This week’s pop culture roundup leads with Jennifer Lopez filing for divorce from Ben Affleck, Michael Madsen’s arrest, Victoria Jackson revealing an inoperable tumor, and the passing of Phil Donahue at 88, plus Wednesday dolls and Halloween video games.
Shudder revealed its September 2024 programming, headlined by the Shudder Original In A Violent Nature streaming September 13, the Shudder exclusive Oddity on September 27, and Steven Boyle’s The Demon Disorder, with synopses for each.
Tim reviews Alien: Romulus after winning movie passes, finding it visually stunning and faithful to the look of the first two Alien films, with F/X crew from the original picture, while noting how it sits between Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986).
A rebroadcast from the archives: the grand return of Dead On Movie Reviews from June 14, 2016, with Mike on The Conjuring 2, Drew on Hush, and Tim covering both The Gallows and the Black Mirror series.
Mike from OtherWorldly Culture sits down with legendary director George Romero for a rare interview at Culture Shock, presented by Days of the Dead.
This week’s roundup covers David Lynch’s official statement on his health, burglars hitting Tom Hanks’ home, Kevin Costner refusing to give up on Horizon 2, Jenna Ortega in talks for a J.J. Abrams film, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice tickets going on sale.
Shudder dropped the trailer for its new original series Horror’s Greatest, debuting August 27 on Shudder and AMC+, featuring interviews with David Dastmalchian, Joe Hill, Tom Holland, Alex Winter, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Tananarive Due, and the Boulet Brothers.
Shudder announced the September 6 premiere of The Demon Disorder, the feature directorial debut of special effects master Steven Boyle, starring John Noble as a man confronting a demonic presence tied to his family’s past.
Dead On the Bases revealed its full Season 9 schedule, with nine innings running from August 2024 through May 2025, pairing horror films such as The Return of the Living Dead, Friday the 13th, and Malignant with sports movies like Field of Dreams and Jerry Maguire.
This week’s roundup asks whether Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are working together again, catches up with Marcus Dunstan on The Collector, expands Halloween Horror Nights with Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Universal Monsters mazes, and adds Mark Hamill to a Stephen King adaptation.
