T+E’s Creep Week 2022 slays ’em all!
Like being scared? How about real-life hauntings? Maybe some strange happenings and some killer science is your thing? Guess what, T+E’s Creep Week has you covered! With something for everyone we have a full line up of over 160 (that’s right 160!!!) hours of spooky splunks, gunks, and hunks (Ok, I know I can’t be the only one in the Eli Roth Fan club!), the T+E Channel brings home the gold (dripping in ectoplasm, but still gold!) with their Creep Week line up.
The What? Creep Week!! Seriously if you haven’t seen Creep Week yet stop reading this review. Run to your cable provider (or Apple TV) and sign up for T+E channel now! This week is so good, Jim killed off the Walking Dead to add T+E to his package and hasn’t looked back!
You’ve got T+E now? Uh-huh. Great! Let the madness begin (or so the Ozz Man sayeth!).
The When: October 8 to October 16 is your 160 hours of pure adrenaline pre-Halloween primer of twisted fun!
The Breakdown:
T+E’s Creep Week has the best in original entertainment and real horror happenings! The big shows to not miss ever with many WORLD Premieres include…
Haunted Hospitals
(Jim covered this on Streamin’ Demons AND a What’s Kraken!) jumps in line with the October 12 at 10 pm PT/ET premiere! If you thought the Jell-o was scary, you’ve gotta check out what really happens in the hospitals after dark.
Paranormal: Caught on Camera
This one hits it home on October 13, at 9pm ET/PT with expert analysis of the footage that is all too real and all too scary! (Seriously, don’t watch this one with the lights off!)
Strangest Things
Strangest Things beams over on October 16 at 8pm ET/PT. This one has Jim super excited. He’s a geek and the science being used in this show is both cutting edge and will have you on the edge of your seat! All the things you daydreamed about as a kid will come to life in this season including some truly mind-blowing findings (I can’t tell you, but you HAVE to see this season–do not miss this one if you’re a fan of the unknown!)
Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life
Finally, we have the one–the only (I think, unless clones?! OMG! ELI CLONES!!!! That’s my idea! No taking it!) Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life. No! Not your Tinder match that ‘didn’t show up but probably was a catfish who definitely didn’t want to watch Roller Gator with you anyways, so what’s the point? I can’t believe how much…err…sorry…got off track here).
This T+E Original series takes a look at the real-life hauntings that were so shocking to the person, they are still trying to overcome the trauma. I am glad the T+E channel allows these poor souls a place to voice their truths and allow some closure. Sincerely, if T+E is known for anything it is to give a platform to people and treat them as…people. I can’t tell you how many interviews I’ve done with ghost survivors, and they all said the same thing–being able to talk about it with people who don’t judge them helped them more than we’ll ever know.
Introducing T+E’s Creep Week (Oct 8-Oct 16)
Don’t take Jim’s word for the scariness of Creep Week? Shame on you! When have I ever steered you wrong? (Nobody say Roller Gator!!). Fair enough. I’ve included a few trailers to get the juices flowing. Check ’em out and then head on over to the T+E Channel to make your own judgements!
From October 8 to 16, T+E’s Creep Week will be airing daily paranormal programming marathons, including episodes of Scariest Night of My Life, Strange Evidence, Paranormal 911and Help! My House Is Haunted. To find out more about your favourite ghostly series, exclusive videos, trailers, and more, visit T+E’sCreepWeekhub: creepweek.tandetv.com. Join the conversation on social media by following T+E’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages, and by using the hashtags #CreepWeek #ChannelYourFear #AGhostRuinedMyLife(From T+E)
Haunted Hospitals Season 4
We’ve talked about this one on our super special Streamin’ Demons (aka the Brannyk has a birthday edition!). If you want to see the perfect blend of well-done practical effects (the makeup artist is killer!) with sensational acting, and real people telling their truly spooky tales, then look no further. Haunted Hospitals is worth the price of the channel itself. I have a whole season of reviews coming at you soon!
Haunted Hospitals, Season 4 (10×60’; HD)
October 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT • World Broadcast Premiere
Explore chilling stories of paranormal activity inside medical institutions. In each episode, nurses, aides and support workers give first-hand accounts of ghosts, entities and past occupants coming back from the grave to seek revenge or to warn of impending danger. (From T+E)
Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life
If me saying ‘Hey! It’s Eli Roth hosting this show!’ doesn’t get you to watch this series, then I’m not sure what else I can add in–or do it? Ever have something dark happen to you? Maybe something unexplained? Maybe it’s a specter or a demon or even the elusive Snipe (I’ll get you yet, you murderous fiend!!) whatever it was in your life, wouldn’t you been glad to have shared it with someone and then have Eli Roth go ‘Holy crap that’s scary!’?
Sincerely, if you are into true-life hauntings you need to check this one out. Come for the haunting and stay for the hunking (ok, maybe I’m the president of the Eli Roth Fan Club Sector #12389732.2!)
Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life, Season 2 (8×60’; HD)
October 14at 10 p.m. ET/PT • World Broadcast Premiere
Executive produced by award-winning film director, producer, writer and actorEli Roth, T+E’s original anthology series unveils shocking, modern-day real-life stories of hauntings that have left emotional (and sometimes physical) scars on those unlucky enough to have experienced them. Reminiscent of Roth’s vivid cinematic masterpieces, each episode will play out like mini horror films, immersing audiences in the world of those being haunted and hunted by ghosts.(From T+E)
Paranormal: Caught on Camera
This one could be called ‘Stop messing with spirits!’. These are real people with real footage of some darn right spooky happenings. We’ve all heard the things that go bump in the night (note to self: Never EVER investigate the moaning coming from Mom’s door), but how many of us have evidence of it? This is where the Caught on Camera series shines. Not only do we see evidence, but experts break it down and see just what really did cause that paranormal happening?
Paranormal: Caught on Camera, Season 5 (26×60’; HD)
October 13at 9 p.m. ET/PT • Canadian Broadcast Premiere
Watch as eyewitness’ capture amazing, eye-opening and downright scary paranormal videos from around the world while a panel of experts break down the footage and analyze what was captured.(From T+E)
Strangest Things
If you know Jim, you know he’s a major science geek. Can Science and the Paranormal co-exist? In Strangest Things, we find the answer is a Heck Yes! I can’t go into this too much, but let’s just say when I saw the background for this one…I might have accidentally killed most of my party in WoW. Zug-Zug and oopsies! If you like science and using cutting edge tech to review things you’ve thought not possible, then this is the show for you!
Strangest Things, Season 2 (10×60’; HD)
October 16at 8 p.m. ET/PT • Canadian Broadcast Premiere
Hidden away in museums, laboratories and storage rooms are the most remarkable and mysterious objects on Earth. Using new research and 3D technology we can get under their skin like never before. From the unbelievable, to the ancient and the truly bizarre. Welcome to the world’s strangest things.(From T+E)
We’ve got a lot to cover (over 160 hours worth!), so don’t delay and join HauntedMTL ring in the new (Haunted) month of October with our watch-n-tweet along of T+E’s Creep Week! That’s right Jim is going to stay up all day and all night to put out some great reviews for the awesome content T+E’s Creep Week is feeding directly into our mainlines. Catch us on Twitter and remember to use those hashtags when you tweet during the live showings! #CreepWeek #ChannelYourFear #AGhostRuinedMyLife #EliIsAHorrorHunk (Ok, so that last one might just be Jim’s new hashtag!)
Breaking News
Joe Bob Briggs Creepy Christmas spooktacular: The Last Drive-In Special Charity phenomena
Famed horror host, Pulitzer Prize nominated, and Cracker Barrel aficionado Joe Bob Briggs is back in action, ready to bring some macabre merriment to your holiday season with Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas. It also gives us horror fans something to take into the new year, be that something Darcy’s panties (sorry, box, I tried) or just the intangible good feels of hanging with friends and supporting a lot of good causes.
The Return of Joe Bob Briggs’s Christmas Special
The Joe Bob Briggs’s Christmas event is akin to a Jerry Lewis telethon for Gen X, with a twist of ‘the last drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs’. This ‘Briggs’ auction of sorts is a nostalgic nod to the past, especially for those who remember the telethons. The dread, however, has shifted from the … well… whatever Jerry was supposed to do (see Sam Kinison’s bit on this for more info) to that of evil goodies.
Without a doubt, this Joe Bob Briggs special is the event we eagerly anticipate each year. It’s a tradition, and a worthy one at that. We hope to see everyone on the interwebs, joining the ‘creepy links’ and engaging in the conversation (We’ll be on Threads and Twitter….tag us as you wish!) ‘live’ the only way anyone should ever watch a tv show (oh, and I guess on demand, but ya weirdos will never know the sting of the Iron Mutant Award!). ‘Live’ is the only way anyone should ever watch a TV show, especially ‘the last drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs’ (as it’s far too hard to watch tv whilst dead).
Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas The ‘Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl’ special will hit the airwaves live on Shudder TV and AMC+ TV on Friday, December 15th at 9 p.m. ET. Fans of ‘the last drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs’ can also catch the special on-demand starting Sunday, December 17th.
A Creepy Christmas with a Cause
In its fourth year, the holiday tradition of The Last Drive-In goes beyond mere entertainment. It aims to use the platform to raise funds for four vital causes. The charity auction will feature unique props and exclusive merchandise from The Last Drive-In and memorabilia from Briggs’ illustrious 35-year career…including some of his unspoken work as John Bloom. I say Unspoken, because if anyone remembers the first Christmas Special, the autographed copy of Eccentric Orbits was featured (sincerely, a good book–check it out if you haven’t. Jim gives it 4.5/5)
The supported charities for Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas will include:
- Wildlife Conservation Network
- Paralyzed Veterans of America
- Every Mother Counts
- Solving Kids’ Cancer
The Mystery of the Joe Bob Briggs’s Creepy Christmas Special
The anticipation for Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas is high, with fans wildly speculating what films will be featured. Personally, nothing can beat the #1 top horror Christmas film of all time, the Easter classic: Passion of the Christ (if a snuff film about a guy who doesn’t fit in getting whipped and nailed up doesn’t scream horror story, I don’t know what does. Also: See Sam Kinison’s concept on crosses and resurrection). However, a Christmas movie I really want to see up on this is Hogzilla and Kiss Save Santa Clause! BOOMMM!! Christmas Won!
As we eagerly wait for December 15th, we wonder what surprises our favorite horror host, Joe Bob Briggs, has in store this time. Will there be exclusive ‘merch’ that Jim will buy and then accidentally put in a Toys for Tots box in the mall?
Join the Fun, Join the Cause, Join the Joe Bob Briggs Christmas event!
Are you ready to dive into the world of Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas? Do you dare to watch along and help raise money for a good cause? If so, join us at HauntedMTL on Threads (_HauntedMTL_) and maybe Twitter (@HauntedMTL) as we experience the thrill and chills that only Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy can deliver.
Remember, this is not just about indulging in some good old horror fun with ‘Joe Bob’s’ double feature. It’s about giving back and making a difference. So, let’s gear up to have a creepy Christmas with ‘Joe Bob Briggs’, filled with ‘christmas horror films’, ‘christmas demons’, ‘christmas slasher films’, ‘ho-ho-horror’, ‘yuletide horror’ and insightful ‘horror commentary’.Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas and make this holiday season memorable for all the right reasons! I’m sure Fright Rags will have another stellar set this year, too. They are perfect for the horror fan in your life (even if that fan is you!). I can’t wait to see what they have in store (no pun).
SPECIAL — IF YOU WANT Freeeeeeeee (as supplies last) Fright Rags Joe Bob Briggs merch for this year, just tweet/thread at us during the event and Jim will pick the one that makes him chuckle the most (you will need to give us your address and size in DMs)
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Look, I’m a simple guy. Sure, I like my Small Town Monsters and my silly-billy movies about cats eating people.
But sometimes there comes a film that’s smartly written, full of humor and social commentary, plus great acting. Oh, and scares that actually scare the shit out of me.
Almost a year to the date, I got to watch such a film called #CHADGETSTHEAXE that I saw as a screener for FilmQuest Fest in October, 2022. And I was blown away by the talents of director/co-writer Travis Bible and co-writer/producer Kemerton Hargrove; starring Spencer Harrison Levin (Black Jesus), Michael Bonini (New Amsterdam), Taneisha Figueroa (Duck World), Cameron Vitosh (Walker), Brandon Doyle (Murder Made Me Famous), and Shun Hagins (Snitch).
Mini-Review, I swear it’s short:
And, I know, I know, I know. ‘But Brannyyyyk, isn’t livestreaming horror movies just a flash in the pan? Hasn’t it been done beforeeee?’ For one, stop saying it like that, it’s weird. For two, not like this. The care and attention that went into #CHADGETSTHEAXE is wickedly clever with such tongue-in-cheek humor of influencers, humanity, and the toxic culture of fandom. It’s the shining example of live-streaming movies because it’s so f-ing smart.
Case in point, the characters are living up to their personas. However, even when the personas are ragged and driven to the edge of life and death, we never see them as people, fully dimensional people, because we never see them break away from their devices. There’s never a shot that shows us ‘hey, this is a film, now let’s see them as the real character they are’. The actors are really carrying dual roles as the personas and the real people underneath; as they are struggling to keep up appearances in front of the millions of viewers.
Plus, don’t get me started on the characters within the livestream feed, along with running jokes and clues to the haunted house.
Anyway, I don’t want to give too much away as I’m going to be covering it on Streamin’ Demons soon. But I wanted to also tease about the fact that I’m going to be interviewing some VIPs from the movie for What’s Kraken? So, shhh, only tell your closest friends because it’s going to be incredible.
Join the Hype Train:
Adapted from an award-winning short with the same title, #ChadGetsTheAxe follows four social media influencers as they live-stream their trip to Devil’s Manor, former home to a Satanic Cult. Things don’t go well. And as the violence ramps up… so do the views.
The film premiered at FilmQuest in October 2022 and Internationally at FrightFest Glasgow in March 2023 where it was well received by critics. #ChadGetsTheAxe was produced by Travis Bible, Eric Gibson, Kemerton Hargrove, and Frances O’Hanlon, while Dream Big Group serves as executive producers.
The Horror Collective is the genre label of Entertainment Squad — a production and distribution company founded by veteran producer Shaked Berenson (TURBO KID, TALES OF HALLOWEEN). The label’s latest releases include the Daytime Emmy nominated Limited Series DOOMSDAY, the killer-pants Shudder Original SLAXX, and the critically acclaimed horror-comedy SUMMONING SYLVIA.
Website: https://thehorrorcollective.com/
I’m hoping it gets DVD distribution one day because I’m old and I need DVDs for when the zombie apocalypse happens.
Welcome to June! There’s so much on the hopper for Arrow that I just have to give you, my friends, the hot goss.
June 2nd: Paul Joyce Documentaries
June 2nd kicks off the month with ARROW’s latest curation of Paul Joyce documentaries, this time looking at legendary filmmaker John Cassavetes, straight from the mouth of his friend and collaborator co-star Peter Falk (Columbo) in Out of the Shadows: The Films of John Cassavetes.
After a six year directing hiatus, Monte Hellman sat down with Paul Joyce and just talked for an hour while Joyce filmed. The result is Plunging on Alone: Monte Hellman’s Life In a Day.
June 2nd: the wild world of Ero Guro
What is Ero Guro? Well, the Japanese sub-genre of horror and pink films Ero Guro combines the erotic (ero) and the grotesque (guro) to deviant, decadent and unforgettable effect. ARROW’s Ero Guro collection features the unholy trinity of core Ero Guro films, Teruo Ishii’s Shogun’s Joy of Torture and Horrors of Malformed Men and Yasuzo Masumura’s Blind Beast, plus plenty more exciting, explicit and enticingly depraved delights to delve into.
Titles Include: Shogun’s Joy of Torture, Blind Beast, Irezumi.
June 6th: Warriors Two (US/CA)
After making his directorial debut with the intense The Iron-Fisted Monk and firmly solidifying his worth at Golden Harvest, Sammo Hung would be given more creative control behind the camera. Now able to inject more of his own personality, Hung would bring to life the more upbeat (yet only slightly less violent) Wing Chun cult classic: Warriors Two!
Predating the Ip Man tetralogy by three decades – as well as Hung’s own The Prodigal Son (starring Yuen Biao as the younger incarnation of Leung Tsan) by a few years – Warriors Two is one of the earliest films to authentically portray the teachings of Wing Chun while also delivering the kind of kinetic and pulse-pounding fights synonymous with the name Sammo Hung!
June 16th: Eli Roth Selects (UK/IRE/US/CA)
Splatter icon Eli Roth takes a stroll through the archives with Eli Roth Selects (UK/IRE/US/CA). “I absolutely love Arrow and have been a collector of their editions for years, and Arrow Player is the most streamed channel in my house. I’ve seen a lot of Select lists, and while I agree with them, I wanted to highlight some that people might have otherwise overlooked.”
Titles Include: Basket Case, Contamination, Madhouse.
June 19th: Toru Murakawa’s Game Trilogy (UK/IRE/US/CA)
Made at the end of the 1970s, Toru Murakawa’s Game Trilogy launched actor Yûsaku Matsuda as the Toei tough guy for a new generation. Matsuda was the definitive screen icon of 1980s until his career was tragically cut short by cancer at the age of 40, following his Hollywood debut in Ridley Scott’s Black Rain.
The Most Dangerous Game (UK/IRE/US/CA): In this career-defining triptych, Matsuda is Shohei Narumi, an ice cool hitman of few words, a steely trigger finger, and a heart of stone, hired in The Most Dangerous Game by a company bidding for a lucrative government air defence contract to take out the competition.
The Killing Game (UK/IRE/US/CA): Narumi finds himself caught in the midst of violent yakuza gang warfare, while his own brutal past catches up with him in the form of two beautiful women still bearing the emotional scars of his past assignments.
The Execution Game (UK/IRE/US/CA): Narumi falls for a mysterious saloon bar chanteuse who may or may not be part of the same, shadowy underworld organization as the rival hitmen he is employed to rub out. (I’m assuming the tough-guy way and not the sexy way)
June 23rd: SHAAAARKS!!!
Yessss, Cruel Jaws is coming to Arrow!
ARROW heads to the beach for some terror with shark attacks.
Cruel Jaws (US/CA): A huge shark terrorizes a beach in Florida, and the locals try everything to kill it.
Deep Blood (US/CA): Several young men have to stop an ancient native American evil in the form of a killer shark which is attacking a small beach community.
June 23rd: Sci-fi Stunners (UK/IRE/US/CA)
For the penultimate Season, ARROW boldly goes to the stars on June 23, seeking out new life and new cinema.
Sci-fi Stunners (UK/IRE/US/CA): There are other worlds than these. Come and explore them in this collection of cybernetic, planet-probing, time-travelling, cosmos-trotting, aliens-zapping, virtual and far-too-real adventures in Sci-fi Stunners – ARROW’s home world for the coolest Cult science-fiction films in the galaxy.
Titles Include: No Escape, Donnie Darko, Crimes of the Future.
Last but not least
Cosa Nostra Collection (UK/IRE/US/CA):
The most American of directors according to celebrated critic Paolo Mereghetti, Damiano Damiani (A Bullet for the General) nevertheless surveyed his own country’s mafia history unlike anyone before him, to critical and box office success.
Full of twists and a fascinating meta-commentary on cinema, Damiani points the camera at himself and the genre as he investigates the social impact of mafia violence, a fitting end to this survey of Damiani’s Cosa Nostra.
Titles Include: Day of the Owl, The Case is Closed, Forget It, How To Kill a Judge.
About ARROW:
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Specially curated by members of the ARROW team, ARROW is home to premium film and TV entertainment, exclusive new premieres, cutting edge cinema, international classics and cult favorites – such as the works of Lars Von Trier, Brian De Palma, Dario Argento, David Cronenberg and Park Chan-wook, and brand-new short films from both new and established filmmakers.
In the coming months, ARROW will be adding Oscar-winning hits, European classics, Asian cinema masterworks, rediscovered Westerns, offbeat gems and much more as part of ARROW’s international strategy to support and celebrate the medium of film.
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