Backrooms, Obsession, and Horror's Big Weekend

About this episode

The episode discusses recent horror box office successes and reviews classic horror films.

Welcome back to Coming Soon & Now Showing, our monthly series that catches up on the latest horror headlines and round robins capsule reviews of new and old horrors. Today, Mike and Justin look back on the blockbuster weekend that saw Backrooms and Obsession smashing box office records. They also brush on some franchise news and dust off oldies for the first time: 1987's Dead of Winter and 1977's False Face. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike, Justin

Topics covered

• horror news
• box office
• film reviews
• franchise updates
• classic horror

Keywords

• horror
• Backrooms
• Obsession
• Dead of Winter
• False Face
• box office
• film reviews

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Backrooms, Obsession, Dead of Winter, False Face

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