awesome. I loved the way everything played out. I loved it the way they shot it. A lot of the scenes. I mean, I wish I could have saw an IMAX.

Will it be nominated for Academy Awards? Let me see. It's received seven nominations, including Best Most and Picture Drama, and leading 17 nominations at the Critic Choice. So seven nominations at the Golden Gloves, 17 nominations of the Critic Choice Awards. Well, they put the substance up for Best Picture

last year or earlier. this year got robbed well to me you got robbed yeah she got I mean that chick that won she was good in that in her role

but no she was not better than anymore Margaret Quali yeah yeah it's just because she's the the new the new new no it's because she got all nasty that wasn't even her body

wasn't you had a body double for some of those scenes I've noticed as a trend get nasty and naked and everything and you win

Academy Awards look at what's her name Holly Barry know that and that one crazy ass movie with Mary Jean

or not Mary Jean she was in the amazing Spider-Man oh Emma Stone yeah her whatever that movie was called that she'd done

oh poor things. Yeah. Oh, my God. Did you see it? No. Somebody told me I wouldn't like it. I loved it. I thought it was an awesome film. Man, she was making through that whole thing getting railed by everybody. But I got to watch it because

I think the same director did the new one she's in, Borgonia. Yeah, I'm going to see that. I see that. That's a good movie. Okay. It's streaming now. So I want to check that. What is it streaming on? I think Pekar. I think.

let me see let me find it I'm pretty sure I went in not expecting to like it ended up really enjoying it I just like that we can't call

Fat Damon Fat Damon no more He is skinny Damon Now Isn't that Chessie Plemons Yeah isn't that Mary Jane's husband

Yeah Kristen Dunst Yeah streaming on Peacock Two hours It didn't feel like Two hours Well, I'm going to check this out.

I want to see it. Same person directed this one? I think so. Yeah, that movie was poor things. That movie was nuts. It was crazy of what was going on in that movie. It was a good movie. My wife, she was like, it was a little too much for her.

I don't know who. I think it was Lance told me I wouldn't like it. You get all naked and nasty, and you win a Academy Awards so it's probably why that girl won I mean don't get me wrong that was a good movie I liked it but she did not do better

than do me more that's all but all right again that was it the 10 best horror movies of 2025 from the top number 10 Guillermo del Toros Frankenstein number nine

Stephen Soderberg's presence uh emily blitchfield or whatever the ugly step sister uh drew hancock's companion coming in number seven sean brines number six dangerous animals francis lawrence number five the long walk uh the philippe philippo brothers number four bring her back Danny Boyle's number three 28 years later Zach Krieger

coming in number two with weapons and Ryan Coogler's number one sinners All of these that I've seen were good I need to see finish dangerous animals I need to see ugly step sisters and presents and Frankenstein

Out of these ones I haven't seen I think Frankenstein isn't going to be last on the list. But ugly sisters, I really want to see that one. I don't even know if Frankenstein makes my top ten. I don't know. I haven't seen it everyone. I haven't seen it yet. I mean, my list, let me pull it up.

I won't tell you guys what it is. You know, you'll listen to East Society. You want to know. But I think I have all right now, I only got nine. on my list and some people might not agree with some of them, but

I mean, but what I've seen was pretty good, so we will come back with top 10 and bottom, was it top 10 and bottom 10 or bottom 5? I don't know. Yeah, this year we're doing top 10, bottom 10, best TV

series and best horror villain is the new category. Best horror villain of this year? Yeah. Which I put a poll in the main Facebook page and

Penny Wise is winning. Did you watch the whole series? Yes. I loved it. I thought it was awesome. That final episode got me. Oh my God. It got me too. What's his name?

little Ricardo kid Oh Oh Dude that part killed me And then the connections to the The reveal of the connections to the Movies Yeah I was

I was like whoa I mean it was good It was an awesome series But my only issue with it Stephen King didn't write this Yes he gave Yeah he approved it and gave them the okay I want to know if they sat down with him

To to Lincoln his stuff with this I'm sure he had some input there was a lot of Easter eggs in it to Stephen King verse or whatever you want to call it so

so I'm like like how much how much was he involved in it did they run hey okay this is what we're doing we're going to run this is it cool with you will it work I have a suspicion they

they had a conversation with him kind of gave him outline of what they were doing and asked if he had any ideas or input especially on characters and stuff like that. Yeah. So I will see

what's to come. Yeah, they said three-season story art. Well, I like what they're doing. Yeah. Each season, they're going to go back 27 years. All right. We will see.

um okay I found the best TV horror TV at 2025 we'll come back

with that one for another bonus everyone before the year is up so but again this was um Dextro's top 10 best

horror movies at 2025 so but uh that's going to be it tonight everyone come back uh for more this is just a bonus episode brian and i are doing so um she has a regular episode should be coming up um i'm being lazy with the last two episodes brian and i did with action and streams they're coming just all your horses um but yeah this is uh check this one out as well and we'll come back with uh some more bonus uh this and that so but Yeah, go to thehorroriturns.com for everything. And we got, Brian and I have more for you guys. So stay tuned and thank you for listening.

This is, um, 2025 is coming to an end. And you guys were here for a lot, a lot of it, everything, pretty much. I mean, I see those download numbers. You guys rule. And, uh, as far as Brian and I, all the shows that we do here on the network, thank you so much for listening to all of those. Wrestling, action, stream fiends, and fry for a, reflections. I was like the first time I forgot that I'm correct. And everything else we're doing

over here. So, but again, 2026, another year for us. We are going to be doing, Brian and I are going to be doing a lot more for you guys. So please keep listening. And feedback is always good. Just let us know how we're doing. If you want to hear me bitch some more, listen to East Society and everything we got going on there. Like the Horror Returns, Eat Society, we're rolling up on 10 years, as well as my solo show, The Magnus Podcast. That's rolling up. on 10 years the next month or February I think it's in February

I don't know what I think you were before us I think it's 10 years it's gonna be I'm like goddamn it's been that long it seems like we just started but yeah it's gonna it's it was a long road

but as well as this year man Brian and I we've covered a lot for you guys so everyone thank you so much for listening to everything that we have here on the network now I need to see

when did I start okay I started February 16th of 2016 so a wrong time ago but all right everyone that is it for the night come back next time for more

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