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The Reel Pineapple

The Reel Pineapple

Thirteen years. 900 episodes. Zero filter. Host Joshua Hunter breaks down new releases, revisits cult classics, and says exactly what he thinks — no hype, no pandering, no pretending a bad movie is good just because it"s popular. Expect deep-dive film history, candid interviews with filmmakers and industry voices, and a laid-back, nerdy energy where conversations go wherever they want to go. Whether he"s tearing apart an overrated blockbuster or defending an underappreciated gem nobody else will,

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31:38

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: 🩸🧛🏿🎃 What We Do in...

The Reel Pineapple ·

2026/10/18

Joshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with What We Do in the Shadows Season 2, picking back up with the Staten Island vampire roommates as the consequences of killing the Baron finally catch up with them. Nandor goes fully undercover as a completely normal, totally human bartender named Jackie Daytona — ten-gallon hat, toothpick, and all — while Laszlo hides out from Baron-related fallout, Nadja wrestles with a nest of unruly baby vampires, and Colin Robinson's deeply unsettling energy

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28:05

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: 🩸🧛🏿🎃 What We Do in...

The Reel Pineapple ·

2026/10/18

🩸🧛🏿🎃 What We Do in the Shadows — Centuries Old, Still This DumbJoshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with What We Do in the Shadows Season 1, the FX mockumentary series based on the Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi film, following a group of ancient vampire roommates — Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and energy vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) — navigating modern-day Staten Island while their human familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) handles

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36:05

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: 🩸🧛🏿🎃 Blade II —...

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2026/10/17

Joshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with Blade II, Guillermo del Toro's genre-bending sequel starring Wesley Snipes as the half-vampire "Daywalker" Blade. This time, Blade's lifelong war against vampires takes an unthinkable turn — forced into an uneasy alliance with the very vampires he's spent his life hunting to take down a far deadlier threat: the Reapers, a mutated strain of vampire so monstrous even regular vampires are terrified of them. Taking over directing duties, Guillermo del

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20:13

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: 🩸🧛🏿 Blade — The...

The Reel Pineapple ·

2026/10/17

Joshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with Blade, the 1998 action-horror classic starring Wesley Snipes as the half-vampire, half-human "Daywalker" who's spent his life hunting the undead after his mother was attacked while pregnant with him. Alongside his mentor Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), Blade goes to war against Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), a rogue vampire plotting to unleash an ancient blood god and wipe out humanity for good. Joshua breaks down why this one is widely credited with

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27:49

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: Challengers Review—...

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2026/10/16

Joshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with Challengers, Luca Guadagnino's tennis drama starring Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Faist — and arguably one of the most genuinely horrifying depictions of a relationship put to screen this decade. Underneath the sweat and the slow-motion volleys is a years-long psychological chokehold, three people locked in a love triangle built on manipulation, obsession, and emotional warfare disguised as romance. No haunted houses, no masked killers — just

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20:51

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: 🎬 Boy Kills World...

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2026/10/15

The Reel Spooky Series continues with Boy Kills World, the ultra-violent, genre-bending revenge thriller starring Bill Skarsgård as "Boy," a man left deaf and mute after watching his family slaughtered by Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), the deranged matriarch ruling a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty. Trained from childhood by a mysterious shaman and driven by an inner voice borrowed from his favorite video game, Boy sets out on a bloody campaign of vengeance against the dynasty

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14:00

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: Mother's Instinct...

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2026/10/14

The Reel Spooky Series continues with Mother's Instinct, the 1960s-set psychological thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain as Celine and Alice, two best friends and next-door neighbors whose idyllic suburban lives are shattered by a tragic accident. What should bring the two women closer in grief instead drives a wedge between them, as quiet suspicion creeps into their decades-long friendship — was it really just an accident, or is something far darker happening right next

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21:05

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: Woman of the Hour...

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2026/10/13

The Reel Spooky Series continues with Woman of the Hour, Anna Kendrick's acclaimed directorial debut, based on the stranger-than-fiction true story of Cheryl Bradshaw, an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles who steps in front of the cameras for an episode of The Dating Game — and unknowingly picks serial killer Rodney Alcala (Daniel Zovatto) as her match, while he's in the middle of a years-long murder spree. What makes the film land harder than your average true-crime thriller is how little has

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17:25

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: 🎬 The Royal Hotel...

The Reel Pineapple ·

2026/10/13

Joshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with The Royal Hotel, Kitty Green's slow-burn thriller reuniting her with The Assistant star Julia Garner. Garner and Jessica Henwick play Hanna and Liv, two American backpackers who run out of money in Australia and take a live-in bar job at a remote Outback mining town pub — only to find themselves trapped in an increasingly menacing situation surrounded by a bar full of unruly, entitled locals. There's no supernatural threat here, no masked killer —

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19:59

Hungry — Forget the Marbles, Save Yourself

The Reel Pineapple ·

2026/10/11

You grew up playing Hungry Hungry Hippos like it was the most chaotic thing imaginable. You had no idea. Hungry drops a group of thrill-seeking tourists into the Louisiana bayou for what promises to be an unforgettable riverboat adventure — and delivers exactly that, just not in the way anyone signed up for. Lost in the swamplands and completely off the grid, they find themselves hunted by something massive, territorial, and absolutely done with their presence. Directed by James Nunn and starring

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24:53

Matchbox: The Movie — You Can’t See This Coming

The Reel Pineapple ·

2026/10/11

Nobody asked for a Matchbox movie. Nobody put it on their radar. Nobody circled October 9th on their calendar and said “that’s the one.” And yet — here we are. Mattel and Apple TV+ have delivered a globetrotting action adventure starring John Cena as an undercover CIA agent who rolls back into his hometown and accidentally drags his childhood friends into an international mission to save the world. Yes, really. Directed by Sam Hargrave — the man who made Extraction 2 an absolute ride — and stacked

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33:59

Tyler Perry’s Doing Life Review— The Sentence Runs Long

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2026/10/11

Tyler Perry is back on Netflix with his latest drama, and he’s swinging for something deeper this time. Doing Life follows Anika — a single mother working as a correctional officer — whose world shifts unexpectedly after an incarcerated man named Carousel saves her life during a prison riot. What unfolds is an unlikely bond built through letters, second chances, and the question at the heart of the film: can someone truly rebuild their life after the system has swallowed them whole? It’s a

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58:47

Reel Spook Series 2026 Presents: Longlegs Review—...

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2026/10/11

Joshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with Longlegs, Osgood Perkins' occult horror-thriller starring Maika Monroe as Lee Harker, a new FBI agent assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that spirals into something far darker — and far more personal — than she expects. Nicolas Cage stars as the titular killer in a performance critics have called one of the most disturbing of his career(and that's really saying something). Joshua breaks down whether Perkins' atmospheric, slow-burn style of

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16:01

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: Lisa Frankenstein —...

The Reel Pineapple ·

2026/10/10

Joshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with Lisa Frankenstein, the feature debut for Zelda Williams, written by Diablo Cody. Set in 1989, the film follows Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton), a misunderstood goth teen who accidentally brings her ideal Victorian-era crush (Cole Sprouse) back to life as a reanimated corpse — kicking off a murderous, darkly romantic journey to piece together both his body and their relationship.Joshua breaks down whether Cody's signature mean-streak humor and

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20:35

Reel Scary Series 2026 Presents: 🎬 Ready or Not 2...

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2026/10/09

Joshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, the Radio Silence-directed sequel that picks up moments after Grace (Samara Weaving) survives the Le Domas family's deadly game — only to discover the stakes just got a whole lot higher. Teamed up with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton), Grace must now survive four rival families hunting her with world changing ramifications, with Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Cronenberg, and Elijah Wood joining the

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37:59

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: Ready or Not...

The Reel Pineapple ·

2026/10/09

Joshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with Ready or Not, the 2019 horror-comedy from Radio Silence (the duo behind Abigail and the recent Scream films), starring Samara Weaving as Grace, a new bride who learns on her wedding night that marrying into the wealthy Le Domas family means playing a deadly game — hide and seek, where losing means dying, and "til death do us part" takes on a whole new meaning. Joshua's joined this episode by Nick Taylor, co-host of The Afternoon Tune, for a

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17:58

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: Monsters, Inc. — A...

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2026/10/08

Joshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with Monsters, Inc., Pixar's 2001 classic about Sulley (John Goodman) and Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), two monsters working the night shift at a scare factory powered by children's screams — until a human toddler named Boo accidentally slips into their world and makes them question everything. Joshua breaks down why this one still holds up as one of Pixar's most inventive, heartfelt premises over two decades later, digs into the film's surprisingly

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15:25

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: Heretic Review—...

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2026/10/07

Joshua Hunter reviews Heretic, the A24 horror-thriller from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, starring Hugh Grant against type as Mr. Reed — a charming, seemingly harmless man who invites two young Mormon missionaries played by Sophie Thatcher & Chloe East into his home, only to trap them in a deadly game of faith & doubt. Joshua breaks down how Grant flips his beloved rom-com charm into something genuinely terrifying that might be a career best performance, and digs into how the film uses

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16:11

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: Azrael Review — A...

The Reel Pineapple ·

2026/10/06

Joshua Hunter reviews Azrael, the dialogue-free action-horror film from director E.L. Katz & writer Simon Barrett, starring Samara Weaving as the title character in a world overrun by demonic, flesh-hungry creatures known as the Burned Ones. Hunted by a mute, devout community intent on sacrificing her to an ancient evil, Azrael refuses to go quietly into the silent night. Joshua breaks down whether this silent-film approach to horror actually heightens the tension or just leaves the story

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17:21

Reel Spooky Series 2026 Presents: 🧺👹 Portal to Hell —...

The Reel Pineapple ·

2026/10/05

Today's Reel Spooky Series entry is Portal to Hell, Woody Bess's indie horror-comedy about Dunn (Trey Holland), a mundane debt collector whose life gets flipped upside down when he discovers a portal to hell hiding behind the washing machines at his local laundromat. When a demon named Chip (Richard Kind) shows up to drag Dunn's neighbor Mr. Bobshank (Keith David) to hell over an unpaid debt, Dunn strikes a dark bargain to intervene — three souls in exchange for his neighbor's freedom. Joshua

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