Weird Weekly Dispatch / October 2, 2026
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Comments from the crypt
Davey, your host
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October is officially here. This week’s Make It Weird Wednesday starts close to home. The real house from the ending of The Blair Witch Project stood in my own neighborhood, so I had to talk about it, along with how a new horror movie is borrowing Blair Witch’s famous marketing playbook. From there I get into the 2,000 pound puppet behind Resident Evil, the real medieval wolf hunt behind Robert Eggers’ Werwulf, and the most hated horror sequel ever made. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Also new on the site: the Critic’s Checklist, pulled from my upcoming mini-book How to Watch a Horror Movie. Type in the movie you’re watching and click through twelve steps for a thoughtful, fair critique, with a slime bar that fills up as you go. There’s a printable PDF too, and it’s a great place to start if you want to try reviewing for us.
I also reviewed two of last weekend’s new releases, Family and Bloody Tennis, and our Tomes of Terror shelf got its first review from a new contributor.
Tell me what you want more of. Just hit reply. We are also looking for submissions, so if you want to help grow our graveyard, give us a chant.
Davey
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This week in weird
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Review: Family (2026)
Benjamin Finkel’s debut is a moody, sad slow burn with a standout turn from Ruth Wilson. Worth a rental if you liked Relic or Hereditary.
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Review: Bloody Tennis (2026)
Shudder’s tennis academy horror goes all in on gore and dark humor. I’m not a big Suspiria fan, and this one won me over anyway.
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Your next nightmares
Freshly frightening flicks now out in theaters and streaming
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The Influencer Project
In theaters
Content creator Chiara King plays herself on a trip to Copenhagen while an obsessive stalker closes in. Produced by the Blair Witch Project creators.
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Infirmary
Shudder
A guard vanished on his first night at an old psych hospital, and his bodycam footage shows things investigators still can’t explain.
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I Would Rather Die
Prime Video
A Mexican zombie horror comedy series about an unpopular teen whose life changes after he gets bitten at a local store.
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Bite Size Terror
Tubi
A free 10-episode short-form anthology, with a new story every episode, from the occult to body horror to dark comedy.
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Beware Boiúna
In theaters
A medical mission deep in the Amazon wakes an ancient giant snake. Kiana Madeira and Jessica Rothe star.
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Verity
In theaters
Colleen Hoover’s bestseller with Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett, and a very dangerous secret manuscript.
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Still scrolling? Let us pick.
We built a search tool for the nights you have been staring at the Shudder menu for forty minutes and still have not pressed play. Tell it what you are in the mood for and it hands you something to watch. Free, no account, no sign up.
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Tomes of Terror
Two new reads on the shelf this week. Vivica Viscera, our newest reviewer, took on When We Spoke to the Dead by Ilise S. Carter, about how ghosts gave American women a voice. And Van Helsing and His Kin by Daniel O’Brien follows the famous vampire hunter through nearly a century of film and TV, ending with a look at Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Want to join Vivica? We are still looking for book and film reviewers. If you love horror and want to write about it, reach out on our Summon Us page.
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