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The Final Podcast

The Final Podcast

Boos, brews, and horror movie reviews! New episodes weekly featuring a review of a single horror movie and scene-by-scene commentary where splatter meets passion.

tv & film film reviews

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280 - The Descent: Part 2 (2009) Review

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2025/09/08

Local authorities delve into a cave system, bringing along a caver who recently made her way out with minimal memory of what happened to her and her friends and encounter unhospitable dwellers. The Descent: Part 2 is the follow-up effort to the tense, and at times, terrifying movie, The Descent. Where the original was successful in not only creating great characters with motives, a claustrophobic environment, and creepy subterranean creatures, the sequel does the opposite on almost all of the...

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279 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge...

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2025/09/01

Freddy Krueger haunts the dreams of a teen boy and attempts to possess him to continue his murderous ways in reality. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge is the sequel to one of the most popular slasher movies of its time, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and brings the deceased child killer, Freddy Krueger, back into focus. While Freddy is in control, his method of killing is a bit different in this movie moving towards possession instead of him performing the evil himself...

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278 - Late Night with the Devil (2023) Review

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2025/08/25

A late night tv show host has a Halloween special to maintain his former glory, while evil has other plans. Late Night with the Devil is a unique horror movie that highlights what one man is willing to give up for fame. A lot of movies have portrayed the concept of selling one's soul to the devil, but never with such an original way of storytelling. This film takes place primarily on the set of a late-night talk show and chronicles what happened on a special Halloween episode. This effort was...

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277 - Girl on the Third Floor (2019) Review

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2025/08/18

A flawed man attempts to renovate a home for his growing family that is worse for wear, but this house has a history that it can't forget or forgive. Girl on the Third Floor stars CM Punk, a wrestler that we've loved for years and were so excited to hear that he was the main event in a horror movie! This film had an interest idea and featured some heavy themes, but do they deliver? Can "The Best in the World" help deliver a memorable performance? It's not going to be easy with a movie's scrip...

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276 - The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (2020) Review

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2025/08/11

Devout Irish villagers in a North American settlement are ravaged by disease while a woman and her daughter are thriving amidst suspicion of witchcraft. The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw starts off with a bang with a mysterious witch coven's use of a young girl to remain prosperous during a harvest, while a local village is struggling. The movie does teeter and starts to lose cohesiveness with the backstory of the witch, her capabilities, and the lack of self-awareness for her purpose. The time pe...

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275 - The Faculty (1998) Review

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2025/08/04

After witnessing a murder, a high school photographer believes the teachers at his school have been taken over by aliens and he investigates the odd phenomena sweeping over his school. The Faculty is a 90s scifi horror movie like no other, paying homage to so many films before it. It features an amazing cast of breakout stars, and it's directed by Robert Rodriguez. It truly feels like The Thing meets The Breakfast Club as a sci-fi mystery that stars Elijah Wood, Josh Harne...

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274 - Longlegs (2024) Review

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2025/07/28

An FBI agent with an odd connection to a serial killer discovers cryptic clues to a pattern of murders that hits close to him. Longlegs is successful in blending a true crime vibe with the occult and is overshadowed by the creepy and unsettling performance of Nicolas Cage. The film had great marketing efforts to really build up tension and create that ominous mystery that leaves the viewer haunted by the presence and evil depicted by the murders in the movie. Maika Monroe has a standout perfo...

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273 - Hush (2016) Review

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2025/07/21

A deaf and mute author, living in isolation, is visited at night by a masked predator threatening her life. Hush takes home invasion horror to new heights by pitting a masked killer up against a writer who is living in the woods alone and doesn't have the ability to hear or speak. Mike Flanagan, who has made a name for himself with several successful horror movies and tv shows, creates a tense atmosphere in this movie that continues to build over the duration of the film. What appears t...

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272 - The Loved Ones (2009) Review

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2025/07/14

After being turned down by Brent to go to prom, Lola decides to throw a prom of her own. The Loved Ones is an excellent movie that is both brutal and comedic and it continues to get more sadistic as the film goes on. It focuses on themes of loneliness, acceptance, and grief and ties up all loose ends by the end for a full depiction of the character motivations. The movie also tosses in a few twists that make the movie such a fun watch. The Loved Ones was a surprise and one that we've gone bac...

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271 - Pyewacket (2017) Review

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2025/07/07

A grieving mother-daughter relationship takes a turn for the worst, when young Leah performs a ritual in the woods to murder her mother. Pyewacket is a folk horror film that explores a family experiencing tragedy and a mother and daughter finding ways to cope and live with each other. While this movie covers the extreme ways of a young rebellious teenage girl copes with grief, the film does a good job of exploring grief and regret using folk horror as the genre. Many of the actions in th...

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270 - Fright Night (1985) Review

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2025/06/30

Charlie suspects his new neighbor of being a vampire and turns to an unlikely source for help in the form of a washed-up actor who portrays a vampire hunter on a television show. Fright Night is the finale of Retro Reel 2025 as it should. This movie is always a joy to watch from the memorable set of characters to the tense dialogue, it constantly picks up the pace. We were particularly impressed with the performances of Chris Sarandon as Jerry Dandrige and Roddy McDowall as Peter Vincent...

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269 - The Fog (1980) Review

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2025/06/23

The legend in the small, coastal town of Antonio Bay is of a ship lured to the land and swallowed up by a mysterious thick cloud as it sank. The locals say when the fog returns, the dead will arise from their watery graves. The Fog, directed by John Carpenter, fits quite nicely into Retro Reel 2025. It stars horror greats such as Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, and Hal Holbrook and like most Carpenter films, features an electric soundtrack. The film gives off eerie vibes ...

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268 - Creepshow (1982) Review

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2025/06/16

A child's comic book brings five tales of terror to life. Retro Reel 2025 rolls on with an anthology movie we enjoy watching every time. Creepshow, directed by George A. Romero, features an all-star cast of Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, and Adrienne Barbeau among many others in five horror tales that seem to get better and better as the movie continues. The blend of comedy and horror are done so well and the overarching story of the tales coming from a child's comic book is an exc...

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267 - Dead & Buried (1981) Review

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2025/06/09

Sheriff Dan Gillis investigates a series of murders and odd events in the small coastal town of Potter's Bluff. Retro Reel returns with a movie like no other. There's something about small town murder mysteries that are always interesting. Now just add horror and supernatural elements to that and you get Dead & Buried, a movie that doesn't get the appreciation it deserves. It fully captures that creepy small town feel as characters start dropping dead in the strangest circumstances and it...

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266 - Maniac (1980) Review

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2025/06/02

An adult man dealing with past trauma goes on a killing spree in New York City. Retro Reel is back for the 2nd run on the podcast and we are starting a whole month of 80's horror films with Maniac. This is the 2nd time we watched the movie and while the film is at times a mess, it conveys how a traumatic event in the past causes the main character to experience violent urges. The film is entertaining as it does have some gruesome kills including one that may be one of the best...

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265 - The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) Review

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2025/05/26

Dr. Dennis Alan travels to Haiti to research a drug that appears to be "zombifying" locals. The Serpent and the Rainbow is the last movie of Wes Craven May and a movie we love to rewatch. Flying under the radar of some of Craven's other movies, this film stars Bill Pullman as a convincing anthropologist working to uncover strange occurrences in Haiti regarding a drug that is pausing vital signs. This film explores the "stranger in a strange land" concept very well, adding in cultural elements...

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264 - The Last House on the Left (1972) Review

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2025/05/19

Escaped convicts kidnap and harm two teen girls who stop for weed in the city on their way to a rock concert. The Last House on the Left is a controversial film due to the depiction of sexual violence in the movie. Many regard it as a horror classic that has had wide-ranging influence on the genre. After multiple watches, we have differing opinions on the movie than Wes Craven fans of his first film. Does the movie hold up after all these years? Watch the movie and catch our review. Subscribe...

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263 - My Soul to Take (2010) Review

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2025/05/12

A schizophrenic serial killer comes back to his hometown to kill the seven kids who were prematurely born on the day he reportedly died. My Soul to Take is a movie that we have long criticized for being a weak slasher in almost every possible way. It's even more unfortunate to know that it was directed by Wes Craven. This film has some interesting concepts that are not only poorly executed, but they also fail to develop into anything meaningful at any point. Not to mention, there are a ...

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262 - The People Under the Stairs (1991) Review

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2025/05/05

Upon robbing the home of his landlords, Fool notices there are unusual men being kept under the stairs in the basement floor. He also discovers a young girl named, Alice in the home as he attempts to escape from under the noses of his landlords. The People Under the Stairs is a hidden gem from Wes Craven and a movie that sometimes feels over the top in all the right ways. Everett McGill and Wendy Robie stand out as the landlords who are constantly chasing Fool throughout the movie and continu...

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261 - Night of the Living Dead (1968) Review

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2025/04/28

A group in Pennsylvania hole up in a farmhouse in an attempt to survive against rampaging undead feasting for their flesh. Night of the Living Dead is the classic zombie apocalypse movie from one of the greats, George A. Romero. Romero helped inspire what zombie movies are today and it's clear that the way this film portrayed a macro view of a zombie apocalypse set the stage for how films are utilizing survivor struggles in a post-apocalyptic world today. This was our first time wa...

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