Everybody waves at you. All at once. In unison. 👋

Andrew’s back from a “relaxing” weekend in a town of 212 (well… 213 now), the tap water tastes a bit metallic, and Matty would like everyone to know he fled Northwest Indiana for a reason. This week we’re asking what really lurks behind the white picket fences.

🩸 In Horror in Real Life, Andrew takes us to Skidmore, Missouri, where a man was shot dead on Main Street in broad daylight and nobody saw a thing. Then it’s Picher, Oklahoma, a town slowly poisoned by its own mines, and Forsyth County, Georgia’s history of racial terror. We also talk about the murders of Matthew Shepard and Brandon Teena, and what life in rural America still looks like for queer people today. Matty brings the flip side: 12 small towns where queer folks are thriving, from Eureka Springs to Saugatuck. 🏳️‍🌈

🎬 THE CRAZIES (2010): Something is in the water in Ogden Marsh, Iowa. Timothy Olyphant (and his remarkably long torso) tries to get his pregnant wife out of town while his neighbours turn into killers and the military seals the exits.

🎬 VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1995): John Carpenter, Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Mark Hamill, and a whole classroom of silver-haired children who never, ever blink.

Plus: Whatcha Been Watchin’, Bitch (IT: Welcome to Derry, Crystal Lake and more) and a round of Hottie of the Episode. 🔥

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It's our favourite night of the year, and we're celebrating the only way we know how: with The Shape. For this year's annual Halloween episode, Matty and Andrew take on two very different chapters of the Michael Myers saga — a Druid cult fever dream and a Jamie Lee Curtis comeback with an axe.

🩸 HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS (1995)

The Curse of Thorn, a sanitarium full of cultists, Donald Pleasence's final turn as Loomis, and introducing… Paul Rudd. Uneven? Sure. Silly? Absolutely. But it swings.

Matty: 3.5 | Andrew: 3.5

🪓 HALLOWEEN H20: 20 YEARS LATER (1998)

Laurie Strode faked her death, runs a boarding school, and keeps a bottle within arm's reach — and then her brother comes calling. Janet Leigh, Josh Hartnett, LL Cool J, and a PERFECT score from both of us.

Matty: 5 | Andrew: 5

Plus:

🔥 Horror in Real Life — Matty climbs the Hill of Ward in Co. Meath, the "birthplace of Halloween," where Samhain fires once relit every hearth in Ireland. Andrew covers the 2026 war on Halloween, a 1957 trick-or-treater who came to kill, and AI ghosts that have police investigating hauntings that never happened.

📺 Whatcha Been Watchin', Bitch — a Carrie double-dip, Resident Evil, Evil Dead Burn, Backrooms and more

🍬 Closing game: Trick or Treat… Bitch!

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This week, Matty & Andrew wander into the rows (against Matty's better judgement — he grew up in Northwest Indiana, he KNOWS what corn does at night). We get into the very real phenomenon of "corn sweat" making Midwest summers miserable, why mature cornfields are scientifically designed to make you walk in circles (one family got lost in a maze just 25 feet from the exit!), the chilling reality of crimes hidden in ordinary Midwestern fields, and the nightmare of grain-bin entrapment — drowning on dry land. Plus: what a warming planet means for the world's biggest crop.

And then we watched some movies. 🍿🎃

🎬 CHILDREN OF THE CORN III: URBAN HARVEST — He Who Walks Behind the Rows moves to Chicago. Campy, silly, and it sings in its stupidness. Bonus points for spotting an uncredited Charlize Theron.

🎬 DARK HARVEST — Halloween night, 1963. Sawtooth Jack is loose until midnight. Bold, original, oddly touching — the perfect way to kick off spooky season.

Plus: Horror in Real Life, Whatcha Been Watchin' Bitch, and a closing game of CORN OR… PORN? (You'll never look at a cob the same way.)

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