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Dead Air Ep 201 – The Ring (2002)

Posted in Dead Air Podcast with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on April 16, 2023 by splatterpictures

Sun comes up, we live and we cry. Sun goes down and we all listen to today’s episode of Dead Air!

Episode 201 continues our celebration of all things us and horror. We tackled the two pillars of J-Horror Ring and Ju-On. Now we discuss the remake of The Ring in 2002. Inarguable the film that caused the J-horror boom of the early 2000’s

Rachel is a tough as nails investigative journalist who, when her young niece dies mysteriously, sets out to figure out what could have ended her life and the life of her friends. She will discover a cursed videotape that claims if anyone watches it they will die in seven days. The curse will envelope Rachel and her entire family. Then it’s a race against time before the curse comes to pass and they all die. Rachel along with her ex husband Noah will uncover the dark and twisted origins of the tape that will bring them to a sleepy island town and rumors of a little girl who never sleeps. Samara. Can they uncover the truth and save not only their own lives. But the life of their son!? find out!

Dead Air Ep 192: C.H.U.D.

Posted in Dead Air Podcast with tags , , , , , on June 3, 2022 by splatterpictures

Episode 192 is lurking deep below the surface. Hungry for the blood of John Goodman!

In today’s episode we discuss the 1984 cult classic C.H.U.D.

George Cooper is a professional photographer on the mean streets of New York in the early 80’s. Stuck doing shoots of his fiance model in vapid magazine adds his passion project, artful pictures of the homeless population of the city becomes ground zero for a string of mysterious disappearances.
Simultaneously a gritty detective’s wife has gone missing while walking her dog which opens up something sinister lurking in the sewers of New York. no matter what “C.H.U.D.” stands for. It spells doom for anyone foolish enough to walk the streets at night.

We got blood, guts, monsters, coverups and a lot of charm in this undeniable classic!

Dead Air Ep 190 – The Perfection

Posted in Dead Air Podcast with tags , , , , , , , on March 27, 2022 by splatterpictures

We now bring you episode 190 of Dead Air! This week we discuss the 2018 film, The Perfection!

Charlotte is a musical prodigy and alum from the prestigious Bachoff school that left years ago to care for her sick mother. When her mother finally succumb to her illness she returns to her former teachers and is introduced to Lizze the current star pupil of the Bachoff institute. The two women fall for eachother and take a trip through China, which ends with one of the women bloody and maimed. What follows is a bizarre and horrific story as these women come to terms with their past and must kill to ensure their future.

Dead Air Ep 189 (Let The Right One In)

Posted in Dead Air Podcast with tags , , , , , , , , on March 5, 2022 by splatterpictures

Squeal pig! I said squeal! Well, maybe you’ll change your tune after listening to episode 189 of the Dead Air Podcast! This time we bring you to the eerie snow covered suburb of Blackeberg in beautiful Stockholm Sweden for 2009’s vampire film; Let the Right One In.

The year is 1982 and Oskar is a maladjusted youth who is relentlessly bullied by his peers. One night he chances upon a mysterious new girl, Eli that’s arrived in the neighborhood. They strike up a friendship that turns to a twisted tale of love and death as Oskar slowly learns the truth that young Eli is anything but the innocent girl she pretends to be. Under the guise of youth hides the fangs of a very real and possibly ancient vampire who, with the help of her servant are stalking the rural parks and paths of this once quiet suburb.