Episodios

  • Cutting Deep into Horror | Candyman (1992): Exploring Urban Legends in the Spooky Season

    Cutting Deep into Horror | Candyman (1992): Exploring Urban Legends in the Spooky Season
    Oct 17 2025
    A must for any Halloween watchlist, Candyman (1992) remains one of horror’s most haunting reflections on myth, race, and obsession. In this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into Bernard Rose’s chilling vision, exploring how Clive Barker’s original short story “The Forbidden” transformed into a film that defined early-’90s horror.

    We dissect Tony Todd’s commanding performance as Candyman, Virginia Madsen’s descent into madness, and the real-world setting of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing projects, where folklore and fear intertwine. From the gothic tragedy of Helen Lyle to the legacy of Candyman as a mirror of societal anxieties, Henrique and Rachael unpack why this film’s legacy still cuts deep over thirty years later.


    Inside this episode:
    • 🪞 Urban Legends Come Alive — how local myths shape collective fear
    • 🍯 The Power of Symbolism — bees, blood, and the mirror
    • 💀 The Clive Barker Connection — from page to terrifying screen
    • 🎬 Tony Todd & Virginia Madsen — performances that haunt forever
    • 🧠 Race, Class & Horror — why Cabrini-Green matters

    Where to watch (U.S.):
    • Amazon (rent/buy): https://www.amazon.com/Candyman-Virginia-Madsen/dp/B001AQEIB0
    • Apple TV (rent/buy): https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/candyman/umc.cmc.5o7md7yi6ammidcgd8s6tj47r
    • Shudder (streaming, requires subscription) https://www.shudder.com/movies/watch/candyman/6625a060f1a90945
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    👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
    🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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    1 h y 54 m
  • Halloween Video Store Slasher — Deadly Rental: A VHS-Nightmare Awaits

    Halloween Video Store Slasher — Deadly Rental: A VHS-Nightmare Awaits
    Oct 16 2025
    Dive into Halloween night at Valley Video, where a storm and blackout transform a cozy movie marathon into a terrifying VHS nightmare. As friends and customers find themselves trapped, the unsettling sound of a phone hissing 'Trick or Treat' spins the atmosphere into chaos.

    This Halloween special highlights the true terror hidden in the video aisles, with panic building and each knock on the door feeling like a countdown to disaster.

    If you crave Halloween horror stories infused with retro slasher vibes and spine-chilling tension, this episode is your essential October listen. Queue it up, dim the lights, and brace for a wicked twist that redefines what a 'treat' really means.

    Deadly Rental – A Valley Halloween Tale — by Charles Campbell

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    🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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    47 m
  • The Lone Candy House: A Halloween Horror Story of Vanishing Kids

    The Lone Candy House: A Halloween Horror Story of Vanishing Kids
    Oct 15 2025
    Every Halloween, a mysterious house emerges on the edge of Strickfield—its porch light glowing, its candy too good to be true.

    In our latest spooky story, when Mouse, Arial, Carter, Mona, and Bailey venture into the infamous Lone Candy House, they discover that this is no ordinary trick-or-treat experience. Instead of friendly hosts, they are met with locked doors, whispering mirrors, and the chilling echoes of missing children.

    To survive the night until 3:00 a.m., they must confront the darkness lurking within the house and the terrible curse that preys on unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. Join us for this Halloween horror story filled with suspense and dread!


    The Legend of the Lone Candy House — by Rob Fields

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    🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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    1 h y 55 m
  • Halloween Horrors: 7 Scary Stories of Zombies, Vampires, and Haunted Portals

    Halloween Horrors: 7 Scary Stories of Zombies, Vampires, and Haunted Portals
    Oct 14 2025
    🎃 It’s spooky season, the most haunted time of the year, and on Weekly Spooky, we’re unleashing a collection of Halloween horrors!

    Dive into seven chilling tales featuring vengeful zombies, cybernetic vampires, cursed candy, haunted hospitals, and bloodthirsty Halloween parties. Perfect for any spooky soul who craves quick scares and sinister surprises that encapsulate the spirit of the season. Experience the fear-filled storytelling this October, crafted to thrill every horror fan!

    👻 This episode features:

    • A Zombie’s Halloween — by Rob Fields
    Bernadette just wanted to ditch class, but after a strange bite in the Strickfield woods, she’s back from the dead… and out for revenge.

    • Future Taibon — by Rob Fields
    Waking up centuries in the future, a vampire finds herself reborn in a machine body—and Earth has been overrun by monsters far worse than her.

    • Sweet Revenge — by David O’Hanlon
    When bullies go too far on Halloween night, one girl calls on something dark to even the score. A candy factory becomes a house of horrors.

    • Tricks and Treats Volume 2 — by Morgan Moore, Keith Tomlin, and Rob Fields
    Three bite-sized Halloween terrors: a child’s sinister reaction to a cursed cookie, a girl stalked by spider-like monsters in her home, and a vampire party gone violently wrong.

    • The Portal — by Rob Fields
    A mysterious door in the woods only appears on Halloween. Two boys open it… and what comes through isn’t from this world.

    • Caroline Quinn: Vampire Hunter — by Mike Ashkewe
    Caroline’s job? Slay the undead. But this Halloween, her newest bloodsucking target fights back harder than anything she’s faced before.

    • Inbetween — by Shane Migliavacca
    A woman wakes in a hospital with no exit, no answers, and something in the shadows that doesn’t belong in the world of the living.

    🦇 If you’re a fan of Creepshow, Tales from the Crypt, or Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, this is your Halloween fix.

    🗓️ Join us next Tuesday for another vault compilation… and don’t forget, a brand-new horror story drops this Wednesday!

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    🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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    4 h y 3 m
  • Terrifying & True | Vampire of Sacramento: Richard Chase — A Scary Halloween Horror Case File

    Terrifying & True | Vampire of Sacramento: Richard Chase — A Scary Halloween Horror Case File
    Oct 13 2025
    Halloween horror stories—making spooky season terrifyingly real.

    Richard Trenton Chase, the “Vampire of Sacramento,” whose 1977–1978 crimes turned neighborhood fear into a citywide lockdown. We connect the early warning signs to the unlocked-door “invitation” pattern, the frantic manhunt and FBI profile, and the courtroom fight over sanity and responsibility. With clear sourcing and zero fluff, we trace how untreated psychosis, blood-fixated delusions, and institutional failures produced one of America’s most nightmarish true-crime horror cases.
    Inside this episode
    • Early warning signs: Escalating animal cruelty, delusions, and missed interventions.
    • Method of entry: Why unlocked doors became his “permission”—fueling the vampire legend.
    • Timeline of murders: From Dec 29, 1977 (Ambrose Griffin) through Jan 1978 home invasions marked by mutilation and blood-drinking.
    • Profilers move in: How the FBI Behavioral Science Unit sketched a near-perfect suspect.
    • Arrest & evidence: The apartment, the freezer, and what they revealed about ritual and motive.
    • Trial, verdict, and death: The sanity battle, death sentence, and end on death row.
    • Legacy & lessons: Media panic, myth vs. pathology, and what communities can learn.

    If you’ve ever wondered how a horror legend becomes flesh-and-blood fact, this is the case.

    We’re telling that story tonight.

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    1 h y 18 m
  • Unknown Broadcast | Midnight Apparitions: Six Horror Stories of Curses, Killers, and Things Best Left Buried

    Unknown Broadcast | Midnight Apparitions: Six Horror Stories of Curses, Killers, and Things Best Left Buried
    Oct 12 2025
    When the clock forgets your name, my dear, the night remembers. In this episode of Unknown Broadcast, we summon six chilling old-time radio horror stories—tales of cursed strangers, haunted houses, ghost makers, and books that bleed. These macabre fictions echo the golden age of radio—dark, vintage, and unforgettable.
    • 👴 A Very Old Man — A kindly stranger wanders in from the cold… but time clings to him like grave-moss. Every kindness here has a cost.
    • 🌘 A Terrible Night — A sleepless hour stretches thin as a blade; something in the hallway counts your breaths… and hungers for the last one.
    • 🏚️ House of Murder — A home with a heartbeat and a habit: it keeps what enters. Doors close softly; the house does the rest.
    • 🪄 The Ghost Maker — A craftsman sells impossible reunions, one coin at a time. The dead return—polite, grateful… and wrong.
    • 🐍 Snake Doctor — Remedies brewed in swamps and whispers; a healer with patient hands and venom in the fine print.
    • 🩸 The Blood Red Ink — A manuscript writes back, correcting its readers in strokes of crimson. The ending will have you.

    If you crave the uncanny, the Unknown Broadcast will be your companion: a place where classic OTR horror storiesand modern unease meet. Listen with the lights low and the locks firm; the night dislikes an audience that looks away.

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    3 h y 21 m
  • One Fateful Halloween: A Terrifying Horror Story of Cursed Rings and Nightmares

    One Fateful Halloween: A Terrifying Horror Story of Cursed Rings and Nightmares
    Oct 11 2025
    Dive into a haunting Halloween tale as Halloween turns to horror in this chilling story!

    When a rebellious teen steals a mysterious glowing pumpkin ring from a strange shop in Strickfield, she unleashes a Halloween curse that drags her into a nightmare realm filled with monsters and terror.

    As the night unfolds, she encounters living vines, pumpkin demons, and ghostly villages in a desperate fight for survival. Escaping the curse means facing her own transformation—and realizing that some things you steal can steal you right back.

    If you love scary Halloween stories, creepy curses, and the thrill of classic horror, this one’s for you. Join us for an unforgettable spooky season is filled with terror and suspense!


    One Fateful Halloween — by Rob Fields

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    41 m
  • Cutting Deep into Horror | A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — Wes Craven’s Slasher Masterpiece with Freddy Krueger

    Cutting Deep into Horror | A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — Wes Craven’s Slasher Masterpiece with Freddy Krueger
    Oct 10 2025
    Halloween watchlist essential! We sink our claws into one of the most iconic horror films ever made: Wes Craven’s 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. Hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit Freddy Krueger’s terrifying debut, exploring how this razor-fingered dream stalker redefined the slasher genre and haunted a generation of horror fans.

    Inside this episode, Henrique and Rachael share their first encounters with the film—late-night VHS terrors and the exhilaration of discovering horror’s most surreal monster. They break down:
    • The legacy of Wes Craven — how his unique vision fused nightmares and reality.
    • Freddy Krueger’s origins — a vengeful ghost, a product of parental sins, and an enduring cultural boogeyman.
    • Themes of fear and adolescence — how suburban safety hides lurking generational trauma.
    • Dream sequences & surreal imagery — why they still feel terrifying decades later.
    • The franchise’s evolution — from Freddy’s pure horror roots to his shift into dark comedy across sequels.
    Whether you first saw it huddled at a sleepover or discovered it on late-night TV, A Nightmare on Elm Street still cuts to the bone. Join Henrique and Rachael for a spirited, insightful discussion that blends nostalgia, cultural analysis, and a few laughs along the way.

    Where to Watch (U.S., as of this writing):
    • Shudder — https://www.shudder.com/movies/watch/a-nightmare-on-elm-street/79f1011764acf6f1
    • Apple TV — https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/a-nightmare-on-elm-street/umc.cmc.2gxjjzta1kb4a1ysonxlo5twi
    • Amazon / Prime Video — https://www.amazon.com/Nightmare-Elm-Street-John-Saxon/dp/B002R1UTAQ
    • Fandango at Home (Vudu) — https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/A-Nightmare-on-Elm-Street/14155

    Stay tuned to the end as the hosts tease next week’s dive into Candyman—because in the world of horror, the cycle always continues.

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    2 h y 4 m