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"The spirit of a comatose teen girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls boarding school to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition."

Cyrus and Katie get into their first Giallo this week with Aenigma, a Fulci joint that is wild. Snails, evil statues, telekinesis - Aenigma has it all, buuuuuut kind of underdelivers on its main premise. And on the lingerie-clad coeds. We were promised lingerie-clad coeds!!! Still, come and join us for an intensely 80's movie made in Bosnia by an Italian about a boarding school in America. 

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"Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life after a family tragedy when he moves to the town of Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth, but he quickly discovers that the town has a dark secret."

Listen, buddies. We knew there'd be some duds in here - we didn't expect quite so big a stinker so early on, but hey, that's life. This week, Cyrus and Katie tackle a movie so incredibly bad they can't even dredge up 30 minutes worth of content about it. A movie trying to make a point about mental illness, but can neither stick the landing nor the lift-off nor any part in between. 

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"The Olmedo family leaves the countryside to lead a comfortable life and earn more in Madrid, unaware that their new house holds eerie surprises at every corner."

There's few things worse than a movie with a lot of potential that ends up magnificently putting its foot in the ectoplasm. This week Cyrus and Katie touch on the things this 2020 Spanish horror film did decently well, and then spend most of the episode groaning about the transphobia and ableism. Horror is a fantastic genre to explore some of the most troubling aspects of society, but buddies, this ain't it.

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"A family inherits a house with 12 ghosts who want a 13th."

This week, Cyrus and Katie watch the William Castle classic about a house full of ghosts and the family who is forced to cohabitate with them. This movie has everything - a real actual lion, the Swedish Chef from the Muppets, death bed the bed that eats people, and a horror movie that answers the question: do horror movie husbands be sleepin'? They sure do. We also cover the ""remake"" from 2001, and had a hell of a time doing it. Matthew Lillard and F. Murray Abraham? Our cups runneth over.

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"Terror strikes when amateur ghost hunters explore a haunted house in the countryside." Well, Katie spends the whole episode calling this one "0.00mhz", which is incorrect, so we're off to a terrific start. This week, our intrepid buddies check out a Korean horror movie that begs the question "is anything scarier than lots of gross wet hair?". In the episode we discuss Korean shamanism, the differences between eastern and western ghost tropes, and how good of a movie Exhuma (2024) was. Seriously, go watch it.

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"Four social media influencers live stream their trip to Devil's Manor, former home to a satanic cult."

Welcome to Shudder Buddies, the show where horror enthusiasts Cyrus and Katie watch and review every single movie on Shudder*! In our opening episode, we review #ChadGetsTheAxe (2022), a found footage-style horror comedy. We also introduce our dear listeners to the BASH scale, the plan for the future, and how much we hate YouTube prank bros.

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