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Cinema Smorgasbord – Halloween Horror Special – Working Class Goes to Hell (2023) & Black Eyed Susan (2024)

Cinema Smorgasbord, Podcasts on November 4, 2025 0Comments 0Likes

It’s the 2025 Cinema Smorgasbord HALLOWEEN HORROR SPECIAL and as usual we’re taking a look at two underloved horror (or, in this case, horror adjacent) films that deserve a little more attention. We start with the Serbian 2023 socio-political satire WORKING CLASS GOES TO HELL from LIFE AND DEATH OF A PORNO GANG director Mladen Djordjević about a group of exploited workers who turn to Satan for some help battling corrupt businessmen and political leaders. We follow that up with Scooter McCrae’s BLACK EYED SUSAN, which features Yvonne Emilie Thälker as a sex doll designed for punishment, and tackles some iffy moral questions about the future of artificial intelligence and.. Hey! This isn’t very spooky at all! Oops!

The Carnage Report Episode 80: They Call Her Death

Podcasts, The Carnage Report on May 15, 2025 0Comments 0Likes

On this episode of the podcast, Julie and Nick take a look at director Austin Snell’s violent revenge Western, They Call Her Death, now streaming on Shudder, as well as inviting the director onto the show to ask what got him into horror in an installment of The Gate. They also suggest a few other Western horror films and discuss how they’d fare in pioneer days. Plus, the pair discuss trailers galore for Together, The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Long Walk, and more (all of which you can check out below), while seeing what they think of the announcements of new films from directors Renny Harlin and Eli Roth in Director’s Corner. There’s also a look at the recent lineup drops from Fantasia Fest and the Chattanooga Film Festival.