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I will keep the personal details light, but I genuinely had to take a minute after the credits rolled on this one. Growing up, my family dealt with a situation where my sister was possessed by a jinn. It’s not something I like going deep into online, but Under the Shadows captured an exact, hyper specific atmosphere of dread that I haven’t felt in a while.

There were instances back then that still give me chills like relative staying over at our house and suddenly feeling like they were being choked in the middle of the night. There’s a particular scene in the film that triggered a vivid memory, waking up in the middle of the night to hear someone clearly praying in the next room, even though every single member of my family was right beside me, asleep in the same room.

This movie crept straight under my skin and stayed there. Has anyone else who grew up around these types of stories felt this film hit a bit too close to home? Curious to hear your thoughts.

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What’s your GOAT horror movie. Everyone has their favorites or the ones that scared them the most. What do you think is the GOAT of all genres and eras? One movie that stands above them all.

I feel like I would of liked it a lot more if I could find the other 8 “Session” movies. There’s some short films out there with titles like “session one or “session 3”, but they don’t seem to have any corralation to this movie. It’s really annoying because I definately liked it, but I can’t find any of the other movies for the backstory. Why are they at the asylom? Who recorded those scary (and cool!) tapes? I can’t find ANY of the other movies online but I know for a fact I saw a blu-ray of “Session 5” at the store where I picked up “session 9” but at the time I was just looking to buy a random movie to watch with my friends. Usually when we do this it’s a bad movie but session 9 was good so I really regret not getting session 5. Does it make any sense for a movie too not show up on internet searches??

Thanks in advance for any help, I’m sure I’m am just looking in the wrong places or something

1. Skinamarink

2. Smile

3. Smile 2

4. Host

5. Hell house 1

6. Hell house 4

7. Obsession

8. Hereditary
   Honorable mention: When Evil Lurks

I'm sure a lot of horror fans heard the news by now that Reggie Bannister, best known for playing Reggie in every Phantasm movies, passed away.

Phantasm is one of my favorite horror movie franchises. I just love its utter weirdness and dream-like quality, especially in that initial film. Upon reading the news about Reggie's death, I kept thinking about how he was really the heart of that franchise, other than Angus Scrimm's performance as the Tall Man, but Reggie is the loyal sidekick who never leaves Mike's side, no matter how bonkers or dangerous stuff gets.

I think my favorite Reggie moment is at the end of the first movie, when Reggie comforts Mike and essentially helps him grieve and comprehend the fact that Mike's older brother, Jody, died. It's a really beautiful scene.

Any other Phantasm/Reggie fans?

‼Spoilers‼️Jennifer’s Body‼️

What are your opinions and theory’s to a squeal coming out for Jennifer’s Body. Here is mine even though no one asked:

I love this idea as it did leave off on a good note but we honestly don’t really see what all happens. For example did they have a funeral for Jennifer? (Obviously if Megan Fox is coming back for the squeal she still has to be alive.)

My theory on Jennifer still being alive is: remember how Needy read all those books, there had to be something about reversing or maybe even bringing her back after she did it.

You got to think yes she probably killed Jen because she didn’t want her friend or anyone else to suffer from what was happening but being a best friend we are all going to try to find another option.

Why I think that she found somehow to bring her back is because when Needy escaped she found the same exact knife then goes and kills the lead band member with it (remember he was the one who read the words and stabbed her) so maybe by killing him that somehow brought her back. (We see him in the end with the knife in his chest and it shows a few clips of him.)

My other theory: maybe she didn’t even die in the first place and I know this one is a long shot but hear me out. When Needy does her research it says that as long as she basically “empty” then she may be able to be killed but the thing with that is she already fed off of Chip and I know she looked sickly whenever she was laying in her bed but what if that was because of the loss of her friendship, then it seemed like she died from the necklace being snatched off rather than being stabbed.

When she was killed she was still talking until Needy said “no your heart” then all her color came back we see Needy lay down then look at her. Jennifer kinda still looks alive but dead at the same time. She doesn’t look like she just got stabbed (she looks like she fed somehow and is back to her vibrant self) but we don’t see after that, we don’t get to know exactly how Needy got to the “prison” or what happened to Jennifer after. For all we know the mom could have called the cops she could have went to jail and by some “miracle” Jennifer is still alive.

Also another theory (this one is a little off the deep end): in a lot of “vampire/demon” movies when you die the main one (the vampire that creates you or the demand that inhabits you) the other one either dies, cant live without the creator, or is not a vampire or demon anymore so keep that in mind. But if it is demon based the demon could have transferred to her but I don’t know how that would work with Jennifer being back in the second one.

I really hope in this second one we see more of a relationship between Needy and Jennifer as the first movie felt like a bi awakening 😩 Im really excited for the second one to come out and hopefully all my questions and theories will be answered.

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