
#517 – The Monkey (2025)
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02/26/25 • 100 min
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When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw away the toy and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.
On this week’s episode...
Join the crew as we discuss Stephen King, bizarre deaths, and Osgood Perkins’ latest horror film, The Monkey (2025).
Show Notes:
Housekeeping (5:25)
Back of the Box/Recommendations (9:20)
Spoiler Warning/Full Review: (14:00)
Rotten Tomatoes (57:15)
Trivia (65:45)
Cooter of the Week (73:38)
What We’ve Been Watching (78:25)
Hotline Scream: (89:25)
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When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw away the toy and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.
On this week’s episode...
Join the crew as we discuss Stephen King, bizarre deaths, and Osgood Perkins’ latest horror film, The Monkey (2025).
Show Notes:
Housekeeping (5:25)
Back of the Box/Recommendations (9:20)
Spoiler Warning/Full Review: (14:00)
Rotten Tomatoes (57:15)
Trivia (65:45)
Cooter of the Week (73:38)
What We’ve Been Watching (78:25)
Hotline Scream: (89:25)
Connect with us:
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#516 – Signs (2002)
A widowed reverend lost his faith when he lost his wife. He’s now a single father living on a farm in Pennsylvania with his two kids and younger brother. They find crop circles in their cornfields and begin experiencing strange phenomena suggesting a potential alien invasion is looming.
On this week’s episode...
Join the crew as we discuss how effective PG-13 horror movies can be, how avoiding getting puked on is proof of God, and how M. Night Shyamalan used to make good movies in, Signs (2002).
Show Notes:
Housekeeping (9:25)
Back of the Box/Recommendations (15:40)
Spoiler Warning/Full Review: (23:38)
Rotten Tomatoes (71:55)
Trivia (78:55)
Cooter of the Week (84:08)
Hotline Scream: (88:32)
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