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Do you read Sutter Cane? On today's episode of Dead Air, we're talking about John Carpenter's lovecraftian homage; In The Mouth of Maddness. Sutter Cane is the horror novelist of the century. His writing is globally reconized as the peak of horror fiction and his audience is massive. However, on the eve of his latest release the author vanishes. It's up to John Trent to track him down. It will take him to the town of Hobb's End. A place Cane has written about many times. the strange thing is. Everything in this town is exactly like his books. Hobb's End becomes the staging ground for the comming apocalypse and at its center is Sutter Cane.

What would you do to get famous? Would you sacrifice everything? Would you even listen to the latest episode of Dead Air?! This episode we discuss the 2014 film; Starry Eyes. Sarah is an aspiring actress, on the grind. Working a demeaning job, and trying to land auditions. Meanwhile her group of would-be filmmaker friends, are dismissive. Sarah manages to land a big audition for a production company Astraeus pictures. She is to play the lead in their latest horror film The silver Scream. The audutions are strange and intense and the question is raised of how far she'll go to land this roll. What level of humiliation, self destruction and violence will she endure to become who she's meant to be.

welcome to Hollyweird! Dead Air caps off the bloody conclusion to Ti West's X trilogy with 2024's Maxxine! The year is 1985 and we rejoin Maxine Minx now years after the brutal massacre that occurd on that rural farm in texas. However, Maxine has left thay tragedy in her review mirror and is more determined than ever to become a star. She's about to get started on the leading role in a horror movie that is sure to be her big break but no sooner does she land the roll, she begins to be stalked by a mysterious black gloved killer. Her friends and colleagues are become victims and the police are baffled. But, Maxine will not lose focus. she came to Hollywood to become a star and she will kill or die to do it.

What once was a story about not accepting a life you don't deserve, becomes a tale of making the best with what you have. Dead Air continues its journey through the Ti West X trilogy with 2022's Pearl! The year is 1918 and a young Pearl is longingly waiting the return of her husband from the war while enduring a brutal pandemic that has left her father unable to care for himself. She lives on her parents far helping to care for him under the watchful eye of her stern mother. meanwhile she has stars in her eyes and sneaks off to watch films in town while daydreaming about becoming a star and escaping her life. But there is a darkness brewing in her. a fantasy life in more ways than one as she desperately tries to appear like everyone else. Unfortunately for everyone around her the strain and isolation of her life will make something in her snap. a new monster is born!

I will not accept a life do not deserve. Nor should you! However, fear not, dear listener you do deserve the latest episode of Dead Air! Today we discuss the modern Ti West classic, 2022's X! Maxine Minx is an exotic dancer with dreams of making it to Hollywood! Her and her cohorts plan to use the adult film industry to backdoor into fame and fortune! They choose a rural location and begin shooting. Little do they know, the old couple who owns the property have murder on their minds.

You're not going anywhere for twenty four hours. So, grab a drink settle in and try and relax. Dead Air is talking thr 2024 Vampire film, Abigail! Joey and an assortment of criminal professionals have been hired to kidnap a wealthy man's daughter. No names, no motives, no backrounds. Just seven million each if they pull it off. Once the deed is done they're orderd to gaurd this little girl for twenty four hours. It seems like easy money until the gang learns this child is the progeny of one of the most powerful and ruthless crime lords on earth. However, things go from bad to worse when it aldo turns out this innocent child is far from helpless and in fact an ancient and powerful Vampire. They will need to out their differences aside abd band together in hopes of taking down the deadly Abigail.

Welcome to Santa Carla, California. Beautiful sunny beaches, thriving boardwalk, slippery sax men. There's only one problem. it's lousy with Vampires. On episode 265 of Dead Air we discussthe 1987 classic; The Lost Boys. Brother's Sam and Michael head to sunny California to start over with their recently divorced mother. before long Michael finds himself tangled up with a beautiful girl named star and a wild gang who seem eager to make him one of them. He'll never grow old and he'll never die. provided he turns fully into a vampire. Sam enlists the help of the Frog brothers, two comic store clerks/ vampire hunters in a quest to save his brother. All they need do is destroy the head vampire. whoever that might be.

Welcome to Dead Air - For real! On Episode 264 of Dead Air we discuss the 1985 suburban Vampire classic; Fright Night! Charley has a passion for his girlfriend Amy but an even deeper, some say, burning passion for whatever his new neightbours are doing. admittedly it is bizzare, carrying coffins into the basement in the middle of the night, a parade of beautiful women coming over at all hours and the strangest thing of all; when they enter they never leave. All signs point to Vampire but nobody will believe Charley that his neighbour Jerry is a creature of the night. With Amy and his friend Evil Ed and a late night horror host Peter Vincent in in tow, they're off to prove Jerry is a blood sucker but it seems at the very least, Jerry has set his sights on the gang for his next victims.

It's time to dive into your HORRORscope as Dead Air dials the 1988 film; 976 - Evil. Spike is a cool motorbike teen with a dorky cousin named Hoax. One day after losing a game of cards Spike is given the chance to call 976 Evil, to see what his daily horoscope tells him. following the advice it gives he pays off his gambling debt. This all seems like a strange coincidence. Hoax, himself uses the same number and begins to enact revenge based on the advice it gives, delving into the satanic magics to grant him powers beyond imagination. Meanwhile a reporter for a religious magazine named Marty is hot on their trail trying to uncover the truth behind 976-Evil and its mysterious owner, Mark Dark.

Hello boils and Ghouls! on tonights episode of Dead Air we take a Long Hard look at 1995's film; Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight after the massice success of HBOs series of Tales from the Crypt, the next logical step was into the world of film. Demon Knight would be the first in what was planned as a trilogy. In this story a mysterious man named Brayker is being chased down by a man known as The Collector. Seems Brayker as stolen something of his and the chase leads to a run down motel made from a converted church. On this night, Hell will literally break lose and everyone inside this motel is as good as dead. That is unless Brayker and the survivors can resist the powers of the Collector.

It's time to gather your fractured family and head off on a holiday trip. However, that's no reason to go half cocked. First sit back and listen to The latest Episode of Dead Air where we talk about the 2019 film; The Lodge. Grace is a survivor of a cult that her father ran and now finds herself the wife to be of the very journalist who told her story to the world. however her new fiance has children of his own from his orevious marriage that ended in a dramatic suicide. Now a week before Christmas and in a desperate attempt to blend the family they all head to the family lodge. There the children will begin a war that they are not prepared for. As Grace's mind unravels at the possibility that they're all desd and this very lodge is purgatory

Gather 'round the PC, because it's time for some early 2000s, ghost hunter content. On today's episode of Dead Air we discuss the 2024 film, Shelby Oaks. Mia's younger sister Riley was a struggling youtube star, with her ghost hunting show, the Paranomal Paranoids. One day, after a strange incident at a prison, Riley and her friends head to Shelby Oaks to film their latest episode. However, the episode would never be completed. After all of Riley's friends are found dead with no sign of RIley herself, Mia will hold the torch and keep her sister's memory alive for 12 long years. One day a stranger comes to Mia's door and kills himself. Clutched in his hands in a mini DV that will hold the clues to what happened on that horrific night. Now, Mia will head to Shelby Oaks herself to find out what really happened to her sister.

It's time to turn your glasses over and place them on the Oujia board. Today, we commune with the latest episode of Dead Air! Veronica is a young high-school girl with a lot of responsibility. After her father died she has been forced to look after her three younger siblings while her mother works. Out of a desperate need to speak to her father, during a solar eclipse her and her friends attempt to contact the dead, but, Veronica will end up contacting something far more sinister. Now, it's up to her and her very young siblings to protect their household from the forces of evil, that would seek to destroy them all.

Please, light a candle and take our hands and if you'll let us in we'll take possession of your ears with the latest episode where we discuss the 2022 film, Talk to Me! In the wake of her mother's death, Mia finds herself lost and clinging to her surrogate family. She and her best friend, Jade are heading to a party where rumour has it, that the hosts have the embalmed hand of a satanic medium. All you have to do is take it and say "Talk to me" and you'll be face to face with a random person who has died. If you dare utter the phrase "I let you in" You invite that spirit to enter you. Linger too long and they'll refuse to leave. After an intense session with Jade's brother, Riley, Mia is seeing the spirit of her dead mother everywhere. What's worst are the other spirits who are also stalking her, and poor Riley himself, possessed and brutalized, unable to wake up. Mia and her friends must find a way to break the curse and save Riley before he is dragged to Hell forevermore.

It's time to pour yourself a glass of Dom Perignon then light that single match to ignite your single cigarette, as you listen to episode 257 of Dead Air! Today we're discussing the 1990 Stephen King adaptation; Misery. Paul Sheldon is a successful writer who has just finished his latest story. The first original one in years since he decided to break away from his iconic book series Misery by finally killing off the franchises protagonist Misery Chastain, which is days away from being released. After a horrific car accident on his way to deliver his new manuscript, Paul is rescued by a nurse named Anne Wilkes. She brings him back to health, keeping him isolated and away from the outside world and as she mentions she just so happens to be his number one fan. When she learns the fate of her favourite character, Misery she becomes enraged and demands Paul write her back to life in an entirely new book and for Paul, his very life will depend on it.