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That one was actually better than I thought it’d be. Not bad for having come out during the 2000s-2010s found footage glut. Next up we’re transferring the same concept to Korea done seven years later. Let’s see if they fare better. 14) Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018 - Shudder, Prime, Tubi, etc)

Poster for Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum showing a group of people with cameras at one end of a dark, dilapidated hallway filming toward the viewer.

Tag: 1 of the 7 Freakiest Places in the World.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 22h

Tonight I think we’re gonna hit a double feature on a theme. Found footage reality tv asylum dives. First up: 13) Grave Encounters (2011 - Shudder, Tubi, Prime, etc)

Poster for Grave Encounters. Everything is in washed out tan and brown colors almost like sepia tone. The bottom shows the crew of four people (3 men, 1 woman) standing and holding cameras. The top is a wide shot of a three story dilapidated building.

Tag: They were searching for proof… They found it.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Another one I haven’t seen since it came out and forgot to tag last night. This is more “kids on bikes” than pure horror but it’s got the classic Universal Monsters characters in it so it counts. It also answers the age old question: Does Wolfman have nards? 12) The Monster Squad (1987 - Prime)

Poster for The Monster Squad showing the kids posing on the hood of a car wielding lanterns and weapons. Across the cloudy night sky in the background are the faces of the Monsters.

Tag: You know who to call when you have ghosts. But who do you call when you have monsters?

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Another year, another installment of this anthology series. 11) V/H/S/Mixtape (2026 - Shudder)

Poster for VHS Mixtape showing a skull and spinal column on a piece of bloodstained lined paper where the eyes and front of the skull are the wheels of a cassette tape and tape hangs down like pouring rivulets of blood.

Tag: Low Fidelity, High Bodycount.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Started this one last night but forgot to tag it. Resuming it this morning after getting my annual flu shot and Covid booster. We’re about a third of the way into the challenge and we’re revisiting one I haven’t seen since it came out. 10) Tremors (1990 - Peacock)

Poster for Tremors showing three people standing above ground with desert mountains, a building and a water tower in the distance. Below the ground shows the opened toothy maw of a snake-like Graboid monster pointed toward the surface.

The tag reads: They say there’s nothing new under the sun. But under the ground…

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And after Resident Evil the other night, let’s return to the video game adaptation well to drink once more. This time liminal horror in Japan! 9) Exit 8 [8番出口] (2025 - Shudder)

Poster for Exit 8 showing the title in both English and Japanese with the tag: A Genki Kawamura Film.

Poster depicts a Möbius strip of tiled subway station tunnel with characters walking along its twisting surface on a bright yellow background.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tonight we’re revisiting a movie I saw the first time during its theatrical run. I remember very very little about it though so, you know, 35ish years is probably long enough to give it another look. 8) The People Under the Stairs (1991 - Peacock)

Poster for The People Under the Stairs showing three houses from a distance. The middle one is backlit dramatically and all the lights in the windows are on. The dark cloudy sky above is overlaid with a skull.

Tagline: In every neighborbood there is one house that adults whisper about and children cross the street to avoid. Now Wes Craven, creator of "A Nightmare on Elm Street,” takes you inside…

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tonight we’re venturing out to the theater. Seated currently for Zach Cregger’s newest. Let’s do it. 7) Resident Evil (2026 - Theatrical)

Poster for the 2026 Resident Evil movie showing the back of a man dressed in cold weather gear with a medical bag across his back. He is walking through a foggy street with burned out, wrecked vehicles flanking him toward a tall tower silhouetted in the distance.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tonight we’re going to take a stab at Jane Schoenbrun’s latest after having done two of their others over the last few years. Signed up for a one week free trial of Mubi to get my mitts on this one. 6) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026 - Mubi)

Posted for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma showing Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson standing side by side, drenched in blood, in front of a pattern of concentric squares that are overlaid with images of a snowy forest. At the top the tag reads “Blood. Lust.”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well that was about as bleh as I expected after the last one. Oh well. One more for the books. Next up we’re taking a stab at something recent and random that had decent reviews on Shudder. 5) Night of the Reaper (20205 - Shudder)

Poster for Night of the Reaper showing a young woman standing in the middle of a suburban street in early evening looking toward the viewer while a skull-like face watches from the dark sky above like a cloud

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alright we’re back after a day off yesterday. Yeah, sure. Why not? It’s not gonna be good but it’s recent I guess? 🤷‍♂️ 4) Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025 - Netflix)

Poster for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 showing the animatronic characters leering with glowing eyes at the viewer through a cutout number 2 on a red background.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jumping back in for night 2 with a return to a series we visited last year. I saw the original The Strangers in theaters and watched it again for the first time since then. Tonight, we dip into the first of a handful of recent sequels. 3) The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018 - HBO Max)

Poster for The Strangers: Prey at Night showing the trio of masked killers lined up, clutching their weapons reverently as moody lighting illuminates them. Tagline at the top reads “Let Us Prey”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gonna try to get a second one in tonight because we’re gonna lose a day on Saturday. Here’s a series we started last year that I’d never gotten around to. We didn’t go deeper than the first one though 2) Final Destination 2 (2003 - HBO Max)

Poster for Final Destination 2 showing the cast standing in front of a skull-like swirling blue and black cloud effect with lightning.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First up is a movie we meant to do last year but didn’t get around to. We’ve been keeping its seat warm since then. 1) Good Boy (2025 - Shudder, Hulu)

Poster for the movie Good Boy showing a dog in one corner of the image looking warily at shadowy hands surrounding and reaching for it from all sides.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As I said earlier today in passing, yes I’m still alive. Not that anyone was particularly clamoring for updates on that front but there you go. Some proof of life content from when the local Spirit Halloween opened recently and I recharged my spooky reservoir for another year.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hey all. I know we’re all doing bad rn, but if anyone is in a position to help w/ even a few bucks, it’d mean the world. Over the last couple months we’ve fallen behind on multiple bills + roommate had to throw a couple grand at his car to get it to pass inspection so he can get to work. Links ⬇️

Hands hold open an empty wallet. Well, actually it’s not totally empty. Inside is the confused John Travolta from Pulp Fiction.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

On my way to the office right now. Procedure at 9. Pray for Mojo.

Screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask of a black screen with white text reading “Dawn of the Final Day - 24 Hours Remain”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Okay. So I didn’t think this was going to help as much as it did but the Jello (despite me being tired of lime flavor) is really tamping down the hunger! I figured my body would just register it as “ugh yet more liquid” but it’s definitely making my hollow stomach feel better!

A bowl full of a prepared family sized pack of lime Jello. About a third of it has been eaten, a spoon resting in the empty space.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Tomorrow is the day. Having this final tiny breakfast before I start the prep juice in a couple hours and switch to all liquids for the rest of the day. Oof.

A piece lightly toasted white bread, a single unseasoned scrambled egg and a stick of string cheese sit on a small plate with fork.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I know I haven’t posted much over here but I just figured I’d inform y’all that I discovered Angine De Poitrine a few weeks ago (like everyone else did) and they’ve been pretty much consuming my brain since then.

Photo of Quebec microtonal math rock duo Angine De Poitrine taken from their viral KEXP live performance on YouTube.

Trying to describe their appearance would probably run out the character limit here and it’s late and I’m tired.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I feel this in my soul. My bones ache every day for this.

Screenshot of a tweet from @thegorezone on Twitter reading:

“bro what do you mean i should learn how to code or become an influencer. im meant to be an 80s video store clerk recommending gory horror movies to the neighbourhood scamps. im meant to be a small town radio dj who plays too much new wave and gets involved in a local mystery.”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Edible consumed. Hot chocolate made. Settling back in for the evening.

Close up of a hand in black fingerless gloves holding a mug of cocoa with a spoon protruding from it. Jumbo marshmallows float on the surface, growing swollen from absorption.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Just returned from a 3pm mid-storm shovel session because if we waited until tomorrow it would have been too much at once. My job may be ass but this coat they provided is toasty warm and weather repellant so that’s a win at least. Stay safe out there, y’all!

Rob is bundled up, standing at the bottom of a set of short steps covered in snow. He’s holding an orange plastic shovel in one hand an apprehensive look on his face.

A shot of a dumpster with piled mounds of snow taller than the top of it. Blowing drifts are high enough to almost enter the dumpster’s open mouth.

Rob with shovel standing next to one of the mounds of snow on the left of the imagine with the dumpster on the right side of the image to show scale - he’s 6’2”.

A selfie showing a similar expression to the first image. Snow is crusted in his beard and on the exposed front of a faux-fur ushanka hat. Snow covered cars and an apartment complex are in the background.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Manifesting some vibes this morning in the hopes that IT happens soon.

Screenshot of Apple Music playing “When Will You Die?” by They Might Be Giants from the album Join Us. The cover art shows a pink monster truck hearse popping a sick wheelie.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Currently: Sitting in a parking lot in the snow. Having a Lords of the New Church sorta day today.

Cover of the US release of The Lords of the New Church’s self titled first album showing the black field with the band’s name at the top and a small drawing of a dagger with a skull at the cross point of the hilt just below it.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Proof of life photo since it’s been a hot minute, I guess. I hate that I keep forgetting to post here because every time I open this app, I remember what Twitter used to be like and I get sad. Lotta plans in the hopper for next year though. Hope you’re all doing okay. Miss you.

Front seat selfie of a beardier Rob since the last time you saw him.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

And with that, our October Horror Movie Challenge is done for another year. Whew! Thanks for following along for those who did. And now as a little denouement on the year, we close out with what’s become kind of an end of Halloween tradition to celebrate. 32) Trick ‘r Treat (2007 - HBO Max)

Poster for Trick ‘r Treat showing Sam, the sack-masked, button-eyed little mascot for this movie, holding his sack of treats and standing next to a Jack o’lantern in front of a montage of images of characters from the anthology superimposed over a glowing orange background.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Oops! Minor error! Turns out we didn’t watch the one before this which explains why I was a bit confused at the first few minutes. So we’re going to start our ACTUAL number 30 now then and return to the above one next. 30) Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023 - Shudder)

Poster for Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor showing the hollow eyed clown face from the previous movies floating over the titular manor.

Tagline: Every Story Has an Origin

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

We’re settled in for the night with our candy and fast food to finish out the month in proper fat kid style. First up? What is (I believe?) supposed to be the final installment of this franchise we started watching a couple years back. 30) Hell House LLC: Lineage (2025 - Shudder)

Poster for Hell House LLC: Lineage showing a spooky house with one glowing red window at the top and a clown-esque mask at the bottom with hollow blood dripping eyes.

Tagline: A Blood Bond Rooted in Evil

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Getting suuuuper close to being done this year! Only a couple left to go… Going back to another recent one this time. 29) Heretic (2024 - HBO Max)

Poster for Heretic. An out of focus bespectacled man’s face is in the background as his hand reaches out toward a pair of what appear to be crudely carved wooden dolls representing young women on a tabletop in the foreground.

Tagline: “Question everything”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Man I’ve been so bad at keeping this list up. We started this one Sunday night and finished it last night. I had seen it before but it had been ages. 28) One Missed Call (2003 - Shudder)

Poster/ad for One Missed Call showing a young Japanese woman looking fearfully at the camera as behind her, a ghostly woman with long stringy hair approaches her upside down on the ceiling lit in green as if from a night vision camera. Similar green lit fingertips emerge from the darkness near a hand holding a flip phone.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Forgot to post this yesterday. The next stop at j-horror station was one I could have sworn I had seen but turns out I hadn’t. 27) Noroi: The Curse (2005 - Shudder)

Poster for Noroi: The Curse showing a picture frame with a photo of a man and woman with a young girl. The eyes of each person are covered with a black bar. In the foreground of the poster are two rising streams of smoke as is from burning incense.

The right column of smoke forms the tagline in Japanese script: みんな死んだ - Minna Shin Da - Everyone died.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I think we’re gonna keep the J-Horror train going today. I’ve never actually gotten around to watching this one before or reading the Junji Ito manga it’s based on either. Time to fix that. This also marks the first time this year we’re getting ahead of the curve! 26) Tomie (1998 - Shudder)

Poster for Tomie showing faces of various characters peering out from a dark background. In the foreground we see a red stained plastic shopping bag with a hole in the side. An eye can be seen peering out of the hole in the bag at the viewer.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

First one today is a fairly recent Japanese offering I hadn’t heard of before until I stumbled onto it. 25) Best Wishes to All (2022 - Shudder)

Poster for Best Wishes to All showing the film’s protagonist - a young Japanese woman with bangs and long dark hair. She’s turned slightly toward the camera in front of an out of focus cloudy grey background. Her face is slightly dirty and her right eye is reddened with a line coming out of it like a teardrop perhaps?

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Started this one last night and forgot to log it. 24) Until Dawn (2025 - Netflix)

Cover image for Until Dawn showing an hourglass with a creepy house in the bottom half of the glass and a girl’s screaming face in the top.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Pulling into the final week here… let’s go back to the found footage/documentary well with one I only heard about recently. 23) Butterfly Kisses (2018 - Prime, Tubi)

Promotional image for Butterfly Kisses showing a depiction of an eye with the colors washed out to blueish grey with the center of the eye replaced by a sketch of train tracks heading into a tunnel and a silhouetted figure at the end of the tunnel wearing a wide brimmed hat.

Tagline: “The Camera Doesn’t Lie”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Been meaning to watch this one for a long time now. 22) Pontypool (2008 - Shudder)

Poster for Pontypool showing a red splatter on a white background forming the image of a man with headphones on (the character Grant Mazzy, a radio DJ). The splatter makes it look as if his head is exploded.

Tagline: “Shut up or die”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Forgot to post that we started this one last night. 21) Seed of Chucky (2004 - Peacock)

Poster for Seed of Chucky showing Chucky leaning down and touching fingers with an outstretched baby’s hand rising up from out of a covered bassinet stroller. Light blooms where the fingers touch.

Tagline: “Fear The Second Coming”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

And tonight shifts back to a franchise we did earlier this month. 20) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986 - Tubi)

Poster for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 showing Leatherface and his family of weird cannibal freaks posing in a group shot for the camera as he raises a clenched fist in the back.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Forgot to post this one last night. We kept this franchise going with the second installment. 19) Poltergeist 2: The Other Side (1986 - Tubi)

Poster for Poltergeist 2: The Other Side showing Carol Anne sitting and holding a phone reciever to her ear in a pool of light on a field of darkness.

Tagline: “They’re Back”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We watched the 2015 remake of this classic a year or so back and I was already yearning for a rewatch of the original’s sequel. Turns out the original three are on streaming so why not rewatch the first two and finally watch the third, which I hadn’t seen? 18) Poltergeist (1982 - HBO Max)

Key set for Poltergeist showing a young girl sitting in front of a tv, its screen showing static and casting the room in blue-white light. She has her back to the viewer and her palms against the screen.

Tagline: “It knows what scares you”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Back to the grindstone again with one I’d never seen before yet. 17) Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984 - Pluto TV)

Poster for Silent Night, Deadly Night showing a Santa suit wearing arm coming out of a snow and icicle covered chimney on a snowy rooftop holding an axe.

Taglines: “You’ve made it through Halloween, now try and survive Christmas” and “He knows when you’ve been naughty”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

And for the second half… 16) The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025 - Theater)

Poster for The Conjuring: Last Rites showing Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren. Ed has his mouth partially open as if speaking or yelling and one hand extended toward the viewer. Loraine is behind him, looking concerned and upset.

Tagline: “The Case That Ended It All”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Forgot to post this earlier tonight but I’m at the drive-in for a double feature tonight. We got underway about an hour and a half ago with… 15) The Black Phone 2 (2025 - Theater)

Poster for The Black Phone 2 showing the leering devil-like mask of The Grabber smiling up from out of the snow and ice.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

We’re behind yet again… ugh. But we have plans for the weekend to get caught up. For now, it’s a remake that I haven’t seen since it originally came out. 14) The Blob (1988 - Shudder)

Poster for the 1988 remake of The Blob showing the titular creature having enveloped someone, with their hands and face pushing against the membrane, face in an expression of horror.

Tagline: “Now, Terror has No Shape”

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Getting a late start today with the sequel to one we did last year. Let’s see what Peach Fuzz has been up to… 13) Creep 2 (2017 - Netflix)

Poster for Creep 2 showing the main serial killer character played by Mark Duplass with his arms crossed across his chest looking down through some irregular aperture at the viewer. Stacks of what appear to be cut firewood are stacked behind him.

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R.T. Nyx @rtnyx.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Woof… that was kind of a hot mess. Sloppy execution all around with far too few bright spots (both literal and figurative) but they can’t all be winners, right? Next up… returning to a classic I haven’t seen in forever. 12) The Howling (1981 - Tubi)

Movie poster for The Howling showing claws raking slashes through some sheet of thin material or paper. Clawed fingertips are visible through the slashes as well as a woman’s open screaming mouth.

Tagline: Imagine your worst fear a reality.

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