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FF89—The Cloverfield Paradox
Freaky Franchise - May 07, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis week, we're in space! The third and final (at least for now) film in the Cloverfield franchise gives us some insight into how this whole thing started. At least, we're pretty sure it does. Not going to lie, it's a bit hard to follow. In this episode, we'll spend equal amounts of time talkin...
FF88—10 Cloverfield Lane
Freaky Franchise - April 26, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWould YOU trust a strange man who kidnapped you, put you in a bunker, and told you that the apocalypse had happened and you're one of a few people safe and alive? You probably shouldn't, but in this film, that seems to genuinely be the case. Howard, Michelle, and Emmet are now stuck in a bunker ...
FF87—Cloverfield
Freaky Franchise - April 09, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsQuick question: if a monster was wreaking havoc on New York City, would you a) flee the city or b) run into the center of the city, right into the path of the monster? If you chose b we don't know what you're doing, but maybe you'll understand the people in this movie better than we do. We'll ta...
FF86—The Amityville Horror Retrospective (with Chris Granniss)
Freaky Franchise - March 26, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAfter watching more movies than we have for any other franchise, we're ready to say goodbye to the Amityville Horror house (along with the countless haunted objects that came from it). We'll take a look at all 11 of the movies we watched to discuss themes including truth vs. fiction, corruption,...
FF85—The Amityville Murders
Freaky Franchise - February 27, 2021 16:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWe're ending our coverage of the Amityville Horror franchise where it really began: with the murder of the DeFeo family at 112 Ocean Avenue. We'll discuss the ethically murky waters that this film resides in, and try to parse out what is true from what was clearly created for a compelling film. ...
FF84—Amityville: The Awakening
Freaky Franchise - February 15, 2021 23:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWhat is this? A movie with a theatrical release? After the last few Amityville films we watched, we weren't sure that something like this would ever happen again. But here we are, with recognizable actors and a significantly bigger production budget than we have seen in some time. Once again, a ...
FF83—The Amityville Haunting
Freaky Franchise - January 29, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis film takes a whole new approach to the Amityville haunting, through the lens of a twelve-year-old boy making a documentary about the haunted house that he and his family just moved into. The literal lens, since this is a found footage movie. We'll join Tyler and his family as his father qui...
FF82—Amityville Dollhouse
Freaky Franchise - January 15, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThis week, we're finally back in the Ocean Avenue house... in miniature. The miniature house is inside a real house that is definitely not the Ocean Avenue House. We can't tell you exactly how this dollhouse got there, or how it's doing the things that it's doing, or why there are wasps involved...
Minisode: Predicting the New Year
Freaky Franchise - January 01, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsHappy New Year! With 2020 coming to an end, we thought that this might be a good time to continue our vacation from the Amityville franchise and make some predictions for the coming year. We tried a variety of different divination methods to see what the next year has in store for all of us. Her...
FF81—Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (A Horror Story)
Freaky Franchise - December 18, 2020 14:54 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsHappy holidays! We're continuing our annual tradition of discussing why a beloved Christmas special is actually a horror movie. This year we're talking about Santa Claus is Comin' to Town. This film is typically thought of as the origin story of our beloved Kris Kringle, but it also examines wha...
FF80—Amityville: A New Generation
Freaky Franchise - December 04, 2020 14:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWe are now officially on our third haunted object movie of the Amityville Horror franchise. But don't worry, this time it's TOTALLY different (and actually slightly more connected to the original plot than the others have been). This time around, we've got a mysterious demon-filled mirror that c...
FF79—Amityville: It's About Time
Freaky Franchise - November 14, 2020 17:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThe title says it all: this is a movie about time. Once again, we are whisked away from Amityville and taken to California, this time in the form of a clock that apparently belonged to a cannibalistic headmaster before it made its way to Ocean Avenue, where it was picked up by an architect desig...
Halloween Bonus! Scary Stories
Freaky Franchise - October 31, 2020 13:21 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsJoin us around the (metaphorical) campfire as we tell our own versions of some of our favorite scary stories, with Special Guest, our Mom! Tales include The Pink Sweater, The High Beams, The Clown Statue, Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn on the Light?, and The Black Velvet Band. Happy Halloween!
FF78—The Amityville Curse
Freaky Franchise - October 23, 2020 12:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAfter making a detour to California, this movie brings us back to Amityville—but not to the Amityville house that we're all familiar with, to a different house in Amityville, because apparently they're all haunted. The fifth movie in the Amityville Horror franchise features a group of friends wh...
FF77—Amityville: The Evil Escapes
Freaky Franchise - October 09, 2020 14:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWith the fourth installment of the Amityville Horror franchise, we leave the house on Ocean Avenue. But don't worry, the spirit of the house comes along with us... in a lamp. Join us as we go all the way across the country to deal with the same things that we've become accustomed to: evil spirit...
FF76—Amityville 3D
Freaky Franchise - September 25, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsSkeptics beware, you're in for a scare! The third installment in the Amityville Horror franchise is all about the inevitable downfall that comes with trying to prove that ghosts aren't real by moving into a haunted house where multiple people have been murdered and scared off. Join us as we lear...
FF75—Amityville II: The Possession
Freaky Franchise - September 11, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAll we can say regarding the second installment in the Amityville franchise is: yikes. We're going to be honest, this one is testing our commitment to watching franchises all the way through. But we did it! We'll talk about a wide array of things that make us very uncomfortable, but how all of t...
FF74—The Amityville Horror
Freaky Franchise - August 28, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWe figured that since everyone has been spending a lot of time cooped up inside their homes, what could be better to cover than a bunch of haunted house movies? We're embarking on the very long journey that is The Amityville Horror franchise, and right off the bat, this one has given us quite a ...
FF73 — Jaws Retrospective (with Josh Turiel and Jenna Karr)
Freaky Franchise - August 14, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThe summer is winding down—although it hasn't felt like much of a summer—and that means that it's time for the Jaws franchise to wind down as well. We'll discuss some of the major themes of the franchise, including obsession, man vs. nature, and the fear of the unknown. We were also joined by tw...
FF72 — Jaws: The Revenge
Freaky Franchise - July 31, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsOkay, we know this sounds kind of crazy, but here us out: what if a shark—not the shark from before, because that shark's dead, so a different shark—was so mad at Martin Brody that it decided to get revenge by eating his son—even though Martin Brody is already dead, not due to a shark but also m...
FF71: Jaws 3(D)
Freaky Franchise - July 17, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAmity is out, Seaworld is in. Years after surviving multiple shark attacks on Cape Cod, Michael Brody now lives in Orlando, and works at what just might be the worst possible place he could have chosen: Seaworld. What will they do when a great white shark makes its way into their manmade lagoon ...
FF70: Jaws 2
Freaky Franchise - July 03, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsSummer continues with a second cautionary shark tale. You would think that after the first time a shark attacked a small island off of the Cape for days and ate multiple people they might be a bit more concerned about beach safety, but this is a horror movie, so they're definitely not. Except, o...
FF69: Jaws
Freaky Franchise - June 19, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIt's summertime, which means everyone is heading to the beach! Except maybe they shouldn't be, since we're still in the midst of a pandemic. Because of this, we decided to focus on a franchise that is also about people who shouldn't be on the beach. We'll ask ourselves some serious questions. Is...
A Message From Us
Freaky Franchise - June 12, 2020 14:28 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsA quick message from Theo and Cordie regarding some of the things that have happened, both nationally and within the horror community, since our last episode. We will be back with our regular episodes next week.
FF68: The Purge Retrospective
Freaky Franchise - May 29, 2020 17:03 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsOur time with The Purge franchise has come to an end, even though our time in isolation due to the current pandemic has not. We'll wrap up the franchise by talking about some of the themes that were present throughout the films, and since these themes were much more at the surface than they usua...
FF67: The First Purge
Freaky Franchise - May 15, 2020 15:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIs it the end, or is it just the beginning? The last film in The Purge franchise takes us back to the origins of this annual event, which, unsurprisingly, turns out to be a racist and classist "social experiment" funded by a racist and classist government. We'll see some much more realistic Purg...
FF66: The Purge—Election Year
Freaky Franchise - April 24, 2020 21:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIt's time for the purge again, but it's also time for a presidential election! This installment of The Purge franchise focuses on Senator Charlie Roan, who is running against the New Founding Fathers on an anti-purge platform. What could possibly go wrong? We'll talk all about the heavy-handed p...
Minisode: Bad Movie Descriptions
Freaky Franchise - April 17, 2020 16:14 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIt's another minisode where you can play along at home! This time, Cordie quizzes Theo by giving her bad movie descriptions to see if she can guess the film.
FF65: The Purge Anarchy
Freaky Franchise - April 10, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThe Purge is back and better than ever! Well, not better, but there are certainly more machine guns. This time around we focus on three intertwining stories, with themes of redemption and right vs. wrong. We'll talk a lot more about our feelings on the concept of purging and how we think this wo...
Minisode: Horror Movie Phobias
Freaky Franchise - April 06, 2020 19:58 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPlay along as Cordie tries to guess what different phobias are based on which character from a horror movie experiences them!
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