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FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT

It"s FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT in which the Mister and Monsters join me in reviewing and discussing films - we"re not experts, just film fans. Please note there will be SPOILERS. Opening intro music: GOAT by Wayne Jones, courtesy of YouTube Audio Library All artwork/pictures from IMDb

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00:25:26

Friday Family Film Night: ONE CUT OF THE DEAD review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/24

On the twenty-third night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017), screenplay and directed by Shin'ichirô Ueda from a play "Ghost in the Box!" by Ryoichi Wada. We do not want to spoil this so we won't, other than to say, RUN DON'T WALK and check out this film. The film clocks in at 1 h and 36 m, is unrated R and we caught the film on the Hoopla app, but you can watch the film on AMC+ and to buy/rent on Prime Video. Please note

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00:08:55

Friday Family Film Night: THE SADNESS review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/23

On the twenty-second night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing ROH (2019), written/directed by Rob Jabbaz. After a year of downplaying a flu-like virus, the city of Taipei is suddenly plunged into bloody chaos as a mutation causes the infected to act on their darkest, most violent, and most perverse impulses. The highly aggressive plague turns ordinary people into sadistic, grinning maniacs who revel in torture, murder, and sexual assault. Separated when the outbreak

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00:20:01

Friday Family Film Night: ROH review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/22

On the twenty-first night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing ROH (2019), written by Emir Ezwan, Amir Hafizi and Nazri Vovinski, the film is directed by Emir Ezwan. In a secluded hut deep within the Malaysian forest, a single mother and her two children's isolated life is shattered when they encounter a strange, mute little girl covered in mud. The girl repays their kindness with a grim prophecy: the family will all be dead by the next full moon, an omen that is confirmed

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00:14:12

Friday Family Film Night: PRESENCE review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/21

On the twentieth night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing PRESENCE (2024), written by David Koepp, the film is directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film is shot entirely from the point of view of an unseen entity, which observes a dysfunctional family—a mother, father, and two teenage children—after they move into a new suburban house. As tensions and secrets within the family escalate, the "Presence" begins to interact with its surroundings, seemingly acting as a

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00:20:50

Friday Family Film Night: THE DESCENT review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/20

On the nineteenth night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing THE DESCENT (2005), written and directed by Neil Marshall. A year after losing her husband and daughter in a car accident, a grieving woman named Sarah joins five female friends for a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. Their trip quickly turns into a nightmare when a tunnel collapses, trapping them in an unmapped cave system where they realize they are not alone. As they struggle to find an exit, the

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00:18:07

Friday Family Film Night: ODDITY review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/19

On the eighteenth night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing ODDITY (2024), written and directed by Damian Mc Carthy. A year after her twin sister Dani's brutal murder at a remote country house, blind clairvoyant Darcy becomes convinced the police blamed the wrong man. Darcy visits the house—now occupied by Dani's widower Ted and his new girlfriend—bringing a menacing, life-sized wooden golem from her shop of cursed items. Using her psychometric abilities and

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00:21:04

Friday Family Film Night: SUSPIRIA review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/18

On the seventeenth night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing SUSPIRIA (2018), directed by Luca Guadagnino, from a script by David Kajganich and characters by Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi. Set in 1977 Berlin amidst political turmoil, young American dancer, Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) joins the prestigious Markos Dance Academy, unaware it is a front for a coven of witches divided over their secretive and sickly leader. As students disappear and Susie rises in rank under

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00:44:45

Friday Family Film Night: FINAL DESTINATION 5 & THE...

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/17

On the sixteenth night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister and our buddy, Zack, join me in reviewing FINAL DESTINATION 5 (2011) and THE FINAL DESTINATION (2025). In FINAL DESTINATION 5 (2011), directed by Steven Quale, from a script by Eric Heisserer and Jeffrey Reddick. In the film, a man's premonition saves his colleagues from a deadly suspension bridge collapse, only for the mysterious mortician to reveal a new rule: a survivor can cheat Death by killing someone else and claiming their

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00:48:10

Friday Family Film Night: FINAL DESTINATION 3 & THE...

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/16

On the fifteenth night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister and our buddy, Zack, join me in reviewing FINAL DESTINATION 3 (2006) and THE FINAL DESTINATION (2009). In FINAL DESTINATION 3 (2006), directed by James Wong, from a script by Glen Morgan, James Wong and Jeffrey Reddick, a high school student's premonition of a catastrophic roller coaster derailment saves her and a group of friends from the deadly accident. The student soon discovers that photographs taken at the amusement park contain

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00:45:35

Friday Family Film Night: FINAL DESTINATION & FINAL...

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/15

On the fourteenth night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister and our buddy, Zack, join me in reviewing FINAL DESTINATION (2000) and FINAL DESTINATION 2 (2003). In Final Destination (2000), directed by James Wong, from a script by Glen Morgan, James Wong and Jeffrey Reddick. The film follows a high school student who cheats death when a premonition prompts him and several classmates to get off a doomed flight moments before it explodes. Death, an unseen supernatural force, begins hunting the

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00:21:22

Friday Family Film Night: 28 YEARS LATER review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/14

On the thirteenth night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing 28 YEARS LATER (2025), from director Danny Boyle with a script by Alex Garland. Set nearly three decades after the Rage virus devastated the UK, the film focuses on a small, isolated community living on a fortified island off the English mainland. Twelve-year-old Spike (Alfie Williams) ventures onto the infected mainland with his father (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) for a coming-of-age ritual, but their journey is

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00:22:55

Friday Family Film Night: 28 WEEKS LATER review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/13

On the twelfth night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing 28 WEEKS LATER (2007), from director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, with a script by Rowan Joffe, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and Enrique López Lavigne. Six months after the initial outbreak, the US Army establishes a heavily-guarded safe zone in London for repatriated citizens, believing the Rage virus is dead. However, the virus is unwittingly re-introduced when two siblings sneak out to their old home and find their mother

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00:16:29

Friday Family Film Night: 28 DAYS LATER review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/12

On the eleventh night of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing 28 DAYS LATER (2002), from a screenplay by Alex Garland, the film is directed by Danny Boyle. Bike courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma 28 days after a hyper-contagious rage virus has been accidentally unleashed, finding London deserted and overrun by fast, homicidal infected people. Jim joins a small band of uninfected survivors, including the hardened Selena (Naomie Harris), on a perilous journey across

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00:24:06

Friday Family Film Night: PSYCHO GORMAN review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/11

On night 10 of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing PSYCHO GOREMAN (2020), from writer/director Steven Kostanski. While playing a bizarre backyard game, siblings Mimi (Nita-Josée Hanna) and Luke (Owen Myre) accidentally unearth a glowing gem and release an ancient, malevolent alien overlord they dub "Psycho Goreman" (PG). Mimi discovers the gem gives her absolute power over the world-destroyer, forcing the hulking alien to begrudgingly become her personal plaything and

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00:17:17

Friday Family Film Night: SALEM'S LOT review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/10

On night 9 of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing SALEM'S LOT (2024), from writer/director Gary Dauberman, the film is based on a novel by Stephen King. Author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) returns to his childhood hometown of Jerusalem's Lot to write a new novel about the notorious Marsten House, coinciding with the arrival of mysterious antique dealer Richard Straker (Pilou Asbæk) and his unseen partner, Kurt Barlow (Alexander Ward). As people in the small Maine town begin

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00:22:48

Friday Family Film Night: IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/09

On night 8 of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994), from writer Michael De Luca, the film is directed by John Carpenter. Insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) is hired to track down missing and hugely popular horror novelist Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow), whose books are causing widespread insanity among his readers. Following clues to the fictional New England town of Hobb's End, Trent discovers that Cane's writing is literally

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00:22:14

Friday Family Film Night: SCANNERS review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/08

On night 7 of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing SCANNERS (1981), from writer/director David Cronenberg. Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack), a derelict man with uncontrolled telepathic and psychokinetic powers known as a "scanner," is recruited by the private security firm ConSec to track down Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside), a dangerously powerful, rogue scanner intent on starting a war with normal humanity. As Vale infiltrates Revok's organization, he uncovers a vast

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00:23:04

Friday Family Film Night: PHANTASM review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/07

On night 6 of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing PHANTASM (1979), from writer/director Don Coscarelli. Following the death of his parents, friend and the fear of his older brother Jody leaving him, young Mike Pearson (A. Michael Baldwin) becomes suspicious of the town's sinister mortician, known as the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm). Mike sneaks into the eerie Morningside Mortuary and discovers the Tall Man is converting the dead into murderous, shrunken dwarf minions and using

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00:17:59

Friday Family Film Night: SPIDER BABY review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/06

On night 5 of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing SPIDER BABY (1967), from writer/director Jack Hill. Loyal chauffeur Bruno (Lon Chaney Jr.) serves as the caretaker for the three orphaned Merrye siblings, who suffer from a rare genetic disorder that causes them to mentally and physically regress into homicidal, savage children. He attempts to conceal their murderous, childlike antics, which include "playing spider" with knives, to protect them from the outside world

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00:12:27

Friday Family Film Night: THE STRANGLER review

FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT ·

2025/10/05

On night 4 of our #31DaysToHalloween the Mister joins me in reviewing THE STRANGLER (1964), from director Burt Topper, from a screenplay by Bill S. Ballinger. Victor Buono stars as Leo Kroll, a lonely, mother-fixated hospital lab technician who secretly harbors a deep-seated rage against women, which he acts out by serially murdering young nurses and leaving broken dolls at his crime scenes. Kroll's overbearing mother (Ellen Corby), who is a hospital patient, constantly belittles him and

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