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It's episode 308, and we all have our loops. Our habits. Behaviours that keep us walking in circles.

Backrooms (2026) follows down-on-his-luck furniture store manager Clark, who discovers a strange door in the basement of his store leading to the Backrooms, a labyrinthine mess of nonsensical corridors, rooms, and worse things besides.

We talk about liminal space horror, theories about memories, MRIs and AIs, the worst furniture store branding in history and perhaps the most precociously talented 20-year old filmmaker in movie history.

All of which leads to one question: How would you survive?

Whatever happens, one thing's for sure: They simply... exist. Like furniture.

Next time...Zach Cregger is back with his take on Resident Evil (2026).

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It's episode 307: and you wished for this.

Obsession (2026) tells the story of Bear, a young man who makes a wish that his crush, Nikki will love him more than anyone in the world. His wish succeeds, but he gets more than he bargained for when Nikki loves him a little too much.

We talk about the merits of being careful what you wish for; discuss how to construct a fool-proof wish; and finally two men with a podcast weigh in on the gender politics of it all.

All of which leads to one question: How would you survive?

Whatever happens, one thing's for sure: Please, no more weird shit.

Next time, we're keeping it 2026 with Backrooms...

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It's episode 306: we're back in Haddonfield, kicking off the latest How to Survive Franchise Review.... and I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare, huh?

Halloween (1978) tells the story of Laurie, a high-school student with a Halloween-night babysitting job. Throughout the day (and into the night), Laurie and her friends are terrorised by the psychopathic Michael Myers. Michael has escaped containment in the local mental asylum / prison and returns to town on the 15-year anniversary of the night he murdered his sister.

We talk about psychiatric ethics; a topsy-turvy justice system; a better criteria for learner-drivers; and the world's fastest sexual encounter.

All of which leads to one question: How would you survive?

Whatever happens, one thing's for sure: there's nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong..

Next time, we're back in 2026 with Obsession...