Backrooms, Obsession, and Horror's Big Weekend
6/3/20261 hr 33 min
Welcome back to Coming Soon & Now Showing, our monthly series that catches up on the latest horror headlines and round robins capsule reviews of new and old horrors. Today, Mike and Justin look back on the blockbuster weekend that saw Backrooms and Obsession smashing box office records. They also brush on some franchise news and dust off oldies for the first time: 1987's Dead of Winter and 1977's False Face. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Speaker 20:23
[gentle music] Greetings and salutations. You've successfully arrived at the Bloody Disgusting Network. The passage of time will now bring you to something strange, unique, and idiosyncratic. Have a good time.
Doug Bradley· Soundbite0:44
[eerie music] The box. You opened it. We came. We have such sights to show you.
Speaker 41:03
From Frank's decrepit attic to the furthest reaches of Leviathan's realm, we are Halloweenies.
Doug Bradley· Soundbite1:14
Jesus wept.
Michael Roffman· Host1:18
Greetings, and welcome to another episode of Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Myers Rothman.