One Final Scare

In this episode, Tracy and Minki sit down to discuss a fairly new movie produced by J.J. Abrams, Overlord. If you're curious about the movie or their opinion about it, what are you waiting for? Hit that play button!

It’s OFS’s thirteen-day countdown to Halloween!!! Which movies can totally get you in the macabre mood, you ask?? Minki and Tracy have made a list, checked it twice, and will discuss one each day to get us to the most wonderful time of the year. Step aside, Santa...we’ve got Satan, creatures from pumpkin patch graveyards, serial killers, slashers, gypsies, witches, demons, enraged teenagers and a few other frightening friends to hang out with.

It’s OFS’s thirteen-day countdown to Halloween!!! Which movies can totally get you in the macabre mood, you ask?? Minki and Tracy have made a list, checked it twice, and will discuss one each day to get us to the most wonderful time of the year. Step aside, Santa...we’ve got Satan, creatures from pumpkin patch graveyards, serial killers, slashers, gypsies, witches, demons, enraged teenagers and a few other frightening friends to hang out with.

It’s OFS’s thirteen-day countdown to Halloween!!! Which movies can totally get you in the macabre mood, you ask?? Minki and Tracy have made a list, checked it twice, and will discuss one each day to get us to the most wonderful time of the year. Step aside, Santa...we’ve got Satan, creatures from pumpkin patch graveyards, serial killers, slashers, gypsies, witches, demons, enraged teenagers and a few other frightening friends to hang out with.

It's been too long! Let's snuggle up in the cozy maternalistic arms of horror with this discussion about a film featuring a multi weapon-wielding "maniac" with mommy issues. You'll never look at mannequins the same way again. And as always, all hail Tom Savini.

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Hosted by Laugh Index Theatre, it's LIT Fest 2018 in Washington, D.C., where comedians from across the country get together to perform various comedy acts in our Nation's Capital! One Final Scare was lucky enough to be invited back for their second year, this time to open for Minki's sketch comedy team. Hear them try to be as funny as possible to make their audience feel like they got their money's worth since only half of them said they were into horror when Tracy polled them with a show of hands :) They discuss the Australian short horror film, Cargo, which went viral after it's premiere at the international film festival, Tropfest, propelling the story into a full feature film format (which you can find on Netflix). And given Father's Day just passed, it's quite a timely moment to cover this touching story of a dad who is determined to get his baby daughter to safety, no matter what...like Zombie mama drama!

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The OFS hosts have talked about it before: women are usually portrayed as lesser individuals in film than their male counter parts. They're usually crazy and often victims, particularly in the horror genre. And with more recent conversations being had regarding white washing and the need for Hollywood to cast more minorities in leading roles, the hope is that films become more diverse, both in terms of the stories being told and talent being cast. However, another group that sees even more disparity in terms of the number of characters written into stories representing them and the number of actors cast into these roles that can best portray them are people with disabilities.

The first 30 minutes of this episode recognizes the very few horror movies through the decades which portray individuals with disabilities in lead roles including, deafness, blindness, paraplegia, tetraplegia and quadriplegia. The even more sobering part is how almost none have featured individuals that can best act in these films: actual disabled talent.

In comes the discussion of this episode's film!!! A Quiet Place's John Krasinski pushed for casting a deaf actress to play the part of the daughter in this surprisingly awesome apocalyptic, alien horror, family drama. And Minki and Tracy are happy to give credit to this film for the mindful and appropriate casting as well as for writing in a brave and self-sufficient character that just so happens to be deaf. Kudos, John and team!

Also, while there are some silly and annoying things about this film, which the hosts like to point out (ahem...that whiteboard tho), for the most part, it's a solid flick, sure to draw even more viewers and positive ratings, making this a horror film that extends itself well to the masses. So, go see it if you haven't!

Oh, and don't ever say these two words to Tracy or to any woman on earth: "Quiet, woman!!"

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What is transportation horror, you ask? Well, it's a subgenre of horror that Tracy and Minki give a proper name to in order to best describe movies that don't end well for people traveling by planes, trains or automobiles. And funny enough, it seems Ryuhei Kitamura, the director of this episode's film, just looooooves creating films which put unsuspecting victims on a road to their certain demise.

This particular movie will take you back to your college days, where you hitch a ride with 5 other college students who you don't know at all but who all happen to live near your hometown for break... Oh, you never did that? Yeah, nobody does that. But, this movie paints a picture of what it would be like to be stuck on a desolate road with "stranger friends" as a sniper begins picking them off, one by one. Why is he doing this? Who is this human hunter? What does he have against these millennials? Maybe it's that he hates how they carry selfie sticks in their back pocket. Who knows? One thing is for sure: you will never get the answers to these questions. So, don't look for them on your ride through this semi-gory, thin-on-story, action horror. Just put it in neutral and prepare to coast through this implausible, yet somewhat satisfying, road trip of murder.

Oh, and Tracy knows what she's talking about, because she just made another short film this past weekend. Total expert ;)

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